George Girton

@martinicat
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A software developer and photographer. #RStats and some other Prgrmming Lnggs. former #Nanoinfluencer
Special note: When I was a young lad, I have faced Bobby Fischer across the chess board. 🍸🐈
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Finding myself alone in a meeting room, I got up, opened a decorative book about Morocco (I'm reading a book which opens in Ceuta), and found this page.🍸😺 "Every Berber rug is the work of one woman who, after preparing her wool, creates the rug's design herself, spontaneously, as she weaves it. When a woman weaves a carpet, she does not do so only to fulfill a utilitarian purpose. Her rug is a like a graphic novel that will be read by other families, judged and honored. Her rugis her message."🍸😺
A drone strike reportedly triggered a fire at the Baltic port of Ust-Luga as Ukraine intensifies retaliatory attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/72803
Russia Reports Fire in New Strike on Major Baltic Port

A drone strike triggered a fire at Russia’s Baltic port of Ust-Luga.

Kyiv Post
413,793 KitKat candy bars may seem like a lot .... I do not want to say anything more🍸🙀
I did not take the Kitcat bars🍸😺
I'm just gonna say, I read Tracy Kidder's book "Soul of a New Machine", and there were a couple of places I worked at, after that, that were just like that🍸🐈 and it was really great🍸🐈
A house down the street is built atop a terrace created on the steep slope by a concrete retaining wall of perhaps 12 or 14 feet, decorated at night by a splash of chartreuse and mauve mood lighting and i am wondering why 🍸😺

RE: https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/116287295957377643

Disney surprised by open AI's abandonment of video tool SORA🍸🙀🪊🪊

RE: https://mastodon.palewi.re/@palewire/116285391725204066

🪊 🪊 (new trombone emoji🍸😺)

Alternate lede:

Tom Homan, the top White House border official, scrambled Sunday to carry out an impulsive order by Trump to use ICE agents at airports “to do security like no one has ever seen,” despite their lack of training for the work currently done by officers of the Transportation Security Administration.

He admitted he had no idea what the ICE agents would actually do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/us/politics/ice-airports-homan-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VFA.FktN.oBFmz5LzrhD5&smid=url-share

ICE to Help TSA at Airports Amid Partial Shutdown, Trump’s Border Czar Says

Tom Homan, President Trump’s chief border official, cast the operation largely as one to help ease long security lines. The Homeland Security Department said 14 airports across the country would be involved.

The New York Times

This piece (and the ones linked from it) from Kenneth Reitz, of Request fame, is worth reading.

There are other takes, of course, but how open source plays (played?) out from his perspective is (very) relevant (again) in our new AI amplified moment.

https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-03-18-open_source_gave_me_everything_until_i_had_nothing_left_to_give

Open Source Gave Me Everything Until I Had Nothing Left to Give

I thought I was having a spiritual awakening. I was having a psychiatric emergency. I was at a tech conference in Sweden when it started. I hadn't slept in...

Kenneth Reitz