Tuesday, 27. April 12021
p3k dots

Noise in Creative Coding.

Imagine you want to move an object around the screen. Animators will use keyframes and tweens to describe the exact motion. Generative artists instead rely on algorithms.

So what, something like math.random()?

Not exactly. Randomness is just too unnatural. Look at that pink ball, bouncing all over the place. It’s nauseating 🥴

Sunday, 25. April 12021
p3k dots

Russia has been screwing Ukraine like forever. 😿

Bandura.

In recent years evidence (…) has emerged, pointing to an event (often masked as an ethnographic conference) that was held in Kharkiv, the capital of the Ukrainian SSR, in December 1933 - January 1934. Many itinerant street musicians from all over the country, specifically blind kobzars and lirnyks, were invited to attend, amounting to an estimated 300 participants. All were subsequently executed as unwanted elements in the new Soviet Society.

OpenAI-Powered Linux Shell.

DO NOT USE THIS SHELL IF YOU DO NOT WANT DATA LOSS OR OTHER NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ACTUALLY EMAILING JEFF BEZOS.

Good-bye, Google!

CalyxOS.

Everyone needs a phone. Not everyone wants governments and corporations tracking their every move and spying on their communications. CalyxOS lets you have your cake and eat it too, with “Privacy by Design”.

For a cute computer:

Compute Cuter.

A cute computer environment can bring you joy! Here are some of my favorite resources to help make your computing cuter!

Why cats are crazy for catnip (via wt.social).

The researchers speculate that cat ancestors might have rubbed their bodies against the plants by chance, enjoyed the feeling, and kept doing it. It is not clear, though, whether it was the euphoric response—or the insect-repelling properties of the plant—that kept them rolling.

“We should not trust scientists, as individuals, but we do have good reason to have confidence in the process of which they are a part.”

— Naomi Oreske on Trust in Science.

Disruptive Territory Ostdeutschland: Ostdeutsche Normalität zwischen Devianz und Avantgarde.

Kreative Zerstörung (lies auch: Disruption) scheint in “Ostdeutschland” seit 30 Jahren zum Alltag zu gehören. Perfekte Voraussetzungen also für Tesla, wie auch andere kapitalistische Player (Amazon, Google, RB Leipzig mit dem Unternehmen Red Bull als Hauptstruktur), die den normalen Weg kapitalistischer Produktion nicht gehen und die Regeln von Genehmigung, Arbeiter:innenrechten etc. nicht befolgen wollen?

Wer wird als Frau denn schon geboren
Man wird zur Frau doch erst gemacht.

– Milva, 1979.

natto.dev – a canvas for JavaScript.