“Amber Waves”
This is just grass in the not-very-wet local wetlands, but I think it’s pretty grass (and good computer wallpaper, which is what I developed this as).
Great Egret at the Fern Ridge Wildlife Refuge. I was shooting through heat haze at a pretty long range, so not a great photo, but still a great bird!
#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #birdphotography
Private Equity Is Deploying an Army of AI Wonks to Embed in the Firms They Back (WSJ link; here’s an archive.today copy).
PE & AI, it’s like chocolate and peanut butter. Only the chocolate has ground glass in it and the peanut butter is cut with rat poison.
“Peek”
Spotted on the side of a building in downtown Eugene
Added a couple of fresh Hiking Trip Reports to my website…though honestly yesterday was a thoroughly underwhelming hiking day.
AI appears to have redefined the shit sandwich to be a slab of shit between two slices of shit.
Here’s the basic problem: AI has arrived in American life and communities across the country as a giant turd mountain. No one wants it; it makes everything worse when it arrives; and it’s been pushed and backed and cheerled by the absolute worst people in modern American life.
Some Owl's Clover from an otherwise-undistinguished hike this morning. #dailyphoto #oregon #flowerphotography
Some Owl's Clover from an otherwise-undistinguished hike this morning.
#dailyphoto #oregon #flowerphotography
I don’t necessarily object to the Navy naming a ship after President Trump. They must have a decommissioned rusty garbage scow laying around somewhere.
If you don’t want to be dragged through the mud, don’t spend your time next to the largest pig in the pen.