I was part of an event today at the museum dedicated to the romantic landscape painter Koekkoek. During my stay there I decided to paint part of the interior, which i still don’t do very often. It’s fun trying to get those gradients and the atmosphere right. It’s funny how there is never enough time when one is painting basically nothing at all.
#oilpainting #interieur #koekkoekhaus #kunst #art #painting #mastoart #fediart
RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@ChrisMayLA6/117415861088773130
wherein our heroine neatly lays out the argument for privatising nearly any good or service
A young Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal recording the Rising Sons’s debut in Hollywood, CA, July 1965.
Photo credit: Jerry Fitzgerald
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or being able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment.
I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this:
[Note to the mansplainers of Mastodon: This is a thread, so please read the whole thing before replying. Please also know that I am aware of things beyond what's in this thread...]
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I've been talking to journalists a LOT recently, and it was particularly delightful to get to speak about questions of linguistics, language change and prescriptivism, for once:
RE: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/117406699601395252
this is all spot on and i have always loved good satire but will it move any dials? the daily show achieved sweet fuck-all in its first run - seems harder now.
i love the start of this. not sure about the jean michelle jarre turn. but it's extrawelt, so will need to hear a few times ... (good evening)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cDb5YHBidU
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/117408933546834579
the right, every time
The 3rd and final volume of the Superpang World Tour compilation is out now, featuring music by 33 artists including a track by me based on rhythms made with binary numbers in Gray code sequence. All proceeds go to Médecins Sans Frontières.
https://superpang.bandcamp.com/album/superpang-world-tour-vol-3
🚉🎂Happy 137th birthday to Upfield station, first opened 8th October 1889. With Melbourne's north growing, the single track section is a big issue, preventing frequent reliable trains from running. It's time for government to duplicate, and move ahead on an extension further north.
Oh no!
"Margaret Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT during NASA’s Apollo program, died on Sep. 30. She was 90.
A computing pioneer who authored over 130 publications, Hamilton helped to establish software engineering as a dedicated discipline."
We all remember her from these iconic pictures.
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
https://news.mit.edu/2016/scene-at-mit-margaret-hamilton-apollo-code-0817
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Alright, I've got 150 hours of weird indie music from across the globe loading up onto my new internet radio station and all but about 30 of those tracks now have correct metadata.
I'm going to sit with it for a few hours and make sure I'm happy with how it all came out, and then I'm going to share the link.
The link is a 32Kbps opus stream, suitable for even the slowest of internet connections.
A friendly reminder: if you enjoy my work and would like to buy some art, mugs, or stickers featuring it, you can visit my online store here:
“You don’t understand small business,” they cry.
No, mate, I absolutely understand undeclared income from cash jobs and wage-theiving your casual staff. I just think you deserve to fail if that’s what is keeping your concern going.
Here is the cover I created for a story by Jeff Vandermeer , author of *Annihilation / Southern Reach*.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/117391031074361744
i read this as 'opt out of october' and i would also like to do that too
working my way through a list of my favorite releases of the year and this one is a standout (good evening)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yEgwQzO4E