Cosimo Galluzzi
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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸

Janaina Medeiros

@theartofmadeline
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
trying on a metaphor

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Cosmic Funnies

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oozey mess
sheepfilms
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her

祝日 / Permanent Vacation
Alisa U Zemlji Chuda

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Out and in
Book of hours, Flanders c. 1485
KrakĂłw, MNK 3025 I, p. 469-470
Rino Kitano (Japanese, contemporary) - Homesick, 2017
Chicago Tribune, Illinois, April 26, 1935
best email-list-archive-resurrection covid19 update so far
School that doesn't speak Spanish: "How do we talk to parents who speak Spanish?"
M.A. in Curriculum & Instruction, ESL emphasis, University of Wyoming
“Improving English Learner Family Engagement by Creating an English Learner Family Liaison Position”
nothing gets my snippy reactionary going faster than calls for a diet that “eliminates sugars”
surprising no one my spotify-top Kelela song of the year is
The Kiss, by Gustav Klimt: Cat Version
Illustration by Inna Ruda
Loy Allen Bowlin: The Original Rhinestone Cowboy.
Bowlin was an outsider artist who decorated his home and himself, including his dentures, in rhinestones. After his death in 1995, his home was nearly demolished, but was saved at the last minute and put in an art center in Wisconsin.
Here’s a great bio of The Original Rhinestone Cowboy.
What is the opposite of guacamole?
Last week I attempted to illustrate some neural net-generated racehorses by turning to another neural net - this time, one that generates images, called BigGAN.
Using Joel Simon’s ganbreeder.app interface, I’m able to see what BigGAN can generate for any of ~1000 categories of objects. Not finding a category for “racehorse”, I decided to use the nearest thing I could find, “horse cart”. Which, um.
But ganbreeder makes it easy to combine multiple categories - if “horse cart” is one point in space and “great grey owl” is another point in space, when you travel on a straight line between them, the horse carts gradually grow feathers and owl faces, ending in something that sort of resembles an owl.
[left: 100% horse cart. middle: 50% horse cart, 50% owl. right: 100% grey owl]
Ganbreeder also allows you to travel AWAY from a destination. So I can start at “horse cart” and then try to remove some of the cartness by deliberately traveling in the exact opposite direction of “shopping cart”. Sure enough, the image morphs into a furry four-legged creature with no more sign of wheels.
[left: 100% horse cart. right: 75% horse cart and -75% shopping cart. bottom: tried to make the face less doglike by also subtracting some dog. success??]
What this also means is that I can take any category of thing and generate its opposite. For example, I can set “guacamole” to -100%, inverting every component that makes it up. It’s kind of like burrowing directly through the earth’s core to find out what’s on the exact opposite side of the planet.
Here’s what’s opposite of guacamole: this tower, this mysterious cloaked figure.
this thing, I regret to inform you, is the opposite of “jeans”
Now, this is just a single neural net’s strange idea of what an opposite is, basically “do exactly the opposite of what you would do to generate a picture of jeans”. If they retrained the neural net on the same data, random fluctuations in the training process might make the opposites look a lot different. But often the opposites have a sort of logic to them. The opposite of tiny indoor things tend to be large landscapes. The opposite of organic things tend to be geometric ones.Â
Here’s the opposite of “stingray”:
The opposite of “birdhouse” is, rather pleasingly, some kind of cat.
The opposite of “drilling platform” is this leafy green creature.
And the opposite of “eggnog” is a terrifying sight to behold.
You can make your own abominations and opposites with ganbreeder.app!
Bonus content: more weird opposites!
the opposite of drilling platform is sad cat eyes edit on a leaf
We are multiple generations now with no experience with strikes, and I see a lot of confused, well meaning people who want to help but don’t know strike etiquette.
1. Never cross a picket line of striking workers.
2. Never purchase or take free goods from a company who’s workers are striking
3. Honk to support strikers if you drive by a picket line.
4. Join strikers on the picket line even if it’s not your strike, but follow their directions and defer to them while there.
5. Say “that’s great, the strike is working, the company should negotiate with their workers” whenever someone complains about profits lost, inconveniences or other worker-phobic rhetoric. Always turn it back on the company, who has all the power and money.
UBER + LYFT ARE STRIKING IN SOME CITIES ON MAY 8th! RESPECT THIS AND REFUSE TO TAKE EITHER ONE ANYWHERE. NOWHERE. NO, NOT EVEN IF YOU TIP EXTRA. THAT STILL COUNTS AS A PICKET LINE.
the ultimate Gay Experience™ is seeing another gay person in public but not knowing how to make it obvious to them that you’re a fellow gay without letting everyone else also know that you’re gay so you just stare until they get creeped out and probably think you’re just really homophobic or something
me trying to communicate to other gay people that i too am a member of the LGBT gang:
Some of my favourite masks by Magnhild Kennedy aka Damselfrau for your viewing pleasure. Which is your favourite? Would you wear one? . . . #beautifulbizarremagazine #artmagazine #mask #artisanfashion #handmade #darkfashion #damselfrau #mignhildkennedy #wearablart