I haven't had enough time over the past two days to work on learning more about #chess and it's totally making me cranky!
I have still been able to grind on Duolingo to keep my top spot in the Diamond league tournament, but I dearly want to get to my chess set on my kitchen table to set up some games scenarios and play some more historic games. I can lose myself for hours this way, and I don't have those hours over the next three days. UGHH BEING A GROWNUP SUUUUCKS
I just got a whole new set of cards ("The Chess Deck" by Levy Rozman) that outline the openings of numerous famous gambits, and I'm itchy, itchy because I haven't had enough time to physically practice (that is, with an actual board and everything, not just on the phone or iPad).
I guess this means that I like it and I'm going to keep doing it?! Unless I lose steam and the DHD of my #AuDHD side wins. If I'm still loving this in three weeks, that will be a victory.
Right now, the autistic side is more in control, thank the gods, evidenced by the fact that I've been keeping all of my dishes washed as I go and keeping up on some other household tasks.
Guess what? Prices are up. Trump raised them with his tariffs. But mostly, they’re up because politicians, even presidents, don’t have the power to lower prices quickly and unilaterally.
Did they think he could fix things because he’s a businessman? You know, with six bankruptcies? trib.al/r4nRpHe
The president’s disastrous affordability rally merely reraises the question: How could anyone have fallen for his campaign promises in the first place?
#Utah has repealed its ban on collective bargaining for public employees, which had been one of the most restrictive in the US. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…
It's going to be wicked cold the next couple of days it'd be nice to get the rest of what I need or it gets colder, I still need $425 to obtain the rest of what I need right now, Please help this #disabled man existing in #poverty today. Every dollar matters. Every share matters. Every act of compassion matters. • CashApp: $woctxphotog • PayPal: paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…
Stefani Matsuo, violin, Christian Colberg, viola, and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jane Glover play:
MOZART:
Overture to Lucio Silla.
Sinfonia Concertante.
Symphony No. 41, 'Jupiter'.
Recorded 18/19 October....
Flogging a thing. I intend to retire from my full time job in the spring. I have some work lined up, but am looking for ways to supplement my income. I am here to professionally digitize your old slides and negatives.
The only other coffee shop a quick drive from me that knew how to pull an espresso shot has, I've discovered, moved to a new location on the other side of town. Things are getting serious now. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:x2xmi…
My favorite local coffee shop changed ownership and the new people don't know how to pull a good espresso shot. This is proving catastrophic for my quality of life.
How you can own an independent coffee shop and not know how to make espresso, comfortably letting your baristas pull sour, watery shots, is beyond me. But a remarkable number of coffee shops are bad. This is civilizational decline.
#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.
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