Alex Warnes

1/7 - The New START treaty - last remaining nuclear arms limitation treaty - expired today. Russia and the United States have so far failed to prepare a replacement treaty. At best, the two may agree voluntarily not to exceed the limits for a while.

We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.Press We share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.

Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust. @emilymbender.bsky.social & @nannainie.bsky.social suggest focusing on a system’s functionalities: instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for." www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...

I’ve been badly neglecting this platform for some time, for a variety of reasons. Thanks to @awarnes.bsky.social for the encouragement to rectify that. From last Friday’s march in Minneapolis, prior to ICE’s murder of Alex Pretti.

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

"nearly all the mainstream liberal pundits sounding the alarm about white supremacy, jingoism, xenophobia, and political violence failed to connect these things to U.S. imperial violence"

It doesn’t matter if Alex Pretti had a gun Nonviolence is a double standard.

ICE, CBP, and Border Patrol have proven themselves incapable of obeying the law, let alone enforcing it for others; unable to self-soothe, let alone keep the peace. Why must ordinary people be asked to stay calm and not upset them? www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

Critical State: The $839 Billion Defense Spending Bill If you read just one thing this week … read about the hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending Congress passed.

If you read just one thing this week … read about the hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending Congress passed.

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Wow.

Anduril’s planned autonomous weapons factory in rural Ohio is projected to destroy/reroute wetlands and waterways - so the Ohio EPA went ahead and approved a “lowering of water quality” for the area.

In order to protect “economic considerations”

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The Long, Lethal History of Trump's 'Invasion' Rhetoric In 2018, Trump began to routinely describe immigration as an ‘invasion.’ That rhetoric has fueled deadly violence for nearly two centuries.

"Trump and his allies are tapping into a grim American tradition whose history predates and inspires modern iterations of both the white genocide myth and the great replacement theory. For some two centuries, invasion rhetoric has fueled nativist vigilantism and anti-immigrant state violence."

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

Blender render of a silhouetted character looking out from under an arch toward a ship descending on a desert outpost.

Waiting for the ship to arrive...

#b3d

Made in Blender with some ChuckCG assets, LensSim camera, and graded in Resolve.

Screenshot of three basic floor plans, each for one level of a three level control room concept. Ground floor has desks for 25-30 people, next level has an office, and the top level has yet another office. Some notes on each level indicate what could be beyond the space like building entrance, more offices, cafeteria, etc.

Blender render from the front of the control room looking back toward desks and offices. The space has an angled ceiling and the offices are rounded with views down to the main level.

Blender render of a view from the entrance to the control room from the middle level hallway. From here you can see into the office space, the stairs up to the top level, and across the control room to the main TV displays.

Blender render of a view from the ground-level entrance to the control room. From here you can see across the main floor full of desks toward the wall with 16 large TV displays, stairs up to the mid-level, and parts of the angled ceiling.

some work in progress concept art from sketch to kit to initial blockout.

All part of @learnsquared.com Interior Concept Design course by Nick Stath.

#blender #conceptart

"Despite the ceasefire, east of the ‘yellow line’ destruction is continuing. The Israeli military is demolishing residential blocks and clearing the land, threatening to transform temporary dispossession into the permanent displacement of Palestinians from more than half of Gaza’s land."

Special Treatment Lines Defense Giant's Pockets in North Carolina Records show that Pratt & Whitney was able to claim tax refunds for jobs it didn’t create and bypass public comment for new grants.

Records show that Raytheon was able to claim tax refunds for jobs it didn’t create and bypass public comment for new grants in North Carolina.

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Someone is buying up American starter homes and pricing you out. But it’s not who you’ve been told. #EconSky #Housing #PolSky #RonanFarrow

@wslafoy.bsky.social fwiw I also didn't know the word "venal". Great episode.

Have you guys ever discussed the Norwegian miniseries "The Heavy Water War"? It's based on the efforts to sabotage Nazi heavy water production in occupied Norway.

Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 5.0!

ACES, Adaptive Subdivision, HDR, Storyboarding, Geometry Nodes, 588 bugs fixed, and so much more.

📖 Changelog & Download: blender.org/download/rel...

📺 Video Recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wEq... #b3d

Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization Great data visualization lives at the intersection of art and science. By bridging rigorous data analysis with creative design, data visualization has the power to make complex ideas easier to…

Want to make visuals that don’t just inform — but resonate? Join us on Nov 11 for Art + science: Blending creativity and analysis in data visualization, and learn how experts balance clarity, creativity, and collaboration.

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Today our teams across the #GazaStrip were treating severely wounded patients in attacks by Israeli forces, causing alarming civilian casualties. We have seen injured patients in Al Aqsa, Nasser and Al Shifa hospitals.

Israel says it's resuming the ceasefire after its strikes in Gaza kill over 100 people Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials.

Israel's military said the ceasefire in Gaza resumed after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children, according to local health officials. n.pr/48SFSKo

The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

Leqaa Kordia—not a Columbia student but “a simple Palestinian girl,” as she describes herself—is the last remaining campus protester still in detention from the Trump Administration’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in the U.S.

Sharm El-Sheikh Shows That the US Has Learned Nothing From Gaza Palestinans are expected to accept the same deal that led to October 7: permanent subjugation under the guise of “prosperity.”

New from me @thenation.com: the farce at Sharm El-Sheikh displays the delusion that led to October 7 and the genocide Israel pursued after it — that the U.S. regional coalition can pursue normalization over the heads of the Palestinians, who are supposed to accept permanent subjugation.

updating mock data files always makes the diff ratio look dangerous 🔥

that feels like a close relative to the "I should rebuild this from the ground up" when I should really be refactoring it phase 😅

YouTube video by Alex Warnes Rosewood: Handcrafted, Original Designs | Mini-doc shot on LUMIX

Made a mini doc telling the story of my friends' hobby-turned-business.

It was a labor of love and my first experience wearing three hats (film/edit/grade).

Enjoy!

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#art

This is an absolutely brilliant piece and well worth the read - "'I think the visual lexicon of open-source investigation is something that the Israelis have co-opted as a way to try to delegitimize [those investigations] and confuse,' said Elizabeth Breiner..."

I joke because haha vibe work AND the history of labor automation being applied to justify paying the workers subject to it less/treating them poorly is clear and consistent and not up for debate. So I'm also serious.

Super fun and immediately installed. Always love a good PWA game 🌐

(I still play Proxx @jakearchibald.com and @surma.dev and even got my 7 year old into it!)

Aaaand my #BCON25 #b3d talk is already online!
It was (and is) an amazing experience.

Thank you so much @blender.org OTOY Render-Nnetwork and of course the amazing audience for having me 🥰

Hopefully you can take something away from it 🧑‍🎓

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I'm really looking forward to seeing One Battle After Another, so I'm hoping that's the former 😅