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A lot of people are rude and dismissive to people who have scientific misconceptions. Often, they belittle people who don't understand how, say, seasons work. They say this makes a person unusually stupid. This seems wrong to me, both on...
Let's finish up my signed copy of the fifth (1979) Collier paperback printing of Harlan Ellison's 1971 collection Alone Against Tomorrow, about which I have already written at some length here, here and here. After today I will have read...
During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge. Today’s TDC says: Your keywords for today’s TDC are: on the border. Make something and/or show us something that goes with these words....
Starting new habits to try to improve some aspect of my life is not a problem. Trying to maintain any of them beyond a week or so is a different thing altogether. For example, I must have tried to train myself to touch-type properly many...
Today I’m shipping 2UP, a Mac-assed native-focused dual-pane native file manager. After 105 TestFlight builds and many App Store Review rejections, it’s finally released. FML, what a relief! Think “Twin Finder”, not Midnight Commander....
Likes Please let me interact with your blog post! by Michael Harley. I love my RSS reader. It’s the first thing I reach for when I’m “catching up.” As I’m reading through my list of feed items, I often come across blog posts that do not...
hmm.......This back doo dad thing needs to be secured now. There isn't any way for me to clamp it after the top is secured. And speaking of the top, it is going to be tricky to do. I will have to place the carcass on the top upside down...
What a runaway AI would actually need OpenAI published its post-mortem of the Hugging Face incident, and it is a fascinating read. During an internal cybersecurity evaluation called, models running under reduced safeguards did something...
Gould’s shortwing, Heteroxenicus stellatus (photo from Wikimedia) 28 August 2026 When I visit eBird’s website they always display a beautiful photo from Macaulay Library. Yesterday afternoon they presented the photo below of a gorgeous,...
Graffiti on a building in Denver’s River North Art District (RiNo). The post Denver Graffiti appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Victorian architecture, gulls, wide beaches. A typical day on the UK coast, fish and chips included. Reply via email
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The UK has five owl species that are well known and often encountered, but seeing any of them depends on where you live and perhaps knowing how and where to look. Some are surprisingly easy to find, while others are much more secretive....
Hi, welcome to this write-up for the 77. On the Right Track challenge from Bellingcat. Here you can see my thought processes and what steps I took to get to the answer, but of course there are many different ways of reaching the same...