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I made an adventure for Knights of the Road (an ItO-like).
It's basically a heist on a train.
It's very much an early draft - all text, no layout, almost no art - and entirely free. I hope to eventually make a paid version with art and stuff, but I don't have any idea if there would be interest.
https://

The Sierra Express (Ashcan) by seedling
An adventure for Knights of the Road

The Cat No Banana

🎨by Marc P.I.

One thing that consistently annoys me about streaming music is how they handle album art.
Too often I'm listening to a song on some app and the album art looks like this 😒
#music #AlbumArt

Fwiw I made this demo like 20 years ago and it still works fine the browser.
The photo was shot on a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F717 from 2002 (and that was state-of-the-art back then, not retro).
http://madrobby.github.io/scriptaculous/puzzle-demo/

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/

I rarely pre-order ANYTHING, much less a game, but sometimes I make exceptions. I've been wanting to grab Dezatopia on Switch for so long, it's literally the first thing I ever put on my Switch wishlist many years ago (which now has like, a couple hundred games on it). I was waiting for it to go on sale but it never really did. I'm glad I waited, really. I dig physical games, and now there's this combo that includes Mecha Ritz. GREAT bang for the buck. I'll of course post…

I kinda hate marketing . . . but I enjoy supporting talented artists. I worked with two artists to get some promotional art for .Liar, Cheater, Sinner, Saint.' Here's the art from @gargoyle.pastures that inspired me to throw away the cover I had already bought and use one of these panels instead. Links to the full panels are up at https://www.

There's a German "explain-the-world" kind of youtube channel that has really pushed its CG art style forwards in recent months. And their content is interesting. But I will never get used to the current way youtubers are inserting their sponsor's ad in the middle of sentences. Like "The unabomber hid in a hut in the forest and while taking a hike in the forest you may want to check out SuperHikePlus using this promo code..."
WTF.

The more I listen to The Prodigy's The Day Is My Enemy, the more I like this album. It makes me feel sad and despondent with a pinch of angry.
https://album.link/i/1170133863

How are you doing these days? If you’re looking at the news or opening social media feeds, it’s a lot, I know.
I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
#Art

Ever-refreshing Hells and a few Heavens
Writings in response to social media posts and works of art.

The LLM sees math in its training data only as Problem -> Solution.
No deliberation. No "hmm, I don't know", no "let's try that, it seems crazy but still", etc.
But then... secret art passed from generation to generation? I don't remember when I have been invited to that club? Did math forget to introduce me?
What Bessins is after is the intuition that goes into math as opposed to rigor (as it is perceived).
Still seems like lots of over-glorification of math. Will keep reading. 2/2

Hi! I’m an anarcho-syndicalist, gender-fluid, bisexual, and autistic individual living in Bergen, Norway, and I love Debian and GrapheneOS, and I wanted to reintroduce myself for all the new followers I’ve gotten in the past few weeks.
I like to be clear and specific, so here’s a structured list:
- Activism: Syndicalist (Anarcho-syndicalism)
- Gender: Fluid (changes, not fixed)
- Sexuality: Bisexual (attracted to more than one gender)
- Neurotype: Autistic (diagnos…

I feel like there's a rule: the more expensive a piece of software is per seat, the worse the UI/UX/artwork is.
Random free mobile game? Probably looks really good (it has to, the art is what sells it so you watch the ads/buy powerups/whatever).
$100K /seat EDA tools? Parts of it are probably still using Motif.

I think the term "post-AI" has so much power, are people using it much yet?
Just like postmodernism didn't reject everything about modernism, post-AI needn't throw out all AI.. But look beyond its dodgy ideals and hype to focus on other stuff.
We don't need AI institutes, AI art funding calls, AI panels etc, when AI is an over-hyped, all-encompassing, meaningless marketing term. We don't need to give airtime to nihilistic accelerationist weirdos behind AI…

Oh wow I just found the Web page of a photographer focusing on flowers.
This style is adorable!
#photography

LUCY KETCHUM
Fine art floral photography by Lucy Ketchum. I offer private mentoring sessions to photographers of all levels. In my shop you can find my floral prints for sale as well as greeting cards and a few digital products to download like wallpapers for your computer and phone.

Among college graduates ages 22-27, computer science and computer engineering majors face unemployment rates of 6.1% and 7.5%, respectively, over double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%.
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle
https://www.…

Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age
As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

Happy for Zach Cregger and the cast and crew of Weapons for its massive box office success, and I don't usually like to say negative things about art. But I got ahold of a copy of Weapons, and just like Barbarian, I'm not impressed. ALSO just like Barbarian, this fucker is in MASSIVE need of editing. It's going nowhere slowly. Why can't people edit their films lately? I'm like, over an hour in and it's pretty sparse, man 😂 Suspense is one thing, but when it builds to…

Day 6 - Shakespeare had taste.
I have a feeling that my butt is stronger and more forgiving than I thought. I really expected to be crawling like those naked snails, but I guess I learned something new about my body.
HelsingŸr is home to Kronborg Slot, the castle that Shakespeare used in Hamlet. Not only that, it was also very important for payments to enter the Baltic Sea. Today, you can walk around the castle, drink coffee, or even visit some local art studios, such as those fe…

i recently left fedi for a bit cause i was feeling like shit and unable to do anything but spread that energy, and during that time i cobbled this together off a few loosely connected notes and thoughts for an unreleased project of mine. i dislike it but dont really know what to do about that anymore, so here u go. all words treasured.
#art

NEW ART ALERT!
Hey Garden State Social! Thanks to everyone on the contributing to the cost of running the server I have commissioned more art for the server.
This new piece is by @… and be sure to boost and give them some huge thanks for this work!
This will be our new server header image and can be found on our about page here:

Um, sir, I think there's something wrong with the way you've laced your wheel spokes?
#BikeTooter

Can LLM-Generated Textual Explanations Enhance Model Classification Performance? An Empirical Study
Mahdi Dhaini, Juraj Vladika, Ege Erdogan, Zineb Attaoui, Gjergji Kasneci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09776

Can LLM-Generated Textual Explanations Enhance Model Classification Performance? An Empirical Study
In the rapidly evolving field of Explainable Natural Language Processing (NLP), textual explanations, i.e., human-like rationales, are pivotal for explaining model predictions and enriching datasets with interpretable labels. Traditional approaches rely on human annotation, which is costly, labor-intensive, and impedes scalability. In this work, we present an automated framework that leverages multiple state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) to generate high-quality textual explanations. …

Chiefs' Andy Reid on Teair Tart avoiding ejection for Travis Kelce slap: 'I don't understand that rule' https://www.nfl.com/news/andy-reid-teair-tart-travis-kelce-slap-chiefs-chargers-dont-understand-rule

Is it better to let people know when you see them doing something when others have done something similar previously?
I've found myself doing this a lot around live coding, on one level it seems helpful to know about prior art, and fun to talk about weird old projects/events. On the other it could be stifling to obsess over identifying the 'first' person to try something, and might feel like old people are trying to pitch their tents all over your garden.

BOOST: Out-of-Distribution-Informed Adaptive Sampling for Bias Mitigation in Stylistic Convolutional Neural Networks
Mridula Vijendran, Shuang Chen, Jingjing Deng, Hubert P. H. Shum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07134

BOOST: Out-of-Distribution-Informed Adaptive Sampling for Bias Mitigation in Stylistic Convolutional Neural Networks
The pervasive issue of bias in AI presents a significant challenge to painting classification, and is getting more serious as these systems become increasingly integrated into tasks like art curation and restoration. Biases, often arising from imbalanced datasets where certain artistic styles dominate, compromise the fairness and accuracy of model predictions, i.e., classifiers are less accurate on rarely seen paintings. While prior research has made strides in improving classification performa…

Recently I’ve been thinking about taking a step back from my friendship with my mom, maybe just talking to her less.
Sometimes I honestly wonder if I’m just misinterpreting things, but it really seems like she’s uncomfortable with me being fucking queer, especially with me hanging around other queer people at my local gay bar. She’ll question who I’m with and lately it feels like she’s always picking at my life choices. I can’t tell if it’s just me being sensitive, or if she’s actually…

Sonnet 066 - LXVI
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplac'd,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgrac'd,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And…

Saw Fantastic Four (2025) and I will say it’s better than the previous version.
It’s like they made a very faithful Silver Age comic movie (imagine 1960s Kirby art with 2000s inks) which is both intriguing and… ultimately a bit underwhelming plot wise.

everything i do is performance art. if you dont like it, you just dont get it. sorry bub it is what it is!!

I love Helpy so much (also, support the artist)
#cute #art #pizzeriasimulator #helpy