Chris

Quebec City:

Progress. https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/8/22272883/facebook-covid-19-vaccine-misinformation-expanded-removal-autism

You know, I've tried to get myself worked up over surveillance capitalism. I've read Shoshana's book and listened to her lectures. And then...I get positively gobsmacked by how eerie it is that YouTube can predict which video I want to watch next. …

After pondering this for a couple of days, I could live without Amazon but I couldn't live without the smartphone in its current design or desktop computers as well designed as they are. Amazon is great but there are other great online commerce …

I was surprised that this Nature article concluded that misinformation only suppressed demand for the vaccine by about 6% in the US and UK. I would have thought it would be more. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01056-1

He loved to change the paradigm for the better, but he knew customers resist change. He had lived through it, painfully, when the Mac went to a graphical user interface — away from the text-based interface. He would say you had to help them make …

Great photo. 📷💥 Love the look of the bike. I'm very jealous.

Last night I got completely entranced with looking at these colorizations and AI bringing the portraits to live with some expression. I never thought I'd see the day... https://youtu.be/2KX6-QaE84Y

Hey everyone, really sorry I got distracted by various life things. I'll get to answering your questions in a bit, but I noticed last night that one of the interviews I did a couple years ago on Cake went to the top on Hacker News and stayed there …

This one was pretty shocking for me to make and took a TON of time because I just couldn't believe what I was seeing and that a journalist of Gary Taubes' stature would actually do this, but he seems to have: https://youtu.be/EtLNHvC4aUw

I used to take big multi-image photographs to put on SmugMug's walls, sometimes printed up to 60 feet wide. They are really tough to do but incredible to see. Details pop out when you see a 60-foot photo that you would never see on a smaller shot. …

Fantastic. Great find. I have a good friend who has posted here a few times and works there. I think she's one of the most level-headed and honest people I know. I think both Aljazeera and Wikipedia are great.

So I don't like to post things that look like conspiracy theories from sources that I don't know well. But here I go: https://www.nationalmemo.com/miller-disarmed-national-guard It's beginning to sound pretty damning, no? Somebody debunk this …

This is looking like great news, though! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/01/briefing/vaccination-myanmar-coup-rochester-police.html > The news about the vaccines continues to be excellent — and the public discussion of it continues to be more …

You wanna ride? I need to film it off-road with a passenger in the sidecar. Nothing too crazy.

This is the piece the Ural official channel made and it's hilarious! https://youtu.be/WOSgO0wzgkI

Well hey, this is looking awesome! https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/covid-vaccines-are-slowing-spread-of-virus-already-early-study-shows-lbwwgsvrh/

So I've had a Ural for maybe 15 years and of course we are crazy about it. https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Mosko-zoom/i-jnzSkpZ/0/97d0c2f2/1862x1440/Ural%20in%20flood-7330-1862x1440.jpg Everyone smiles when they see it on the road, like they do …

You know, I wonder how much of our current situation is a result of the change in the publishing model brought by the Internet. I remember being a paperboy for both the morning paper and the afternoon paper. It seemed like everyone in our …

Hahaha!!! Those are seriously awesome! 😅 I got a kick out of doing shots like this since forever. Grand Tetons: https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-9cRrT4B/0/X4/i-9cRrT4B-X4.jpg

Disturbing. https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/u-s-race-against-time-new-coronavirus-variants-scientists-warn-n1255963

Oh jeez, Pathfinder, I'm so sorry. I probably know two dozen (?) people who've gotten it, and a few have become very ill, but no one close to me has died. I park in a very wealthy neighborhood in Los Altos Hills a couple times a week to go running …

This is just craziness. https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/01/23/a-year-of-covid-19-a-sobering-look-at-how-california-u-s-compare-to-the-rest-of-the-world/ I guess thanksgiving and Christmas had big impacts.... The January bar is only up to the 20th.

Wow, Jazli, I had no idea. I’m so sorry to hear this, but it’s fascinating. I still think we have you beat here in America, though, for horrible politics. Here’s a chart for us. The January bar is only through the 20th. 😱 It appears Thanksgiving …

Damn I love this guy. https://youtu.be/S88_IByZsDM