sean.h.huntley @shuntley@octodon.social
I can finally call myself a documentarian with a straight face.
May I draw your attention to this hilarious example of fooling an image recognition algorithm with a small patch of carefully engineered noise?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02608
Susan Kare, graphic designer who created many familiar icons & fonts for Apple, NeXT, Microsoft, and IBM.
Her creations include most of the iconography and fonts which shipped with the original Macintosh, and many icons which persisted in Windows from version 3 until XP.
#SusanKare #iconic #womenintech #design #designers #graphicdesign #Macintosh #NeXT #Windows #vintagecomputers #vintagecomputing
me everytime I speak to someone on the internet who's not from france https://octodon.social/media/LpixTqautO5OQwRNWho
I thought this was an incredible piece and so I'm sharing it. That is all.
More like kleptocurrency
stanford prison experiment, toxic masculinity Show more
if you're struggling financially, consider also the absurdity of holding onto a currency that has more money being spent around it than you are
In any case, I personally think meddling with crypto is worse than selling out your craft, and I mean that in the sense of writing anti millennial slop and working for Breitbart sell out
It is claimed Ernest Hemingway once wrote a six-word short story that could make people cry for a bet. The wager was ten dollars, which Hemingway won with the following: Show more
@GinnyMcQueen Stay safe!
@Latkes Oh! I read about this book yesterday right before I posted!
The Stranger is a mildly interesting existential journey if you take it out of gender, race, political context. But it may end up being way more fascinating in hindsight with those contexts in mind.
I wonder at what point literature classes will not read Camus' "L'Etranger" as an exploration of existentialism, but as a cautionary tale of white-male privilege.
Or... has this already happened? It's been a hot minute since I was in school.
binarism, irony Show more
@GinnyMcQueen You can make your own!! Throw some rosemary sprigs or fresh lavender in some melted wax and hold a wick still until it hardens.
look I'm just tagging this one "general religion and work related negativity;" if you have doubt skip Show more
@GinnyMcQueen Well damn! That is impressive.
@GinnyMcQueen Which train do you normally use?
IN THE YEAR 20XX, NERDS ARE COOL BUT CROSSFADING IS ILLEGAL. TWO FACTIONS EMERGE...
@laerm Oh, hahaha! nvm...
@laerm Price just went up 22 cents on April 1st, so before it was 6.77
