Until next time Portlandia.

Watch Championship highlights as Norwich City finally claimed their first home victory of the season with a 3-1 win over QPR. #NCFC

So he closed the Florida border?

Our final #plantsgiving tally: 36 species, 24 families - a humble yet robust showing! Most unique families: Pedaliaceae (sesame seeds in our tofu breading) or maybe Linaceae (flax seed in bread). 🦃🦃🦃

Yazz

I have questions

There's another great Portland a few thousand miles to the east :) I find that one to be much more relaxing, but it's harder to get to from Alaska.

Oil and gasoline futures down 16% and 7% YoY, respectively. Yet prices at the pump are ~unchanged from a year ago. @gasbuddy @gasbuddyguy

Portland is a welcoming place with sooooo many great neighborhoods to explore. Great variety of food and walkable. So much public transportation. Visit Portland if you have a chance

US real estate: Delistings Jump 28% as Sellers Pull Homes Off Market Rather Than Settle For Low Prices Biggest September tally in 9 years @Redfin

My dad used to say... "Take the words out of your mouth and look at them, if they don't look right... out them back in!"

Say all the wrong words and eventually you find the right ones.

Signs

Notes from the Scotchguard. Press release from Dept of Gwar

As my Linkedin profile reads: "I strive to be EPIC—empathetic, passionate, inspirational, and caring—in everything I do."

Nod of the head to the lady dancing to the coffee shop holiday musac

Never in the history of improvement has this ever been the case.

Bro

What’s the over/under on penalties in the Seahawks game?

If only they would throw more flags in the Seahawk v Titan game. Lawd all mighty

Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡

At church

But most of all, you can resist by being kind, practicing empathy. Be the behavior you want from others.

Look for kindness, call it out. Tell others.

Just watched a homeless gentleman hold the door for an elderly women who’s hands were full of baked goods.

Stop using plastic shopping bags. Keep your cell phone for another year. Repair your car, don’t buy a new one.

Volunteer with project that has a single purpose. Is evidence based. Habitat for humanity Staffing local elections

Easy ways to resist. Utilize sole proprietors, local business. Even better in you know them. Buying local removes middleware and helps keep money, power, influence local.

Spotted a dog wrapped like a burrito on the trail yesterday and I can't stop thinking about it.

Try our delicious meatwater, made with real hotdogs and artisanal artesian water.

For those who might be looking for this: youtu.be/l5VzU5IK_rs...

Make a choice

I see your funrise and raise you a sandwich. ☕️🥮🥐

Funrise

This is gud

Florida viewed from outside the state is: Concrete Crowding Overbuilt Insurance skyrocketing Crappy weather Aging population with static incomes What did I miss

I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real

Hahahah

Flight to safety from BTC to USD

The highest compliment from me. “You make a wonderful latte’”

Bitcoin could disappear and 99% of economic activity would move on.

A sign of stress in the system: Bitcoin is now trading at $82k – down from $120k only one month ago. That’s a 36% decline.

T-bills and bitcoin.. almost the same return since Nov 2021

Most Hospitals spend 70-75% of net revenue on wages/benefits. Thats people. The lever for AI to improve the cost side in healthcare is marginal. @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

$4,698 New monthly cost for health exchange premiums for a friend and his wife. Their costs up 300%

Companies don’t invent. People invent. @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

On the other hand I can put down the hand sized coffin I stare into from time to time and read, talk or go for a walk.

This is a great explainer on what economic terms actually mean and why they’re important. We can’t fix what we can’t correctly define.

AI or its precursors are not providing the promise of the cheerleaders. Maybe aim it at solving. Wars Hunger Energy Water Vs make my cv look spiffier.

If you think you are “using” a LLM chat/agent/model you may want to consider you are the product. You are working for whichever sponsor backs its operation. Aside from not being particularly useful Grok is being groomed to act as an algorithm not dissimilar those employed by FB/Goog/Tiktok