Harold Asmis @hasmis@qoto.org

@PiTau AI may be the future of work. I remember that electronic calculators were preventing people from adding up huge sums of numbers. And computer typing stopped me from having legible handwriting. Robots in car plants would cause massive unemployment. In reality, people use these tools to go onto other things.

@cajun_cheechako Wow, that's going to stink.

#linux **AMD graphics is now boring** when I first got the amd ryzen chip with built-in graphics, it was too new for Linux. I was always compiling the latest kernel to get it to work better. Now, I'm just using Debian Sid, and letting it take care of kernel updates. Very nice.

**microgreens** Just harvested my largest crop of microgreens in years. Our mild Ontario weather has allowed the garage grow house to have an ideal temperature. When it's 20 below, the heater barely keeps things alive. New cold weather coming, so I'll enjoy it now.

**Ontario to build new nuclear station** Too many cooks, etc. They are contracting out all the engineering and keeping the high-paying stuff for themselves. I wish them luck. Note to engineers: Killer rabbit, run away!

**Googs won't release AI** Just skimming the news, and G has an AI that comes up with acceptable music. AI is going to hit a lot of high-margin industries, and G can't figure out how to tack on ads to it. I'll be happy with AI news and weather, and AI Hallmark movies, and popular music. Can't be any different....

#physics #weather **Cold California** If this wind channel shifts a bit more to the west, they'll get their storms again.

**Bladder Baby** I wrote this a while ago. It's for all the old men out there.

https://ontario-geofish.blogspot.com/2007/10/giving-birth-to-bladder-baby.html

#linux **My KDE is back** This time when I saw a bunch of plasma updates, I did a full-upgrade from the main console. I have a superstition about using 'apt upgrade' inside kde, and this confirms it. I had a black screen background, and no digital clock. :(

#physics #weather **Gulf Stream may be back** For most, it was never gone, but since 2016, the temperature plot of the ocean did not show any thermal signal that was different from the Pacific. Now it shows warmer water up past Scandinavia. This is leading the plumes up into that zone. No idea what that means.

@cyrilpedia Phoney outrage is also the lifeblood of the media.

@kmic I always have a tea of that in the afternoon, mixed with mint.

@szescstopni I'm totally fixated on the large nest, on high-voltage wires...

@baldengineer Better English -- "Let's Electronify" :)

@peterdrake I hope they work better than splintery coffee cup lids.

@cmclase That's important information, thank you.

**Intel goes down** They were a classic monopoly with MS. I was on Usenet with chip designers, when I hearing all the stories about how horrible they were with their people. It took a long time. Now, we have MS, the scourge of the world, who have a lock on businesses who like to be hacked. :)