there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
Okay, let's get the AI discussion entirely out of the hype-and-theory realm. For the "I'll just vibe code and trust the LLM folks," here's an interesting page showing results from asking several LLMs to perform a simple coding task (creating an HTML/CSS clock): [clocks.brianmoore.com/].
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I wonder if people are paying attention to how much their doom scrolling is cutting into time they used to use to read books
Same in Los Angeles, though the media doesnβt care to report on that at all
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and sheβs rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Remember that midnight raid in Chicago supposedly to arrest Tren del Aragua members? Newly revealed court docs show that the raid was facilitated by the building owners who are now accused of using the raid to evict tenants. DHS never mentions TDA in their filings: www.propublica.org/article/chic...
Grey cockatoo with a red head in the shape of a Santa hat
The best thing about gang gang cockatoos is their permanent Santa hats π
Itβs the βseason of love and givingββ¦but this year, doesnβt it seem more like a βseason of fear and takingβ? Like many of you, Iβve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
I was experimenting with new techniques in colour pencil for this drawing, but as it has been popular on social media I am putting it up for sale at a special low price. An A5 landscape drawing of a very pale soft toned winter rural scene with clumps of grasses in the foreground and trees in the background. The drawing is on white paper. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil on white paper Size A5 (148 x 210mm / 5.8 x 8.3")
A soft winter landscape, a lovely gift idea for the holiday season. It is the low price of just Β£35. Visit my shop today to find out more...
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#Landscape #Winter #Frost #OriginalArt #Drawing #Artwork #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #Christmas #ChristmasGifts #bsnm
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
Cute day of superb parrot babies π
A small colour drawing of everyone's favourite mushrooms. The classic red and white fairy toadstool, Fly agaric. They are in a composition with branches of berries and leaves. The drawing is on warm, peachy toned, beige pastel paper. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Colour pencil and mixed media on acid free toned artist paper 5 by 7 inches (12.7 by 17.8 cm).
Everyone's favourite mushrooms. The classic red and white fairy toadstool, Fly agaric. This original drawing is available to buy on Folksy...
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#Mushrooms #FlyAgaric #MUshroomArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm
An A4 size painting of a forest in winter with tall trees and pale sky and snow on the ground. The artwork is on dark green pastel paper. An original art work, please note that the frame is not included. Fine art oil pastel on toned pastel paper Size A4 (210 x 297mm / 8.3 x 11.7")
This is one of my larger pieces, A4 size, an oil pastel painting. Would make a splendid gift for someone special...
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#Landscape #Winter #Forest #OriginalArt #Drawing #PastelPainting #OilPastels #PastelArt #Painting #Artwork #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #bsnm
MSF has resumed activities in #Gaza City after being forced to suspend our operations on Sept. 24 amid the intensified Israeli offensive.
Weβve reopened our wound care clinic and treated over 640 patients so far, most with trauma-related injuries.
www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-ms...
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
A piece on how widespread AI use is driving unthinking wasteful consumption.
Crucially tho, the latter half focuses on how we still have the power to resist, to embrace the human passions of creation.
And how we can make submitting to the machine, deeply uncool.
π¨ MSF FORCED TO SUSPEND ACTIVITIES IN GAZA CITY π¨
Our clinics are now encircled by Israeli forces.
There are continued airstrikes & tanks advancing closer & closer to our healthcare facilities.
This is an intolerable level of risk for our @msf.ca staff.
I am outraged, and you should be, too.
Go to grad school, where work-life balance is so bad that people need to make the case for having super normal relaxing hobbies
Spent another therapeutic hour with the bees this morning. Getting a glimpse of the inner workings of the hive, spotting the Queen and watching new bees hatch is salve for the soul. Spent a good 5 minutes watching a gal groom her little face. The drought in the UK has hit our bees hard though.ππ₯°π
Astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge FRS was born #OnThisDay in 1919. During her long career she helped originate the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, discovered the most distant astronomical object known at the time, and helped develop instruments for the Hubble Space Telescope.
#WomenInSTEM #Space
My Neighbour Totoro (1988)
Big day for the matriarchy! π₯³ Huge congrats to the awesome Prof. Doughtery, lead on the Jupiter-bound ESA JUICE mission & STFC Exec Chair.
If anyone's confused on the astro royal hierarchy: Michele and I are the astro equivalents of π¬π§Westminster and π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏHolyrood π€
βΉοΈ: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... π©βπ¬ππ§ͺ
A moth with a dark red abdomen, green on the back, and off white on the underside. The wings are outlined in dark red with clear wing panels. It is hovering near the pink blossom of a wild bergamot flower.
Magnificent Airshrimp sipping some wild bergamot at sunset.
Hummingbird Clearwing Moths are a species of day flying sphinx moth. They are able to hover like hummingbirds while feeding on flowers and most active during the hottest part of the day.
(Hemaris thysbe) PA #inverts
These pieces arrived today and Iβm SO thrilled! I love them, thank you!!!
Loch Hourn from Glac nan Sgadan #Knoydart #Scotland #Highlands http://damianshields.com
Loch Hourn from Glac nan Sgadan #Knoydart #Scotland #Highlands damianshields.com
Effect of the LMC on the Milky Way disc in the future (5βGyr from now), when the LMC is fully disrupted. Please see the paper for the full caption.
Speaking at @nam25-durham.bsky.social NAM 2025 Durham: Eugene Vasiliev on "Distribution Function-based dynamical modelling of stellar systems". Eugene has published in #MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... "Dear Magellanic Clouds, welcome back!" This is Fig. 8: @oxfordacademic.bsky.social
wildflowers and trees
βWhen we begin to live like wildflowers, we put so much of our hearts into blossoming even in the most hostile surroundings.β
β Bhuwan Thapaliya
apologies for spamming your feed with random shitposts today but if you're in the US please boost this thing I quoted
