Iranian fibre artist Maryam Ashkanian embroiders sleeping people onto handmade pillows for her ongoing series, 'Sleep' #womensart

Best joke I heard this week was from my 11-year-old nephew: “Gender was invented by bathroom companies to sell more bathrooms.”

If you haven’t heard/read the “This is Water” commencement speech by David Foster Wallace, I’d encourage you to take 20 minutes to do so. It’s profound. Audio + full transcript here: fs.blog/2012/04/david-…

Click on #RecursionFTW to see the full thread.

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Beneficiary bashing bullshit dismantled by a tax expert thespinoff.co.nz/society/27-03-…

At a cafe, empty tables everywhere, a woman moved all the dirty plates and cups from her table to another, that another woman is sat at. I'm absolutely buzzing about where this is headed.

Our 🌏 is under threat. But now governments are debating a new Global Ocean Treaty that could lead to a third of the world’s oceans being protected from destruction. #ProtectTheOceans via Greenpeace Aotearoa Join the campaign here: greenpeace.nz/ProtectOceans

Brilliant.

#drawbot #creativecoding

#generativeart

Reverb #generativeart @drawbot #python

More reverb #generativeart @[email protected] #python

Just playing #generativeart @[email protected] #python #creativecoding

GM dandelion #generativeart @[email protected] #python #creativecoding

Pumpkin scoop #generativeart @[email protected] #python #creativecoding

You would have seen that Xero, like a lot of the tech sector, is going through restructuring and letting go of a lot of design and research talent. The logic of who has been let go of is lost on me. These are incredibly talented members of our design team…lnkd.in/gK4VN2UA

In essence most writing is writing to think or show thinking. This is how we learn to write. However in the real world the function of text is to change what people think. In order to do that you need to be writing for others. Not yourself or teachers...…lnkd.in/dcJxBQva

Platforms don’t really die they deflate linkedin.com/pulse/platform… via LinkedIn

Sprinting starts at the Olympics tomorrow. The first one is the women’s 100 metres. New Zealand’s Zoe Hobbs will run at 9:50 pm, competing against some of the fastest women in history, including the fastest woman alive, Shericka Jackson. byrange.com/blog/fast-wome…