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Morteratsch and the majestic Bernina range in full glory 🤩
Yes! That's what I'm talking about... Reprint was successful and much improved! Tweaked negative, new developer mix & weaker toner for more neutral grays. Also built an interim solution/contraption (involving 6kg of books as weight) to ensure the contact print is sharp everywhere...
As for the scene in the image: These are the highest mountains of the central eastern Alps (Piz Bernina on the right is 4048m, th…

I know it’s part of the steady state hum of annoyance living in the interconnected world, but I will never stop being annoyed by emails that say
“P.S. Simply reply if you don't wish to hear from me again.”
No, I’m going to flag this address as spam and never hear from you again, how’s that sound?

> Parts of Asset Hub are still in beta, Yona said, because SimpleClosure removes all personally-identifiable information from the internal company data, a sensitive and technically difficult process that they want to make sure is “rock solid” before rolling it out more widely.
Can't help but suspect that anonymising HR discussions is going to be difficult when the ability to find who held what position at what time can be derived elsewhere. (eg Linked In)

AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails
AI’s New Training Data: Your Old Work Slacks And Emails

Adding even more cameras for a surveillance state: 'autonomous' delivery robots, and 'autonomous' taxis.
Can be combined with facial recognition, of course.
https://www.404media.co/serve-food-delivery-robot…

Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show
Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant sight in the city, can be used for surveillance.

I am reading "Baldwin: A Love Story" right now. It's huge but very good, and very enlightening on issues of race and color and sexuality and how individuals navigate a world with cultures built to oppress them and do the introspective and interpersonal work to think about and write about those cultures both creatively and truthfully. Huge recommend.
I'm reading the audiobook and the reader does a great Baldwin voice without making it feel like an artifical or shallow …

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears. Members should avoid exposing work emails, documents or internal information “to AI features that scan or analyze content,” be “cautious” with third-party AI apps and “avoid granting broad access to data”: https://www.politico.eu…

EU Parliament blocks AI tools over cyber, privacy fears
AI features on EU devices sent data to cloud, prompting the Parliament’s IT support to switch them off.

"Wikipedia’s volunteer community of editors reverted changes within minutes, according to the emails. Eventually, Seckel and his team were able to 'hack' the IP addresses of certain editors to block them from interfering, he wrote."
Epstein Paid Reputation Firms to Suppress Child Sex Offenses Online

Slowly getting into a rhythm to start the day with doing a print each morning, each time still tweaking either negatives, concentrations and/or durations of different processing stages to adjust tones/hues... A new adventure with some back and forth each time!
This print is of Langkofel / Sassolungo, one of my favourite mountain massifs, just such interesting features and so many dear memories, here seen from the east (around half and hour before sunset)...

I remember one of my jobs where we had a company building an internal system for us and I kept sending emails to the team telling them ways I could break their software...
And they got annoyed...
And my boss told me to cool it, and "give them a chance!"
But my thought was since they gave (some of) us a system to test, should they not be informed of all the ways it could break?
(And no, there was no bug reporting system.)