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@AT1ST

Objectively creepy.

@minmi

Exactly. I'm tired of people pretending like this isn't true.

Are teeth ever NOT creepy?

@deraffe

This makes sense except for the head.

Consider the carpenter ant queen, the drawing ... and Formica fusca

Looking at a bunch of Dutch ants I think it's most likely a wood ant, and he's just given her a big wide head because the head is the most fun part of the ant to draw. He's also made her all black rather than hint that she is bicolor... although some black wood ants do exist.

The way he's rendered the geometry of her head is amazing.

In short, I think he drew this by carefully observing ants, perhaps with magnification, but not ants of just one kind. Escher liked to draw ants enough he may have done this from memory. She is very mysterious.

Unless someone can point out who she is for me!

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@TheIdOfAlan/115527111496219848

This is a great scan of one of my favorite and most vexing M. C. Escher drawings.

It's an ant, and she is rendered in excellent detail. So... *who* is she?

She must be a Dutch ant. She is black, and her head shape makes me think Camponotus. But her thorax is all wrong for a carpenter. Her throrax is like a wood ant.

Her head is too robust for a black garden ant, and her gaster isn't pointed.

She has ocelli and the hint of wing buds like a queen.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pollen Pants

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mathling/115300088947837576

Did I buy this because of the ants on the cover... maybe.

But, I've read the first few chapters and like it. It begins with Art Crime.

So, I say check it out.

@jgordon

uuuuuuhhhhhhg I don't like democracy anymore.

@alex

He'd say he liked it if he thought people would like him.

@foone @gewt

I love the colors of those keycaps...

Got the screen replaced on my phone: now it doesn’t recognize me anymore.

This is a true sentence about my life. It also sounds like something from a cyberpunk horror story. In addition? My phone is *haunted*— phantom typing … (Like a damn Ouija board. ) spontaneous sentences, I keep telling myself it is just autocorrect.

I’m still mostly delighted that it could be fixed at all— but, I thought this was the digital age? Why do my problems have an analog texture?

@babelcarp

Have you noticed how he just copies what the other billionaire tech guys are doing like a very insecure middle schooler?

Is there anything he cares about that isn’t about trying (and failing) to fit in?

In fiction are there any huge stereotypes, tropes about divorced characters that are overdone, annoying?

Writing this as someone who “simply can’t imagine getting divorced*” I decided to just make my character as astonished & confused as I would be. (write what you know?)

I do feel like I’m bumbling around a bit here. This guy is a math professor, gets divorced after his daughter goes to college— didn’t expect it, even if he understands it.

*I also get this is naive

#divorce #writing

@johnefrancis

This may play a big role in why people *feel* like this is happening.

Imagine being a millionaire and just... using X, threads, tiktok or facebook and still having to struggle to click the little box to make the ads close.

Wouldn't a luxury lifestyle be free of advertisements?

@rgo

They swear up and down they didn't type anything into search, or view any webpages that would drop the hint.

To me spying on search and other sources is almost as bad, but the "my phone is listening to my conversation and showing me ads" thing keeps coming up.

If it's not happening it seems like it is.

The US is such a deeply multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-religious nation that even our nazis are diverse.

It is so touching that the most conspicuous online nazi is a Hispanic man and that's probably why some of his followers feel comfortable being Black, Catholic, Mexican, and even Mormon.

Only in America.

(this is dripping with cynicism, if it's not clear)

Sometimes my friends notice when, after they have been talking about something they will see an ad for it.

"my phone is spying on me!"

I used to think this was unlikely. I'd go into "while that is possible it's not reasonable..." mode.

Not so much anymore. It does seem feasible now. And I think it might be a fruitful area for privacy advocates to focus on since this *really* creeps people out.