🩌 Small but speedy! The Dwarf Pronghorn once darted across Ice Age Los Angeles, a tiny relative of today’s pronghorns that called the region home thousands of years ago.

Fossils found at the #TarPits help us uncover how these pint-sized runners thrived in a world of giants.

La Brea Tar Pits & Museum‬
â€Ș@tarpits.org‬ #globalmuseum #IceAge #mammals

Wow, someone dragged a dinosaur telephone switch from the tar pits 🩖 of obsolescence, and now they’re penning their epic saga. Must be nice to have a spouse and sibling willing to indulge a mid-life crisis involving ancient telecom relics 📞.
http://kev009.com/wp/2024/07/Lucent-5ESS-Rescue/ #dinosaurtelephone #midlifecrisis #telecomrelics #technostalgia #tarpits #HackerNews #ngated
Lucent 7 R/E 5ESS Telephone Switch Rescue

I am still recovering from the fairly challenging logistical project of saving a Lucent 5ESS. This is a whale of a project and I am still in a state of disbelief that I have gotten to this point. Thanks to my wife, brother, and a few friends for their help 


Kev009.com

Growing up as a paleontology nerd, I read a lot about the La Brea tar pits. But until I ran into a random paper a few months ago, I don't think I've ever read anything about the many other tar pits around the Americas and the world, many of which are equals to La Brea in scientific importance. I certainly never heard the story of Pitch Lake in Trinidad, the tar pit that paved America.

This was a fun one to write.

#TarPits #Prehistory #NowThatsADireWolf

https://daily.jstor.org/la-brea-and-beyond/

La Brea and Beyond - JSTOR Daily

Pits and seeps full of tar and asphalt offer new insights into old ecosystems and cultures.

JSTOR Daily
@algernon I've seen #Iocaine and #Nephentes referred to as #TarPits.

Vignette - Ou comment empĂȘcher le web de devenir un Panoptique
Avec Vignette, vous ne crĂ©ez pas seulement des sites web, vous protĂ©gez votre contenu en ligne mais aussi internet et mĂȘme la dĂ©mocratie, rien que ça !

OpenAI et Anthropic ont ouverts la boite de pandore en ignorant les rĂšgles Ă©tablies qui empĂȘche les...
âžĄïž https://vignette.eco/actus/_g4s5v/fr
#tarpits #aipoisoning #democratie #artisticintelligence #internet #CNIL #souverainetenumerique #digitalgarden #webrevival #RGPD #IA #AI

Vignette - Ou comment empĂȘcher le web de devenir un Panoptique

Avec Vignette, vous ne crĂ©ez pas seulement des sites web, vous protĂ©gez votre contenu en ligne mais aussi internet et mĂȘme la dĂ©mocratie, rien que ça...

Digital Tar Pits - How to Fight Back Against A.I.

YouTube

Tarpitting AI scrapers stealing your data & bandwidth.
Good idea, but instead of feeding them nonsense garbage Markov chains, find the AI’s own outputs & feed it that, ouroborous-style. #AI #tarpits #scrapers

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Ars Technica
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Ars Technica

Dear US federal employees,

On your way out, would you mind
- do as much good as still possible
- prevent as much harm as possible
- save as much data as possible

You will be made obsolete by the GOP anyway, so why not do some good while you can?

#tarpits #deadmanswitch #atlantisconfigs