Tootfinder

Some historical documents from 2009 for #TextureTuesday... A high-res render and some detail crops of the award-winning generative typography & branding system/application I designed & developed for the DECODE exhibition at Victoria & Albert Museum London (one of the largest group shows the V&A had organized and curated in a few decades, and which later traveled to other m…

How Trump's immigration policies, visa fees, and fuel costs are affecting international artists' US tours; Pollstar: US concert volume in Q1 is down ~17% YoY (August Brown/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entert…

Karol G at Coachella was a global hit. Yet other foreign acts fear touring the U.S.
We love the U.S., but now there is a reality in which we have to cut our losses and stop coming,' one band said. 'A lot of bands are giving up on the U.S., for sure.

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated victories,
whether against South Americans or in the Middle East.
In a charged press conference on March 13, Hegseth did more than attack journalists for questioning his unverified claims about the course of the war in the Middle East.
He singled out CNN, introducing a troubling dimension to the conversation.
“The soo…

Trump and Hegseth Cannot Define the Truth of the US-Israeli War on Iran
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to have little patience for questions that do not conform to his preferred style of declaring unsubstantiated

It's going to be a busy #EGU poster session for our team this year:
🌲 Explainable Machine Learning for diagnosing Data Quality Issues in Dendrometer-Based Tree Growth Time Series https://meetingorganizer.coperni…

Psychose bei Absetzen der Pille? Kann es offenbar geben.
Der populärwissenschaftliche Schweizer Psychologiepodcast „Dingue“ berichtet von einer Frau, die über lange Zeit eine Pille genommen hatte, die den Zyklus komplett unterdrückt. Als sie nach Eintritt der Menopause die Pille absetzte, kam es zu einer Psychose und sie wurde in eine Psychiatrie eingewiesen. 1/2

I have a habbit of making (too) many (small) packages for functionality that might be reused in different context. {box} might be an alternative by making scripts into modlues that can be loaded: #RStats

‘box’: Write Reusable, Composable and Modular R Code
A modern module system for R. Organise code into hierarchical, composable, reusable modules, and use it effortlessly across projects via a flexible, declarative dependency loading syntax.

YouTube makes its deepfake detection tool available to anyone at high risk of having their likeness abused, expanding it from public officials and politicians (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig…

YouTube Opens Up AI Deepfake Detection Tool to All of Hollywood (Exclusive)
The tool, which requires a celebrity to upload a digital replica, will flag potentially infringing content — like, say, a star playing a role in fan-generated movie — for a possible takedown.

The Commission of Fine Arts,
a panel whose members were all appointed last month by Donald Trump,
unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19,
clearing one of the hurdles on the controversial project.
The seven-member panel also includes former lead architect on the project -- James McCrery, who abstained from voting due to his role.
Trump took to Truth Social to celebrate the approval on the $400 million project, which is…

Arts panel approves Trump ballroom despite 99% negative public comment
The Commission of Fine Arts unanimously approved a plan for a 90,000-square-foot White House ballroom on Feb. 19.