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The day wasn't great. But I managed to motivate myself to get on the bike for an afternoon ride. And this was - just - so - good.
I almost did a more mountainous route but I opted for speed. I'm happy with my choice.
#cycling #workout

📚 My book review of Concrete Hell: Urban Warfare From Stalingrad to Iraq
Two chapters are relevant, but incredibly thin on theory. The rest is a fairly well written overview of a number of urban operations scenarios, clearly chosen to stress the authors' point, whatever it may be. The whole thing has a sizable US slant. So yes. We have more cities, so wars might happen in places that require fighting in urban terrain. Also, water is wet.
⭐⭐

from my link log —
Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
https://0fps.net/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/
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Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 2)
Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level.  Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular.…

Oh - and it's #mountainmonday !
This is from a summit that I did mid may. I was about to leave the summit when I turned around and saw those flowers - and I thought they could make a good photo.
Well what you can't see there is that the majority of the summit is just rocks and just some little patches of earth and grass - but this bit of earth was enough for those lit…

This is basically BD-1 from the Jedi games, but with wheels.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mondorobotics/beni-all-terrain-camera-robot

Dynjandi. Four minute exposure with the solar filter I bought for the eclipse.
#iceland #waterfall

A fire that started Saturday night in steep, rugged terrain in Big Sur
quadrupled in size Monday,
prompting the evacuations of residents and visitors from luxury resorts
including the Ventana Big Sur hotel
and Post Ranch Inn, along with the Nepenthe restaurant and other popular tourist attractions.

Ab dem #Hochsommer begegnen mir nach frischem #Regen manchmal #Weinbergschnecken 🐌. Da muss man höllisch aufpassen, wenn die über schmale

Been playing the Steam demo of Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess on the Deck tonight and I wasn't sure if if like it, but hell yeah I do. Gonna be buying this one, and it's on sale. Shooting lizard men and lifting packages around? Absolutely.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/122

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116706024941055452
“Corollary 1 (AoE II is Turing-Complete). Let I be an instance of AoE II with two players p0,p1. Assume p0 has two markets, a town centre, a trade cart, six villagers, and five farms; while p1 has a scout unit and only attacks p0’s buildings. Then if I has no time or size limits and the terrain allows for buildings everywhere, the game session in I is Turing-complete.”

En route to Cirque de Troumouse & Cirque d'Estaubé (Pyrenees, 2018)
#MountainMonday #MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography

Got a Labu lawn robot a while back here and wow have to say this thing is much nicer than I imagined.
I previously had Hasqvarna here quoting obscene amounts and then went to put aerials, wires and all sorts of shit here. Totally unworkable. We redo what areas here we cut and do things in every year.
Labu just works plus it’s AWD and doesn’t mind my rough terrain - Hasqvarna wanted to spend 2k to flatten the lawn so their machines can work

#mountainMonday ! Unfortunately not a recent photo but one that's quite a while ago. Before my wife had 2 knee issues. But maybe we can go there again soon.
As you can see, the landscape there is A BLAST! I totally love the area
#mountains

A map of the imagined: topographic principles of sensory simulation in the human parietal cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.03.742540v1 "visual imagery preferentially manifested in posterior regions, auditory imagery in ventral regions" of le…

A Map of the Imagined: Topographic Principles of Sensory Simulation in the Human Parietal Cortex
The cerebral cortex forms a structured landscape in which the location of brain regions shapes their cognitive functions. Based on this cognitive topography, brain regions are not isolated modules but embedded within a macroscale terrain where both cortical geometry and connectivity jointly shape cognition. If cortical locus does modulate cognition, then even internally generated processes (e.g., imagery) might obey topographical constraints. This predicts a neurofunctional arrangement in which…

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…

Graham Platner can be replaced as the Democratic nominee for Senate in Maine
⭐️ if he withdraws from the race by next Monday,
⭐️ and state law would then give the state Democratic Party until July 27 to name a replacement.
Maine Democrats would be in uncharted terrain if Mr. Platner does exit the contest
after a Politico report that he sexually assaulted a woman he had dated.
He denied the allegation but said he was taking time to “reflect” on his political path …

Who Might Replace Graham Platner if He Drops Out of the Maine Senate Race?
Graham Platner can be replaced on the ballot if he withdraws in the next week. If he does, Maine Democrats would face an uncertain two-week race to choose a replacement.

oh wow #footpathfriday again! And I almost missed it. This is from a bike and hike last year which I really really enjoyed.
Afterwards I was quite surprised about the distance and height that I covered. But it was worth it.
#mountains

For decades, Mat wasn’t paid for his work.
Enslavers rented him out for $100 a year to a man who wanted to turn the site into a tourist attraction
– what would later become Mammoth Cave national park.
In the mid-19th century, Mat was one of several enslaved guides who became an expert in the hundreds of miles of underground terrain,
leading notable guests like Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil and Ralph Waldo Emerson through a sprawling labyrinth of dark passageways and ca…

‘A sanitized view of America’: inside Trump’s campaign to erase US history from national parks
Critics say the Trump administration is trying to rewrite and whitewash history by removing and altering scores of signs on public lands

Subsoil acidity causes long delays in inorganic carbon sequestration by Enhanced Weathering
S{\o}ren Jessen, Rasmus Jakobsen, Majken Looms, Per Ambus, Dieke Postma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01835 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.01835 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.01835
arXiv:2607.01835v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While a looming atmospheric CO$_2$ overshoot calls for immediate carbon sequestration, delays associated to Enhanced Weathering (EW) carbon dioxide removal are being investigated. Topsoil acidity is already known to delay EW carbon sequestration, but subsoil acidity remains underexplored. Using century-long agricultural liming of formerly acidic heathland as a proxy for EW, this study provides empirical evidence of subsoil-imposed delays. Below such limed terrain, we observed a downward-progressing front of topsoil-produced alkalinity that still requires 30-100 years to penetrate the approximately 5 m thick acidic sandy unsaturated zone and reach the groundwater table. Subsoil acidity thus may cause beyond-reasonable delays, prohibiting EW as a viable short-term carbon capture strategy even on topsoils made non-acidic by preceding liming. When planning EW schemes, the amounts of stored acidic cations in top- and subsoil, as well as the rate and composition of infiltrating water, controlling the duration of the delay, require careful assessment.
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NASA awarded Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin an initial $188 million contract
to get its robotic Blue Moon Mark 1 lander ready to deliver lunar terrain vehicles, or LTVs,
with an option period worth an additional $280.4 million for two task orders.
Carlos Garcia-Galan, program manager for NASA’s Moon Base program, said the LTVs will be
“a mix between the Apollo lunar roving vehicle and the Mars-style rover.”
Each rover will weigh a little less than one metric ton, …