Kevin Solez

Self-portrait, 15 October 2025, 46 1/2 years old, 54°N, 12°C.
#photographyBluesky #selfie #photo #photography #Alberta #LacLaBiche

Self-portrait, 15 October 2025, 46 1/2 years old, 54°N, 12°C.

THE CALL OF CTHULHU (Palindrome)

Do glassy
bays tug
at a gutsy
abyssal god?

“Over the last few months, we’ve begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves,” Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said in July on the social-media giant’s second-quarter earnings call. All of that should make AI models more efficient, which could have a beneficial effect on the economics of AI. Second, data centers under construction around the world will soon begin operations, increasing the supply of computing power and energy and driving down the cost of training and using AI. Tech company Microsoft last month said it is in the final stages of construction on a $3.3 billion data center in Wisconsin and announced plans for a second, $4 billion facility in the area. And third, increasing demand for tokens could finally become an economic benefit as models improve and the supply of computing infrastructure expands. Newsletter Sign-up WSJ | CIO Journal The Morning Download delivers daily insights and news on business technology from the CIO Journal team. Preview Subscribed Another massive increase in demand for AI is likely in the coming months or quarters, just as those other forces take hold, according to Terry. That’s because the most promising corporate AI trials are likely to move into broader deployment.

Articles like this drive me insane. The amount of tokens being used is going up because they explicitly made it so that models use more tokens. This is the tech section of a globally-renown newspaper and it's an argument that's unmoored from reality or meaning.
www.wsj.com/articles/ai-...

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius. Nearly 2000 years later, we can at last read these lost treasures

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library | New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Genau

This fellowship changed the trajectory of my career and my time on its committees is the most worthwhile professional service I have ever done. Please apply and help us spread the word

Ach, @mattitiahu.bsky.social , you are a free user and master of the language!

My parents' cat, Lucky, looking fine in the fall foliage. Photo by Kim Solez. Alliteration by yours truly. #yeg #yegcats #Edmonton #cats

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

This is Portland today.
Show up on October 18th.
Oh, and #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

#MyCity
#Portland
#FuckTrump

Divided and Devoured (Babrius 44) Read 'Divided and Devoured' by Babrius in Greek and English.

Babrius is right: the union makes us strong!

Happy Labor Day!

gnomai.com/stories/divi...

#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

Got to keep the little grey cells happy!

tibi congratulor!

In the end, justice always arrives.

πάντως ὕστερον ἦλθε δίκη.

(Solon, fr. 13.8, ed. West)
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky #BlueSkyClassics

I dub this firepit "Burning Ilion," and Homer is the rainbow speaker.
#Homer #autumn #epic #Iliad #Wilusa #Ilium

Dusk in deep southwest Edmonton with its characteristic white silt forming cliffs which these creeks have carved. #yeg #edmonton #rivervalley #ravine

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

#MosaicMonday - An interestingly themed mosaic panel from Antioch, dubbed the 'Peddler of Erotes': ca. 3rd Century AD. An old man seems to be out-and-about capturing Loves 'in the wild'. #Archaeology #Art 🏺

Image: Baltimore Museum of Art (1937.128). Link - collection.artbma.org/objects/2481...

I look forward to your forthcoming publication in GRRR.

My daughter, the Halloween fashionista.

Woof! Woof! Let us invoke Apollo Hylates: ὑλακτέω !

Good news for Deutschland

You don’t need AI; AI is not “inevitable.” That’s a lie being fed to you by companies who are going to lose a fuckton of money if they don’t convince you that AI is something you can’t live without.

I was at the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion in Edmonton! #yeg #yegarts
#Edmonton #nathanfillion

"The dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt,
All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out:
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,
They rave, recite, and madden round the land."

--- Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
#satire #poetry #Literature #Sirius

Herzlichen Zum Gratulieren!!

🎤 I'm looking after my health / I'm looking after my wealth / sports clubs / hot tubs/ beef don't happen on bread buns/ Swiss chard / Swiss beats/ I eat meat / 🎤.

--Notorious K.E.V.

#poems #poetry #hiphop #NotoriousBIG

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.