“The Tide has Turned”

Here’s one for the Pacific Wave Appreciation Society. Taken at Bob Creek this morning just after low tide.

waves at a rocky shoreline

A sea anemone relaxing at low tide.

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“Haying Time”

hay bales being stacked in a field

“Coots”

Mama coot here kept diving down, pulling out pieces of pond weed, and passing them to the cootling. I dunno what that was all about.

two waterbirds on a pond

A butterfly coming in for a landing.

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“Sepia Daisies”

“Beneath Notice”

Apparently the tiny fly is too tiny for this orbweaver to care about.

large spider and teeny fly on a daisy

Just a brontosaurus in a field of daisies.

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“Preening”

Duck cleaning up on a cloudy day

a duck balanced on a rock in a lake

I’m fairly sure that the actual lesson of the recent Anthropic brouhaha is that AI models cannot be made safe. Even a thorough testing and licensing regime would leave ample space for rogue actors to leverage open source models. That genie is thoroughly out of the bottle.