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Rode up to Rocky River Reservation today to visit Berea Falls. This is one of the more interesting waterfalls in Northeast Ohio from a photographic standpoint due to the awesome old railroad bridges. I find it strangely comforting that you can find places of surpassing natural beauty tucked away right in the heart of the city sometimes, but it makes sense that European settlers would look specifically for rocky canyons with flowing water to build a mill, and eventually a town.
Clevelan…

Oh, look: a vanity publisher behaving badly. And make no mistake. $6k flowing from the author to the publisher makes them a vanity house, even if they call it a "temporary loan."
https://writerbeware.blog/2026/10/16/author-complaints-at-starfish-b…

Author Complaints at Starfish Bay Publishing - Writer Beware
I first heard of Australian children’s publisher Starfish Bay Publishing (SBP) in 2024, thanks to a question from an author about the advisability of investing in SBP’s Author Supported Traditional Publishing Programme. Implemented, SBP’s website explained, because of “the severe effect the pandemic had on our publishing business”, this program–despite using the word traditional–required authorsRead More

i live in a small apartment without a lot of storage space. for LPs, i have two three-foot shelves, one for jazz, the other for everything else. last week, i made a new resolution to play at least one non-jazz record every day. here's how it's going.
#vinyl #OldVinyl

Gurglerferner (2026)
Beautifully rich textures and structures, emphasized by the hard light and created by glacial abrasion of this once great (and still utterly majestic) glacier flowing directly from the central Alpine divide. If you squint you can see a faint path zigzagging up the exposed & plucked bedrock near the center bottom... Like the Vernagtferner in a neighboring valley, this glacier too has caused ice lakes to form several times over the past centuries, occasionally en…

One click sends a command
from the Home Assistant app
on my mobile phone
via WiFi
to the WiFi Router
to a Satellite
to a ground station in Germany
to my VPN endpoint in Iceland
to London
to Amsterdam
to Frankfurt
to Zurich
to Winterthur
to my router
to my reverse proxy
to my Home Assistant server
to my access point
to the WiFi
to the WiFi-Bridge
to the door lock
*click* *motor whirring* *door…

Haven’t heard this song in years. It really exemplifies the mid 90s culture as I experienced it. Still catchy as ever too. I got this song from a promo-CD from the label called “The Gigantic Recording Corporation Proudly Presents Volume II”.
For anyone feeling nostalgic.
#music #pop

Patriots' Efton Chism takes high road in response to Bills DB C.J. Gardner-Johnson's trash talk https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-efton-chism-takes-high-road-in-response-to-bills-db-c-j-gardner-johnson

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/990267/microsoft-openai-new-york-time…

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Microsoft claimed in a legal filing that its Copilot chatbot hardly ever regurgitates sentences from articles and books used to ground the AI.

I'm watching House 4x07 "Ugly" #House

Ugly
A film crew and the candidates are following around House distracting him while he is trying to diagnose a teenager who suffers from a heart attack prior…

Microsoft court filings: an expert hired by publishers found that only ~60K of 8.2M Copilot chat logs contained at least 16 words in common with news content (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/990267/microsoft-openai-new-york-time…

Microsoft says virtually nobody was grabbing NYT articles through its chatbot
Microsoft claimed in a legal filing that its Copilot chatbot hardly ever regurgitates sentences from articles and books used to ground the AI.