Microsoft Research Funds “Pronouns in Software” Study
After encouraging “Gender Transitioning” children, Microsoft is doubling down on DEl with new “Research” study and new animated video about Trans pronouns in software. ⌘ Read more

It’s not a winter wonderland out here, but with Christmas and winter coming soon, maybe a little snow on my blog isn’t a bad idea. I’ve just programmed a snow animation for another project and thought I could reuse the code in the form of a simple GoBlog plugin. ❄❄❄ ⌘ Read more

This is how many animals could go extinct from climate change
Benji Jones,   Environmental Correspondent   -  Vox

_Stephan: Nothing I see suggests to me that the coming christofascist autocracy is going to do anything substantial about protecting the matrix of life from the devastation of climate change. Here is a sense of what is coming. I urge you to get involved with some citizens’ movement that works to protect democracy and prepare meaningfully to change the … ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [CCS] Full-Chain Membership Proofs (FCMP) explainer video released!

Full-Chain Membership Proofs boost sender privacy by expanding the anonymity set from 16 to 100M+, eliminating vulnerabilities in ring signatures. With forward secrecy, transaction chaining, and Outgoing View Keys, Monero remains the most private and fungible cryptocurrency.

Links:

• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=jc8Kc0WogAI
  
• [MO report](/vostoemisio-ccs-proposals-animated-videos-fcmps-what- … ⌘ Read more

Activists claim cockfighting rampant in Arkansas, accuse lobbyists of trying to ease animal cruelty law
Amir Mahmoud,    -  Banner-News (Arkansas)

_Stephan: In the Republican-controlled states the people of America seem to be devolving back into the 19th century, both as how they wish women to be treated, but also, how they treat animals and birds. Cockfighting is a booming trend throughout rural America, particularly in s … ⌘ Read more

Shot on iPhone: Wallace & Gromit on Display at Apple’s UK Headquarters
Apple today announced that a new stop-motion animation featuring Wallace & Gromit will be projected onto London’s Battersea Power Station this holiday season. The festive, six-minute video will be shown every day from 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. from today until N … ⌘ Read more

Would you eat meat grown in stainless-steel tanks?
Start-up food company Vow’s foie gras is, technically, meat. But it wasn’t made with an animal. And it isn’t legal in Australia yet. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [CCS] Monero FCMP Video Draft

Please see ours and xenu’s video here about FCMP. We think it’s ready to get shared but looking forward to everyone’s feedback before we officially share it in the Social media channels.

Links:

• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=1ZYMTbjoDaM
  
• MO report
  

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I like this comment on Slashdot in the above link:

LLMs don’t have an understanding of anything. They can only regurgitate derivations of what they’ve been trained on and can’t apply that to something new in the same ways that humans or even other animals can. The models are just so large that the illusion is impressive.

So true.

VostoEmisio’s animated videos CCS proposal fully funded
VostoEmisio1’s CCS proposal2 to create an animated video explaining Full-Chain Membership Proofs 3 is now fully funded:

20 XMR raised in 31 contributions (100%)

To learn more about VostoEmisio’s work, consult the previous Monero Observer report4.

1. https://repo.getmonero.org/VOSTOEMISIO/ [↩](#fnref:1)

2. [https://ccs.getmonero.org/proposals/VOSTOEMISIO-FCMP-Animated-Explai … ⌘ Read more

On my blog: Developer Diary, International Animation Day https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/10/28/animation.html #programming #project #devjournal

How to Re-Enable Slow Motion Effects on MacOS
If you’re a long time Mac user, you might recall the Slow Motion effect that could be applied by holding the Shift key while minimizing and maximizing windows, as well as for other animations like opening Launchpad or using Mission Control. Some of the fun eye-candy effects on Mac go way the early days of … Read More ⌘ Read more

[ANN] [CVE-2024-9680] Update Tor Browser & Firefox immediately

An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting a use-after-free in Animation timelines. We have had reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild.

Links:

• https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1357/
  
• https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/
  

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 31°C here, feels like 33°C, with a lovely 75% of humidity. It has been raining, on and off (to make matter “better”) the whole day until now. No horses here, but if you go outside you will smell the same smell of farm animals (like goats, or pigs). That’s because two or three kilometres from here there are private farms, and when the wind blows in such way, well, we are reminded of their existence.

I haven’t left the house, so it feels well under air conditioning. In two more hours I will call it quits from the work day, and will have to dash to the grocery to get supplies for tonight’s meal (arroz con gandules). I will let you know how it truly feels out there then. :-D

For those swollen fingers, nothing better than a mildly cold shower! Oh, and paws off the keyboard! :-P

attention dear passengers, we’ll arrive shortly, please↵- intercity: collect your belongings and check seats↵- interplanetary: allow your metabolism to re-acclimate↵- interstellar: enroll your children in planetside trades↵- intergalactic: exit eden (animal advisors will assist)

iOS 18 Adds Pop-Out Bezel Animation When Pressing iPhone Buttons
iOS 18 includes a small but interesting change for the buttons on the iPhone, adding more of a visual element when changing volume, activating the Action button, or locking the screen. When you press an ‌iPhone‌ button in ‌iOS 18‌, the display bezel bulges outward slightly.

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Next Apple Watch Activity Challenge to Recognize International Day of Yoga on June 21
International Day of Yoga is set to take place on Friday, June 21, and Apple is celebrating with an Activity Challenge that will let Apple Watch users earn a yoga badge and a set of animated yoga stickers.

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Find your flow on International Day of Yoga. On June 21, do a yoga workout of 10 minutes or more and you’ll earn this award. Record it … ⌘ Read more

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Make a Website Your Mac Wallpaper with Plash
A unique third party Mac app allows you to turn any web page, including YouTube videos and links to animated GIFs, into your Mac desktop wallpaper. Sound like fun? Well it definitely is, and depending on how creative you want to be, you can accomplish some really fascinating wallpaper experiences on the Mac with this … Read More ⌘ Read more

How DNA helps in cracking animal cruelty cases
Researchers at the University of Florida’s Veterinary Forensic Sciences Laboratory use some of the latest tools to find breakthroughs in animal cruelty investigations. ⌘ Read more

House that Homer built: Simpsons’ actor lists $6.9m home
Dan Castellaneta, the iconic voice of the Homer Simpson character on the long-running animated series “The Simpsons,” is selling his waterfront property in Santa Barbara. ⌘ Read more

Saint Louis Zoo Welcomes Newborn Sichuan Takin
The Saint Louis Zoo introduced its newest Sichuan takin – a Chinese animal related to goats and muskox – to the public on February 13, sharing adorable footage of the baby sticking close to her mom. Named Cornelia, the baby was born on January 28, marking the first takin birth at the Missouri zoo since 2016. This footage shows baby Cornelia following close behind her mother, Dawn, in the Red Rocks habita … ⌘ Read more

Bad Bunny has been branded “cruel and irresponsible” by animals rights group PETA for riding a real horse onstage
Rapper/singer Bad Bunny has been branded “cruel and irresponsible” by animals rights group PETA for riding a real horse onstage on the opening night of his tour. ⌘ Read more

How to Use 134 New Aerial Wallpapers in MacOS Sonoma
macOS Sonoma arrived with 134 new stunning wallpapers available that you can use to spruce up your Mac desktop background. The giant collection of new wallpapers are themed, with wallpaper options for landscapes, cityscapes, underwater, and Earth from space. Even better, these are not just static, they’re all animated wallpapers, meaning they will briefly move … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/02/19/how-to-use-134-new-aeri … ⌘ Read more

O álbum, ou neste caso banda sonora, que mais fez por definir o meu gosto musical foi a BSO do Sonic CD (1993), e quero estrear-me na nova cardiqueta musical da Ciberlândia – #musicol – para vos descrever brevemente a paixão que lhe tenho.

Ainda me lembro muito bem do momento em que, em casa de um amigo que tinha Mega CD, fui arrebatadíssimo por aquele “wuu” do início do jogo (dá pra ouvir na faixa anexa). Até à altura, a música dos videojogos era na base de chips áudio com pouca capacidade pra samples. De repente aparece-nos áudio qualidade CD, vozes, samples longos, que magia que foi.

E não era só a qualidade do som. As malhas soavam tão à frente, techno nipónico a ir buscar ligações a beats latinos, jazz, pop, synthwave, sci-fi, rave e sei lá mais o quê, de acordo com o ambiente do nível.

Outro pormenor inédito (?) era haver vários remixes do mesmo tema de acordo com o período no tempo em que estamos (presente, passado ameno, futuro distópico).

E era quê, 1994-5? Só muitos anos mais tarde consegui obter a colectânea no Soulseek, e ainda hoje me enche de ouvir estas vibes. Alguém por cá também já regalou os ouvidos com isto?

(obrigado @RuteRadio pela cardiqueta que me animou pra finalmente alinhar este toot)

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Adult Swim выпустил отрывок из аниме по «Рику и Морти»
В честь завершения седьмого сезона основного шоу.

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Wit Studio и Netflix объявили о работе над ремейком One Piece
При этом оригинальная манга и предыдущий аниме-сериал, которые выходят с конца 1990-х, ещё не завершились.

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MAPPA анонсировала полнометражный аниме-фильм по «Человеку-бензопиле» — его посвятят Резе
Студия опубликовала первый тизер картины, но даже примерная дата её релиза неизвестна.

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Трейлер седьмого сезона аниме «Моя геройская академия» — он стартует 4 мая 2024 года
#bokunoheroacademia #новости

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«Мальчик и птица» Хаяо Миядзаки стал первым оригинальным аниме, которому удалось возглавить прокат в США
В тройке лидеров сразу две японские ленты — впервые в истории проката в Северной Америке.

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Тизер-трейлер аниме по «Отряду самоубийц» в жанре исекай
Сериал стартует в 2024 году.

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Science SARU работает над аниме-адаптацией манги Dandadan — тизер
Сериал о девушке с психокинетическими способостями, которую похитили пришельцы, стартует в 2024 году.

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У авторов аниме «Скотт Пилигрим жмёт на газ» нет планов на второй сезон
Создатели считают шоу завершённым.

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На Netflix вышел аниме-сериал по «Скотту Пилигриму»
В нём восемь эпизодов.

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Аниматор Dragon Age: Dreadwolf указал 2024 как год релиза — он отредактировал резюме, как только это заметили игроки
Джефф Грабб говорит, что у игры всё хорошо.

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Netflix анонсировал аниме по «Терминатору»
Пока есть только тизер с названием.

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Аниме по «Джону Уику» запустили в производство
Будет это полнометражный фильм или же сериал, неясно.

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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org they did not shoot the dog, some other animal.

More winemakers opting out of animal-based purifiers to meet small but growing vegan market
It would be fair to expect wine to be vegan given it’s mostly fruit, but the majority of drops are not. WA winemaker Alexi Christides says it comes down to how impurities are removed. ⌘ Read more

those inhabitants of your older memories, not really parasites but almost-sentient dust bunnies, animated by the wind of your passing

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Very cool! Amazing animal!

If you’re still undecided about Twitter, surely animal abuse should be the final nail right ? https://lien.sus.fr/xJPvB

Art is not the medium.

The medium can be material or conceptual, permanent or fleating, truthful or fictional, of human, animal, or artificial origin.

Art is the reconveyance of human emotion or experience to another via some medium.

Art is not the medium.

The medium can be material or conceptual, permanent or fleating, truthful or fictional, of human, animal, or artificial origin.

Art is the reconveyance of human emotion or experience to another via some medium.

evolution lets animals age because otherwise they fall into procrastination type paradox situations

@prologic@twtxt.net What I mean is ‘3D’ that runs in realtime engine (like games etc) - and not ‘offline’ 3d (like animations etc), I work with simulators for oil industry.

Animated ASCII fireworks in your Terminal for New Years
Lunduke’s Holiday BASH Animations now has a “Fireworks” option. ⌘ Read more

Animated ASCII Christmas Tree and Hanukkah Menorah in your Shell
Because your Terminal deserves to feel festive during the holidays. ⌘ Read more

2 Indian women arrested for trying to smuggle more than 100 live animals at Bangkok airport
The creatures, including two armadillos, 35 turtles and 50 chameleons, were found in a pair of bags belonging to the women. ⌘ Read more

Global Discussions on Sustainable Solutions for the Future of Food
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The current food system relies heavily on intensive farming which is unsustainable and harmful to both our planet and our health. Although industrial farming provides us affordable food prices and high crop yield, it is also believed that factory-farmed animals are invariably stressed and riddled with disease from cramped and unhealthy living con … ⌘ Read more

‘Bloodsicles’ and ice baths: How US zookeepers coax animals through heatwaves
Siberian tigers Yuri and Nikita at the Denver Zoo, who are supposed to mate, suffer most during Denver’s intensifying heatwaves. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong health experts propose 5 key groups, including animal care workers, be vaccinated against monkeypox before exposure
Pre-exposure jab considered for five target groups, but should not be given within four weeks before or after a Covid-19 vaccine is administered. ⌘ Read more

Quirky China: an animal activist performing ‘mermaid’, not any old iron man and the temple of doom
Quirky China: a medical student turns performing ‘mermaid’ to protect sea animals, an iron man does his daily exercises in a park and a temple thief becomes a laughing stock. ⌘ Read more

the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.

• Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.

• Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.

• Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.

• Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).

• Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.

the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.

• Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.

• Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.

• Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.

• Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).

• Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.

FACTO ANIMAL: Os gatos não podem usar IRC, pois os teclados são concebidos para mãos humanas, e não para patas de gato.

Pixelorama – a truly spectacular pixel art editor for Linux, Mac, & Windows
Open source, gorgeous user interface, easy to use animation tools… Pixelorama is one of the best pixel art editors I’ve ever used. ⌘ Read more

The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII… in 1996.
It’s time for a little dive into mid-1990s computer history! ⌘ Read more

i wonder whether animals experience dukkha

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Unofficial fork of Tachiyomi for anime

Language: Kotlin

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I saw the allegedly animated GIF @thecanine@twtxt.net uploaded gets a PNG extension, yet remains animated. I know PNG can be made animated, but I don’t think that’s what’s happening here, so I am puzzled. Let’s see how this Nyam cat looks like.

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Heart-Stopping Texts
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Cosmic Queries – Animal Outlaws & Rats’ Aes with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Mary Roach** ⌘ Read more

published uxn tutorial day 4, variables and animation loop! | https://compudanzas.net/uxn_tutorial_day_4.html

Send even more help. I’m having the most millenial of midlife crises — I’m not sure Donatello is my spirit-animal ninja turtle anymore.

New video riffing on some ideas for doing more with animation in debuggers: https://archive.org/details/akkartik-mu-2021-05-17

beautifully rendered 3d vector-art animations of old electronic items: https://guillaumekurkdjian.com/electronic-items/ #links #vector #graphics #art

Just installed a Chrome extension on the work laptop to stop all the stupid animations on the intranet. Ah, relief.

Just installed a Chrome extension on the work laptop to stop all the stupid animations on the intranet. Ah, relief.

a hydra has that many heads because each is connected to a different stomach, seven in all, to digest plants, animals, air, gems, noble gases, emotions, vacuum

physical models are wild animals that are never meant to be domesticated

📚 Finished reading Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe

📚 Finished reading Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara Pascoe

It’s not like YHWH is dead, but these days he’s just hopelessly outclassed by Science: Recursively self-improving doctrine, a steady stream of mana from animal and sometimes human sacrifices, a priestdom of millions

Cute 3D line-drawn animated icons.

field line sculptures, innocuous smooth stones except when placed in a sunbeam, where they pick up nearby dust and animate it into letters, gearflowers, twirling tesseracts

3D Animation | Anime Has A Bright Digital Future - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRA8N0R81fc

Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Faces

Animal Photo Art References Search https://x6ud.github.io/

The new anime season is so weird. A bunch of harem shit (yay) but all of it is short episodes (wut)

OK I can’t fault the DomeKano anime for dropping a younger girl who looks almost exactly like Hina & is tsundere from a scene that would be in the last episode but if she doesn’t become a repeat character I will be shocked

Reading the DomeKano manga, I keep running into stuff where it’s like, I don’t remember them happening in the anime but they must have, but at the same time I would have thought I would have remembered them. Maybe the constant bombshells produced twist fatigue.

School harem-comedy anime is TV’s last bastion of psychological realism: it portrays a world where teenagers are dumb and socially awkward, and emotions come through on their faces but nobody notices.

holy shit did the domekano anime cut like most of the literature club shit? i don’t remember them going camping & hina getting stung by a wasp

Did the anime adaptation completely get rid of chapter 22 of DomeKano? I don’t remember that whole sequence being in there…

One thing the DomeKano manga has over the anime is that it plays up how much of a lovable dork Hina is. Anime Hina comes off to me as somebody you’d want to stay away from on the grounds of emotional instability, & is only shallowly charming.

Is there a convenient way to make your desktop browser pretend to be a mobile browser so sites don’t try to allocate twenty gigs of memory for goddamned css animations?

Bighorn-Sheep Migration Routes Form Ancestral Knowledge - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/to-save-animals-we-need-to-save-their-knowledge-too/569503/

a version of vegetarianism where it’s ethical to eat animals that you’ve uploaded

Anime is a Brand - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWccr1r-H0E

Hafu Gender Ratios in Anime - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Hafu

An anime being ‘big in america’ is like a punk band being ‘big in japan’: a common but rarely intentional side effect of globalization, notable mostly as trivia.

Mob Psycho 100 - My Favourite Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-DyIWF0h-8

Visual Cohesion and Flow in Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1zhW9lAIeY

Alita: Battle Angel - Review - Anime News Network https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/alita/battle-angel/.143043

Love Anime? You NEED to See Alita: Battle Angel - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWwHtMAj_pI

Best Anime Dance 2019!!! (Kaguya-sama: Love Is War) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egy6_y7Vb9U

If you thought Quora’s anime tag was bad, wait until you see their The Beatles tag. If you think that’s bad, wait until you get on the automatic recommendation list for answering questions in ‘acronyms’.

Grace v. Glamour: The Duality of Sailor Moon (Anime Boston 2016 Panel) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVehcW4fC1g

The Power of Wholesome Harem Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhSyKaXczGI