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Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

From a comment: “@…: well things must be at their worst because the art is so good right now”
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1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

Three-year Program in Logic and Debate. The Art of Reasoning in the Nālandā Tradition
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University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
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Thêo van Rysselberghe (1862-1926)
IN JULY, BEFORE NOON
1890
At the Radical Harmony exhibition, National Gallery, London. Which is great, btw.
#SilentSunday #Art

So on point - articulates so many of my feelings around this space (though I admit my feelings about use of AI in software are evolving, my feelings about it in creative endeavors have not).
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.

Constant Time with Minimal Preprocessing, a Robust and Extensive Complexity Class
\'Etienne Grandjean, Louis Jachiet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10188 https://

Constant Time with Minimal Preprocessing, a Robust and Extensive Complexity Class
In this paper, we study the class $\mathtt{cstPP}$ of operations $\mathtt{op}: \mathbb{N}^k\to\mathbb{N}$, of any fixed arity $k\ge 1$, satisfying the following property: for each fixed integer $d\ge 1$, there exists an algorithm for a RAM machine which, for any input integer $N\ge 2$, - pre-computes some tables in $O(N)$ time, - then reads $k$ operands $x_1,\ldots,x_k

Three-year Program in Logic and Debate. The Art of Reasoning in the Nālandā Tradition https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20122261/three-year-program-logic-and-debate-art-reasoning-nalanda-tradition…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
INXS:
🎵 Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)
#INXS
https://theartsmix02.bandcamp.com/track/inxs-kiss-the-dirt-the-art-mix-edit-kzp

Three-year Program in Logic and Debate. The Art of Reasoning in the Nālandā Tradition
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University of Alaska - Fairbanks - Alaska & Polar Regions Area Studies Bibliographer & Curator of…
via Input 4 RELCFP