I'm struggling to come to grips with summer never arriving this year.

Photo of a white dog looking down a snowy trail

I looked outside this morning and thought “Ugh,” and Chris said “Awful,” and the dogs all said “Nope.” Except for Harry, who declared this a perfect day

I'm with you on both the gefilte fish (yay) and organ meat (uh-uh). My great-grandparents ate turkey necks and I'm also kind of a "nope" on those.

These are the remains of our home town of Bint Jbeil, where my mother’s family all grew up.

I was born in Beirut because they were all forced to flee by Israel before I was conceived. We all were able to return in 2000 after Israel left, and now, Israel flattened it again.

I had no idea that was still being published! Congratulations on your score.

That's a bit more than what we paid when we were topped up last month ($5.63/gallon). I was surprised that prices had gone up that quickly. It was a spendy, awful winter.

We're tapping some birch trees for the first time this year and we're counting on you!

Claude suspended my account late last week. I appealed immediately but haven't heard a thing.

TBH I think this is the first time I've heard of a Github suspension and I've seen a lot of dubious stuff in there.

As an old and an introvert I'm more of an October gay, but I have to say that at my last job the June stuff was a lot of fun. Still have the shirt!

Folks like Booker don't recognize how hard of a vote it was for Harris for many young people, American Jews, Palestinian Americans, and anyone of conscious, is the real fucked up part

There's a much better speech about recognizing voters and building the coalition, but he isn't the guy to make it.

Did you get it back?

RT @HuaxiuYaoML: All Claude Code Max subscriptions in our lab got banned for using the same university card to pay. Payment went through, account instantly suspended.

Anyone else run into this? Is one card per account the rule now?🤷‍♂️

This is a pretty wonderful documentary!

But I'm interested in finding out where it can be useful in ways that don't crap up the world.

Yes, I'm not okay with gratuitous AI image generation or writing, and I'm kind of upset that people are posting these things without actually looking at them. I'm cautious in general - people have lost the ability to navigate without GPS, and I'm concerned about similar things with reasoning.

2/ hands but offered to help write a machine learning tool to do the extraction (and I may take it up on that) and Claude got something that looks reasonable and got the start and finish nearly right but somehow completely missed the 24. I think the prompt could be improved but I'm suspended.

1/ Among other things - I'm trying to understand where it can be used to reduce toil. One thing I did was to give it a screenshot of Iditarod "analytics" (hate that they call the plot that) and see if it could extract a run/rest schedule. ChatGPT threw up its

Late last week I joined the hordes who've had their Claude Pro accounts suspended by Anthropic with no warning and no explanation other than the usual "suspicious signals" text witha pointer to their TOS. I've appealed, but so far, crickets. Have any of you been suspended and then reinstated?

Park Circle became Park Oracle. Patterson Park became Pattereon Park. Alan Wright Park became something that cannot be pronounced by humans.

tried Photoshop's new upscaler for a map that's getting printed and... it renamed all our streets and parks

She asked "Do you know the mayor of Nome?" and I said "How would I?" and after saying that she thought everybody in Alaska knows everybody else (partly true), she told theater tales and said that he was quite a character even then.

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

State leadership built a culture that doesn't know how to do anything other than sell off our resources. I fish, I love birds, I used to run dogs - Nome always seemed magical to me on every count. (My mom had a musical theater connection to Richard Beneville back in Virginia, oddly)

Highliners It shouldn’t have made a difference.

Alaska has some terrific writers and Christine is certainly among them. It's hard to write about losing the dog that feels like part of you, but she wrote about losing Hugo and the ephemeral parts of their lives together. (The photos are wonderful, too)

In fairness you just can't go wrong with moose posts.

Moose schnozz.

A large angular boulder sits perched on a small pedestal of glacier ice on the surface of the Black Rapids Glacier, Eastern Alaska Range, Alaska. The surrounding glacier surface is covered in rocky debris and sediment. A second smaller boulder on a similar ice pedestal is visible to the right. Snow-patched mountain ridges and partially cloud-shrouded peaks of the Alaska Range rise dramatically in the background, with a small hanging glacier visible on the mountainside at center. Overcast summer sky.

A glacier table on the Black Rapids Glacier, Alaska Range. The boulder insulates the ice beneath, while the surrounding surface melts down, leaving it perched on a pedestal. Eventually, the pedestal becomes unstable, and the rock topples, and the process starts again.

#alaska #glacier

What an odd headline.

I have thoughts about hardware people writing software.

17 votes to make oil & gas S-Corps pay the same taxes as C-Corps. So 17 votes to get $100 million or more for Alaska's schools. 23 votes to instead hand that money to a billionaire in Texas.

I once asked it about something more-or-less current and it said it didn't know, because it was trained on stuff before <some date or other>. But it knew that it didn't know because of missing data, which isn't the case here. Huh.