2026-05-20 15:11:56
In the beginning was Chaos.
So...what's new? Longer legs?
Magnum Chaos design, as shown in a 16th-century design in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, Italy
#Religion #Chaos #Philosophy
In the beginning was Chaos.
So...what's new? Longer legs?
Magnum Chaos design, as shown in a 16th-century design in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, Italy
#Religion #Chaos #Philosophy
In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”:
a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station chief in Berlin as a mere twentysomething,
filing early warnings about Soviet activity that have been credited with ringing in the cold war.
Like 007, Peter Sichel also appreciated a fine tipple, and after leaving the US foreign intelligence service it was h…
"Alone together"
#silentSunday
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sunny Day Real Estate:
🎵 In Circles
#SunnyDayRealEstate
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MtlureL5VXmDnyoUeBxsd
ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 786 nodes and 14024 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Folks outside of Minneapolis / St. Paul, you can help by talking about this, making noise about this, letting your circles know that you’re angry about this. Don’t let this slide away quietly.
Playing around with an idea.
Structured alt:
https://cdpn.io/aardrian/debug/NPdrONq/
Source:
https://codepen.io/aardrian/pen/NPdrO…
Cancelable opinion in urbanist circles: San Francisco actually should try to build housing in a way that minimizes unnecessary shadow. I'm not saying it's more important than people having an affordable place to live, or that it should've been taken to the extremes it was in the 80s and 90s... but it is the middle of June and it's nice in the sun and cold in the shade.
Chimpanzees and bonobos have human-like friend circles, study finds #AnimalRights
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
awakened souls:
🎵 sun circles (marine eyes | iksre)
#awakenedsouls
https://awakenedsouls.bandcamp.com/track/sun-circles-marine-eyes-iksre
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sunny Day Real Estate:
🎵 In Circles
#SunnyDayRealEstate
https://cielosciegos.bandcamp.com/track/sunny-day-real-estate-in-circles
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MtlureL5VXmDnyoUeBxsd
Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE
Collections remind me of the circles of Google . People were gaming those to try to amass followers, and it led to less variation in the feed, as most were following the same people.
For the sake of diversity in my feed, I will stay away from collections.
In Google , the ability to set my own category for my posts, and for people to follow by categories, really worked well. Some would follow my pet pictures, others my coding posts, or my humorous posts.
It focused sharing…
Their friends are making $100 million. Everyone else is wondering how to catch up.
Venture capitalist Jenny Xiao noticed a change in her Bay Area social circles as the artificial intelligence boom swelled in recent years.
“When I met these people back five years ago, they lived in the shittiest apartments and they were cheap AI researchers,” she said.
“Now every other weekend someone’s in Hawaii [or] vacationing in Switzerland.”
Xiao is among those in tech preparing…
The new Fatboi Sharif x Child Actor record is out. It's a bizarre trip of both rap and odd spoken word type shit over woozy pseudo-beats and strangeness, and I of course love every minute of it: https://fatboisharif.bandcamp.com/album/crayola-circles
The Assassination …
And then, develop your skill for being oriented, for harnessing chaos into something going a particular direction. You can only do this once you've developed taste and skill and gone the wrong direction a bunch. You cannot shortcut this experience, but as someone told me at a time I was not quite ready to hear it, the job of the senior engineer is to bring clarity.
Decisions get made so fast, before we're really ready for them, and in conflict. The results are mediocre to bad. It's up to us to sort through the mess and say "this way" out of it. Not as dictators or authorities, but as people who understand the territory. And who can spot when their teams are going in circles and pick a path out.
Canvas by Instructure, used by so many edus:
May 6: Confirmed Security Incident, Resolved.
May 7: Canvas, Canvas Beta and Canvas Test are under maintenance.
Uh huh.
Meanwhile, I've seen more activity in edu-sec circles on this issue than any other security-related incident in quite some time.
Search for almost any edu name and canvas, how widespread of a problem this is should be easy to see. Right at the end of quarter/semester and during finals for many s…
A new, searchable map of ICE detention facilities charting their detention levels since 2010.
This page incorporates official ICE data and data released under FOIA to the Deportation Data Project.
https://carwilb.github.io/posts/ice-detention-map-expanded/
Cosplayer with headdress and hair covering face
#photo #photography #ithacon #cosplay
A look at Baller League, a six-a-side indoor soccer league of creator-managed teams streaming free on YouTube and Twitch and averaging 4M views on match day (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/baller-leagues-creator-strategy-reac…
Whenever me and my wife are driving somewhere together and are backing out of a driveway, making a turn at a sketchy intersection, etc whoever is in the passenger seat always acts as a second set of eyes calling out traffic or "clear right" etc as appropriate.
From what I've seen this is common practice in military and fire department circles but pretty rare in the civilian world for some reason. Not sure why, better situational awareness definitely makes things safer.
Last fall I got depressed driving home one day because of all the trees being ripped out along Lisbon Avenue as they rebuild it, add traffic circles, bike lanes, and other improvements.
I was excited for the bike lanes but sad for the trees. (A lot of them were pretty tall.)
Well, today I went down Lisbon and they are planting a *ton* of trees. They're maybe 5 to 7 feet tall, but it's a start.
You plant trees for the future.
Letter from a Cuban Soldier to a U.S. Soldier - World-Outlook
#Cuba
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Waves Crashing:
🎵 Circles
#WavesCrashing
https://wavescrashing.bandcamp.com/track/circles
https://open.spotify.com/track/1myiJvEfv29hcXwZMqg1tS
ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 83 nodes and 671 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
North Oxford dining circles
Good website, when he cares about something he goes in and provides resources, of particular interest to me are the Sšmi drums and card collection
https://old.no/
glitter over dark circles
Barring self-serving lying, there's no better proof for the existence of NEW social bubbles than seeing both:
“Look at everyone who hated crypto: they all HATE AI now! Therefore, AI is just as BAD.”
and
“Look at everyone who hated crypto: they all LOVE AI now! Therefore, AI is LEGIT.”
…scroll by within 24h.
FWIW, none of my friends were into crypto & many are into AI now. We need to get used to a new reality where formerly homogenous social circles funda…
Available now. Today.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
Info:
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/
Links to other sellers:
ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 120 nodes and 1026 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
Did y'all know there's a new Russian Circles in August? Whattt
https://russiancircles.bandcamp.com/album/nine
@… @…
When an object circles the drain, you will notice that it accelerates right before it disappears into the hole.
And yet another hex drum kit. Maybe circles had been banned by the Musicians Union along with synths.
#TOTP
It’s coming. One week. 6 May.
I contributed a chapter on accessibility overlays, but the other 33 make it worth it.
“Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech”
https://AccessibilityEthics.org/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sunny Day Real Estate:
🎵 In Circles
#SunnyDayRealEstate
https://cielosciegos.bandcamp.com/track/sunny-day-real-estate-in-circles
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MtlureL5VXmDnyoUeBxsd
Federal law enforcement agents were spotted installing AI-powered surveillance towers at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in the latest escalation of Donald Trump’s weird obsession.
In one video shared by TMZ Tuesday, U.S. Marshals escorted an LVT Mobile Security Unit to the edge of the Reflecting Pool.
In another video a day earlier, Daily Mail reporter John Michael Raasch witnessed a surveillance tower being towed in circles around the supposedly embattled landmark by U.S. Pa…
ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 35 nodes and 204 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Milena Casado feat. Val Jeanty:
🎵 Circles
#MilenaCasado #ValJeanty
https://milenacasado.bandcamp.com/track/circles-feat-val-jeanty
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EZiWBewb4BXd6ElwgTvRi
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3vnTt87jK3SaVb1BQNaldn
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NewMusicShow
Cat Hope & Stone Drawn Circles:
🎵 Landay Sequenzas
#CatHope #StoneDrawnCircles
Tomorrow in Austria they’re going to drive gasoline-powered cars around in circles to celebrate the amazing weather
ego_social: Ego networks in social media (2012)
Ego networks associated with a set of accounts of three social media platforms (Facebook, Google , and Twitter). Datasets include node features (profile metadata), circles, and ego networks, and were crawled from public sources in 2012.
This network has 2224 nodes and 176691 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #FocusBeats
Max Cooper:
🎵 Cardano Circles
#MaxCooper
https://maxcooper.bandcamp.com/track/cardano-circles
https://open.spotify.com/track/4wdNS3iDj1FwfBbvvGql5d
Vendor with Earrings that look like the mobiles she sells
#photo #photography #portrait #festival
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
musclecars feat. Toribio:
🎵 Circles II
#musclecars #Toribio
https://bbemusic.bandcamp.com/track/circles-ii
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mwZu3HIWiskp3f0EEWwDx
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Waves Crashing:
🎵 Circles
#WavesCrashing
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://wavescrashing.bandcamp.com/track/circles
https://open.spotify.com/track/1myiJvEfv29hcXwZMqg1tS
#FLOSS ecosystem.
I don't think we have a clear idea yet of what's to come, but a recurring image in our conversations is that of feudal age alchemists: closed, hermetic, underground groups, sharing knowledge in tight secret circles, never with the wide public... it's certainly not a pretty picture, but it might be the "rational" conclusion for many.
When we see the threat of big corporations (or just petty unimaginative people) stealing our work, what can we do, when collective action has been labelled as criminal activity, other than hide or risk the severe consequences of being combative?
#ai #generativeAI #fuck_ai
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Adam F:
🎵 Circles
#AdamF
https://open.spotify.com/track/7I5ap6ekpgC2e5uEn6K75i
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Desario:
🎵 Concentric Circles
#Desario
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UBY7fGwNFQrCLAHm95yHs