Not really cold but have a lot of deadfall. Yeah that's the reason, sure

It's so difficult to understand the scope and scale of flooding from that hurricane. That article has this picture of a shipping container crushed in the river. Crikes.
#Helene

Think you're going to be able to access all your cat pictures^H^H^H very important files in 10,20 years? Maybe if you're lucky. The US National Archives has a handy framework to help figure it out and it's just been updated. On GitHub, get some.
Also check out those groovy terminals, mmmmm vintage IBM.
https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/digital-preservation-framework-update-2024

...turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans.
/Nosanitize
http://www.righto.com/2024/10/wealth-distribution-in-united-states.html

If I understand W-E hurricanes (I don't), then Tampa and Orlando being both on the NW side of #Milton are not on the "dirty side" (SE quadrant) --should be spared the highest winds? But will get loads of rain. That sound right @MyRadar ?

Took longer than I thought, about 14 hours. #peppers

Holding my breath, Merida's only seeing ~20 mph winds and no(!) rain yet.
#hurricane #milton

damnit I have people in Merida. This is personal now Milton, you and I need to chat.

Knew WCK was active in WNC, but I didn't realize chef Andres was IN Asheville.
"By Tuesday night, more than 60,000 meals had been served by WCK between North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida"
#Helene
https://www.newsobserver.com/living/food-drink/article293362404.html

Progress on natural language processing (NLP) is a cool sort of side effect of all the LLM (e.g. ChatGPT) activity. The opensource community has run the ball way down the field(s) and for example lyric transcription is relatively easy to pull off on a laptop. YMMV, ain't perfect, etc. But neat. (see below - Words are color-coded by confidence measure of whisper -- the software that extracted them.)
#LLM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpy9OGVFJ1I

Broke a tool handle and no stores nearby have it. Shipping for this kind of thing costs more than the item. #grousing #capitalism #needCoffee #probablyJustMakeOne

Nantahala river's getting 8-12 inches of rain if anyone wants to drop in and experience class XXVI rapids

#helene model is drifting west sooner and weakening faster. Fingers crossed that's the deal.

Mars reconnaissance orbiter data lets us virtually visit.

The Global CTX Mosaic of Mars is a 5.7 trillion pixel image of the surface of Mars, rendered at 5.0 m/px as a 3D globe. Crazy cool. Works on mobile or PC

#mars #caltech
https://murray-lab.caltech.edu/CTX/V01/SceneView/MurrayLabCTXmosaic.html

2nd cup someone* inhaled my first one

*Me, it was me

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Going to jail for #food_crimes bbl
Olives, smoked garlic, anchovies, black pepper (pasta eventually)

It's stressed out. Drought, then Debby, now some worms/bugs. Runty popcorn.

Sometimes ferries just explode. Natural causes. Not this time but sometimes.
"spokesman of the Ukrainian Navy, Dmytro Pletenchuk, confirmed the destruction of the "Conro Trader" and noted that the ferry is one of the important links in the chain of Russian military logistics."
#ukraine #politics
https://kyivindependent.com/satellite-image-shows-destroyed-ferry-in-russias-kavkaz-port-following-attack/

Olenya airfield, Murmansk. 2,000 miles. That's gonna need explaining Vlad.
#ukraine
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/37804