TimP

Trying to keep off the socials to make room for my youtube shorts habit.

Does web.brid.gy always need a nudge?

It is not 2006 anymore and this is not Twitter. Lets have better data collection: "I unfollowed you because you reposted this" is worthwhile feedback.

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

These look like lesser stag beetle larvae in very rotten apple wood.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorcus_...
Can anyone confirm?

Why would this service be funded by the US state alone?
The users are multi-national, including the US state.
A membership and subscription system should fund the CVE registry happily.

Cyc – Yuxi on the Wired Obituary for the greatest monument to logical AGI. After 40 years, 30 million rules, 200 million dollars, 2000 person-years, and many promises, Cyc has failed to reach intellectual maturity, and may n...

Those of us working in AI for long enough remember Cyc and all that it aspired to do.

A cautionary tale somewhere hidden therein?

yuxi-liu-wired.github.io/essays/posts...

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.

I recommend @favcolourgreen.bsky.social to your time line.

Vinyl samples for ultrasound decor at the JR.Showing how it looks:A/W;in normal light,then with extra UV torch,then with just UV torch. I think there's loads I can do with subtle UV printing in neon to make this so much better;it's brilliant to be able to do a real physical test!

YouTube video by WIRED History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Should be shared in schools and everywhere!
youtu.be/vK6fALsenmw?...

My Welsh mother on why she jettisoned her family accent: I decided that if I was going to speak English I was going to do so properly.

In the centre of the photo a small bee like insect with a darker central core and lighter brown edges has its wings outstretched. The leading edge is dark. It's taking nectar from some Blackthorn blossom.

In the centre of the photo a small bee like insect with a mostly light brown fluffy body and extremely long legs dangling underneath it. Its long black proboscis is taking nectar from Blackthorn blossom, which fills most of the rest of the photo.

Saw my first Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major) of the year on Blackthorn blossom this morning as well as my first Small White (Pieris rapae) butterfly in the Lye Valley, Oxford. 😍
#BeeFlyWatch #UKWildlife #Diptera #Recorded
@kitenet.bsky.social @judywebb.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social

Wow, found one in the house in Florence Park this morning. picked it up and put it outside, though I think it was pretty exhausted.

"anything less than top rating is worse than not rating at all" this is an American thing. Anything less than 100% is not worth having. UK used to have a different rule: No one gets 100%, 50% is normal.

Denny (@capngloval@mastodon.sdf.org) Attached: 1 image

mastodon.sdf.org/@capngloval/...

Totally agree it’s an act of abuse on his behalf.
Ironically he gets all bent out of shape when people call Twitter Twitter, an inanimate piece of software, yet he’s happy to deadname his daughter.

I have two, was it easy to upgrade? Is there a HOWTO?

Last chance - if you don’t live too far away from WD7 8 (just North of London, right by the M25) I will actually put his thing in the car and bring it to you (or to a person/organisation that you nominate). A free 2009 iMac running Ubuntu Linux.

It was great to catch up with Chelsea Manning.

Chelsea paid an enormous price for exposing US war crimes to the world — and continues to speak out against state surveillance and defend the human rights of others.

She is proof that acts of courage can change the world.

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

Thames Water has been given a £3 billion bailout, paid for by you and me.

Why should households have to pay for the mess that Thames Water got itself into, just so execs and shareholders can protect their profits?

There is a better solution: take water into public ownership.

The US administration appear to believe that Mexico and southern US will be uninhabitable within 10 years. So they need to slow that realisation down, and move north.

Triskeles are a great rabbit hole to spin down.

There is a starling murmuration between 5:30pm and 6:30pm as they decide to roost in the Leylandii boundary of the Oxford Business park, behind Neilsen House/Oxford Biodynamics. I guess it will hold up whilst the weather is cold at night.

Happy International Women's Day!

Orange rays rise up over the peaks of the Torridon mountains into a stormy morning sky.

Sunrise over Torridon #scotland #photography #landscapephotography #nikon #skye