☞ https://xitter.cf/t.co/M234pDh1Ma Art and code; emergent systems of righteousness. “vertex predator” #fjordgrown

OR, USA
Joined January 2008
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I've gimble-locked my ranunculus
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“Giant mountain ranges at least as high as the Himalayas and stretching up to 8,000 kilometers across entire supercontinents”—you could whisper this to me in a parking lot at night and I’d wander off to follow you. “Supermountains.” phys.org/news/2022-02-superm…
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The color of rivers in the United States. This unique map depicts more than 100,000 kilometers of waterways, rendered in true color using Landsat data. landsat.visibleearth.nasa.go…
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Sleep when baby sleeps. Code when baby codes. Deploy when baby deploys. Write articles when baby writes articles. Improve your data governance setup when baby improves their data governance setup. Build MLOps pipelines when baby builds MLOps pipelines.
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ANY LARGE SYSTEM IS GOING TO BE OPERATING MOST OF THE TIME IN FAILURE MODE.
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Unbelievably stunning bark of a 2500~ year old Yew tree.
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I ❤️ NY
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WHATEVER THE SYSTEM HAS DONE BEFORE, YOU CAN BE SURE IT WILL DO IT AGAIN.
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I used to work in flight simulation developing terrain and we got so many bug tickets that the world had weird things that people didn't expect and they wanted fixed
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I'm seeking volunteers for a rather "fun until it is clearly not fun" project - polishing/testing/cleaning up the Internet Arcades at the Internet Archive. I'm looking for people willing to play a LOT of games and make a LOT of notes. If that's something you want to help with, DM
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One of western modernity’s greatest cruelties is the fact that couples are expected to raise newborns alone. I’ll never understand it and it really is an impossible thing
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe plunged deep into the Sun's corona & passed directly through streamers of solar plasma. The view out the window was...staggering. parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/…
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Many important software innovations happen when we realize that we can store things in a way that is convenient and meaningful for humans instead of efficient for computers
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In 1917 it was possible to travel almost the entire way from Boston to Chicago by interurban electric trolleys, with just two short gaps totalling less than 40 miles out of the 1200+-mile journey. google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid…
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After some negotiation, my brother and his fiancé have granted my request to trade my +1 for a -1 to their wedding, in which i can uninvite one guest for my own amusement
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I don't think I've ever heard something that sounds as much like a conspiracy theory but isn't as "there are only 25 blimps".
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“Everything around me was someone’s life work.” Thinking about that today, and thankful for it. (HT to @gordonbrander though I’m unsure of the deep source)
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i gazed into the abyss and there i was
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Second-year Art student Jean Cho used noise fields to create structured Truchet patterns, and then purposefully interrupted the plotter when it felt done.
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Replying to @benjedwards
@benjedwards Better image from same shoot of @LaurieSpiegel by Enrico Ferorelli
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