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Yesterday’s annular eclipse as viewed from a city park on the outskirts of Hondo, #Texas. There was a broad layer of high clouds when we arrived but luckily they broke up & blew away just in time for the main event. Had to get up in the wee hours and drive 225 miles (362 km) west to get right in the center of the path but it was well worth it.

#Eclipse #Eclipse2023 #EclipseSolar #Sun #Moon #photography #astrophotography

More from the Plague Ships series.

Cruise liners sat just off the south Devon coast for 18 months during Covid. At first they were a magnificent sight but, after weeks and then months passed, their presence became more and more malevolent.
#photography #MastoArt

"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights." - Byrne Hobart

Godlessness (Linux users) is at an all-time high. We need to address the capability gap in our hearts.

#ScienceJokes

#sunday #davinci #christianity #meme

Day 15 of #photOctober2023 and the themes are breakfast and mountain. I'm ignoring breakfast (other than eating it as I looked through my photos) because I have an absolute favourite mountain photo & I don't really know why I bothered looking through any others.

This is the largest mountain in the UK, Ben Nevis, looking like an elephant.

I mean. Really. 🐘

#photography #Scotland #BenNevis #elephant #landscape

I *really* dislike the use of "hallucination" as a way to describe the behavior of LLMs. Not because it anthropomorphizes them, but because hallucinations are disorders of sensory perception. They don't make you spew out plausibly-sounding bullshit.

If you need a familiar term, "confabulation" is probably a better pick.

Day 14 of #photOctober2023 and the themes are blurred and street sign.

I took this as I walked up a hill on the narrow road on the St Abbs Nature Reserve. As I slowly approached the sign, and paused to take in the view and a deep breath, I thought to myself "rude!"

#photography #Scotland

We made a comic about lists.

#politics

having a body sucks. why does my mind have to be attached to a big tamagotchi

Vincent Price: bisexual gourmet

Peter Cushing: Warhammer and bird enthusiast

Christopher Lee: real-life spy who very likely assassinated one or more people

Old horror movie icons were a wild bunch.

In computer security it is always spooky season :(

- Hey, you know how salmon jump up waterfalls on their way to spawn? I managed to catch one on video.

- Nice. You haven't done anything stupid to this amazing, strong, determined, creature have you?

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- I said...

- I heard what you said.

#salmon #Scotland #waterfall #fish #googlyEyes #video #loop

Day 12 of #photOctober2023 and the themes are "on the road" and "panoramic".

This 20yr old panorama shows our old car on the road by Loch Hourn in the Scottish Highlands.

It was stitched together by hand. The camera attempted to assist but it needed a lot of help - so much work compared to just twirling around with your SmartPhone.

It was very satisfying though & I've always liked taking them on paths & roads.

We came from here.

We're going there.

#photography #panorama #Scotland

For fuck's sake, just hire people, they're cheaper

https://gizmodo.com/github-copilot-ai-microsoft-openai-chatgpt-1850915549