Maya Posch

The destruction of protected wildlife sanctuaries in Texas for border wall construction continues long after the slogan was forgotten. Here's what will be lost: 'Green Jay (Cyanocorax luxuosus) on a Collared Peccary (Pecari tajacu)' (📷: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS)

SIMD-accelerated Machine Vision on an ESP32-S3

Amazing book, so glad I spent so many hours reading it. Not enough people appreciate Hopkins, Eleanor and so many others. We need more people like them at the top today.

a love note to the old forum: page 37 of a thread from 2009, one stranger posting "fixed it, here's how" and then never again. no invite, no server, no gate. just a lamp left on in a window for whoever comes down that road next.

Elections in Israel. Cartoon from 2024. #Netanyahu #WarCriminal #Israel #elections

Hot take: calling it 'AI' bypasses an entire discussion on the actual technologies. This is very dishonest and deceptive, as well as promoting and maintaining a deep level of ignorance.

Putting the candid in candidate. Newsday.com/matt

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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

This chart is insane. This shows Russia's casualties over time compared to Russia's territorial gains in Ukraine over the last five years. No sane or rational person would say continuing the war to try and take more of Ukraine's territory is worth the casualties.

Trump has only allowed the transfer of 24 patriot missiles to Ukraine over the last 3 months. That is only 2 interceptors a week. Rather than ending patriot deliveries, Trump is sending a tiny amount so people can't complain he stopped while 95% of Russia's missiles still get to hit their targets.

Practice Japanese on an Inkplate 4Tempera eInk Device

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‼️ Russia: “Kazakhstan has imposed sanctions against buyers of cars from Russia.” LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/26/v...

Rest in power, Walter Koenig, best known as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek and Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. I liked him even him even better in B5.

"If it comes down to a choice between wolves and livestock on western public lands, the clear winner is wolves. Let’s extend the benefits all across the American West. The case for leasing public lands for livestock production? That’s a tougher sell." Read more: https://ow.ly/ZPuK51014Qu

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

China’s first AI-generated theatrical feature has flopped, earning just $181,000 in its first weekend. By contrast, the scrappy ‘Niu Lai’ turned its crude animation into a viral attraction, grossing nearly $10 million a couple of months ago. www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-r...

The Fascinating World of IrDA and Other Infrared Protocols

There is something really concerning (and disappointing) going on in the US right now. A dangerous and preventable situation. Let me explain. nextstrain.org/avian-flu/h5... 1/

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

This is such a fantastic photo: "The Witches' Tea Party" but I want to use it to explain the origin of the tall, pointy witches hat. The real story of this photo: These are residents at the Hospital of the Holy & Undivided Trinity: an almshouse in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England established 1610.

With a little help of my human...

The Church of Infinite Greed. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper @trouw.nl: www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tje... #greed #money #nature #environment

The correct legal approach to this seems to be that when platforms start favouring some content over other, they don‘t deserve immunity for third party content on the basis that they are just platforms. They should become liable. finance.yahoo.com/media-advert...

Every single person who bought Tesla stock five years ago and has been holding it is a loser. No dividends. No stock buybacks. Zero asset appreciation in five years. Meanwhile the S&P 500 index fund is up 65% over the same period.

The Trump regime casually selling Alaska back to the Putin regime. Make Alaska Russia Again, etc.

Transforming a Tungsten Ditelluride Monolayer into a Transistor

Together with Clammy Sam Altman and kin describing using 'AI' to enable them to interact with their offspring suggests strongly that maybe these people are completely unsuitable to be parents at all. May be time to call CPS on them, as this sounds like neglect & potential abuse.

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Ukrainian children play with the wreckage of a downed Russian Shahed drone. For an entire generation of Ukrainian children, war has become such a normal part of everyday life that even the remains of weapons sent to kill them become something to play with.

The Russian drone operators call this "human safari."

A 3D Printed Marble Clock, but it’s Scrolling Text

Cartoon by Michael de Adder

If your code is that much of a mess (aka complex) that even the people that wrote it don't understand it, or you fired them, then fixing that technical debt with AI tools is going to compound the problem ten fold. This kind of half-assed effort to maintain your game would be better left undone.

Glance at Steam to check on something and notice that Torchlight 2 has an update. Curious since the last news was 2017. They are, for some reason, pushing a new vibe-coded beta branch to fix longstanding multiplayer errors and add controller support. What could possibly go wrong? 😅