In a coffeeshop yesterday working on a story. I accidentally switched my #camera to electronic shutter instead of mechanical shutter. This photo was the result. The color banding you see is from the #LED lights of the shop being caught by the shutter speed of the camera. #photography

Time for church. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZeu...

How it’s going How it’s going to go

Happy #MothersDay! youtu.be/gCA4vQU26bc?...

Seems relevant. youtu.be/hXzPxBhhmY8?...

Welp, let's see how well this works this time. #SteamPowered #Valve

A lot of people need to look up "Southern Strategy" today and become familiar with history. It never stopped. It was never ended. It's ongoing.

This kit cost roughly $2,700 in 1983 dollars, equal to about $9,000 in 2026 purchasing power. The same gear today fetches $750-1,500 on the collector market.

QTP with a gif of your first gaming console!

We live in strange times. My MacBook holds my locally stored writing archive. I asked my locally running agent to write/compose a song based on my writing by using a different locally installed model and system. The result was a 2:57 song that's not...horrible. It could use some work, but damn.

This is why study history, folks. This is why we need an informed electorate. The playbook is historical. It's unoriginal. It's been done before. Continued below with screenshots of a great example of why our education in history is among our best weapons:

Just over 14 hours ago, I pointed out that yesterday was Market Manipulation Monday, when Trump would talk big and brash about something he was about to do and predicted today would be TACO Tuesday, when he walks it all back. #ICalledIt

Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.

The most satisfying block I ever sought and earned.

Giuliani was supposed to be getting his microphone removed and he interpreted this as a sign to put his hand down his pants. That's who Trump is whining about today.

@fejimanz.com shows they don't understand logic or thought problems. Their intention here is to hint that everyone should vote for a third party but they ignore the Prisoner's Dilemma of the Two Party duopoly since a third party has far less chance of winning than one of the duopoly. 1/

1/10 @hankgreen.bsky.social sat down with security expert Sherry Davidoff to talk about Anthropic's Mythos and Project Glasswing. If you care about what AI actually does to the world, this is the video. All else is noise. *Especially* with government AI in play. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6pg...

#Photography and #writing by Brian Ragle. Shot with Canon R6 MkII, edited in Pixelmator 1/4

Some scenes and thoughts from the event I covered on Saturday night. All images shot with Canon R6 Mk II, 50 mm lens and edited in Pixelmator. Words are from some of my drafts and notes on the stories I wrote about that night. #Photography #MMA #SouthernGothic #Writing IMAGE 1: THE RING GIRL 1/4

This is who runs this account. Someone caught me in the wild, which isn't a very common opportunity because I'm usually the only one with the camera.

“Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, MARVEL, Disney, or Ghibli. Extra hard mode: no Spielberg, Hitchcock, Scorsese or Kubrick” Nightmare mode - has to be a box office bomb or not mainstream but actually good.

Help me understand this, someone. There has just been an alleged attempt on the president's life. Prez/VP are both quickly evacced. Armed men rush in to secure the scene. And someone is standing there filming from the side and never once looked at or glanced at or told to get down.

Watch for headlines or stories on anything placed immediately after this aired on all the betting sites.

Your word for the day: " #kayfabe"

I photographed an MMA/UFC-style amateur fight event tonight. I didn't like it. I'll get into that later. But one sequence stuck with me and I wanted to share it. This is a young fighter in the lightweight class. His father/coach was blessing him before his match. It was touching.

This not only makes the argument for local AI but also setting up correct remote access to your home network. This is actually bizarre to me. How did he not have a VPN tunnel available to his home netowrk??? www.pcworld.com/article/3122...

Well, I haven't gotten a perfect score on this in quite some time. #CoffeHelped #Quartiles #Apple

Once again, "if this had been Biden" fails to adequately express just how utterly absurd the double standards are that the Christofascist White Nationalists claim to cling to.

A ternary 2bit 8B model generating a story at entirely reasonable, usable token/second speeds. Entirely local on a fresh-out-of-the-box MacBook Neo, running an iPhone A18 chip. The model sits comfortably within 3 GB of the 5 GB available VRAM using a 32K context window.

I'm old enough to remember when Alex Jones acted like he was in on the joke and did a parody of himself in a movie with Keanu Reeves. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bliF...

It has been 23 years. We were all so young and optimistic about life. Still carrying this mental scar. #NeverForget

My semi-organized #Obsidian vault has spontaneously evolved into a....Death Star. #StarWars #ThatsNoMoon #HelpINeedSomebody

The New York Young Republicans Club are having a book reading for "Camp of the Saints", a stupefyingly racist book that depicts brown and black people as literal shit-eaters washing up on the shores of Europe. They aren't even hiding it any longer. The Christofascist White Nationalism is open.

I watched Project Hail Mary. (SPOILERS) The good: Gosling is top of his game on charm, humor, and wit. Same for Ortiz as Rocky. It was shot well. SFX/VFX were solid. Music was kinda all over the place. Sandra Hüller *really* played up that E. German brutal efficiency. Lily from AT&T was in this!

In a nutshell. 😊

#Anthropic is making the case for local AI for me, and with a more compelling and immediate argument of cost. #Google is banning accounts for making use of their API keys for agentic apps. #OpenAI, the same. The shitlords at #Grok don't have to worry about it because they suck.

Claude is a very suspicious agent...and rightfully so.

I'm an Apple user. Apple device on my desk, on my wrist, in my pocket, in my bag, in the bedroom and living room, and another one in the mail right now. All ruled by my Apple account. Changing that password is....non-trivial.

I love how #Anthropic is increasingly just saying "you know what, if you trust #Claude, we trust you. Here's a Go Crazy Switch."

New piece has dropped! No, this isn't the thing I teased. That's still coming. But I wrote this one while working on that one and they're related enough that I couldn't sit on it. So here we go. 1/6

Dice views me with a a camera as a cue that I want him to stop what was he doing and get up to come see me. Every. Single. Time. Happy #caturday!

Purists won't like this but I think Bill would have. Nice little touch-up for the modern era. youtu.be/_l53DdUsVYA?...

I'm starting a new #writing project and here is a snippet of my research reading list. It's going to be an interesting next few days/weeks.

Oh, Bluesky....

I got this from Orobas this morning (1/2): For Quixote, I went with Vapula. The 60th spirit. Duke, 36 legions. Domain: handicrafts, mechanical arts, and all sciences. Appears as a lion with griffin's wings. The craftsman.

We don't deserve dogs, the friends who would literally fight velociraptors for us.

My #OpenClaw instance, named Orobas using #GLM5.1, is currently installing and configuring a second OpenClaw instance on a spare machine on my network that it will use a local install of #Qwopus or #Gemma to handle token-heavy tasks on behalf of Orobas. 2026 is pretty damn weird so far.

#photography #Tennessee #Spring #allergies