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Have lousy nails. Spent some time looking for players that do not use nails. Think not having nails is not the impedance people think it is. Many do not use them. Had the worst ever stage fright attack when I sat down to play before the Denver Classical Guitar Society. My right hand was shaking, could not get it to the strings. Did not get a note out. Playing something in front of people without my mind entering a white out is on my bucket list.

When Anthropic first released Fable 5, they were worried about what it might be able to do if put into the wrong hands. So they stopped answering all biology related queries until they could put some guardrails on it. I saw that someone asked it the simplest question like "mitochondria is the power plant of the cell, right?' and it wouldn't respond. Eventually they got it to redirect to a less capable model when certain topics arose.

Black-eyed Susans and glads. Classic late summer flowers! My Susies are going great guns, now that I've eliminated the rabbit menace. They used to eat them down to the ground by June and I never used to see any flowers. I'll divide and move some around either later this fall or next spring. They've been flower for three solid weeks and show no signs of slowing down.

Paint it British Racing Green and you'd never notice it was there

I took these photos in April 20202, when I was WFHing because of the pandemic. Very cute — until it started chewing on the wooden window sill and then we kicked it out. It never came back (or if it did, it stopped eating the sill) [image: IMG-6294.jpg] [image: IMG-6295.jpg] [image: IMG-6296.jpg] [image: IMG-6298.jpg]

What’s the difference between Nazism and Communism? When you talk about how horrible Nazis have been, they don’t say “real Nazism has never been tried”.

Maybe do photos to show 'empty/before and after'

Makes perfect sense.

@Bernard said: Rahm's name isn't on the list. I wonder why. He may be followed by the "mayor 1%" name he earned during his Chicago years... https://inthesetimes.com/article/rahm-emanuel-chicago-retirement-schools-mental-health "Their main focus was not his policing strategy or position on gun laws, but rather his failure — or refusal — to invest in the South and West sides: African American and Latino neighborhoods ravaged by violence. While the national movement ignited by the teenagers from Parkland, Florida has focused largely on gun control, in Chicago, marchers on the expressway and countless other residents say devastating gun violence has caused by Emanuel’s actions over his tenure in City Hall: closing public schools, slashing city jobs, shuttering mental health clinics and investing in trendy neighborhoods while struggling ones languish." He was BAD for kids in Chicago public schools when I worked there...

@wtg those are fun! I have a piano score the for Wellerman Sea Shanty, but it’s not very fun as a solo piano piece! @axtremus that’s hysterical!

@Daniel Website is josephkubera.com. Thanks for asking.

@Daniel said: 80 is a good age to reach. RIP As is 90. 80 isn't so far in the distance for some of us to find comfort.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/ai-china-africa.html In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones. China’s A.I. is surging, especially in developing countries, as people look for the best possible system at the lowest possible cost. Unlike models made by the leading American A.I. companies OpenAI and Anthropic — which are closed and charge fees — the Chinese systems are publicly available to download and modify without payment or approval. In more than two dozen interviews across Kenya, Uganda and other countries, developers, policymakers and executives described a rapidly changing A.I. market where cost, computing resources, data control and customization mattered more than where a model was made. Often they were not looking for bleeding edge A.I. They just wanted something that worked well enough on limited resources.

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The Spencer ancestry is as clear as day to me when I look at pictures of him.

Actually, all US intelligence services concluded some time ago that it came from the lab in China. Fauci is a psychopath hiding behind the mask of secular saint. Fauci aka as quote "I am science" has a preemptive pardon. He didn't deserve it (is this actually legal?) but certainly needs it. He arranged the funding for this research and then profited after the predictable result of it.