I have mixed feeling about this cloud map I helped create appearing in William Rankin’s book *Radical Cartography*. On the one hand, it’s an honor. On the other hand it’s disappointing that the work we did as a small team (I think we had 5 people at the time?) gets subsumed into NASA as a whole.

Andromeda uhkaa (1971)

yeah, that movie is the right comparison. if you know anything about cognitive science and the cluster of disciplines around it, watching babies rapidly develop has a science fiction-like quality to it bsky.app/profile/fujo...

Younger kid finished neo-DuckTales and started watching the original. The writing is clearly worse, there’s racist stereotypes, but surprisingly it actually has some continuity between episodes.

funnily, this is one of the more accurate fictional depictions of generative art I’ve seen (rare!)

Well, I went ahead and wrote it. An attempt to work through the discomfort people feel with AI agents on social media by reframing it as an aesthetic problem.

This is silly fun. Finnish is also plausible, say Icelandic a bit off, because no real speaker would… presumably? say English ”all” as ”atl”.

Ah, getting nostalgic while making figures for color education! A former colleague became the new poster child for image tests in computer vision: a test image built in #ImageJ #FIJI If you are interested, read up on #NewLenna #Lenna, the #metoo moment of CS vision research #DataVis

Linnut on next level. Niiden hengityselimistö saa mut tuntemaan itseni keuhkokalaksi, jonka isoäiti juuri nousi rapakosta. Ja niillä on ihan omanlaisensa äly-systeemit paljon tiiviimmässä paketissa. Ja joo, ne osaa lentää. Harmi ettei niillä oo käsiä, eikä tuu. www.quantamagazine.org/intelligence...

That little dim cluster, South of Brazilian Software Developers. That’s Data Visualization Professionals

Seems someone figured out spacex wasn’t going to make the late 2026 launch window. Or the 2028 one.

I suppose you could run English with text-to-speech in most phonetically spelled languages and it would come off as more or less intelligible speech, for non-native speakers of English that is. I know it works with Finnish: You get pure Rally English.

Have slowly realized what an amazing user experience hell parental controls are. Kid had a friend over and they wanted to play split screen Minecraft on the console, turns out this wasn’t allowed because ”communications limits” and I had to download a separate app to allow the request or something.

good piece

People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia. In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.

Tärkeä artikkeli. Joillekin nuorille se, että huumetta sanotaan erityisen vaaralliseksi voi itsessään toimia myyntipuheena. Toisaalta oma 11v. myös kertonut juttuja, jotka kielivät siitä, että liioitteleva päihdepuhe ei ole suinkaan kadonnut koulusta. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

Finnish Wikipedia readymade punk album cover from the rabies article

FINALLY A CLEAN RECEIPT jeffrey epstein says he has dyslexia www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

They should have an Olympic sport just called Finnish where you have to do Finnish things with a Finnish person for a whole day without freezing to death

reading a semi recent Donald Duck pocketbook: - They’ve invented a nephew for Gyro Gearloose - Said nephew sees a Mondrian, goes ”I can do that”, programs and prints a generative artwork based on the Mondrian. - He is scolded by Ludwig von Drake, because it doesn’t represent a novel artistic idea.

Btw, related to this, I've come to believe one of the worst things about social media is that it makes you believe the average person is a give-a-shit type of person. That thing that matters a lot to you and everyone you know here? Most people would hear you reference it and think "huh."

Still thinking about Mieville’s Embassytown. Some online reviewers found it wildly implausible that the aliens could have a language where only ”true” concepts can be expressed & that they were unable to think what they cannot say. To me the hyperspace dimension felt more at odds with our reality

Kids found these drawings with robots and aliens that I did when I was maybe 19 and now they are screaming YOU MUST MAKE A COMIC. I keep telling them I sucked at doing scenes, that’s why it is just little guys in a blank space.

this is such a profound misunderstanding of what art is and what it means

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And this isn’t even peculiar to the US, even if everything is bigger and more bonkers. There’s some possible local examples that come to mind

I refuse to be depicted as a primates, I demand to be depicted as crab

Åh Nej finska marknadsföringstyperna har gått och gjort det igen

Meta proving why US tech firms cannot be used for public digital infrastructure.

Okay, I see this stuff about OpenClaw (née Clawd, then Moltbot for a bit) has escaped its bounds and is now getting glowing reviews in normal media. DO NOT INSTALL THIS.

Another way to understand this is that it’s all just random loosely connected text that does not actually represent the state of any singular guy with an inner world and plans. It’s not more “dishonest” than a bowl of alphabet soup that by chance spells out “up is down”.

Seeing albatrosses with a person has a distinct unreal vibe. They are not conforming to our normal bird size expectations.

love the forbidden gummy bear

The AI/LLM haters are legion, but they have a very real concern about the environmental cost of the tech. To say that all LLMs burn down the planet is simplistic, however. We have to evaluate the vendors and models and choose based on their commitment to clean energy. 1/11

Fun to think that a very normie Finnish bank Kansallis-Osake-Pankki sent this bizarro comic for 11 years to all of their customers, 1984–1995. The German original was called ”Mike, der Taschengeldexperte”, Mike, the pocket change expert. archive.org/details/hakk...

Breaking: Helsinki, Finland, has just recorded its lowest sea level on record, as a cold easterly flow and strong high pressure have pushed water out of the Baltic Sea. The observed minimum this morning was −93.5 cm below normal. The Helsinki tide gauge record goes back to 1904.

Sámi National Day! Kallio Library had put up some records by Sámi artists, but bizarrely with them one Basque album. Couldn’t see any Sámi connection in the liner notes, so maybe an absurd mistake of confusing languages 😅

Mieleeni juolahti näin Runebergin päivän iltana, että vaikka suomalaiset selvästi pitävät konseptista ”herkku, jota syödään vain tiettyyn aikaan vuodesta”, vain kolmelle liputuspäivälle on oma kausileivonnaisensa. Almanakassa on kuitenkin 22 liputuspäivää – eikö niille kaikille pitäisi olla? 🧵 1/17

never liked Asimov as a writer, but Uh, there were *other* issues with Clarke. Guys putting up that separate the art from the artist challenge

No tämä. Meri Kulmala ja Marja Peltola asian ytimessä. Valitettavasti nuorisolle rajoituksien asettaminen taitaa olla poliittisesti aina houkuttelevampaa, kuin tarkempi perehtyminen ilmiöihin. www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...

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shit, Microsoft SongSmith will be legal drinking age soon www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGF...

You don't often see highly stylized comparative anatomy pieces. I think this is the only time Harper did one!

Slop is such an useful concept that you can back-apply it with impunity. Just called the typeface Neutraface slopified in a chat with a designer friend complaining how it makes everything look like a semi-expensive late aughts box of chocolates

An example of how impacts of interventions can differ at individual and population levels, and are conditional on other events. Given a car hits you, the helmet helps. But mandating helmets could lower the # of bikes on the road & thus might increase the chance of getting hit in the first place.

Some dads are more rugged than others, other girls’ fathers

I feel like seeing what the unpacked XML that constitutes a simple Word document looks like certainly explains some things. Herein lies madness.