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Australian/American in Los Angeles. As Spanish speakers say, jubilado, formerly digital design for FPGAs and ASICs inside digital cameras. I'm one of the […] [bridged from https://aus.social/@stacey_campbell on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Adding to my list of tools threatened by the NLA's decision to revoke my Trove API keys... The Trove Newspaper Harvester is a Python package I've been developing and maintaining since 2009. It's been cited multiple times in the research literature. Without an API key I can't undertake any […]

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Nice. So the NLA has cancelled all my #Trove API keys because of the work I did recently trying to help researchers & communities more easily use the rich collections of periodicals uploaded through the National eDeposit service (described here […]

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

5 minutes after opening any news app

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

TOO MANY MONKEYS! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsxYH2XQQCg

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The All Japan Rent-a-Car Association has a handy "Traffic Rules in Japan" page. Gosh foreigners are a silly bunch. "If you receive the sticker shown right at the rental company, please display it clearly on the car. The sticker, which states that a foreigner is driving the car, encourages […]

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The backyard desert cottontails are extremely chill. #rabbits #backyardwildlife

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

INTEL24 possibly mapping the damage from the recent fires in the Santa Monica Mountains. #PalisadesFire

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The Los Angeles Public Library has online "Know Your Rights" cards. https://www.lapl.org/newamericans/knowyourrights/card #uspol

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This is a plot of the number of legal moves generated from each node in negamax search for several hundred chess games. A board with more than 80 legal moves is apparently a one in a billion chance. Yes, it's raining and I'm stuck inside.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Here it comes! #cawx

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The skies are charcoal gray, It's a dreary downtown day...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

If someone had told me that the first effective shot of the counter-counter-revolution would come from Time magazine I'd have told them to get the eff out of here […]

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Trumpy apparently unaware that pretty much anything that the US sends out of the country as aid is actually an indirect subsidy to his wealthy GOP patrons and/or voters (big ag, defense contractors, big pharma, etc). #uspol #trump #musk #usaid

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

From the CNN stock market ticker page thing. Ya don't say!! #trump #uspol

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

km 41, Carretera Transpeninsular, Baja California, Mexico, 4 July 2016 #trump #uspol #mexico

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

It's always a bit unnerving to have a coyote following along on a late afternoon neighborhood walk with the sun still up...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

[Trump MAGA voters California Water] If you've spent any time in the Central Valley of California you know it's Trump Country, and you also know from the large political signs visible from the main highways that those industrial farmers are addicted to cheap water. Here's Trump pouring their […]

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TIL that the black bears that get enormously fat raiding the neighborhoods of Los Angeles are not native, and were introduced to the area in the 1930s. Apparently there were 27 or so troublesome black bears in Yosemite (acclimated to getting food from tourists), so rather than kill them they […]

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I'm not going to read this, but I suspect Brooks has finally found a topic in his wheelhouse. #nytimes #davidbrooks

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Spouse is doing surgery on a mini-pc on the dining room table and there is much kibitizing about the "teeny tiny computer".

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The most upvoted reader reply to Peter Baker's latest observations in the NY Times. #trump #uspol #nytimes

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

How expensive should petrol be? It should be priced that you think twice before getting into your 2,100 kg SUV, turning on the engine, then fiddling with your phone for 15 minutes...going nowhere.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

[uspol Trump] Trump is spiraling faster than I anticipated. And of course the US wagon is hitched to his star. #uspol #trump #colombia

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments