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Did you know that Microsoft just turns Copilot writing assist on for webpages in Microsoft Edge?
So like, if you type in edit boxes, it just... gets sent to Microsoft? Straight up?
And this is enabled by default?
So first, what the actual hell? Second, why is nobody talking about this? How the hell is right now the first time I find out about this?
This is what a human hand looks like under a microscope.
Detail of The Red Apple, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

#photography #streetphotography #abstractphotography #rotterdam
#architecturephotography

Our Statement in support of Francesca Albanese

We call upon academic institutions, governments & civil society actors around the world to publicly repudiate these unjustified sanctions & to uphold the independence & legitimacy of the UN human rights system.

https://tinyurl.com/hfbzmamh

It shouldn’t matter that H is a sweet dad, or my friend, or has two toddler girls, or is witnessing escalating massacres in his area. We should give our free, unconditional support to all Palestinians, including men.

Give / find his individual link here: https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle

We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their campaigns are extremely stagnant and wanted to find a way to direct steady help to them. We distribute your contributions equally every week for sustainable support.

Chuffed
I needed to do a word count on a PDF the other day (my work is so exciting).
It opened in Adobe Acrobat, and its AI thing popped up, wanting to help.
I had planned to copy paste the text into a 'word count' website, but this AI was asking what I needed, so I asked.
646 Words, it told me.
Fam, there were 512 words in that document. It wasn't even *close*.
How did we break computers so badly that they can't even count anymore 😢

Today, there is an average of 37 tonnes of road per inhabitant of the planet. The weight of the road network alone accounts for a third of all construction worldwide, and has grown exponentially in the 20th century. There is 10 times more bitumen, in mass, than there are living animals...

https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/how-much-does-your-road-weigh

How much does your road weigh?

The ways roads are used, with ever larger and heavier vehicles, have dramatic consequences on the environment – and electric cars are not the answer

The Architectural Review
"AI data centre" is the anti-library of alexandria, empty of value and burning everything else down

The impressive Holzgerlingen stela is the largest known pre-Roman Iron Age stone statue in central Europe, standing 230 cm tall. This double-faced, anthropomorphic figure—dating to the 4th century BC—features a horn-like headdress interpreted a so-called leaf crown, and is likely a representation of a deity

📷 Landesmuseum Württemberg

#archaeology

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There’s an exhibition of field notebooks in the ⁦‪Linnean Society‬⁩ library, extolling the virtues of patient observation and careful record-keeping. I use illegible scrawl in mine. Should I be ashamed? Or should I start carrying a fountain pen and water colouring kit?
@bugmanjones
I don't think there's any need to be ashamed, but equally I struggled so much with re-reading my own field notes that they were useless and I stopped making them. Not exactly ideal on my part.
@bugmanjones Ashamed? Definitely not. But I started keeping a paper journal/notebook with me *because* I liked how it felt to write with a fountain pen. I came to it from an excuse to use my pen...

@bugmanjones That's great!

I talk to my phone and take photos now. Making natural history notes that way is much quicker so I can make many more of them.

Still, part of me misses the old days of writing and drawing with pen and paper.

@bugmanjones

Here's one of the pages from my 1994 notebook when I was figuring out the natural history of the bosque seco in Costa Rica.

https://flic.kr/p/2p1kkmM

field drawing of Cordia alliodora

Flickr

@bugmanjones fountain pen with a fine-pointed flexible nib. The ones made for businessmen are just pretentions.

Aquarelle pencils might be more convenient than watercolour tablets.