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Glorious. Master of layering.

#photography
#streetphotography
https://www.mattstuart.com/all-that-life-can-afford

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Model shop that provided the first draft of many great Chicago buildings closes - Chicago Sun-Times https://chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-design/2026/02/13/columbian-model-exhibit-works-first-draft-chicago-buildings-obama-lakeshore-closes
#architecture #Chicago

The "Alton Brown Cooks" series on YouTube is an absolute delight. The man is a culinary treasure.

https://youtu.be/9uOucTcdkkU

#cooking #skirtsteak #grilling #food #chef #steak

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DHS terminates TPS for those who fled the ongoing civil war in Yemen.

@WarnerCrocker this might be in the article. I'm not sure but not only consumer electronics but any business using a cloud solution is going to be paying a lot more soon as cloud providers, including the biggest ones, have to pay more for memory.

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Pondering the world wide Web like David Bowie

Hmm I wonder what this button does. Here we see a deeply serious Bowie in Rodins The Thinker pose. Black jumper, tan suit, moustache and little thin beard from 1990s. He's looking at a computer that although relatively small, looks like it weighs a lot. You would not want it dropped on you. Instant death. The screen alone has a casing that could hold one large melon or a dozen tins of soup. If you could pour water in there you might survive in the desert for a week. It's the sort of computer you might be impressed by its VGA display and Soundblaster sound card.

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A handy chart into right wing ideology:

🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻 = normal society
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏿 = slippery slope
🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏻🧑🏿🧑🏿 = white genocide

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#Tech #Q1

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If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

Excerpt from the linked document. It reads "The AI Guidance states that authors may claim copyright protection only “for their own contributions” to such works, and they must identify and disclaim AI-generated parts of the works"

Excert from the linked document:

Three copyright registration denials highlighted by the Copyright Office illustrate that, in general, the office will not find human authorship where an AI program generates works in response to user prompts:

1. Zarya of the Dawn: A February 2023 decision that AI-generated illustrations for a graphic novel were not copyrightable, although the human-authored text of the novel and overall selection and arrangement of the images and text in the novel could be copyrighted.

2. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial: A September 2023 decision that an artwork generated by AI and then modified by the applicant could not be copyrighted, since the applicant failed to identify and disclaim the AI-generated portions of the work as required by the AI Guidance.

3. SURYAST: A December 2023 decision that an artwork generated by an AI system combining a “base image” (an original photo taken by the applicant) and a “style image” the applicant selected (Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night) could not be copyrighted, since the AI system was “responsible for determining how to interpolate [i.e., combine] the base and style images.”

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"Door ajar" versus $100 billion valuation.

Today I learned that you can DoS a Waymo by opening its door.

"The More You Know..."

Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, and DoorDash, the delivery and gig work platform, have launched a pilot program that pays Dashers, at least in one case, around $10 to travel to a parked Waymo and close its door that the previous passenger left open.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3Z

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this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

@grumpasaurus just re-frame what is and is not negative and you're set!

@loren

Black and white photo of a woman in dark clothing standing behind a portable sewing machine. The sewing machine is white and the open carrying case is grey. The woman's arms are outstretched as if to say "look, a sewing machine"

Speaking of birds, this weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count! Get outside this weekend and report what you see! https://www.birdcount.org/

#bird #audubon #conservation #communityscience

In the category of "have I ever felt more seen?" I present: "Are you a black-capped chickadee" !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJnyLlQnw78

#birds #chickadee #nature #fun #chickadeedeedee #birbs

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I am convinced that Agile is at least in part responsible for the proliferation of this sort of mentality in big tech. You teach a methodology that asks workers to focus only on a pretty user story about an ideal use case on a good day. And fifteen years later you have an entire generation of developers that cannot even recognize the practical imperfections of the real world that make their idea fucking stupid and unviable unless everyone acts exactly as expected.

@jwz https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116060706826577375

@dhry hope the new job is going well!

@grumpasaurus@infosec.exchange @grumpasaurus@video.infosec.exchange that's my go-to for fried fish for sure.

@randomcha oh man, i've not listened to any st. germain in forever. this is is a classic. i'm going to re-listen to this whole album now and then slide on over to Guru's first Jazzmatazz album. tagging @smarq19 on this one for sure.

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