Jim

Frozen windshield for the first time since January

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Paul Cantrell

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: history.com/news/ghost-hoax-sp

…as wartime subterfuge: thisiscriminal.com/episode-234

…as almost a kind of therapy: thisiscriminal.com/episode-79-

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"Surprisingly combustible"

theguardian.com/environment/20

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Jim

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.
youtu.be/UAsjsDalAio

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Luanti (formerly Minetest)

It's finally time. After years of deliberation, #Minetest is finally ready to adopt a new identity and prove it has moved beyond its original purpose. We can finally move past the "mining" and the "testing" and focus on making this platform the best it can be.

#opensource #freesoftware #gamedev

blog.minetest.net/2024/10/13/I

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old roadside pictures

hotel mathes, fleischmanns, new york, 1978

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I expect there are some legal protections they are abusing here.

Company responsible for staggering leak files for bankruptcy cybernews.com/news/national-pu

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Aviation Librarian

British Caledonian VC10 Postcard
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#BritishCaledonianAirways #VC10 #aviation #airplanes #avgeek #planes #postcards #postcard #travel #planespotting

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Jim

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.

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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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Col

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.

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Didn't realize the ISS was so clapped out.

Ocean experts raise concerns over deorbiting the International Space Station - SpaceNews
spacenews.com/ocean-experts-ra

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RiBurton

Since I only have about 40 followers, I would appreciate as many boosts as possible as it is hurricane related. The Iphone 14 and above has the capability to send messages via satellite. You have to install IOS18 then swipe down from top right to get the utilities screen. You can then do a demo by touching the satellite icon. Evidently it only works if you do not have cell data or wifi available.
#hurricaneMilton

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iangriffin

WOW. Just wow. Going through my shots from last night's aurora and found this corker from Hoopers Inlet taken at 21:20. What an absolutely amazing night! #aurora #NewZealand #astronomy

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Riker Googling

fraggle rock coordinates

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Pomax

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.

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Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good • The Register
theregister.com/2024/10/08/swi

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