One morning in 2015 I met what was known as the "free sheep" - a couple of sheep that would regularly appear in the fields near my parents' home. No one knew where they came from or managed to catch them.
A year later, after a very tough winter, they had a lamb and all 3 would roam together.
Before the next winter an animal sanctuary was called and eventually they did manage to catch and rehome the family.
I still feel lucky to have met them that morning. 🐑💚
What the hell is going on at WordPress?
WordPress forces user conf organizers to share social media credentials, arousing suspicions • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/28/wordcamp_password_sharing_requirement/
Rick Beato is a treasure
https://youtu.be/1bZ0OSEViyo
There is already a scanning process called "Read the fucking boarding pass" Why does this need to be solutionized? Just follow the damn rules.
American Airlines Introduces New Boarding Process to Tackle Gate Lice - Thrillist
https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/american-airlines-gate-lice-new-boarding-process
Frozen windshield for the first time since January #nothankyou
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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