#Rob Data

[fogdraws]

What Watson sees everyday.

[robsheridan]

Early works with mpeg compression corruption, 20 years ago, during my 2003/2004 journey of experimentation with new forms of visual decay in the digital age that would lead me to the Nine Inch Nails With Teeth aesthetic. Some of this stuff made its way into parts of the large body of With Teeth artwork, but some of it is liminal inspirations in accidents, spawning ideas and techniques that I still carry with me today in my works across all mediums.

See my previous post for more thoughts from this unique era of early digital glitch art.

You can read more about my digital glitch art processes for With Teeth, and download a full tutorial, on my Patreon.

[prismaticpichu]

OK! THREE THINGS HERE!

1. Sephiroth pulled a “reading binge” before Nibelheim. Gahhhh—!

2. Zack was trying to have someone to talk to amid all the chaos ;-;

3. Mr. Sephiroth????

[roasted-oolong]

today my boss who is the more successful, self-actualized version of fantasy me, was like "hm no i dont want to do that" and pawned the responsibility off to Some Guy. and im just.

like. WE CAN DO THAT??

[duckapus]

A couple things about the aftermath of Project Thunder:

-The CCC had to replace Juliano and the retaken worlds with backup data to keep Connected Cosmos functional. This means the Rising Star Circus crew now has a non-living npc version of Juliano to deal with on top of coping with the fact that they're trapped here.

-While the memories of the stolen worlds' inhabitants were restored and the Twilight purged, the worlds themselves weren't restored to their original state. So they still need to repair the damage and deal with the three-ish month timeskip that CC:TG's lore caused.

-Said timeskip means that Tulip is now 18. She doesn't know how to feel about that.

-SMG7 is, in fact, now paralyzed from the waist down. As soon as Tulip finds out about this she immediately starts building her the most kickass wheelchair possible (which considering her skills will be pretty damn kickass), and making the Van and the mansion (the latter of which needed work anyway between Reboot Saiko's attack and the Twilight apocalypse) wheelchair accessible. 7's actually pretty excited about it, though she's made it very clear that that's as far as Tulip's help should go. She's specifically banned whatever cybernetics Tulip might be thinking of.

Look, don't get her wrong. She loves Tulip. She trusts Tulip. But nobody besides Tulip will know how to install the robo-spine-whatever and she is not letting a teenage insomniac mad scientist with 4 IQ and no medical license operate on her no matter how cool the inevitable superpowers would be.

-Ash manages to get a dedicated projector for Alice (her body is technically a hologram, and Tulip's phone both can't actually project holograms (which makes her less durable) and probably isn't sturdy enough to withstand hits strong enough to knock Alice out. Said projector is a little blue pin shaped like a cat head that Tulip sticks onto her jacket when Alice isn't using it.

-Thankfully there aren't any custody issues over Tama. She'll still be living in Luminos Castle with her new family and Blotch will still be living with Overseer, just now that she knows where Tama is (and that she's alive) she'll be visiting a lot. She's not calling Nimbus "mom" though. Among other reasons they're too close in age for it to not be weird.

-Due to everything that happened, Renata and Sleeping Gaia are now well aware of the Digital Multiverse, and given that they found out in pretty much the worst, most confusing way possible everyone's got a lot of explaining to do.

-Mira now knows about her true origins and is having an existential crisis. To make matters worse, while they were able to purge the Twilit Corruption from her the ordeal activated the long-dormant data of the Werehog transformation, so she now has to deal with that every night.

-Steve, Welony and Bob are working on a new scarecrow body for Rob.

-CPU looks upon this absolute trainwreck and decides that all of them (or at least as many as logistically possible), need a fucking vacation. And fortunately, while it'll take a couple weeks to get things set up, there's a certain resort-owning Admin who owes him and Vitality several favors.

-Speaking of Vitality, she's still in a coma. Though when Kelsie checks on her (after dealing with all the wounded from the battle, of course. Swag makes for a lousy patient, especially when he's told he won't get to keep his crazy god powers) she notes that her recovery has accelerated slightly.

[heliosphere-underthesky]

Hi, i got question for Jupiter and Earth, are you two friends or frenemy?

Earth: Actually, I don't really hate him! I don't consider him an enemy.

Jupiter: Not a friend either.

Earth: Well, not too close of a friend! Like... just right. Maybe acquaintance? Friendly acquaintance?

Jupiter: ... Like I told you. Don't trust me too much. And doesn't your best friend hate me?

Earth: Yeah... I understand you both, but I guess keeping this safe distance is the best for all of us.

Jupiter: Out of respect for him, please do. (is also not into forming deep emotional relationships, maybe Saturn is an exception)

[prettycottonmouthlamia]

You guys have gotta watch what I somehow pulled off in the silly Kirby game

[spectruff]

what if laptop that used a vtuber model to express herself

[goldentigerfestival]

if there is one thing i will never recover from with crestoria's crossover being gone for good, it's that we'll never ever know the story behind transgressor yuri.

if there are two things i will never recover from with crestoria's crossover being gone for good, it's that leon and aegis' loyal friendship will never ever return.

[pierswife]

Actually I don't think I can physically shut up about him I'm gonna have to throw my phone somewhere so I don't keep coming back to post about him kfhahzha

[robsheridan]

recombinance (2004). Early works with DV data corruption, 20 years ago. As I mentioned in a recent post about NIN’s 2002 And All That Could Have Been DVD, I became during the creation of that film fascinated with the aesthetics of Y2K-era consumer digital video. I was drawn to the uniquely chunky corruption blocks that occurred on lightly-damaged DV tapes, how they were sparse and sometimes gentle in nature.

I filmed some soft gradients, some out-of-focus landscapes and other smooth organic surfaces, and then damaged the tapes (wrinkling the tape, applying magnets/heat, just enough to disrupt the data but still let the tape pass through), seeking the right balance where the harsh digital corruption disrupted and contradicted the soft backdrop while also at times trying to become part of it.

It’s how things felt in the post-millennium migration to all-things-digital, like our old organic analog world was fading out of focus as more of it became rapidly mass-digitized, encoded, and compressed down into tiny efficient grids that more or less replicated what we were at the expense of all the complicated gradients of humanity in between.

Harsh DV data glitches and video interlacing against soft organic textures would form much of the inspiration and methodology of my NIN With Teeth album art in the latter part of 2004 and early 2005.

You can read more about my digital glitch art processes for With Teeth, and download a full tutorial, on my Patreon.

[dduane]

23AndMe is circling the drain. GET YOUR DATA OUT OF THERE!

“To Delete Genetic Data from 23andMe:

Consumers can delete their account and personal information by taking the following steps:

Log into your 23andMe account on their website. 

Go to the “Settings” section of your profile.

Scroll to a section labeled “23andMe Data” at the bottom of the page. 

Click “View” next to “23andMe Data”

Download your data: If you want a copy of your genetic data for personal storage, choose the option to download it to your device before proceeding.

Scroll to the “Delete Data” section. 

Click “Permanently Delete Data.” 

Confirm your request: You’ll receive an email from 23andMe; follow the link in the email to confirm your deletion request.”

[crinaboros]

Romania now has a DATA JOURNALISM HUB - join us! http://tinyurl.com/DDJhubRO

How many of us start every year by setting an ambition, making a wish, drafting a plan, deciding on dream, either of which - or all - to be worked into fruiting in the year ahead? When Freedom House Romania accepted my challange to ignite a Data Journalism Community in Romania, it became the fastest project the organisation ever pulled together. Almost like out of a hat! Hats off to Director Cristina Guseth!

In roughly just a couple of months, Freedom House Romania:

organised a Data Journalism & Storytelling workshop, where Robert Gebeloff (New York Times reporter specializing in data analysis | Columbia University Adjunct), storyteller extraordinaire (and a personal editorial crush) Ruxandra Hurezean, and yours truly banded together to train a group of engaged journalists.

set up a Data Journalism Hub on WhatsApp, for DDJ | data driven journalism in/on/about Romania - FIND US HERE https://chat.whatsapp.com/IfvWQiwRMQyJQ3IGRHyi1J.

and won a grant for 7 data-driven environmental investigations - calling all interested freelancers, by the way! We pay reporters who can help us investigate!

If you're interested in learning DDJ skills, pitching to us, hiring us to train your newsroom, partnering up for a DDJ project that concernes Romania, suggesting a story idea for a DDJ project, organising a hackathon with us, or contribution to our community in a constructive way, do not hesitate to use the link below. You can also reach me at crina.boros@freedomhouse.ro. See you soon!

[liberalsarecool]

All that stolen data is in with Putin now.

Even after Russia hacks all our networks and robs people of their savings, MAGA will still say 'lock her up'. Their brains are shit.

[literaryhistories]

ah those sleep deprived last day of a conference vibes