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@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-05 09:33:26

Been updating my personal Mastodon tooling to download and convert my bookmarked toots. Here's how little code is needed to download a single message and convert its HTML content into Markdown, all using these #ThingUmbrella packages:
- thi.…

Syntax colored TypeScript source code: import { parseHtml } from "@thi.ng/hiccup-html-parse"; import { serialize } from "@thi.ng/hiccup-markdown"; import { arrayZipper, type Location } from "@thi.ng/zipper"; // load a Mastodon status via API const res = await ( await fetch("https://mastodon.thi.ng/api/v1/statuses/115464108396925195") ).json(); // parse HTML content into thing/hiccup format (nested JS arrays) const parsed = parseHtml(res.content, { whitespace: true, ignoreAtt…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-05 09:55:35

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/society/ng-int

Rise of the ‘porno-trolls’: how one porn platform made millions suing its viewers
A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privately

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-05 08:45:07

From yesterday's early morning walk...
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #MorningWalk

Photo of lake in a mixed autumnal forest. A thin layer of fog is floating in the shade near the edge of the lake, a small wooden hunter's cabin nearby. Most of the trees are already bare/leafless. Only a single tree with bright yellow leaves in the background.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-11-05 10:05:47

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/society/ng-int

Rise of the ‘porno-trolls’: how one porn platform made millions suing its viewers
A company called Strike 3, owner of Vixen and Tushy, has clogged US courts with lawsuits, mostly against porn watchers who feel shamed into settling privately

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-03 23:01:34

Frozen silence.
(Amazing atmosphere in this cold blue-purple light & halo near sunset and a crispy -11℃ [12℉] temperature... The only sounds were from the biting wind and the crunch of our steps on frozen ground)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

An island of heavily frost-encrusted trees near the edge of a forest with rolling hills of pasture in the foreground. Cold blue-purple light near sunset. There's a faint pinkish glow/halo in the overcast sky around the main group of trees. The entire scene is in pastel-like colors...
@seeingwithsound@mas.to
2026-01-02 07:30:12

[OT] Andrew Ng warns AI far from general intelligence amid overhype webpronews.com/andrew-ng-warns

Andrew Ng Warns AI Far from General Intelligence Amid Overhype
Andrew Ng cautions that AI remains narrowly focused, resource-heavy, and far from achieving general intelligence or replacing humans soon, amid overhyped expectations. Echoing experts like Hinton, discussions highlight job augmentation, ethical concerns, regulations, and technical barriers. Ultimately, AI is seen as a collaborative tool enhancing human potential.

@samvarma@fosstodon.org
2026-01-04 21:15:58

RE: mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11583832
The edge of the Alps is truly a magical place

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-05 05:37:52

Republicans hold a 219-213 majority in the House,
but they could lock in more seats if reapportionments go their way
Normally, redistricting only occurs after the US census counts residents in each state every 10 years.
But a demand from Donald Trump to lock in more Republican-leaning districts in Congress,
together with a changing legal landscape around partisan gerrymandering,
set off a chain of mid-decade reapportionments.
Republicans and Democrats have…

Rigging the map? How power in US Congress could shift if both parties win their redistricting fights
Republicans hold a 219-213 majority in the House, but they could lock in more seats if reapportionments go their way

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-04 09:42:51

Exactly my own approach:
“I avoid grandiose plans. I start with a small piece that I can do. I go to the root of the problem and then work around it. It's building brick by brick.” — Muhammad Yunus
#QuoteOfTheDay #BottomUpDesign

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-01-04 19:25:15

MEETING IN KYIV: The peace process continues! THE FRONT NOW: AZOV is fighting back!: benborges.xyz/2026/01/04/meeti

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2025-12-03 12:42:03

from my link log —
In defense of lock poisoning in Rust.
sunshowers.io/posts/on-poisoni
saved 2025-12-02 dotat.at/:…

In defense of lock poisoning in Rust · sunshowers
It's worth retaining one of multithreaded Rust's most valuable features.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-05 01:10:52

Kansas Republicans drop push to enter nation's widening redistricting battle (John Hanna/Associated Press)
apnews.com/article/redistricti
memeorandum.com/251104/p147#a2

@FandaSin@social.linux.pizza
2026-02-04 09:55:43

RE: flipboard.com/@aljazeera/asia-
F*ng hero!👏

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-04 11:06:52

Sam Barker's album Stochastic Drift is pure balsam for your ears and mind, focused on the slower and abstract end of his spectrum with incredible & impeccable sound design and signature production style...
Barker - Stochastic Drift (2025)
youtube.com/watch?v=rpIVQYuLU3Q

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-04 13:15:19

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
The xx:
🎵 Missing (Round remix)
#Thexx
thexx.bandcamp.com/track/missi
open.spotify.com/track/09JbdAd

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social
2026-01-31 10:10:08

"‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk" theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

‘Homes may have to be abandoned’: how climate crisis has reshaped Britain’s flood risk
As rivers swell and homes are cut off, scientists say UK winter rainfall is already 20 years ahead of predictions

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-05 10:25:12

Rediscovered yesterday and again can't stop listening to this minimal, yet stunning, haunting, evocative live performance by loscil...
Nomadic Streams - VNM Festival 2015
youtube.com/watch?v=T_fHWXxryfk

@PaulWermer@sfba.social
2025-12-02 16:50:50

From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…

‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself
Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control

@paulwermer@sfba.social
2025-12-02 16:50:50

From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…

‘The biggest decision yet’: Jared Kaplan on allowing AI to train itself
Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-12-03 10:21:57

Deeplearning.ai is a resource i can really recommend for free (!) courses on various AI subjects, serious, no hype. For example the Agentic AI course by Andrew Ng does a good breakdown of the hype around "AI Agents" / "Agentic AI".
#AI #Deeplearning

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-04 16:37:55

RE: godforsaken.website/@Shrigglep
Wondering about practical effects of this RAM price gouging... e.g. will it lead to increased awareness of memory usage/demands and better resource usage, more people/orgs switching …

@benb@osintua.eu
2026-01-03 21:48:28

❗️ Looting legalized by Russia: Ukrainians are being deprived of their homes! #shorts: benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/looti

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2025-12-28 11:48:24

“You will recall that at the recent and lengthy meeting about the selection of prefects, the remark by a colleague that Farage was a ‘fascist but that was no reason why he would not make a good prefect’ invoked considerable reaction from members of the [staff] common room.”

‘Of course he abused pupils’: ex-Dulwich teacher speaks out about Farage racism claims
Exclusive: Chloë Deakin tells how she wrote to Dulwich college master to argue against Farage’s nomination as prefect

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-03 15:22:30

Deciding Upon the Raiders' New Year's Resolution si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/decidi

Deciding Upon the Raiders' New Year's Resolution
The Las Vegas Raiders have to nail the upcoming offseason or continue the same spiral they have been in for two decades.

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-01-02 21:37:08

Manufacturing:
Trump official admits 7 straight months of job losses in key sector - Alternet.org
alternet.org/trump-manufacturi

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-04 12:00:00

Drifting away into the mist on this cold gray day... this track communicates it pretty well! Meditative.
Sebastian Mullaert - In The Blurry Mist Of Yourself (Wa Wu We Remix)
youtube.com/watch?v=W1xurxy2DDE

@frankel@mastodon.top
2026-01-03 09:48:40

OpenAI Is Paying Employees More Than Any Major Tech Startup in History
wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-is-payi

@Dragofix@veganism.social
2026-02-03 00:22:47

The Dark Truth: How Factory Farms Make Cheap Chicken #AnimalRights

The Dark Truth: How Factory Farms Make Cheap Chicken | THE FARM BUZZ
Uncover the hidden truth behind cheap chicken. Explore the shocking animal suffering and farmer exploitation inside the factory farming system.

@nohillside@smnn.ch
2026-02-03 07:05:51

#DNIP Briefing #58: Von Passwörtern und Kühen - Das Netz ist politisch dnip.ch/2026/02/03/dnip-briefi

@fgraver@hcommons.social
2026-01-29 11:01:40

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back
The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collective effort

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-01 08:55:34

A look at Daily Mail owner Jonathan Harmsworth's decades-long push to add the Telegraph to his family empire, his vision for the title, and more (The Guardian)
theguardian.com/news/ng-intera

Move over, Murdoch: will Lord Rothermere be Britain’s most powerful media mogul?
The Daily Mail owner has the Telegraph titles in his sights as part of a long-held ambition to create a dominant stable of rightwing newspapers

@cheryanne@aus.social
2025-12-02 18:08:10

Breaking The Rules: A Clinician's Guide To Treating OCD
A show for mental health professionals designed to help you build confidence in treating Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: greataustralianpods.com/breaki

Breaking The Rules: A Clinician's Guide To Treating OCD Screenshot of the podcast listing on the Great Australian Pods website
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-05 09:09:40

Btw. Apologies for being very slow to catch up with various replies received over the past days... 🙏

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-04 03:28:43

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #WoPop
Cochemea:
🎵 Song of Happiness
#Cochemea
cochemea.bandcamp.com/track/so
open.spotify.com/track/1Ig2uQz

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-02-02 21:47:59

Not quite groundhogs (for groundhog day), but cute hogs nonetheless...
#MonochromeMonday #NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite

B&W photo of seven small wildboar piglets all huddling together...
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-02 02:55:32

Here in the Bay Area of San Francisco, some of the world’s biggest companies are fighting it out to gain some kind of an advantage.
And, in turn, they are competing with China
This race to seize control of a technology that could reshape the world
is being fuelled by bets in the trillions of dollars by the US’s most powerful capitalists.
The computer scientists hop off at Mountain View for Google DeepMind,
Palo Alto for the talent mill of Stanford University, <…

‘It’s going much too fast’: the inside story of the race to create the ultimate AI
In Silicon Valley, rival companies are spending trillions of dollars to reach a goal that could change humanity – or potentially destroy it

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-01 16:11:07

Neither #Affinity nor #Darktable seemingly support 1D LUTs, which would have been too easy and useful for my #DigitalNegative preparation tool... Instead they both insist on using only 3D LUT…

Syntax color highlighted TypeScript source code: ``` import { cycle, map, normRange, permutations, str, take, transduce, } from "@thi.ng/transducers"; // LUT size (number of samples per axis) const N = 9; // example curve of N samples in [0,1] range // (the curve here is y = x^1.2, i.e. a basic darken effect) const curve = [...map((x) => (x ** 1.2).toFixed(4), normRange(N - 1))]; // compute cartesian product to produce RGB tuples const lut = permutations(curve, curve, curve); // alt…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-03 21:39:32

Las Vegas Review-Journal NFL Challenge picks — Week 18 reviewjournal.com/sports/betti

Las Vegas Review-Journal NFL Challenge picks — Week 18
Westgate SuperBook vice president of marketing Jay Kornegay leads the contest with a 47-36-2 record against the spread.

@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
2026-02-03 18:32:07

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Dean Johnson:
🎵 Hang Youie
#DeanJohnson
ourvinyl.bandcamp.com/track/ha
open.spotify.com/track/2aIUg8v

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2025-11-30 16:00:50

All the president's millions: how the Trumps are turning the presidency into riches (Tom Burgis/The Guardian)
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int
memeorandum.com/251130/p18#a25

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-12-01 16:45:34

In a pretrial ruling, a UK judge finds a review in The Observer was defamatory for calling Andy Ngo an alt-right agitator; the outlet's parent weighs next steps (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/g

Guardian faces trial after influencer sues over 'alt-right agitator' label
Guardian News and Media is considering next steps after a finding it was defamatory to describe Andy Ngo as an "'alt-right' agitator".

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-02-01 18:26:34

Evening walk. Each (end of) day this past week had such amazing light/mood... it's good to get out!
#EveningWalk #SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Wideformat view of the silhouette of a tree in an empty field with forest further back and large mountains in the far background. Pink/purple/orange sky and light. Cloudy sky. Some faint fog starting to form just above the ground.
@benb@osintua.eu
2026-01-02 21:56:05

Looking Back at 2025: A Year of Challenges and Growth: benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/looki

Tracking information about the Russian War against Ukraine — Modern art makes me want to rock out
A blog running on Micro.blog

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-03 21:24:31

NFL Week 18 betting breakdown: Predictions for every game reviewjournal.com/sports/betti

NFL Week 18 betting breakdown: Predictions for every game
Professional handicapper Chip Chirimbes (Gamblersworld.net) analyzes every NFL Week 18 Sunday game and makes predictions for each matchup.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-02-03 08:57:26

Crowd-sourced interactive map of indoor CO2 levels in non-residential spaces: indoorco2map.com
(via fosstodon.org/@samherni…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-02 14:14:46

A 260 meter, 65 floor sky scraper in Zermatt... "a symbolically disruptive gesture that radicalizes the densification trend found in mountain resorts"
Very much hoping this proposal will be shut down before it gets traction! 🤬
domusweb.it/en/news/gall…

A skyscraper in the heart of the Alps: in Zermatt, the tallest tower in Switzerland
The newly unveiled concept aims to bring to the Swiss Alps the densification and verticality strategies typical of metropolitan agglomerations.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-02 13:30:17

Close-up view of the audio-responsive LED floor installation I co-created for the KEF Muon launch in 2007 @ Sala del Cenacolo (Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano). The animation was repurposed from one of my first projects I created with Processing (in 2003)...
The 2 meter tall speakers were designed by Ross Lovegrove and made from milled solid aluminium...
The installation was created by Moving Brands (my old employer), a short video of the project/instal…

Close-up view of a LED floor matrix (white LEDs only) displaying abstract, smooth/fluid organic looking shapes/gradients emanating from underneath a KEF Muon loudspeaker (2 meters tall, milled solid aluminium). The shiny metal surface of the speaker (with a similar form aesthetic) is reflecting the floor in an otherwise completely black space.
@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-04 00:54:25

Sharp money moves line on lightly bet Raiders-Chiefs season finale reviewjournal.com/sports/betti

Sharp money moves line on lightly bet Raiders-Chiefs season finale
The Chiefs are consensus 5½-point favorites over the Raiders and the consensus total is 36½ in the regular-season finale Sunday at Allegiant Stadium.

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-02-01 09:44:10

Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

View a large rock tower behind another lower mountain peak near a pass with a small chapel (good for appreciating the scale). The mountain nearest to the pass has visible tunnel openings at its base above the talus fields. These are remnants of the frontline from world war I. Massive cumulus clouds are forming in the background, above them clear blue sky. The entire scene is bathed in warm late afternoon light of October. All the grass patches have turned into a rich coffee brown.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-31 20:01:59

The last light of 2025....
(...is giving me big hopes for 2026, against all odds!)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps

The silhouette of a group of spruce trees against an intensely golden sky above the northern Alps in the background. The sun itself is partially visible through the trees, light shafts through the low haze.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-04 16:04:51

Allgäu Evening Walk.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #WinterWonderland #Sunset

Post-sunset winter landscape and view of the Allgäuer Alps and foothills. The clear sky is full of colorful warm glow & gradients, partially reflected in the snow (almost purple looking). Rabbit tracks in the snow in the foreground.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-01 10:58:11

RE: mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/11581596
Happy New Year, everyone! Never give up, never surrender, keep on realizing your dreams, build up resilience, be excellent to each other, focus on community, be human(ist), be creative and bring & share…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-30 15:15:20

Leaving civilization...
(October 2025)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

The last few meters of a farming path leading through a group of trees and bushes, before it ends in a high alpine terrain with snow capped mountains in the background. All the vegetation is in autumn colors, rich yellows and browns. Clear, gray sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-01 13:11:29

Since it's this time of the year again, let me once more plug my Elisen Lebkuchen recipe, a delicious German cake tradition for the advent/winter time (sadly only if you're not allergic to nuts or honey):
gist.github.com/postspectacula

Elisen-Lebkuchen recipe (result: https://twitter.com/toxi/status/546717992034500609)
Elisen-Lebkuchen recipe (result: https://twitter.com/toxi/status/546717992034500609) - elisen-lebkuchen-recipe.md

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-31 12:00:00

Marvelous & inspiring 1h set of analog synth tracks by Federico Chiesa aka OORA...
The Memoir — Page 168: OORA (2025)
#Music4Coding

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-29 18:06:07

Researching DIY solutions for preparing digital negatives for my salt/kallitype printing experiments. Working on a little curve fitting tool/library (of course using thi.ng/umbrella) for computing tone mapping curves derived from sample swatches (here 5% steps of gray/density). The screenshot shows 2nd - 5th d…

Desmos screenshot showing plots of 4 different polynomials and original sample points
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-30 08:15:03

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

A small narrow pier fully covered in snow, in a completely frozen over lake in the woods. Snow covered branches reaching in from all sides, providing a nice framing. The cold bright light perfectly matches the peaceful frozen mood of this calm morning.
The golden glow of the early morning sun is breaking through the bare trees on a hill slope in a wintry beech forest. A dense patch of young trees, still with their dry rusty leaves on. They're almost fully snow covered near the ground, the sun just partially reaching them. Vanilla sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-28 19:15:57

Belated #WaterfallWednesday... My favorite falls to visit on a cold winter's day
#NaturePhotography #BlackAndWhite

Long-exposure B&W photo of a waterfall crashing down some rocks, completely encrusted in layers of ice.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-29 08:00:03

Morning walk with a mood befitting the end of the year...
#MorningWalk #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

B&W photo of a moody, foggy and flat winter landscape with fields and frozen plants/trees covered in hoarfrost. On the right edge of the image is a small, desolate wooden shed with moss covered roof standing by a little creek. Layers of isolated trees and forest disappearing into the fog in the background.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-28 14:00:09

So close, yet still so far...
(Standing roughly where the Hintereisferner glacier reached to in 1850. From here it's another 20 mins to the Hochjoch Hospiz at 2413m... where I was the only soul there that day, enjoying true edge of the world vibes. Wonderful!)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

A small path is leading through lush golden yellow/brown grassy slopes in an otherwise empty looking landscape towards an old 4-floor mountain hut at the horizon, the Hochjoch Hospiz (built 1927). Behind the hut a section of another larger mountain is visible. Semi-overcast pale blue sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-30 13:26:28

Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling...
1/3
(cc/ @…)
#FluidSim

Short fluid sim of a grid of small "streamers" being disturbed by a series of comb-like movements to create increasingly complex marbling patterns
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-31 20:49:39

And just before the year is over... I'm finally a supporting member of @… - yay & thank you for all you do! 😍
Donate:
donate.codeberg.org/
Join a…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-01 10:36:10

Very saddened to learn that Bill Schwab died a month ago. He was one of my favorite landscape photographers and sharers of knowledge. Heartbreaking news & such a loss!
randomphoto.blogspot.com/2025/

Bill Schwab's left us.
Bill Schwab, Photostock 2008 Bill Schwab 1959-2025  To say that someone left us too early is an understatement.  Bill Schwab, a Michigan-bas...

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-30 16:23:43

Hierarchies 😩... One of the biggest recurring time-consuming issues I sometimes encounter is making decisions about _where_ to put some (new or exisiting) code/feature, i.e. in which package, new or existing, considering: functional fit (topic), structural fit (pre-existing data format conventions with the rest of a package), and if possible, not introducing new dependencies as a result of new feature... Sometimes these three aspects are mutually blocking each other and it's so time cons…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-29 10:22:31

My art, but not my video[1]. The piece is ASCII-SCAPE (2022), a pure text-only version of my C-SCAPE [2] multi-cellular automata piece in which several "organisms" are co-evolving in the same space and forming infinitely changing patterns/structures:
art.thi.ng/ascii-scape/
(Reload…

Short video of a B&W variation of ASCII-SCAPE running on a super-widescreen curved monitor. After a few seconds, the camera is moving much closer to the screen to only show a close-up of a handful of text characters making up the complex, vertically scrolling and evolving larger pattern.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-25 16:34:46

#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:

Screenshot of a section of the thi.ng/units package readme giving an overview of the new formula DSL provided. The included code examples show how to: - compute weight in grams of A4 paper with 320 grams per square meter - compute weight in kg of 1/2 inch thick 200x300mm glass plate - same as previous but using the `glass` density preset Direct link: https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/tree/develop/packages/units#domain-specific-language
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-29 15:36:20

Simulated Cyanotype Chemigrams...
Lately I've been revisiting my old fluid sim toolset which started out as part of my toxiclibs Java libraries (2007/8, based on Jos Stam's research, also previously mentioned in this thread[1]), then ported & expanded it for #Houdini in 2016, then ported again to TypeScript/GLSL (via

A 3x3 grid of complex abstract shapes created via fluid simulations as described in the post. The images have a monochromatic blue tint (the underlying simulation is just producing a grayscale image)
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-30 16:18:56

RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11580830
New 19,000 word piece by Ed Zitron about how "modern society created the conditions for what I call The Enshittifinancial Crisis — the place at which my friend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification Theory m…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-29 22:10:47

Good night with one of my all-time fave tracks by Boris Bunnik aka Conforce... Closer is an absolute masterpiece, perfect for late rainy nights, with a calm but haunting atmosphere and warm ambience...
Conforce - Closer (2014)
youtube.com/watch?v=6Oi4aUdQ94k

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-28 08:00:01

Giants shrouded in mystery, just like the year ahead...
(Also, it's the last #SilentSunday of this year, hope you enjoyed my selection of 52 images... Analog & digital prints will be available soon!)
#LandscapePhotography

B&W photo of a majestic multi-layered mountain massif with large rock formations shrouded in thick white clouds forming all around it. A large deep canyon is running up towards the tallest rock towers on the left. Some of the steep lower slopes on the right are covered in dense forest.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-26 19:13:13

Natural particle system, frozen in time (1/1000s exposure time).
(Close-up side view of the 160 meter tall Stuibenfall in the early morning light...)
#WaterfallWednesday #NaturePhotography

Close up view of water droplets of a large waterfall in freefall, shot against the bright morning light.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-28 21:10:36

A perfect meditation & expression of both the sorrow and hope of these dark days...
Love Over Entropy — Ojalš (2025)
#Music4Coding …

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-26 14:45:17

Channeling Revenant Feelings (Eagle Creek, Oregon, 2017)
(Hoping my friends in the US are doing everything in their power to help protect these sacred wilderness places from the onslaught of out of control greed...)
#FootpathFriday #ForestFriday

A cinematic panoramic view of a wintry mountain creek flowing in a bend with rapids, surrounded by lush, but cold, foggy and moody PNW rainforest. A dusting of fresh snow on the wet rocky river banks. Fallen trees and logs here and there. Other trees overgrown with furry mosses.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-27 10:54:28

RE: #Demoscene, #Tracker

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-25 08:30:05

Morning Glory
(Somewhere in southern Bavaria, whilst on a beautiful, but freezing early morning photo safari two years ago...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Wide-format view of a group of trees (incl. some large old oaks) standing in a hilly landscape of barren, snowy fields, completely immersed in dense frozen fog which is glowing in pale orange from the rising sun. In the distance the edge of a forest is faintly visible. The snow in the foreground has a purplish tint...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-29 12:44:27

Wow, ARTE produced a beautiful concert with the inimitable Kruder & Dorfmeister. And it's not just some deck magic of their best tracks/remixes, but actual live versions including a full band for support...
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Konzerthaus de Vienne
youtube.com/watch?v=FeXz1UqAuRg

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-29 11:23:07

RE: mastodon.social/@borkdude/1157
Couldn't agree more with what Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) says here in response to one of those sycophantic "Thank you" emails generated by Claude LLM and sent to various people i…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-23 08:45:02

#WinterWonderland arrived early this year...
(From our #EveningWalk in the Ammergau Alps last night... 25-30cm fresh powder everywhere, -7℃, no people, but lots of animal tracks)
#SilentSunday

A path curving into the distance through a beautiful snowed-in winter forest. A thick layer of fresh powder snow on the ground and tree branches. Cold blue light. In the background a large mountain massif (also fully snow covered) rises up above the forest, the slopes bathed in golden evening light, glowing and standing out against the forest below and the clear, deep blue sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-19 15:05:19

#ReleaseWednesday — Thanks to a user suggestion, I've added support for declarative canvas pixel density adjustments in the following packages:
- thi.ng/hiccup-canvas
-

Hiccup shape tree renderer for vanilla Canvas 2D contexts

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-01 12:17:22

Winter sunset extraordinaire...
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #WinterWonderland #Alps

An empty winter landscape just after sunset, with frozen fog hovering over a snow plain in the foreground. Further back, the silhouettes of a stretch of snowy forest and behind that the silhouettes of the Northern Alps. Dominating it all is an intensely orange glowing sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-21 13:49:37

As I said previously, I do, do ❤️ ridges... This was six days ago, on almost the last day of autumn (meanwhile it's all white)...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #Hiking

First person video of me walking a narrow path along a ridge with steep drops on either side, but one side more open, providing vast views over the surrounding landscape (and esp. the foothills north of the Ammergau Alps). The beautiful warm autumn afternoon sun makes the dried grasses appear almost golden... Bright blue sky
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-28 13:13:16

The ability to schedule posts is really one my favorite phanpy.social features which I've been using a lot this year. 🙏 Other than lack of dev bandwidth/resources, not sure why the default Mastodon UI doesn't support it if it's actually part of the official API. There's an open issue about it sin…

Phanpy
Minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-27 14:55:08

One of the most biting & memorable film monologues, inspired by the poetry of Antonio Machado, and delivered by "Jefe" near the end of Ridley Scott's The Counselor:
"Actions create consequences, which create new worlds, and they're all different [...] and hitherto unknown to us. They must have always been there. [...] I urge you to see the truth of the situation you are in. It is not for me to tell you what you should have done or not done. The world in which…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-22 09:38:39

Sunset work at Ecola (2017)
#ThrowbackThursday

Widescreen view of the Oregon coastline south of Ecola State Park with several sea stacks (incl. Haystack Rock near Cannon Beach). The coastal mountain range and Cape Lookout peninsula in the far distance. Slight fog forming. In the foreground rolling grassy slopes and a single tree are catching the warm red/orange evening light.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-20 09:44:59

Wow, just noticed #ThingUmbrella reached 3700 stars on GitHub — I'm celebrating... 🤩🫠
Heartfelt thanks to all of you who've been helping along the way (in any shape & form) and been supporting this work for all these years and across different programming languages/camps! Merci beaucoup!!! Esp. big Thank You's to fellow fediverse people/supporters from various stages…

thi.ng/umbrella

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-23 12:37:44

Do(n't) look down...
(View down into Oytal from a precarious section of the ridge path near Laufbacher Eck & Schneck, late October 2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography

View of the upper section of Oytal and surrounding majestic mountains, as seen from a narrow hiking path near the ridge, a 1000 meters above the valley. Super steep grassy cliffs and slopes (in autumn colors) dropping down directly next to the path. Another small path winding up in the valley to the cirque in the distance. Some of these mountains there already dusted with snow.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-20 11:29:43

Animated #TextMode area plots with additive blending in ANSI16 format...
Source code for a static version of this example (made with thi.ng/ramp,

Screenrecording of a Terminal/command line app displaying four animated area charts (in red, green, blue, gray) overlapping each other and blended together using additive colors.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-22 20:55:25

Belated #MonochromeMonday / #MountainMonday: A moody winter day in the Ammergau Alps. A view down the snowed-in river bed of the Linder with the Notkarspitze summit catching the last light in the distance...

B&W photo of a moody winter landscape with dense forest on both sides of an empty snowed-in riverbed leading into the distance. Large mountains in the background, with one of the summits catching the last light. The mountains closer are all cut off by low hanging dark clouds descending into the valley.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-20 08:00:02

Early morning view from the supermarket carpark...
(Imst, October 2025)
#LandscapePhotography #Alps #Mountains

A mountain peak in rusty red/brown colors from the early morning alpen glow (and the general impact of October) against a pale beige sky and behind layers of dark gray clouds...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-27 19:28:19

Bravo! Philip Glass withdraws premiere of his Symphony No.15 at Kennedy Center...
theguardian.com/music/2026/jan

Philip Glass letter to Kennedy Center: "After thoughtful consideration, I have decided to withdraw my Symphony No. 15 "Lincoln" from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Symphony No. 15 is a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and the values of the Kennedy Center today are in direct conflict with the message of the Symphony. Therefore, I feel an obligation to withdraw this Symphony premiere from the Kennedy Center under its current leadership. Philip Glass"
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-27 14:45:14

Future Portrait Of A Billionaire's House...
Ozymandias, only an inscription and the views remain...
(From our snowy and icy morning walk yesterday... Hohenfreyberg, built & expanded between 1418-1608, burnt down (sacrificed) in 1646. Same fate for the other ruin on the neighboring hill (last image), which belonged to the father and also got destroyed previously (in 1525) by farmers of the surrounding villages...)

View of an old snowed in castle ruin with just a few remaining partial walls & tower structures, seen through (and framed by) the main gate. Plain white sky with large snow flakes.
An old snowed in castle ruin with just a few remaining partial walls and tower structures. Plain white sky.
View of an old castle ruin standing on the top of the neighboring hill in a snow storm. A broken wall fragment of another castle in the foreground. In the distance some parts of the nearby valley visible, though limited visibility due to the snow, the fog and the sun trying to break through...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-27 11:36:42

RE: infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/1
Not even our own governments have this kind of information (officially) and now the world is being forced to hand over our entire social network and DNA for just traveling to a country on the …

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-19 16:03:09

Fave hike of 2025... Ahh memories... Only 5 weeks ago, but already feels like a lifetime ago...
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

A beautiful river canyon in an alpine landscape is leading into the distance toward large barren mountains with snow capped peaks. Mixed forest (Swiss pines, larches, birches...) on the right side of the canyon, steep yellow/brown grassy slopes on the left. Hazy sky.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-12-27 11:24:12

Came across this 2010 blog post about mindfulness in computing and so much of these behaviors have only intensified to new extremes with LLM usage. So much so that not only is the process of software creation being quickly supplanted by prompts and (stochastic) "search" assemblies, but more generally the kind of mindfulness talked about in the post (here meaning thinking through & solving a problem yourself[1]) is now being openly discouraged by industry and forcefully delegate…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2025-11-26 21:08:15

Already shared this track/EP some time ago, but it just needs another round: 13 minutes of beautiful minimal, meditative slow-motion dub with an absolutely remarkable (and unforgettable) bass line to glue it all together...
Blamstrain - 4AM (2013)
soundcloud.com/juho/blamstrain

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-16 11:59:53

Also new in #ThingUmbrella: The new thi.ng/text-format-image package provides conversion/formatting for bitmap output for CLI/Terminal apps, currently only via the widely supported iTerm2 format (se…

Screenshot of a CLI/Terminal with the code example from the thi.ng/text-format-image readme and the resulting image output as part of the normal flow...
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-21 20:31:46

Meeting the sublime
(A brief moment when the heavens briefly opened first for light, then for epic rain showers... Above Kandersteg, 2019)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

B&W photo of a mountain landscape in the Swiss Alps, with dramatic clouds forming and shafts of light reaching down into the deep valley. The silhouettes of trees in the foreground.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-18 19:13:37

Frozen forest
(From tonight's evening walk in the local woods...)
#SilentSunday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

B&W photo of a small dark footpath in the dense forest leading into the distance. The ground is frozen and snowfree, but all the tree branches are covered in a layer of frost, as if dipped in thick white paint.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-27 08:00:05

As fresh, dreamy & lovely as a... Morning Star
Featherstone - Morning Star (2025)
youtube.com/watch?v=9JubB0_e2Gg
It's my fave track from their Shapeshifter album:

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-01-26 17:29:04

Why do you follow me? Multiple choice...
(Just saw someone else do such a poll and it reminded me to do the same...)