What three emerging dance artists at Seattle’s Velocity taught me about the practice of love in community
At a recent show hosted by an Emerald City nonprofit that provides an incubator for artist development, reflection became a form of participation — and a reminder that culture can help us learn to better care for one another.
A few years ago my husband and I attended a Wikimania conference in Montreal, and as a "cultural event" the organizers held an evening of balfolk dancing, including one dance just like the one in this video.
3D artwork of a girl, dressed in a sexy black leather dress, looking into a large CD-shaped mirror on the wall of a room with a large speaker in the corner.
My #introduction to this #forkiverse and what feels like a small happy place on the internet. I would love to have my feed filled with funny cats, deep insights on the state of the world and a flow of creative creations to get inspired by. On a daily basis I split my energy between #genetics, #embroidery and #dance. Glad to be here, here's one of my recent projects🌼
Code is a liability (not an asset). Tech bosses don't understand this. They think AI is great because it produces 10,000 times more code but that means it's producing 10,000 more liabilities. AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society:
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Maintainability isn't just a matter of hard-won experience teaching you where the pitfalls are. It also requires the cultivation of "Fingerspitzengefühl" - the "fingertip feeling" that lets you make reasonable guesses about where never before seen pitfalls might emerge. It's a form of process knowledge. It is ineluctable. It is not latent in even the largest corpus of code that you could use as training data:
To be a billionaire is to be a solipsist - to secretly believe that (most) other people don't really exist - otherwise, how could you live with the knowledge that your farcical wealth and power springs from the agony you have inflicted on whole populations?
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Andy Jassy wants to think that he's in Amazon's driver's seat, but is haunted by the undeniable reality that Amazon is really in the hands of its lowest-paid, most abused workers. Andy Jassy isn't driving Amazon - he's stuck in the back seat, playing with a Fisher Price steering-wheel toy.
Great piece in the Guardian on the awesome Toni Basil - if you have time to read it you'll either find out about, or be reminded of a major cultural phenomenon!
REPLICATE 1.0 is a hiatus breaker and health building personal project of cover tracks in my crunchy style that had intentional rules and unwanted limitations. When I say a wild variety of source tracks are covered, I mean wild.
It's a snapshot of a time period and tool to try and get back at the studio desk. I do hope you'll find something amongst the offerings to have a head nod to, or a cry in the bathtub as mentioned in last nights listening party. Fill your boots. Stay vertical.
Today's Mathtober prompt is "Minor". For this one, I went with the vernacular meaning, and added some baby penguins with a 'grown up' penguin for today's #inkyDays drawing.
Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern looks like an adult penguin with three baby penguins.
Code is a liability (not an asset) ( pluralistic.net )
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A world without people ( pluralistic.net )
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