ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

I went along with them to Dr. Whores (sending my wife to Mrs. Jem’s to a sack-posset), where I heard some symphony and songs of his own making, performed by Mr. May, Harding, and Mallard.

#BlackInVideoGames #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon

Lenora - Pokemon Black & White

New blog post - In Defense of "Banning" #ChatGPT

http://autumm.edtech.fm/2023/01/07/in-defense-of-banning-chatgpt/

#caturday

I am reminded today that online certificate authorities are the ill-understood balsa wood and glue holding the Internet together. A tiny renewal issue at a provider I use is having rippling consequences at rocket speed.

Rainbow reflection.

#Connemara #Photography #LandscapePhotography #Galway #Rainbow #Nikon #Lake #GoldenHour

I don't know precisely what's in these cream-filled doughnuts from this Italian bakery, but there ought to be an award for them.

Dear White Academics, Indigenous Trauma Is Not Your School Project.

https://medium.com/@mstbeatty/my-people-are-not-anthropology-2c28942dad95

Apple announced Safari twenty years ago today. How time flies! The weekend-before preparations were the one time I was invited (summoned?) to the venue to see Steve run through his final rehearsals before the keynote. @donmelton and I were there to provide tech support if anything went wrong. Fortunately, the Safari stuff went smoothly, and Steve played one of the funniest pranks I ever saw.

Sadly, no one makes Nixie tubes anymore.

https://www.daliborfarny.com

They have some hand maded tubes, but seems like they don't sell the tubes anymore.

Silence of the morning
Every home holds its breath. Listen!
Hear the Earth turning

#haiku #poetry #morning

#FirstAmendment #5thcircuit #journalism An interesting article from TX about an en banc review pitting journalism against qualified immunity @AriCohn

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/01/06/first-amendment-laredo-journalist/

Testing a speculation: The shadow of the full moon at midnight around the Winter Solstice should be in the same place as the shadow of the sun at noon on the Summer Solstice.

Result: Yes, pretty close! (dim, overprocessed pic, taken a half-hour before midnight)

#solstice #WinterSolstice #astronomy

Another PhD student, Avery Carlson, successfully defended his dissertation yesterday, which means another themed cake. Did wonderful work that can help scale MABR treatment technologies for energy efficient nutrient management to reduce N and P loads from cities to water bodies. Photo descriptions for visually impaired: cake showing anaerobic, anoxic, and aerobic zones from his pilot plant; and Avery holding a piece of cake that says Dr. #waterquality #WasteWaterTreatment

❄️ Happy Winter ❄️

Weekends are for brunch
Breakfast food served at noontime
So all can sleep in

#haiku #poetry #brunch

if you use this #plants diagnosis app and like it , plese do boost it :-) i'm collecting feedback and exposure is much appreciated 🙏

I keep seeing posts encouraging those new to Mastodon to post an introduction with biographical information. I did not do that when I joined in early December and apologize for the oversight. So here's a big of biographical information:

I'm a retired academic (Ph.D. in theology) with a husband who is also a retired Ph.D. in theology. As a gay couple now in our 51st year together, we found ourselves very much unwelcome and unwanted in the Catholic institutions in which we taught.

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