A lot of people acting like Trump is a uniquely American problem because of some integral flaw in the character of Americans. Folks sure aren't looking too close to their own right wings, which is how America got where it is now.

There is a general rise in stupid awful fascism around the world, and slagging off Americans as particular idiots isn't going to help you get ready to fight your own fascists. Especially when you realize they might be your neighbors or your kids.

Ever day, in every way, I thank my lucky stars that I bought 32Gb of RAM and a 4Tb SSD long before the AI idiots made it more expensive than rubies.

My brother in law left the leftover potato salad behind after the 4th. No biggie. A house of 5 adult vegetarians, you figure we’d have no trouble polishing off a few leftovers. Ironically, 3 of the 5 of us aren’t going to eat it for totally different reasons.

One son is vegan, and his uncle probably hasn’t really cottoned on to that, yet. I’m trying to eat low-fat and that, well, isn’t. And then one of us has a sensitivity to potatoes (Crohn’s disease) so they’re not gonna touch it.

I was amused at how many red flags were packed in such an innocuous side dish.

Time for your annual reminder: please keep it quiet this morning as many people were up late last night blowing shit up and want to sleep in this morning.
#ChainsawsAtDawnMotherFuckers

I think I figured it out. I want to work less with things where knowing more makes you hate them more. And more with things where knowing more makes you love them more.

If I work with $thing I want to learn more about $thing. And the perspective of disliking $thing more in the future is terrible and demotivating.

Yes, this is about (current) computers and most of tech. I think I really want to quit tech. It's terrible for my soul.

I’m glad the extreme Liberal Democrats and the Jewish space lasers all conspired to control the weather and literally rain on Trump’s parade.
#trump #uspol #politics

Google quietly removes the on-device AI privacy assurance from Chrome's Settings UI

Google has quietly removed the privacy assurance from Chrome's on-device AI Settings UI. The sentence promising that the model runs locally without sending data to Google's servers has been deleted, and the toggle moved out of the System block to reduce the chance the change is noticed. There are three plausible reasons for tha…

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/google-quietly-removes-on-device-ai-privacy-claim

#ai #chrome #consent #compliance #eprivacy #gdpr #google

I’m delighted to say that my family and I have bought @kerrsbookshop and have been running it since Wednesday. I’ve set up a @mastodonie account and I can’t promise much but will keep posting there if you want to keep abreast #mastodaoine #bookstodon

If you’re buying pickles in the US this week, just know that Mt. Olive Pickle Company did humanity a solid and pulled out of the Trump fair bullshit when they learned that North Carolina’s booth had a confederate battle flag on it (which, incidentally, was never flown over North Carolina during the confederacy…).

*slaps roof* this roof can contain so much roof

💙Thanks to all the new people who followed me, and engaged with my posts this week! Hope you all are having a great weekend, what are you up to?

One of my favourite self-portraits inside a stunning Art Deco control room.

#Photographer #Gratitude #SelfPortrait #Adventure #Explore

Happy 4th of July! This morning's Low Quality Ad is for this Shit Show Pin. Tickets are required to attend the USA's 250th birthday party.
https://collabs.shop/9icgvf

Storms starting to pop now, one over Williamsburg where a severe thunderstorm warning is in effect, a few more just west of Charlottesville, and up by Harrisonburg, and generally scattered around the Shenandoah Valley. The Wakefield radar is unfortunately down so tracking storms around Richmond may be tough until it comes back online, hopefully soon.

Floating solar on reservoirs makes so much sense. More of this please!
#netzero #solar https://www.ecoportal.net/en/london-floating-solar-reservoir-water-birds-uk/28380/

@paco

Load bearing asterisks*

@paco They charged you a penny per asterisk.

@paco feels like an ancient proverb... the most expensive thing you'll ever receive is something you get for free.

I am the Fedi that toots in the night.

Me <just back from a dog walk in the heat/humidity>: WHEW

Wife: How was your walk?

Me: Sticky!

Brain: you mean...

Me: Wait, let's talk about this

Brain: IT'S STICKY TO WALK AROUND TO WALK AROUND THAT'S RIGHT ON TIME IT'S STICKAAAAAY

Me: goddamn it

Brain: STICKY
STICKY
STICKY
STICKY