“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.

#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon #flowerphotography

“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.

If you need some Sunday Presidential-adjacent entertainment, may I recommend this 30-minute trashing of the Trump Phone from a tech guy who actually got one, rather than the embarrassing spectacle on the White House lawn.

“Transient Art”

Ran across this while out hiking the other day

daisies arranged in a heart shape on top of a rock

“Rose Wallpaper”

a large number of red roses

Just playing around this morning: Olympus E-PM1, Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 lens, pre-dawn street lighting, SOOC JPG using the "grainy b&w" art look. #dailyphoto #eugeneoregon

Just playing around this morning: Olympus E-PM1, Zuiko 45mm f/1.8 lens, pre-dawn street lighting, SOOC JPG using the "grainy b&w" art look.

#dailyphoto #eugeneoregon

“Salsify Morning”

two purple flowers and a tiny bee

“Into the Unknown”

stairs leading into a bright hazy distance