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“@clhubes I've converted several cat haters into cat lovers by simply introducing them to cats”

“Ever wondered how grass is made in video games? Making grass may seem simple, but theres actually a lof of history and technology behind this surprisingly complex topic. Another big thread 🧵”

The root of so many American problems is first, refusing to accept that it is a problem at all and second, refusing to accept that everyone else is doing a vastly better job and that you could learn from that. Denial + Not-invented-here https://t.co/5gfEWAR5Ac— Benedict Evans (@benedictevans) May 14, 2023

Gotta love the folks flexing moral superiority in the quotes. 🤣😭 The whole point of the show is that these damaged, “bad” people possess “good” qualities, and the show helps you understand what would make someone so vile. Your feelings shouldn’t be binary, one way or the other.— Johnny Sobczak (@JohnnySobczak) May 15, 2023

What is your favorite piece of graphic design history? Share it with us in the comments and use the hashtag #designreviewed https://t.co/0S95QBZE9T pic.twitter.com/BbCABG36a0— Graphic Design History (@DesignReviewed) May 14, 2023

The handdrawn lines on the characters' faces in Spiderverse? An internally developed bespoke ML tool for the purposes of the production to make artists' lives easier animating expressions.It didn't need to rip off the entire internet and steal private sensitive data to do it pic.twitter.com/MZh42Iohdd— Jessie Lam _(:3 」∠ ) (@axl99) May 14, 2023

“our entire system of expert authority is built on circular references where the strength of the network determines the strength of the argument this is the basis of citation numbers, impact factor, etc. it's also the basis of the original google pagerank algorithm”

= new paper w/yuliy baryshnikov

(Artist GERARD DUBOIS)Moby Dick pic.twitter.com/NnD78jwB33— Charles Miller (@Monkey7771) May 11, 2023

“celebrity game apps”

“broken country" Video from the FBI on what to do if a shooting breaks out where you are

Feedback effects: Google initially relied on the (human-curated) link structure of the internet to derive "importance" signals from the internet graph. As people started using Google instead of links, Google accidentally destroyed the fabric that provided the value.— Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) December 5, 2022

so now, the goal is to get as many people as possible supporting me instead of agreeing with the underlying premise of my argumentand so we all became politicians instead of scientistsand quality lost out.— James Rosen-Birch @provisionalidea@bsky.social (@provisionalidea) November 5, 2021

the metric replaced the thing we wanted to measure, and instead of recognizing this fact and changing the metric to match what we *actually* wanted to measure,we ended up in an arms-race between those tweaking the metric and those gameing it— James Rosen-Birch @provisionalidea@bsky.social (@provisionalidea) November 5, 2021

[speechless] https://t.co/krpR53MFsS— Amal El-Mohtar (@tithenai) May 8, 2023 The author of that time war book reacting to how the viral tweet is sending her book to the top of the Amazon best sellers list

“Block acquiring Tidal made no sense to me; turns out nobody at Block other than @jack wanted it; He was doing his buddy Jay-Z a favor (at Stockholder expense) The memo is FANTASTIC and worth a read to see how an "all-star company" REALLY operates. https://t.co/tznroN9ApP”

“This scene was our Heartstopper.”

“@itsjamiecho My theory is that you can’t systemize Gen Z marketing because Gen z makes organic , personal , user generated content hence you can only copy the same meme , viral video 1-2 until it becomes cringe or the internet already moved on away from it”

“who's writing on the aesthetic of plastic-y luminosity that befouls so many AI images in popular circulation?”

Some of my students were struggling to find internships, so I made this master list of studios for them to reach out to and figured I'd share it here too! It skews more towards the US + branding (my own bias) but I welcome any additions / nominations 💙 https://t.co/EBpGG89K7K— Elizabeth Goodspeed (@domesticetch) May 9, 2023

The issue of respectability in dress, and what constitutes "proper" attire in public, has raged for as long as people have worn clothes. People who take this position fail to recognize that their own clothes were once the "yoga pants" of their day. I will run through examples 🧵 https://t.co/1zOaxEfCiz— derek guy (@dieworkwear) May 9, 2023

“Mattel Electronics Logo on the Backside of "Computer Gin" Manual, 1979.”

Sato Koichi, detail from Sakurahime Azuma Bunsho poster, 1976. As seen in Novum Gebrauchsgraphik, no. 6, Munich, 1981. pic.twitter.com/d4ukRZgmuz— Letterform Archive (@Lett_Arc) May 8, 2023

PlayStation ad, 1994. pic.twitter.com/fyDUqjyj0t— Chris (@PSPolygons) May 7, 2023

If you're still using mood boards in your web design process, it's time to level up.Stylescapes help you get client sign-off early and visualize look and feel before diving into hi-fi design.Need some inspo? Check out these stunning stylescapes from a few recent projects. pic.twitter.com/zGq7fuoQl1— Benten (@bentenwoodring) May 8, 2023

Oh my fucking god pic.twitter.com/rtO2JbyKH5— 🤍🌑❄️ (@StellaNoxEclair) May 7, 2023 Video game “sequence break” notification

“Tried out transitioning a more menu into swipe actions in SwiftUI”

“I read the NYT article on “Liz Holmes,” and I’ve got to hand it to Twitter: you all did a very good job of angrily reacting to the headline by restating the argument of the article.”

“He's actually saying that it's racist to say that black people are ineligible to work with predominantly white casts and only hire them when the franchise decides to make a predominantly black movie. He was correct.”

ppl talk a lot about how hard it is to make friends as an adult, & I have thoughts on that but imo an underexplored problem space is how to move “person you vibe super well with, but have only met twice” from friendly acquaintance to bff when you’re both super busy & have lives— elle (@ellegist) May 7, 2023