“Trail Tunnels”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 39mm, f/11, 1/25s, ISO 800. Chucksney Mountain Trail.

Snowmelt running down the trail through drifts

“Snowmelt”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 14mm, f/9, 1/2000s, ISO 3200. Seasonal pond along Chucksney Mountain Trail.

Seasonal lake formed by melting snow

“Ringing the Bells”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 14-42 kit lens @ 22mm, f/6.3, 1/200s, ISO 200. Hooker’s Fairy Bells along the Chucksney Mountain Trail.

Hooker's Fairy Bells blooms

“Cold Sisters”

In-camera panorama from Olympus E-M10 IV with M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/5.6, 1/1600s, ISO 2000. North, Middle and South Sister plus Broken Top seen from the summit of Chucksney Mountain.

Mountains in the distance

We are destroying software

I’m glad someone is still keeping up this fight., even if I’m long out of energy for it.

“Nest of snakes”

Olympus E-M10 IV with M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/6.3, 1/30s, ISO 640. Close-up of red columbine flower near Alsea Falls.

Red Columbine pistils & stamens

Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

300,000 deaths. Mostly children. This is what “Make America Great Again” means.

RFK Jr.‘s ‘Make America Healthy Again’ report seems riddled with AI slop

Bad politics meets bad tech. Just need to throw in some cryptocurrency for the scam trifecta.

Trump goes after Leonard Leo in attack on tariff ruling

Alternate headline: Thin-Skinned Man-Baby Whines That Nothing is Ever His Fault

(I presume Leo doesn’t care. He’s gotten his generation-long lock on the Supreme Court.)

“Green Peak Falls”

Olympus E-M10 IV with 7 Artisans 7.5mm f/2.8 Fisheye lens @ f/9, 1/5s, ISO 100.

Wide view of Green Peak Falls

The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’

I’ve wandered into the timeline where 2025 USA is 1938 Nazi Germany, and I don’t like it.

White House blasts rulings on tariffs: ‘The courts should have no role here’

  1. Carefully eliding that one of those horrible unelected activist judges in this case is a Trump appointee

  2. Arguably under Article 1, Section 8 the power to levy tariffs belongs to Congress, not the President, in the first place.

Trump Freaks Out When He Learns About Humiliating New Nickname

Remember when Xi Jinping got his knickers in a twist over Winnie-the-Pooh memes?

I look forward to seeing many more taco emojis in social media posts. 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮

SpaceX launches another Starship rocket after back-to-back explosions, but it tumbles out of control

The point of “move fast, break things” is supposed to be that eventually you figure out how to stop breaking things.

Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves

Or to put it more bluntly, Garbage In, Garbage Out. Not that I expect garbage out will do anything to stop the massive overdeployment of current AI technologies, or their contribution to the enshittification of everything.

What is the ‘TACO trade’ on Wall Street?

It’s Trump Always Chickens Out, of course. I’ll bet every time he sees that smoke comes out of the man-baby’s ears. Good.

“Porch Friend”

Olympus E-M10 IV with M.Zuiko 60mm f/2.8 macro lens @ f/6.3, 1/500s, ISO 640. At Camp Yale.

Lizard on a porch railing