Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@social.cleverlibre.org
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So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
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#MorseCode
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#eBird
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#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
@lauren @karlauerbach Any IP in a storm.
@karlauerbach @lauren Short term thinking? Maybe they're not planning on being around in the future. Hah.
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Compare that daguerreotype with this recent movie, from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, showing the highest-resolution images of our Sun ever produced. Some of the details are only about 20 miles across.
Credit: NSO/NSF/AURA
Source: https://nso.edu/telescopes/dkist/first-light-cropped-field-movie/
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FROM WTOP.com - “Power outages and winds linger as DC-area surveys damage from Saturday’s storms”
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FROM Washington Post.com - “Death toll rises to 26 after storms pummel South, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic”
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Also, I’d bet my soul that #LongCovid is orders of magnitude more common than most people think because of the many people I know who almost certainly have it, only a handful have been willing to make even a tenuous connection between their post infection health issues & Covid.
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@lauren I wonder if my account is still working. I haven't checked it since January.
@jellycrystals No mistake, just an opinion.
Not sure how to answer. Was a daily user of Twitter for 15 years. Daily user of the Fediverse for 5 years. I quit using Twitter 3 weeks after Elmo took over and saw the results.
It's that time again, that fateful day before April 2, 2019 when Google shut down Google Plus.
Raise a glass to the greatest social network the Internet has ever seen.
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Want to know something interesting about the #TwitterCode release?
Lots of people are zeroing in on this section of `HomeTweetTypePredicates.scala`, because it proves that Twitter 1.0 was factoring political alignment on a user-level into the timeline mixing algorithm.
Nobody knows what weights are assigned to these attributes, but them being there shows the algorithm must have had some kind of bias, right?
Guess what.
Those lines were added *after* Elon bought the company.
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Meanwhile, over at the other place, Twitter is suspending official public health agencies.
@AfricaCDC is a public health agency of the African Union (africacdc.org), and is doing essential work.
I think it's time to cue up this song.
@lauren I think he's personally afraid of AI. It's vital to his sense of well-being that he maintain the illusion that he's the smartest one in the room. An AI that is demonstrably smarter and faster than he is, never rests, never sleeps, makes that impossible and it terrifies him.
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I haven't posted about one of my first loves in a bit; Old Time Radio.
Here is a good collection:
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- Website
- https://shuttersparks.net
So. Cal. engineer (hardware/software, retired, he/him), born at 313 ppm, musician, chef, now living in West Virginia. KW2P ham radio (the original social network), father of three, grandfather, astronomy, solar dynamics, photography, writing, birding, birdwatching, eBird, fountain pens, cats and dog, reader of banned books, Chairman of the Charcuterie Board, Whisk Manager, Compuserve refugee, founder of The Church of The Unwarranted Assumption. Crypto is short for cryptography. Blog: shuttersparks.net
#HamRadio
#Morse
#MorseCode
#Birding
#BirdWatching
#eBird
#wv
#WestVirginia
#food
#cooking
#astronomy
#physics
#engineering
#photography
#FountainPens
"To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire
Joined Nov 2022
