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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 1d

I don’t, but I suppose that’s an incentive for me to write it up. I was able to get lower cost SLS and DMLS prints from overseas before the tariffs went into effect. Pretty expensive proposition now.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 1d

Beyond FDM 3D printing, I’ve also had relatively poor luck with SLA printing designs with fine features. But I’ve had pretty decent results with powder bed fusion metal printing as long as I did some post processing.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 1d

Laser cutting is a great way to make cuts with thin lines that FDM 3D printing definitely isn’t the best at! But I’ve actually gotten good results 3D printing thicker areas that then transfer the texture of the top layer.

A print made with an FDM 3D printed letterpress cut of railroad tracks, where the surface texture of the print looks kinda like wood.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 1d

You don’t need to cut very deeply for printing, but the lowest power engraving lasers wouldn’t work too well except maybe for intaglio. But since we typically have to cut a relatively large surface, I’d think that there’s a somewhat greater need for precision than for engraving.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 9d

there's a lot of competition but i think you can make a valid argument that the TikTok ban is the biggest political unforced error the Dems have made in modern history

TIKTOK AS A PLATFORM USED BY PROGRESSIVES, POC, QUEER PPL, ACTIVISTS, <> DEMCRATS <> WHY WOULD TRUMP DO THIS?

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 9d

A healthy political culture should allow us to recognize that the people on that bridge were racists without endorsing what the Big Rock Lady did.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 12d

Hey chatgpt, make me a line art logo for "National Coffee with a Cop Day" and, just in case people don't know what that is from the name, be sure to put nine stars and two badges in this thing.

Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 12d

So this is apparently a thing that exists, but unfortunately their events page is completely broken so it's a little difficult to figure out which coffee shops to boycott.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 14d

“Every aspect of the university needs to incorporate AI. Also, humanities research only counts if you can print it out.”

Caroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 14d

NEH Collaborative research grant program now explicitly prohibits digital projects. Output should be a book or journal issue. FFS
www.neh.gov/grants/resea...

Collaborative Research

Supports groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities.

www.neh.gov

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 15d

Just a reminder that Abigail Spanberger, former CIA agent and self-described cop, voted in favor of the TikTok ban, one of the most consequential acts of political censorship in American history and, shortly, the catalyst for an unimaginably powerful instrument of right wing propaganda.

Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 15d

It’s actually amazing that Dems are both dumber and worse at politics than Republicans. Really hard to believe, but there it is.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15d

This is the biggest self own Democrats have ever done. They handed control of the largest social media platform to far right regime allies.

Techmeme @techmeme.com · 15d

Trump plans to sign a TikTok deal on Thursday; source: TikTok US would be run by a new joint venture company, with ByteDance holding less than 20% of its stock (NBC News)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 15d

Correggio, Martyrdom of St. Rocky (1524)

(h/t Todd Burks)

A diptych showing a dog and a figure from Correggio's Martyrdom of Four Saints, both in basically the same pose of religious ecstasy.

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 16d

If it’s easier to drop them back in the same place relative to the sun or the galactic center rather than to a fixed point on the surface of the earth, that’s okay too.

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SIMONE 🩷 @simonee.bsky.social · 17d

one day, everyone will have always been against this

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 17d

"I had pleaded with Joe [...] to extend the same empathy he showed to the suffering of Ukrainians to the suffering of innocent Gazan civilians"

"But he couldn't do it: While he could passionately state, 'I am a Zionist,' his remarks about innocent Palestinians came off as inadequate and forced."

Biden response to Gaza was "inadequate," Harris says in book

It's part of Harris' larger effort in the book to distance herself from Biden after not doing so during last year's campaign.

www.axios.com

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Doctor The Frog @skipbidder.bsky.social · Jun 25

I think you'll find that this isn't true.

White letters on a black background. "The media could not be played."

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Shane Lin @shane.logoff.website · 26d

The “or” part doesn’t really reassure!

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 27d

GWOT made everyone dumber.

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