mara @mara@systerserver.town

European night train network! Didn’t know until now that there is such an elaborated proposal by the German Greens. Imagine direct connections Vienna–Bordeaux, Helsinki–Berlin, Munich–Palermo, Stockholm–Prague, Glasgow–Frankfurt …
https://bahnstrategie.matthias-gastel.de/nachtzug.php

If you wish to opt-out from the general chat surveillance adopted in the EU, you'll have to host yourself or under your control... https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/message-screening/

Another little generator project. This is a tool made for the art event Lesbiennale (https://lesbiennale.art), aimed at the organisation team so that they can create pictures for their social network accounts by playing with the automated layout of the tool. Then PNG files are generated and can be downloaded.

#graphicdesign #webtoprint
#generativedesign

I wrote a single file NNTP server library in python with no dependencies that allows you to build NNTP servers/bridges for your communities with ease! I've added two example servers, one static one and one that mirrors the top posts from hacker news

https://github.com/epilys/nntpserver.py

#nntp #python

As part of Writing Machine Collective in Hong Kong, we're organizing a free online symposium:"Knowledge Asymmetries in the Age of #Machine #Learning". Great line-up with Lauren Lee McCarthy, Btihaj Ajana, Beatrice Fazi, Adrian Weller and Frank Pasquale. Very much looking forward to it. See/register:http://www.writingmachine-collective.net/.

The first one is on next Tue - You Can Say “Talk to Me” 你可以說「告訴我」by Lauren Lee McCarthy (Artist and Associate Professor at UCLA Design Media Arts), the session is moderated by Winnie Soon (Artist-researcher and Associate Professor at Aarhus University)

The last few months have been difficult and I'll have bills to pay soon so I'd appreciate some help!
Check out my shop for original art, prints, bookmarks etc: https://anaisfae.art/shop
Or throw me a coin if you want: https://ko-fi.com/anaisfae
Please boost, thanks 💙

#MastoArt #CreativeToots

Hiring: We are currently hiring for 3 positions, are you the right person?

* CI/CD focused Engineer for the Infrastructure Team
* Rust developer for the App Team
* Frontend developer for the Services Team

https://mullvad.net/jobs/

raku-glazed ceramics raspberry pi and pi zero cases

For a while now I’m playing with ImageMagick 7 and Bash scripting and sine functions to generate (text) collages. I created a public repository to wrap up the project for now.

Some of the results will be part of a book coming in spring/summer 2022 🎉

https://gitlab.com/nervousdata/wie-die-liegen

Powerful text features in the next version of Inkscape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmC3tFnFUJM

I haven't done a feature video in a while. But this one's great! (thanks to xkcd for the CC-NC art)

🗨️ The Future of Code Politics: Timnit Gebru and Vanessa Nakate on extractivism and transgenerational justice in the context of artificial intelligence and new technologies, 2021 https://youtu.be/E0tw4ct2jm0?t=814

“Technology Justice is Climate Justice.”