If current results hold…

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If current results hold…

  1. Now that Warnock and Ossoff have won, will the GOP majority get rid of runoffs?
  2. Daniel Blackman, you did your absolute best to elevate the PSC to Democrats’ attention, and I really need you to stay in this fight as the DPG’s go-to organizer for future PSC races. You did an amazing job, and you’ve set the template for the PSC District 2 race next year. But please ask for a recount.
  3. We now live in the era of mixed statewide results, but we’ve shown that Democrats can win a majority statewide, and not just a plurality like Biden won in November. No looking back.
  4. I want Doug Jones for Attorney-General. Confirmation hearings for Biden’s cabinet this year should be fun to watch.
  5. I’m wondering if the VP-elect plans to have an office in the Senate because she’ll be tiebreaking a LOT
  6. Schumer becomes majority leader and the highest-ranking Jewish American in history, but Joe Manchin succeeds Robert Byrd to become the most powerful person in the Senate and secure West Virginia’s role in American politics once again.
  7. Warnock becomes the second Black Senator from the ex-Confederate South, 11th nationally, and one of three in the new Senate alongside Tim Scott of SC and Cory Booker of New Jersey (not including VP Harris). Ossoff becomes one of the youngest Senators and Han Solo cosplayers in U.S. history. He also becomes the fourth Jewish senator from the South, the first Southern Jewish Senator since Benjamin Jonas of Louisiana (served 1879-1885), and the first Jewish member of Congress from the non-Florida Deep South since Ben Erdreich of Alabama (served 1983-1993).
  8. Get used to this: Chairman Sanders (Budget Committee).
  9. The dam on those 500 bills will now break.
  10. $2000 checks y’all!
  11. I pay great tribute to the work of Laura Ratcliff Walker and Tonza Sheree Thomas for leading our Muscogee County Democratic Committee to overperforming in Muscogee County, and to Linda Parker for fighting for us on the Muscogee County Board of Elections against Alton Russell’s attempt to screw newly-registered voters. You are the MVPs here in Columbus.
  12. EDIT: Thanks to the county committees and candidates who commissioned me for websites this past year. Thanks to Cliff Albright and Black Voters Matter for hiring me earlier last year, and thanks to Jeremiah Chapman and Woke Vote for hiring me for the runoff. I began and ended this election season working for Black voter turnout, and that’s huge for me.

Pepper’s Cone: An Inexpensive Do-It-Yourself 3D Display

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Pepper’s Cone: An Inexpensive Do-It-Yourself 3D Display
Xuan Luo, Jason Lawrence, Steven M. Seitz

UIST ’17: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Session: Displays

Abstract
This paper describes a simple 3D display that can be built from a tablet computer and a plastic sheet folded into a cone. This display allows naturally viewing a three-dimensional object from any direction over a 360-degree path of travel without the use of a head mount or special glasses. Inspired by the classic Pepper’s Ghost illusion, our approach uses a curved transparent surface to reflect the image displayed on a 2D display. By properly pre-distorting the displayed image our system can produce a perspective-correct image to the viewer that appears to be suspended inside the reflector. We use the gyroscope integrated into modern tablet computers to adjust the rendered image based on the relative orientation of the viewer. The end result is a natural and intuitive interface for inspecting a 3D object. Our choice of a cone reflector is obtained by analyzing optical performance and stereo-compatibility over rotationally-symmetric conic reflector shapes. We also present the prototypes we built and measure the performance of our display through side-by-side comparisons with reference images.

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Recorded at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Quebec City, Canada October 22-25, 2017

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in love with a ghost | healing (full album)

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healing is a story about witches, magic and friendship.
healing is not only an album but also a visual journey.
it allowed me to express things without talking about them.

♥ tracklist ♥

1. introduction (00:00)
2. i was feeling down then i found a nice witch and now we’re best friends (00:35)
3. welcome at qwerty and azerty’s house (04:25) (beware of the knocks)
4. chilling at nemu’s place (05:02)
5. i know it’s not easy but you’re not alone anymore (05:50)
6. i hope you don’t mind if i come here to cry (08:11)
7. qwerty enchanted the house and now it’s attacking us (09:02)
8. let’s walk across this forest, i can feel that everything is real again (10:30)
9. am i a boy? am i a girl? do i really care? i’m hungry anyway (12:49)
10. healing (13:48)

music by in love with a ghost
voice on track 9 by geo mae
no samples used

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vinyls: https://ift.tt/2LxhSli
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♥ artworks ♥

– track 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 by sarlisart

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►https://twitter.com/sarlisart
►https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGn-rPKkKlL0Mm3yrpjO4Pg

– track 3 and 8 by kanekiru

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– track 4 by evangel

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♥ links ♥

► soundcloud: https://ift.tt/1hLrWgK
► buy my music on bandcamp: https://ift.tt/2lmQzMU
► spotify: https://ift.tt/2lg0rWt
► twitter: https://twitter.com/LVGHST
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►patreon: https://ift.tt/2ubsdaL

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you are allowed to use my music in a video but only with credits, and repost or mixtapes are not welcomed

thank you so much for your support again ♥

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A Year in Bed

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From a short job with Black Voters Matter (and visiting DC!), to helping a charismatic local lawyer become our next District Attorney, to building multiple websites for county parties and candidates, to talking to the media about redlining on behalf of Southerners On New Ground- Columbus, GA, to becoming Young Democrats of Georgia secretary, to seeing one colleague I’ve made this year through YDG become one of 16 electors for Biden and another YDG colleague join the DNC, to serving for a month as a temporary Democratic convention delegate for Georgia (and not even getting a t-shirt to show for it), to surviving someone shooting up the side of our apartment building, to surviving a harsh (yet, in comparison to others’ experiences, mild) brush with COVID and seeing the humanity and solidarity of so many people come through for us in the aftermath, to seeing Mom hit 70 without missing a step, to seeing Roderick graduate high school/join CSU/get a job/get a used car/vote for the first time (absentee!), to seeing my niece Cedrica drive by herself from Texas to Georgia and back for the first time…

This has been a year, spent mostly in bed.

Animation in 2020

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Pulling from over 300+ animation-business-related posts that I made on LinkedIN this year, I pull together the highlights from every month and at the end make my conclusions on what happened in 2020 and where we’re headed in 2021.

If you wanna skip the play-by-play and just hear the summary, skip to (36:54).

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericcalderon

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Script Idea for Ossoff/Warnock

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Please make this a script idea for a joint #OssoffWarnock ad:

Ossoff and Warnock walk along forked paths in a park which converges to a point.
Ossoff: “We believe the American people deserve more money from federal COVID relief.”
Warnock: “But Senate Republicans think that only $600 are good enough for you, even when Donald Trump and Joe Biden say it ain’t!”
Ossoff knocks over standee of Perdue: “David Perdue says no to $2000”
Warnock knocks over standee of Loeffler: “Kelly Loeffler ALSO says no to $2000”
Ossoff and Warnock stop at the fork.
Ossoff: “You know who will say yes to $2000?”
Ossoff/Warnock fist bump each other, saying together: “We will!”
Warnock: “We will vote for it”
Harris: “I will break the tie”
Schumer and Pelosi together: “We will pass it”
Biden: “And I will sign it”
Ossoff: “But none of this happens unless you vote to send us to the Senate by January 5th”
Warnock: “Vote for Ossoff and Warnock in the runoff so we can-“
Biden: “Run”
Harris: “You”
Schumer/Pelosi: “Your”
Ossoff/Warnock: “Money!”
Ossoff: “I’m Jon Ossoff”
Warnock: “I’m Raphael Warnock”
Ossoff/Warnock: “And we approve this message”

We Can Have National “Referendums” in America

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Thinking about how the 2017 Australian Marriage Referendum was carried out, besides the impact it had on LGBT mental health (like these sorts of referenda so often have). But officially, it was not a referendum: it was carried out by the federal government entirely by mail, it did not have the force of law, was not subject to Australia’s mandatory voting law, and did not need enabling legislation to be conducted. Yet, the federal government in Australia did make use of Australia’s national voter database to send the survey out, and a deadline was selected for citizens to register to vote in order to participate.

Technically, the United States federal government could carry out a national postal survey, mostly bypassing the states. However, it would have to be carried out with voter rolls purchased from the states.

Currently, besides the consultations carried out by federal agencies as required prior to approving or rescinding a rule, the only existing federal attempt at direct democracy is the “We the People” petition site. I wonder if the Biden admin will improve on this site or let it languish as it has.

  1. It only requires that someone create a whitehouseDOTgov account in order to create a petition, and it doesn’t even require one to be signed in in order to sign a petition. Signers should be signed-in first.
  2. There is no verification of identity in order to create an account. I’d tie it to one’s social security number and that one be a registered voter in one’s state in order to create an account.
  3. The only response that could currently be asked for is a statement from someone in the White House if it reaches 100k signatures in 30 days. If it were to reach 1 million signatures within, say, 60 days, a higher response should be required. And if a certain threshold of signatures were reached, such as 8% of popular vote turnout in the last presidential election, a national non-binding postal survey on the petition question should be triggered.
  4. Require two-factor authentication for accounts.