Here is an example of the new illustration commission that you can now request, which is a comic portrait of our family of three that I made back in 2020 when Caffè the cat and I finally move to the UK to live together with our favourite male hooman.
Until I'm PhDing I need to limit illustration commissions, so there are only 1 slot/month per listing available.
Or you can buy me a coffee (always welcome)
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It's holiday weekend here in the UK and I finally got around to post some updates on my KO-FI, that now includes a listing for manga-style custom illustrations.
I also finally finished my fan art of Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher and made a study of Moiraine Sedai (we started Wheel of Time S3 yestarday) to test some new art supply.
https://ko-fi.com/Post/Commissions-updates-comic-style-postcards-fanart-K3K21DQLSV
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What North Korea Could Be Getting for Sending Troops, Weapons to Russia’s War https://www.byteseu.com/935445/ #China #Conflicts #Moscow #NorthKorea #Pyongyang #Russia #sanction #SouthKoreaInstitute #state #support #thousand #troop #Ukraine #USNavy #War #weapon
Zum Wochenende: Blutdruck beim Support.
Die Erfahrungen beim #Kunden - #Support durch die #Community und #proprietäre #Firmen unterscheiden sich grundlegend. Das liegt an der Kultur und an der Firmengrösse.
Wer #FreieSoftware nutzt, hat sich an bestimmte Prozesse gewöhnt, bzw. erwartet das Funktionieren dieser Prozesse. Wer es kann, trägt zur Entwicklung der Software bei. Findet man einen Fehler, ist es eine Ehrensache, diesen zu melden.
Giving up…
...is such a hard decision... I don't like giving up, especially when I know that it's not the easy solution that it seems to be. But while giving up could provide some quick relief, in the end, it does more harm than good. Well, at least in my current situation... I want to just stop all the efforts, use my energy just for fun things, but I know that, when I give up, that I won't be able to do those fun things, as my body just could not cope then...https://wdldiamond.blog/2025/04/13/unwavering-love-a-tale-of-strength-against-adversity/
Raven and Yasmin, a young couple facing bullying due to their relationship, navigate the challenges of love amidst hostility. A confrontation with a harasser escalates until Raven’s protective sister, Eliza, intervenes
#Writing #Reading #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Blog #Blogging #BlogWriting #Fiction #Short #Shorts #Stories #Story #Storytelling #LGBTQ #Love #Support
Zum Wochenende: Blutdruck beim Support
Die Erfahrungen beim Kunden-Support durch die Community und proprietäre Firmen unterscheiden sich grundlegend. Das liegt an der Kultur und an der Firmengrösse.
Tip of the day: Sometimes things don’t run like clockwork and you need assistance with a problem. To identify the exact cause of an issue, it can be useful for us to take a look at certain logs. Here is how you can send us these logs for #DEVONthinkToGo. #support #tipoftheday #troubleshooting https://www.devontechnologies.com/blog/20221011-logs-devonthink-to-go
The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education
Machine writing has arrived at a time of intensifying pressure within many higher education systems. Financial constraints lead to changes in the organisation of academic work, particularly with regard to the role played by teaching. Political polarisation drives a greatest contestation of academic authority, sometimes even harassment of academics. The shifting plate tectonics of knowledge, stemming from social and technological transformation, create the risk that recognised expertise will be rendered redundant. Universities are increasingly torn asunder between leaders who see themselves as equipping their institution to survive in a hostile climate and academics who see the ensuing disruption as an expression of that very hostility (Rosenberg 2023).
Within this challenging landscape, large language models have emerged not just as technical tools, but as psychological presences in academic life. It can be immensely difficult to work in these conditions. This is exactly why we need to give serious thought to how LLMs might feel to academics under these circumstances. These friendly assistants are constantly available, willing to consider any request and always encouraging. They are never irritable, distracted, passive aggressive or tired. They never prioritise someone else over us. They don’t impose expectations on us. They can make mistakes, confuse us or act in ways contrary to our intentions. But as we become more skilled at talking with them, these occasions come to feel like the exception rather than the rule. In the seething cauldrons of ambient stress and interpersonal antagonism which many universities have become, at least some of the time, these are evocative characteristics. If we see our working life as assailed on all sides by hostile forces, if we see our jobs as under impending or future risk, the omnipresent ally able and willing to support us through the working day is going to be extremely attractive.
The psychological comfort offered by these systems creates a complex relationship that goes beyond their technical capabilities. When human relationships in academia become strained by institutional pressures, the consistency and apparent care of AI systems can feel like a welcome respite.
AI literacy is an important feature of how academics engage with the opportunities and challenges presented by LLMs; it’s essential that users of these models have a broad understanding of how they operate, how they’re trained and the limitations entailed by this (Carrigan 2024: ch 3). However it’s possible to have a cognitive understanding of these issues while still relating to the models in complex and potentially problematic ways. For example I’ve determinedly insisted on using ‘it’ if I have to refer to LLMs using a pronoun in conversation. Yet I recently slipped a ‘he’ into the conversation when referring to Anthropic’s Claude despite the fact I was half way through my second academic monograph on the subject. I immediately corrected myself but it stuck with me because it illustrates how these associations and assumptions can linger on in the psyche, complicating the reflective views we hold on a particular subject.
I know Claude isn’t a ‘he’ and I often remind my students of the same thing when I see them falling into this habit. Is there nonetheless part of me which feels that Claude is a ‘he’? Which imagines Claude as a ‘he’? Which wants Claude to be a ‘he’? The point I’m making is not one about my own psychology but rather illustrating how there’s more to our reaction to LLMs than can be adequately captured in the intellectual views and opinions we offer about them. You can’t ensure academics have an accurate and effective sense of what models are how to engage with them simply through providing routes to knowledge about LLMs, important though such knowledge undoubtedly is. I would suggest that we must go deeper and that writing is a fascinating frame through which to explore these issues.
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Afin d'aider nos utilisateurs et utilisatrices à découvrir les fonctionnalités des différents services que nous proposons, nous avons mis en place un bouton « Visite guidée » qui redirige vers notre documentation !
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#MaundyThursday Im sorry 4 not able to post #Fediverse Signal's going bad & Things are chaotic here tooThere's No Relief Medicines hand-outs, Essential Aid is either Limited or Postponed Distribution. My Asthma attacks in like everyday so I gotta wear mask even indoor. PLEASE UR KIND SUPPORT IS DESPERATELY NEED 4 getting Essentials/Catfood/Water Gallons/Rice etc.
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[If u GCash any amount lmk pls,Signal works differently]
TOGETHER WE CAN BECOME MORE #SUSTAINABLE
As we shared earlier.. “SSN bought land!” thankful for your early #support!
Now, as #Easter comes in, we need to plant 300+ banana suckers on this plot of land so that we can fulfil our earlier idea of self-sufficiency to foster a longer term #sustainability.
Help us by sending your Easter gift to https://gofund.me/3ce5369b Every amount helps and really means a lot to us!
Let’s make this #EasterTime to grow hope together!
Best,
Timo
EDIT: Thanks to someone commenting with an invite to the GrapheneOS discord server, this has been figured out! the terminal app doesn't work with a VPN enabled right now.
Is anyone else who uses #grapheneos having trouble with the new Terminal app not loading the terminal when the app launches? I will go to settings, enable developer options, enable the Linux shell, let the app install, open the Terminal app, install the dependencies and whatever else makes up the ~800MB of data that it asks me to confirm I want to download at first launch, and then I just get an eternal "Loading the terminal" page on the first tab in the app. I have tried reinstalling/re-enabling it several times, and at this point I have given up and installed Termux to satisfy my itch for a terminal on my phone. I'd appreciate any help, I just went to the @GrapheneOS website and looked for a section of the issue tracker that might cover it and couldn't see any that might, and I also went to the "Contact" section, and couldn't find a way to contact them or even post to a community for support. I love the OS overall, and this is the one and only issue I have had, and I would love to get it fixed or for them to release a patch fix for it eventually. Thanks!
#jordan #palestine #israel : #domesticpolicy / #hamas / #support / #repression / #securingpower /
„The Muslim Brotherhood’s Jordanian branch disavowed any connection to the alleged plots and said it has “always supported Jordan’s security and stability.”
Jordan said Tuesday that it had arrested 16 Jordanian citizens with ties to the #MuslimBrotherhood who were plotting to manufacture and launch rockets to “sow chaos” across the kingdom.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/15/jordan-muslim-brotherhood-rockets-lebanon/
https://wdldiamond.blog/2025/04/13/unwavering-love-a-tale-of-strength-against-adversity/
Raven and Yasmin, a young couple facing bullying due to their relationship, navigate the challenges of love amidst hostility. A confrontation with a harasser escalates until Raven’s protective sister, Eliza, intervenes
#Writing #Reading #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Blog #Blogging #BlogWriting #Fiction #Short #Shorts #Stories #Story #Storytelling #LGBTQ #Love #Support
@defanor AFAIK there is no fully bidirectional channel<->MUC bridge, but Biboumi will allow XMPP users to join an IRC channel and will have a mostly-native feel for both sides (/whois and some channel operator things from the XMPP side are slightly awkward). It's maintained at https://codeberg.org/poezio/biboumi
I've been using it for years and even gave up irssi in favor of poezio+biboumi
You can set up a dedicated instance for your ircd and let users join via e.g. #support@irc.prosody.tld
“Rebels In Prison Support: the group aiding jailed activists from Palestine Action, Just Stop Oil, and more”
by Charlie Jaay in The Canary @thecanaryuk @palestine
@israel
“After climate protesters were held on remand in 2021, their friends and family decided to set up #Rebels in #Prison #Support (#RIPS), to help others who find themselves locked up, often with no idea of how to navigate the prison system”
https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/04/13/rebels-in-prison-support/?__s=pw3ygmyxve9etudpqdrh
“Autistic Inclusive Meets: the grassroots group fighting Autistic abuse while uplifting the community”
by Hannah Sharland in The Canary @thecanaryuk
“Autistic Inclusive Meets (AIM) has campaigned for years for a new law to make claiming a treatment or intervention as an autism ‘cure’, illegal”
https://www.thecanary.co/long-read/2025/04/14/autistic-inclusive-meets/?__s=1toyfummtp6bhspv4akg