April 12, 2025 thought for today, Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. Native American Dakota Proverb
An upload for yesterday was the 12th “glimmer micro moment”. Sue brought home some tangerines about the time I was looking for this photo of the day.
Life today. I love Saturdays.....well, I love every day....ummmm, most days. Every day has a special meaning. Everyday is an experience in nature along with all of the various substances a human can add. Anyway, this Saturday is a good one. I am grateful to my children, all of them, for their respective help in the last few days (see below).....well actually for all the times they help me.
Oh, I should mention how “beautiful” Sweet Pea looks today. When Rebecca brought her home from the groomer the other day Sweet Pea, had her chin up high as though she knew she was gorgeous. She is even behaving with a little more pep, as much as she can for a 98 year old “lady”. (I think 98 is the corresponding age for a 14 year old dog).
Yesterday Tami and Andy came over to help me rearrange my desk. It can be a headache of a job with all the cords and cables attached to my various pieces of equipment. I have several external hard drives attached and of course the printer. The whole reason for the rearrangement was the new printer. It is larger than my old printer and couldn’t be placed under the desk as the old one was. I wanted it at the other end of my desk from where we had it for set up, it was blocking some of the window space that I like available. My eyes aren’t so good any more to see all the connections in the dark areas under that desk not to mention me getting up and down off the floor where all the power connections are made. That job turned out to be Tami’s this time. Not only is my printer and all other “necessary” working supplies where I want them on the desk, I have a “new” monitor. Lowell had given me two super size monitors a couple of years ago. But I stopped using them when the desktop computer needed repair. I set up the laptop and got use to using it. I still would like to have had one of the larger monitors available and attached to the laptop. We found that I needed an attachment to allow a connection to the laptop. Andy went out to the store and got that cable so we were able to make the connection. Now I am back to my full size monitor with the capability to use the laptop alone if and when I need or want. And the “new” printer is working.
Sweet Pea and I had the usual grocery pick up and photo excursion. I am lazy and still have to put the groceries away.
The sun is gorgeous, the air not so much. It is in the forties now, early afternoon. There was a slight film of frost on the car windows before the sun reached out.
I am having trouble finding the next book to hold my interest. I can’t find books available or on order today by my three most prominent authors. I have read so many of each of them that I am running out of what they have written. So I decided to try someone new. That didn’t work out so well. I wasn’t comfortable with the prominent language used and vision established in the first few pages so I gave up on it. I’ll look some more. I would like to find an author with the kind of writing skills and use of words the ones I have come to depend on.
The word is where. Where words fail, music speaks. Hans Christian Andersen. Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. George Herbert. For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel. Martin Luther. Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. Abraham Lincoln. Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. Henry David Thoreau. Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins. William Pitt. Where there is unity there is always victory. Publilius Syrus. Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed. Walt Whitman. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. Epictetus. Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Where liberty is, there is my country. Benjamin Franklin. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson. Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too. William Blake.
Article: I seem to have a “thing” about dealing with AI. I think at some point I will give up and accept whatever it brings. I just want to know what’s happening with it and to find if my angst about it is warranted or not. Here is the title: AI-generated images can exploit how your mind works − here’s why they fool you and how to spot them”. It was written by a professor of psychology. The story opened with the author explaining normal happenings in her life and they there came the AI-generated images came along. She said in the beginning she was seeing such things as “staircases to nowhere or sinks within sinks”. This made her see is as “clearly AI-generated and didn’t depict reality”. In her business she notices how people “process and use visual information”. Examples of that are how the find a dropped item and how radiologists and “search and rescue teams” preform their jobs. She compares detecting AI generated images with photoshopped image or “computer-generated images in movies”. At that point she goes on to say that the is a key difference between the AI image and the others. She says that there is often human oversight in the AI images. The “other” are photoshopped image or “computer-generated images in movie” are “often without human oversight”. That omission can lead to problems like “imperfections or inconsistencies” that are unnatural and unrealistic in physics. Paying attention leads to what you see and what you may be missing. She likened “visual attention” to a zoom lens. Explaining why a scan or overview may mean missing fine details. Sometimes focusing on one “task” may lead to overlooking other details, “even obvious ones”, you may be less likely to notice distortions. She says that there are two types of processing: fast, intuitive thinking based on mental shortcuts, and slower, analytical thinking that requires effort”. This can mean that AI-generated images may slip by. Most times that may not be a “big deal” but others may “be used to influence public opinion”. She said that these “false” images may be connected to and lead to “misleading real or generated images”. She suggests that as AI-generated image grow some things may need to be used to help the human side. 1) trust your gut. 2) scan for clues, things like watching hands, pay attention to text, reflections, lighting “inconsistences, and “unnatural textures”. If something seem even just a little odd take a closer look. 3) think critically. 4) check the source. She ends by mentioning that “AI-generated images are becoming harder to spot”..... “slow down, look closer and think critically.”
Maybe taco salad for dinner.
Joy
beauty and the beast
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