I want to thank you for making for this, I’m actually from North Adams and have spent countless hours in the Sol LeWitt exhibit (especially Wall Drawing 880[0], its out of the way on the third floor with a bench and is a wonderful place to think, along with it being a lovely piece of art). Going through these animations made me feel very nostalgic for home. The website is very well made and I feel you really captured the spirit of LeWitt’s art.

Also, if you do end up going out to the Berkshires I’d recommend going during the mid/late summer, everyone comes up in the fall to see the leaves but I think the summer is much more beautiful :)

[0] https://massmoca.org/event/walldrawing880/

Be sure to check out The Clark in Williamstown when you’re up there (in the town over from where Mass Moca is), the art museums in that little corner of massachusetts are blow the water out of then most major cities museums :)

Fun fact, all 3ds models can actually play GBA games natively. Nintendo only ever offered GBA games to early adopters who paid the launch price for the original 3ds after a significant price cut, but it's possible to sideload any rom to run natively.

When I used 4chan the lack of voting made engaging with the actual substance of a post much easier. This was something observed by many other posters I talked to. This is going to sound wishy-washy, but my theory is that the brain is so attuned to socially trying to figure out the in-group or who is in the wrong that putting a number that signals social agreement on a statement will immediately stimulate the more primal social pathways in your brain before you can even think.

Of course 4chan isn’t a great system for meaningful discussions, the system skews conversations towards outrage and shock. But reddits short, quippy, in-group signaling post style that is encouraged by their voting system seems to be absolute worst way to interact with other people. HN also has this problem to an extent, but it’s properly modded and most people here seem to be not be living through their phones so it isn’t nearly as extreme as reddit (or twitter, I never use twitter but people seem miserable in a similar way to reddit users).

In the first decade of the 2000s my only "social" platforms were traditional (chronological) forums and the average level of discussion and effort to contribute was way higher than what I usually see now on social media.

You might be on to something there... That the effort itself raises quality? Perhaps.

The connection is there because furries are mostly gay, and by extension there are also lot of trans furries. Both furries and trans people skew younger, so it's becoming more and more of a trans thing along with being a gay thing. There's also a huge overlap with autism with both being trans and a furry.

Why lgbt people are attracted to being a furry, I don't know. Maybe Disney made the male animals too sexy and a bunch of gay people latched on to that hard in childhood. Maybe its because lgbt are more online then normal and got exposed to this stuff when they were 13 and they developed a strong interest in this stuff. My feel on it as someone who's been around a ton of furries its a gay thing because its always been a gay thing.

As a trans woman it's been pretty impossible to not interact with the furry community when I'm around other gay or trans people. It's extremely common especially the younger or more online you go.

I’ve been a furry for forever now. Way back when I was a teenager I used to hang out in a lot of tech spaces online and there just happened to be lots of furries in them. I just ended up becoming one too. Then shortly after I realised I was gay and furry spaces also happened to be an incredible place to meet other gay people my age with similar interests.

This was my experience as well. While it is less straining on the eyes, that was the only benefit I saw. I didn't see a reduction in screen time or less anxiety about notifications.