Posts by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #B486ILdlOTTSvHKftw by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
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       @Gargron It's hard to put the brakes on advances, like the Ghost Shirt Society finds out at the end of Vonnegut's Player Piano. I heard an interview with a professor yesterday who wrote a book on the benefits of keeping cash alive and not relying completely on digital payment systems. He suggested using cash at least once a week. Maybe people will be able to do that with AI - limit their use and rely on their own brains at least some of the time. https://blogs.bu.edu/zagorsky/
       
 (DIR) Post #B4yMLFMesyLroVeUYS by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
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       @welshpixie Quite a while ago I was trying out every dark pencil I could find to use for life drawing. I couldn’t find any of the EE pencils in my remaining collection, but I’d suggest trying the Conté Pierre Noire pencils in an HB - they’re fairly hard, very black, fine grained, not scratchy.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4yMLFr93cjpL3uq4e by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
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       @Davida @welshpixie The EB and EE pencils were phased out about 25 years ago. I remember using them when I was in college, and old stock was around in art stores for a while. Staedtler renamed them as 7B and 8B grades, but the new pencils are a bit different. Possibly there was a change to the carbon/graphite ratio to make them more consistent in “feel” with the lighter grades.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4yMLGMhAJyWuug2Fc by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
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       @Davida @welshpixie Staedtler has a separate line of high carbon blend pencils called Mars Lumograph Black Drawing Pencils. They’re similar to the EE pencils but grades are different than standard graphite, the 2B is already very dark: https://midoco.ca/products/staedtler-mars-lumograph-black-drawing-pencils. For matte blacks I like the Pierre Noire pencils a bit better.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6posD4Q3Xq7Vqlkm0 by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
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       @benjancewicz We used to make things in this country(and ship them away to resistance fighters to kill Nazis)
       
 (DIR) Post #B8GPtsgEHFkvEwSjCa by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
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       @fribbledom I once worked for a company where we had a new CTO come in and really address technical debt. Our developers seemed happier, our processes got better, and our software was probably most stable when he was there. But… from a marketing standpoint, it was like our roadmap came to halt. No new features to speak of for a few years. Stability shouldn’t be a hard sell, but it kind of is.
       
 (DIR) Post #B9cBeijSYbTgDT3lHE by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
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       @mntmn @cas https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million
       
 (DIR) Post #B9cCn86QDMS5AiNEa8 by KerryMitchell@mastodon.social
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       @mntmn @cas It’s a bit strange to see a new Linux distro being hyped like a cryptocurrency initial offering.