New tutorial showing how to make Gustave Doré style ink hatching in Blender Eevee #blender youtu.be/508pwYME-w4

More experiments in halftoning #blender3d #blenderNPR

Halftoning shader with highlighting: #Blender3d #Nodevember

One last Blender halftone example #Blender3d

Israel has now vaccinated more than a million people. More than 10% of the country’s population. Other countries take holidays and keep the vaccines waiting in the freezers while their populations are stuck in lockdowns and their people die by the thousands.

Has Trump been banned from TikTok yet?

Good afternoon America, retweet if you think Ted Cruz is a traitor.

India is in the throes of a horrendous COVID surge Horrendous They are struggling to get more people vaccinated We are sitting on 35-40 million doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine Americans will never use Can we please give or lend them to India? Like may be now? It'll help. A lot

Post pandemic portrait painting!

Wow, an amazing foreshock of the French Enlightenment!

If this is true, then the red-dwarf epoch is unlikely to give rise to future life, which maybe makes us not as early as one might think? Robin Hanson bigthink.com/surprising-sci…

The dumbest part of our national discourse at this moment is: Oh those crazy space billionaires! How dumb are Bezos, Musk, Branson—spending $1 billion building rockets to fly themselves to space? What a silly Gilded Age echo of ego, indulgence, not to mention tone-deafness.

Tactics aside, it's just totally wrong to blame Facebook for insufficient vaccination rates. FB users are more likely to be vaccinated than the average citizen. Concerns about online misinformation are starting to become a moral panic of sorts. reason.com/2021/07/20/fac…

"precautionary principle" seems like a marketing euphemism for "status quo bias"

No matter how well-intentioned, Apple is rolling out mass surveillance to the entire world with this. Make no mistake: if they can scan for kiddie porn today, they can scan for anything tomorrow. They turned a trillion dollars of devices into iNarcs—*without asking.*

The English department's IT team trying to explain the password policy to faculty in language they understand

What's the German word for shutting down a perfectly good nuclear program so that you're dependent on a foreign adversary for your energy?

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