1/2 wooden whiskey barrel surrounded by purple and red tulips, yellow daffodil's
Neighbor was getting rid of a totally fine 1/2 whiskey barrel, which means I now have a totally fine new raised garden bed.
Atlas on bark, Jasius/GettyImages
Wing tips looking like red reptilian heads
Did you know, the Atlas moth, the largest insect living in Hong Kong, in Cantonese (蛇頭蛾) translates as "snakehead butterfly", given its characteristic cobra-like eyespot & batesian mimicry. It looks very dissapointed.
Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie: "Email is an important distribution channel. It should not be your only one." then he quotes Mills Baker on his team: "I know l've said this a lot, but I cannot emphasize enough that email will continue to change, to become less deterministically reliable as a means for distributing your work; this is a huge part of why we got into the app and feed business, as you may know! You can blame a few things:"
Substack's CEO now trying to scare people into *only* distributing their content through their proprietary app, not email. (The link he posted warns users away from email.) It's not enough that Substack's locking in publishers & readers with "notes" and comments, now they're escalating tactics.
A brown and white chested red tailed hawk perched on a lightopost
Red tailed hawk at its post
1 green hosta, 1 green and yellow variegated hosta, lots of pea sized hail on the ground
Purple flower spikes of an ajuga ground cover, pea sized hail piled around it
What the hail?
For all the handwringing about how hard it is to build energy infrastructure in the US, the tech companies have managed to build a remarkable number of data centers and methane gas power plants with virtually no bottlenecks so far…
Purple and red tulips and yellow daffodils surrounded greenery of flowers yet to come
Colors
"Top models including OpenAI and DeepSeek m̶a̶k̶e̶ j̶u̶d̶g̶m̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ t̶o̶o̶ q̶u̶i̶c̶k̶l̶y̶ don't make judgments because they don't think and are glorified text prediction models." Fixed.
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2023 surfaces colored
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Someday, someone is going to make a movie about the tech-bros who recklessly dismantled the professional US administrative state and it’s going to be devastating.
Gripping excerpt from “Into the Wood Chipper,” Nicholas Enrich. h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social
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How it feels lately
#birds #photography #wildlife
Signs are everywhere
Purple flower of a periwinkle vine
Red tulip in sunshine
Chocolate chip ajuga ground cover
Instructions for a tall metal cabinet I have to aasemble. Bleh.
Periwinkle, tulip, chocolate chip ajuga, 83.5 lbs delivered and waiting to be assembled
ARTEMIS II - RETURN FRIDAY TIMELINE abc 13 10:35 AM - FLIGHT DAY: Crew preps for return to Earth 12:50 PM - CABIN RECONFIGURATION BEGINS: Equipment stowed; capsule set up for reentry. 1:53 PM - FINAL TRAJECTORY BURN: Last course correction before Earth return. 4:05 PM - CREW SUITS UP: Astronauts don ACES pressure suits for entry. 6:33 PM - SERVICE MODULE SEPARATION: Heat shield exposed; Orion fully configured for reentry. 6:53 PM - ATMOSPHERIC ENTRY: Orion hits atmosphere at 35,000 ft/sec, communications blackout (approx 6 mins). 7:03 PM - PARACHUTE SEQUENCE: Chutes deploy. 7:07 PM - SPLASHDOWN!: Near the coast of San Diego, CA. Capsule powered down. Crew extracted. 8:35 PM - WELCOME HOME!: Crew arrives aboard USS John P. Murtha
A more detailed schedule for Artemis II's return to Earth today April 10th. All times are CDT.
“Vouchers” are a scam by Christian Nationalists to funnel secular tax dollars into for-profit Christian churches running businesses called “private schools”
The very first thing they taught us at my masters degree program in interactive technology was this:
COMPUTERS ARE STUPID.
They do not and cannot and LITERALLY NEVER WILL think or reason. They can only do what we tell them to do.
Man look at this little cutie
A yellow daffdil flower photo shot at a very askew angle
I've got an achy knee today, so all ground level photos will be shot at this angle
2 horses. one very close up the other in the background
what if the ceiling stared back
A new State Department cable endorses X as an "innovative" tool for embassies and consulates to counter "disinformation"—while also urging coordination with military psyops. In our latest podcast, Kate Klonick speaks to Justin Hendrix about what this incident says about platforms and power.
hey you check out this cool bug
(alt: a mite with a broad circular hat made of iridescent overlapping scales on its back)
A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA
OH. MY. GOD.
THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!
America’s favorite sport: saying the right thing and hoping no one checks the scoreboard.
That, and Purple Passion
