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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 35m

There's a more secure alternative to texting via your phone's native messaging app. Signal is a free app that employs end-to-end encryption and we have a step-by-step guide to help you learn how to use it. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

How to: Use Signal

Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.38.6 iPhone: 7.5.1 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time required: 15-20 minutes Other reading: https://signal.org/ https://support.signal.org/ https://signal.org/blog/ Table of Contents Download and Install Signal Register and Verify...

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 2h

The secret to Drew Struzan's sauce is that he wasn't illustrating portraits or people, he was illustrating photographs.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 2h

That sounds like a silly distinction, but what I mean is that he would key in on and exaggerate how a camera renders light.

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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 2h

Like this highlight on Chewbacca's head. It's an abstract shape resting on his head like a pat of butter. You would render his hair differently if Chewbacca was sitting in front of you posing for a life drawing.

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Phineasferatu @phineas.bsky.social · 3h

Need to share for anyone who doesn't know the story of how Drew Struzan painted the poster art for The Thing in less than 24 hours

The Thing | The story behind Drew Struzan's iconic poster

Artist Drew Struzan created an iconic poster for John Carpenter’s The Thing. Incredibly, it was conceived and painted in a matter of hours…

filmstories.co.uk

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Bill Geerhart @conelrad6401240.bsky.social · 2h

IT TAKES A THIEF. First season opening (1968). Title Design by Wayne Fitzgerald [1930-2019]. Theme by Dave Grusin. The first image seen is Robert Wagner with a blowtorch. Michael Mann must have been watching...
youtu.be/hxuNm99ktv0?...

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GSWooOOOooster @gswooster.bsky.social · 10h

So Solid Crow

Dawn B @dawnbritten.bsky.social · 13h

Morning all xx

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Davey Jones @daveyjones.bsky.social · 2h

At last! Now they've finally realised what AI is for, perhaps they'll stop trying to foist it on every other aspect of our lives

Panel of an old Roger Mellie cartoon - from about 30-odd years ago - in which he is presenting a 'wanking machine' which he has invented for Tomorrow's World. Drawn by Chris Donald.

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windust @windust.bsky.social · 1h

@nuts4r2.bsky.social xx

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Greeneville Zoo @greenevillezoo.bsky.social · 2h

That's not "just a cow.” That's our dear Margaret.

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windust @windust.bsky.social · 1h

Ooh, now fancy that! Cheers for digging. Feel of the wood backing the prints is old and dry. Thin too, like you used to get in cigar boxes and stuff. Discolouration of the mount board and grime on the frame puts it - to me at least - 20’s.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 3h

That's no moon. It's a game-crashing station.

Kotaku @kotakudotcom.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe you'll have better luck if someone in a Corvette Millennium Falcon flies alongside you.

Someone Built A Game-Crashing Death Star In No Man's Sky

That’s no procedurally generated moon

kotaku.com

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 3h

The thing I hate most about this is how its killing a whole world of internet face swap humour.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Cullen @hellocullen.bsky.social · 3h

new perfect visual metaphor for baby ass AI clowns just dropped

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3h

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I Tried the 'Hug Your Younger Self' AI Trend. It Was Adorable

This might be the cutest AI use case I've ever come across.

www.cnet.com

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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 3h

As a tribute to the late Drew Struzan, a piece from the archives: how the artist created an iconic poster for The Thing in a matter of hours. RIP, Mr Struzan.
filmstories.co.uk/features/the...

The Thing | The story behind Drew Struzan's iconic poster

Artist Drew Struzan created an iconic poster for John Carpenter’s The Thing. Incredibly, it was conceived and painted in a matter of hours…

filmstories.co.uk

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windust @windust.bsky.social · 2h

Pop fact, it’s the song that introduces Tubbs in the pilot of Miami Vice

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windust @windust.bsky.social · 2h

They feel like they’d come apart!

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windust @windust.bsky.social · 2h

Of course.

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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 3h

me: how far
colin: what do you mean
me: i mea-
mr c: it's not about how far
me: no no of course not
colin: the mountain is moved, that's the point
mr c: *any* mountain
me: but are we talking metres, miles
colin: can *you* move a mountain
me: well, i've never thought to try
mr: c: well stfu then

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honey i am a guy & i shrunk the kids @snowrespecter.bsky.social · 4h

me:
the shamen:
me: wow
mr c: i know, right
me:
the shamen [smiling at each other, then at me]:
me: like, how
mr c: shall i tell him
the other one, colin or whatever: go on then
mr c: the secret is delivery smooth like water from a fountain
me: aah
colin: yep
me: *any* mountain?
mr c: any mountain

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windust @windust.bsky.social · 3h

To what tune, pls?

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Grise l’Indécis @wildobliquities.bsky.social · 1d

oh god

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R @rchlcze.bsky.social · 4h

Quite a few of the asylum seekers we support are actually taking Welsh lessons but none of the English people I know who live here have either started doing that or actually seen it through in any way.

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io9 @io9dotcom.bsky.social · 5h

Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died

The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.

gizmodo.com

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windust @windust.bsky.social · 4h

Don’t start that crazy talk, man!

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