Rebuilt old gaming PC (1060 gpu) for nephew. Setting up projects to interest him in #design and #coding. Generated playing cards with #ImageMagick, #StableDiffusion, #IrfanView, #PowerShell for integration into #Astrosynthesis #sqlite3 database for #rpg #WorldBuilding or #CreativeWriting module. Whew! (Little sister's a middle school language arts teacher.) Gallery here:
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AvfrYowYmFebkhlSywwq2QWybA4X
@mattsheffield I'll burn some incense
@juergen_hubert. No specific recs but looked cool in vr standimg under stars https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/categories/97/
@mattsheffield Regarding evil:
"If we cannot admit evil’s existence, or if we minimize it through various self-serving rationalizations that we confuse with intellectual and/or moral sophistication, we either won’t notice it or will explain it away, to ourselves and others, in ways that dilute it and its pernicious influence on our lives."
https://medium.com/@Elamika/see-no-evil-7a05cd77778c
@mattsheffield I want a democracy, and to not deify rapists.
"Only when we are broken we can see it more clearly: the truth about ourselves, others, the world and God–"
https://medium.com/@Elamika/nothing-is-wasted-on-brokenness-and-grace-d7a2584ead67
@mattsheffield Once again, I ask why respectable, notable people maintain a symbiotic relationship with a Facist, if not for their own cultural relevance and professional benefit.
@mattsheffield We're playing football with a bunch of gremlins.
I don't know how to feel when the people who put out this stuff never explore or report on actual solutions. It makes me wonder.
https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent
#IAQ I remain convinced a multiple of single 4" filter fixtures suspended throughout space is a compelling design strategy.
https://itsairborne.com/nukit-tempest-review-4328a5c048f4
@fritzoids Elizabeth Mika brought it to my attention:
https://medium.com/@Elamika/tyranny-as-a-triumph-of-narcissism-76b6fec76d0d
1941 "Who goes Nazi?" by Dorothy Thompson
https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/
I design things.