Nathaniel Harari @natharari@social.cleverlibre.org
- Website:
- https://neurolog.dev
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.
Joined Jan 2023
NASA Goddard put out an animation showing the size of the largest black holes we know of. And it's gigantic. It's pretty much incomprehensible to the human mind. You can't actually imagine it. You /think/ you might, but you can't.
YouTube: NASA Animation Sizes Up the Biggest Black Holes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU1DsipURcM
It's a bad time for Musk, because he's an idiot:
Phys.org: Environmental groups sue FAA over SpaceX Texas rocket launch
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-environmental-groups-sue-faa-spacex.html
Phys.org: SpaceX Starship effectively grounded by FAA after in-flight explosion
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-spacex-starship-effectively-grounded-faa.html
All of which, I might add, was repeatedly predicted years ago by The Common Sense Skeptic on their channel which debunks bullshit of many stripes. Musk features prominently in their videos for this very reason.
A lot of my French friends don't understand the level of intellectual collapse going on in America right now. I show them videos like the following (linked below), and they really can't wrap their heads around the fact that literally tens of millions of people in America believe this bullshit. It's so hard for them to fathom. It's not that we don't have conspiracy theorists here in France and in Europe in general, it's that they are not so entrenched in society on this level of insanity.
BoingBoing: QAnon follower explains that Trump is the shadow President and James Woods is playing Joe Biden, who died
https://boingboing.net/2023/05/01/qanon-follower-explains-that-trump-is-the-shadow-president-and-james-woods-is-playing-joe-biden-who-died.html
It's beautiful outside and will get warmer later today.
A little morning music:
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, "Morning Mood" / Thomas Dausgaard & Seattle Symphony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMs0rNtBZJk
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According to researchers, text based #AI models are trained on (among others) Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Not sure if this is ironic.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/03/openai_chatgpt_copyright/
NPR: Elon Musk threatens to re-assign @NPR on Twitter to 'another company'
https://www.npr.org/2023/05/02/1173422311/elon-musk-npr-twitter-reassign
What is there to really say? I wish him penury and tears before his tortured departure.
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Does anyone actually use `ox-rss.el` the way it's intended? It expects one monolithic Org file containing all posts, all of which are top-level headings.
If you want your posts to be individual Org files, it seems like you have to generate a special sitemap file (separate from the one used to display the post listing) just to give `ox-rss` the list of posts in the format it expects.
Not impossible, but definitely not streamlined.
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Meet my egg production team 🥚🥚
I took my camera to the farm where I get those colourful eggs
#Chicken #Eggs #Farm #Animals #Photography #Hühner #Eier #Hühnereier #Bauernhof
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JCS from Irreal is an #Emacs addict.
https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11326
I can sympathise because yesterday (coincidentally when he was having problems booting it up), I also had a problem booting it up - hence my quip here on #Mastodon about how wise it is to use git on your config. I had erased a few things which I shouldn't have (I was paying less attention than I should have).
It's a panicked feeling of dread because everything is tied to it. Notes, links, journal entries, and the way you function in so many other ways.
The good part is that it's all in text files so there is literally no problem reading it in any other application which can open a text file. Nano (yeaaahhh no), vim, TextEdit, BBEdit, Byword, Pages - and the list goes on. On iOS, I even have Beorg and Plain Org which work wonderfully for that purpose. I had two little linux servers in my office - each with Emacs installed.
But it's not *your* #Emacs. It's not the one you use all the time.
You know what I mean.
If you're reading an #Emacs message, then you know /exactly/ what I mean. 😀
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Spartacus
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#Exhibition
#VanGogh
#France
#Paris
RT @Exulansista
Van Gogh Exhibit in Paris, France.
https://twitter.com/Exulansista/status/1652791474709495808
🦉 Words of Wisdom: Learning to quickly use git can save you from thoroughly fucking up your #Emacs config. 😀
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1) 6 2) no 3) M-[2-9] 4) tab-line + config 5) not yet
I have things set up so the most recent buffer is always the left-most tab, and the tabs are sorted by most recent usage, up to 6 shown. Makes it quick to switch among several recent buffers. I usually track this in my head for 2-4 buffers, the tabs are a crutch for more than this or when I am not sure.
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Sigh. LLMs don't hallucinate. They assemble words. They know nothing, understand nothing. They are being misused by tech platforms and misrepresented by media.
When A.I. Chatbots Hallucinate https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/ai-chatbots-hallucinatation.html?smid=tw-share
From Atlas Obscura: The Child-Eating Bunyip Haunts Australia’s Wetlands
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/murray-river-bunyip-australia-swamp-monster
Of course, the article has mention of the 1978 chidren's book "The Bunyip of Berkeley's Creek", which is a book I grew up with as a kid and love (it was given to me when it was first published).
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Montmartre as seen from the Pompidou Centre
- Website:
- https://neurolog.dev
Let's see: I've lived in 9 US states (Mass, NY, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, California, Arizona, Vermont) and England, Belgium, France, Israel, and Japan.
I used to be a news photographer in Washington DC during the Clinton years. I've worked for Congressional Quarterly, UPI, Scripps Howard News Service.
Now I live again in Paris.
Joined Jan 2023
