Lynn Greiner

Hah! Been there - it isn't close to enough. How are your feet holding up?

In our case, cat 1, aged about 16, was the elder statesman who mentored the two youngsters (6 years old). The two younger ones deferred to him.
But cat 1's deceased original housemate thought she was empress of the universe.

If you have two cats, one of them will be the best cat ever just chill and causes no problems and the other one will be an entire menace to society every waking moment.

It's a total crapshoot if you get a third.

It's always the orange ones Cat drawing

Scones cooling on a wire rwck

I just pulled these scones out of the oven.
They will be a tasty part of my lunch.
Most of them got an very good rise...I believe that is due to putting them in the freezer for 30 minutes before baking.
The lumpy ones were made with scraps of the dough after cutting the rounds.

#baking

If you've read something from last year that made you sit back in wonder and awe, or challenged you to consider a different way of doing things, then this right here is the award to nominate it for!

#booksky
#writersky

AI-generated artwork is officially not eligible for copyright protection after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the appeal.

The court ruled that a work must have a human creator in order to qualify for copyright.

(Link: www.reuters.com/legal/govern...)

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She's still adorable

Cunningham's Law is the gift that keeps on giving

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Five months in and still looking for work. Game writing would be great, but I've also got 30 years software QA management experience with waterfall and agile.

So, if you need someone who can write with a strong tech background and can work with teams across multiple continents, I might be your guy.

FUCK

Canada warns against travel to 13 countries in Middle East amid ongoing conflict More than 85,000 Canadian citizens and permanent residents are registered as being in the Middle East, according to the Canadian government.

Canada warns against travel to 13 countries in Middle East amid ongoing conflict

I predict this man has a very bright future.

👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

Congratulations, pal.

#WellDeserved

Photo of a beautiful, fluffy white cat looking up in soft afternoon light with light green eyes.

photo of a one-eyed black and white tuxedo kitten looking intensely at the camera with one with foreleg outstretched toward it.

Happy International Rescue Cat Day to my loves, Francie and Marcel. I'm obviously a big advocate for rescue animals but FIV+ cats have a special place in my heart. If anyone ever has questions about caring for FIV kitties I'm always happy to answer. 1/2

Can Trump cancel the election in all 50 states and DC? No. Can he even rig the rules for state run elections? Also no. Is it seriously alarming that the thought is on his mind? And that the media and the Dems don’t seem to think this is a big priority? Yes.

Cat sees its shadow comic

Inspired!

Friday Bonus Cartoon!

AI update: replication crisis — Jessica Kant Regardless of who actually prints a story, it is the merger of social media and machine learning which increasingly drives narratives in the immediate wake of a major event. The next time a catastroph...

Reposting this because, hilariously, someone running an AI news aggregator just plagiarized the hell out of it and got shared 3x as much as the original post. So you know, here's the actual piece. Where I talk about LLMs making copies of copies of copies of copies and how that drives disinformation.

Spyware makers sentenced to prison in Greece for wiretapping politicians and journalists | TechCrunch Tal Dilian and three other Intellexa executives were tried for their role in a scandal dubbed "Greek Watergate," which dates back to 2022.

This is thought to be the first known time a spyware maker has been sentenced to jail following the misuse of their technology: Spyware makers sentenced to prison in Greece for wiretapping politicians and journalists | TechCrunch buff.ly/AaLaPKQ

Happy Birthday! And I wish you many more such gifts.

Whifflery [WIF-ul-ree]
(n.)
- The actions or behavior of one who shifts opinions, argues evasively, or changes course frequently, the act of being trifling or indecisive.

Yes! There's nothing like eating potatoes that went from ground to pot in ten minutes. It's a whole different vegetable to the store-bought ones.

AI may crash the economy, but at least businesses can save on software Citrini Research imagines a future where software tools and expertise are rendered obsolete while AI unleashes job losses and economic chaos.

Here's a rather disturbing thought experiment looking at the plusses and minuses of AI in the enterprise:

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to ...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

A white cat wearing glasses and a bow tie stands behind a lab bench. There is chemistry equipment on the bench. He makes a joke about Schoedinger's cat.

Chemistry Cat. #catcanoe #catsky

In a world thick with shadow, conflict, division, polarization, and cold uncertainty, joy becomes our remedy. It heals fractures, soothes wounds, and refuses to surrender to darkness. Greet each sunrise as an invitation.

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:

A small human (4?) is waiting at a pedestrian crossing with Nana but the light is taking SO LONG to go green. With a huff, she lays down like a starfish on the footpath and says: "Tell me when we can go Nana! I'm SLEEPING NOW!" (1)