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AsciiDots: an esoteric programming language based on ascii art.
https://ajanse.me/asciidots/
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I'm looking for inexpensive linear actuators. I bought a $15 unit that uses an M3x0.5mm threaded rod and it's not horrible, but the effector has a lot of backlash. This has more stroke than I need; I only need about 65mm of stroke. But I wouldn't want to be particularly larger than this. Roughly 20mm x 20mm x 100mm would be my target envelope.
I'll fall back to using this with backlash compensati…

A really practical application of Gemini 2.5 flash image, is thinking about changing your interior, you can easily change the color of your furniture in images , add elements etc., really fun.
You can try it here, https://aistudio.google.com/prompts/new_chat

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Continent
Hailu Mergia and The Walias:
🎵 Tche Belew
#HailuMergiaandTheWalias
https://wirkkalassecretestash.bandcamp.com/track/yemiasleks-fikir-hailu-mergia-the-walias-with-mulatu-astatke-tche-belew
https://open.spotify.com/track/2BxCRD3CZ65suyXj6KeGuU

New Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers wants to lower the aesthethic value of our entire public realm, as a matter of policy, because he thinks that will make it look like he is controlling costs.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-price-of-ugliness/

"i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real."
-- Jamelle Boule
https://bsky…

Michael Clemens (@mclem.org)
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/in-trumps-second-term-a-bolder-president-charges-ahead-unchecked-1c8c5b79

JAM: A Tiny Flow-based Song Generator with Fine-grained Controllability and Aesthetic Alignment
Renhang Liu, Chia-Yu Hung, Navonil Majumder, Taylor Gautreaux, Amir Ali Bagherzadeh, Chuan Li, Dorien Herremans, Soujanya Poria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20880

JAM: A Tiny Flow-based Song Generator with Fine-grained Controllability and Aesthetic Alignment
Diffusion and flow-matching models have revolutionized automatic text-to-audio generation in recent times. These models are increasingly capable of generating high quality and faithful audio outputs capturing to speech and acoustic events. However, there is still much room for improvement in creative audio generation that primarily involves music and songs. Recent open lyrics-to-song models, such as, DiffRhythm, ACE-Step, and LeVo, have set an acceptable standard in automatic song generation fo…

Dahlias, Eryngium, Verbena bonariensis, Agapanthus and Crocosmia, all in June rather than July onwards.
#ClimateChange #Gardening.

I love this statement that @… wrote and sent to me a while ago:
"A creative discomfort with ontologies is a really good thing. As soon as someone
tries to essentialise something that is aesthetic, whether we're understanding it as
culturally situated or as relating to some kind of innate mystery in our senses, it shuts
d…

New Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers wants to lower the aesthethic value of our entire public realm, as a matter of policy, because he thinks that will make it look like he is controlling costs.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the-price-of-ugliness/

The Gist: The Price of Ugliness
Jack Chambers announces his new policy to fill Ireland with ugly things. This is the Gist.