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I think my iPad wants me to go to Iceland again, as it is continuously featuring pictures of Iceland*. 🤗 💙💚🧡💜

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*yes, I know that half of the pictures on my iPad are from Iceland, and also understand the difference between correlation and causation, also that the iPad is without any feeling, but apart from that, it is still true…

Brúarfoss, June 2022

#iceland #photography #waterfall #Brúarfoss #landscapephotography #featuredphoto

Kumar McMillan 1d ago

Plazi Species 1d ago

#NewSpecies!
New crocodile newts from #vietnam just snuck in:

Tylototriton vietnamirabilis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DCBE9F38-90CD-5DD2-ACF7-1531BCC1852A
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1276.173848
#ZooKeys #TylototritonVietnamirabilis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #herpetology #herps #amphibia #crocodiles #newts

Kumar McMillan 1d ago

Chris Silverman 🌻5d ago

#notesArt #mastoArt #art #illustration #fediArt

Kumar McMillan 1d ago

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cloudless_sky 1d ago

🧵 8/x Schweres Gerät wurde gestern noch nicht beim Wal aufgefahren. Das Tier wird zunächst noch einmal untersucht.

Kumar McMillan 1d ago

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Matt Blaze 1d ago

NB: Hobo moniker tags are a rathole you can spend a lot of time going down. I highly recommend the somewhat obscure documentary "Who Is Bozo Texino", which I recently noticed is currently up on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSqMAADNKA8

Who Is Bozo Texino? A Film by Bill Daniel

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Kumar McMillan 2d ago

My taxi driver played me all the music he’d generated with AI, narrating each song. He was very proud of how “original” it was because of his elaborate prompting like “epic goth guitar battle” and so on. He stopped short, though, because he didn’t want to give away his “secret recipe.” It was a long, excruciating ride.

Kumar McMillan 2d ago

Band photo of me and the fam taken by my wife a while back. Sophomore album out in June.

Kumar McMillan 4d ago

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Not Just Bikes 🇳🇱4d ago

Energy consumption goes up and down throughout the day, but the "base load" is the minimum amount, even at the lowest point in the day. So nuclear power is good for providing this "base" because it's consistent and always running.

The issue is that renewables sometimes output so much electricity that, especially when it's sunny, the grid makes *way* too much electricity. The electricity consumption of the grid minus renewables is called the "residual load", and it very very often goes NEGATIVE.

Kumar McMillan 4d ago

Cory Doctorow 5d ago

I'm worried about AI psychosis. Specifically, I'm worried about the psychosis that makes "capital allocators" spend *$1.4T* on the money-losingest technology in human history, in pursuit of a bizarre fantasy that if we teach the word-guessing program enough words, it will take all the jobs.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/13/always-great/#our-nhs