3D

Houdini procedural
https://www.sidefx.com/learn/getting_started/

ZBrush
https://pixologic.com/

C4D
https://www.maxon.net/en-us/buy/

Trump Biden debates - dates - 9pm - September 29, October 15 and October 22

Watching for this, here's what I've found so far:


https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/22/politics/biden-trump-debates/index.html

In a letter to the Commission on Presidential Debates, obtained by CNN and first reported by The Washington Post, Biden campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon said Biden will face off with Trump in those debates already planned -- on September 29, October 15 and October 22. A vice presidential debate will be held on October 7.

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https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a32082680/presidential-debates-joe-biden-donald-trump-schedule/

The first presidential debate, when the incumbent President Trump will face off against Joe Biden, will be held on Tuesday, September 29 at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. The second presidential debate was expected to take place at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Thursday, October 15, but in June, the institution withdrew from hosting the event due to health concerns amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

“It is with great disappointment that I must ask for the University of Michigan to be released from its agreement with the Commission on Presidential Debates to host the Presidential Debate on Oct. 15, 2020,” Michigan’s president, Mark Schlissel, said in a statement Tuesday.

“In consideration of the public health guidelines in our state as well as advice from our own experts — we feel it is not feasible for us to safely host the presidential debate as planned.’’

A replacement location has not been announced. The final debate is set for Thursday, October 22 at Belmont University in Nashville.

Despite the change in location, all three debates are expected to begin at 9 p.m. ET, and will run for 90 minutes without any commercial breaks. No moderators have been announced as yet.

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BLM

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/tides-foundation/

www.thousandcurrents.org

webflow

https://webflow.com/


Review

https://satoristudio.net/webflow-review/

Guide

https://medium.com/@JanLosert/webflow-uncovered-the-easiest-guide-for-beginners-45358aa5839d

Pricing

https://satoristudio.net/webflow-review/#pricing

XD to webflow

https://forum.webflow.com/t/adobe-xd-to-webflow/86258/3

https://youtu.be/qmajwMffyb4

Wizards of the Coast / Dungeons & Dragons address racist stereotypes

https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/23/21300653/dungeons-dragons-racial-stereotypes-wizards-of-the-coast-drow-orcs-curse-of-strahd

Reading the outraged comments from slashdot nerds, defending Tolkien and defining what it means to be an orc, priceless:

https://games.slashdot.org/story/20/06/24/1945208/wizards-of-the-coast-is-addressing-racist-stereotypes-in-dungeons-dragons#comments

Adobe Apple AR

Adobe Aero - AR

https://www.adobe.com/products/aero.html

https://www.goodfirms.co/software/adobe-aero

https://yesimadesigner.com/augmented-reality/

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AR for AE

https://www.uxinmotion.com/augmented-reality

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Apple Reality Composer

https://developer.apple.com/augmented-reality/reality-composer/

https://9to5mac.com/2020/03/17/augmented-reality-artists/

adobe illustrator

shape builder

shaper

width

blob brush

https://theblog.adobe.com/speed-vector-drawings-illustrator/

https://dribbble.com/stories/2020/01/13/adobe-illustrator-tips-faster-workflow?utm_campaign=2020-01-28&utm_medium=email&utm_source=courtside-20200128

https://www.creativebloq.com/digital-art/illustrator-tutorials-1232697

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/illustrator-2020-one-on-one-fundamentals/welcome-to-one-on-one

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/illustrator-2020-essential-training/welcome-to-the-essentials-of-illustrator-2020

UI animation

https://letsxd.com/

XD + AE
https://www.bringyourownlaptop.com/courses/ui-ux-web-design-using-adobe-xd/how-to-add-animation-in-adobe-xd-using-adobe-after-effects


Adobe Animate UI

https://www.lynda.com/course-tutorials/Prototyping-Microinteractions-Adobe-Animate/2808554-2.html

Ad design
https://www.lynda.com/Adobe-Animate-tutorials/Animating-Adobe-XD-Ad-Designs-Animate/2822382-2.html



LOTTIE - no mention of Adobe XD

https://airbnb.io/lottie/#/

with Figma
https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/809860933081065308/LottieFiles

https://lottiefiles.com/

https://lottiefiles.com/plugins/animate

https://medium.com/movingui/choosing-the-right-ui-animation-tool-91c20c8197f2


Salih Abdul-Karim - creative team of Lottie

http://www.salih.tv/about-2

https://www.commarts.com/columns/abdul-karim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PEBqwcUWtY


Haiku

https://www.haikuforteams.com/about/


Anima - XD to HTML

March supporting police - 6/22 Springfield, OR - Joe Fritz

https://www.kezi.com/content/news/Police-are-being-blamed-for-something-they-have-no-control-over-man-says-571231501.html

AR future of UX

https://medium.com/@dansapio/is-augmented-reality-the-future-of-ux-34d20d7d22d7

Before and After - Clayton County Police RE: gun pulled on Teens

Before: TI advocating outrage before the facts emerge.

After: Clayton Co. Police Chief, Kevin Roberts, unscripted, and speaking volumes.
Real leadership, backing his team, perfect form.

Reporter: "Chief, if your son had been amongst those boys, would you have been satisfied with the officer's response?"

Chief Roberts: "I would have been satisfied with the officer's response and me and my son would be having an engagement."

Babylon Bee - Frank J. Fleming

http://frankjfleming.com/

https://babylonbee.com/news/meet-the-bee-frank-j-fleming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Fleming

https://www.amazon.com/Frank-J.-Fleming/e/B00CHAOCMS%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

https://www.audible.com/author/Frank-J-Fleming/B00CHAOCMS

harpercollins.com/author/cr-107554/frank-j-fleming/

https://www.facebook.com/Frank-J-Fleming-162485170512788/

Siri examples

Add examples here:

shield against sound cannons

Audio Engineers Built a Shield To Deflect Police Sound Cannons (vice.com)182

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:50PM from the taste-of-your-own-medicine dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard:Over the past two weeks, cops have been deploying every tool at their disposal to suppress worldwide protests and riots over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and other Black citizens killed by police. Since the protests began, demonstrators in multiple cities have reported spotting LRADs, or Long-Range Acoustic Devices, sonic weapons that blast sound waves at crowds over large distances and can cause permanent hearing loss. In response, two audio engineers from New York City have designed and built a shield which they say can block and even partially reflect these harmful sonic blasts back at the police. The shield's designers, Dave Rife and Gabe Liberti, were inspired to build the device after marching in the protests in New York City and hearing about LRAD sightings at demonstrations across the U.S.

"It's definitely been on our mind a lot how we've been seeing police instigating violence, and we've heard rumblings here and there about LRADs being spotted in NYC," said Rife, the shield's co-designer, who has previously worked in the architecture industry as an expert in acoustics. "We met on Sunday with the aim of building something that resembles a protest sign but can block a fair amount of sound energy. The idea is there could be a few of these in a car, driven to the location where someone has seen an LRAD, and then carried by hand from there." Rife and Liberti designed their shield to reflect audible sound waves that are condensed and carried via ultrasonic frequencies, and have tested it against a smaller and less powerful version of the LRAD that they built in their studio. It's made from a pine batten structure filled with recycled denim insulation, and covered by a half inch of clear acrylic on both sides, enabling the user to see ahead through a small window. According to a detailed teardown of the LRAD 300X posted by another audio technician, the LRADs produced by Genasys, the company that pioneered the devices, do not use an ultrasonic beam to project sound. However, Rife and Liberti say their design would still be effective against these hyper-directional blasts.

Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar To Hunger

Slashback: Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar To Hunger (scientificamerican.com)78

Posted by BeauHD on Monday June 08, 2020 @11:30PM from the behin dept.

This is the first story in a new occasional article series we're calling Slashback. We'll be covering a topic that may not be breaking news, but is interesting to us. Today's Slashback story features an article from Scientific American highlighting the profound effect of severe social isolation on the brain. From the report:The feeling of "wanting" something has repeatedly been shown to increase dopamine transmission in the brain reward circuit (see here and here). This circuit consists of the dopamingeric midbrain and the striatum. These areas are particularly active in response to images of food when hungry, to drug-related images for those who are addicted, and people with Internet Gaming Disorder who are deprived of gaming (see here, here, and here). What about social interactions? For social animals, it would make sense that social interactions would be a primary reward. However, so far such research has primarily been conducted on mice. In 2016, Gillian Matthews and colleagues published a paper showing that after 24 hours of social isolation, dopamine neurons in the midbrain were activated when mice sought social interaction. These dopamine neurons showed similar activation patterns to other cravings. It appears that the acute social isolation in these mice led to an aversive "loneliness-like" state that increased motivation for social engagement. Nevertheless, researchers have questioned whether these findings would apply to humans, especially since it's not possible to assess whether a mouse subjectively feels lonely.

Livia Tomova, a postdoctoral fellow in the Saxelab at MIT, was inspired by this earlier research on mice and pitched to Rebecca Saxe the idea of trying to replicate the findings in humans. [...] What did the researchers find? After only ten hours of social isolation-- and even despite people knowing exactly when their deprivation would end-- people reported substantially more social craving, loneliness, discomfort, dislike of isolation, and decreased happiness than they did at baseline. Similarly, the same findings were seen after ten hours of food fasting. Critically, the researchers found similar midbrain activity in response to food cues after fasting and social cues after isolation. The response was variable across participants, and those who reported more social craving after the social isolation period showed a larger brain response to the social stimuli. Interestingly, the variability across participants was also partially explained by the variability in pre-existing chronic levels of loneliness. Participants with higher levels of chronic loneliness at baseline reported less craving for social contact after 10 hours of isolation in response to the social stimuli, and showed a muted response in their midbrain in response to the social cues after social isolation (they also showed reduced midbrain responses to food cues after fasting). This finding is consistent with prior research showing that chronic loneliness is associated with reduced motivation to engage socially with others.

These results are exciting because they are consistent with the results from earlier research on mice and the "social homeostasis" hypothesis developed based on animal models. According to this hypothesis, since social connection is an innate need, animals evolved neural system to regulate "social homeostasis." The current findings suggest that there is a similar mechanism underlying social craving in humans, and that people who are forced to be isolated crave social interactions in a similar way as a hungry person craves food. As the researchers note, these findings are also encouraging for translating mouse models of mental health disorders that affect social motivation, such as autism spectrum disorder, social anxiety disorder, or depression.While the article makes little to no mention of the coronavirus, it does make one ponder how the mandated period of isolation associated with it will affect us, especially as local governments around the country begin to lift restrictions and reopen.

What happens when a person starved of food is suddenly presented with the ability to eat? They gorge themselves. What about when a person who has been socially isolated for weeks suddenly gets to socialize? Perhaps they'll jump on the chance to surround themselves with others. We're already starting to see more people booking local holidays...

VR treadmill

https://www.roadtovr.com/katvr-kickstarter-kat-walk-c/

How to use SIRI voice-to-text, reference and rules for dictation

For me, texting manually is painfully slow and riddled with errors, so I rely on voice-to-text with some editing as needed. Overall, it's effective, but often it produces some bizarre results.

I often wonder what rules govern voice-to-text when using Siri, which clearly isn't contextually aware, I would estimate far from NLU, and makes some outright weird interpretations.

For example, when I'm meaning to say 'many' but Siri writes 'mini', though this isn't consistent either. I'm unclear whether it depends on how I pause or how I pronounce, though my own pronunciation seems consistent to me. I end up guessing how to trick Siri into doing what I want.

Regardless of pace of speech or enunciation, there are many words or perhaps phrases that it simply cannot handle, such as misunderstanding 'I' with 'are' at the beginning of a sentence. Sometimes, Siri puts in random names in place of words, or injects popular phrases in place of standard language. I get the impression the collective jargon has a bigger influence than any standardized language reference. And, personally, I don't wanna represent myself in this manner, I want to represent myself like an upright, civilized human being.

Here's some reference:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/iphone-the-missing/9781449372781/ch04.html


https://www.macworld.com/article/2048196/beyond-siri-dictation-tricks-for-the-iphone-and-ipad.html

https://www.imore.com/how-use-dictation-mac

This is more about voice control and the part on speech-to-text is brief:
https://www.apple.com/macos/catalina/docs/Voice_Control_Tech_Brief_Sept_2019.pdf