Aaron Brick / is on Nostr

Historian of Mexico & California; Computer Science educator at City College of San Francisco. Archives, manuscripts, graphics, document pipelines. Antifascism, degrowth, frisbee, gardening, hi-fi.

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2024-08-06 01:03:25

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@npub1ugh…92hc You have achieved enlightenment.

2024-08-04 16:40:55

Wanted ads from 1911 (?) found inside my ceiling, e.g.:
WANTED — Men to stay away from Bisbee, Ariz., where all men in and around the mines are on strike. Bisbee Miners' Union, No. 106, W. F. M.
FRANK BROWN, Secretary.
#document #newspaper #sanfrancisco #california
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2024-06-03 17:00:57

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@npub1uw8…88kr I appreciate you making a scandal out of it.
Any chance there will be opportunities to accidentally compromise SpaceX's IP by posting photos and details about their junk?

2024-05-09 02:05:12

World's most violent beauty products store, 4696 Mission Street.
#sanfrancisco #california #photo
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2024-04-24 02:35:58

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@npub1uw8…88kr Ahhh, I doubt it. The first week or two are all anxieties and misunderstandings. By now (I think we are on the 11th review cycle) they have pretty much worked out the kinks.

2024-04-24 02:33:45

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@npub1uw8…88kr What are all the questions about? I also teach with a peer review process, and hardly get any!

2024-04-19 02:40:45

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@npub19rz…a7f4 Great poster. Red = net.

2024-04-03 18:03:32

SFGate and photographer (?) Ashley Hayes-Stone are using computer-generated #images as illustrations for a #news story. Specifically, the two exercising climbers seem to have been inserted into real photos. This isn't #journalism, folks.
#ai #sanfrancisco #losangeles #photography
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/los-angeles-culver-city-stairs-19379278.php
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2024-04-01 20:44:45

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@npub1f6a…pnql You imply that 4.0 is less prone to hallucination, but on a theoretical level, why would that be the case?

2024-03-26 16:51:04

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@npub1hfw…kcp2 Possibly it is a Dictaphone Dictet cassette (1957)? The notches inside the spindles look pretty similar. https://vintage-technics.ru/Eng-Dictaphone_Dictet.htm