Nathaniel Harari @natharari@qoto.org
- Website:
- https://neurolog.dev
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.
Joined Jan 2023
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RT @inequalitymedia
We need to bring back Glass-Steagall and make banking boring again.
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🇫🇮🇺🇦President Zelensky meets with Finland's president (VIDEO and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3704116-zelensky-meets-with-finlands-president.html #Ukraine #Finland #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
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Who could have imagined that Tucker Carlson, a white supremacist in public, was also a white supermacist in private? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/02/business/media/tucker-carlson-text-message-white-men.html
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The spate of media hype about RFK Jr. is not a harmless diversion. The far-right is leveraging it in order to accomplish two goals:
1) Radicalize people to QAnon and similar conspiracy cults.
2) Degrade the value of empirical reality in politics.
https://www.salon.com/2023/05/03/steve-bannon-alex-jones-rfk-jr/
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With writers on strike, can an AI chatbot be as funny as Stephen Colbert?
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Painting Experiment!
I've been recently trying to experiment with a new style that combines both watercolor and tempera color, and this was the very first attempt.
The goal was to have a more "painterly" style that is not as reliant on lineart as my current one, and I think I've been quite successful!
#watercolor #watercolour #tempera #painting #forest #autumn #TraditionalArt
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=KU5Om_qYefk&feature=share
⚡️🇺🇸U.S. estimates 100,000 Russian casualties in Ukraine war in recent months (CBS News VIDEO) #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
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Curious goslings on the breakfast table
Midjourney 5 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney
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Little bird using a fresh salad as a nest
Midjourney 5 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney
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Follow-up question: What kind of zone (AKA screensaver) programs would you like to see in #Emacs? The existing options:
- Built-in stuff (most of which scramble the existing buffer text or otherwise mess with it)
- Two Matrix™ ones
- Rainbow colors
- A steam locomotive (clone of the `sl` command)
- A nyancat animation written by yours truly
Most screensaver ideas seem to be about graphics rather than text, but graphics are of course still possible. One thing I've considered is game cut scenes, much like the "attract mode" of arcade machines (or maybe just add a whole game and relax the screen saver rules a bit).
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WordPress drops Twitter social sharing due to API price hike
https://mashable.com/article/wordpress-drops-twitter-jetpack-social-sharing
Jake Broe has another Ukraine update video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cARmahgdvjk
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@Tilopa@convo.casa @MrShoggoth
While Trump may be more at risk of heart attack or stroke this is due to his health, weight and known factors that lead to that. So dying as a result of health won't really solve wider issues.
While it may avoid trial by treason, surely this will send a message to younger, healthier supporters that you can do what you want without judicial consequence.
By putting Trump on trial for treason, you send a clear message to others NOT to follow what he has done, so even a 25-35 year old president or politician will know that they can be hauled before a judge and put on trial.
It also sends a message tha regardless of your health you can also expect the same.
Justice must be SEEN to be served.
NASA Goddard put out an animation showing the size of the largest black holes we know of. And it's gigantic. It's pretty much incomprehensible to the human mind. You can't actually imagine it. You /think/ you might, but you can't.
YouTube: NASA Animation Sizes Up the Biggest Black Holes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU1DsipURcM
It's a bad time for Musk, because he's an idiot:
Phys.org: Environmental groups sue FAA over SpaceX Texas rocket launch
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-environmental-groups-sue-faa-spacex.html
Phys.org: SpaceX Starship effectively grounded by FAA after in-flight explosion
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-spacex-starship-effectively-grounded-faa.html
All of which, I might add, was repeatedly predicted years ago by The Common Sense Skeptic on their channel which debunks bullshit of many stripes. Musk features prominently in their videos for this very reason.
A lot of my French friends don't understand the level of intellectual collapse going on in America right now. I show them videos like the following (linked below), and they really can't wrap their heads around the fact that literally tens of millions of people in America believe this bullshit. It's so hard for them to fathom. It's not that we don't have conspiracy theorists here in France and in Europe in general, it's that they are not so entrenched in society on this level of insanity.
BoingBoing: QAnon follower explains that Trump is the shadow President and James Woods is playing Joe Biden, who died
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/01/qanon-follower-explains-that-trump-is-the-shadow-president-and-james-woods-is-playing-joe-biden-who-died.html
It's beautiful outside and will get warmer later today.
A little morning music:
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, "Morning Mood" / Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMs0rNtBZJk
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According to researchers, text based #AI models are trained on (among others) Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Not sure if this is ironic.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/03/openai_chatgpt_copyright/
- Website:
- https://neurolog.dev
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.
Joined Jan 2023
