If you're Scottish, please sign the Calton Hill Declaration in favour of the creation of an independent Scottish republic:
In a new paper, David Smith, Joseph Myers, Chaim Goodman-Strauss and I prove that a polykite that we call "the hat" is an aperiodic monotile, AKA an einstein. We finally got down to 1! https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.10798 4/6
ART🌻 HANG IT, WEAR IT, SIT ON IT, GIFT IT, COLLECT IT
This little empty garden by the brownstone door
And in the cracks along the sidewalk nothing grows no more
He must have been a gardener that cared a lot
A gardener like that one no one can replace
- Elton John (about John Lennon
"MONET'S GARDEN"
See ❤️ Art Here : https://lynnie-lang.pixels.com/featured/monets-garden-squared-pastel-abstract-lynnie-lang.html
#MastoArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #mastodon #ArtBooster #art #artistsonmastodon #artist #abstract #abstractart #fediart #music #lyrics #song
It's a Tuesday, which apparently means another wild flurry of AI related announcements: Google Bard, Bing Image Creator, Adobe Firefly (an image generation model trained entirely on licensed or public domain art) - here's my blog's archive page for today with notes on everything so far https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/21/
One sign that you're not making a technology for the right reasons is when you have to fucking lie about it, or misrepresent others in order to compete. For example, Nostr (the protocol which currently enjoys zero million daily active users) says of Mastodon, "There are no clear incentives to run servers" — proving that this is, indeed, a protocol created by people who have no idea how to make friends.
This white peacock was ready for his big debut, Green Meadows Petting Farm, Orlando FL #BirdsOfMastodon #FotoMontag
Back in 2020, I published Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a concise book – 64 pages – that actually starts centuries before Gutenberg, with Chinese and Korea printing, and then digs into 1450 to 2020 period, covering ~600 years of technological advances. Set in hot-metal type (Monotype Bembo) in North Yorkshire, printed in London, and bound in Germany with a foil-stamped cover & slipcase, I still have copies available for shipping worldwide! https://glog.glennf.com/tiny-type-museum-time-capsule-and-more/six-centuries-letterpress (ebook edition available)
#Zen #Buddhist koans help us understand #lifeexperiences like #science helps us understand the world
https://bigthink.com/13-8/zen-buddhist-koans/
#introduction time.
Hey everyone mid thirties guy here. Into tech and software design and cyber security though I have no formal education. I love to tinker and make new programs and the such.
I love tech news and podcasts and web design and making programs.
In my free time I game! I play primarily on Xbox but do play on pc sometimes.
I love to cook and I love my puppies.
So hi everyone!
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.