yeah i have stability get the sticker here: mcapriglione.art

24 new pix http://flic.kr/p/2s7UmjP [Halibut Point State Park,Massachusetts,Rockport,ocean,ducks,quarry,mallard,sign,harlequin duck,cormorant,warning,scenery,wake,eastern phoebe,black scoter,herring gull,Wood Street,eider duck,daffodils,In flight,ducklings,boardwalk,swimming,Concord,blossom...]

27 new pix http://flic.kr/p/2s7TaxD [Massachusetts,Assabet River NWR,Sudbury,great blue heron,Wachusett Dam,Clinton,nest,fountain,Wood Street,strutting,Concord,sticks,turkey,swans,ducks,eyes,Red-winged blackbird,Ring-necked duck,canada goose,mockingbird,In flight,for scale,forsythia,goldfinch...]

Opens slush pile. Reads generated story... Bans. Reads generated story... Bans. Reads generated story... Bans... Screams. Closes computer. Screams again. Runs off into the woods. Sees squirrel. Hmmm... Squirrels have never submitted a generated story. Squirrel gets treat.

(looking back at this the image popped into my head of a Swiss Guard carrying the Pope's Nuclear Football at all times... took a minute to realize it was just my brain replaying the Holy Hand-grenade of Antioch scene :)

Heh, the recovery crew is circling around Integrity and waving wands at it. Livestream says "hazard assessment" (yeah, you don't want the divers or the crew to get a faceful of hydrazine) but it *looks* like they're ghostbusters and checking if it's haunted :-)

Are you in southern California or Baja? Let the USGS know if you felt the sonic boom from the Artemis re-entry! DYFI link: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Tailscale has recently "found" two SQLite corruption bugs, now both fixed upstream in sqlite.org/releaselog/3... The first: sqlite.org/wal.html#wal... The second: sqlite.org/staleexpridx... Fun times holding SQLite in unique ways! SQLite folk have been a joy to work with & worth every penny.

I've updated my blog post on how to have a great first #PyConUS: trey.io/first-pycon The only TBD links are the volunteering link and the open spaces links. I'm considering making an audio recording of this post for folks to listen to during the travels to Long Beach. Anyone interested in that?

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

By the way: DSCOVR:EPIC has a Bluesky presence. bsky.app/profile/dsco...

"The cloud is someone else's computer" hasn't gotten *nearly* the mileage with the general public that "The cloud is one specific computer named us-east-1" has :-)

“Copy Moon joy” #Artemis

NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂 Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…

“go back to the moon but this time we have really good cameras” was a fantastic idea

hey it's that time again. do you have data? that you like? is it backed up? do you have automatic backups you've checked are actually happening? in multiple locations? have you done a test restore to make sure the backups work? *even an extra copy on a flash drive is better than no backups*

I've got the livestream on in the background, and apparently they just reported that one of the crew is exercising - and it's showing up on the IMU as well as a visible wobble in the camera (which is out at the end of a solar panel, which would amplify it.) That's a little freaky :)

This. I was annoyed by the youtube feed glitching around SRB separation, and it wasn't until reading some of these threads later that I realized how much of that was just unprocessed memory and feelings...

Ooh I wonder if I can convince anyone to coopt the concord Garden Tour for something like this :)

Happy world backup day! You should take this day to reflect on what backup plans you have for your computer data. There are many options, but you should apply the 3-2-1 rule: • Three copies of your data (including the "live" copy), on • Two different media, with • One offsite. #WorldBackupDay

I am not going to comment much on this, but I am happy to pay forward the lessons I’ve learned here and host a CLE going forward where I just yell “ASK FOR AND MOVE TO COMPEL CHATGPT LOGS” at other lawyers for an hour.

I searched "data center coloring book" because I was trying to decide if I should make one and found this, from a power management company, and I don't think I can top this www.eaton.com/explore/_pfc...

8 new pix flic.kr/p/2s4sCMY [Concord,Wheeler Field,Massachusetts,Wood Street,Red-winged blackbird,trailcam,night,white-tailed deer,french toast,waffle day,bird song,breakfast,blossom,griddle,waffles,Rabbit,crocus,kanin,Robin]

TIL a new euphemism...

it's drama, not documentary, but I'm pleased that the Maple Syrup Heist got a TV series!

12 new pix http://flic.kr/p/2s48ieZ [Massachusetts,Mass Wildlife's Delaney Wildlife Management Area,Ring-necked duck,Stow,Assabet River NWR,Maynard,Red-bellied woodpecker,Central Square,Little Donkey,cookie dough,boat launch,Cambridge,concrete,bluebird,dessert,sunset,swans,Robin]

I have a classmate who is obsessed with Dune. She was like “we should get sucked into the Dune universe! It would be awesome!” Most of the rest of the class: no Me: I could do a Butlerian jihad about now Rest of the class, fervently: yeah

My very first comic collection, Birding Is My Favorite Video Game, is being reprinted in a larger format and comes out July 28. Barnes & Noble Premium & Rewards Members get a steep discount on preorders www.barnesandnoble.com/w/birding-is...

19 new pix http://flic.kr/p/2s3ozb4 [Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge,Massachusetts,hooded mergansers,muskrat,Red-winged blackbird,Ring-necked duck,Wood Street,birdfeeder,footbridge,wood duck,feathers,cardinal,porch,Concord River,Reflections,goldeneye,bird song,swimming,sparrow,trees,chirp...]

Going on tour on the East Coast for WOLF WORM next week! I’ll be at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill Monday, Politics & Prose in DC on Tuesday, the Brookline Booksmith on Wednesday, and the Strand in NYC on Thursday! Come on out and have books signed and see me talk about botflies!

ooh, just saw JOMO - "Joy Of Missing Out" - in regards to genAI

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

10 new pix http://flic.kr/p/2s2XCFk [Assabet River NWR,Massachusetts,Maynard,Ring-necked duck,mallard,hooded mergansers,swimming,Red-winged blackbird,sunset,beaver,colors,trail,flood,ducks]

this one hurts the most

Gonna hold on to this croissant metaphor for the rest of my creative life

Side project: finally extracted my MA Ice Cream Shop list (not just the review subset, the 512 entries for the "ice cream compass" project) as names and lat/lon, instead of google "cid" refs.

Small update from my attorneys -- you don't need to do anything to be added to the class action. Anyone who was included as an expert in Grammarly Pro will automatically be a member of the class once it is certified by the court. Updates on the case will be posted here prf-law.com/current-case...

No-one says ‘Fast food isn’t going away, so let’s work out how to incorporate it into your diet’, yet we are often treated to the same non sequitur when it comes to AI

1 new pic http://flic.kr/p/2s1V8Td [Parker River National Wildlife Refuge,Massachusetts,Plum Island,Newbury,sunset]

Hiya! Anyone in the SF Bay Area/Remote need a cool programmer for your team? I've been messing with computers for over 30 years now, I can program anything with bits, and I've got a lot of experience with all sorts of different systems, environments, and languages. wiki.averlong.com/My_Resume

I have some good news:

I'm wondering what the smallest box you could get Whisper to run on locally, but it's probably not this

Put your hand up if you received the ELIZA vaccine at a young age and are now immune to chatbot spiraling

If I can’t unionize Claude then it’s not conscious, next question

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal. The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright. (Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Rocket launch from Cape Canaveral tonight at 9:56pm, should be visible along entire east coast of US. In Boston area, look somewhere from 2-6 minutes after liftoff in the east/southeast sky. www.spacex.com/launches/sl-...

Well I guess all the people saying “we used to just dump the snow in the river” can quit whining now