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airwhale

@airwhale@mastodon.social

Hi all, I am Tormod 🇳🇴🇸🇪 (he / him)

My days are spent as a consultant in enterprise IT organizations, mainly focusing on teamwork and the people side of delivery. In particular with coaching, processes and enabling teams to work better together across departments and vendors.

My passions are in the areas of #photography, #graphicdesign, #typography and #music. And, of course, family ❤️

Happy to talk to anyone, and I will assume you're awesome until proven otherwise.

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GottaLaff, to random
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Omg.

#RIP Retired Maj. Gen. William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90
https://apnews.com/article/6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263

CindyWeinstein, to random
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This is really good. "When Lactose Meets Intolerance."

msquebanh, to random
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3 of my beloved family members died during uprisings. We will NEVER FORGET.

https://youtu.be/VbKroPF3W5Q?si=2tZZzZ1tYW4BIBoE

CelloMomOnCars, to random
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"To better understand what has played out on the ground during those record months, a team of researchers from analysed how many days of unusually hot weather each country experienced over the last year.

It found human-caused climate change added 26 more days of extreme heat, on average, across all places in the world, to what there would have been without a warmed planet."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-05/world-the-hottest-on-record-12-months-in-a-row/103904150

Find the number of your country on the article's interactive map.

CelloMomOnCars,
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Why the huge increase in days with ?

Climate change does two things to air temperature:

  1. The AVERAGE shifts to higher temperature. This one is obvious. But also:
  2. The VARIANCE gets larger so the extremes become more prevalent

Both of these effects together give a LOT more VERY hot days.

brucelawson, to random
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I'm posting this photo because 35 years later, people in China and Hong Kong can't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre

kathimmel, to art
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‘not everyone has the same colour, the same language, or the same customs, but they have the same heart, the same blood & the same need for love.’
: i couldn't decide which image i'd draw to celebrate the birth ( in 1906) of the glorious josephine, so here are two. if anyone merits multiple illustrative odes, it's la baker. why? [A THREAD]

simple digital ink sketch i drew of stylised digital iconic actor, dancer, singer, performer, civil rights activist & resistance fighter, josephine baker. here, she looks straight ahead, but not directly at her audience. josephine's hair is short & tousled. her lips are closed & slightly pursed. a striped scarf is draped elegantly over her shoulders & behind her is a diamond graphic. colours are cream & indigo blue.
stylised digital ink illustration i drew of iconic actor, dancer, singer, performer, civil rights activist & resistance fighter, josephine baker. here, she's dramatic in 3/4 profile. she looks towards the ground, her hair swept into an immaculate updo. large earrings dangle from her ears & a dramatic mid-emerald moon shape lights her from the back. colours are black, hot lavender, hot pink, fuchsia & mid-emerald.
simple digital ink sketch i drew of stylised digital iconic actor, dancer, singer, performer, civil rights activist & resistance fighter, josephine baker. here, she looks straight ahead, but not directly at her audience. josephine's hair is short & tousled. her lips are closed & slightly pursed. a striped scarf is draped elegantly over her shoulders & behind her is a diamond graphic. colours are black & shades of yellow ochre.

marcusosterberg, to random Swedish
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Kommer Microsoft börja betala en rimlig elskatt nu när de behöver ännu mer av Sveriges elproduktion?
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/microsoft-miljardsatsar-pa-ai-i-sverige

meraord, to random Swedish
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Jag ser den här "Microsoft satsar miljarder på AI i Sverige" lite som "Microsoft vill ha svensk el så nu blir elen dyrare för svenskarna".

brtkdotse,
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@meraord DNs rubriksättare fick in en riktig home run:

hilljam, to random
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🌈🌈 80s kids 80s kids 80s kids 80s kids 🌈🌈

https://shannoncurtis.bandcamp.com/track/a-little-respect

new 80s kids song just dropped! pride edition :BlobhajPrideHeart: :BlobhajTransPrideHeart: :blobwizard:

@shannoncurtis 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🤍🤎

Mer__edith, to random
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Signal strongly opposes the newest proposal in Europe.

Let there be no doubt: we will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees.

This proposal--if passed and enforced against us--would require us to make this choice.

It's surveillance wine in safety bottles.

See more: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/majority-for-chat-control-possible-users-who-refuse-scanning-to-be-prevented-from-sharing-photos-and-links/ @echo_pbreyer

18+ kardinal691, to sweden

President #Zelenskyy and #Sweden Prime Minister #Ulf_Kristersson today in #Stockholm

#ukraine #putinisamasskiller #putinisawarcriminal @kardinal691

Typeface, to random
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Stay in charge of your font library: in Typeface v3.13 you can view your custom subfolder structure from Finder directly in the sidebar.

Expand your imported locations to browse through subfolders and find the fonts you need.

More info: https://typefaceapp.com/changelog/typeface-3-13-0

Enjoy 🦊

Browse fonts from subfolders in Typeface app

nbailey, to Birds
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A Lake Huron sunset with the birds.

NataliaArmyOf1, to random Portuguese
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kathimmel, to art
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#art #history: he was horror’s adonis with a wicked wit; a ‘muppet show’ favourite, a culinary whiz & an artist. alice cooper’s ‘welcome to my nightmare’ wouldn’t have achieved such iconic heights had it not included vincent price’s 'black widow' soliloquy. but his dramatic socio-political conclusion to the radio programme, ‘the saint’, which aired on 30 july, 1950,may come as a surprise to anyone who thought of him as merely a panto character. #vincentPrice #horror #illustration #film #cinema

digital ink illustration of horror legend, vincent price. in 3/4 profile, his right arm folded over his left, vincent casts a keen eye at something unseen by us. his eyebrow is raised in a rather bemused fashion. above him, the shadow of a bat floats, wings outstretched. colours are light cold blue & various shades of cold grey.
digital ink illustration of horror legend, vincent price. in 3/4 profile, his right arm folded over his left, vincent casts a keen eye at something unseen by us. his eyebrow is raised in a rather bemused fashion. above him, the shadow of a bat floats, wings outstretched. colours are french blue, pink, violet, palest sage & indigo.
digital ink illustration of horror legend, vincent price. in 3/4 profile, his right arm folded over his left, vincent casts a keen eye at something unseen by us. his eyebrow is raised in a rather bemused fashion. above him, the shadow of a bat floats, wings outstretched. the text, 'poison doesn't always come in bottles' is displayed across the width of the bat. colours are coral, cream & various shades of blue spruce.

stux, (edited ) to Netherlands
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A single picture taken in the


Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal. Photo made by @robhoeijmakers

Polynomial_C, to ai Catalan
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The US "government" ’s Safety and Security board.

https://qz.com/sam-altman-jensen-huang-ai-government-safety-board-1851437593

jeffowski, to random
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CountBinface, to random
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It’s meant to be.

tokyobybike, to random
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This is peak Nagoya.

gsuberland, to random
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I hope this email finds you living in a shotgun shack
I hope this email finds you in another part of the world
I hope this email finds you behind the wheel of a large automobile
I hope this email finds you in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife

toxi, to random
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Some thoughts about current state/trajectory of tech/software/ethics:

For ~30 years, I've been using, building and sharing open tools around algorithmic, generative & evolutionary design techniques, procedural generation, genetic algorithms/programming, machine learning... The incentives and potentials I saw (and still see!) in these areas/approaches are entirely orthogonal to what is called "generative AI" these days (saving that for a future post) and more importantly contrary to how that tech is being used...

Like many others, I'm desperately trying to keep a positive & balanced mind (also in terms of my own practice as an indie developer/researcher & artist), but I think it says a lot (in multiple ways) about the current state of tech/software/ethics, if the people/voices most critical and outspoken about the current/recent trajectories & decisions are (yet again[1]) the actual practitioners/experts of the field, often with decades of experiences... At the very least the issues raised should give some pause to people in politics/policy, academia/education, media and finance, i.e. all groups with much more direct control & responsibility, yet which are relatively silent in terms of critical voices/reflections and instead largely keep boosting and jumping on the AI hype train... I think I understand (though not agree with) many (self-serving) drivers of this "ignorance", but I've never seen this level of widespread uncritical technology adoption before in my life, especially the bewildering amount of willful ignorance of people who are (or should be) more informed, their active downplaying and rationalisations of multiple glaring systematic train wrecks (aka "jackpot") coming our way (are already here!), incl. climate, water, human rights violations, disinformation, politics/democracy, surveillance, unemployment, health/healthcare etc., and on a different level, pretty important issues like loss of "personal computing", of access (and accessibility!) and individual control of computing & information resources — all of which are massively accelerated by this in(s)ane drive for AI-generated profits...

What's the point of the above named societal institutions if none of them actually want to critically engage with these developments, before their window of opportunity closes?

(Sorry in advance, just a braindump, not gonna be able to reply to comments in the next few days...)

[1] Everyone Is a Luddite Now: https://www.wired.com/story/everyone-is-a-luddite-now/

propagandacentralen, to random Swedish
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Nooshi: 1
Kristersson: 0

yvonnezlam, to random
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Greetings new followers! I believe many of you got here because @kevlin (thank you!) mentioned a tweet of mine in a talk. My stance on many of the questions/discussions taking place in my mentions might be addressed by the original thread, so here it is:

Or even "we don't have guests, and the guest room bathroom is mysteriously out of toilet paper. Can whoever is using that bathroom please make sure it's restocked?" The thing with tech debt is that in order to have a useful discussion, you need to be able to talk about
@yvonnezlam - As anyone who has ever argued about housework knows, housework arguments are disturbingly specific. It's always "Who minds the most?" and "l don't use that," and "Who's going to do the work?" and (rarely) "Who's going to manage getting this done?" @yvonnezlam - Bringing some of that uncomfortable specificity to discussions of tech debt could be really useful. We need to be able to talk about who minds and why and where the work should live. @yvonnezlam - We also need to talk about how what we do affects other teams/people. Team A can decide not to worry about concurrency right now, but they might be sticking Team B with that work down the road. @yvonnezlam - Right now, with the financialization metaphor, no one cares, because we know "down the road" might never happen. But: that means we don't think "Hm. We're not going to develop in-house expertise on concurrency in a hurry. Maybe we should hire/send people to training/support ... @yvonnezlam - ... people who are interested in this kind of thing doing some study?" or any number of other things to spread the load when the time comes. We don't think about what work Team B might need to put down in order to pick up the problem that everyone knows has been brewing forever.
@yvonnezlam - We don't think "Team A took on this debt because they didn't know how to do the right thing and they had to do something. Not their fault, but...that wasn't good." @yvonnezlam - Whereas if we thought of it as more like housework, we could think "ok, the kids made this mess, now someone has to clean it up, can we get some of the kids involved since they have context for what they did, and it'd help everyone to get context for what to do next time?" @yvonnezlam -The debt conversation assumes a kind of statelessness, because that is the magic of financialization and financial metaphors. Anyone who has ever dealt with tech debt in an org knows that it's not stateless. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 Housework is stateful. You don't get a clean slate. You often end up moving stuff from Place A to Place B so that you can clean and tidy Place A properly. And people have state (feelings) about it. O boy do they have feelings about it. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 We picked a metaphor for "tech work that is about cleaning up old stuff instead of making new stuff" that sounds like something that would make sense to The Business, but (a) it's not clear it does, and (b) it confuses us thereby falsely constraining our options. /fin

VeroniqueB99, to random
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Packing it in for today lads... see you on the next one.

Night! 😴

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