Max @a9@mastodon.social
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Did u know the glyph failure character is known as a tofu □
And occasionally the phenomenon in which it happens is referred to as tofu-baké
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what really *is* an exclamation point??
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Some of you know I've started a blog called FOSS Academic (fossacademic.tech). I'm exploring life as an academic who tries to use as much free and open source software as possible. You know, being a lonely humanities Linux user at a university.
I'm writing to solicit questions people might have about being a FOSS Academic. Or maybe to solicit comments on the FOSS Academic Lifestyle Dream. Not that I know all the things, but I'm curious what questions people have about this area, if any.
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For some reason, I just like watching Lloyd's algorithm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_algorithm) in animated form.
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You, a tech startup with millions in angel finance: made an app to turn handwritten maths into TeX.
Me, just the worst kind of smart alec: convinced a pen #plotter to turn TeX into handwritten maths
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the Wandering Lemma of graph theory
a metaphor is just a user interface for an idea
gnocchia cellular
airplanes r so wild
what a graceful machine turned commonplace
Spiciness breathes drama into a meal
refrigerators and bookshelves have a lot in common
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I made Sift, an experimental image editor that slices an image into layers. You can offset the layers to generate interference patterns and pseudo-3D effects.
https://sift.constraint.systems
It uses additive blending and a pixel-based light splitting algorithm. It came out of thinking about how to add depth to a grid of pixels. For more info you can read the release notes (https://writing.grantcuster.com/posts/2020-09-01-sift-release-notes/) or watch a video tour (https://youtube.com/watch?v=MJQNnAr40Vw). As always, I'd love to see anything you make with it.
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»To survive, we need to relearn multiple forms of curiosity.«
Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan & Nils Bubandt (2017). Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet - Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene.
This collection is a good place to start!
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"come on then, I'll show ya what I mean!"
It takes perceptual energy for me to see the USPS logo as the eagle it's intended to be
and not some abstract box being smooshed by its container
Resurrecting the Feedly...
if your bio says "tools for thought" then you're into palantir too, right?
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!