Of course AI is more like gasoline than a retardant:
When another X user pointed out that the image has been shown to have been taken in New Jersey and asked Grok to retract its statement, the chatbot wrote: “I cannot retract the statement, as evidence strongly supports the image being from Paramount, CA, near a Home Depot during protests on June 7, 2025. News reports from ABC7, Los Angeles Times, and others confirm bricks were used in clashes with federal agents.”
Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompt today is hidden.
Here’s a photo of a wetlands drainage pool tucked out of sight behind our street.
Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompt today is brick, so here’s a shot of my 2012 - 2014 Tallahassee home Salley Hall.
There are a lot of headlines coming out of downtown LA this week.
It’s got me reflecting on the last time I got to spend some significant time in downtown LA which was in March 2019 where I participated in a large recruitment conference and professional association meeting. I have some cherished memories, particularly of the staff I befriended at the Verve Coffee in the garment district. I also recall on my early morning walks to get my coffee seeing the rows of tents along some streets. L.A. is not a hellscape. Its a big, beautiful, diverse, and complicated region.
Day 10 of Micro.Blog’s 📷 challenge prompt is rail.
Here’s a photo from Kansas City’s Central Station model train exhibit.
Micro.Blog day 9 📷 prompt is wood.
Here’s a favorite from Fenner Nature Center 2 years ago featuring my daughter.
Day 8 of Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompts is travel. Here’s some of my favorites from Almaty during last summer’s HALE trip to Kazakhstan.
Today’s Micro.Blog 📷 prompt is switch
Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompt for today is contrast.
The experts found numerous and troubling flaws: the code relied on older, general-purpose models not suited for the task; the model hallucinated contract amounts, deciding around 1,100 of the agreements were each worth $34 million when they were sometimes worth thousands; and the AI did not analyze the entire text of contracts. Most experts said that, in addition to the technical issues, using off-the-shelf AI models for the task — with little context on how the VA works — should have been a nonstarter.
Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompt for today is reflection.
I’m using a photo from a recent rainy day walk on the Lansing River Trail
Micro.Blog’s 📷 prompt for today is nostalgia.
I went with this photo from Artprize in 2010. A time I still remember fondly.
Day 3 of Micro.Blog’s 📷 challenge is about shadow.
Here’s a photo of Rollins College’s campus. If you’ve spent time in FL outside in summer, shaded walkways make all the difference.
Day 2 of Micro.Blog’s 📷 challenge. Prompt is “curve.” Here’s a sketch my daughter drew.
When the people say, “We are sick,” tell them, “Nay, you are mortal.” Watch as the budget balances itself. Experience the serenity of actuarial software achieving nirvana.
Healing the body is expensive. Transcending the reality of space and time is free. It’s just so obvious once you do the math. Do the math now. Then we shall cut every math department.
Micro.Blog 30 day 📷 challenge. Day 1: tree.
Here we have an Eastern White Pine and some Norway or Blue Spruce.
Any time some post drifts across my social media feeds involving some slavish assertion about worship or bible studies occurring in the White House I drift back to this public health dashboard showing excess death projections resulting from federal funding cuts to public health programs
IMHO the Lansing River Trail system gets nowhere near the publicity and acclaim it deserves in mid-Michigan
Taking a Python Intro course this summer and turns out if you need to code late into the evening Olde Pine is a great companion:
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Oh hey summer.
Elizabeth Bruenig addressing ‘pro-mortalist’ ideology:
Life is good and worth defending.
Hello there.
Another piece of evidence that Pennsylvania is an east coast, not Midwest state (maybe this isn’t actually up for debate??). While boarding at a FL airport for Grand Rapids the gate next door was going to Allentown, PA: the whole process included gate agents begging passengers repeatedly to wait their turn and allow more time for previous zone.
Barely a peep from our gate agents.
Carla Hayden’s firing this week hits especially hard for me because my spouse and I just finished watching a fantastic PBS distributed documentary on the history of libraries in the U.S. Hayden’s featured briefly near the end.
It’s a great watch, neither of us could keep a dry eye at different moments.
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