“Lurking”
This might be a flower bud…or something out of H.R. Giger’s imagination. I’m not sure.
“Redstem Filaree”
At least I’m pretty sure that’s the correct identification. There was a small patch at Mount Pisgah yesterday.
“Waiting for the Wind”
Google says these are white Baby Blue Eyes. Pretty silly but OK.
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“Lace”
Last year’s fallen leaves.
“Peekaboo”
“Spring Tree”
I can’t tell one leafless flowering tree from another, but it doesn’t matter because they’re all pretty.
This puffball has already puffed.
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It takes some sort of talent to contradict yourself in the space of a single sentence, but somehow our President managed:
We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are.
Or perhaps they started with more than 100% capability?
Avocado leaves
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More wildflowers are showing up every day. There are now a bunch of trilliums along the Ridgeline Trail where there were none two days ago.
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Well, that sucks: Digg throws in the towel on its open beta.
The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn’t appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they’d find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough. When you can’t trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you’re seeing are real, you’ve lost the foundation a community platform is built on.
Tell me again how AI is a good thing?
Desktop computer appears to have gone to electronics graveyard. Posting will be scant for a bit.
Been listening to an Economist podcast about all the wonderful things good people are doing to make AI models safe. My problem with this is that I don’t see anything to prevent bad people from making unsafe AI models. And so much of the development is easy that this is not just possible, but inevitable.
I keep having urges to post commentary about the war criminals running the US government, but what would that accomplish?
“Lonely”
“The Wild Geese Fly”
Trump: ‘When oil prices go up, we make a lot of money’
Who’s this “we”, rich man?
Cameras all the way down.
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“Pigs & Chickens”
Wall of a local BBQ joint.
