Modeling the World in 280 Characters.
An exploration of the mindset, methods, and motivations behind crafting tiny, expressive shaders that combine code, art, and constraint.
Relevant: Shadertoy.
Let’s dance!
Relevant: Helena Cruz.
Word of the time: Peripeteia.
a reversal of circumstances, or turning point, within a work of literature.
This is a short biography on the life, education, marriage, legacy, awards, sacrifice and death of Dr. Stella Ameyo Adadevoh (via reddit.com).
If not for her, the deadly Ebola virus would have found its way into our national life and wreak untold havoc on this fragile country called Nigeria and the West African sub-region.
Cornelia Parker: Mass (Colder Darker Matter). Via youtube.com.
I like the way that all the emotion of religion and the drama of lightning can be distilled into a very simple quiet piece where all I’m doing is presenting the charcoal.
Relevant: An (early) interview with Cornelia Parker.
If you think this is about kink, kink again.
“The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess.”
I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community. I do not know how to determine whether someone’s post about their new bicycle is genuine enthusiasm or automated astroturf. I don’t know how to foster trust and genuine interaction in a world of widespread text and image synthesis—in a world where, as one friend related this week, newbies can ask an LLM for advice on exploring their kinks, and the machine tells them to try solo breath play.
Play us a slow sad song.
Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short.
Anglophone Atlantis has been an independent nation since an April day in 1822, when a well-aimed shot from their depluralizing cannon reduced the British colonizing fleet to one ship.
Since then, Atlantis has been the world's greatest center for linguistic manipulation, designing letter inserters, word synthesizers, the diminutive affixer, and a host of other tools for converting one thing to another. Inventors worldwide pay heavily for that technology, which is where a smuggler and industrial espionage agent such as yourself can really clean up.
Unfortunately, the Bureau of Orthography has taken a serious interest in your activities lately. Your face has been recorded and your cover is blown.
Your remaining assets: about eight more hours of a national holiday that's spreading the police thin; the most inconvenient damn disguise you've ever worn in your life; and one full-alphabet letter remover.
Good luck getting off the island.
fiber. werkstoff für feminismus und popkultur ist* eine Zeitschrift für feministische und popkulturelle Themen.
* war 😿
Relevant: fibrig.net
Once a lover dies
You’ll never love again.