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Paperposts

@Paperposts@zirk.us

Now my primary account - supposed to be a home for all my paper, design, art, poetry and ephemera ramblings. But is ending up a place I post bird and landscape photos, with the occasional climate, environment and tech bits thrown in.
Avatar shows a person with a lens over one eye. Header background says “missed it” but the CMYK colour is offset too much

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Paperposts, to GraphicDesign
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this new facsimile from @letterformarchive looks lovely: Die Fläche and the Design of the Vienna Secession

#graphicDesign #Vienna #designHistory #1900s

https://letterformarchive.org/news/die-flache-facsimile-and-the-vienna-secession/

ai6yr, to ai
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Ah, yes, sci-fi movies have taught us giving the #AI permission to record and use your voice is a great idea! Also all your photos, too! https://infosec.exchange/@mattburgess/111126361386968452

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr what’s so hilarious about all these debates is it’s on the expectation that AI company/owner a) sets an ethical and safe policy or standard, and b) sticks to it. Good luck with that. And that doesn’t account for orgs/individuals who don’t care and do what ever they want.

Paperposts, to Bloomscrolling
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And finally a little #bloomscrolling to end the day - good luck next week everyone

SchlocklusterVideo, to generationx

On September 24, 1987, Raising Arizona was released on VHS in the United States. Here’s some Nicolas Cage pop art!
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Yellow black and white drawing of Nicolas Cage standing in a police line-up drawn with an unhewn border.
Cyan black and white drawing of Nicolas Cage standing in a police line-up drawn with an unhewn border.
Black and white drawing of Nicolas Cage standing in a police line-up drawn with an unhewn border.

Paperposts,
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@SchlocklusterVideo perfect day for using this mug by David Kenton Kring

Paperposts, to Mushrooms
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Lots of appearing in the

Fungi growing around a thin twig
Fleshy reddish mushroom
Small triangular fungi on the side of the tree

Paperposts, to Lichen
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The headlands are enjoying the dampness #LichenSubscribe #mosstodon #moss #lichen

Thick most on a tree trunk
Close up of lichen on tree bark
Moss on bark

Paperposts, to Birds
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Looks like the cormorants have formed a council on the high rock, the pelicans are staying clear, they know this will not end well.

close up of a platform amongst the many birds on bird rock. A group of 16 or so cormorants are together on a flat, probably main made plinth.
side view of bird rock. dotted across the mucky looking rock face are pelicans and cormorants, all appear to be carefully distancing themselves

Paperposts, to random
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Some #anagram fun for hump day.

Noah Wall's wonderful transformation of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's Oblique Strategies.

Grotesque Tables II

A pack of cards in a box. The box has images of fingers and a thumb on it, as if holding it. There is text on the box, a title: GROTESQUE TABLES II FIRST EDITION. And the following: Anagrams of Oblique Strategies by Noah Wall. Breathe more deeply becomes Elope by mere thread. Use filters becomes Let fissure. Be less critical more often becomes Be frictionless latecomer. "Let the Oblique Strategies fissure into a million wonderful variants, of which this is the first." - Brian Eno

ascentale, to random
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@ai6yr asks about practical utility cycling:

Q3. I live in a suburb slowly moving to become more bicycle friendly. I'm wondering what the "max" and "ideal" bicycling distance is to things like grocery stores and shops are in more bicycle friendly places in the world? What is the upper limit for convenience?

(I edited the question slightly, hope that I did it ok!)

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

Paperposts,
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@ascentale @ai6yr
A3.
I lived in Malmö and Copenhagen - no car.
in Malmö I’d cycle 1.5 miles to the better supermarket. But would walk to close by markets for everyday things and in bad weather.
In Copenhagen we a great cargo bike and would happily cycle 2+ miles to favorite markets. But lots of walking options too.

I think the key constraints for me were weather and time (as no hills). If you can get to the shop and back in under 1h and you aren’t a mess by the time you get there it works.

Paperposts, to UX
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“Interesting” #ux type things in the chicago hotel I was just in. Multiple lift call buttons with signage on use, signs to advise on non fictional “historic artifacts”

A walk will 2 sets of lift call buttons. Above the set on the left a sign reads “Please Use Call Buttons To The Right”

ai6yr, to ai
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The #Birdsite has changed its privacy policy to allow the site-formerly-known-as-Twitter to use posts there to train its own #AI. https://www.engadget.com/elon-musks-x-will-use-public-data-to-train-ai-models-184924197.html

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr if there’s going to be an AI that’s becomes sentient and decides to destroy humanity, it will surely be the one trained on tweets.

ai6yr, to BurningMan
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No detectable rain last night in the Black Rock Desert per the automated weather station someone installed there for #BurningMan. Official forecast says chance of precip 70% today and 30% tonight. Grim situation with the toilets, 73,000 people with overflowing porta potties seems.... bad. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AfpmyriBHIFQ_Jymw3wHn9dtAGTgLcAjbnogNPsLvEA/edit#gid=0

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Paperposts,
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@ai6yr I’m waiting for the inevitable e coli story. All those people having ‘fun’, all that mud and failing temporary sanitation. Good combination for that to show up.

Paperposts, to PetBirds
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I love the way juvenile look - the markings are like tiny chevrons, as if they are in cartoon prison garb

Paperposts, to random
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I can't remember where I grabbed this text from on the order of adjectives, but this feels like a good creative prompt for linguistic rule breakers and maybe even a way to have fun with the generative models.
But does "Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts" break the rule? If gobs are material rather than shape I guess not.
#englishLanguage

ai6yr, to random
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Given enough time and social media photos, I bet you could automatically build a 3D model of a person's physical environment.... #random

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr do you recall the stalker who found out a girls address from the reflection of a bus stop out side in her glasses. Horrible and with the help of ai who knows how easy it will be (and of course to reveal and infer personal details)

Paperposts, to Evernote
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Has anyone found a useful tool to explore an exported #evernote archive? I finally got off the platform and exported all my folders and their notes. It had been my #bookingmarking tool for 10+years so there is a lot! Even after some drastic pruning there are about 5175 notes and over 8gbs of stuff. I have all manner of things tucked in there and attached to notes. I wrote some simple javascript that creates an index.html page for the archive (lists all the notes by section) - can share if wanted

mythologyandhistory, to girlyposting
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Did you know that wasn't always pink?

Prior to the 17th century, English people thought of pink as a shade of greenish yellow. It was won by boiling buckthorn berries.

It was only when carnations became a popular that the idea that pink is a very light shade of , shifted.

Paperposts,
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@mythologyandhistory @DevraWiz is the idea that the term “pink” comes from an association of the serrated edges of carnation petals with “pinking shears” a myth?

Paperposts, to Typography
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With Comic Sans making through the #fontbracket I Had to post that brilliant 2010 I'm Comic Sans piece by Mike Lacher. If you didn't read it this bit might be enough. #typography

ai6yr, to Texas
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Ah, emergency alert involving the #StreetsOfLaredo #Laredo #TXwx #Texas

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr I grew up hearing the Marty Robbins version of Streets of Laredo, my Dad played only a few records but that one I remember

Paperposts, to GraphicDesign
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was trawling my photo library and found this gem by(?) Terry Gilliam (from the film Brazil). Love the slight Abram Games vibe.
#graphicDesign #posters #postersinmovies #fauxpropaganda

ai6yr, to WX
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Well, that's annoying. Until last week was posting their graphical stories to their webpage, which allowed me to repost them here. They now are ONLY posting them on FB and the crappy-site-once-known-as-Twitter.

Paperposts,
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@ai6yr that’s not just annoying that’s irresponsible to only post to crappy private platforms.

Paperposts, to random
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whilst trying to find the source of "franglais" I picked up a gem that I'd forgotten about. Which has the best title and makes me think we are now living in an Oulipian digital reality.
Also seems to reflect the main drive of all critical theory and media literacy studies of the last 50 years

ai6yr, to random
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Hanging out at The Thirsty Bee Pub. #beekeeping

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Paperposts,
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@ai6yr is that just a normal house brick sitting in a tray of water? I need to add some more water options in my garden.

alexanderhay, to news
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Apparently, the has just launched "Woke Watch", where red faced pillocks send in angry e-mails, complaining about transgender asylum seekers giving their house prices pronoun cancer, or something.

Anyway, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should one e-mail wokewatch@dailymail.co.uk to , or just plain take the piss. No, that would be WRONG. Oh, for shame!

Paperposts,
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@alexanderhay Charlie Brooker (black mirror) used to have a fabulous web zine in the 90s called TV Go Home, which was a fabulously snarky take on a page from the TV Times - on it was the fake show called Daily Mail Island, this will be worse.

Paperposts, to poetry
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Here's some pics from GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE's #Calligrammes.
I think I took these @letterformarchive - their copy.
#visPo #visualLanguage #poetry

French language visual poems with the letters of the poems forming visual shapes
Title page of the book Calligrammes
French language visual poem Il Pleut with the letters of the poem forming the visual shape of lines of rain

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