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the mona lisa done up in 1 pixel / each individual RGB color https://allrgb.com/mona-lisa-yiy
does anyone old enough to have been around for The Era Of The Blog Kingdoms remember what the difference was supposed to be between "via" and "h/t"
https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/ robin's essays have criticism and complaints but clearly come from a place of wanting things to be better and liking the things that are already good
but i'm not gonna do the thing I accuse others of so here is my positive take!!! http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/ has crit of Big Games but also a ton of cool ref to indie games and tools
VR is a super arbitrary example I guess. genuinely excited to see the "metaverse" that weird furries build the infra for, and not excited to see any other "metaverse"
probably nothing most anybody does on the wifi is worth the rare earth elements.
if you have a piece bemoaning our Big Web Corporate Overlords without directing attention at the people and small groups doing cool stuff on the web, I'm not interested. and if you have a techshiny optimism piece about the future of VR that doesn't reckon with the divide in good and bad shit there is now (and that there will be more of in the future), I'm not interested. thus despite being super fascinated by the web i find a lot of writing about it not worthwhile
totally niche vs. twitter MAUs? sure, absolutely. but there are a lot of niches. it's easier to say "the screens have made us weak and stupid, look at the popular things that are bad" than to try and make a consequentialist argument that actually encompasses *all* of the internet, because the latter is .... probably pretty impossible
like if you're engaging with e.g. what "the internet" has done to "attention spans" favoring short-form content but you're not even briefly acknowledging how bitches are out here writing fanfiction hundreds of thousands of words long, maybe you're not taking a wide enough lens on your topic
I don't mean on the strict sense of "are you really sure what you do on this wifi is worth the environmental and human cost of extracting the rare earth elements necessary to provide it", I mean in the sense that people worry about the social impact (within postindustrial society) of XYZ tech thing the kids are doing nowadays
I'm really suspicious of people lamenting what new technology has done to us who don't seem to recognize the positive things people have done with it too. But at the same time the whole Bay Area optimism is... so not my bag.
half of the time when non-academic material is presenting the word "algorithm" to you, they should be using the word "policy". the other half of the time they should be saying "tool".
ngmi.works: art, mostly black and white, mostly pixel: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/20/ngmi.works-art-mostly-black-and-white-mostly-pixel.html
:goose_star: https://www.kickscondor.com/one-year-of-maya.land/
my generational marker is A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
also, despite the fact that it's metaphorically deployed as a derogative 99 times out of 100, herding behaviors in reality are often adaptive and prosocially efficient and have nothing to do with herd animals being stupid.
most of the time when people use "tribe" in its metaphorical sense they should be using "herd". I am specifically thinking of growing up with goats. they are miserable on their own to the point of suffering health effects and are excellent at each casually pretending the decision of the group (e.g., to move to the lower pasture) happened to be their own personal inclination.
i was a Giant Fan of nbc hannibal but not actually involved in fan content beyond, like, reblogging tumblr gifsets And Now I See That Was Correct All Along
a decent amount of the time i use image descriptions on here to get a clue about the higher-order meta y'all are on
Amazing the tonal gap between written "e.g., the blah blah" and spoken "so like when the blah blah"
a supposedly fun writing analysis tool I'll never run again: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/17/supposedly-fun-writing-analysis-style.html
:boost_requested: does anybody follow anyone on spacehey who's blogging? I don't have an account but it seems like there must be fun public blogs, and they have RSS https://spacehey.com/
wonderful south african backyard bird webcam: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/17/wonderful-south-african-backyard-bird-webcam.html
update: a year of maya.land and The Independent Web or whatever: https://maya.land/updates/2021/08/16/update-year-blogroll.html
lrt: not to me tho to be clear, just in general
i.... broke a fork in half
old people on the right have this shit down and I know you are all better at quickly drafting emails than them
one nice thing about writing your political representatives is you can free yourself of a school mindset of "I should make this as good and persuasive and well-argued as possible" because it's going to be read by aides who are, at the most, going to turn it into a tally mark in a list of categories-pro-con that may then influence the representative (not as much as all the dirty money, but they don't have good constituent polling)
do you live in WA? feel like writing a senator? https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/congress-fires-warning-shot-at-nasa-after-spacex-moon-lander-award/
beverly katz is in gossip girl! (well not really but kind of)
why yes this is related to my "scheduling software for part time jobs should be specced out by union lawyers" bugaboo
I think it's not true that there's no place for *actually* flexible, *actually* contingent work. Especially if we moved healthcare to the government where it belongs.
what would gig work platforms look like if the workers were organized and they designed them?
Thing that I find surprising: a bunch of Amazon buildings in Seattle used public-space zoning bonuses to be able to build bigger. https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/SDCI/Resources/POPSList.pdf Why surprising? Because they have permitted free speech activities in their most central locations, pretty much right up to the doors: https://library.municode.com/wa/seattle/codes/municipal_code?nodeId=TIT23LAUSCO_SUBTITLE_IIILAUSRE_CH23.58AINPR_SUBCHAPTER_VPREXRENOFLAR_23.58A.040BOFLAROPSPAM
had a fun chill conversation with a couple other arty friends about how furry artists make bank. "you know, you have to get involved, it's not just networking"
we don't deserve the us product safety commission https://www.instagram.com/p/CSf3ZL1s4ft/
i was about to be *FURIOUS* about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtipQ3EsGWo and then i saw monica's producing. GOOD FOR HER.
this is *not* the same way that the opponents of the change characterize the two sides' proponents. pro-change incrementalists tend to say "we can't wait for feasibility of revolution to make things better", not "revolutions end up with monsters in charge." pro-change revolutionists tend to say "your incremental improvements aren't going to improve things without attacking the root", not "regulations lead to government capture" or whatever.
it's really really fascinating how people on both sides of incremental vs. revolutionary theories of change use the same rhetorical appeal to "this is too important to approach the other way!"
look i'm a good kid i switched from chrome to firefox but MANNNNNN the print options suck ass
is it correct or jarring and pretentious to pronounce a name in its regional accent? If I'm not going to drop all my Rs in the rest of my words, should "Melbourne" still be "Melbun" out of deference to its inhabitants?
dr. eleanor janega has a great post reminding us that august leisure is an entirely contemporary decadence https://going-medieval.com/2021/08/06/on-leisure-in-august/
lughnasadh / lammas sanctifies the beginning of a new phase of the work. the harvest is a culmination but itself intense labor. how do we capture the spirit of the season if we're disconnected from the agriculture that feeds us?
PACIFIC NORTHWEST NEWS BULLETIN: new carnivorous flower just dropped https://www.npr.org/2021/08/09/1026091196/this-sweet-white-flower-is-actually-a-sneaky-carnivore-scientists-discovered
like excuse me how was I not taught about her in SCHOOL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Frith
In case anyone is wondering, while Wikipedia has articles for a good number of cool historical women, their discoverability (through links and lists) is trash. I am finding a ton just through searching in Wikipedia interesting names on https://people.ucalgary.ca/~mamaes/17thwomen.html
an artist's site featuring contemporary tarot decks: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/08/an-artists-site-featuring-contemporary-tarot-decks.html
when we think about manufactured desire, it's nuts to me that someone who has all their needs met could forgo volunteerism, art, study, and the simple joys of applied leisure for.... make number go up
like let's set aside for a second how many of them inherit already-super-rich fortunes
do you ever think about how broken it is that super rich people don't just retire before they become super rich
it's my birthday! I'm 28! I have honey cake and a couple of new art supplies and my brother is visiting me :) :) :)
way ahead of you, software settings
don't come for me for wanting to believe some portion of MCU content might be good again, you don't know how much fanfiction i'd read
will anything about the falcon and the winter soldier be spoiled if i watch loki first
file under: maya continues to experiment with the eldritch power of css halftoning
update: it took three attempts, but i got through endgame. what a shitshow. so many choices for worst / most condescending moment.
me responding to work tickets
it's precisely the kind of thing they should block of course
booooooooooo cloudfront blocked my scraping >:(
my matrix bot that transcribes speech in audio messages: https://maya.land/monologues/2021/08/05/matrix-bot-transcribe-speech-audio-messages.html
if you're watching a movie that isn't interesting/good, try turning on subtitles in a language you've learned a bit of. almost made endgame watchable
gonna be a numetal day :ACNH_Aggravation:
stop everything, they brought back confetti text from ms word 97: https://maya.land/responses/2021/08/03/stop-everything-they-brought-back-confetti-text-from.html
i resent that my work has a yearly rhythm of ebb and flow that is defined by a tech conference rather than a harvest season
how long before someone scrapes assets from a picrew to release a series of NFTs that makes >$1MM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TytGOeiW0aE god love tom lehrer
David Brooks continues to be my nemesis https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/09/blame-the-bobos-creative-class/619492/
i promise you i am adequately ashamed, but, like, those electric scooters are pretty fun
i don't really like websub for normal web content stuff. i'm sure there could be some cool distributed application that uses it but polling lightweight feeds really is enough for everything i see it used for
heaven's gate's website is still up today
i made a matrix bot that shoves voice messages through a speech to text api and it makes me feel like a *god of computer*
interesting amount of engagement! answers seem to be "because it was always a bad idea" (I don't have an opinion on this really, haven't done the research as to what the impact was before), "because it was punished" (plausible), and "lol post 9/11 are you kidding" (this was said more nicely but does seem like I should have put two and two together and does totally answer my q even standing alone)
this piece about pigeons is factual and touching: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/30/pigeons-factual-touching.html
liking seether is so embarrassing
my super-hot take on gawker coming back: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/30/gawker.html
why is there so little ecoterrorism now? not to sound plaintive, it just doesn't make sense to me
haha oh really? was it hotter in texas? people here don't know what hot means? THE ELDERLY ARE DYING, BUDDY, YOU CAN EAT MY ENTIRE ASS
"nativism" for the non-indigenous is always a crock but i will admit some irritation at this attitude from the bajillion transplants we have from other regions and countries
heat warnings in the nw are like... should you feel bad for any given individual given that it's tiny in magnitude compared to other regions? maybe not. plenty of us have the needed amenities and are whiny. but in the bigger picture, there are a ton of vulnerable people who die... so maybe don't "lol this is nothing" it
there isn't a cute way to repair jeans that wear through in the thighs or shirts that tear at the armpit and i remain quietly jealous of cutesy elbow and knee patches
what is this and why can't i decide if i love or hate it http://thisisourwork.net/binder/#About
cool map visualizing distance to cities: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/26/map-distance-to-city.html
did we all know they were using giant styrofoam blocks instead of filler dirt, or...: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/29/geofoam-giant-styrofoam-blocks.html
what's that? is that an SSG turning JSON into XML (OPML) with XSL converting to inlined SVGs in HTML?? the military has NOTHING on my alphabet soup
mastodon gets an early preview before i make an update post with my blogroll changes (animation warning) https://maya.land/blogroll.opml
why does ig not let me upload to story in fake mobile web :angery:
i wonder who the last person before me was to be assembling SVGs using XSL
no one's operating under bandwidth constraints that make this meaningful, right?
do people still care about hotlinking images
i choose to believe this makes me a matrix celebrity
if you click on the preview for the silver theme on https://cinny.in/ you can see my chicken illustration :3
amazing how i keep coming across people who will openly express that they think backend devs are more fungible to frontend work than vice versa when these people have to use the same backend-developer-developed trashfire internal web frontends i do
is it really parasocial or are you treating its audience like dora the explorer's
i have given up on a cool thing my website had because CORS has just fuckin' defeated me
thinking about the metaverse courtesy of ryan broderick's garbage day: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/27/thinking-metaverse-ryan-broderick-garbage-day.html
the background for this japan-inspired typeface exploded my font brain: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/27/gt-maru-typeface.html
i want "pixel acanthus" to be a thing in the way that the memphis school was/is a thing
slapheart is a new lil' web directory: https://maya.land/responses/2021/07/27/slapheart-web-directory.html
why do I seem to have so many more problems with foot skin than other people or do people just not talk about the endless cycle of blisters and calluses and gross bits of dead skin, and we're all going through it alone
i figured out a way to use the browser canvas to render the first frame of an animated gif statically instead of having to generate a separate image on the backend but then it won't have the right behavior by default if people have js disabled 🤔