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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Surely you’re familiar with the Gwenpool examples, right? I bet that comic introduce a lot of people to these concepts.

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Patrick Sean Farley @foxymoron.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Nine-Two-Five! #DollyPartonDay

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Awesome. Tech has changed so rapidly in the last few decades, we're still figuring out how to hold onto and celebrate our past. I appreciate everyone engaged in shaping what that means!

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thank you for sharing your explorations and for tagging me ❤️

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

At any rate, it certainly makes them feel more dreamy. I think at one point I contemplated adding bloom to the mobile app as an option, but clearly I didn't get around to it. You've shown it would've been a good idea!

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The bloom is a nice touch, though, and one could make the argument that it actually better recreates the old-school experience of these scenes on a CRT, which naturally have some glow built-in. It also reminds me of the bloom used in old-school 2D animation.

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

To each their own of course, but I can't say I'm a fan of the supersampling; perhaps it allows one to appreciate the overall composition better, but I feel it takes one away from the nuance and precision of Mark's pixel placement.

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

😄 I think it's delightful! These scenes are part of all of our cultural heritage. And of course I'm pleased my "kinda shit" app can inspire such explorations 😉

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I figure no news is good news on that front… If they don’t complain about it, then it’s working.

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Yeah, I hear you. That seems like a good approach. Congrats on getting the items up! I look forward to checking them out 😊

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

But just think, that phone is old enough to vote now!

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Oho! Well, if they hadn’t, it’s quite possible you would have…

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yeah, I came here to point out that Alvin Toffler‘s Future Shock book (which as far as I know coined the term) came out in 1970, just a year after the moon landing! So, did people feel future shock from the moon landing? I’d say definitively yes.

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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bryce 1.0 (1994)

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Man, there’s a lot of Americashire in America Kingdom! 😄

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OpenSeadragon @openseadragon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A deep dive on "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner", with results shown using OpenSeadragon: philo.gay/linecam/

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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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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 13/08/2026

Finally, a common sense, succinct proposal of rules for data centers! substack.com/inbox/post/2... In a nutshell: 1. No subsidies. 2. Bring, build, or buy your own power. 3. Closed-loop water. 4. Community benefits before construction.

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The Data Center Development Playbook

Today we are releasing The Data Center Development Playbook, which is the latest installment of our Democratic AI Opportunity Agenda, a series of policy ideas, frameworks, and proposals to ensure that...

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LAISSEZ LES BOO QUESO ROULER @thequeso.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The biggest pain in the ass of a generation project and the thing slowing everything down is the interconnection queue and the cost of transmission system upgrades So the easiest thing to do is stick panels next to a dead coal plant and use their existing interconnection facilities and capacity

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OpenSeadragon @openseadragon.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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/openseadrago...

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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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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Health care, food, video games, tvs, computers, sneakers, insulation, rain jackets, toilet paper, stoves (induction), central HVAC (heat pumps), mattresses, car safety (just literally saved life of acquaintance last week), power drills, solar power, amusement parks, farmers markets, gyms

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

“Grilled cheese sandwiches are so predictable… They don’t even try to hide that the recipe is right there in the name!!“

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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 01/08/2026

A class in Responsible Tech should be required for all students that'd include: - internet'ing safely & securely - communicating with nuance & thoughtfulness online - evaluating text and multimedia for authenticity & truthfulness - understanding ethical ramifications of online choices

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Adam Lasnik @adamlasnik.net · 30/07/2026

Would anyone be interested in this, but for Bluesky? www.ThriendOrFaux.com (It's a Chrome extension that offers a quick impression of someone's post-and-reply history to help you quickly decide whether or not to engage with a fellow community member) I'd be open to building it for Bluesky if so.

A card-style of stylized text that offers stats and subjective information about a user's post and reply history

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Mu! The answer lies beyond duality… Master Shuzan held out his short staff and told his monks, “If you call this a staff, you are attached to name. If you call it not a staff, you deny reality. Now what do you call it?”

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Mark Ferrari's original color cycling playing pieces from 1991 are now back in the Clockwork Goldfish puzzles! iangilman.substack.com/p/clockwork-...

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Clockwork Goldfish Color Cycling

Mark Ferrari's original artwork is back!

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Antoni Gaudí (brilliant architect, killed in 1926 by a trolley) would agree…

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This is a good thread. If you actually meet people who are "the party" they are mostly people doing somewhat thankless unpaid labor at the local level, and anybody willing to do thankless unpaid labor gets to influence things.

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Oh man! Bravo on the removal! May the recovery go as smoothly as possible. ❤️❤️

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Kevin @khanes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Kevin's Law: no matter how many times you explain Goodhart's law to people, they will find a reason that THIS metric is ok to set target's for, which people will then game

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Felicitas Pojtinger @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 08/07/2026

We need to, as a society, move away from the "lots energy use = bad" argument and towards a "lots of dirty energy use = bad, lots of clean energy use = good" one

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

My tech work is so visual, I finally realized I need a demo reel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hQh... Dang, I've made some cool stuff 😄

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Ian Gilman Web Dev Showcase

YouTube video by Ian Gilman

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🌈Wally ~ Meditating in her Cave🌈 @wallyaurora.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

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Mike Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

In general, I feel like the worst element of social media is that it really aggravates that impulse to be the first to say something or share something, and the truth is that focus on the novel is good for movements that are without merit and bad for positions that are well grounded.

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Emmanuel Clement @clementcomposer.com · 05/06/2026

Be easy to please and hard to impress

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This post by @mikecaulfield.bsky.social illustrated where #GenAI can be helpful (doing the grunt work) and where it is not (determining a good goal, refining the grunt work, establishing the use case). Rather than brute-forcing GenAI to do everything, I like Mike's augmentation approach.

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Tilling the Garden: A different way to use AI to make interesting and useful apps

Rebuilding the internet of weird little things one data enrichment at a time

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Arcane Diptych @arcanediptych.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I have been creating arcane diptychs for a while now. It started as an exercise of vocabulary and humor with my teenager. Due to some encouragement, I started adding images via Midjourney and sometimes my children. I am slowly sharing these adventures. Now for more limacine escadrille.

limacine escadrille ascending to the skies for safety

An adventerous day gallumping about on limacine escadrille.

limacine escadrille descending from the stars for breakfast

limacine escadrille travel the endless interplanar zone seeking a new home for their passengers

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This is fantastic! Also, I feel like this particular list is entirely made of spoilers… 😅

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Emmanuel Clement @clementcomposer.com · 24/05/2026

Need music? I will be on a film project soon, but I currently still have short-term availability for one-off projects such as podcast themes! You can listen to some demos and contact me through my general film reel: play.reelcrafter.com/jpO3BtNETBqD...

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Film Music Reel - Emmanuel Clement

I produce orchestral and electronic music for film, games, and podcasts, and I write online about art and mental health. I love exquisite food, clever puzzles, ...

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Tess Snider @malkyne.com · 08/04/2026

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Hello. The moment you gate educational videos behind a paywall, a massive wall of bureaucracy goes up. Teachers have to beg administrators for budgets, companies have to wine-and-dine school boards, millions of students get locked out, and people get forced into using material they don't like.

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Sequential Scholars @sequentialscholars.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Scott McCloud’s book “Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art” was originally published in 1993. An immediate critical and commercial success, it went on to become the most widely cited book about comics. Among comics scholars, McCloud's opus is both beloved and widely debated. 1/10

The original cover of Scott McCloud’s book Understanding Comics.

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Oh, and don't feel like you need to do the subscribe thing on the splash page… Just hit "I want to see it first!" down at the bottom. That said, you can subscribe for free and it's a great way to get some good news in your inbox!

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iangilman.bsky.social @iangilman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The news media (and social media) focuses too much on the negative when there's actually plenty of good news out there as well. This is doing real damage to our society as it pushes everyone into panic. Here's one of my favorite, humble antidotes to that phenomenon: fixthenews.com

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Fix The News | Substack

Fix The News is the world's leading solutions journalism newsletter. We share hidden stories of progress with readers from 195 countries, and donate 30% of our revenues from our paid subscriptions to ...

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This week's Fix the News has so much encouraging news in it, things I usually don't see elsewhere. Yes, there is much to be angry and anxious about. But there is so much good going on around the world that it is worth it, imo, to pay attention to the positive: fixthenews.com/p/338-ten-th...

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338. Ten thousand shades of green. M̶e̶a̶s̶l̶e̶s̶. Koala. Glioblastoma 🪄✨. Water from air.

A fairytale comes true?

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