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If it helps, I read “sad” where it said “said”. 🤷‍♂️

Not watching the news for the last couple of months has been excellent for my health.

Once again, my biggest complaint about this platform is the limitation on post length. The limits, in ways similar to Twitter when it rolled out, drive us toward snippy, pithy language usage. Anyone who cares a whit about language usage finds themselves immediately frustrated with the effective cens

YouTube video by Matthew Berman DeepSeek R1 Fully Tested - Insane Performance

For you AI geeks out there (or those casually curious about advancements in AI), China’s new “deepseek” model appears to be pretty incredible. Running it takes a lot of resources, and there are some solvable censorship problems, but its capabilities are incredible.

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Weighed myself recently. The holidays took the expected toll on my weight loss efforts, but I’m still losing. One more pound to go to hit my twenty-pound-loss goal. I’m in no hurry and didn’t have a timeline, but I expect to be there by the end of the month.

How old do you consider old to be?

a cornucopia of pumpkins and apples with the words " i 'm thankful for " ALT: a cornucopia of pumpkins and apples with the words " i 'm thankful for "

Happy Thanksgiving. We find ourselves in a time where it’s easy to forget that we have many things to be thankful for. Don’t forget that in these tumultuous times, there is plenty. Spend today looking toward those things, and be thankful for them and the people who make your world work.

Lichen on a fallen branch.

A moss-covered tree with roots that form a tunnel.

Moss-covered trees in the Hoh Rainforest.

A dangling moss-covered branch as the foreground; forest in the background.

In the Hoh Rainforest.

How is “boobs” swearing? I know, you didn’t build it. But you would know, being a writer and all… 😶

I love that scene.

It’s my understanding that the size increase for American trucks to the level of ridiculousness they are now is a factor of poorly-written fuel economy legislation (by wheelbase) written by the Federal government and the automotive industry’s desire to get around it.

I’ve been saying a while that within a year, Vance will invoke the 25th Amendment, perhaps to keep Trump from doing something really insane, but more likely just as a power grab. And the MAGAs will go ballistic, because no one messes with their hero, and… things will get difficult.

Our yard is a mess this morning after severe winds last night. Glad we didn’t lose a tree, and particularly glad that no trees fell on the house.

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Ben Affleck on the future of AI video.
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Here's a bit of trivia.

Trans people make up 0.6% of the population.
Psychopaths make up 1.2% of the population.

Psychopaths do actual harm to society, but we hardly even talk about them. They're in our businesses, schools, politics, etc. The current administration is full of them!

I never used Twitter; never had an account; never saw the utility for me.

I really like Reddit, with long form, Markdown support, and that it’s community/topic based rather than individual (personality) driven. This is probably because I don’t have a compelling-enough personality to have a large f…

As a tech guy, I can tell you that it’s unlikely that storage is the issue. Storage is amazingly cheap, even in the distributed, fault-tolerant model that’s required for a social media platform like this.

I’d like to see at least a 2,000 character limit, and possibly more than that. In a perfect w…

If you find one, have a word with them about the 500-character limit. I’m generally happy with the platform except for that one limitation.

Thor Industries, one of the leading manufacturers of RVs, is developing a plug-in hybrid RV with 500 miles of range, which is near perfect. Anyone driving further than that in a day at least need a break for lunch. I hope they put some focus on coach quality.

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We didn’t get near as far as you did. Congrats on having stamina. Questionable use of it, understandable use of alcohol.

I think it’s 2000 characters. Haven’t tested it, though.

Of lesser standing, but still good:

“If this is my thermometer, where is my pen?”

“Alright, now where’s that local woman I’ve got to wrestle?”

To follow my previous post (500 characters really isn’t enough):

Now who has a good recipe for pie? Cute cat video? Dad jokes? Pictures of beautiful landscape? I need things that calm me right now, not more hand-wringing. Please, I’m begging you.

This is me right now. I can’t do anything about it, sane people can’t do anything about it; nothing can be done about it. All we can do is watch and hope that a) it’s not as bad as we fear, and b) that there’s a mid-term correction.

What is this /honk of which you speak?

Post the image, then put the text of the essay in the alt-text of the image. Belt-and-suspenders! 😀

Downloaded the iOS app for my iPad. It’s sized for phone-only. So for now the browser-based interface is the best. Prolly gonna install the app on my phone to see how things go.

The Deception Pass bridge as seen from the helm of a boat transiting the pass.

So, blue sky it says. That intimates limitlessness, or at least no limits other than 500 characters. Hoping this place makes a worthwhile landing place. I note that the limit on Alt Text for images is 2000 characters. That might be interesting.

This comment represents my toe in the water. Next up, I’ll figure out how to post something. Look out world!