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ginger coons

ossington@mastodon.xyz

<p>Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn&#39;t. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food</p>

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  • Post #4112771

    It&#39;s very fun seeing people getting excited about the potential new designs for the Euro banknotes. And change is good! But there&#39;s something you may not know about the current designs. You may be aware that the bits of architecture on the notes are meant to be imaginary, sort of generically European-looking. But there&#39;s a good story about the bridges. [1/4]

  • Post #2742435

    Today, I was expecting to write a &amp;quot;Reading&amp;quot; post on Langdon Winner&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Do Artifacts Have Politics?&amp;quot; Instead, thanks to two things in the last couple days that have made me very irritable, I seem to be writing a very irritable post about how &amp;quot;AI&amp;quot; discourse is sucking all the air out of the room (and the room is the world). Fun!

  • Post #1998457

    This is very good, thorough, and sobering. &quot;Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane.&quot; https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

  • Post #1651615

    Favourite things at #LibreGraphicsMeeting are always the wild passion projects. To that end, @pippin is talking right now about doing vector graphics on very tiny, low-powered computers #lgm2026

  • Post #1634190

    Not just technical and artistic presentations: a talk from @GIMP @zemarmot about the evolution of GIMP&amp;#39;s community and the way certain kind of governance and sustainability are being developed #lgm2026 #LibreGraphicsMeeting