Daniel Appelquist

@torgo.com

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Open Source & Open Standards strategist at Samsung & Open Web Curmudgeon. Member of the W3C Advisory Board. Londoner, Immigrant & US/UK dual national. Sci-fi/film/anime fan. @torgo@mastodon.social is my main. EuroSky is my PDS.

A photo of part of a page of the exhibit book, full text visible is : "...It's your portrait decomposing amid polluted nature and the tide of technology. This decomposition of humanity does not signal its death; in reality, we are being decom-posed, we are being metamorphosed, and we are being kept alive. My work consists in making you cognizant of this situation in the form of a visual maquette. Does that mean we are being kept like worms in the septic pit of polluted nature and technology? In that case, what has happened to the dignity of humanity? You're forgetting that we dug the pit ourselves. History shows us that humanity has conquered, parceled out, and exploited nature as it pleased, and in so doing tortured it. Now humanity is reaping pollution as nature's vengeance. Technology, in its primitive state, was meant to he an instrument for conquering nature, so we had to..."
A Kieth Haring piece: A vibrant, framed artwork featuring a grid of colorful, abstract figures and shapes. The design includes stylized human forms, animals, and dynamic poses, all outlined in bold black lines. Each square is filled with a mix of yellow, pink, blue.
Me holding a mic and speaking about human rights and standards. Photo credit: Cyd Stumpel
The image features a person wearing a light blue shirt with a sticker that reads "I VOTED BY MAIL" on their chest. There is a large glass of yellow liquid in the foreground, and the background shows an outdoor setting with blurred figures.
A light rai arrives at a station in downtown Minneapolis.
A blurred image of a tube train passing through a subway station platform, with a black backpack in the foreground. The train features red and blue colors, and a digital display shows the train's status.
The TAG group (10 people) on stage with a big slide behind them “wha are web standards” with some explanation.
Head and shoulders shot of me, on the Tube, with both US flag and UK / Euro heart pins on my fleece.
A close-up of a Eurostar train with a blue and white exterior, featuring a bright yellow stripe along the side. The image captures the train at a station platform at St Pancras, with visible reflections in the windows.
A green lapel pin with the words “oh no” on a speech bubble - the pin is from Alex Norris’s web comic store and can be found at theohnoshop.com.
An iconic shot from Blade Runner 2049 of K (Ryan Gosling) walking away from his hover-car towards a ruined cityscape, in desert-like conditions.
A bustling outdoor market scene featuring numerous stalls beneath lush green trees, with a clear blue sky above and a large crowd of people walking, shopping, and socializing.
A still of Sam Rockwell in the film Moon, in a jumpsuit, leaning against some kind of ladder with a big yellow display behind him with text such as "loading - 35.6%" and "No signal."
A cocktail normally known as a manhattan, sitting on a counter next to a bottle of Canadian (Lot 49) Rye.
A Tube train sitting at the platform at an outdoor station, its doors open. The sky is pitch black.
Screenshot of a Mastodon post I made last night before the Twitter live stream, text reads: "Prediction: Twitter's streaming platform will fall over when Musk tries to "interview" Trump and then Elon will blame the outage on the "woke mob" (or similar)."
A tablet on a desk in a school hall - a sign on the tablet reads "Coding! Computer Science! The Web! Open Source! Cybersecurity! Riches and Fame! AI? 🤖"
Closeup of an "I voted absentee" sticker on the front of my hoodie.
A British Airways Embraer 190 plane on the tarmac at Dublin airport.
My carry-on bag sitting on the Tube platform with East Finchley roundel in background.
Rushing stream in foreground, mountains lit by morning sun in background.
Low cottage with a Los Alamos History Museum and trees and greenery all around.
Glass of rosé champagne on a fortum & mason placemat.
Alt text! Nice one. This is a pic of a train coming into a station in north London with a partly cloudy sky in the background.