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Brennan: "Nearly all of Florida is below the 95% immunization rate for herd immunity for measles. So, is your message to Florida parents to get your kids vaccinated?" Byron Donalds: "No. My message is the reason we have seen a measles outbreak is because of rampant illegal immigration."[image or embed]— Mike (@mike-umbkm.bsky.social) August 23, 2026 at 10:07 AM July 30, 2021Andy and the anti-vaxxerIt's useful to step back from time to time and remind ourselves just how far...
Lost Carcosa is now available at the LotFP EU shop! My involvement with Geoffrey McKinney's Carcosa goes back to almost the beginning. About a year after the release of the original Supplement V: Carcosa Geoffrey expanded one of the hexes on the campaign map in an article for issue #4 of Fight On! and I contributed some pictures; I'm not certain but this may have been my first published
From Max Hubacher, January 11, 1952, “Old red brick house in downtown Brooklyn, L.I., on the site a park is planned. In background the Manhattan Bridge.” It’s amazing that it could be so hard to place a photo taken in downtown Brooklyn within living memory, but it is. The obvious location is the stretch of park between Cadman Plaza West (formerly Fulton Street) and Cadman Plaza East (formerly Washington Street) between Brooklyn Borough Hall and the approach to the Brooklyn...
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 every story in the book, in one form or another, and blogged about most of them. (A few--the most famous ones, probably--I read before this blog quivered to glistening and sinister life, and I haven't felt like rereading them yet, and...
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. Border Force flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA 2.0) license I searched through my Flickr albums for ‘border’ and found this picture of a boat, taken in Oban a few years ago. I wondered at the time what...
Process, Quality, and the Stigma of FlavorWhen you hear the words “decaffeinated coffee” do you think of a vibrant cup that can express the shaded valley where the beans came from, or do you scoff and relegate the brew to the level of necessary suffering you are forcing yourself to do in order to not overly caffeinate yourself with your third or fifth cup of coffee for the day.For most people, decaffeinated coffee has an historical stigma, emanating from its early...
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 times over the years. I've always managed to get myself past the initial learning mode, and feel pleased with myself as I type slowly but surely without looking, using some online training course to refresh the dormant muscle memory of...
August 2026. Manchester. Your traditional contractually obligated “first game at the Etihad” post you’ve no interest in. AFC Bournemouth at a traditional time, too, 2pm on a Sunday. The August fixture traditionally finds me scrabbling around for “new and shiny” pubs, having long ago completed the Greater Manchester section of the GBG. And there are a few newbies under the arches and on Dale Street, which my youngest son has just left for the greater delights of Stockport....
All of a sudden a three years old girl is living with us. My wife and I started ca. two years ago a process to become foster parents. We have a nice family, we are living in a nice home, our kids get almost everything from us. They can try out musical instruments, sports, we let them explore their own interests. And at a certain point my wife asked me: -What do you think about becoming foster parents? I was really surprised. It came out of nothing and it was a question I...
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. Most dual-pane file managers take their cues from Norton Commander and its descendants. 2UP starts somewhere different: two familiar Finder windows joined into one focused, keyboard-first workspace. It aims to do everything “The Finder Way”...
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 give me any way to interact with the post!
The Scene We Have Been Waiting Twenty Years ForWe are still waiting for Morpheus. Somewhere, sooner or later, someone will sit across from us, hold out a hand, and offer us the choice: understand what is really happening with artificial intelligence, or carry on as before.A clear choice. A conscious one. Ours.That scene is not coming. It is not late, and it is not hiding behind the next update. It was never part of the plan. And while we wait for it, convinced that the...
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 so I can screw the table top clips. The doo dad thing is going to be a PITA then. centeredI got the top, the doo dad thing, and the carcass aligned on the center. The overhangs are less then a 16th off. I thought I would have trouble...
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 unexpected. Around 1.2 agents that were supposed to be isolated from each other found a shared channel and exchanged more than 70k messages and files. They discovered and chained zero-day vulnerabilities in a self-hosted Artifactory...
What is your mission?Someone comes into this world to complete many missions, so it has been (at least for me so far). After your happy childhood (if you are lucky), the first mission you must face is school. Integrate into the environment, get good grades, get along with teachers, and try to belong to the group of popular students so you don't get bullied. The last hurdle for that period is to get accepted to a university.During this mission, you must face similar...
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, meticulously detailed bird. Gould’s Shortwing (Heteroxenicus stellatus). Notice the fine scallops on its breast and the tiny stars on its flanks. Stellatus = “starry” or “covered with stars.” It is very unlikely that I will ever see this...
Graffiti on a building in Denver’s River North Art District (RiNo). The post Denver Graffiti appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
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Estar fotografando a tanto tempo e não ter mídia social a mais de dois anos significa que eu raramente posto as fotos que eu faço em algum lugar e muito menos as pessoas ficam sabendo o que eu fiz de foto. E depois de muito tempo enrolando eu decidi fazer um pequeno livro de fotos, pequeno mas grande o bastante pra ver as fotos corretamente. E eu finalmente recebi ele hoje, e admito que poder ver o próprio trabalho impresso é muito mais satisfatório do que qualquer monitor...
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. And, of course, some are hunters of the night and much harder to spot. Barn Owl The Barn Owl is probably the easiest of Britain’s owls to tick. Head for farmland with margins, ditches and road edges at dusk on a dry evening, and you might...
Über das Privileg, weniger funktionieren zu müssen. Foto: Die Farbe Blau / @einschwarzesmeer.bsky.social Folgende Sache ist mir neulich aus dem Kopf gefallen, die mich zuerst glücklich, dann nachdenklich und schlussendlich ein kleines bisschen schlauer gemacht hat. Anna Koschinski1 hat mich mit diesem Beitrag auf die Spur gebracht und eine sinnvolle Extrarunde über “Verwahrlosung” nachdenken lassen. Vielen lieben Dank an dieser Stelle. 🌻 Nachdem ich ihren Post gelesen...
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 results. First lookWe've received a picture of GeoPeter. It's a selfie made while travelling. We need to geolocate him and find the name of the neighborhood he's posing in for his picture. I first inspected the picture to gain as much...