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Ian Gilman

@iangilman

Digital Renaissance Man Mastodon: @iangilman@mstdn.social

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Joined July 2007
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Good job everyone! We actually can have nice things if we all show up ❤️
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Vote vote vote!!! ❤️🇺🇸
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We got the notification that our votes have been counted! 🎉
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We voted today! If you can (and you're in the US), vote early! If not, now is still a good time to do your research, so you know who to vote for on polling day. Every race matters, not just the big name ones! ❤️
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A deep dive on "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner", with results shown using OpenSeadragon: philo.gay/linecam/
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner

an adventure in image processing and taking very wide photographs (blog post; 4,600 words)

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@DarpinianAug 27
Replying to @hades_blado
I just wish we had some scifi that explored paths to a better future, instead of exclusively exploring bad futures. What our society needs is a shared vision of the good future to aim for.
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Chuck Petras
@Chuck_PetrasAug 16
All 277 issues of BYTE are available on this microfiche-inspired website created by Hector Dearman byte.tsundoku.io/
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OpenSeadragon 6.1.0 is released, with support for non-power-of-two tile source levels, cooperative gesture handling for scrolling pages, and a number of improvement and fixes! github.com/openseadragon/ope…
Release v6.1.0 · openseadragon/openseadragon

Release v6.1.0 · openseadragon/openseadragon

Now properly supporting non-power of two tile source levels (#2884 @Aiosa) Added discardLevelsBelowDownsampleRatio option for both viewer and individual tiled images so you can control the pixel ra...

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Stewart Brand
@stewartbrandAug 6
Kevin Kelly (@kevin2kelly) has written up "88 Prompts for Long Term Thinking": Got a favorite? kevinkelly.substack.com/p/88…
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Our democracies, economies, and legal systems weren’t built to absorb AI at the rate it’s advancing. In a new essay for @NoemaMag, our Reverse Alignment coalition map out the investments it will take to rethink the institutions, norms, skills, and governance frameworks needed for society to flourish with AI: noemamag.com/what-humanity-n…

What Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade | NOEMA

We are headed toward a world of productivity without prosperity, execution without verification and capacity without constraint. But this outcome is not inevitable.

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Mark Ferrari's original color cycling playing pieces from 1991 are now back in the Clockwork Goldfish puzzles! iangilman.medium.com/clockwo…
Clockwork Goldfish Color Cycling

Clockwork Goldfish Color Cycling

The original Heaven & Earth puzzles included color cycling artwork from Mark Ferrari, creator of the Living Worlds art. Not full scenes…

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My tech work is so visual, I finally realized I need a demo reel! youtube.com/watch?v=-hQhgr6t… Dang, I've made some cool stuff 😄
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ZoomHub@zoomhubJun 9
Compare every detail of an image or PDF with the @ZoomHub comparison viewer: zoomhub.net/compare 🚀 Example: Pillars of Creation: @NASA Hubble vs JWST ✨ zoomhub.net/compare/Bw7OG,WV…
Image from ZoomHub (@zoomhub)
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ZoomHub@zoomhubJun 9
What is she made of? Zoom in to find out: zoomhub.net/a/kRKwO
Artwork: Girl with a Pearl Earring

ALT Artwork: Girl with a Pearl Earring

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ZoomHub@zoomhubJun 8
Travel back in time to 1918 and look into someone’s soul through these evocative panoramas from the @mohistorymuseum: zoomhub.net/@mohistory
Image from ZoomHub (@zoomhub)
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