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A black-and-white warbler in an aviary versus a black-and-white warbler in a forest. Both cute. #birds #warblers #BirdMigration

What? You haven't seen a deer before? #wildlife

I have seen very few hummingbirds with a ruby throat this year :( #birds #hummingbirds

A ruby throated hummingbird is feeding on a purple salvia

So much food on its little bee's legs #bees #flowers

A tiny bee on a pink flower that looks like a pom pom

Hummingbird season! #birds #hummingbirds

a hummingbird is flying towards a red salvia

C @notmiddlec.bsky.social · 5d ago

Where is Waldo? #frog #flowers

A waterlily pond with many magenta water lily and a frog.

What is on the mind of this little ruby-throated hummingbird? Dinner? #birds #hummingbirds

C @notmiddlec.bsky.social · 5d ago

This butterfly looks grumpy #butterflies #flowers

C @notmiddlec.bsky.social · last wk.

What's your favorite Dolly jam? Mine is Dolly and Kermit singing Everyday People.

My hummingbird pictures may be less than desirable lately, but this little fluff is really cute. Its ruby throat was reflecting some shades of gold as well. #hummingbirds #birds #SmallBirdSaturday

A blue-winged wasp on some green onion flower. #wasp

A black bug with a yellow waist and a brown fuzzy bottom

Forget birds. I am a frog photographer now. (Where are the birds? I thought's migration! #frogs

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 2w ago

It's actually easier to do this than to speak English with an accent from a different language! 😆

Could AI do this TAMBIEN?

C @notmiddlec.bsky.social · 3w ago

A pair of élcairs and a cuppa are just what you need to tame a migraine.

C @notmiddlec.bsky.social · 3w ago

I think pigeons are beautiful #birds

a rock pigeon on a grassy sidewalk with its body revealing a light blue that reminds me of a mourning dove

A rock pigeon on a grassy sidewalk, with its usual iridescent neck

C @notmiddlec.bsky.social · 3w ago

This goldfinch doesn't like paparazzi. #birds

A goldfinch is staring at me from behind some yellow flowers

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · last mo.

So, they are telling people to report AI slop as a way to train their AI. How dystopian.

Updated with comment from LinkedIn executive. The button will help train LinkedIn's models for identifying AI slop www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

After publication of this piece, Hari Srinivasan, chief product officer at LinkedIn, wrote their own post about the button. “AI slop is a top priority for all of us. We really care about this. People come to LinkedIn to connect with real people and share their real perspectives, ideas and expertise. Here are a few more changes to keep it that way,” he wrote.

The button in part will help LinkedIn tune its own models for identifying AI slop. “We are ramping up a series of new and improved classifiers that identify if a post is AI-slop or generally low-quality content. This will reduce the amount of AI slop you might see in suggested content and content from outside your network,” the post said. “We are ramping the ability for members to tell us if they believe a post or comment seems like AI slop. Slop is hard to define and the definition changes; this lets us tune our models and make better feeds.”

flacodocumentary.com/trailer This brought tears to my eyes. Did you know Flaco was a main reason why I started birding? I was so sad when he died a year after its escape.

Wild Inside Trailer

A Eurasian Eagle-Owl named Flaco escapes from the Central Park Zoo and sets off on a magical odyssey through the island of Manhattan. Flaco overcomes his years of captivity and lack of survival skills...

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Bird, levitate #hummingbirds #birds

A hummingbird sticks its head into a purple salvia

Where is my princess? #frogs

A frog sits on a lily pad in front of a pink water lily

I have never seen so many #frogs in a pond before! There were maybe 10! Most were chilling on lily pads.

After disappearing for over a month to nest, the hummingbirds are back in season! They are a lot more skittish this summer. This one reminds me of a pole dancer ;) #hummingbirds #birds

A juvenile ruby throated hummingbird is sipping on a purple salvia with its eyes shut

This is a really cool poem by Jo Atkin-Potts called Please Use AI joatkinspotts.substack.com/p/please-use...

Please Use AI

On the parts of being human that resist efficiency

joatkinspotts.substack.com

I like this place because it's the only platform on which I can openly profess my hatred towards AI without the pressure to defend my position.

Rabbit rabbit. There. I remember!

The world is bananas. Sometimes I just want to be a bear in the library.

A polar bear stuffie is in a library counter

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · last mo.

Hey bird people who like to sing, this one is for you too! www.audubon.org/magazine/bir...

Birds Build Their Songs Using Just Eight Musical Elements, Study Finds

A new analysis reveals that songbirds across the world mix and match the same whistles, trills, and other acoustic motifs to create their diverse tunes.

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13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

Where is consciousness? 😮 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/m...

Why Do Some Dementia Patients ‘Return’ Just Before They Die? (Gift Article)

As they near death, some dementia patients recover mental faculties assumed to be long lost. Researchers want to know why.

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