#Bondi My condolences to the 57 direct victims (15 dead, inc 10yo girl & 42 injured, 5 critical inc 2 police) and everyone affected. This was an act of hatred on an Australian community, a terrorist act. It endangers all. #Peace
I object to fugitive war criminals bagging our security personnel who performed their best with both gun men disarmed, further threat's identified, removed, disarmed and 2 in critical condition in hospital all within hours of the first shot. The Australian Jewish are Australian not Israeli. The man who disarmed a gunman was a Lebanese Australian, Israel is bombing Lebanon but he risked his life and was shot to protect Australian Jewish & ors at the beach. Our visa system questions membership of IDF and participation in War Crimes and does not accept expected war criminals. This was an attack on Australia. #Bondi #Peace
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Hong Kong - X5826, Extra 1959. 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format)
Title: Toni Frissell's Hong Kong Photo Shoot (1959)
Description: This photograph from Toni Frissell's assignment for Sports Illustrated features iconic views of Hong Kong in the 1950s. The collection consists of black and white, as well as color images, showcasing various activities such as racing and skin diving.
Biography: Toni Frissell was an American photographer known for her work with Sports Illustrated, where she captured notable moments and assignments. She worked extensively on location around the world, producing a wide range of photographs that showcased human activity in diverse environments.
Location: Hong Kong, 1959
Keywords: Toni Frissell, Sports Illustrated, Hong Kong, Photography Collection
I am grateful for everything I have, but I can’t help but be a little sad that it’s Hanukkah and my spouse didn’t get me a little something (not even a jelly donut)
I actually had this #dream last night. A lot of people were gathered to see a play. It turned out that the play would include some people from the audience. Someone came and told me that I would be playing the part of #anxiety
Oh, one more SPS post (it's related to ones I posted earlier)... Note - be aware of pine moths and their larvae (read comments), and also I would use a knife to remove the pitch, and leave some behind on the "wound".
"Pine pitch glue is the Super Glue of wilderness survival. It can be used to help secure arrowheads, spear points, or knife blades, it can be used to water-proof the inside of a basket, it can be used to seal the seams of a bark container, or to water-proof the seams of a birch bark canoe.
Pine pitch glue is not hard to make because nature has already done most of the work for you. To make pine pitch glue you will need the following:
• some dried pine sap • some softwood charcoal • a round rock and a flat rock • a campfire • a pot or container to warm the pitch in • a stick to stir the mixture
Just about any walk in the woods can provide you with #PineSap. Keep your eyes open for a pine tree that has had the bark damaged. When a pine tree is injured it oozes pine sap to seal the wound. This pine sap will dry into a hard, amber colored substance that can be easily picked off of the tree."
Do also note that damage to pine bark is the primary access route for pine-bark moths to lay their eggs in trees. Pine-bark moth larva will live inside the wound until they pupate, feeding on the pine sap and excreting into the outflowing wound, which ruins the pine sap for adhesive use. These larva infested wounds are also a route of entry for the white molds you see growing on sap, and can kill the tree.
Wounds should be covered with something to allow them to heal.
I learned of this because I tried to make pine sap adhesive from the trees in my yard. I was walking around looking at the trees, noticing a lot of mold, but also a lot of drippy sap coming from where I had trimmed lower branches the year before. I poked into the wounds with a stick and found the moth maggots. The sap/resin looks like it has little brown balls of poop in it, clearly visible. I should have treated the trees with something after I trimmed them.
"The research team recently developed an innovative system with low environmental impact for the production of semi-rigid panels for thermal and acoustic insulation, obtained from recycled sheep’s #wool, from Piemonte region (Cartonlana insulation panel). Starting from the previous work, a new semi-rigid panel has been produced, combining #SheepWool with #hemp technical fibers (Fitness insulation panel). The researches activities have been developed by a multidisciplinary group, which includes a textile company, Davifil (owner of the Cartonlana patent), the Biella CNR ISMAC (specialized in macromolecules and the textile fibres), the Department of Architecture and Design – Politecnico di Torino (expert in low-environmental-impact building components), and Assocanapa, which promotes the cultivation and valorisation of hemp.
"Both the sheep wool and the hemp used for the insulation panel production derive from agri-food systems and are wastes from already existing production chains. Wool comes from Piemonte region sheep breeding; it cannot be used in textile industry, due to its dark color and/or poor quality: fibers are too thick, and irregular length also. Sheep wool is usually washed and dried, but still contains plant debris trapped amongst fibers. As for hemp, treatments on the raw wool are reduced to a minimum, in order to minimize the energy consumption for the production of the panels."
This is a cool idea (to me) because builders wouldn't have to learn a whole new way to build, wouldn't have to develop sources for wool and hemp. The panel maker could just be a new supplier to more-or-less conventional homebuilders. The infrastructure to use the stuff already exists.
I saw a Tumblr post that was like "I hope the bubble bursts so hard that no one touches AI for a thousand years"
And I didn't want to directly reply to them but I don't think that's whatll happen. Instead we'll get like 20 years.
The tech industry never lets a failed idea stay dead for very long. It just gets tried again after enough people have cycled out of management, and the tech has improved somewhat.
But yeah. I expect soon this bubble will burst and that'll stop most of the AI push. It'll become venture funding poison instead of a plus, so it won't get funded, and if the major players exit the market, a lot of places using AI will simply stop, because they aren't doing any of this in-house, they're just using APIs from the big names. If those go, so does their AI
Some of the things currently under the umbrella of "AI" will keep being used, though. Local classification models for things like detecting NSFW images? That will continue to exist and continue to be a pain in everyone's backside.
moderation of internet content will not get any easier, so using these flawed models will continue being a tempting option for social media sites, yeah. Sorry.
image/video generation are also going to mostly die out, but will still remain in various communities that are using them locally. I imagine the problem of AI art in games will remain, because it's similarly too tempting to just have a model generate a bunch of "placeholder" assets.
(and the weird pervert community: people will keep making porn with AI image generation, including the least moral ways to use it)
then give it another 20 years of computers getting faster, ram getting bigger, GPUs getting more parallel, and some grad student AI project will get good enough for this whole thing to happen again.
depending on how bad AI craters this time, they may not even call it AI, but it'll be some technology that's a great-great-great-grandchild of current LLMs
so yeah. that's what I expect will happen, at least tech wise. (what this bubble burst is going to do to the US or SF bay economies is above my pay grade). Most AI will disappear, but some tech under the current AI umbrella will keep getting used in limited uses.
And to be clear, this isn't my "what I think SHOULD happen" manifesto, this is just how I expect this'll go having seen tech cycles before
also I don't think the AI bubble bursting will cool the privacy invasion that is the modern web: facebook and advertising was already trying to collect all your info before AI blew up, they're gonna want to keep doing that after AI stops being a good excuse for it
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Good morning to you all from a sunny but chilly Tokyo. Hope you each had a great weekend. And that this week is starting well.
One of mine from my photowalk with Henrik on Saturday. His wife bought him a day out with me as a birthday present. To improve his eye and his photography.
***That Tesla driver is lucky. Apparently could not open the doors because power out. Saved from certain incineration by a passing Virginia State Trooper!
Per story:
"The Tesla’s doors were locked and would not open when Page tried them. He said in his interview that he could hear the driver, Kanu, inside the car. Henrico County home damaged after being hit by a car
Page proceeded to break open the window to get to Kanu. He then asked Kanu to sit back so he could cut the airbag. Once Page did so, he was able to reach Kanu and pull him out of the car."
Join us for a virtual Secret Santa gift exchange on Xmas day! Its all Virtual No Money No Malls No Mailing shopping so get creative!
To Enter; Like or Boost this post to be entered. On Xmas eve, I will send entrants the profile of another player to 'shop' for so think outside that wrapped box!
On Xmas day, we will share the image/video of what he got each other on Xmas day #SecretSanta so I hope to see you there!
#Ukraine suffers a shortage of health supplies as #Russia strikes medical warehouses. "According to the government in Kyiv, more than 2,500 medical institutions have been damaged or destroyed, and more than 500 civilian doctors, nurses and other medical workers killed." bbc.com/news/articles/cqlkk9qk…
Soo a friend is working with the #Black #Banjo Reclamation project. They tell the story how the banjo came from #africa and was spread in this country. They also talk about how the #african part of the story was erased. This erasure is happening again with the elimination of #blackfolk working in all manner of professions and fields. #antidei is #antiblack #blackmastodon #dei
The Wall Street Journal reports that 68% of CEOs "plan to spend even more on AI in 2026, according to an annual survey of more than 350 public-company CEOs from advisory firm Teneo.
A woman is facing felony charges in Evansville, Indiana over a DoorDash delivery in which she allegedly sprayed the food with a substance that made the customers vomit.
Ooof, Tesla driving at an extremely high rate of speed (100mph+) in rainy conditions rear ends some idiot driving without lights in this video from earlier this week. I guess they both got what they deserved?
Festive Fedizens, Merry Mastonauts, and Cynical Cinephiles! The votes are in, and you’ve chosen Sunday, 14 December at 7pm EST (Midnight UST) for our #TheLionInWinter watch-along.
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Event Time Announcer shows time for #TheLionInWinter Watch-Along in locations all over the world. In New York it happens on dimanche 14 décembre 2025, 19 h 00 m 00.
When the Simple Machines Forum software breaks it prints an error message beginning with "Sorry, SMF", which is reasonable because that's the name of the software, but if you don't know that it appears to be telling you to "Suck My Fuck"
i feel like the mitochondria being the powerhouse of the cell isn't just a meme because we all saw it, but also because we all stopped and said "wait what do you even mean by that" when we did.
The term "powerhouse" as a literal power station simply hasn't been used in many decades, and if you do look at it as analogous instead, then like, it's way too vague to convey meaningful information. In what way is it a powerhouse, what does it do that's so awesome?
I don't know whether the guy who wrote that part of the textbook was trying to sound cool, or was so old that he thought we still call power plants powerhouses, or what, but it's a clear early example of abrupt disconnect between the writer and the reader. That's what's so especially memorable, to me.
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