2026-06-20 13:33:25
After getting our new fridge, we packed our cycles and did a nice loop in the neighbourhood. It's been a bit warm but with enough water it went quite well.
Enjoy your Saturday!
#cycling #BikeTooter #tegernsee
After getting our new fridge, we packed our cycles and did a nice loop in the neighbourhood. It's been a bit warm but with enough water it went quite well.
Enjoy your Saturday!
#cycling #BikeTooter #tegernsee
New single 'Spitting Image' by NYC's TARANEH has kind of a Portishead meets Elastica, Breeders, or Veruca Salt kinda feel, so obviously, I love it.
https://taraneh.bandcamp.com/track/spitting-image
Iranian-American singer/songwriter Taraneh Azar is behind this…
The Deity that Struggles ⛪️
挣扎的神衹 ⛪️
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Just on the way to bed and to the South East on the horizon is a spectacular thunder storm. I checked my lightning app and I can see it a huge storm stretching from Amiens to Lille in France - 140 miles away across the Channel!
#weather #lightning
from my link log —
5× faster fast_blur in image-rs.
https://apas.tel/blog/optimizing-image-rs-blur
saved 2026-05-15 https://dotat…
Just got confirmation that I will be documenting and helping with some maintenance works at Breslauer Hütte, before the main season starts. This hut, built in 1882, is one of the oldest high-alpine mountain huts in the eastern Alps, and located just below Wildspitze (3768m), Tyrol's highest mountain.
The hut belongs to the Breslau section of the Alpenverein (now based in Stuttgart) and it's their upcoming 150th anniversary next year. Aside from the repair work, for me it's a long await…
To better "see" Precambrian basement geology, an airborne geophysical survey is currently being carried out over eastern North Dakota! USGS with North Dakota Geological Survey NDGS.
Part of the national Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI)
https://www.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116603070039160133
Actually trying to find the source for this, it appears to be from one of those “1,000 things to do on the Web” books from the Y2K era.
I have some books coming to see if it’s in any one of them.
If you search online for this (in a real search engine, not Google) you will find a lot of random Reddit threads that all say it’s an “ad” despite it clearly not being an ad and all images of it are always this specific angled image, just with different crops.
Trying to find the truth where it’s from so stay tuned.
The Crab Nebula sits some 6,500 light years from us in Taurus.
It’s what remains after a massive star exploded as a supernova in 1054 CE
— an event people on Earth actually saw and recorded.
Today, it’s known as a pulsar wind nebula, driven by the powerful winds of a fast-spinning pulsar at its center.
https://
I have spies everywhere @…
I can't tell you who but I will just quietly CC @…
#UnicycleLife
I can't get over how bad the docker ecosystem is.
"we provide a docker image, just use that!"
*install container image & run it - it doesn't work*
"oops, we didn't test it"
OpenAI adds support for Google's SynthID watermarks in AI images, and previews a public portal to let users verify if an image was generated by OpenAI's tools (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int
@… I’m trying to include an image in #Cosma 2.6.1, but cosma modelize says:
Building cosmoscope… (source type: directory)
Err. (unknown path) [Line 231, Column 29]
TypeError: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received…
@… I’m trying to include an image in #Cosma 2.6.1, but cosma modelize says:
Building cosmoscope… (source type: directory)
Err. (unknown path) [Line 231, Column 29]
TypeError: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received…
@… I’m trying to include an image in #Cosma 2.6.1, but cosma modelize says:
Building cosmoscope… (source type: directory)
Err. (unknown path) [Line 231, Column 29]
TypeError: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received…
Bike to work, low-intensity run at lunch, bike from work, and publish the Java Geek Weekly.
What a cool day 😊
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/137/
Someone got giggles from writing the headline and hero image caption...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531117-gas-from-uranus-reveals-it-has-an-icy-centre/
Meta rolls out Muse Image, the first image generation model from its Superintelligence Labs, in Meta AI; it will also power new tools in Instagram and WhatsApp (Meta Newsroom)
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/07/introducing-muse-image-meta-ai/
50 years ago #OTD NASA's #Viking1 landed on #Mars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_1 - here is part of the first image sent from the surface. The camera was a horizontally rotating scanner moving left to right: the early vertical columns are brighter because dust from touch-down hadn't settled yet.
Compare publications on PubMed referring to The vOICe vision BCI (An experimental system for auditory image representations) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?timeline=expanded&sort=pubdate&linkname=pubmed_pubmed_ci…
Apparently today is #ShowYourStripes day.
If there are still people unaware that #ClimateChange is happening... maybe we can get them up to speed by sharing our stripes.
If some who are aware it's happening think it's already "too late"... maybe we can tell them that ac…
I may be unemployed, but I also had a Superstation One delivered today which was a very nice surprise. Gotta say it's absolutely beautiful and has about every analog output imaginable. Setup wasn't too horrible, but definitely had to grab the microSD card image and reflash the card before I got things working properly.
Overall though I like the device. I might stream a game later and see what this thing can do overall.
Just finished "Fustuk" by Robert Mgrdich Apelian. Without exaggeration, it is a true masterpiece, an absolutely stunning graphic novel about food, family, and magical contracts that reminds me of both Witch Hat Atelier and Young Bride's Stories. The truly impressive part is that Apelian is every bit as good an illustrator and storyteller as both Kamome Shirahama and Kaoru Mori.
In the author's note, Apelian says "So I asked to make the story I always craved growing up: a tale of Middle Eastern joy and magic that speaks to diasporic culture and how those of us within it relate to our two worlds." He succeeded at that goal abundantly, as far as I can tell, and has produced a truly impressive work.
Images are rough pictures of a few example pages showing very cool panel construction, lots of detail, and both dynamic action and expressive faces. I'm not going to spoil anything, but the second image here is one of the most powerful pages I've read in a while and the way it uses gutters demonstrates a beautiful mastery of the comics medium.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
gemini 3.5 flash "extended thinking" gets the geometry correctt in 4 of 4 tries, but the controls still have weird labels. what baffles me is the "thinking steps" all have weird hallucinations
- one claims I requested a chrome toaster with crumbs; no I didn't.
- one claims the image will include a dish towel and a spice rack; no it doesn't.
the image generator in both standard and extended thinking is nano banana 2. I'm unclear how the "th…
Imo every company that neither has an account in the Fediverse nor the Atmosphere is missing a huge opportunity, ngl.
Even if it might not mean a lot of reach, at first, it probably improves your image to be here.
Just saying 😁
A new home for the work laptop. Introducing asterix-danang, my own bootc image, based on Fedora Kinoite. to be found here: https://github.com/danangineer/asterix-danang
KDE 6.7, distrobox, homebrew, all fluff removed.
How has the Museum Data Service helped Art UK break new records? Through the MDS, record and image ingestion is now at least 20 times faster than at any other time during @artukdotorg.bsky.social 's history.
David Saywell @artukcurations.bsky.social explains in https://museumdata.uk/blog/h…
🚀 #MoonshotAI releases #KimiK26 — #opensource 1T-param MoE model, 32B active params, 262K context & native multimodal (image video) input
🧠 15% over K2.5 on benchmarks: bette…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[3/11]:
- Linear Mode Connectivity under Data Shifts for Deep Ensembles of Image Classifiers
C. Hepburn, T. Zielke, A. P. Raulf
Finding assets in Xogot’s filesystem browser was a pain, we baked in a always-on Asset Browser:
https://blog.xogot.com/introducing-the-asset-browser-finding-your-stuff-faster/
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
Memorial Day sale features $13 Tees and up to 40% off everything else in my Threadless shop.
Starts today and runs through May 26 at 5 PM CT.
(A bonus round is also included with extended deals through June 2 at 5 PM CT.)
Get stuff here: https://
[2026-06-19 Fri (UTC), 4 new articles found for eess.IV Image and Video Processing]
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I sooo often don't have photos of the summit cross when I go to the #mountains . Don't ask me why. Maybe because I usually have people in the photo?
It was the same that day: I almost left without that photo when I stepped over the flowers and thought that they might be a cool foreground for the summit. And by focusing on the flowers and blurring the people, I also don't hav…
Two small new prints from this afternoon, this time not Kallitype but contact printing on silver chloride FB paper, developed with Adox MCC. The increase in depth and detail is just wonderful and the feel of the final results an instant throwback to my early darkroom adventures ~40 years ago... 😍
The pictures are of two of my favorite places in recent years. Larger prints will be available for purchase in September.
@… I'm a little surprised how different some parts of the PICO images are. In the sample image of the lady with a red hat (kodak_kodim04), the eyebrow on the right side of the image is slightly higher than in the reference image. Flipping back and forth between them makes it look like she's subtly hinting something
«Mit Opt-out setzen Meta und andere Techkonzerne auf die Trägheit der Masse. Die wenigsten Nutzenden ändern die oft versteckten Standardeinstellungen, während neue KI-Funktionen laufend automatisch aktiviert werden. Selbst kritische User geben irgendwann auf.»
@… bei #Watson
I was looking for an image of a tapped autotransformer for making an unun, instead of the more common bifilar windings for the primary, and a search turned this image up.
Of course it's a Facebook post and I'm not on Facebook so I'm shocked that Facebook let me see anything in their walled garden.
We're not going to make this exactly because we're…
In what fucking reality has Trump had military victories in Iran?
Re: #uspol
John Carlos Baez: "𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞! 𝗙𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗧! Acad…" - Mathstodon https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/113221679747517432
One of the views of a recent hike. After quite a while I reached the ridge and finally got the south bound views.
I took some photos while having a little rest and then went on to the summit ...
That day I really noticed how great the rests work together with making photos. And also one of the things that I can hardly do when hiking in a group.
some more of the story:
Civic Museums III - Relics🏛️
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For years, whenever I'd share links to my Wordpress posts on social media the preview image would be seemingly pulled at random, usually ignoring the first image. Finally fixed it yesterday by installing a plugin called "Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags", then checking the box that says,"First image from the post/page content" in the settings. I'm sure there are better ways to fix but it worked for me. Sharing in case anyone still blogs and has the same problem. #wordpress #blog #blogging https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/
Worried about the "violent rhetoric of the left", while the US government releases an image of what it would look like if they nuked Ireland, presumably to convey a threat.
Proposal for alternative text attribute for video poster images:
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/12585
From @…:
i fell for an ai generated image of trump in china, i feel dumb 😔
What the fuck. Someone literally in front of me just used ChatGPT to both plug in a transformation artist's art piece and one of my fursona character sheets from FA and basically make an exact replica of the image with my fursona replacing the character in the transformation image in basically the same position.
I hate this so much, I told them to delete it immediately. Now I'm worried as hell how many YCHs might be AI or repeated badges or just...Wow, this sucks so much.
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
I spent the last week attending the joint ASLO - SIL conference (the two largest #limnology societies) in Montréal. There were many interesting talks, including a few on alpine lake systems. These are very cold, ice-covered for much of the year, with extreme adapted…
So re the new tools in Photos on #iOS27: this interview was illuminating.
• You'll only be able to generate up to 25% extra on an image
• System will only let you do it once
• Apple will be adopting SynthID and applying it to every AI altered/generated image! Talk about burying the lede. I can't believe it wasn't mentioned in the keynote.
They do seem like they hav…
Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/meta-ai-image-consent
Meta launches Muse Image in Meta AI, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and previews Muse Video, the first media generation models from its Superintelligence Labs (Meta)
https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/
Saw a photo of a doctor office with this image on a screen, and had to track it down.
( Image of someone in a orange/black/yellow leather pup mask, sunglasses, chain collar, with text "We're not a vet... but we treat pups!" )
This is by Equitas Health, a nonprofit lgbtq healthcare provider in Ohio
https://www.…
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Sony and TSMC announce a new JV to build next-gen image sensors for robots and cars, as Sony moves from in-house manufacturing to a more asset-light approach (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-08/tsmc-and-sony-t…
I wish we had a button for "image in post copied from Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook." And when three people independently ticked it, a tag would be displayed on the original post so that people might pause before boosting. When anonymous engagement-farming accounts flood us with stolen content, real accounts get sidelined. #photography #photographs #art
Image reconstruction with the #JWST interferometer / Amigo - a Data-Driven Calibration of the JWST Interferometer: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/image-reconstruction-with-the-jwst-interferometer/A7CC519AFA379D0F1505AF903ED4F316 / https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/publications-of-the-astronomical-society-of-australia/article/amigo-a-datadriven-calibration-of-the-jwst-interferometer/268CE2DB6E14DEBC8DF329F6C328CB76 -> Astronomers unlock a sharper view from JWST using a ‘keyhole’ trick: https://www.science.org/content/article/astronomers-unlock-sharper-view-jwst-using-keyhole-trick - a revived technique could reveal planets near their stars and the inner workings of galaxies.
Efficient Image Registration for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy by Obtaining Gradients via Integration Across Iterations
Jipeng Yan, Chang Liu, Hengchang Liu, Biao Huang, Meng-Xing Tang, Yingxiang Liu, Ying Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.18887
Urban Fallacies ❌
城市谬误 ❌
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ok "extended thinking" appears to repeatedly generate the image with additional context generated by the "thinking" steps.
I tried "renaissance painting of a cuisinart toaster lying on its side on the hood of a kia soul", and the last three "thinking steps" are some version of: oops, the toaster is upright, lemme try again. in one session it gives up and says, sorry the toaster is upright, I hope you still like the result anyway.
this is ve…
Privacy advocates, CAA, and SAG-AFTRA slam Meta's Muse Image, which lets users create AI images using the likenesses of people with public Instagram accounts (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/10/meta-ai-image-consent
Some people are born heroic - others have heroism thrust upon them. I didn't wake up this morning and decide that I was going to be a hero, but then again, that's kinda what heroes do. They wake up and then end up doing some heroic shit.
#EveryonesAHeroInTheirOwnWay #Shitpost
One more photo from the trail that I posted about recently. The blooming heather always make sme smile. Especially when there aren't too many flowers around.
In such spost I'm always traying a bit what looks more interesting: a great vista, a plain trail shot, the heather in the foreground or a blurred foreground.
The advantage is: I always have little rests along the way :)
#hiking
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
And another #Psyche #Mars image from the #GravityAssist, just in as https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche_images/6658/ - see also https://bsky.app/profile/thomasappere.bsky.social/post/3mm2lwu6qrk23 for a great mosaic from images appearing previously on https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-images/
@… I think this image is probably AI generated. I can't find a photographer credit, it only appears on random social media accounts. The poster in the back that says "Jimmy Show" is weird. The guys are all wearing their typical on-screen clothes, which is odd for a casual photo. The lettering on the sign feels like AI, not organically written: look …
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Some of you might know that image of Crodon di San Candido already (posted it a few times in the past), but last night I finally made a 15x11 inch Kallitype print of it (on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag, 100% cotton, 300gsm paper). Available as limited edition soon.
Since these prints are handmade (each taking over an hour to develop & process), the tone of each individual print always slightly varies. Therefore, I will be offering an option to indicate your preference for warmer or cool…
A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image, which involves trademarking video and audio clips of him (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/t…
Meta says it will discontinue a feature that allowed users to generate images in Meta AI using public Instagram accounts, following days of criticism (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/biz/news/meta-suspends-ai-image-instagram-fea…
A look at Matthew McConaughey's novel legal strategy to fight unauthorized AI use of his image, which involves trademarking video and audio clips of him (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/t…
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Oh! #FootpathFriday
One photo from the ruin of the castle #neideck which we visited.
I like castles and ruins not just for their look but because they offer a huge amount of information and history!
Well happy weekend! And happy reading
Apple announces new parental controls, letting kids ask to browse specific websites or contact specific people, adding automatic image filtering, and more (Daniel Cooper/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2189728/apple-expands-parental-c…
'Wolken' #FotoVorschlag 'Clouds'
I chose this one becasue without clouds, this photo wouldn't have been possible.
The photo came totally unplanned. I just walked a mountain in winter with my photo-backpack. I was looking for a completely different spot when I turned around and saw that scene in the distance. -- Knowing it wouldn't last for long, I suddenl…
The Peeled Emulsion - Unsolicited Selfie
涂层剥落 - 不请自来的自拍
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Last day of vacation! We just did a small walk to our local hill. The clouds in the south look pretty grey, while it looked nice in the north.
We have a relaxing day today, a real #silentsunday.
#hiking
Google says the Gemini app now offers Nano Banana image generation to eligible US users for free; it was previously only available to Plus, Pro, and Ultra users (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/geminis-perso…
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完美因为完美不存在 🎐
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Civic Museums 🏛️
民间博物馆 🏛️
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