Video of Anything You Can Imagine

Over a thousand people chatting in a livestream waiting to see if the corpse flower in the Sydney Botanical Garden opens...

Meme Dump...

StalkerBot

A machine learning tool that can guess where a photograph was taken by contextual cues:

A powerful AI tool can predict with high accuracy the location of photos based on features inside the image itself—such as vegetation, architecture, and the distance between buildings—in seconds, with the company now marketing the tool to law enforcement officers and government agencies.

Called GeoSpy, made by a firm called Graylark Technologies out of Boston, the tool has also been used for months by members of the public, with many making videos marveling at the technology, and some asking for help with stalking specific women. The company’s founder has aggressively pushed back against such requests, and GeoSpy closed off public access to the tool after 404 Media contacted him for comment.

They're apparently marketing it to the po-po pretty heavily.

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Monday Morning Memes...

Cold Spell

The sun has risen here in Indianapolis, causing the mercury to soar to 2°F, a full two degrees higher than it was just before dawn. Depending on who you believe, today's high could creep into double digits. While the local television meteorologist is saying we'll only see 9°F this afternoon, Weather Underground says we could get all the way up to 12°F.

It's currently seventeen degrees in Nome, Alaska.

I do not approve of any of this.

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Memes to Keep You Warm...

"For some reason, the Nokia G0-4T5-E never caught on."

Lucky Break

The way that it was giving him that hard eye contact, I was sure dude was going to end up as moose toe jam, but apparently he was okay, just got knocked down.

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Tab Clearing...

• Norway's closing its last coal mine in Svalbard, which could have unexpected geopolitical repercussions...


• The outgoing director of the BATFEIEIO has a sad.


• Coinage and currency in fantasy role-playing games.

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Meme Dump...

Final Weekday Memes...until Monday

So it goes...

Famed director David Lynch has left the building. Keep it weird in his honor.

(In case you don't get the Pabst Blue Ribbon reference, Blue Velvet is available to stream on Prime Video.)

Meme Dump...

It's all relative...

It's 24°F and sunny out there, which is warmer than it's been for several days, and it's supposed to get above freezing sometime around lunch and hang in the mid-thirties until after sunset.

That's gonna feel downright balmy. Tomorrow's going to get into the forties!

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Tab Clearing...

• Weird family moves to Russia to escape immigrants and lesbians. Madcap hijinks ensue. Seriously, this story has it all, including a plan to support a family of five by selling caramelized nuts in a country where you don't speak the language, and the quote "Jesus is our lawyer."


• Fapping to Clippy is not only a sad indictment of our atomized modern society, but also the title of my band’s next album. (The band's name is Virtual Boyfriend Dystopia, fwiw.)


• Canadian jailbreaking?

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Overheard in the Office...

Me: "I'll bet even if you live smack in the middle of downtown Unalaska you can't get much in the way of same-day Amazon deliveries. The produce department at the local Safeway's probably pretty weaksauce, too."

On the other hand, the actual middle of nowhere's a fairly short walk away, where you could just do whatever right out in the open and there wouldn't be anyone around to care but some bored seabirds.

Midweek Memery

Heavy Mettle

The upside: A 9mm this heavy with a good trigger is really easy to shoot well.

The downside: Not cheap.

The full review can be found here.