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One cat in a box inevitably leads to two cats in a box.

#caturday #cats

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In Grasmere, on a bridge over the river Rothay.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria



Still fostering this little grey kitty I found in the woods. He was shy at first but warmed up quickly. #caturday #CatsOfMastondon


Saturn at the Moon's Edge apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240727.ht… #APOD
#APOD


The NIH panel on postdocs proposes to shorten the eligibility period for K99 to 3 years down from 5 years.

I understand their motivation is reducing the training period for successful faculty, but I think an unintended consequence is it is going to reduce scientific innovation. If you have to show you are on a successful trajectory that early, people are going to choose safe projects.

acd.od.nih.gov/documents/prese…

#NIH #AcademicChatter




Saturn at the Moon's Edge

Image Credit & Copyright: Chengcheng Xu

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240727.ht… #APOD

#APOD


The model collapse paper is now officially published, in Nature no less: nature.com/articles/s41586-024…


@Girl Of The Sea Asked after my frog paintings. Here is one of them! It's a local species known either as the banjo frog because of the sound it makes, or the pobblebonk. Many of them live in the nearby creeks and ponds of Hurstbridge. One of them was even carried into the house by one of my cats (it had gotten into their catio). I then safely put it back outside!

#art #myart #frogs

in reply to Muse

I like the stamp - to my eye it is an ancient Egyptian cartouche in an arts and crafts style.

Licking toads? That's one of those things that makes me wonder "how did that ever get started, was there a lollypop shaped toad that just looked like it needed to be licked?"

in reply to Muse

"I like the stamp - to my eye it is an ancient Egyptian cartouche in an arts and crafts style."

BINGO! With just a touch of Asian influence.

It's much easier than trying to sign my name without wrecking my painting. Also, these days it's probably the best defense I can figure out against AI scrapers. Watermarks and image poisoning can be routed around. But by making my signature integral then anyone saying to an AI, do a frog in the style of KJP, they're going to get that cartouche. Or a mangled version of it.



Awww, but these poor strangers have been waiting up and down the boulevard!


BWS is a chain of Beer Wine and Spirits shops in Australia.
Below is some of our finest humour! hehehe!


LIVE SOON:

Olympics? What's that?
We've got a city to build #pathofexile #poe #settlersofkalguur

youtube.com/watch?v=Bk03ce9noM…

in reply to Brodie Robertson

Even if you don't watch Olympics stuff ... watch this 2:58 sec vid. It's awesome.

streamable.com/4qdjv2



Today we have the start of our post AVCon indie game developer interviews, this time we have the members of Bad Plan Studios on to talk about there game End of Ember a Binding of Isaac inspired roguelite full of horror refrences but guy who started it knows it needs some work so they're starting from scratch

Video Release: youtube.com/watch?v=Vi9vBIoKAn…
Audio Release: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…



King of the bucket!

youtube.com/shorts/7grHAgg4TKo…



What Is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)?

My Australian friends may not be familiar with the term DEI, until you say what that acronym stands for. So, I found this article to share with them.





It Was So Cold Last Night It Was Impossible To Leave Them Out. I Love Them So Much. 📷: Pat Van Acker

sheep in front of a fire

We have some neighbours who have done something like this. Now, every so often I can hear them yell at one of their goats to "get out of the house!"





I just realized I haven't shared sandstone #photos. Sandstone is fascinating and #beautiful and forms various crazy shapes. Endless possibilities for both large and small scale #photography. Photo is titled 'Among the Waves'.

#thursday #photo #landscape #landscapephotography #rock #pink #shape #nature #naturephotography #color #australia #photographie



#MastodonForHarris morning update - we are well over $300,000 and headed to 4000 contributions!

Funds raised as of this post: $326,239.24
# of contributions: ➡️ 3910 ⬅️
# of recurring contributions: 193

Current target: $500,000

I’m emphasizing the number of contributions because it is as important as the overall amount of money raised. Let’s continue to make an impact! secure.actblue.com/donate/mast…



Lily Tarn. Currently occupied by exactly two friendly ducks (not pictured).

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Come Through Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #TheLakes

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Three NASA Interns Expand Classroom Access to NASA Data nasa.gov/learning-resources/na… #NASA #LearningResources


Hubble Images a Classic Spiral nasa.gov/image-article/hubble-… #NASA #Galaxies #HubbleSpaceTelescope #SpiralGalaxies


Now up: A draft syllabus for an undergrad research course focused on the great election year of 2024. Uses @zizip's latest book to frame our questions: nathanschneider.info/school/di…

Feedback super welcome!

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in reply to Jed Brown

Writing is sometimes an artifact meant to provide evidence of understanding. If you take a document and transform it with a thesaurus and grammatical isomorphisms to obfuscate the source, that is plagiarism. The victim is not just the person who wrote the original content, but also the reader who is being deceived into believing you understand and communicated your understanding. Generative models are automating that obfuscation and everything that comes out is tainted.
in reply to Jed Brown

This part is especially helpful:

> Writing is sometimes an artifact meant to provide evidence of understanding

In my classes, this is almost exclusively its purpose.



Ethical use of AI: How do you ensure your compliance? 🤔

In our review of today's ethical AI challenges, we explore the regulations to be aware of, the Big Tech marketing tricks, transparency concerns, data sovereignty, and AI vendor lock-in.

Read on 👇

nextcloud.com/blog/ethical-use…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

> Ethical use of AI: How do you ensure your compliance?

We expect from you, @nextcloud, more than mere compliance with the law.

For a project founded and heavily promoted as ethically right, we expect compliance with what #ethics demands.

That means: No use of technology that consumes gargantuan amounts of electricity and fresh water. No use of #LLM corpuses extracted from the internet without consent of the creators.

While that is the "AI" being offered, reject it utterly.

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It's Friday again, so I will be playing some Linux games over at cast.samsai.eu/ in about 15 minutes. Tonight's menu: "Afterplace" and "ExoCross". Then we'll see how close to the end we get in Shadow of the Tomb Raider. See you in the chat!


Combining exploration, city-building and complex resource management, Scorchlands 1.0 is out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/comb…

#LinuxGaming #Linux #SteamDeck



Old School Rally now Steam Deck Verified with an impressive roadmap ahead gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/old-…

#SteamDeck #IndieGame #Retro



Vibrant Sokoban-style game Puzzledorf now available for Linux, works great on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/vibr…

#Linux #SteamDeck



No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/no-r…

#SteamDeck #RPG #NoRestfortheWicked

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I just fired this update up on my steam deck and I am unconvinced. They give that green check out WAAAAAY too easily.
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I think it's finally time to tell the story of that time the FBI showed up to the studio.......



Listen to smart women with cats. (And with dogs, birds, lizards, rodents… )
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

so true 😄 This movie is part of a series that I showed to my teenage daughter to teach her about life, about being a woman, and about why Science Fiction is awesome. She loved it !


Hubble Images a Classic Spiral science.nasa.gov/missions/hubb… #NASA #Astrophysics #AstrophysicsDivision #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #HubbleSpaceTelescope #Missions #SpiralGalaxies #TheUniverse

in reply to Eugen Rochko

Who will fire up their parody machine to make a mopey theme song:

youtu.be/7ZsQdLlvuk4?si=CzRMnx…

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