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collected from the daily dilly. some haven’t had time to pickle, others to gel.

AI means Automatic Inflation.. and that AIn’t smart

me..webionaire

In his 2019 book Alchemy, Sutherland coined the term “doorman fallacy”. The doorman fallacy refers to the error of reducing a person’s job to its most basic function and replacing it with a cost-effective automation while disregarding the broader, not directly visible, value they provide.

two valleys: one was The Weirton steelland.. sounded like Rearden to the russkey [her preferred place ] to: chugboat –the additions to Dektol aren’t intended to convert it into Ansco-130, rather, they are meant as ‘tunings’ toward printing characteristics.. tone separation [Hi, Sh] as well as curve with extended developer time; all while maintaining tray life. This worked in the days of Dupont Velour, Agfa Brovira, Portriga … baking is adapting to the nature. Dance with floor as well as the music.

Ayn and Rearden… speak-spell got it wrong: thinking the phrase was: “your own steel” since, of course phrase counts upon the internet uses OWN with increasing frequency. Ayn, for childhood reading all through adulthood. Comfort to those midland successes dreaming of salvation by the Knight Watchman

ai is ‘own grazed’ with voice [ Your own steel ] from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISG_Weirton_Steel

the file of OWN– a word that has become stuck to my shoe.

PICTURES by other means

Introducing Un-0: Generating Images with Coupled Oscillators
” Why oscillators? In the brain, rhythmic activity and synchronization are pervasive, and have long been hypothesized to do computational work like binding distributed features into coherent percepts, gating communication between regions, and organizing the timing of spikes (Gray et al., 1989; Buzsáki, 2006; Fries, 2015). Coupled oscillators are among the simplest mathematical models of that kind of behavior, which makes them a natural primitive to study for neuro-inspired models of computation (Winfree, 1967; Kuramoto, 1975; Ermentrout, 1996; Ermentrout et al., 2010). [https://unconv.ai/blog/introducing-un-0-generating-images-with-coupled-oscillators/ ]

From Sandhill Valley. JUNE 24, 2026 Om Malik, 1966-2026
Om Malik passed away on June 24, 2026, at Stanford Hospital after a long health journey with his heart. He was surrounded by family and friends.

Knowing is Knowing is Knowing

Hagsouth Waffles —

US5~ here, who walked thru two lines of medics providing us “medical autonomy,” giving free shots… but then, 1965 was a time we didn’t have catering cards… we had signs outside mess halls at Ft. Bragg ” edible garbage” .. so it went, in the time before Contract Killers took-over.

sometime I’ll tell about powdered milk and powdered eggs… with water from rainstorms.. cooking over flares… only if the night was foggy.. sadly, not a tattoo parlor in site, certainly not onsite.

Since the pandemic, affordability has become a key issue in U.S. politics, and energy prices are the current face of affordability,” Cassino told Newsweek. “In our polling, voters support anything to bring down their energy bills, but banning data centers is pretty much the most popular option.”

menus from last century.. the early restaurant https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/

AI Bluff..

it’s been about a week since I posted about the AI layoffs .. in that week there have been three additional layoff notices from the high tech industry .. The software is everything people ..these layoffs of at least 5% of their existing workforce are based upon restructuring in anticipation of improved productivity gains due to AI ..

We Are Laying Off — eliminating jobs [people] that are expected to be replaced by improved, more productive computer programs , ie, AI.

he who competes with a machine must become a machine –Kurt Vonnegut

takes me back to 2k– thank you mr. greenspan

Ten percent of every tech startup’s employees are becoming a completely different species to the ninety percent. Because their productivity is now at this exponential scale and they are actually finding every single person around them and every other process to be slow,” he said.

His evidence: “Ninety percent of code at CRED is written by AI now. This number would have been maybe five percent a year ago.” Five to ninety percent in a year is a dramatic shift by any measure, and Shah made clear the company was still in the middle of figuring out what building agentically at scale actually looks like.

cranky vBulls 

The threaded ancient net . The snobby hobby; those who buy to brag .

The feeble threads the vBulls weave .

you are learning from those who didn’t know so came to the forum to ask…

the error you repeat may be your own… not AI’s

Death of Field–

how can I talk without pasteurizing some of my concerns . you can’t record a place without the sound of that place . 


ask around the net, you get SOCMEd responses. Remeber when the Valley valued ‘big minds’ — built upon links from stable sources. And then, boards and moated adspaces floated upon the telephonic waves, pulsing with opinions without … what? That is the training corpus; both in demeanor, tone and content. After all, STEM don’t do soft, it do software.

We arrive at the vBulls asking a 3rd party to report upon their very conjectures… gossip, reinforced by sanitizers becomes knowledge without stench. Here:

[ Which is why it should be standard practice when asking an AI for assistance that we include in the prompt something like: “include at least one trustworthy reference/source for the information you present”. It does improve the likelihood of getting good results from your query, and you can check the veracity of the data yourself before using it. ]]

WHAT IS TRUSTWORTHY

value of information
quality of sources

[ • The 2028 Timeline: The details regarding the Master Supply Agreement’s lifespan and renewals come from Eastman Kodak’s formal corporate financial filings, bankruptcy exit provisions, and industry reporting covered by outlets like PetaPixel and Digital Camera World.

  • The Legal Loophole Mechanics: The concept of bypassing the traditional yellow-box exclusivity using legacy branding (like Kodacolor or Ektapan) is a legal interpretation widely discussed by distributors and logistics experts on film communities like Photrio and Analogue Wonderland

YOU, THE FORUMS ARE THE SOURCE OF THE ERRORS. YOU ARE NOISE. AMPLIFIED Amateur feedback.

=== YOU ARE THE SOURCE OF SPECULATION… incredible. inedible egg.

swarm, collective, crowd.

— Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models (Mrinank Sharma and colleagues, 2023): a documented tendency for models to shift their stated position toward whatever a user asserts, even when their original position was correct.

FOOT- aka p2:

ref: https://www.ilfordphoto.com/faqs/health-safety-faqs/

THE FOLLOWING EXTRACT IS AIMED AT COMMERCIAL/EDUCATIONAL DARKROOMS AND WILL GIVE YOU AN INDICATION OF WHAT IS REQUIRED.

 This is the UK Industry recommendation and is from a document called: “Heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration. CIBSE Guide B”( CIBSE = Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) “Darkrooms (photographic) 6-8 ACH (but heat gain should be assessed)

2.3.24.4 Darkrooms (photographic)

Small darkrooms for occasional use or for purely developing processes may often be ventilated naturally with a suitable light trap, although consideration should be given to providing mechanical extract using an air change rate of 6 to 8 air changes per hour. For general purpose darkrooms, however, the air change rate should be ascertained from a consideration of the heat gain from the enlarger, lights etc. plus the occupants, on the basis of a temperature rise of 5-6 K. In industrial and commercial darkrooms that have machine processing, the machines will very often have their own extract ducting, the air supply being drawn from the room itself. It will usually be necessary to provide a warmed and filtered mechanical inlet in such cases. In special cases, involving extensive washing processes, the humidity gain may be significant and require consideration.”

ACH = Air changes per hour.

  • Calculate this by multiplying HxWxD for the room in metres to give m3.
  • Measure airflow of extract vent in m/second.
  • Multiply by Vent HxW in metres to give m3 per second.
  • Multiply that by 3600 to give m3 per hour.
  • Divide flow volume by room volume to give ACH.