The Oak — Tim LeRoy A mile up the lane from my house is an Oak tree standing sentinel, alone in her field, like a season clock. I've been walking up to make her portrait for five years.

A mile up the lane from my house is an Oak tree standing sentinel, alone in her field, like a season clock. I've been making her portrait as a slow, on-going artwork, for five years.

Here's August's portrait.

#Photography #art #shotonfairphone #EastCoastKin

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14.08.2025 14:01 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

China Just Turned Off U.S. Supplies Of Minerals Critical For Defense & Cleantech - CleanTechnica In response to new Trump tariffs, China cut dysprosium, terbium, and tungsten exports—hitting U.S. EVs, wind, and military systems hard.

cleantechnica.com/2025/04/05/c... Without dysprosium and terbium, your EV motor gets downgraded to a clunky, less efficient design that eats more power and delivers less range. Without tellurium, First Solar’s cadmium-telluride panels—the pride of U.S. solar manf.

05.04.2025 19:58 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 4

Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate…

I have a new blog post up: "Corporate 'DEI' Is An Imperfect Vehicle for Deeply Meaningful Ideals" charity.wtf/2025/02/10/c...

I know a lot of people are feeling incredibly scared and demoralized right now. I get it; I am too. (Who knows if my marriage will still be valid in two years?)

10.02.2025 15:54 — 👍 290    🔁 76    💬 13    📌 17

So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/

27.01.2025 14:12 — 👍 1416    🔁 200    💬 29    📌 33

Beef Wellington is just a corn dog from a different socioeconomic background.

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Screenshot of original branching tweet with context: "when people draw a branching diagram as parallel lines I like to redraw it with diverging lines to show increasing merge pain over time"

Adding a screenshot with context

07.12.2024 16:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks Pete! I left a small handful of tweets at the other place for historic value and this was one of them. Much better to have it here :)

07.12.2024 16:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0