heather bussing

@heatherbussing.bsky.social

writer, photographer, employment lawyer, ridiculous dog person, avid Sofalist

‘Good photography isn’t about Zone Printing or any other Ansel Adams nonsense. It’s just about seeing. You either see or you don’t see. The rest is academic. Photography is simply a function of noticing things. Nothing more.’ Elliott Erwitt, New York, 1992. Photo Peter Adams.

Photo of a man sitting on a stool. He is wearing a hat with hands on either side which can be moved using strings he is holding. The stool has a single leg carved in the shape of a foot.

From a beach that borders WHOI’s Quissett Campus, WHOI electrical engineer Jordan Remar paired a long exposure with his love of electricity. By day, Remar designs and optimizes complex circuit boards for deep-sea sensors, but at night, he can be found photographing the stars!

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I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

So until those data privacy laws are passed (but don't hold your breath), data brokers can continue to buy location data for every US mobile phone user, including US troops, from US telecoms and sell it to the highest bidder. And that's why the US military is left playing phone cops.