Jon Hofmann

he's insane

Says the guy who learned one language

From above: ”Internal 82nd Airborne Div communications… reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance.

”One unit-level message bluntly saying: ‘No fat soldiers.’”

Roses 🌱 doing well this year

YouTube video by Vatnik Soup Victory Madness: Inside Russia’s Propaganda Machine

In our latest Vatnik Soup video, we talk about Russia's "victory madness" and how most of their propaganda is based on lies.

youtu.be/Ro-Hv66MpwE

Loaded wrong pic to plant identifier (Plantnet) 🌱

I didn't finish my dinner so I have something to guard from you ducks
The ducks - we're totally not hanging around here waiting for you to leave 🌱

Yes, but tannins need to be rinsed off for days. Too much work but a great soil amendment

Sour orange marmalade, made from self seeded 🌱 wild fruit which is too bitter to eat but makes a great albeit bitter marmalade.

Conspiracy time: Only explanation, Schumer has been compromised by a honeypot

Should be peak lupine bloom now. Will die back by summer, to be replaced by summer blooming blue vetch, planted 3 years ago and coming in stronger year by year. Both nitrogen fixing perennials in the Fabaceae 🌱 family

Euro is up because the US is slow-mo imploding, eroding demand for the dollar, otherwise the € with increased war spending, would be down too.

Green manures 🌱: Lupinus Luteus (yellow lupin) winter bloom. To be followed by Vicia Faba (fava beans) spring bloom and Vicia Cracca (blue vetch) summer bloom.
All #Fabaceae

LLM interfaces are text based, and based on speech, graphical (images), sound and signal. The LLM engine, per se, doesn't care about the interface

Vibe

Fixed it

Exclusive | Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI The unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman’s plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company.

Just like with Grok, xAI expands Musk's ability to manipulate 'truths' on a mass scale, to be inserted, seeded into social media discussion
www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

Musk doesn't need COBOL to manipulate payments, just access rights

X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

camellia sinensis 🌱 winter bee party (sound on)

Soil here is pure sand and bone dry soon after watering. Perennials tend to be deep rooted to reach moisture. With no rain for months in the summer, an hour of watering a day helps keeps everything thriving. Mediterranean adapted plants once a month.

World Bank Warns Colombian Staff Against U.S. Travel After Trump Visa Edict Several Colombians whose visas were revoked were World Bank employees traveling in the United States at the time. They were deported.

World Bank employees from Colombia: visa rescinded and deported. WB advising against travel to the US

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/u...

Born 🌱 last night

2 year 🌱 irrigation master plan completed. Solved:
- from 10 to 4 places to turn water on/off daily in the summer
- separated zones = no over or under watering, (bleeding between zones), pressure problems solved
- aging, leaky, redundant tubing replaced for easier maintenance & cost

Translation: feed me, feed me... Toulouse geese & mallards 🌱

We love everybody

Giant trellis - very low cost, permanent, made from standard cement roofing materials:
- 8 meter beam "vigota"
- 4 meter beams "vigas" partially buried
- wire mesh
- countervailing weight keeps everything in place

Chayote vine 🌱 going in

Anus mole emerging with the smell of money