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We voted today! If you can (and you're in the US), vote early! If not, now is still a good time to do your research, so you know who to vote for on polling day. Every race matters, not just the big name ones! ❤️

We're finally getting around to making a desktop version of the Living Worlds app, and the Mac version is ready for beta testing! There will be a Windows version as well, but it's still in the works. If you have a Mac and you'd like to try it out, let me know!

Art SOOTHES PAIN! Art is for KITCHENS! ART IS LIKE GOOD BREAD! ART IS CHEAP!

a friend of mine made this website so she and her kids could see what kind of birds were out and about and then go look at them without being mediated by a screen. it's awesome dailyrewild.com

Could you go a week without driving? This Week Without Driving, we’re challenging you to leave the car at home and explore the many ways to get around our community.

Halloween is coming. You don’t have to go to a “trunk-or-treat” event in Seattle! You can close your neighborhood street to through-traffic – for free! Trick-or-Streets permits are free and easy to get. Join here: seattle.gov/transportation/trick-or-streets

pasta is just a squiggly sandwich

Happy Nine-Two-Five! #DollyPartonDay

Bryce 1.0 (1994)

A deep dive on "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner", with results shown using OpenSeadragon: philo.gay/linecam/

Finally, a common sense, succinct proposal of rules for data centers! substack.com/inbox/post/2... In a nutshell: 1. No subsidies. 2. Bring, build, or buy your own power. 3. Closed-loop water. 4. Community benefits before construction.

OpenSeadragon 6.1.0 is released, with support for non-power-of-two tile source levels, cooperative gesture handling for scrolling pages, and a number of improvement and fixes! github.com/openseadrago...

A class in Responsible Tech should be required for all students that'd include: - internet'ing safely & securely - communicating with nuance & thoughtfulness online - evaluating text and multimedia for authenticity & truthfulness - understanding ethical ramifications of online choices

Would anyone be interested in this, but for Bluesky? www.ThriendOrFaux.com (It's a Chrome extension that offers a quick impression of someone's post-and-reply history to help you quickly decide whether or not to engage with a fellow community member) I'd be open to building it for Bluesky if so.

Mark Ferrari's original color cycling playing pieces from 1991 are now back in the Clockwork Goldfish puzzles! iangilman.substack.com/p/clockwork-...

Kevin's Law: no matter how many times you explain Goodhart's law to people, they will find a reason that THIS metric is ok to set target's for, which people will then game

We need to, as a society, move away from the "lots energy use = bad" argument and towards a "lots of dirty energy use = bad, lots of clean energy use = good" one

My tech work is so visual, I finally realized I need a demo reel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hQh... Dang, I've made some cool stuff 😄

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

Be easy to please and hard to impress

This post by @mikecaulfield.bsky.social illustrated where #GenAI can be helpful (doing the grunt work) and where it is not (determining a good goal, refining the grunt work, establishing the use case). Rather than brute-forcing GenAI to do everything, I like Mike's augmentation approach.

I have been creating arcane diptychs for a while now. It started as an exercise of vocabulary and humor with my teenager. Due to some encouragement, I started adding images via Midjourney and sometimes my children. I am slowly sharing these adventures. Now for more limacine escadrille.

Need music? I will be on a film project soon, but I currently still have short-term availability for one-off projects such as podcast themes! You can listen to some demos and contact me through my general film reel: play.reelcrafter.com/jpO3BtNETBqD...

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

Hello. The moment you gate educational videos behind a paywall, a massive wall of bureaucracy goes up. Teachers have to beg administrators for budgets, companies have to wine-and-dine school boards, millions of students get locked out, and people get forced into using material they don't like.

Preach. blog.val.town/slow-mode @val.town @petemillspaugh.com

Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” was originally published in 1993. An immediate critical and commercial success, it went on to become the most widely cited book about comics. Among comics scholars, McCloud's opus is both beloved and widely debated. 1/10

This week's Fix the News has so much encouraging news in it, things I usually don't see elsewhere. Yes, there is much to be angry and anxious about. But there is so much good going on around the world that it is worth it, imo, to pay attention to the positive: fixthenews.com/p/338-ten-th...

Today I learned: fredchan.org/blog/localit... Via lobste.rs/s/g4lj0n/set...

Just a reminder I'm available to help on your tech/design/art project! ✨ I specialize in data visualization, prototyping, and custom interactive experiences. My portfolio: iangilman.com/projects/ Tell your friends! 😉

Ask Jeeves has officially shut down on May 1, 2026, ending its 25-year run

1993 communal internet shaped me: https://sive.rs/netizen

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

Publishing your drawings / art online? I'd recommend this episode of Comic Lab podcast: www.webcomics.com/uncategorize... Distils their best advice for comics artists into one guide @comiclab.bsky.social

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.