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avidruntimeon A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC

co-opted? The last paragraph of the article suggests this was quite literally the artist's goal:

> “One of the reasons Joe is so insistent that every single building is here is because he would never want someone to come and see it and not be able to find where they live and see their story,” Sherman tells Artnet.

Its not like they broke into his shop and shared his model with the world before he could, it is currently an exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

avidruntimeon Trying for 1 month but can't learn pixel art still

As others said: practice. Practice outside pixel art too. Pixel art can be compared to haikus: a set of restrictions which makes every artistic decision more influential than an oil painting on canvas or a 200 page novel. Learning on hard mode is not always the right path.

avidruntimeon A Recipe for Steganogravy

Really enjoyed the design/theme of this site!

avidruntimeon Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot

MICE is the acronym for categorizing the common motivations for espionage:

M - Money/Greed

I - Ideology/Divided Loyalty

C - Coercion/Compromise

E - Ego

Sometimes, I think we look at people who are this wealthy and think they should be immune to these kinds of shenanigans, but I'd wager that the -ICE becomes even easier to exploit in people once they no longer need money, if they were already susceptible to it to begin with.

avidruntimeon How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page

This is an unfair characterization and is against the HN guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

avidruntimeon Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise

I don't think voting with your wallet constitutes virtue signaling, especially at a time when end user boycotting is one of the universally known methods of protest.

avidruntimeon Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

Short form content is a medium that isn't going away. Short form content is not inherently harmful, although short form content replacing or displacing other important mediums arguably is. When I think about the issues stemming from short form content, I don't think about the inherent medium, I think about the providers and their capabilities to use the sum of all consumed content by a user in the name of a ulterior motive at scale. While I haven't investigated it too deeply, Loops seems to be an effort in patching that. Is your objection in the marketing language or in the inherent technology?