Meet the kowari: a pint-sized predator on the fast track to extinction 😢
http://theconversation.com/meet-the-kowari-a-pint-sized-predator-on-the-fast-track-to-extinction-219598
How online group 764 uses Discord and Telegram to blackmail teens into degrading and violent acts and then boast about it; Discord removed 34K users in 2023 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20…
3D support for boxes.py is coming along well finally.
Sources at <https://github.com/chrysn-pull-requests/boxes/tree/thingy-remote-prototypes>, PR'ing it piece by piece.
Intellexa: Spyware des Predator-Herstellers kommt über Online-Werbung
Der Malware-Dealer Intellexa stellt Spähsoftware vor, die Handys rein über Werbebanner infiziert.​ Ohne Klick.
https://ww…
Been slacking posting more art here, so time for a teensy selection of an old generative/evolutionary system from 2014 (then used for my HOLO 2 magazine guest design). Originally written in Clojure, meanwhile ported to TypeScript & Zig, I've kept working on & experimenting with it ever since... 1000s of screenshots and 100s of versions to sift through. Loosely based on research done by Barricelli[1] since the early 1950s, conceptually and aesthetically it sits nicely between my C…
karate: Zachary Karate Club
Network of friendships among members of a university karate club. Includes metadata for faction membership after a social partition. Note: there are two versions of this network, one with 77 edges and one with 78, due to an ambiguous typo in the original study. (The most commonly used is the one with 78 edges.).
This network has 34 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted