Ross Nelson

#Jagged old wooden pilings sticking out of Colpoy's Bay, Ontario shortly before sunrise during a #longexposure to show movement in the cloud. For the #BlueSkyArtShow

#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds

Sunrise on Whitley Bay beach in the UK.

Crimson spills on the ocean’s skin.
Night retreats and day drifts in.
Stones gleam wet in the newborn light.
Echoes fade from the arms of night.

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

"They've warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic's AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement."

Good. Let them.

SVROAX The National Weather Service in Omaha has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northwestern Fremont County in southwestern Iowa... Southwestern Montgomery County in southwestern Iowa... Mills County in southwestern Iowa... East central Lancaster County in southeastern Nebraska... Northwestern Otoe County in southeastern Nebraska... Cass County in southeastern Nebraska... * Until 630 AM CDT. * At 557 AM CDT, a severe thunderstorm was located over Beaver Lake, or 12 miles south of Offutt AFB, moving east at 45 mph. HAZARD...60 mph wind gusts. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. * This severe thunderstorm will be near... Plattsmouth, Pacific Junction, and Beaver Lake around 600 AM CDT. Glenwood around 605 AM CDT. Malvern around 615 AM CDT. Other locations in the path of this severe thunderstorm include Hastings. This includes Interstate 29 between mile markers 20 and 35.

🚨 Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 9 at 5:57AM CDT until August 9 at 6:30AM CDT by NWS Omaha/Valley NE 🚨
Additional Details Here.

Altman: GPT-5 has a PhD level intelligence.
Users: Um...
OpenAI Boosters: When you prompt it right it has PhD level intelligence. Well, usually. But you definitely need to verify the results.

If I have PhD-level knowledge in a subject, I don't need your "sometimes" machine.

This looks like a parking lot full of gold plated dildos.

Good lord we already have a great treatment. It’s called not fucking getting the measles in the first place. Brought to you by extremely safe and effective vaccines

A thing not often mentioned here is one of the things OpenAI is trying to take away is community. Having experts beyond yourself — and professionals and friends and family and and and — means interacting with them, enforcing community. This attempts (poorly, thankfully) to diminish and destroy that.

Gerbera’s

#photography #flowers #photographersUnited #photographersofbluesky

Subtle flavor changes in Fruit Loops.

Steve Moore shows Trump a chart of "medium income"

tonight’s my first ever night shift with united airlines as a booking system engineer. been asleep all day and just now logging on—wish me luck, y’all!

(real, one-shot :p )

Two things:

1. Large language models like ChatGPT are statistically likely word generators; they don't have "expertise" in anything.

2. I have seen a team of PhD level experts fail to assemble a dresser from IKEA.

And *of course* a Trump is a fan. 🤮

WNBA sex toy incidents may be linked to cryptocurrency group’s money scheme The group's coin was created the day before the first incident, and as of Thursday, its worth had nearly tripled in one week.

In case you needed a reason to loathe cryptobros more than you do: WNBA sex toy incidents may be linked to cryptocurrency group’s money scheme

www.nytimes.com/athletic/654...

Storm clouds over Colpoy's Bay, Ontario, shortly before sunrise. Some of the clouds are glowing red from the rising sun.

The storm clouds are on fire. For the #AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFire

#PhotographersOfBluesky #PhotographersUnited #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #StormHour #photography #landscape #clouds

please wash me like one of your french marmots

extremely funny that trump referred to this man as a "beautiful, handsome guy"

Heads up for YouTube folks;

You can block certain websites and categories of ads appearing on your channel by going to Settings > Ad Categories

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.

Angelfire

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

eating pasta out of my own cup using brushes as chopsticks

was walking to the pottery studio and felt really faint. bought premade mac n cheese at store. the store did not have utensils. went to pottery studio where there is also no utensils. also the container it came in is not microwave safe. this is how i ended up in this perdicament.

One of the worst abuses of power since the last Vance abuse of power, when the Colosseum was shut down so his family could visit

"Explain why my clothes are wet after standing in the storm, but don't blame the rain."

This is so genuinely disgustingly pathetic and unamerican, my god

Agents or Bots? Making Sense of AI on the Open Web Explore Perplexity's blog for articles, announcements, product updates, and tips to optimize your experience. Stay informed and make the most of Perplexity.

the ai company running malicious bots has arrived to tell us why they are not running malicious bots.

www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/age...

naturally, i am opinionated on the subject. bad posts incoming: