"Star Painter", my submission for the "Moon and Stars" theme #cspcontest48 contest. I locked in for this one, so now I need to take a very long nap

seeing tokyo godfathers reference footage that they shot for the animators and satoshi kon himself is the reference model for hana. He looks so happy doing it too

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DID YOU KNOW IF YOU FIND A HORSESHOE CRAB THATS BEEN TAGGED BY THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE AND SUBMIT THE LOCATION YOU SAW IT USING THE FORM ON FWS DOT GOV SLASH CRABTAG THEY SEND YOU A BEAUTIFUL CRAB PIN

Iconic

Man, nobody could build a shithouse like the WPA.

- Open Instagram - Go to your profile - Tap the three lines in the top-right corner - Scroll down to the Sharing and reuse section - Toggle off "Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta" for Posts and Reels

What people want is the right to blame *only* the faction they hate. Even when people like me say "it was a bunch of factions supporting Platner, actually" that's not absolute enough. It must be *only* the fault of whoever annoys you most on Bluesky. Leftists, liberals, centrists, your mom.

lmao (@thedailytism)

Anime Expo performance art

Had to dig up a hard copy for this one.

Sometimes I forget that textual analysis is a legit skill that has to be learned and actively used/reinforced. Like for many of us it comes naturally and we do it by default, but for a lot of people it's a "use it or lose it" kinda scenario.

I need all you hip young game devs to go get portal (it's $2 on steam right now) so I don't turn to dust when I have conversations about it at work.

the worst podcast you've ever been subjected to:

these are the words of an expert

my most millennial trait is a delusional belief that pre-app okcupid could still be an incredibly important powerful societal force for human connection if it came out today

I especially love this diagram.

I watched all of The Amazing Digital Circus over the last few days and it was actually very good. I didn't prioritize checking it out because fandom for it overlapped with fandom for things that didn't appeal to me. It takes a little while to get going, but each episode is stronger than the last.

weirdly, i have seen one (1) media with an analogous character experience that feels true-- geralt specifically in the witcher novels, where him being a magical super infertile man gets him the same treatment. the games fuck this up a little bit tho

woke up this morning with the phrase, "Ork pronouns, 'e / 'em" stuck in my brain so there you all go

Yves Klein, 1959, “Untitled blue monochrome (IKB 82)”

An interesting thread from a month ago that predicted exactly what we’re seeing in the reflecting pool now (peeling up, prolific microbial activity)

never thought I'd see the day The Simpsons pay homage to a Satoshi Kon film

How Patrice Lumumba was assassinated by the Belgians with the full support of the USA.

Capitulation at Versailles (disambiguation)

One way I caught students cheating via AI was that multiple assignments included references that attributed an article I wrote (& had assigned as reading) to Ed Yong. If only I wrote that well. It was weird though.

Both Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio seem to be describing Netanyahu using the same tactic 14 years apart. The difference is, it seems, the same tactic worked this time.

I love this. Unmute.

WOODCHUCKLETS

in 2019 I had a role training staff at a university and research library about ML + AI software applications and concepts almost all the existing literature on this subject stressed the problem of information bias, with a particular highlight on its minimisation of women & POC we KNEW. we WARNED

i joked to someone that the new spider-man movie was "spider-man 15" as a random funny number but then had the slow terrifying dawning realization that this is literally actually exactly the 15th theatrical movie that has been produced under the sony spider-man contract my brain is smarter than i am

KIM KITSURAGI - “You need to get your shit together.” YOU - “But I don't wanna get my shit together!” KIM KITSURAGI - “Then the world will turn away from you, and leave you behind.”

Out on a run and came across a couple having a break up. The woman yelled that the guy cared more about “his YouTube videos” than her. Fully expected it to be some Andrew Tate shit until he sheepishly said “trains mean so much to me but you’ve never understood that”

The UK's social media ban risks a nation-wide experiment in becoming The Veldt, and i for one think it has a chance to improve matters one way or the other.

South of Midnight’s dialogue is a masterclass in laying down words that leave you raw but opens up the world in return. @zeestermeester.bsky.social and @epistellar.bsky.social helped make that happen. Follow their work and hire their expertise. You’ll receive an evocative story as a result.

imagine being at MSG watching the Knicks and mfkin James Gurney is next to you, pulls out his plein air gouache set, and just breezily pumps out this masterpiece. like wtf

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

Like Anubis weighing your heart against a feather, the Boston Cop Slide determines the purity of your soul by allowing those pure of heart to pass unharmed and fucking flings the wicked across the pavement.

The Scots found the Boston cop slide @everyone @edsbs.bsky.social @brianmfloyd.bsky.social @cjzero.bsky.social

“Pete Hegseth lays on his back, his belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.”

If you're a NuWho fan who's sad the series is going away, I strongly encourage you to watch the 7th Doctor's run. Dragonfire is a good start: a fun serial that introduces one of the best companions. A lot of fans try starting earlier, but during 7's run you can really see them figuring out modern TV

FIVE YEARS AGO: export shame www.noncanon.com/comics/2021-...

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 4,1951

Sluggo was way out in front on LGBT (Ladies Getting Ballpark Tickets)

Did some testing and it turns out that depending on which pre-group-DM client you use: - It shows up as a group DM, but on clicking on it shows a "group DM not supported" message - It shows up as a normal personal DM, and ALL MESSAGES BY ALL PARTICIPANTS show up as messages from the group starter

There's a level of AI usage in game development where, if you read between the lines, the developers are saying "we're only using it to placate the failson seagull so he'll get off our case and we can get back to work" but they can't say they're just jangling keys for a bloviating manager.

why would i need to "group chat" on blue sky when me and the boys chill 24/7 on a bespoke emulated google wave instance that we run on a server that was allegedly liberated from j.c. penney corporate headquarters post bankruptcy along with 2200 medium fit liz claiborne pantsuits