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Pre-alpine Pink Hour (2026)
It's a new day, it's a new dawn...
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

After The Drought (2026)
(Temporary bounce back of lush greens, at least for a few weeks, after an extremely hot & dry summer in the Alps...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

In case this hasn't already circulated:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jul/15/climate-activists-exxon-hired-hackers-trial
Fossil fuel company hired Israeli private security company to hac…

FOIA docs: Brendan Carr joined 8 White House meetings and three calls with Trump officials from March 2025 to February 2026, and met conservative media leaders (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/202…

Revealed: FCC chair Brendan Carr’s close coordination with White House and rightwing media
Internal documents obtained by Guardian show White House meetings, scheduled calls with top Trump officials and communications with Fox News producers

Are global stock markets heading for a crash? | Stock markets | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/business/ng-interactive/2026/sep/20/stock-market-crash-government-bond-yields

Are global stock markets heading for a crash?
Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm

A Thousand Meters Above The Valley (2021)
(After this harsh summer, the grasses will probably start looking like this much sooner this year — back then it was late October...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116951656558788471
Maybe just check what kind of dependencies you have in your applications, and once a year consider donating a bit of money to them.

Fruits Of Labor (Of Love)
(A 10x8" silver chloride print I made last night of a scene captured in the Bernina Range in 2024, which reminded me of 18th century landscape painting...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Two contrasting films,
produced eight years apart,
neatly distill the evolution of John Fetterman,
Pennsylvania’s maverick senator in his journey from progressive icon to a man seemingly more at ease with his nominal Republican opponents than his fellow Democrats.
Fetterman’s evolution has been so stark that some Democrats fear he will go over to the Republicans
– jeopardizing the party’s hopes of regaining control of the Senate
– despite his disavowals of…

‘I don’t trust him any more’: Pennsylvanians come to grips with John Fetterman’s rightwing turn
The maverick senator has isolated himself from supporters as he has become a strident supporter of Israel

Nice explanation of maps - and the pros & cons ov various projections:
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-int

‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display

Nice explanation of maps - and the pros & cons ov various projections:
‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
https://www.theguardian.com/science/ng-int

‘A map is never neutral’: meet the cartographers who took on centuries of western bias
Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display

TIL that I've actually created a few "high impact" packages on NPM (with 1 million downloads per week)... Just got this email from them (see screenshot)
If each one of these would just pay me $0.001, I could actually comfortably dedicate myself full time to these projects (which has been my long, long dream job). But the system and social contract around open source is completely broken and so I've to balance my time and try to sustain myself and my family via other ways for periods o…

as someone who has worn knockoff raybans for decades, yet another sincere 'n' hearty "fuck you, creepizoids" to meta. https://wandering.shop/@susankayequinn/117123975744986279

Nakakahinayang na hindi nahalal na senador si Chel Diokno noong 2019 o 2022. Pero buti na lang nasa lupon siya ng mga taga-usig kasi nilampaso niya ang magkapatid.
#phpol #impeachment #DuterteImpeachment

A Conjuring Of Clouds
Yesterday's evening walk... It's been a great week for cloud spotting, but with dozens of storm cells & hail moving through the area all week...
(Also thinking about the connotation to wildfires raging in Canada... 😢)
#MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

from my link log —
Why compiling Rust to Wasm is slow.
https://00f.net/2026/08/19/why-compiling-rust-to-webassembly-is-slow/
saved 2026-08-20

Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are "much more science fiction than science" and the latest "wave of PR" is probably intended to shape regulation (Micah Barkley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-inter…

Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance

Spooky to read this while seeing extremely low level of #Danube while on holidays in #Budapest
#ClimateCrisis

Destroyed crops, riverbed cyclists and a ‘Rock of Starvation’: how drought has devastated the Danube
The Guardian travelled 100 miles along the EU’s longest river, where some residents are struggling to secure drinking water

"The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more"
#Ecuador #Birds #Animals

The bird that changed Ecuador: how a chance discovery of a rare species helped to save many more
Thirty years after a US ornithologist first sighted a jocotoco antpitta, the foundation he set up to restore biodiversity is a model for conservation globally

For me this age of AI is the time we should appreciate less polished handwritten texts for their authenticity. I see this happening during selection of job applications.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026…

How AI is changing language
As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine writing, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson reflect on the future of fiction in an age of ChatGPT

Ranking 5 biggest needs for Dak Prescott's Cowboys heading into 2026 NFL training camp https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-ranking-5-biggest-needs-dak-prescott-cowboys-heading-2026-nfl-training-camp

Everything in life, at some level, is about storytelling, so they say. Yet, telling my own story, about my own work, the reasons/impetus, the processes, the details, mistakes, insights, lessons, connections etc. It is the hardest thing ever.
People don't buy the art, they buy the artist.
As much as I do love writing, I've always strongly disliked writing about my creative works/efforts, probably because I so often wanted The Work™ to stand on its own and also because I so frequen…

Beautifully filmed, interesting and entertaining nature documentary about why various animals are seeking out consumption of hallucinogenics and why some species are coping better than others...
German: Tierisch High
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/116844-000-A/tierisch-high/

#DNIP Briefing #85: Versteckte Botschaften und versteckte Daten. Heute u. a. mit Überwachung und Wasserzeichen. https://dnip.ch/2026/08/18/dnip-briefing-85-versteckte-bot…

Great article about the loss of diversity induced by recommender systems (including LLMs):
Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
"A world that keeps removing the unlikely also removes the things that could have become the next likely. Ecologists have known this for a long time already and even priced it: they call it the insurance value of biodiversity, the standing reserve of rare species that cost energy and contribute nothing, until the clim…

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same
What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

Some incredible shots in this year's International Aerial Photographer contest:
https://www.internationalaerialphotographer.com/
Awards book (preliminary):

Over the past year and a half, at least 28 federal datasets have been deleted
and another 338 data collections have been modified, according to an online tracker released last week from dataindex.us,
a group of data policy experts, researchers and developers that formed last year to monitor changes to government data.
“We’re at a very vulnerable point as a nation,” said Denice Ross, former US chief data scientist under the Biden administration and a co-founder of dataindex.…

Trump 2.0 has deleted or altered nearly 400 US datasets, endangering public health, education and more
Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

On the encouraging news front:
Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/16/trump-national-parks-exe…

Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance

On the encouraging news front:
Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/sep/16/trump-national-parks-exe…

Trump asked Americans to help him whitewash national parks. They revolted instead
The DOI placed QR codes in national parks, inviting visitors to report content deemed ‘negative about either past or living Americans’. Instead, it became a mode of resistance

Ready To Burst (2025)
#EveningWalk #Photography #CloudAppreciation

Getting Drenched At 2500 Meters
#FootpathFriday time! A welcome brief refreshment on the way up, on my hike two weeks ago, the view from ~10 secs... 😍
#LandscapePhotography #Video

Low Tide At Meyers Creek Beach (2019)
(Near Brookings, Southern Oregon)
Ps. I'd love to know what kind of mineral those red parts might be! 🙏
#TextureTuesday #NaturePhotography #Rocks

How Paul Dacre broke new ground to sell readers an angry perspective at the Daily Mail and helped radicalize the UK's rightwing press, now run by his disciples (Andy Beckett/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com…

The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples

Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds.
It made the scale of British Atlantic slavery possible, and profited from it
The UK's wealth is founded on expropriation and enslavement.
| Slavery | The Guardian

Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds
Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

from my link log —
Testing for no_std compatibility in Rust crates.
https://blog.dbrgn.ch/2019/12/24/testing-for-no-std-compatibility/
saved 2019-12-27

Another #ThingUmbrella release cycle this AM:

• fixed yesterday's https://thi.ng/geom-io-obj stream parser update to also support

Wavefront OBJ parser (& exporter soon)

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/116459534973023736
Today a year ago... a magic moment of rest among the clouds 🤩

RE: #Manomine

Israel accused of trying to ‘eliminate’ living conditions for Palestinians in West Bank
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2026/sep/14/israel-palestinian-living-…

Israel accused of trying to ‘eliminate’ living conditions for Palestinians in West Bank
Report by Israeli human rights group says systematic and broad assault being waged on conditions required for Palestinians’ existence

RE: #Manomine

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.

Waiting For The Sky To Empty (2026)
From two nights ago. More context & time lapse:
#SilentSunday

Current status: Waiting for various people to achieve REHGI (Rational Empathetic Human General Intelligence). How many more model versions until we reach that?

RE: https://diaspodon.fr/@dada/117290450227841484
Fully repairable
Design to last
No DRM, No locks
Free to refill ink
Free paper format
No subscriptions
Open Source
Paper roll or sheet
100% private data
Congrats to the team for foll…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jbaert/117115229615888173
In the almost 30 years of my career, I've never felt & witnessed the combined dynamics mentioned in [1] and those about sacrificing agency/control, described below, more directly than in my recent h…

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/117115279590977166
Wonderful essay by @…

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/116939646868483647
Recommended read of the day... 👏
"This essay is an attempt to describe the bizarre dynamics that are currently at play, as I am in the rare position where my wellbeing is not contingent …

New #ThingUmbrella release(s): Updated the https://thi.ng/geom-io-obj OBJ mesh parser to support stream parsing using async iterables. This allows direct piping fetch() responses to the parser.

Evening Walk
(Last night, stopping by at one of our fave places on the way back from commemorating an important family day in the mountains...)
#EveningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Lake

Six Storks (2026)
(Since it's hard to convey the scale of these antennas, please use the cute storks resting on them as reference... 😍)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Golden Hour, Green Lung (2026)
#SilentSunday #EveningWalk #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." — J. R. R. Tolkien
Truly an evergreen quote!
#Quote

September Descent (2026)
Beautiful late summer day & mood, on the way back down into the valley. Only another few precious weeks until the snow arrives (hopefully)...
Also, just to illustrate that black & white conversion/editing always offers a huge spectrum of possibilities: Here's my current chosen/preferred WIP conversion base edit (second image, with custom fine-tuned weights for primary hues) vs. using the default HSV desaturation route only (which here produces muc…

Oh my, I just bought something from eBay for the first time in 15 years — wish me luck! My last experience (selling a laptop then) was super stressful, when the buyer ended up being a fraudster and it took months to get the money...
This time I ordered a dry heat press for my silver gelatin prints, very similar (but larger) to what I had in my first darkroom 35-40 years ago... My current approach pressing fiber prints under 20kg of books takes far too long and isn't scalable (in time …

I'm not a theatre person, but to me the below is true for most art, including photography:
"I was taught that theatre is supposed to slow the world down so it can be looked at, and the person who looks is not supposed to be the same when they walk out. Otherwise, there’s no fucking point. Art is not a leisure activity. It’s about engagement." — Bonnie Greer

‘Newsnight’s kindest critic’: Bonnie Greer was always effortlessly in command
Playwright was an unusual mix of originality and authority and in high demand as a cultural critic

So the upcoming NPM publish token changes are a potential lock-out scenario for people who're not using CI-based "Trusted Publishing" (TP) and cannot switch to "Staged Publishing" (SP) for reasons of practicality or feasibility.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-

npm install-time security and GAT bypass2fa deprecation - GitHub Changelog
npm v12 is now generally available and tagged latest. This major release turns on the install-time security defaults we announced in June, and it’s also where we begin a deprecation…

Room With Another View (2026)
(Same as [1], only here showing parts of the large drop into the glacial canyon(s) below...)
[1] #MountainMonday

Eve Of Dusk Ⅰ (2026)
(Evening walk in the local wetlands)
#SilentSunday #EveningWalk #NaturePhotography

Coming & Returning From/To The Void (2026)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Same place, but what a difference two and a half years make... 🤩
2026 (this morning):
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117088174194004767
2024 (foggy & freezing winter morning):

Came home late last night to find a hail storm had passed through our area seemingly just minutes before. The hailstones were the largest I've ever seen so far (~3 cm), but not as large as northern parts of Germany had last night (some tennis ball sized). Shredded tree branches, garden plants/veg destroyed, heaps of ice around the houses, roads steaming...
#Hail

Understated, powerful, moving, frozen timeless calm. On perma repeat.
Lauge - Chernobyl (2022)
#Music4Coding …

Catching up reading @…'s Cancer Capital series:
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer…

VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@maximilianhenning/117279582879295881
Sure, let's get the two companies most responsible for unethical deployment, scaremongering, doomerism, pseudo-religious cult-like marketing stunts and desperately trying to fend o…

Sunrise In A Scale-free Landscape (2026)
(For reference, the visible valley section is ~6km long... Alt text for more info)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Mariensprung (2021)
A 160 meter tall waterfall emerging straight out of the rock below the Waxenstein, and a tributary to the Hammersbach in the Höllental (Hell's Valley).
#WaterfallWednesday #Video #POV

#InternationalRockDay — Pyrite, Manganese (among other things)
Compared to the more northern areas, the central ridges of the eastern Alps consist of a much larger variety of rocks/minerals with often intense colors. Depending on sun direction, the pyrite (aka fools gold) makes the rocks in the scree fields glisten brightly in the sun...

Room With A View (2026)
(When 2430m elevation is near the bottom of the valley and the glacier(s) almost still reaching till the doorstep when that hut was built in 1928... now retracted by almost 4km...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Post-Perseids Sunrise At Raisting Earth Station (2026)
(Pictures from between 5-6AM this morning... I still need to process the meteor shower images from the hour before, but not holding my breath...)
#LandscapePhotography #RadioTelescope

Trametes gibbosa (2026)
(English: Lumpy bracket, German: Buckel-Tramete)
#FungiFriday #NaturePhotography #Fungi

Perspective Reset (2026)
(Carved by glaciers, houses for scale, colors for delight... the path ahead, to be taken 8 hours later...)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Last night, to make the most of the combination of the still almost New Moon (only 5% illuminated), clear sky/weather, Milky Way alignment/visibility and still near-peak Perseids meteor shower (with ~50 per hour), I spent three hours alone in one of the darkest places within easy reach and with absolutely great views across a lake to boot...
Here's a short time lapse animation of the Milky Way rotating over the Alps near Füssen from around 23:30 - midnight... 290 frames, each 15 second…

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg/117098562278114107
By that measure: A forest is merely the delivery mechanism for the timber, wildlife and land resources which, once extracted, generate income, rents, appreciate in value, and provide economically valuable ser…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jakobbak/116925384667685998
I've noticed, not just with myself, that posting about project updates/releases, new prototypes/demos, photography, art, music here feels like sending things off into a dark void of late. Over time …

Another impression from last night's cycling trip...
Same place, ten minutes later:
#SilentSunday

Fog Over Forggensee (2026)
(From the same place and morning as [1], only a few mins earlier... breathtaking light and peaceful scenery!)
[1] #MorningWalk

Emotional Monday mood, so some musical & sonic balsam needed...
Brian Eno - The Demon Of The Mines (2005)
#Music4Coding

Trans Sky 🏳️‍⚧️ (2026)
(Picture not taken in the US, but on the 4th of July to boot...)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps

Ed Zitron interview @ The Tech Report... “I think we’re on the path to the first real tech Great Depression.”
#AI

August Evening (2026)
(Image taken on my only break during my evening cycle trip last night...)
#SIlentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Silhouette

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@jonikorpi/117263464874714292
The push to replace UI/UX design with LLM generated outcomes is so disillusioning/shortsighted and sooner than later will land us in a clichéd, bland, semi-broken cesspit of good-eno…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117091586203759212
Very good NPR interview with @…

Eeaarrrllyyy rise... 🥱 Popping out to watch and document the #Perseids2026 meteor shower peak with an expected up to 75-85 meteors per hour...

RE: #808day!

Fog Over Forggensee (2026)
(Stunning light & fog encounter on a recent early morning walk...)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Fog

New neighbor moved in... 😍 Seconds earlier they were furiously scratching themselves, the little leg still out...
#Hedgehog #Video

Colors Of The Mountains
(Unedited RAW file from yesterday's hike, only cropped & framed...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

Night Storm Brewing (2026)
(Last night on the way back from our daily cycling round...)
#CloudAppreciation #Photography #BlackAndWhite

RE: #AnalogPhotography

An example of Trump's war and its volatile impact on photography/darkroom processing: Silver nitrate unavailable (for 2 months already) at my usual suppliers and only available with 30% price hikes (compared to mid January) at other places, even though the price of silver itself has halved since beginning of the year... Thanks very much!
#Kallitype

"The sky is the source of light in nature — and governs everything."
— John Constable
#CloudAppreciation #NaturePhotography #Photography

Just released a new version of https://thi.ng/mime, reflecting the current mime-db and now also including manual additions of 20 common camera RAW image file formats (various manufacturers), as well as new helper functions and the ability to dynamically register/override file extensions and their MIME types in their prefe…

650+ file extension to MIME type mappings, based on mime-db

This time with video (hopefully)... I found a 5 meter resolution digital elevation model of a part of the Austrian Alps (Tyrol[1]) and quickly visualized the region around the aforementioned Hintereisferner glacier using my https://shadergraph.thi.ng/ editor. The glacier itself is visible in the bottom left corner…

Invisible Chasm Ⅲ (2026)
(From where I was standing, there's a 400 meter drop in between, a (hidden) suspension bridge crossing the canyon and the path then continuing almost vertically through the crags of the exposed bedrock on the opposite side...)
#InvisibleChasm #TextureTuesday

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/117257871838325319
Julian's points below are exactly it, and these dual standards are amplified & normalized by thousands of clueless politicians, public servants, decision makers and most of the media who…

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@protopop/117073920365882773
This is really beautiful work! 😍
Though as an aside, in the bigger picture: My general problem with this kind of realism in games & movies (and it's bringing tears to my eye…

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117047924135764185
I'm kind of desperate to hear how other small artist/crafter/maker online shop owners are going to deal with these new hostile EU packaging regulations. One of the biggest issues is the amount of general co…

Slightly delayed announcement due to Hetzner's storage outage over the past 24h: Did a new https://thi.ng/umbrella release last night with the new https://thi.ng/geom-mesh

thi.ng/umbrella

Revisiting An Ancient Friend
(...aiming higher/further today, before the days are getting too short, possibly attempting to record a new addition for my #TimeFade project[1], but will decide on final route when I get near the glacier... This image is from October 2025.)
[1]