Checking off the Wildlife Watchlist.

Spring is here, summer is coming.  These are the critters I’ve spotted so far:

  1. bluejays
  2. baby squirrels
  3. jumbo bumblebees
  4. red paper wasps (polistes carolina, not super fun)
  5. blackbirds
  6. bunnies
  7. a groundhog, and
  8. a cardinal couple.

UPDATE!!!!!  I just saw a Peregrine falcon chomping down in its prey!!!


 

“Moonlight,” Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1885

Oil on canvas.

“Everything has gone from me except the certainty of your goodness.”

A false flag operation …

I am not altogether informed about artificial intelligence.  But I glean enough from memes and headlines to make me apprehensive.  (I’m a pro at cursory neurotic doomscrolling, people.)

I’ve been hearing a lot on social media from creators reporting that “AI detector” programs are falsely flagging their work as AI-generated.  (In other words, there are apparently a lot of false positives.)

Part of me is just reassured that AI detectors are even a thing.  (Maybe they are a promising starting point, if they can be improved and refined?)



 

Cover to “Haunt” #2, Todd McFarlane, 2009

Image Comics.

“Storm Clouds,” Vladimir Orlovsky, 1884

Cover to “Amazing Spider-Man” #640, Paolo Rivera, 2010

Marvel Comics.

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