After your shift at the protocol station, join me in the officers’ lounge, just up the spiral staircase from the main bridge. #blender3d #steampunk #neovictorian #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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Four people sit in lawn chairs in the yard of a house, very close to an erupting volcano.

It’s Not Cool to Overreact: How Normalcy Bias Will Define Our Future

During moments of crisis, I’ve certainly noticed that feeling of paralysis and the desire to look around for anyone who seems to know what they’re doing. Creating the idea of a crisis in the minds of the public (they’re making it illegal to say “Merry Christmas,” they’re weaponizing pronouns to groom your children, those silly…

By the way, humans sent a robot to another planet, and the robot sent us the sound of a dust devil. On. Another. Planet.

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I am very happy for these folks, who spent 20 or so years tweaking an insanely complex, completely free game, and are now selling a deluxe version that fans like me can’t wait to buy.

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Fall 2022 Grades: SUBMITTED

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Practicing with materials and geometry. The lamps and chair require hundreds of times as much geometry as the walls and furniture, which look great but are mostly flat planes. #blender3d #steampunk #design #aesthetics #blender3dart

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College students are often great at using apps, but struggle with basic computer tasks

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Prophet Motive (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 3, Episode 16) The Nagus’s eccentricities annoy, alarm Quark

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Tricking the eye to see 3D details in geometrically flat surfaces for my #steampunk #blender3d personal project. #aesthetics #design #blender3dart

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I am happy with how this turned out. My mother told me about this story when I was little, possibly because a priest mentioned it during a Christmas homily. I didn't read the story myself until I was an adult.

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It's a thing to do.

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Academic Writing Blues

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Meet Our Advisor: Dennis Jerz

“Journalism is an imperfect human activity done by biased people who have bills to pay and passions that drive them,” said Dennis Jerz, Seton Hill associate professor and advisor of The Setonian. “If you believe that your organization is the only pure organization that exists you are approaching journalism from a perspective that I just…

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Mariah Carey meets William Carlos Williams

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i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries – so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my “inner child”

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