Using AI for fun #39, this time I've used #nanobananapro from Google to generate this sliced view of land and history of #riodejaneiro. Took inspiration from a thread on Reddit and had some iterations with it.

This is a really cool Latex <-> Typst converter someone just posted on Reddit, that could be helpful if you're looking to get into Typst! www.reddit.com/r/typst/comm...

From the typst community on Reddit: Tylax: An open-source, bidirectional converter for full documents (TikZ support included!)

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham@paulgp.com · 8mo ago

Really feeling like Typst has made huge strides as a presentation software language, and the instantaneous compilation is a big win compared to Latex.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

"Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn't like, they will come after them the same way. It's outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that," Kelly added. www.npr.org/2026/01/05/n...

Sen. Mark Kelly fires back after Hegseth threatens his rank and retirement pay

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has launched administrative action against Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut, which could affect Kelly's rank and retirement pay.

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Keeping the #Xmas tradition, I told my kiddos that #Alexa recorded the elf moving, and to our surprise, it was magical!

!! JUST FILED: States maneuver to preserve history of US Capitol Insurrection One state is considering legislation to require all K-12 school children learn the history and aftermath of Jan 6 www.cbsnews.com/news/state-l...

State legislators maneuver to preserve history of U.S. Capitol riot

While GOP lawmakers and the Trump administration have downplayed the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, there are state efforts underway to ensure it's recorded for history.

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If you have a #meta #quest, make sure to check queststoredb.com/on_sale/ for sales and freebies! I've score a couple of AAA titles while they were on sale!

Yearly Halloween reminder that food with activated charcoal can fuck with medication. 🎃👻

Asking the collective hive, anybody using #n8n or agents in Claude or anything else to automate their email labeling and management? I've done a lot of manual filtering and I wonder if I could put it on auto pilot with those LLM powered services.

Hahaha dads jokes are the best ones.

Finally made the jump to @bsky.app. Using www.sky-follower-bridge.dev helped me a ton building my "new-but-old-curated" feed. Feel free to connect on everything cloud, agentic use cases, prototyping, java, and education!

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