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WOW! Flamingo missiles strike Russia – blackouts in Belgorod, Murmansk, Severomorsk 🚀: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/01/wow-flamingo-missiles-strike-russia.html

There have been a few wonderful conjunct holidays this year, like Ramadan and Easter, but tomorrow for us is excellent indeed: Beltane/May Day and Buddha Pūrṇimā.
So here's the moon at dusk, viewed through our glorious ornamental cherry tree.
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#Buddhist #fullmoon

Entrei no tšxi e estava passando o jogo do Flamengo no ršdio. Pouco depois, o Flamengo tomou um gol. Meu pé-frio é realmente infalível rs.

[BLOG] BitBastelei #690 – Filamenttrockner https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2026/04/26/bitbastelei-690-filamenttrockner/

I realise on the fediverse this is maybe asking for a flaming, but yesterday out of sheer curiosity I tried Claude for a simpleish coding task that I'd been putting off (largely inspired by @… 's latest on #theclimatebrink). The performance of Claude was seriously impressive. I am convinced the AI cycle is more than hype (and have been for a while), the chatbots have been a huge attention hogger, misleadingly so, while the serious work has been done elsewhere. (We are developing ML tools to supplement parts of our climate model workflows).
Now I'm wondering if there is any serious EU competition to Anthropic? - Mistral's codestral perhaps?
Because this kind of performance changes everything and we can't afford to lag behind...
#AIcoding #ML
Edit: here is the climate brink post I mentioned
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist

We'll know AGI is here when our IRBs ask us for informed consent from our models.
[Was thinking of a cheap April 1 gag modifying the Brown IRB page to include something about models, but decided Brown University would get too many randos flaming at it from every direction.]

Rumor has it that Neil Armstrong was such a diva that he *insisted* on filming on location, however...
An Oral History of the US Government’s Attempts to Fake the 1969 Moon Landing - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-oral-history-of-the-us-governments-attempts-to-fake-the-1969-moon-landing

Seid Ihr zufrieden mit der Darstellung Eures Berufs in Filmen/Büchern? Warum?

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/115992606177110974
Unbedingt lesen. Ich hoffe wir brauchen diese Anleitung fürs Filmen noch nicht so bald in Deutschland. Aber jetzt schon können wir uns wehren gegen die Dauerüberwachung, die in den USA die Regel zu sein sch…

Ukraine’s reported Flamingo missile strikes may shift toward heavy strikes deeper into Russia, experts say: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/ukraines-reported-flamingo-missile-strikes.html