fridgebuzz - Vanessa Williams

@fridgebuzz.bsky.social

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Software engineer, making art with code.

A computer graphics animation of a swarm of bioluminescent shapes that seem to be gently drifting in the sea like jellyfish. These shapes are Dini surfaces with animated patterns created with cellular automata.
Orange and purple screen printing of a pond covered in lotus flowers.
Abstract animation coded in JavaScript. No AI.
A 1D Cellular Automata wrapped in a circle and animated.
An orange and white cat sleeping curled up tightly on a pillow.
Abstract field of colour made up of a halftone-like grid of dots. Generative art made with JavaScript.
An orange & white cat lying on his back with all four feet curled up. He is looking upside-down at something far away, probably birds he can see through the window. He looks very relaxed and content.
Minimalist abstracts of fields of colour made of layers of small dots in a pseudo-halftone pattern.
The United States is no longer a trusted ally. This reality extends past whenever Trump leaves office. Maybe too many of us are still in a state of disbelief to admit it, but our neighbours and former friends have succumbed to authoritarianism. The United States can no longer be characterized as a full-fledged democracy. It is now, in fact, the greatest threat to the democratic world of my lifetime. And even if Americans eventually buck the Republicans out of power and bring in a 'normal' government, we can never trust them again. The willingness of half their population to support a criminal monster must never be forgotten.
THE TYEE The parallels between Poilievre and Trump continue to be striking: both eschew norms of civility and decency, both are comfortable engaging with the far right, and both are intent on gutting the civil service, slashing foreign aid, ending diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and undermining public health science.
Multicoloured gauzy moiré.
Abstract field of colour composed of grids of overlapping dots
A landscape of crystalline forms in many colours.
Abstract field of colour made from layers of small circles and squares.
Abstract generative art work in progress.
Abstract brutalist structure.
4 different abstracts made with overlapping fields of small circles of various sizes and colours.
A rendering of a Wolfram Class IV 1D Cellular Automata
An orange and white cat with his paw draped over a stuffed animal that looks just like him, except smaller. Even their white bibs and mittens match.
A small orange and white kitten standing on a chest of drawers next to some knick knacks including a jade elephant incense burner.
A screenshot of a DM from Listification showing two random nonsense lists I have been added to
An abstract of a range of blues overlaid with gold flecks and fibres.
And that’s what Trump’s threats are really about. They are his attempt to distract the country from its own suicide. Trump is a rage-attention machine. That’s how he has accumulated power. That’s how he is. But now that he has overtaken the Republican party and the U.S. political system, he must keep the rage machinery pointed outwards. Otherwise it will turn inwards. Civil war within his own base is already waiting in the wings. Eventually, Musk or Bannon will have to fight it out. It can be only one or the other.
America is a threat but no enemy, which puts Canadians in a complicated position. We should fear American weakness rather than strength. And America has never been weaker in our lifetimes. It is barely in a condition to defend itself, or even to understand when it is being attacked. Sometime in the next four years, America’s enemies, rather than its allies, will pick their moment and pop the United States like a balloon. All it will take is a pinprick.