Couldn't find the master gardener at the farmers market. Displaced by pumpkins. Lottta pumpkins.
#pumpkins

So I need to re-side* a shed. I gather that, in the modern era, I have material choices like 'cement fiber board' and 'engineered wood'.
My experience is with olde-fashioned cedar/pine/cypress.
Any thoughts appreciated.
#carpentery #oldDogs #newTricks
*was vinyl. Just say no.

Pythagoras ('s school?) discovered some cool maths but the famous theorem wasn't among them.

There is concrete evidence that the Pythagorean Theorem was discovered and proven by Babylonian mathematicians 1000 years before Pythagoras was born.

Nice summation* of the history around what we call "Pythagorean Theorem":
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jt.2009.16

#math #history
*that's a math joke; it's funny.

Used to see a couple mourning doves and now I count a herd of 6. Some are tiny. Mitosis?
How do doves work.

US Customs officials seize giraffe feces from woman at Minnesota airport.

They were for jewelry.
Okay but look here's the thing, have you considered local ruminant poop.
Oh you have done and it's not exotic enough, right. Carry on. 💩
#poop
https://apnews.com/article/giraffe-poop-seized-airport-b17d206968cf8b42af85ee863be717d7

1. Multiple employee surveys in recent years have shown that most workers have no desire to return to their desks full-time, with some saying they would quit their jobs if current workplace flexibility was taken away.

2. 64% of CEOs globally predicted a full return to in-office working by 2026: KPMG CEO Outlook survey
Attn @sjvn

#magicalThinking #letsFindOut

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/oct/05/two-thirds-ceos-think-staff-return-to-office-five-days-a-week-survey-finds

"This suit has the potential to undo more than five decades of efforts to expand the racial diversity of the nation’s military leaders.

Today’s leaders can respond to this threat by strategizing across industries to clearly articulate why racial diversity makes organizations and workplaces stronger. " --Professor Delmont

(his book “Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad.” upended my perspective on WWII. )
#politics
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/27/opinions/west-point-race-based-admissions-lawsuit-military-delmont/index.html

USB-C has been around 9 years. Eleventy of those were during lockdown but still.

Congress guy Jackson with some background on the vote yesterday.

#politics #history
https://youtu.be/hdxqIn6FriU

Pry bar and cats paw kinda morning.
#bestKind

Meanwhile the US Senate had an equally historic day.
Vice President Harris swears in Laphonza Butler to the Senate.
#politics
https://youtu.be/MjJGbVn4elM

Rishi Sunak’s Commons majority in peril as 60 Tories join Liz Truss group

Join Liz Truss group...

My condolences, UK folks.

Pork jerky merchant provides the most comprehensive explanation of web browser cookies I've seen:

https://www.peperami.tv/cookie-policy/

LLM security is the investigation of the failure modes of LLMs in use, the conditions that lead to them, and their mitigations.

Here are links to large language model security content - research, papers, and news

#infosec #llm
https://llmsecurity.net/

Awesome: Pharma companies begrudgingly agree to negotiate prices

Merck, AstraZeneca, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Boehringer Ingelheim have all said that they will agree to the negotiations, though some were clearly bitter about it.

If the drug makers reject the negotiations, they would either face an excise tax of up to 95 percent of the drugs' sales, or have to pull all of their drugs from the Medicare and Medicaid markets.
#news #pharma
https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/big-pharma-companies-agree-to-federal-price-negotiations-under-protest/

Status update

Current status

Ran into a tough problem deck construction problem what with it being at grade. Fortunately I have an excellent trenching device.

I haven’t been shy about saying that Elon Musk is an antisemite. I think it’s time to upgrade his classification: Nazi...Every single one of my ancestral alarm bells have been set off, just as they were when then-candidate Trump shared a meme in 2016 from a far right account showing Hillary Clinton with a Star of David and stacks of cash. ... If we choose to ignore it, we do so at our own peril.
#Musk #politics

https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-crosses-the-border-to-nazi