After yesterday's mass shooting at a church in Minneapolis, this cartoon by Bill Bramhall from a few years ago is once again making the rounds on social media.
"A rifle, a shotgun and a pistol had been lawfully bought by the shooter recently, O’Hara said, adding it was believed they acted alone."
~ Guardian
"Trump tanking the economy, going full socialist dictator, & unleashing the National Guard is perfectly fine - ditto mass shootings & gun violence. MAGA only cares whether the shooter is transgender."
~ Wajahat Ali
#USA #guns#MassShooting#Minneapolis#ThoughtsandPrayers
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-authoritarian-socialist-free
"BREAKING: Massive outrage from Conservative Right demanding change following deadly school shooting.
Just kidding. It was over a restaurant logo."
~ Brian Parra
"A rifle, a shotgun and a pistol had been lawfully bought by the shooter recently, O’Hara said, adding it was believed they acted alone."
~ Guardian
After yesterday's mass shooting at a church in Minneapolis, this cartoon by Bill Bramhall from a few years ago is once again making the rounds on social media.
"BREAKING: Massive outrage from Conservative Right demanding change following deadly school shooting.
Just kidding. It was over a restaurant logo."
~ Brian Parra
After yesterday's mass shooting at a church in Minneapolis, this cartoon by Bill Bramhall from a few years ago is once again making the rounds on social media.
The latest episode of TADC features the 1892 song Daisy Bell. This song was used in the first demonstration of computer speech synthesis at Bell Labs (which is likely why TADC referenced it), but here it is sung by two humans (both the characters and their voice actors). I really like how they harmonize.
#TADC#TheAmazingDigitalCircus #animation#Glitch #DaisyBell#Music #guns #YouTube
On its own Cel Shading looks kind of ugly (though some video games have gotten away with it), lacking in the human touch it tries to evoke.
What recent films, since 2018's Into The Spiderverse, have found is that to make it work for a feature film we need to find ways to inject that human touch back into it.
Spiderverse used machine learning so artists could teach it how better to "ink" various video frames. I presume they trained a convolutional neuralnet on their own renders.
2/2 Fin!
Then Arcane took this to its logical conclusion by spending a quarter billion dollars to make every frame look like a renaissance painting. Definitely worth it.
"How do you texture it to look like a painting"
"We paint"
(quote from their making of documentary, "Arcane: Bridging the Rift")
A Japanese national living in Japan is suspected of ordering the killing of two fellow Japanese men in Manila, possibly over a financial dispute, Philippine police said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/crime-legal/manila-killing-suspects-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippinejapanrelations #guns #philippines #tourism
Philippine police have arrested two male suspects over the deadly shootings of two Japanese nationals in Manila last week, with authorities saying the suspects may have been hired to kill the victims. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/japan/crime-legal/manila-japanese-shooting-arrest/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippinejapanrelations #guns
Two Japanese nationals were shot to death in Manila on Friday night, officials at the Japanese embassy in the Philippine capital said Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/japan/crime-legal/japanese-shot-dead-manila/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #philippinesjapanrelations #manila #guns
The latest episode of TADC features the 1892 song Daisy Bell. This song was used in the first demonstration of computer speech synthesis at Bell Labs (which is likely why TADC referenced it), but here it is sung by two humans (both the characters and their voice actors). I really like how they harmonize.
#TADC#TheAmazingDigitalCircus #animation#Glitch #DaisyBell#Music #guns #YouTube
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has terminated more than half of all federal funding for gun violence prevention programs in the U.S., threatening the sustainability of such initiatives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/30/world/politics/trump-funding-gun-violence-prevention/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #guns #us #donaldtrump #republicans
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could hold the USA to account for guns like they are trying to hold us to account for fentanyl. Only difference I believe is the gun imports are real.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/confessions-of-a-gun-smuggler-1.7567377
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could hold the USA to account for guns like they are trying to hold us to account for fentanyl. Only difference I believe is the gun imports are real.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/confessions-of-a-gun-smuggler-1.7567377
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