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Project Gold: New Blender Open Movie Announced!
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Project Gold: New Blender Open Movie Announced!
The Blender Studio has just announced Project Gold, it's next Blender Open Movie! While the studio is finishing up its current open film, "Pet Projects", this next one seems to be an ambitious project…Mario Hawat (BlenderNation)
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No one ever asks "how will roads pay for themselves or make a profit". But they do it with the post office and public transit. It's a brilliant messaging strategy to make people forget that their gas guzzling monopoly loses money paid for by taxes, but the other services are held to another standard entirely
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Week highlights: @Blender 3.6 beta is out, @krita gets MLT-based animation player, MLT gets more 10-bit video support, VGC Illustration gets UI update and new tools, DrMr sampler gets a new life in a fork by Peter Semiletov
More info: librearts.org/2023/05/week-rec…
Featured #b3d artwork by Gabriel Barral
Weekly recap — 21 May 2023
Blender 3.6 beta is out, VGC Illustration gets new toolsAlexandre Prokoudine (Libre Arts)
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If we priced externalities into the cost of fossil fuels, it’s not a profitable business.
The cleanup costs in California will be triple the industry’s projected profits, and that doesn’t even include cleaning up CO₂ and CH₄ from the atmosphere.
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It Could Cost $21 Billion to Clean Up California’s Oil Sites, Study Finds
Cleanup costs for the state’s oil and gas wells are triple what the industry is expected to make in future profits.ProPublica
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ARTIST FRIENDS and FRIENDS OF ARTISTS:
I'm strongly against AI-art, and a SF zine who is publishing one of my stories has a need for HUMAN MADE ART (this is a paying gig), but the deadline is very tight on this. So I'm putting out my feelers to anyone who is an artist or knows someone interested in doing cover art for a SF magazine (deadline: May 28th).
Email me (susankayeq@gmail.com) for details. Thanks for sharing!
(image: some art I commissioned for the Solarpunk Futures expo)
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bandcamp won their union! bandcamp won their union!!
i'm so fucking happy for them, and also for the possible knock-on effects of some of epic game's holdings unionizing
their full statement - blog.bandcamp.com/2023/05/19/b…
Bandcamp and Bandcamp United Release Joint Statement on Union Vote
Today, a majority of eligible Bandcamp workers voted 31-7 in favor of forming Bandcamp United, a union represented by the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU). The vote res…Bandcamp Updates
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The problem with billionaires is that they’re billionaires.
Hi all, I have made a #Hometown release that brings us up to date with Mastodon v4.0.4.
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(I have one for v.4.1.2 coming soon.)
Release Hometown v1.1.1 (Mastodon 4.0.4) · hometown-fork/hometown
This is a security release, that updates us to Mastodon v4.0.4. The security bug affected servers that use LDAP for authentication, which is not enabled by default (or indeed, usually at all) on Ho...GitHub
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I finally put up my tea girls pt 1 on #etsy! Meet green tea girl, black tea girl, white tea girl and oolong tea girl :>
You can find more about their designs in the link.
(My entire art presence is based off me being way too thirsty for tea, in the innocent sense of the word of course)
#artPrints #ShopSmall #FediGiftShop #MastoArt
Tea Girl Art Prints My Interpretation of Various Teas as - Etsy.de
This Giclée Prints item is sold by DoomBloomArtGermany. Ships from Germany. Listed on May 17, 2023etsy.me
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Let's call this my introduction post.
I setup my own #calckey server up. It is now up and running! (Still teasing out the last few wrinkles.) Using Hetzner, Docker, and (But Muy Securitay!) Cloudflare Tunnel.
Thanks to @atomicpoet@calckey.social for putting Calckey out there enough to help me decide this over Mastodon.
I'm looking forward to the future of The Fediverse. 🎉
I setup my own #calckey server up. It is now up and running! (Still teasing out the last few wrinkles.) Using Hetzner, Docker, and (But Muy Securitay!) Cloudflare Tunnel.
Thanks to @atomicpoet@calckey.social for putting Calckey out there enough to help me decide this over Mastodon.
I'm looking forward to the future of The Fediverse. 🎉
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Julian #Assange writes letter to King Charles and urges him to visit #Belmarsh #prison
source: theguardian.com/media/2023/may…“As you embark upon your reign, may you always remember the words of the King James Bible: ‘Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy’. And may mercy be the guiding light of your kingdom, both within and without the walls of Belmarsh.”
#Britain #king #letter #justice #wikileaks #newsJulian Assange writes letter to King Charles and urges him to visit Belmarsh prison
The WikiLeaks founder writes that he has been captive in the prison for more than four years ‘on behalf of an embarrassed foreign sovereign’Caitlin Cassidy (The Guardian)
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Which one is #JohnMastodon ?
Want to see Delta.Chat support in @thunderbird?
Go and vote 😊 connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/d…
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" AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. Perpetrated by respectable-seeming corporate entities backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. It’s daylight robbery."
artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Le…
artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Le…
AI Open Letter — CAIR
Restrict AI Illustration from Publishing: An Open Letter Published May 2, 2023 ︎Add your signature Since the earliest days of print...artisticinquiry.org
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I'd like to thank @supakaity@blahaj.zone for adding an edit feature to #Calckey. Within a day that I've been able to use this, it's been such a huge quality of life improvement for me. I no longer have to stress out because I misspelled something or forgot a word in a sentence.
She does so much great work. Please show some appreciation and love for this incredible Calckey developer!
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thanks Chris!
I hope the editing functionality improves everyone who uses our software's experience on the fediverse.
I know a lot of people cited lack of editing as one of the detractors from being able to move across, so hopefully they now have additional choices.
That's what the fediverse should be: a bunch of small to middle sized instances and largest choice driving innovation and growth.
Cramming as many people onto a stagnated platform as you can, milking them for donations and then not providing the required amount of moderation, protection and new functionality is not the proper way forward, in my opinion.
So if there's anyone out there who's been on a mega instance and waiting to move, now might be the time. With editing functionality, improvements to moderation and tooling, and a lot of quality of life improvements in the pipeline, why not jump to a new instance where your needs, safety and visibility is important?
Stefan Monnier
in reply to anubis2814 • • •Yup, same strategy as insisting that people worried about privacy must have something to hide: for companies, OTOH, secrecy is just normal business
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •... and in many towns, public transit is misused as a vehicle for extremely aggressive advertising ... guess what the rationale is? "but it pays for the bus stop shelters" 🤡
a particular bugbear of mine.
("basic public infrastructure paid for by taxes", apparently an alien concept ...)
DeManiak 🇿🇦 🐧-The Stinkening
in reply to anubis2814 • • •So down here in #SouthAfrica exactly that question was asked.
Nobody liked the answer.
businesslive.co.za/bd/national…
#SANRAL #Gauteng #eToll
Business and motorists still receiving e-tolls bills, Outa says
Motoring Staff (Business Day)Colin
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •In the right context, mass transit should be "free" in the sense that it is supported by general taxes, not fares. Eliminate all friction of using the system, and create an incentive to use what you're paying for.
This may be a problem with multi-jurisdictional systems where users aren't paying the local taxes. (Of course, nobody seems to worry about that problem with public roads!)
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •Roads in many countries do make a profit by way of fuel taxes. In most of Europe, the fuel tax revenue significantly exceeds the cost of building and maintaining the roads.
It seems that in the US, they break even at the federal level and usually lose money at the state and city level, suggesting that higher state fuel taxes and a means of distributing some of the revenue to cities would be appropriate.
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Unknown parent • • •@mpjgregoire Also, weight-based fees to compensate for the damage inflicted upon roads.
The least damage you can inflict is with a bike.
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in reply to anubis2814 • • •amazon.com/Strong-Towns-Bottom…
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