the sound of the backyard birds this morning

perfecto

saw these Wool Sower Galls ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callirh... ) this morning on an oak sapling.

I've noticed this sort of symbiosis, where we humans also seem to want to be the most productive in spring which directly conflicts with my desire to take advantage of the weather outside.

Society needs people who take care of the elderly and who know how to be compassionate and honest. Society needs people who work in hospitals. Society needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers.

"Earth laughs in flowers" : ( Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Hamatreya" 1847 - www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52341/... )

And so I'm not gonna give you a motto or preach a philosophy of burn baby burn, I'm gonna say build baby build, organize baby organize. I've decided to stick with love. Somebody's got to have some sense in this world. - Martin Luther King Jr. Charleston, South Carolina 1967.

the best of humanity in the information age because knowledge belongs to everyone 🎂 🎁 🥳

prefer year in rearview over year end review

perfect

also looking good for me

my response to a group thread about football

Long Live @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social

Trouble in Paradise

I've had this Anthropic paper up in my browser for over a week now. I think it's mainly because of the section on systematic deception, hidden goals, and self preservation... exfiltrating itself from the server and blackmailing the engineer. p. 22 @ www-cdn.anthropic.com/4263b940cabb...

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977. Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

I got a new keyboard and it's the musical type this go round. I like to take on hobbies that I'll never come close to mastering.

Today I learned that I stayed where Richard Nixon fished with Billy Graham.

I expected him to be, like, “You’ve got to suffer,” and this and that. But one thing that stood out was something he “The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life—and one is as good as the other.”

Since it's International Golden Retriever Day and all - here's Iris doing the derp.

nail on head?

I think I'm in good hands

1. Art & Design 2. Studio Art 3. Math then back to Art 4. Software Developer

Max Dugan Returns > War Games

Not exactly an excuse given codespaces is giving me sub 15s build times.

my new favorite pastime

I'm doing a bit of follow experiment here since I pretty much duplicated my old Twitter follows on Mastodon which are mostly tech related dating back to 2007. I'm really just here to spread good vibes ala - www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOvm...

Who's gonna be my first follower?

I learned a lesson in 1990 when I left my 'contacts' device on a pay phone booth while traveling. Never substitute memory for machine.

I heard a word I really liked the other day: complijab. It's kinda like humblebrag.

Non-Linear Publishing - https://davidawindham.com/non-linear-publishing/

Collaboration vs. Competition - https://davidawindham.com/collaboration-vs-competition/

Anthropomorphizing Machines -https://davidawindham.com/anthropomorphizing-machines/

anyone else's chrome dev tools theme bork out last week? I hacked mine ala https://davidawindham.com/chrome-devtools-theme/ cc: @soryu2

nothing strange in my GLibc 'ghost' proofed em up

shellshock-proofed

Verifying myself: I am windhamdavid on Keybase.io. 6ny1AUTmrN_5jU_N5e-xEA3VYS4ZnQ_2Md2o / https://keybase.io/windhamdavid/sigs/6ny1AUTmrN_5jU_N5e-xEA3VYS4ZnQ_2Md2o

U.S. Digital Services Playbook #13 - "Default to Open" - http://playbook.cio.gov/

I can haz @atomeditor ?