I heard Rubinstein in concert too. With orchestra. Of course, I was a wee teen then.

Grillo’s. Best store brand.

Bloomberg seems to have gotten a copy of a draft of the MOU. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/read-the-14-point-draft-memorandum-between-the-us-and-iran-220917023.html

The linden trees are blooming here. My best friend's birthday is June 22 and the lindens are always in bloom for her birthday. The lovely scent (especially strong in the evening) always remind me of her. We had a birthday dinner for her with her family when she turned 40 at a restaurant that was near a grove of lindens. The scent takes me back to a wonderful celebration. Near my house: [image: 20260616-185922.jpg] [image: 20260616-185842.jpg] Makes me crave a cup of linden blossom tea!

So, fellow birders....I gave up on bird feeders years ago..got tired of the mess and all the squirrels they attracted. It was a pain with the dogs around. No dogs here anymore. I picked up a nice feeder with a solar powered camera for cheap at Costco. Online it's $110, but for some reason they were on closeout at the warehouse back in January for $25. I can't resist a bargain. [image: 4000314026-847__1?auto=webp&format=jpg&width=1024&height=1024&fit=bounds&canvas=1024%2C1024] I got some seed and put up the feeder where the squirrels can't get in it. Of course the birds drop seed all over the ground, and the squirrels are ground feeding amongst my hostas. Four or five at a time, and when they scuffled with each other to protect their access to the seed, they did a number on the two really nice hostas that are at the base of the post with the feeder. Had to dig half of each plant out in order to save them. Anyway... I find that I'm basically feeding the house sparrows right now, with them consuming probably 99% of the seed. Cardinals, blue jays, brown-headed cowbirds, and a downy woodpecker are seen every so often but clearly the sparrows outnumber them bigly. The new feeder is empty right now and I'm thinking about not filling it until fall or winter. Do you guys feed birds during the summer? Or do you let them forage their own food during the summer and focus more on late fall/winter feeding? I bought a small finch feeder, too, and filled it with nyjer seed and we've been enjoying the goldfinches who show up pretty regularly.

Yea, the Albanians aren't happy about this. At all. https://www.npr.org/2026/06/16/g-s1-128162/albania-resort-protests-kushner-trump

Oh, those crazy Norwegian fans: Link to video View from the top: Link to video

@Mark Yes it is!

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Good advice. I am from Swampeast Missouri. In the early 20th century a project to drain the area moved more earth than the digging of the Panama Canal. Drainage still requires year round vigilance. Mosquitoes love it. The mosquitoes stayed.

https://x.com/realdonaldtrump/status/581171685186994176?s=46

@Daniel said: Yeah, it's a scary topic. I won't regale everyone on a Saturday night with the horrible facts about it I have filed in my memory. Why do you find it scary?

It surely didn’t hurt.

Are you interested in learning from human experts about how AI could impact the future of work and the customer experience? If so, it turns out that you could have unknowingly been getting some of your responses from AI. KPMG, one of the largest consulting firms in the world, is accused of publishing a report on the future of AI with 40 of 45 citations that appeared to be at least partially AI hallucinations. In one instance, uncovered by the AI safety firm GPTZero, the report claims that the Japanese East Japan Railway Company (JR East) is using agentic AI for customer service, linking to a 2019 press release, years before agentic AI became mainstream. In another instance, the report falsely claimed that Austrian electricity provider Verbund is using AI agents in households to conduct real-time analytics as part of its “energy-as-a-service ecosystem.” Although Verbund invested in a start-up using agents for grid optimization, there was no evidence to support the claim of real-time analytics in households. Many citations linked to existing studies, but the titles, authors, or dates were incorrect. Researchers were unable to match many citations to existing studies due to insufficient information. The report, which has now been taken down, has been referenced by multiple customer service publications and a major newspaper in the Czech Republic. In addition, researchers noted that the paper is now being referenced as a resource on customer experience by OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google Gemini. GPTZero alleges that an LLM research tool was asked to find appropriate case studies of companies using agentic AI worldwide. The problem is already being felt by the average worker. More than 40% of US desk workers reported receiving "workslop"—low-quality AI-generated content—in the past month, according to a September survey from the Stanford Social Media Lab and BetterUp Labs. https://www.pcmag.com/news/kpmg-allegedly-published-ai-report-filled-with-hallucinations

@Axtremus Outside yellow, inside gray and white. Black seeds.

"Tweaking" isn't a behavior exhibited after someone has done "drugs." It is specifically a reference to meth. This guy sounds stupid to me. It seems he was on a fool's errand of some kind. I wouldn't vote for him or for anyone else who had written anything similar to his 3rd rate "comic poetry."

Much bigger than Findlay!

Am getting back into making my own bread. Tried this Breadtopia recipe for the first time this morning. Thumbs up! https://breadtopia.com/light-wheat-oatmeal-bread/?utm_content The dough is quite soft and moist and has some whole wheat in it, so a bit messy to work with. I used some sourdough starter that the sourdough zealot would have deemed discard (I had sort of neglected to feed my starter for the last several weeks), but it worked perfectly well. [image: 20260615-092504.jpg] Nice chew to the crust. Definitely a keeper.