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How is already Monday, dammit!
A possum got into my recycling bin and could not get out. He's still sleeping in it.
Frozen windshield for the first time since January #nothankyou
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Once you see the connection between LLMs and psychics / seances / spiritualism, it’s hard to unsee. At the center: people •want• to believe, and that is powerful. Thinking of modern-day SV, listen to some of the stories of how con artists used spiritualism…
…as a business: https://www.history.com/news/ghost-hoax-spiritualism-fox-sisters
…as wartime subterfuge: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-234-the-seances-9-8-2023
…as almost a kind of therapy: https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-79-secrets-and-seances-11-17-2017
An interesting musical curio is Sting's original demo for Every Breath You Take (he turned up to Synchronicity sessions with fully-formed demos of most of his stuff; the bellwether for the end of The Police). Andy Summers absolutely hated it, until he wrote *that* guitar part and the rest is history. #music
https://youtu.be/UAsjsDalAio
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I expect there are some legal protections they are abusing here.
Company responsible for staggering leak files for bankruptcy https://cybernews.com/news/national-public-data-breach-social-security-bankruptcy/
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British Caledonian VC10 Postcard
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#BritishCaledonianAirways #VC10 #aviation #airplanes #avgeek #planes #postcards #postcard #travel #planespotting
I first saw him on the BBC Horizon documentary back in 1991; the first time western film crews had been permitted on the site. This was already quite late in the cleanup; the shelter was complete, the fuel was found, and they were into the data gathering and reclaiming phase.
Finally got around to reading Alexander Borovei's book about his exceptionally long duty at Chernobyl, from the opening hours of disaster to the relative normality a decade later.
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A herd of large, cattle-like tauros will be released into the Highlands as part of a rewilding project. The long-horned bovids have been specially bred in the Netherlands and are intended to replicate the ecological role of the aurochs, an extinct and extremely heavy herbivore that is the wild ancestor of cattle.
Didn't realize the ISS was so clapped out.
Ocean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Station - SpaceNews
https://spacenews.com/ocean-experts-raise-concerns-over-deorbiting-the-international-space-station/
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fraggle rock coordinates
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Another reason to not say anything when you pick up an honest to goodness "phone call" these days: autodialers that will record your voice, profile it and turn it into an AI model, so they know which voice they need to match when they spoof a number to convince your mom to send $5000 in walmart gift cards.
Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/
41F outside. On schedule, the lows have arrived. Had to give in and turn the heating on...
Follow up at ophthalmology, some eye injections for my trouble (I have a little inflammation in my bad eye that just won't quit). They're painless really, but your body certainly lets you know you've been stabbed in the eye.
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