Charlie Loyd @vruba@everything.happens.horse

Okay, folks. I’ve been asked by a lot of friends who aren’t following the AI discourse to sort of clarify what the main camps are arguing, how they approach the issues, etc. As a trusted observer, I’m happy to provide this orienting service. No questions or comments, please. Hope it helps!

Me, politely but firmly taking the jar of kimchi out of the shooping cart and putting it back on the shelf: Darling, remember we talked about how this isn’t authentically Korean because it contains an ingredient introduced in the sixteenth century? And how that means it’s not tasty?

I’m not a religious man, but I do believe there’s insight and value in scripture.

[Insufferable grocery store customer voice:] So with both of these, that’s 100% off, right?

I relish the opportunities that software offers to remember that not everyone has the same perspective on whether, for example, things identified by their times should be sortable according to their times. What a gift this is; I honor and celebrate and wallow in this wonderful moment.

Through a loupe.

Plant ID, anyone? I picked up a handful of these from a free box in someone’s yard on my morning walk. The label just said “free succulents”.

Amusing myself by injecting false reflectances into pansharpening inputs. (CC BY-NC data from Maxar.)

I’m going to throw my coffee on the next mathematician I meet.

One of my favorite things on the Internet is when you watch a “Columbo” clip and there’s a comment where someone describes the concept of Columbo at a second-grade level and is massively upvoted for it. This sounds wry and ironical but I do honestly enjoy it.

Someone should check in on the astrophysicists.

I note that a major commercial map (left, compared to OSM on the right) isn’t showing the massive new reservoir behind the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam™. It started filling in 2020.

The Pleiades, Antarctica, in synthetic aperture radar (from the Umbra open data collection).

Let’s set aside petty politics and remember the great statesman in his own words, committing one of his several unimaginably gruesome crimes against humanity.

Time keeps sneaking up on me. It’s already November again and time to pick up a new screen light for the insect sky.

The Seattle area at night, in color, from a stack of Landsat 9 scenes. Denoised with some clumsy FFT editing. I can’t imagine why you would use this for anything over one of many other options, but it’s neat that it works.

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