Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social

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40 years ago today: There was no third consecutive night hike yesterday, but I did not miss it by much. At 6:20, the Appalachian Trail passed a small peninsula thrust into an enormous expanse of water. Along the eastern edge, a string of about a dozen aging wooden cabins slumbered beneath giant pines of even greater antiquity along a gravel shore.

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#backpacking #hiking #outdoors #landscapephotography #Maine #nature #forest #mountains #AppalachianTrail #adventure

4/6
From an old wooden chair on my screened front porch, I watched loons drifting upon quiet waters fading into a deepening twilight. When darkness fell like a theatrical curtain ending the show, I lit a candle on an old table inside and began last night's journal entry. Usually, I must write sprawled out on the hardwood floor of a shelter. This was better.

After dinner, I lay back on my bunk and listened to the cries of the loons floating over the lake, accompanied by the mournful song

This week I wrote about what I think will be the unavoidability of using generative AI in both our work and, someday, personal lives.

For this simple reason: It really can make people more productive.

That creates a kind of communications arms race where the rest of us have to participate, or else risk drowning in the output of others.

Maybe I'm wrong. But here it is at length, and a brief thread on the subject.

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https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-you-soon-wont-be-able-to-avoid-aiat-work-or-at-home-65febec7

5/6
of a lone coyote drifting down from the hills. The magic I discovered on a similar night at Pierce Pond returned to me, and I grew to love old Antlers.

I just lay in bed for a half-hour after awakening this morning. Loons were still calling, and the rising sun was creating long undulating ripples of gold upon the gently-lapping waters of the lake beyond my screen door. Why get up?

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In actuality, the Appalachian Trail’s hundred-mile wilderness is somewhat of an illusion.

Happy Saturday to everybody but those who wanted to shut down US government!

Granted a US gov’t shutdown won’t occur until after midnight tonight. But in effect the MAGAts have essentially neutered the gov’t already.

Lots of focus on votes. Meaningless at this point. No one wants to admit that what we once had is gone. And it’s not coming back.

Things ain’t normal.

Things ain’t going back to whatever you thought normal was.

Stop trying to find normal again.

Work the what is. Not the what was.

#politics #USPol

what doesn't kill you... mutates and tries again.

#nature #biology #optimism #optimization #saturday #funny #notFunny #WeAreAllGoingToDie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLHdbGZtkj8
if a picture is a thousand words, a moving picture is..?

Idk how I missed the video, but it’s pretty …compelling. Not that I need to be compelled, but it might move someone?

GOPers only care if they get paid, not other federal employees.

https://crooksandliars.com/2023/09/republicans-care-if-they-get-paid-not?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_content=79882

"When you see the word 'polarizing,' beware. It’s a red flag, these days, for false equivalence. It can be way to avoid identifying what’s really going on with a Republican party that has gone off the rails."

~ Margaret Sullivan

#polarization ##BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #media

https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/an-nbc-reporter-got-praise-for-persistence

#Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress

#ClimateCrisis and the rapid evolution of the insect have helped drive up malaria deaths and brought dengue and other mosquito-borne viruses to places that never had to worry about them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/health/mosquitoes-malaria-disease-climate-change.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Blame both the GOP's craziest and their flaccid leader but also every other Republican who could join with the Senate to put the extremists in their place and actually govern. They are all guilty.

Neat, wildlife photographers day at the Aquarium of the Pacific on Sunday night! #wildlife #photography #aquarium #LongBeach https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/calling-all-photographers-bring-your-camera-and-shoot-to-your-hearts-delight-at-the-aquarium-of-the-pacific

respect levels are 53% and falling

(53%) ■■■■■□□□□□

(not that we can really cough up first & last months rent, deposit, pet deposit, application fee, origination fee, "media and credit enhancement fee" and all manner of other sundry & sleazy yet legal fees anyway)

▶️ ☠️ RE: Elon Musk, ever-creeping fascism & general, all pervasive fear...
https://beige.party/@GrimmReality/111152013088736590

This little guy is clearly running illegal SQUIRREL software on CAT hardware, but I'm still sharing it for #caturday.

#cat #cats #catstodon #catsofmastodon #humor #humour #funny #squirrel

SomeBODY is off to their forever home today. Or possibly eternal rest. 🧛‍♂️ #puppets #puppetbuilding #halloween #nosferatu

Look at the cute little puppy! (learned this morning "Koinu" means puppy in Japanese, ha ha). #tropical #cyclone #14W #TropicalStormKoinu

Vladimir Putin calls for 130,000 new recruits for Russian military https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/09/30/recruits-military-Ukraine/3921696076336/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon