tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
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It seemed natural for #genuary17 to render some rotating nested square grids. It's a little annoying to get this to render nicely; I ended up computing explicit quad intersections using polybooljs (https://github.com/velipso/polybooljs), which is a bit slow (and there's still some shimmer in the thin lines). #genuary https://editor.p5js.org/isohedral/sketches/uh3twEzz4
Actors who play their part in a film about X and suddenly become experts and advocates for X 😒
Oh, so that's why everything's broken!
[Source](http://www.ecosystematic.com/2020/04/29/the-ecosystem-of-wicked-problems/)
#TIL about [Yuri Bezmenov](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov) and found this illuminating video (from 198x!):
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10 años sin Aaron.
So: some Apache are angry that a benign non-profit is calling itself “enemy” using a word that moved from Zuñi to Spanish and from Spanish to English, and assert that they and only they can be “enemy”.
I don't know where the Zuñi got their word for “enemy” from in the first place, and whether in turn it was a disrespectful appropriation (yes, it was).
To recap: a group of people in what is now known as North America (the Apache) use, to refer to themselves in the language of one of their colonisers (English), a loanword from the language of another of their colonisers (Spanish), which is an approximate transliteration of the word that a rival group of people (the Zuñi) used to mean “enemy”, sometimes referring to them (the Apache).
Lastly, and by the same (flimsy) logic, 500+ million native #Spanish speakers would like to have a word with any entitled English speaker who pontificates on the word “apache” being used as a disrespectful cultural appropriation: you guys stole the word from our language in the first place. We could be offended too, or withdraw our approval for you to use it. Just use your own word!
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The #ASF (Apache Software Foundation) is, to most people familiar with it, a good institution with a noble cause. At worst, it would be a neutral organisation, in moral terms. How can the association between the name of a group of people (marginalised or not) and a good entity be bad in itself?
Imagine a brand “Printers Scandinavia”. By itself it would be perfectly neutral, right? Of course “Printers Lousy Scandinavia” or “Printers Great Power of Scandinavia” would carry some connotation. But just the name?
How can one know, by looking at the name _alone_, whether the name is homage or mockery, admiration or contempt?
Honest question: how exactly is just using the name of a group of people (marginalised or not), without any epithets or modifiers, disrespectful or offensive? (“because some members of that group have said so” isn't valid).
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#PhotoJanuary2023 day 9: nobody
That spot would soon after be filled with musicians, for a university orchestra concert. But for now, it’s just a harp and some pretty empty red chairs.
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You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox
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wire worms 1 final version.
#art #loop #creativecoding #generativeart
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Web devs! Do you sometimes find the web frustrating to work with?
Does this list fairly represent your own list of frustrations?
https://gist.github.com/captainbrosset/01a5306525ed377e619a85515eb6c667
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
