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The Unsure Calculator is an online tool that lets you calculate with numbers you’re not sure about.

A humorous exploration of the uncanny resemblance between AI company logos and human anatomy. Discover why circular, gradient-based designs dominate the AI industry, and what this design convergence tells us about branding in tech.

Don't doubt it: we've been here before, fellow dyne. And we fixed it. We might get here again, and we'll repeat. It's OK to have low bats. And Dogs know the draining is happening out there. But to dyne is to fix: challenge accepted!

Gene banks are like a survivalist cache: our nation’s safeguard against all future challenges to growing the food we need.

Highlights

• Need to tweak a filter you applied hours ago? New in GIMP 3.0 is non-destructive editing for most commonly-used filters. See the changes in real time with on-canvas preview.
• Exchange files with more applications, including BC7 DDS files as well as better PSD export and many new formats.
• Don’t know how big to make your drawing? Simply set your paint tool to expand layers automatically as needed.
• Making pro-quality text got easier, too. Style your text, apply outlines, shadows, bevels, and more, and you can still edit your text, change font and size, and even tweak the style settings.
• Organizing your layers has become much easier with the ability to select multiple items at once, move them or transform them all together!
• Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages.
• Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.
• New Wilber logo!

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An engaging critique and on-going work concerning the inability of open source communities to deal with the consequences of its use beyond the blinkered mantra that 'what we call #FOSS today was originally for hackers by hackers'. Free software usage has been systemically captured well beyond that scope and appropriated by existing and aspiring large corporations, with resultant human and social consequences largely ignored. And this is just the beginning ...