Shane Lin

I don’t, but I suppose that’s an incentive for me to write it up. I was able to get lower cost SLS and DMLS prints from overseas before the tariffs went into effect. Pretty expensive proposition now.

Beyond FDM 3D printing, I’ve also had relatively poor luck with SLA printing designs with fine features. But I’ve had pretty decent results with powder bed fusion metal printing as long as I did some post processing.

A print made with an FDM 3D printed letterpress cut of railroad tracks, where the surface texture of the print looks kinda like wood.

Laser cutting is a great way to make cuts with thin lines that FDM 3D printing definitely isn’t the best at! But I’ve actually gotten good results 3D printing thicker areas that then transfer the texture of the top layer.

You don’t need to cut very deeply for printing, but the lowest power engraving lasers wouldn’t work too well except maybe for intaglio. But since we typically have to cut a relatively large surface, I’d think that there’s a somewhat greater need for precision than for engraving.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

TIKTOK AS A PLATFORM USED BY PROGRESSIVES, POC, QUEER PPL, ACTIVISTS, <> DEMCRATS <> WHY WOULD TRUMP DO THIS?

there's a lot of competition but i think you can make a valid argument that the TikTok ban is the biggest political unforced error the Dems have made in modern history

A healthy political culture should allow us to recognize that the people on that bridge were racists without endorsing what the Big Rock Lady did.

Hey chatgpt, make me a line art logo for "National Coffee with a Cop Day" and, just in case people don't know what that is from the name, be sure to put nine stars and two badges in this thing.

Generic-looking logo for "National Coffee with a Cop Day." Super lazy design work - there's two badges on this thing lol.

So this is apparently a thing that exists, but unfortunately their events page is completely broken so it's a little difficult to figure out which coffee shops to boycott.

“Every aspect of the university needs to incorporate AI. Also, humanities research only counts if you can print it out.”

Just a reminder that Abigail Spanberger, former CIA agent and self-described cop, voted in favor of the TikTok ban, one of the most consequential acts of political censorship in American history and, shortly, the catalyst for an unimaginably powerful instrument of right wing propaganda.

It’s actually amazing that Dems are both dumber and worse at politics than Republicans. Really hard to believe, but there it is.

A diptych showing a dog and a figure from Correggio's Martyrdom of Four Saints, both in basically the same pose of religious ecstasy.

Correggio, Martyrdom of St. Rocky (1524)

(h/t Todd Burks)

If it’s easier to drop them back in the same place relative to the sun or the galactic center rather than to a fixed point on the surface of the earth, that’s okay too.

one day, everyone will have always been against this

White letters on a black background. "The media could not be played."

I think you'll find that this isn't true.

The “or” part doesn’t really reassure!

GWOT made everyone dumber.

We’ve clearly moved on after a quarter century of GWOT to “let’s pardon Eddie Gallagher” and “military clears itself of wrongdoing in SEAL-involved shooting.”

I remember that during the first gulf war, one of the things that the Navy SEALs were publicly proud of was that they restrained themselves in not murdering a literal child that accidentally discovered a team behind enemy lines. Which is in itself not a great framing!

It’s bad that the framing of the larger piece is “the important part of this story is that they didn’t have a polite debate behind closed doors about whether murder is wrong.”

NYT article: “Uneven Track Record The aborted SEAL mission prompted a series of military reviews during Mr. Trump's first term. They found that the killing of civilians was justified under the rules of engagement, and that the mission was undone by a collision of unfortunate occurrences that could not have been foreseen or avoided. The findings were classified.”

Pretty gross! NYT characterizes the murder of civilians as part of an “uneven track record” and immediately parrots that the killings were “justified.”

(quietly) I kinda like that. Even though it always feels a little bit like the intro to American Psycho.

The next time you come across a neutron star, you'll be glad we had this exchange.

Is it possible to kill a human with a powerful magnet? I'm asking in terms of physics. Can powerful magnetic induction rearrange spins of my body in such way I will die? How? Or maybe it can rip all iron from me, which would make my blood cells usele...

I was thinking about magnetars when I said this, but this thread has some interesting ideas about how lower flux magnetic fields could kill a person: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/11...

Rocky does this all the time

America’s answer to that Japanese dog that sells sweet potatoes.

I imagine that in 30 years, historians of this period of American decline will probably call it something like 笨蛋时代.