ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

@RIDDLES #moon #cycle

Today's contribution to #ThickTrunkTuesday can be found in the National Botanic Gardens in Kilmacurragh in County Wicklow #Ireland.

Set on the grounds of an 18th Century manor house, this #tree makes an impression with a backdrop of the Wicklow Mountains.

For more on County Wicklow as a great day out by car from #Dublin see 👉 https://www.sidewalksafari.com/2016/10/gocar-wicklow-ireland.html?mastodon

The museum's terracotta warriors all snap to attention and speak in unison. “Initializing.”

A wild story with copyright and academic publishing implications: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

This limit is tersely explained in Remarks 5 and 6 of Touchette's review article:

https://www.ise.ncsu.edu/fuzzy-neural/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/01/or706-LF-transform-1.pdf

but I want to hook it up better to the 'tropical rig' or 'min-plus algebra', which I explained here:

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2007/02/quantization_and_cohomology_we_12.html

There however I was thinking about a 'low temperature limit', so Touchette's different outlook is confusing - in a promising way.

(2/n)

#jamesDolan

On this day in 1831, Darwin boarded The Beagle, taking with him this pioneering nomenclature of color which classified for the first time the spectrum of the living world https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/06/werner-nomenclature-of-colours/

Of course, one of the wildest stories about Peter Thiel was that he wanted young people’s blood to slow his aging.

When Malcolm X said, “You show me a capitalist, I'll show you a bloodsucker,” he probably didn’t know it would become so literal.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood

#tech #peterthiel

“Sorry I’m late, guys. The sitter called in sick.”

Imagine a news organization that can byline a story like this with a tech-privacy beat reporter (and not just anyone—@kashhill!), a Pentagon beat reporter, a reporter on the ground in Germany to go meet hackers at @cbase, and a technologist. They get tons of well deserved criticism, but stories like this make me thankful for the NYTimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/technology/for-sale-on-ebay-a-military-database-of-fingerprints-and-iris-scans.html

All I want for Christmas is universal health care, universal basic income, no machine guns in private hands, higher taxes on billionaires, free breakfast and lunches for everyone at free schools, and maybe a book and some good chocolate.

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

I’ve been #gaming on a mobile #standupdesk. I like it a lot! I need a more permanent standup setup.

Orion over Chelmsford last night. Tried a deep sky stacking app on phone.

Paseo con niebla

Peter Kidd has published Part IV: The RECEPTIO-Rossi Affair IV: My “Accusations”

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iv-my.html

#RECEPTIOGate

Plastic stars glowing
Ceiling's fixed constellations
Guide me to dreamland

#haiku #poetry #stars

It's kind of make me want to start learning an instrument.
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Country Sounds on the Violin
by TwoSetViolin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZhDCMGL4s

UK folks, guess what - #TheModernBestiary is on a 50% sale at Waterstones, so you can't possibly not buy it now! It's worth three coffees.

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-modern-bestiary/joanna-bagniewska/jennifer-n-r-smith/9781472289605

#book #nonfiction #animals

Is there a way to tell whether or not your instance is blocked from other instances? #AskMastodon