Matt Arnold @matt@penguicon.social

Skies Ahead

One of the wisest things anyone's ever said to me about predictive policing tools - algorithms that purport predict where crime will occur - is that they don't predict crime, but they predict the police, who will obey the algorithm's directives (thanks, Patrick Ball!)

Normally that means that predictive policing tools send cops to poor and brown neighborhoods to stop-and-frisk and traffic-stop people, but sometimes it's a little more personal than that.

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I Painted over tiny sketches made by @cwebber for the Spritely mascot. What's your favorite number(s)?

(more info about Spritely on this thread: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/104814025110217474 )
#krita #goblins #fediverse #mastoart

I've commissioned the great @davidrevoy to help with some of the artwork for the new Spritely website. I made some tiny sketches of what I thought sprites might look like: https://dustycloud.org/gfx/goodies/spritely-sprite-designs.png

David did a conceptual re-imagining and oh my god they're AMAZING https://www.davidrevoy.com/XYZ/Spritely/2020-09-09_Quick-paint-over-first-sketches.jpg

Been playing around with some maxpack gouache brushes and they are so nice!

There are two reasons that no one ever reads terms of service.

The first is obvious: they're garbage. Performatively dull, deliberately obfuscated, impossible to read and understand (literally - they are comparable to academic journal articles).

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3313837

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Introducing Inkscape 1.0.1...! This version includes bug & crash patches for 1.0 along with an experimental feature. Let us know what you love. Report what doesn't work. Download Linux, Windows, (coming soon) Mac: https://inkscape.org/release/

Read all about it at: https://inkscape.org/news/2020/09/06/inkscape-version-101-patches-crashes-bugs/

Can I just say that Ijon Tichy in many forms is good and entertaining and also the weird psychedelia of Sanislaw Lem's stuff in general is amazing.

also watch this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUnZVUFGpPU

Have we just stumbled on the biggest productivity increase of the century?

Link: https://theconversation.com/have-we-just-stumbled-on-the-biggest-productivity-increase-of-the-century-145104
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24384348

#pixelart portrait of my friend Mine

https://www.instagram.com/flamenclorca/

#MastoArt #portrait

DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-terror-threat-dhs-409236