@creating #tdc5276 Gumption is what we need to survive these ‘interesting times.’ And it's a Scot's word! #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate #equilateralrectangle

Happy World Music Day!

The 2028 campaign for US President began today. To be clear: this is the man who orchestrated the California government's removal of the Green Party's candidate from this month's primary ballot. I had to write in Butch Ware. And I always vote third party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MDD2y9SU2g

"We are complying with the government’s legal directive and are removing access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users." Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 \ Anthropic https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@palantirwatch/116490572460608809 Follow the money...

@toddconaway I remixed one of your photos. My new theory is #equilateralrectangles are the future of digital images! #wildds106 #ds106

Great job Google. Chrome updated and borked all my Google accounts! Luckily I have many browsers that still work.

@creating #tdc5258 The Critter Blend My critter and Gemini's rendering after a few tries. #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

@creating #tdc5252 Abstractify I remixed one of my favorite books.with Lissitzky cover from another era. #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@AdrianRiskin/116675787885014872 Authoritarian Liberalism

@creating #tdc5239 What’s the last book you read? Share it with us, as a photo, or as a review “Education Automation: Freeing the Scholar to Return to His Studies”, 1962, a presentation Buckminster Fuller gave in 1961 before the Southern Illinois University […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

@creating #tdc5243 Illustrate the Idiom I’ll update a favorite western idiom: they would complain if they were hung with a new rope. It has many precedents and implications. Image by Kai Stachowiak #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

Another TACO Tuesday!

"Zhou’s rise from factory worker to billionaire entrepreneur has made her one of the most recognizable figures in China's technology industry." […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/2056585431454801945 So far the Dodgers have lost a qame a week by one run. Dump some salaries of the guys playing contract home run and bring in some ball players that can score a run.

#tdc5229 Last minute food panic What is your last minute food go-to? I make turkey picadillo and freeze it. It’s traditionally served with rice and beans. I added blanched broccoli this time. Sometimes I add leftover rice or rice noodles. #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

@creating #tdc5234 Make a Venn Diagram Worse Than This I did not Google, I did not create, I did not follow the prompt, and this is not a really bad diagram. It is a good Venn diagram of bad US presidents. #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

President Xi Jinping: "I have agreed with President Trump on a new vision of building a constructive China-U.S. relationship of strategic stability... “Constructive strategic stability” means positive stability with cooperation as the mainstay, healthy […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/116573772692059369 The Internet Archive link has already been "taken down."

RIP David Allan Coe https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/david-allan-coe/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sleslie/116557754703689081 "Fourteen invited faculty and researchers participated from across a wide range of research areas. This report summarizes key themes from the focus group and closes with a set of recommendations for UVic."

Congratulations Maha! Hat Tip made with The Fabulous Remixer Machine https://remixer.visualthinkery.com/ #equityunbound #myfest26? #wildds106

“In 2022, the IMU swiftly relocated the congress out of Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, aligning with a community boycott petition that gathered roughly 400 signatures,” they said." https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/thousands-mathematicians-boycott-us-fields-medal-event

@creating #tdc5221 Net Art? or Not Art? You Decide! #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

That's a wrap! Time for a nap! 'Til the next #fediforum #wildds106

I am having a lot of fun in #fediforum sessions this time. That's because we now have a real community here, built over some years, people who now know each other, have good personal relationships so there is a lot of banter in the middle of all the high-bandwidth, high-competence discussion […]

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@cogdog/116490589550757274 Enshittification is not a cuss word!

I had not even noticed the new WordPress admin dashboard widget for ActivityPub activity. That's rather slick, eh? Y'all keep kicking WordPress, I'm still loving it. Here are stats for the #ds106 #dailycreate aka @creating

Today I'm taking a quiet moment to appreciate the ability to edit our Mastodon posts.

RE: https://macaw.social/@andypiper/116489158721046935 For your #fedischwag needs:

@j12t showing off @fediforum Connect at #FediForum ✨

Sixth demo for FediForum by @j12t Showing of FediForum Connect. https://connect.fediforum.org/ A curated directory of products and services related to the Open Social Web. #fediforum #fediforum2026

@mapache showing off FediProfile, a link-in-bio service, at #fediforum!

@creating Today's Daily Create: Word Stories, Easy… Do 4 Word Dystopias @Dystocalypse President smiled, pushed button

@creating #tdc5214 Two Dots Make a Face: I knew these poached eggs would come in handy one day. #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

Trump will be cosplaying Solomon today. https://apnews.com/article/trump-bible-reading-conservative-christians-evangelicals-453a6a5abdfd757a97b6053b6da1dbed?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share

@creating #tdc5210 Moooooo GIFs- Make a Cow GIF Here’s an oldie from #western106 #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

@creating #tdc5206 Visualize The Music I remixed: Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, California A Frog Barbershop Quartet by PedroBRV Thula Baba Thula Sana Zulu traditional song generated using Google Blob Opera #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate https://g.co/arts/ […]

@creating #tdc5211 What is shaking your ground? Nothing today! I love ArcGIS! I pulled the USGS fault dataset, played with the basemap, changed the symbol colors and added my town in the local college color using GIMP. Go Whittier Poets! #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

@creating #tdc5207 Booking Bands #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@AdrianRiskin/116378026365740225 Arlington National Cemetery was once a plantation and owned by General Robert E. Lee. George Washington raised Martha’s grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, as his own son at Mount Vernon. Custis later built Arlington House to […]

Earlier life forms? Article behind paywall. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu2291

Tell me again why we can't do this for voting? Automatic registration for US military draft to begin in December https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5822914-automatic-registration-military-draft/

@creating #tdc5195 Where is Alan going?” #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

@creating #tdc5194 Text Weave “Do what thou wilt is the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will.” Alester Crowley Clicking on the ‘text loom’ changes the ‘weave.’ #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

@creating #tdc5193 Show Your Umbrella Message Banksy’s message to Wall Street 2008 #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate

While I'm seeing some discussion of market manipulation, I haven't seen any one on the left I follow talking about war profiteering. It takes weeks for oil to be refined, and I thought the US is basically oil independent, so why have gas pump prices risen daily since we attacked Iran?

@creating #tdc5190 Mirror Date I couldn't decide! 1894 Buffalo Bill, 15 Native Americans, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey. 1897 The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

@creating #tdc5189 Pink Appreciation Blackpink K-Pop #wildds106 #ds106 #dailycreate