Roy Steves

Phacellophora - Wikipedia

And they get BIG. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phacell...)

But I hadn't seen a photo of one that looked like that till now, with the blue bits, or the REALLY yolk-shaped core. A quick search turned up a LOT of amazing shots like that I'd have missed--thanks for sharing!

Also, acquiring PE.

Oooh, that is a fantastic effect for such a straight forward treatment! The original shot was excellent, which helped, certainly, but you laid out the mirrored layers so well it definitely has a psychedelic fractal quality that I really dig.

Sorry, can't respond to your inquiry, something just popped up.

Eh, I don't "trust it completely" but I also haven't had to write a single line of code in months--but I can take responsibility for the output, though. You have a valid concern, but so does Anthropic--this is a crazy time to be alive, and it really can unlock some incredible things.

Google is generating 360 views IN Shopping results tiles!? What?

None of the sites linked had 360s, so Google is inferring this from the source images. Not sure I'm a fan of it, but could be inevitable at this point, huh?

Still going to shoot REAL ones.

#ecommerce #googleshopping #googleads

I didn't believe this when I first saw it. But it's legit.

Geo-stat orbits are just far enough from Earth that on their "night" side of the orbit, they can produce a difference sufficient to explain how small the moon appeared here.

Gemini really wanted to blame "bloom". No. Obviously no.

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Thanks for sharing, once again! I'd have never seen this otherwise.

I had to do so much more math to explain the relative "small" moon than I care to admit. Having seen a total solar eclipse from the Earth, this looked implausible, but accounting for both lunar apogee and the farthest the satellite could be from the moon at the time... it adds up! SO AWESOME.

That is the most ear-ish Jelly Ear I've seen!

So, there was this music composition app that enshittified, breaking all of the custom plugins I had for tin whistle tabs.

So I just vibe coded (Claude Code in VSCode) a replacement that's just my style in less than 90 minutes.

It's "tea, earl gray, hot" for software. No joke.

Good (default) plan!

It's totally a manageable risk for anyone who gets into the details, but not like foraging blackberries, for sure.

I'd eat Chicken of the Woods, but not much else without a lot of diligence. But that one is really, really obvious where I live.

I guess now we know "why do they always run?"

...I have exactly the same canoe! I grew up with it, and inherited it from my parents. While the aluminum frame has seen better days, I'm pretty sure the Coleman shell will outlive the sun.

No one knows REALLY how to optimize for LLM visibility for brands.

But if you sound confident, and are early, you can collect cash and hope to figure it out on the fly. 🤫

Only trust those with data, and a healthy dash of humility.

Or the Gödel generalization: A proof like this exists in all webcomics complex enough to state the premise.

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Fair enough.

But, I mean... we both probably would prefer to show up in both places, regardless. We're probably splitting hairs, either way. :)

It's built into the EMACS text editor, too, ha ha!

Sure! Are you thinking that normal users really pay attention to the difference? They don't live in this stuff like we do.

And for those wondering, the banks of sliders are volume, then volume LFOs (frequency and intensity), then stereo sweeps (frequency and separation), per selected harmonic.

It's a dumbed down synthesizer, basically, but I kind of backed into that convergently.

So, during a bout of jet-lag induced insomnia, I decided to build a harmonic drone generator with a sleep timer that gradually decreases volume over 30 minutes.

It did the trick! We are fully into the age of ephemeral, on-demand, zero overhead software. Still trying to guess implications.

Primer was, while I could afford it, my only $50/m patreon sub. SOOO GOOD.

I mean... if the ads are for pants in the right size... it would be like what we THOUGHT personalized email should have been for years.

I might come to accept the creepiness if it works.

I'm so glad I had niche-relevant content out there 10+ years ago. That stuff is like the WW2 shipwreck steel of our era. Anyone starting from scratch is going to have a rougher time.

I was absolutely holding my breath to see where Apple went, knowing it would tip the scales overnight. Wild.

Rust fungus was one of my first iNaturalist posts after I got a handheld microscope!

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I didn't know that was a thing that existed! Amazing!

I wish more things in real life had this many greeblies. Lovely!

No kidding. I still remember the nonsense he was spouting in 2008, and have no idea why he remained on the air.