Drinking dark water helps Bruno in keeping his fur beautiful and his soul perfectly dark.
@m_hundhausen @szescstopni Suggested #AltText:
A red squirrel in mid-leap,
front paws outstretched superhero fashion, rear legs & fluffed-out tail streaming behind like stabilizing banners, head & ears erect. Two thick tree trunks, the squirrel’s apparent goal, fill the left of the frame. In the background, an angular jumble of leafless branches stand out against a clear blue sky.
*in English, my German being insufficient to the task
Stuck in amber.
This was actually the Children’s Safety Village at Britannia Beach, near Ottawa.
For more than 30 years, the safety village welcomed thousands of elementary students to its grounds. Instructors would use miniature roads, vehicles, bicycles and traffic lights to illustrate road safety lessons.
ChatGPT seems really awesome, until you ask it to write about anything you know intimately. Now I’m worried that the recipes and lists of plants it gave me earlier are as filled with BS as the essays I asked it to write. #chatbots #disinfo #Disinformation #AI
Thousands of anemones are currently blooming in a beech forest in northern German Pomerania
Dywan z zawilców w lesie bukowym na niemieckim Pomorzu.
So @internetarchive scanning books for their digital library is copyright infringement:
http://blog.archive.org/2023/03/25/the-fight-continues/
But OpenAI slurping all of that to train a model that then can generate text and put actual authors out of business (already happening with copywriters), is not.
Figures, there are no $billions of VC / corporate money behind Internet Archive, why would anyone want to support a public service, right? 🤦♀️
IA ≠AI, know the difference!
Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.
Photo: https://collections.rom.on.ca/objects/184967/funerary-model-of-cow-giving-birth
Moved to https://circumstances.run/@Szescstopni. This account will stay up for a while.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (#Polesie in Polish) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs (most of them rescue dogs) – #IdąPsięta.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small #LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding, mostly in #Python. Luddite.
#Atheist. I don't believe in #science – science is our defence against belief.
Fuck nazis.
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.