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Nerd, bear 🏳️‍🌈, hacker, cyclist, traveler, avgeek, geographer, San Franciscan. He/him. KJ6DYS. Landscape photographer and space-borne image sensor […]

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midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
ok that part is unfortunately very relatable. https://paulkedrosky.com/weekend-thinking-a-cul-de-sac-with-a-view/
“Continuous learning is one of the main problems with current models, which have specific end dates wrt training, and subsequent gaps must be backfilled by web search. Perhaps worse, they do not learn from what they are exposed to or retrieve, and attempts to make them do so often lead to catastrophic forgetting, wherein they not only fail to learn but also forget what they previously knew. It remains an unsolved research problem.”
December 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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paperposts.zirk.us.ap.brid.gy
today at dawn, curious orange.

#SFBayArea
san rafael to richmond bridge bathed in a sliver of warm dull orange sunrise light. heavy grey sky and dark foreground. the far side of the bridge is disappearing into the orange mist
December 13, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
today I got a past-due notice from a data center ISP for a well-known company I haven’t worked for in nearly two decades which is to say I just realized my email address there still works.
December 6, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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jef.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
New mural.
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Read it and weep, Gen-Z coder slaves.

"IBM's Santa Teresa Laboratory - Architectural Design for Program Development"
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/IBM_Systems_Journal/171/ibmsj1701C.pdf
December 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
getting back in to my morning nonsense. #sanfrancisco
Sunrise above of a blanket of houses in a hilly city. Utility lines haphazardly cross the scene. Two roads of radically different vibes briefly meet, one an oversized urban highway the other a quiet residential street, separated by a steep viaduct. A central business district in the background lit in pink sunrise light. Downtown San Francisco just before dawn
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
wasn’t pleased about the bonus 15 minutes on an 11+ hour flight but it’s hard to argue with the result.
Flightradar24 screenshot for UA195 on 1 Dec 2025 showing off a go-around.
December 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I assume there is plentiful German literature discussing the absolutely unhinged manner in which people walk through Christmas markets.
November 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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jon.gruene.social.ap.brid.gy
Further to that “why are French railway station platform numbers so confusing” I present you: Laroche Migennes

3 platforms with a 1
2 platforms with a 2
And J

Obviously!

Oh and 1Bis on the sign is 1B in the app. Which is helpful!
Taxis Sortie Centre-ville Exit • Ausgang Voie Voie 1 bis Voie Voie 2. 2bis Voie ter Voie
November 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy
Sometimes I just get an idea and it won't go away
The end scene from Planet Of The Apes, on the beach, but the Statue Of Liberty is now the XKCD All Modern Digital Infrastructure thing
November 28, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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tanepiper.tane.codes.ap.brid.gy
[#fedihire - IC wanted for some IKEA web projects]

I have an opportunity for a freelance Individual Contributor to come work on some stuff - the websites for our IKEA Hotel, IKEA Museum, and Museum of Furniture Studies in Älmhult.

We're looking for a creative technologist, someone who will […]
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tane.codes
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
First time going for a run in snow this morning. Realized this probably wasn’t very Germanly when a door man shouted at me to note how cold it was. All melted by evening though.
A Berlin commercial district with the sidewalks covered in a bit of snow except where the sweepers had been through. An u-bahn station and old church in the background. A vividly blue mobile construction machine with various attachments sits on a snowy street. Two people in hiviz stand admiring it. A building labeled “satellite office” where I suspect many fewer satellites are operated than in the building a few blocks away. Same old church but now at night with a brightly lit Christmas market
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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mroach.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
I’ve been watching JAG as sort of background entertainment while gaming. This episode aired in 1997 and here we see an establishing shot of Heathrow. Two problems. British Airways didn’t unveil this livery until 1999 and that’s Terminal 5 which opened in 2008.

I’m […]

[Original post on mas.to]
Screenshots shot of Heathrow Terminal 5 from above, showing planes in the 1999 livery.
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#silentsunday #czechia #railtravel
A stone dam with utility buildings guards a river below a dramatic rock holding a castle. Sun sets on frosty trees on the mountains in the background.
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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scott.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy
I ♥️ this so much.

Fran Sans is a typeface by Emily Sneddon inspired by the displays on the now-retired #sf #muni Breda light rail cars.

Process post: https://emilysneddon.com/fran-sans-essay

News story […]

[Original post on sfba.social]
On the left, a photograph of the letter N, as rendered on the SF Muni Breda train display, in bright yellow. On the right, a thin line drawing for the Fran Sans typeface’s letter N, as inspired by the photo.
November 23, 2025 at 2:00 AM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Prague is beautiful but cold.
Numerous stone bridges follow a river to the horizon in winter morning light, lined by countless old buildings. Also some birds. Numerous old buildings, some with steeples, to the horizon where there’s a bunch of goofy modern hi rises. Many copper domed buildings in a city skyline except one enormous radio tower on a distant hill. Distant castle lit in blue with some yellow lit buildings in the foreground.
November 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Up to Prague for the weekend. Always sad to see yet another airline Okidata retired.
Photo from an airliner window above the wing. A tilted horizon with an Italian coastline and storm clouds in the distance. Photo of a plane in front of a cold sunset. People disembarking on airstairs from each end. An okidata microline dot matrix printer sits next to the bin behind an airline gate desk.
November 21, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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bryan.urbanists.social.ap.brid.gy
#trains #amtrak #transit
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
lovely run around some of Rome’s greatest hits this morning.
A medieval skyline ending in a basilica, interrupted by 5G towers and large construction cranes. Statues of naked men with abs befitting the beef industry. Except there’s also horses in water I dunno I’m bad at tourism. Fountain statue with guys on rocks and palm trees trying to avoid noticing the lion kneeling down to drink from the pond. Very old stone arch bridge crossing a calm river. Autumnal leaves line the far banks. More old buildings in the background before a sizable mountain under clouds at the horizon.
November 17, 2025 at 9:36 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
beautiful hill climb run as the fog settled in this morning. #sanfrancisco
A city street pays little attention to the steep hills under it. Big leafy trees and a blanket of utility cables obscure a pinkish morning sky. Mid century fever dream of a boulevard with sidewalk and railing curve down a hillside. A city in fog and dawn light in the distance. Leafy neighborhoods lead to a central business district at the horizon with a thick fog settling into the middle at sunrise. A distant large pointy mountain in the distance is centered above a churning blanket of fog. A hilly unaffordable neighborhood in the foreground.
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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rrmutt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Mr. Tiff https://inventingthefuture.ghost.io/mr-tiff/ #retrocomputing
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November 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Lovely 13 km walk around some of the literal high points of #sanfrancisco today. One of those days where October Summer is struggling to stick around—low angle sunlight but somehow still warm. First up is of course Mount Davidson. Still some fog to make it […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
Trees covered with vines and dense ground cover backlit by a low sun scattering into fog. Same but with an enormous log cut to allow a trail. Concrete cross rising between trees A small dog with big ears standing on a boulder above a steep cliff, demanding a human to photograph them.
November 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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tmcw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
congrats to all the finishers of the new york marathon today!

a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons

https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
Fewer people should run marathons
macwright.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
midendian.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
some big middle fingers to changing times.
A carpet of city rides up a hill on one side and out to an estuary on the other. Clouds whip at the horizon in predawn light. A central business district lit pink at dawn. One large tower peeks above a drifting fog separating it from the others. A wealthy neighborhood with large trees still in shadow in the foreground.
November 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM