#Alabama country boy vs #AI #surveillance and #privacy defilement

Jacob Rockwell at a #Pensacola, #Florida #CityCouncil meeting

👏 👏 👏

https://weartv.com/news/local/man-raises-concerns-about-pensacola-red-light-camera-ticket-says-he-was-out-of-town

(Jacob's actually from Escambia County, which is the far Western tip of Florida, so basically Alabama)

#Flock #FlockCameras #NovoaGlobal

@macesari Wait! Who said that a flood of oil will run through Hormuz Straint? Ah, yes! The Champion of Free (Orange) World...

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Dungeon Door Pin. "This is easy. It's a simple matter of timing it correctly" I think to myself, seconds before the giant swinging blade slices my head clean off my body.
https://collabs.shop/hcguvc

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

https://twitter.com/Zai_org/status/2093354097122455713

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49479878

#HackerNews #GLM53 #openweight #AI #news #machinelearning #innovations

Meta tweaks AI glasses to block some creepy recordings, but privacy risks remain

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/meta-tweaks-ai-glasses-to-block-some-creepy-recordings-but-privacy-risks-remain/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Just me going to check what major bodies of water are called on different maps.

#maps #uspol #canada

Since we are collectively experiencing the brittleness of the domain name system, and the fact that the root DNS records are owned by shitty companies: its a good time to install `quien` which is "A better whois and domain intelligence toolkit"

https://benword.com/quien-a-better-whois-and-domain-intelligence-toolkit

Some interesting fungosities arising from the Earth in the middle of Pierce Road, Harvard Forest.

Note: "Fungosity" is actually a word. See https://tinyurl.com/3254pxsm.

#fungus #forest #fungi #mushrooms #saprophytes #ecology #biology #biodiversity #nature #naturephotography #forests

@Lynx that's a good one too! Not in nixpkgs though, so classic it is for me (more than enough, my vimrc is ancient and like 20 lines).

Meta's Celebration https://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/3284.html

This is actually joyous:

Denver Public Gardens hold an annual worldwide competition for public gardens and zoos to see whose Victoria waterlily can carry the most weight.

Kew Garden's botanical horticulturists Aidan Pike and Martin Silnevs managed to clamber on themselves (and were held successfully as one person, less so as two...) https://www.kew.org/about-us/press-media/waterlily-weigh-off-2026

Competition winner is announced today(!!)

#WaterlilyWeighOff #Waterlily #Gardens #Garden #Plants #KewGardens

RE: https://sunbeam.city/@wakest/117173864552334147

after a big hard drive failure this week https://sunbeam.city is back online!
(thanks to the hard work of a bunch of people)

@jbz

Another Tech Lord runs headlong into the realities of technology.

Now Hiring: Senior Open Source Maintainer

https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/28/now-hiring-senior-open-source-maintainer.html

I wasn't involved at all in this, just lurking these days

I know this isn't terrorism.
You know this isn't terrorism.
The authorities know this isn't terrorism.
But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Seven charged with damaging Tr...

Overheard on the elevator this morning:
"But if AI didn't really work as well as they say people would say something about it"

*I turn and look directly into the camera*

(curb your enthusiasm music)

Credits roll.

Who cares about Harry and Meghan? Oscar and Abbie are the *real* royal hot couple here at doggy day care.

#dog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi #corgwn