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Mark Wiemer

Mark Wiemer

Recommended reading

309 stories

Uncle Sam staring into a funhouse mirror that has made him painfully thin. The reflection is wearing a Trump wig and has orange skin. He stands atop a map of the world that stretches to infinity. In the background is a shantytown with the TRUMP logomark rising in the sky over it.

A nighttime scene in Times Square in the 1960s, with the Camel ad replaced with a Zorhan Mamdani ad. In the foreground the Statue of Liberty is kicking a photocopier. Image: lee (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:160711_N610_%EC%9A%B0%EC%B8%A1%EB%A9%B4.jpg CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

Mark Wiemer

UX/UI design

14 stories

Example semantic colors defined in Figma

The five main corporate colors of idealo with their luminance contrast value, only three of ten are passing

Mark Wiemer

Favorites

17 stories

A frame from a Peanuts animation, depicting Lucy yanking the football away from Charlie Brown, who is somersaulting through the sky. It has been altered. Lucy’s head has been replaced with Microsoft’s Clippy. Charlie Brown’s head has been replaced with a 19th century caricature of a grinning Uncle Sam. The sky has been replaced with a ‘code waterfall’ effect as seen in the Wachowskis’ ‘Matrix’ movies.

The cover of the Penguin Random House edition of Kelly and Zach Weinersmith’s ‘A City on Mars.’

Mark Wiemer

Artificial intelligence

162 stories

A woman holding a dragon fruit taps a white Ai Pin attached to her shirt.

IMAGE: An illustrated person looks up at a large hazard symbol, which has a character representing data science and AI ‘standing’ next to it. The AI character is made up of nodes and edges (like a network diagram). The hazard symbol is the General Data Hazard from the Data Hazards project, and is a large exclamation mark made up of binary code. Here, the person is considering the Data Hazard and how they could use it to help them manage the risks the AI has been causing

Mark Wiemer

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