A vertical isometric cutaway diagram of Rio de Janeiro showing stacked historical layers, ranging from the modern skyline and 1950s Golden Era down through the 1800s Imperial city and the 1555 French occupation of "France Antarctique," ending with the ancient rainforest and bedrock.

Using AI for fun #39, this time I've used #nanobananapro from Google to generate this sliced view of land and history of #riodejaneiro. Took inspiration from a thread on Reddit and had some iterations with it.

This is a really cool Latex <-> Typst converter someone just posted on Reddit, that could be helpful if you're looking to get into Typst!

www.reddit.com/r/typst/comm...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Sen. Mark Kelly fires back after Hegseth threatens his rank and retirement pay Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has launched administrative action against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut, which could affect Kelly's rank and retirement pay.

"Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn't like, they will come after them the same way. It's outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that," Kelly added.

www.npr.org/2026/01/05/n...

Keeping the #Xmas tradition, I told my kiddos that #Alexa recorded the elf moving, and to our surprise, it was magical!

State legislators maneuver to preserve history of U.S. Capitol riot While GOP lawmakers and the Trump administration have downplayed the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, there are state efforts underway to ensure it's recorded for history.

!! JUST FILED: States maneuver to preserve history of US Capitol Insurrection

One state is considering legislation to require all K-12 school children learn the history and aftermath of Jan 6

www.cbsnews.com/news/state-l...

If you have a #meta #quest, make sure to check queststoredb.com/on_sale/ for sales and freebies! I've score a couple of AAA titles while they were on sale!

Yearly Halloween reminder that food with activated charcoal can fuck with medication. 🎃👻

Asking the collective hive, anybody using #n8n or agents in Claude or anything else to automate their email labeling and management? I've done a lot of manual filtering and I wonder if I could put it on auto pilot with those LLM powered services.

Hahaha dads jokes are the best ones.

Sky Follower Bridge Instantly find and follow the same users from your 𝕏 followers on Bluesky

Finally made the jump to @bsky.app. Using www.sky-follower-bridge.dev helped me a ton building my "new-but-old-curated" feed.

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