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Pinned
2023 Nikon Small World in Motion Competition - Third Place
YouTube video by Nikon Instruments Inc.
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Please keep keeping your and others' health safe.
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(The below video shows a microscopic view by using holotomography of SARS-CoV2 infecting, fusing and then destroying human cells.)
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(The below video shows a microscopic view by using holotomography of SARS-CoV2 infecting, fusing and then destroying human cells.)
One of my favorites by NIN, and beautifully shot.
Nine Inch Nails "Love Is Not Enough" live at rehearsals, 2005. Directed & edited by me. Filmed on the glorious Panasonic DVX100 MiniDV cameras.
December 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
One of my favorites by NIN, and beautifully shot.
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There is a petition in Canada to prevent the usage of the “get out of human rights free” card in Canada so Alberta’s usage can be brought to parliamentary debate www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en.... If you are Canadian please sign it
Petition e-7027 - Petitions
www.ourcommons.ca
December 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
There is a petition in Canada to prevent the usage of the “get out of human rights free” card in Canada so Alberta’s usage can be brought to parliamentary debate www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en.... If you are Canadian please sign it
Way to step on your own dick, Swen.
NEW: I spoke to Larian boss Swen Vincke about their ambitions for their new RPG Divinity, cutting down development time, pressures from Baldur's Gate 3, why BG3 wouldn't have happened without Tencent, how Larian uses generative AI, and much more www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’
‘I think this one is going to be way better’ than ‘Baldur’s Gate 3,’ Larian CEO Vincke says
www.bloomberg.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Way to step on your own dick, Swen.
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Vivi Lives is now available for digital download on my Ko-Fi!
ko-fi.com/s/8530c57b29
ko-fi.com/s/8530c57b29
December 15, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Vivi Lives is now available for digital download on my Ko-Fi!
ko-fi.com/s/8530c57b29
ko-fi.com/s/8530c57b29
Unified Lara looks pretty damn good in game.
December 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Unified Lara looks pretty damn good in game.
Having idiosyncracies like counting syllables, ensuring certain words aren't reused for at least a few paragraphs and making sure my words fit my own cadence (for some reason I have a beat to my speaking voice), etc.
Also gettng a "no results found" verbatim search for certain phrases can help, too.
Also gettng a "no results found" verbatim search for certain phrases can help, too.
I think it would be fun if writers who love language started intentionally writing more strangely as AI flattens written "content" into a mono-voice. it would cool I think if writers responded by focusing their individual efforts on cultivating a really unique voice that's hard to copy
December 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Having idiosyncracies like counting syllables, ensuring certain words aren't reused for at least a few paragraphs and making sure my words fit my own cadence (for some reason I have a beat to my speaking voice), etc.
Also gettng a "no results found" verbatim search for certain phrases can help, too.
Also gettng a "no results found" verbatim search for certain phrases can help, too.
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Trans rights activists have joined forces with labour unions in Saskatchewan to fight anti-trans legislation
It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social
in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social
in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
A Prairie alliance of trans advocates and unions should be a national model ⋆ The Breach
Right-wing premiers are using the notwithstanding clause to target trans kids, workers, Muslims, and drug users. Saskatchewan shows how a united front could stop them
breachmedia.ca
December 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Trans rights activists have joined forces with labour unions in Saskatchewan to fight anti-trans legislation
It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social
in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
It's a model that should be employed nationwide to combat laws against vulnerable groups, writes @desaima.bsky.social
in our latest for @breachmedia.ca
breachmedia.ca/trans-albert...
A short list of 2025 releases I liked:
Messa - The Spin
Tribunal - In Penitence & Ruin
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Slow Crush - Thirst
Mary Mortem - Phantoms of the Fall
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Promaja - Bravo Brava
Comaduster - Memory Echoes
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues
kariti - still life
Messa - The Spin
Tribunal - In Penitence & Ruin
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Slow Crush - Thirst
Mary Mortem - Phantoms of the Fall
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Promaja - Bravo Brava
Comaduster - Memory Echoes
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues
kariti - still life
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
A short list of 2025 releases I liked:
Messa - The Spin
Tribunal - In Penitence & Ruin
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Slow Crush - Thirst
Mary Mortem - Phantoms of the Fall
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Promaja - Bravo Brava
Comaduster - Memory Echoes
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues
kariti - still life
Messa - The Spin
Tribunal - In Penitence & Ruin
Ethel Cain - Perverts
Slow Crush - Thirst
Mary Mortem - Phantoms of the Fall
Faetooth - Labrynthine
Promaja - Bravo Brava
Comaduster - Memory Echoes
Drofnosura - Ritual of Split Tongues
kariti - still life
I can understand where people are coming from when they say, "everything's Al now so don't bother trying to distinguish it from photography", but then not trying to distinguish it creates it's own hype of "it's so convincing people have given up altogether".
I'm still not willing to do that, though.
I'm still not willing to do that, though.
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I can understand where people are coming from when they say, "everything's Al now so don't bother trying to distinguish it from photography", but then not trying to distinguish it creates it's own hype of "it's so convincing people have given up altogether".
I'm still not willing to do that, though.
I'm still not willing to do that, though.
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and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
November 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
and all of the arguments we made 5 yrs ago in this paper about why the idea of robot rights relies on faulty assumptions about the nature of human cognition and intelligence still hold
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Robot Rights?: Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
Israel’s Collective Amnesia
Even as Israel continues killing Gazans, its liberals are ready to forget the genocide.
jewishcurrents.org
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"The past two years of continuous violence made Gaza impossible to ignore, requiring more active modes of forgetting—and now a concerted effort to solidify a whitewashed national narrative that exonerates Israel of wrongdoing."
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
jewishcurrents.org/israels-coll...
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People who won't do the easy things, don't do the hard things.
November 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
People who won't do the easy things, don't do the hard things.
Just to elaborate on this a bit, because being trans is so closely associated with marginalization, I think some parents unconsciously feel pressured to distance themselves from their trans child in order to remain loyal to the norms of their particular upbringing and recipients of its privileges.
Considering how easy it is for some parents to kneejerk themselves into "how could this happen to us, normal people?" when their kid comes out as trans and how that culture/class/status shock can get twisted into feelings of loss and estrangement, their reaction can end up legitimizing lots of harm.
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Just to elaborate on this a bit, because being trans is so closely associated with marginalization, I think some parents unconsciously feel pressured to distance themselves from their trans child in order to remain loyal to the norms of their particular upbringing and recipients of its privileges.
At least this "No RoE, FAFO" method of terror hasn't resulted in major escalations, for now. Maybe enough will see more legal sense in being an individual involved with a group of losers, rather than as a bunch of faceless goons whose motives can only be inferred by who they tend to harm.
New: The FBI is quietly urging ICE agents to properly ID themselves in the field.
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
In a bulletin to law enforcement last month, it warned of criminals posing as ICE to rob, rape, kidnap—a problem it says now demands national coordination to confront.
By me & @carolinehaskins.bsky.social:
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
At least this "No RoE, FAFO" method of terror hasn't resulted in major escalations, for now. Maybe enough will see more legal sense in being an individual involved with a group of losers, rather than as a bunch of faceless goons whose motives can only be inferred by who they tend to harm.
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If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough | The Tyee
We downplay the virus at our peril, warns Yaneer Bar-Yam. And children are more at risk than we thought.
thetyee.ca
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
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I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
—Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
—Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I hated childhood
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
—Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”
I hate adulthood
And I love being alive
—Mary Ruefle, from “Provenance”
Define your music taste in eight artists:
(This took longer than I figured it would take to figure out, and clearly I still have a 90's romantigoth girl in me who'll remain till death do us part.)
The Changelings
Tristania
Deftones
Shape of Despair
Blood Ceremony
Messa
Screature
Tribunal
(This took longer than I figured it would take to figure out, and clearly I still have a 90's romantigoth girl in me who'll remain till death do us part.)
The Changelings
Tristania
Deftones
Shape of Despair
Blood Ceremony
Messa
Screature
Tribunal
Seeing this go around:
Define your music taste in eight artists:
Antrisch
Panzerfaust
Lady Gaga
Ghost (Prequelle and earlier)
Murder by Death
Depeche Mode
Kanonenfieber
Welle: Erdball (Der Kalte Krieg and earlier)
Define your music taste in eight artists:
Antrisch
Panzerfaust
Lady Gaga
Ghost (Prequelle and earlier)
Murder by Death
Depeche Mode
Kanonenfieber
Welle: Erdball (Der Kalte Krieg and earlier)
October 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Define your music taste in eight artists:
(This took longer than I figured it would take to figure out, and clearly I still have a 90's romantigoth girl in me who'll remain till death do us part.)
The Changelings
Tristania
Deftones
Shape of Despair
Blood Ceremony
Messa
Screature
Tribunal
(This took longer than I figured it would take to figure out, and clearly I still have a 90's romantigoth girl in me who'll remain till death do us part.)
The Changelings
Tristania
Deftones
Shape of Despair
Blood Ceremony
Messa
Screature
Tribunal
Not only is it awful to see this mass-disabiling event continue, but it's also remarkable that so-called public intellectuals are still minimizing the evolving threat of SARS-CoV2, as if they refuse to believe it's harmful because their identity is too important for their brain to be weakened by it.
Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e
Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Not only is it awful to see this mass-disabiling event continue, but it's also remarkable that so-called public intellectuals are still minimizing the evolving threat of SARS-CoV2, as if they refuse to believe it's harmful because their identity is too important for their brain to be weakened by it.
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If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
October 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.
Thinking more about the overlap of nostalgia and meme culure, maybe the old glorification trick isn't getting the results it used to anymore because an idealized past that depends on a certain level of contextlessness is becoming too poisoned by irony to be used as a primer for communal motivations.
October 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Thinking more about the overlap of nostalgia and meme culure, maybe the old glorification trick isn't getting the results it used to anymore because an idealized past that depends on a certain level of contextlessness is becoming too poisoned by irony to be used as a primer for communal motivations.
I suspected this was the case given how the nudity or adult content label could be fooled with specific changes to brightness in areas, but in researching hive's programming, it's clear to me now why hash matching biases images of trans people towards pornography rather than flagging them as benign.
thehive.ai evaluates all images posted to the site. We don't actually provide any input.
AI to Understand, Search, and Generate Content | Hive
Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.
thehive.ai
October 7, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I suspected this was the case given how the nudity or adult content label could be fooled with specific changes to brightness in areas, but in researching hive's programming, it's clear to me now why hash matching biases images of trans people towards pornography rather than flagging them as benign.
Imagine digging a grave for yourself just so you can complain about how much higher the bare minimum standards are of the people trying to help you out.
October 7, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Imagine digging a grave for yourself just so you can complain about how much higher the bare minimum standards are of the people trying to help you out.
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A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.
September 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.