Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻

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Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Jun 11

Apparently the art was too controversial this week.

The opening post in this essay, but instead of including the art (showing a middle ages painting of pathetic naked people fearing God or something) it has an "adult content" bar blocking the image.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· May 16

The Power Rangers, standing in action poses, looking like a rainbow in their harlequin motorcycle uniforms.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· May 5

Seen in the Las Vegas Convention Center:

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Apr 30

SCOTUS continues to be anti-democratic, bending over backwards to find a way to justify disenfranchisement. 🤬 As usual, The Onion doesn't miss.

A satirical news article by The Onion titled, "Supreme Court Overturns 'Right v. Wrong'". Down below is the comment, "Striking down the judicial precedent that established the legal supremacy of right over wrong more than two centuries ago, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned Right v. Wrong."

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Apr 22

Yes.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Mar 29

Seattle No Kings March #3

A "No Kings" sign with the Space Needle in the background, and crowds standing on the grass. (some can be seen through cut out parts of the sign)

A No Kings sign saying, "Palantir is how Númenor fell", with a picture of the eye of Sauron. (From the Lord of the Rings)

A view of the protesters marching forward in Seattle, including all ages.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Mar 13

Hey @eljefe.social it looks like Costco has cases of Fallout Sarsaparilla?! (I wonder if they have grape Nuka Cola cases?)

Cases of Fallout Jones Soda "Sunset Sarsaparilla" with pictures of old-timey muscle men and cowboys and phrases like, "Build mass with sass!" and "The most popular beverage in the West!"

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Feb 23

I'm reminded of the lead singer from the band "Berlin".

A still of a blonde woman with horizontal black stripes on the ends of her hair, both in back and her bangs, from the "Take My Breath Away" music video from the "Top Gun" movie soundtrack.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Feb 22

Thicker fabric like denim also etches well, but you might want to add reinforcement like patches underneath for extra support, especially if it's in areas where regular use puts stress on the fabric. (Denim patches also etch well and don't risk harming the main piece.)

A closeup on a denim blue jeans back pocket with steampunk gears etched into it, the shapes drawn with the lighter white thread and cotton underneath the blue.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Jan 27

This is basically what my room looks like now 😂

A cartoon drawing of a man with mirrored glasses and a cheesy smile sitting at a computer desk, while an attractive goth girl with glasses leans against the back of his chair. All around them the room is filled with clutter, including circuit boards, a synthesizer, speakers, potted plants, and gadgets. At the bottom it says, "Cyberpunk. The Attitude. Get it."

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Jan 24

I went with a vodka Nuka Grape. 🍸☢️🍇

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Jan 13

An ad for the original flogiston, aka "zero G" chair! Featured in the '90s movie "The Lawnmower Man", this chair was scientifically designed based on the anatomically most relaxed position of the human body, and has inspired many imitators in the decades since.

A sleek lounge chair hanging from wires attached to the ceiling, floating above the wood floor. To the right it says, "flogiston posture + virtual reality = flow".

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Jan 2

Good political observations from 1991 Frank Zappa relevant today: the corrupting influence of money in politics, the President as entertainer for industry, and the problem of dissolving the secret police. Relevant warning for progressives to have an implementation plan beyond good intentions:

A story about the challenges of doing good. Czechs freeing 20k prisoners without a plan for helping integrate them into society. "Sometimes the best intentions turn out to be rather inhumane in their consequences."

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Dec 29

Virtual Hallucinations

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Dec 23

Then I noticed that whereas tech people made comfortable livings, content people for the most part did not. And yet, tech and content, on the net, exist in synergy. That synergy has been mostly ignored.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Dec 23

"The predictive power of humans and computers is nil near bifurcations. All you can do is approach carefully, because the last thing you want to do is get swallowed up by a chaotic attractor that's too huge in phase space."

"As they say, the key word here is not wisdom but caution. You don't know what happens at bifurcations. You have absolutely no control. The smallest fluctuation can make things go wrong. The predictive power of humans and computers is nil near bifurcations. All you can do is approach carefully, because the last thing you want to do is get swallowed up by a chaotic attractor that's too huge in phase space."

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Nov 24

Happy Thanksgiving, KC!

A small image of a roast turkey next to a saguaro cactus, in pixilated form.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Sep 29

WTAF is this BS?

A post labeled as "misleading", saying
"Trans rights are human rights.
Abortions are healthcare.
End the genocide of Palestinians.
Christian fascists must be stopped."

Also "(i) This user is suspected of being a part of a terrorist organization called Antifa. Please report any suspicious behavior." (Also, what the actual fuck is this message?)

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Sep 24

"Zetatech Mem Chip", a card from the Cyberpunk card game "Netrunner", with the flavor text "In 2019, sales dipped because of a rumor that the odd chip contained a miniature transmitter that sent the Chip's data, encrypted, to the nearest Zetatech facility." Copywrite 1996

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Sep 20

A group of mafiosos with a quote from the movie "Goodfellas": "Only dumb people try to impress smart people. Smart people just do what they do."

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Sep 16

Thanks for putting words to the ennui, Duo.

A little cartoon boy saying something in Japanese that translates to, "No matter how much you regret, you cannot change this sad reality." (From Duolingo)

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Sep 7

The BSG panel yesterday was really good!

Katee Sackhoff, Edward James Almos, and Mary McDonnell up on stage at Rose City Comic Con with the panel moderator, looking relaxed and talking about what it was like filming the show. And the evils of A.I.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Aug 20

Meet your heroes. Especially if they're Rachel Toback. 🫰🏻

Rachel Toback, a friendly white woman with long, wavy auburn hair wearing a black Def Con Community T-shirt a black KN95 mask, and a Def Con lanyard, holding her fingers up in a "V", next to the author, a white man with glasses and a backwards grey Kangol hat, a 2600 T-shirt under a black tactical vest covered in pins, and wearing multiple lanyards, smiling broadly as they stand in front of a Def Con 33 banner.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Aug 19

A recent conversation reminded me of this classic meme: (found on blackMoreOps.com, but it's hard to determine the original author)

A meme showing six pictures of a Hacker:
1. "What my friends think I do" and an image of young excited people crouched around a laptop.
2. "What my mom thinks I do" and some nerdy people in ties standing at a support desk
3. "What society thinks I do" and a solitary person in a big expensive lab comically dark and lit by green and purple lights
4. "What the government thinks I do" and a picture of the Titanic sinking.
5. "What I think I do" and a picture of Trinity from the movie The Matrix executing a flying kick.
6. "What I actually do" and a picture of a command line doing a port scan. (I would have had a spreadsheet)

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Aug 15

Seattle 🤘

A view of the band performing on stage from the side, as the whole auditorium is lit by phones, lighting the fog machine haze like a glowing mist.

The crowd gathered around the center stage, a bright spotlight pointed down from a ceiling contraption like a laser cutter focusing on Trent.

A view of the front stage from the side, with people's shadows in front on the balcony and the band and fans down below.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Aug 14

A sign like they use on Facebook when reporting to followers that one is safe from a disaster, but it has a blue flag and says, "Marked clean on OPSEC currently" in reference to the leaked Signal chat where a reporter was inadvertently added by top White House officials.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Aug 13

BSides:LV pool parties are the best.

Palm trees and people lined up to get into the pool area, where lots of people are gathered in the summer night as a dj spins from a cabana in the back.

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Aug 5

Now we're listening to Lindsey Allen presenting her talk, "The Case for AI Pessimism in the Age of AI Optimism". (And she's killing it!) 🤘 #TheDianaInitiative

Lindsey Allen (a youthful looking white woman with long brown hair) presenting in front of the room, standing at a podium, wearing a red shirt and a black blazer, in front of a projected slide "The Case For AI Pessimism in the Age of Optimism".

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Aug 4

(With Alt Text, sorry about that!)

The two Jesses, both white women with long hair, standing in front of a UNLV podium, with a slide visible behind them saying, "96% of OSS value is created by 5% of OSS developers."

Ken '|<3ns41' - Pro-Ukraine 🌻@k3n5s· Aug 4

Obligatory "Definitely not going to Las Vegas" post. #SummerCamp