I get much quiet satisfaction from putting a dozen newly-arrived bottles of #wine into the rack.
Photos from the archives https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/photos-from-the-archives/
Where Does One U.S. Tax Dollar Go? https://www.visualcapitalist.com/where-does-one-u-s-tax-dollar-go/
Earthquake!
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/at00sbh3yv/executive
Up here in the northern suburbs of NYC, I thought it was a loud helicopter going over, until social media blew up...
@maxkennerly
So as an AI expert, let me rephrase this...
The Netanyahu regime set up a computer to give them a random list of people that seemed like they would sound plausible in a list of Hamas members, then listed their addresses as targets, to use that as a pretense to carpet bomb civilian populated areas.
@rcpierce
wtf that's bizarre.
Israel Assures It Doing Everything Possible To Minimize Civilians
https://www.theonion.com/israel-assures-it-doing-everything-possible-to-minimize-1851085308
HuffPo got their hands on a private cable from the US Agency for International Development to the White House National Security Council today.
It warns the spread of hunger & malnutrition in Gaza amid the US-backed Israeli offensive is “unprecedented in modern history,” famine is likely already occurring in parts of the Gaza Strip, & the pace of hunger-related deaths will “accelerate in the weeks ahead.”
The dire internal analysis represents a shift from USAID’s last public comment on the matter, on March 18, which called famine “imminent.” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-collapse-famine_n_660c96aae4b0328a72be47f5
‘Famine’ with a capital ‘F’ is a scientific classification based on standards, evidence, & technical consensus among experts
On Jane Goodall's 90th birthday, the sweet illustrated story of how she turned her childhood dream into reality https://t.co/CbpUEzYQE8
What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.
#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt
The abusive behavior that was being used to manipulate Lasse Collin into bringing on more maintainers for #xz went unnoticed because abusive behavior in Open Source Communities is so pervasive. In context, we can clearly see it was part of an orchestrated operation. Out of context, it looks like just another asshole complaining about stuff they have no right to complain about. https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2024/03/30/a-microcosm-of-the-interactions-in-open-source-projects/
The books may not have the same impressive-but-unlikely scenes as the streaming video version. :)
Florida’s Supreme Court just threw a major wrench into the election, and Democrats are fired up. Rulings yesterday put the whole state into play over the question of abortion, threatening the GOP’s path to a senate majority and even the White House. https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/florida-just-upended-the-election?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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In this particular scene, a syzygy of three suns in the sky causes people to be suddenly pulled upward, and they are like hanging onto flagpoles and buildings and things to avoid rising into the sky. I don't *think* that's physically plausible?
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