Becoming a Hunter Gatherer in the Information Age - https://kinlane.com/2023/01/05/becoming-a-hunter-gatherer-in-the-information-age/
Gogol Bordello Plays an Acoustic Punk Show | Live From Rolling Stone's Studios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qYTT3-kdks
Happy #BlackFriday y'all! To celebrate #BlackJoy on #BlackMastodon, I'd like to show a #watercolour painting I did of the great James Baldwin.
Other than brief moments in 1903, 1937, 1976, and 2013, this light bulb has been on in this Livermore, CA fire stations since 1901. https://www.centennialbulb.org/index.htm
I come across a lot of acronyms and this one is my favorite - https://owasp.org/www-project-crapi/
Amazing photo of lightning strike on #SutroTower in today's rare thunderstorm in San Francisco. Photo by Reddit user u/swingdatrake, slight color correction.
This legal primer for Fediverse instances under US jurisdiction is very good and you should read it and pass it around, and not have a lot of future problems.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer
Federated Mastodon API Automation Building Blocks - https://apievangelist.com/2023/01/08/mastodon-api-automation-building-blocks/
I am training some new Tensorflow texture transfer ML models. Reflecting my view of the world right now I am going a little less dark that I have historically, and will be focusing in on the California ideology--as this is where my head is at right now. I am training the ML models using these two images, which i will then apply to other photos I've taken.
Mystery of why Roman buildings have survived so long has been unraveled, scientists say
"...white chunks in the concrete, referred to as lime clasts, gave the concrete the ability to heal cracks that formed over time. The white chunks previously had been overlooked as evidence of sloppy mixing or poor-quality raw material."
"The new finding could help make manufacturing today's concrete more sustainable, potentially shaking up society as the Romans once did."
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