Our friend, collage artist Winston Smith, known for creating the iconic Dead Kennedys logo, is recovering from a heart attack that struck the day after his 73rd birthday, forcing him to postpone his planned San Francisco solo exhibition.

Smith, who illustrated album covers for Dead Kennedys, Green Day, and Pearl Jam, was hospitalized for three days and spent two weeks in rehabilitation. Now back at his cabin in the woods, he faces new health challenges, including a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis that requires significant lifestyle changes.

“As grim as this could’ve been, I’m weirdly grateful,” Smith said on his GoFundMe page, which has raised over $29,000 toward medical expenses and show rescheduling costs. The artist’s remote living situation — 500 feet down a steep canyon — has necessitated special emergency preparations, including a portable stretcher system for potential future evacuations.

The postponed exhibition “I Saw but I Did Not See” has been rescheduled as a one-night pop-up show at 111 Minna Gallery, featuring both new works and rarely seen classics. His wife, Chick, is helping manage his recovery and ensure compliance with doctors’ orders for a slower pace and dietary restrictions.

“Once you’ve had a heart attack the chances of having another, worse heart attack are greatly increased,” Smith says. “From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your generous donations, kind words, and thoughtful messages. Those have lifted my spirits in a big way.”

Previously:
• San Francisco: Winston Smith studio show and art sale
• Art of Punk videos: Winston Smith and the Dead Kennedys
• Dead Kennedy artist Winston Smith’s art exhibition in SF 4/4/2014
• Tote bag with Winston Smith’s iconic Alternative Tentacles logo
• San Francisco art show: Winston Smith, Penelope Rosemont, Dennis Cunningham
• Ronald Reagan collage art show by Winston Smith and friends
• George Orwell’s 1984 to be rewritten from a female perspective

The Sui (SUI) community appears poised to greenlight a recovery plan to return $162 million worth of crypto stolen from the decentralized exchange Cetus Protocol last week.

Last week, a hacker hit Cetus with a sophisticated smart contract exploit targeting the decentralized exchange’s (DEX) concentrated liquidity market maker (CLMM) pools, purloining approximately $223 million worth of assets from the platform.

The DEX quickly froze $162 million worth of the stolen assets. Now, the Sui community is currently voting on a proposal that enables a special transaction to return those frozen assets from two attacker addresses back to Cetus.

If passed, the vote would approve a one-time authentication of two special transactions hard-coded with the two attacker addresses, stolen asset objects, and their destination.

The votes are weighted by validator stake, but the Sui Foundation’s stake is excluded to maintain neutrality. The vote passes if more than 50% of the total stake participates and there are more “yes” votes than “no” votes.

The voting period ends next week, but early passing could happen as early as Thursday if the remaining unvoted stake cannot change the outcome. That appears poised to happen, with 71% of the validators having already voted “yes” at time of writing, compared to 0.3% for “no,” 1.5% abstaining and 27.2% who had yet to vote.

Cetus also announced this week that it is in a position to fully cover the remaining losses via cash, token treasuries and a loan from the Sui Foundation, pending the vote’s passage.

“Because full recovery is dependent upon the results of the community vote, we humbly ask for the Sui community’s full support to recover the funds via the upcoming vote. We recognize that this is an extraordinary ask forced by our actions, however we think it is the right decision especially for those affected.”

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