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I respect the Jackson LotR films but I hate how they unintentionally caused fantasy's aesthetic to be hyperrealistic swords, warriors, and towns all the way down.
Tolkien’s art style has more in common with Mary Blair's Disney work & Moomins than most modern fantasy portfolios.
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AS FEARED: "The world’s clouds are changing. They are covering less overall area and are dimming, with the effect that they reflect less solar radiation back into space. This increase in solar absorption is a major cause of the accelerating warming we are now experiencing."
ALT To determine how close the relationship between Earth’s surface air temperature and cloud area is, we can look at the monthly comparison of temperature versus CAF. Figure 2 below shows that relationship, and it shows it being remarkably linear. This strongly suggests that there is a direct feedback between global mean surface temperature and cloud cover. This is the cloud-temperature feedback. It suggests that as we continue to warm, cloud cover will continue to diminish, pushing up the absorbed solar radiation and continuing to accelerate warming. It doesn’t support the theory that the recent acceleration is temporary and will exist over a limited time period of aerosol adjustment, this feedback is here to stay.
Great piece by Tom Harris on cloud feedback
The world's cloud cover is reducing, which makes the planet hotter
This may be why Miocene Climatic Optimum temperatures were 7 - 8C up on pre-industrial for CO2 levels of just 400 - 600ppm
Very, very, scary
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HONTIVEROS SEEKS PENALTIES FOR VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN POLITICS
Sen. Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, October 21, has filed a bill seeking to define and penalize violence against women in politics, including physical, psychological, sexual, economic and technology-facilitated abuse.
Senate Bill No. 2567 also proposes protective measures for women in politics, addressing forms of online abuse such as coordinated harassment, threats, gender-based disinformation and AI-generated sexual images.
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a crowded art market is not a tasteless one; it's an open one. abundance is not the same as a lack of taste. craft and merch are not opposites--many of these are made carefully and in small amounts, unlike fast fashion. fine art is also trend-driven so that analogy doesn't work.
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“Rapper-economist” is hella dope
Rapper-economist Cielo Magno confirms she will run for Senate
Economist Cielo Magno announces she will run for senator in the 2028 elections.
Full story:
rappler.com/philippines/rapp…
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American Morality
jonathanpie.com/londonlive/
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the point of being a hater is having taste. For everything you hate on you must have something you just as enthusiastically recommend. Otherwise you’re a cancer upon society
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Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.
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The thing about Philippine politics is everyone on the non-corrupt side is always bickering about how signals land to each other while the varied corrupt parties never criticize each other openly, they just shut up, build power, and we eat shit over and over
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Dads are out here using cutting edge technology to invent new ways to neglect their children
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Out of the first 25 websites featured in the book, only 5 are still up.
The book is from 23 years ago, so I'm not surprised, but still pretty sad... Most of the 90s/00s Web no longer exists.
At least we can experience some of it thanks to The Internet Archive! :')
Taschen's 1000 Favorite Websites (2003) - Julius Wiedemann.
i think we are living in the ruins of an advanced and creative civilization. jk, but nowadays all UIs seem the same
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