Creeping bellflower is a common edible weed in yards and gardens, spreading aggressively through seeds and rhizomes. It's one of the most difficult invasive plants I know of to eradicate. The good news is that it's edible, tastes great, and since it's invasive you can eat as much as you like. In this post I'll... Read More The post Creeping Bellflower appeared first on Forager | Chef .
Read the full post at - The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo I don’t like horror. I don’t like crime fiction. And I really don’t like gratuitous violence. And yet I have read so many Jo Nesbø books. I think that says everything you need to know about how good he is. It all traces back to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. That book cracked open Scandinavian crime fiction for me, and once I found Nesbø, I never left. His Harry Hole series is fast-paced, tightly written, and genuinely hard to put down — even…
A month ago I was in Asia on a long trip, and so I was excited to see some temples. Temples are huge tourist attractions, especially in Thailand, but not all of them are equal (or so I've learned). Although these were legit holy spaces (you have to take off your shoes, can't wear shorts, have to cover your shoulders), by the time I visited Temple #246, I felt disillusioned. One temple had a woman trying to sell us overpriced pictures of us standing in front of a Buddha statue, and one temple…
One recent visitor to my yard asked, “Why all the sunflowers?” “I didn’t plant them,” I said. “Not even one.” “You didn’t plant them?” “They’re all volunteers. I used to plant sunflowers, but lately, every year, they just pop up on their own all over. I think the birds spread them. I just try to […] The post Invasion of the sunflowers appeared first on Greg Alder's Yard Posts: Southern California food gardening.
The Birmingham bin strike has been rolling on for 18 months, and the workers - organised by Unite - have long suspected that the council's refusal to negotiate and willingness to throw money at breaking the strike, more than it would have cost to have settled the dispute, suggests the local authority wants to break the union. And yesterday, ITV West Midlands regional news confirmed it. They reported on a leaked council document from March that set out a plan to sack the bin workers while…
09:01 There is so much noise around AI. I want to intentionally slow down and work on something core. Basic. Like even shell scripts. Or HTML. Reply to this post
There is an old joke about a man who sells ten dollar bills for five dollars each. When asked how the business is going, he says it is booming, he just needs more volume. For four years we have watched the smartest people in technology reinvent this joke, add a chatbot and agents to it, and raise money at a valuation that assumes the man will one day discover a margin hidden inside the ten dollar bill. The economics of a token, the little unit of text an AI model receives and emits, and the…
My excellent wife referred me to Ben Franklin’s 229 Words for Drunkenness, thinking that it would bring me cheer and perhaps LH material, and she was right on both counts. Jack Shepherd writes: Anyone who’s had a toad and a half for breakfast, taken Hippocrates’ grand elixir, or been too free with Sir Richard knows that a thump over the head with Samson’s jawbone is sometimes more trouble than it’s worth. If none of that made much sense to you, take it up with Benjamin Franklin, who — when he…
Wednesday, July 1As part of the house battery short-circuit debacle, the RV had lost the ability to be charging its house battery while the engine was running on the chassis. I tried for several hours on and off and could not figure out what was the deal. I suspected it was the battery isolation manager solenoid but lacked the expertise to troubleshoot much beyond the point of accidentally smoking the replacement put in by the Ford dealership.Martha found me a local Mobile RV Repair guy, Pat…
via Electronic Gaming Monthly – Issue 125 (December 1999) I fell down a PlayStation rabbit hole, starting with Standard Issue Computing’s recent posts on the PS2 and how the media reported on it in the late 90s, which lead me to the three main disc types that the PS2 could read (above): Blue – PS2 games that came on CD-ROM Silver – PS2 games that came on DVD-ROM Black – games designed for the PS1 I wondered if there was more about these topics online and soon found that Google wasn’t much help…
How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization These are words that cast systems as doing the same work as people in various roles, and serve to hide all of the ways in which such automation falls short of what is needed all the while devaluing the actual work that people do and relationships that we form. Calling systems tutor or co-creator are overclaims that describe what a developer might wish they could develop—for those who want to replace people in these roles. For…
Ford hired AI and sacked humans. It backfired badly “Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.” I assume the people who pushed for layoffs have been promoted and given bonuses. We never hear that side of the story.
Mamdani: Democratic socialist candidates ‘can get elected anywhere across this country for any position’ "I think we are seeing a hunger that is not just felt by New Yorkers, but frankly by Americans from coast to coast, for a new kind of politics, one that puts working people at the heart of it," Mamdani said. Agreed!
Look, I'm not a terribly patriotic person or anything, but I do like color, and I do like honesty. If you're going to come into Formula 1 and style yourself as THE US-based team, THIS is the livery you should be running. Again: I don't like America. This place sucks shit, and we have nothing to be proud of. But this absolutely beats the hell out of the half-assed black & white livery Cadillac has been running. Yes, it's stupid that it's a 4th of July thing. Yes, is stupid that it has all those…
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It's time to wrest our power back If you’re a multibillionaire, you might view democracy as a potential threat to your net worth. Control over a significant share of the dwindling number of media outlets would enable you to effectively hedge against democracy by suppressing criticism of you and other plutocrats, and discouraging any attempt to – for example – tax away your wealth. They should just call all of these billionaire…
Elon Musk Knows That He is Going to Go Down as One of History's Villains Elon Musk's destruction of USAID is his single worst act, and I think it is beginning to dawn on him that he will be held responsible for his role in killing millions of children.Really enjoying Jamelle Bouie's videos lately. It's worth tuning into his YouTube channel.
The Four Fallacies at the Heart of SCOTUS’ Decision on Trans Athletes Trans sports bans are built on the assumption that transgender students — particularly transgender girls — are misrepresenting their gender identity in order to compete “unfairly.” There is no evidence for this. But, it is worth sitting with how outlandish that assumption is. This is a good explanation of just how ridiculous this supreme court decision is. Every campaigning Democrat should be talking about how they're going…
I am currently circulating a draft for WordPress project AI strategy vision. This post is a snapshot of that document. It has been born from mine & Grzegorz’s Knowledge merge proposal and it explains reasoning behind it. The idea is to keep the open web alive in the AI world. WordPress is the biggest open ecosystem to create your home on the web, configure it according to your needs, and host it exactly the way you like. The strategy we propose stays on the same message, but makes sure…
The beginning of this month marks the official end of my own company. After just two years of establishing and owning Brain Baking BV, the notary ended it. There have been no professional activities related to the company since I switched back to education in December so for me it made little sense to keep that door open only for the monthly administrative costs to pile up. I hope to build a bit more stability this time around, both on personal and professional level. My statute as lecturer has…
Solo Female Travel to Kauai, Hawaii – My Personal Adventure It goes without saying that when you are exploring the world on your own, you make safe decisions. Be mindful of your surroundings and look both ways before crossing the street. If you’re a woman in the world and you’re considering solo travel, I hope I can encourage you to try it! There are, of course, pros and cons to solo travel, and I’ll give you my personal take on it. I’m making it a point to travel to walkable cities; however,…
A quick thought on this whole "control of AI models" debate.Handguns and Fentanyl are available all over the world, but we still don't put them in the convenience isle at grocery stores.The reason we don't is because we want friction between people having negative, impulsive thoughts and them actually taking those actions.If ChatGPT, Claude, and the most popular open source models answer every question about harming oneself, or hurting someone else, or hacking into X or Y, or making a virus…
Hello and happy Friday! Today is National Complement Your Mirror Day (actually complimenting yourself via the mirror) and National Fried Clam Day (which I can take or leave.) It’s also Update Your Website Theme Day, and after three years I’ve moved on from the lovely Genevieve theme to Robin, which so far has been pretty easy to customize. Yes, I’ve lost my header image, my subscribe box, and possibly my site traffic codes but that’s fine. It’s fine! I can find them. We are off from work today…
I spent today in London, wandering about and visiting various locations I haven’t seen for a while, including the Science Museum (near where I’m staying) and Tate Modern (not near where I’m staying). The Science Museum has changed quite a bit since my last visit there many moons ago, but it still reminded me of Toby Esterhase’s description in Smiley’s People: In the Science Museum, top floor. All those airplanes. Lot of kiddies eating crisps. There was indeed a lot of kiddies, this being peak…
No matter where you might roam across the United States (this one’s for you World Cup visitors who might have toted along a fly rod in addition to your football kit), you’re going to be within reach of an excellent fly rod target. Carp might be America’s least-appreciated game fish, but the hardy Asian imports can and do live just about anywhere in the US.
Wishing all my fellow countrymen a happy America 250!! I can’t tell you how excited I’ve been to get to celebrate a milestone like this, a once-in-a-lifetime event. I hope my fellow Americans celebrate heartily and well this weekend–I know … Continue reading →
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Words: Chris ArnsbyGary Davies: “Hello. Very good evening to you. Welcome to Top of the Pops. We are in stereo on Radio 1 97 to 99 FM and we have a terrific show for you tonight. In the studio we have Cola Boy and Kim Appleby, but we start off with this week’s highest climber. It’s called Always There, Incognito and Jocelyn Brown.” [9] INCOGNITO Featuring JOCELYN BROWN: ALWAYS THERE. I’ve just noticed another small tweak to the title sequence. The little sprite chased by the camera through the…
"Heaven," is the latest comic by the extremely talented Katie Skelly. I've discussed in previous posts how much I enjoyed her horror story, "Maids," and the extremely raunchy adult comic collection, "The Agency." An interesting thing about, "Heaven," is that it is both quite sexy and has a lot of eerie elements as well. The setup of the story is that four high school seniors learn about a mysterious strip club on the edge of town called, "Heaven," that sometimes seems to exist and other times…
