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Wed Jun 16 06:00:01 EDT 2021
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Slept from eleven to six-thirty without waking.
Mostly sunny.
Highs in the mid 70s.
North winds up to 5 mph increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the late morning and afternoon.
Work
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- follow up with CDW about Veeam quote
Done.
- schedule some Entrata reports to backup email
Done.
- set up share for Entrata attachment backup
Done.
- set up SFTP uploads for Entrata
Some.
- make email backup job truncate mbox on new year
No.
- Icinga check to make sure size of mbox is changing?
No.
- review Newegg invoices
No.
- review credit card statement
No.
Twenty-minute walk at lunch.
Bright blue sky.
Comfortably warm.
Saw a crow, a turkey vulture, a dragonfly, a medium-size dark-colored butterfly, and several little white butterflies.
Susurration of leaves.
Pale crescent moon.
Worked a little late.
Home
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Finished reading Pendric's Fox.
Took out trash.
Neural Networks Create a Disturbing Record of Natural History in AI-Generated Illustrations by Sofia Crespo
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/09/sofia-crespo-ai-natural-history/
Output reminds me of The Voynichich Manuscript.
> Sofia Crespo describes her work as the “natural history book that never was.” The Berlin-based artist uses artificial neural networks to generate illustrations that at first glance, resemble Louis Renard’s 18th Century renderings or the exotic specimens of Albertus Seba’s compendium. Upon closer inspection, though, the colorful renderings reveal unsettling combinations: two fish are conjoined with a shared fin, flower petals appear feather-like, and a study of butterflies features insects with missing wings and bizarrely formed bodies.
153 free episodes of New Yankee Workshop:
https://www.newyankee.com/watch/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/are-advertisers-coming-your-dreams
> The letter writers say that because there are no regulations specifically addressing in-dream advertising, companies might one day use smart speakers like Alexa to detect people’s sleep stages and play back sounds that could influence their dreams and behaviors. “It is easy to envision a world in which smart speakers—40 million Americans currently have them in their bedrooms—become instruments of passive, unconscious overnight advertising, with or without our permission,” says the letter, which the writers have sent to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D–MA).
Servings: grains 4/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 1/4, dairy 0/2, meat 1/3, nuts 0/0.5
Lunch: orange, ramen with sausage and avocado, coffee
Afternoon snack: lemon cookies
Dinner: banana
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