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ginger coons

@ossington@mastodon.xyz
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Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

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Joined April 04, 2017
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location:
Rotterdam
writing:
https://not-so-obvious.net/

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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · Jul 26, 2026
ginger coons
@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz
Replying to @ossington@mastodon.xyz
As it happens, I went out there recently to see the bridges for myself, and they're delightful. So, while voting for new designs, please spare a moment to think of these poor bridges, which will soon be real bridges designed to mimic imaginary bridges that used to be on money. [4/4]
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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · Jul 26, 2026
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@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz
Replying to @ossington@mastodon.xyz
So, with these aggressively made-up bridges on the Euro notes, what does some brilliant asshole of a Dutch architect go and do? Yes, design a bunch of tiny bridges in a suburb of Rotterdam that look like the imaginary bridges on the Euro notes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurobridges_Spijkenisse ). [3/4]
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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · Jul 26, 2026
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@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz
Replying to @ossington@mastodon.xyz
In the originally proposed designs, the bridges looked too much like real bridges that were used by the designer, as reference. There's a really great episode of 99% Invisible about this ( https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/458-real-fake-bridges/ ), but the long and short of it is that the bridges we see now on the notes are even more made-up, in response to the critique that the original bridges looked too real. [2/4]
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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · Jul 26, 2026
ginger coons
@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz
It's very fun seeing people getting excited about the potential new designs for the Euro banknotes. And change is good! But there'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's a good story about the bridges. [1/4]
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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · May 10, 2026
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@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz

Today, I was expecting to write a "Reading" post on Langdon Winner's "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" 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 "AI" discourse is sucking all the air out of the room (and the room is the world). Fun!

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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · May 04, 2026
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@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz
This is very good, thorough, and sobering. "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane." https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/
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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · Apr 24, 2026
ginger coons
@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz
Replying to @GIMP@floss.social
@GIMP @lgm You can read all the issues here 😉 https://libregraphicsmag.com/
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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · Apr 23, 2026
ginger coons
@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz
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More insights from @GIMP@floss.social @zemarmot@fosstodon.org : Being a decent human is the first priority, everything else is secondary #lgm2026 #LibreGraphicsMeeting
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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · Apr 23, 2026
ginger coons
@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz

Not just technical and artistic presentations: a talk from @GIMP@floss.social @zemarmot@fosstodon.org about the evolution of GIMP's community and the way certain kind of governance and sustainability are being developed #lgm2026 #LibreGraphicsMeeting

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GIMP (@GIMP@floss.social) - FLOSS.social

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ginger coons @ossington@mastodon.xyz · Apr 22, 2026
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@ossington@mastodon.xyz

Researcher/social science/art-type. Heart still in F/LOSS design. Tries to be funny but isn't. Will parse sociotechnical issues for food

mastodon.xyz

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

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