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Tbilisi, Georgia / October 27, 2024
Tens of thousands of Georgians came out in the streets to protest rigged elections where the ruling party Georgian (Russian) Dream stole thousands of votes. The Georgian people demand free and fair elections.
#politics #election

Zoom in on his face. What I deal with all day
#dogs

Cooking up yard shrooms
#shrooms

Scraps. What to do with scraps. 🤔 🗑️ ♻️
#scraps

Hear of LLM "hallucinations"? Here's what happens when you feed advanced ML algorithms LSD.

"Residing at the crossroads of art, science, and technology, Anadol’s site-specific three-dimensional data sculptures and paintings, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take varied virtual and physical forms. "
#art #ml #architecture
https://refikanadol.com/works/

Putin's dachas are getting leveled. By...him? Interesting. Termites?

President Vladimir Putin has demolished his palatial Black Sea holiday villa
Putin has abandoned $1.2 billion private clifftop retreat in Gelendzhik, 170 kilometers (105 miles) northwest of Bocharov in the Krasnodar Krai region
#ukraine
"I wouldn't like to be a flea
Under your collar
All along that day"
Peter Tosh - Downpressor Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjoE6MiuQUM

Followed a stereotypical Subaru owner this afternoon, can't decide if Stop being ugly or LSD is my favorite. Plenty of other choices

Nah I just needed to see something burn

This one is 50-50 but I'm gonna just call it: NO. Nope, nah, uh uh
#weather
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo.php

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