Mechanical Cats!
Oh, no! These aren't Steampunk Cats, these are Cats of gears and levers and grease! They squeak when you pet them, they groan when you scritch their bellies!
Happy Caturday!
#AI #Midjourney #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Gears #Mech #Caturday
#OTD in 1968, Astronaut Neil Armstrong takes the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle 1 (LLRV-1) for a training flight and is forced to eject right before it crashes in a fiery blaze!
More about this hair-raising episode 55 years ago today: https://go.nasa.gov/3LWJHCr
#NASAhistory
#Jan6 rioter in pink beret identified after ex spotted her in a viral FBI tweet. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-rioter-pink-beret-identified-ex-spotted-viral-fbi-tweet-rcna82286
Steampunk Crab
(This is more like it 😉)
Midjourney 5.1 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney
I mistyped "carb" instead of "crab" in my prompt and got this cool steampunk engine, though I have no idea what it does 🤪😆
Midjourney 5.1
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney
What!
The!
Weren't we all complaining that the #Xcode console would be nicer if it detached for #debugging?
What about using Terminal?
I did not notice this setting, ever!
Fascinating.
YouTube: Mycologist Answers Mushroom Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHLWgaSPCcY
Finding anything useful on the web via google has become such a disaster. Just a sea of SEO-driven garbage. I was looking for some Python help yesterday and just could not get through the wall of robot-written SEO chum. It’s such a shame—I know that so many people are writing things that are genuinely useful and completely unfindable.
Here's a guide to all of the ostentatious and offensive pomp on display for today's ceremony:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-65342840
It slides from their thick, clutching, fingers like a filthy ooze.
I really, really, despise the royal family.
This is definitely worth a read:
The Unix Koans of Master Foo
https://prirai.github.io/books/unix-koans.html
The Onion: Clarence Thomas Promises To Adopt Code Of Ethics For The Right Price
https://www.theonion.com/clarence-thomas-promises-to-adopt-code-of-ethics-for-th-1850409408
#humour #theonion #clarence #thomas #supremecourt #bribery #heshouldbeinfuckingjail
A fascinating look:
YouTube: Public Opinion: What Happens When You Flush the Toilet in NYC?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19wKBDhLRqA
This actually was quite enlightening and interesting - especially to someone like me who grew up in NYC as a kid.
David Brin: Pushing back at lies - and liars
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2023/05/pushing-back-at-lies-and-liars.html
Amy Coney Barrett Pissed She’s Been Doing Whatever Conservative Donors Want For 30 Bucks https://www.theonion.com/amy-coney-barrett-pissed-she-s-been-doing-whatever-cons-1850409448
I keep thinking about the fact that a white man on my subway line was so threatened by a Black man being weird in public that he killed him, in front of a crowd, and no one did anything.
Black Lives Matter.
black lives matter
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.