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🎩 hi there! it's malki from wondermark 🖋️cartoonist, designer, game maker 🔗 my various links: linkpop.com/malki 🦋 comics posted at: @wondermark.com 🔩 card game: Bolted! https://swiy.co/gf-bsky

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 1d

Saw a great sculpture someone made out of plastic trash and other bits of discarded refuse. Truly amazing workmanship, very creative. Beautiful, even.

As a supporter of the arts, then, I emphatically recommend we generate as much plastic trash as possible

Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 1d

"But beyond any measures of popularity, Neural Viz counts as a historic accomplishment: It is among the first pieces of AI filmmaking that truly does not suck."

The Future of AI Isn't Just Slop

Behold Neural Viz, the first great cinematic universe of the AI era. It's from a guy named Josh.

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 2d

absolutely! take a little initiative. be an active participant in your own life for once

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 2d

if someone's announcing their position where you are, try to find them and avoid them. if they're where you want to be, try and wait before you get there. everyone form an orderly queue and we'll get down on the ground somehow. as they say, takeoffs are optional but landings are mandatory

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 2d

uncontrolled airport procedures are very simple. just announce your position on each part of the approach leg on the common traffic approach frequency (CTAF). everyone keep your eyes open and your head on a swivel, they could enlist the passengers for extra support on this

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening amid government shutdown

The air traffic tower at Burbank Airport is unmanned on Monday evening as air traffic controllers begin to call out in greater numbers due to the government shutdown.

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 3d

sound up for a great joke

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 4d

1) What if the rule used "group" instead of "chain"?

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

Good news everyone, Marvel apparently doesn't care about protecting their IP, artist alleys everywhere rejoice

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

"Select 1 limb" is good phrasing! I hadn't thought of it in exactly those terms. The other wording I was considering was:

"A limb consists of the entire group of parts originating from any 1 torso socket." Trying to get away from thinking of the limb as a linear chain of parts, more as a cluster.

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

One thing I'm considering is whether "limb" evokes shape or structure too much, compared to a term like:

"Play parts from your hand into any 1 GROUP.

Each socket on the torso is the start of a separate GROUP. A group consists of the entire chain of parts originating from any 1 torso socket."

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

Yeah I think the real answer is, visual examples in the manual remove a lot of ambiguity. But I'm trying to get the language right too!

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

So as you read it, A and B are not part of the same limb?

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

If you were to play onto C, for example, could you play anywhere else in the same turn? Where would be allowed and where would be disallowed (if any)?

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

For sure, I'll make it public once everything is done! What I'm trying to learn here is whether the language of the explanation is clear enough for folks who don't know the rule.

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

I understand how you would get "D or E". Tell me more about "any of them"

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 5d

Pop quiz, hotshot: On your turn, you want to ADD PARTS. (Parts are the square body part cards. Parts connect at sockets -- the red/blue/yellow connector icons.)

Based on this rule as written, where can you add parts on this turn?

A layout of cards from my game Bolted!, involving miscellaneous connected body parts, each labeled with a letter for reference

[ADD PARTS] Play any number of parts from your hand onto 1 single limb.

Each socket on the base torso starts a LIMB. Limbs may be specified further as shoulders, hips, or the neck. A limb consists of the entire chain of parts originating from any single torso socket.

When adding parts, generally you may build onto only 1 limb at a time -- but you may add as many parts to that limb as you have cards that will fit.

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 7d

that's gonna be a keogh joint I reckon

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 7d

Bolted! Production! Update! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/w...

some samples of the game art from Bolted! showing how each game card is collaged together out of vintage illustrations

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 8d

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 7d

Did you know that if you spill coffee on your laptop, you can put a straw in the USB ports and suck really hard? This will have the effect of making you too light-headed to care

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 9d

One of the most ethical things a billionaire could do with their money is set up a company that exists just to pay artists a wage (doesn't even have to be that much) to make art, and also, provide them with health insurance. Trying to Lathe of Heaven this into existence.

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 11d

Truly a roller coaster of a life

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 11d

To my critics I merely say, "Cat-piss and porcupines!!"

The March 1919 issue of Poetry published Pound's Poems from the Propertius Series,[180] which appeared to be a translation of the Latin poet Sextus Propertius.[m] Harriet Monroe, editor of Poetry, published a letter in April 1919 from a professor of Latin, W. G. Hale, who found "about three-score errors" in the text; he said Pound was "incredibly ignorant of Latin", that "much of what he makes his author say is unintelligible", and that "If Mr. Pound were a professor of Latin, there would be nothing left for him but suicide" (adding "I do not counsel this").[181] Pound replied to Monroe: "Cat-piss and porcupines!! The thing is no more a translation than my 'Altaforte' is a translation, or than Fitzgerald's Omar is a translation." His letter ended "In final commiseration". Monroe interpreted his silence after that as his resignation from Poetry magazine.[182]

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 12d

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david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 13d

I see this all the time too. "Use AI for outreach, book sales calls, qualify leads!" OK bro as long as you're cool with all the leads you get being too dumb to tell what you're doing.

david malki ! @davidmalki.com · 14d

Congrats, John. I hope you broke a leg.