@brooke The Foe Zone, of course. That's why military aircraft all have IFFZ (Identification Friend or Foe Zone) transponders.
(They all need a personal episode of The Twilight Zone, if you ask me.)
Ok. Let me just give you my quick technical evaluation of this, as a long-time web person (but you can skip it if you don't feel it matters), just so you know why I didn't immediately accept the link as proof. ...I'll put that at the end.
Did we settle on a price? Do you want to do half up front, half on delivery?
I can send via PayPal or Venmo, or via my credit-union's pay-a-person service (which is a little more work for the first transaction, but has no fees within the US).
Do you have a preference?
Thanks.
The contact info is on one subdomain, the actual portfolio is on another. You could be a scammer with control of the first page, linking to the second one for proof.
On the other hand, they are both on the same root domain -- but I don't know how that site (carrd.co) operates; it could be that you set up an account for scamming (artsbyevelyn) and then linked to another account (ceejayevelynportfolio) to give the first account credibility.
On the other other hand, the page with the portfolio has no other links or identifying info in it, which suggests that this is just a weirdly-designed service, which obviously is not your fault.
@Artsyevelyn I can see I'm going to need to make some policies to avoid being scammed. The most obvious one is that I'll need to see a portfolio page with a link back to the profile that I'm interacting with.
I don't see any contact links on your portfolio page -- am I missing something? Thanks.
@Artsyevelyn Okay, I was wondering. Do you have any more information about that? I don't want to go strictly on hearsay, but that would be one obvious reason to be suspended and to claim not to know why...
@amcooper I love the web but I hate much of what it has become, and I lost all interest in anything that anyone is apparently willing to pay for anymore.
@Artsyevelyn The first artist I contacted is asking $120. That seems within reason to me, but I also freely admit that I don't know this market or how much work is involved for a skilled artist.
No fixed deadline; it would be nice to have it within a few days.
I'm willing to pay whether or not I'm 100% happy with the result, fwiw. This is kind of an experiment to see if I can get the kind of end-result I'm hoping for via this method, and (if so) how best to go about it.
Thanks.
@luxliquida @xale @alice
I've never understood this idea that posts can be objectively "too long".
@naga I'm from 1965, fwiw. I think I was a little bit luckier in a couple of ways -- with the result that I continued to be consciously aware that something wasn't right; I just didn't have the conceptual vocabulary for it. I had decided, as early as 9th grade, that I would never be (or want to be) a "man".
@Artsyevelyn At long last, here's the description! https://woozalia.com/mw/2026/07/11/idea
Please let me know if you have any questions.
More info: I found the maker's page about their sorting-bot technology -- but at least at a glance it doesn't go into any detail either.
https://www.republicservices.com/blog/innovative-recycling-technology
@naga I would have acted much, much sooner if I'd had access to accurate information. That's all it took.
@naga I think Jortage is having an issue. If it hasn't settled down in a few hours, I'll poke harder at it.
@shadowfals @coloradosun I'd guess it's probably a mix of both -- but regardless of that, anything that makes recycling more cost-effective seems like progress to me.
(We should be recycling as much as possible even if it doesn't "make money", of course -- but making it cheaper is one way of making it happen now.)
That does open the issue of how much the 'bots cost to operate, and especially whether they have to pay some 3rd-party AI SaaS to make them do the sorting.
Onboard video AI (no datacenter needed) is a thing, but the article doesn't seem to go into any detail about whether that's what this is.
@naga Yeah. I often think of it as "my lost life".
AI robot arm aims to pluck more recycling out of Denver metro area
https://coloradosun.com/2026/07/13/republic-services-denver-waste-diversion-efforts-ai-robots/