Hiker Geek 🌲💻🌲

I probably take too many electronics with me when I backpack.

The header is Silver Mine Lake in Harriman State Park, NY

My avatar is a drawing by my daughter. She got mad at me for using an AI generated one and drew this one quickly and made me replace the AI one. She's an artist and doesn't like AI "art" at all.

I currently live north of NYC.

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2026-04-28 18:00:15 UTC

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Also look at what they didn't do during the Biden admin.
Why weren't charges filed against Trump for Jan 6th?

2025-12-21 19:12:57 UTC

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If you believe in data, autonomous cars are by far safer than human drivers. Not perfect though.
Maybe the flaw in your thinking here is that all human drivers have common sense and use it?

2025-11-01 17:22:37 UTC

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Don't panic...
Hello ground...
Is that a tiny screw down there?
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/475/591/018/081/727/original/3879dfeb52b75f9e.jpg

2025-11-01 17:16:39 UTC

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Is that an Infinite Improbability Drive?

2025-10-15 16:07:32 UTC

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I had an AI generated avatar for a while but when my 13 year old artist daughter found out she immediately made me change to my current one she drew in like 30 seconds. Anything human is better than AI she said.

2025-10-13 15:27:04 UTC

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I used to believe that in my country, the US, we had free speech but recently I think twice about saying anything negative about our new God king.
Must be nice to live in a country where you can nonviolently express yourself without worry.
I miss it.

2025-09-20 20:07:11 UTC

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The people who went on and on about the evils of "The Deep State" created a world class one as soon as they came into power.
It's going to take a while to fix this.

2025-09-20 16:34:20 UTC

#uspol
https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/115/237/583/012/024/752/original/695de18a0b32a2b7.png

2025-07-18 00:59:35 UTC

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Just crazy stuff.
CBS says it has nothing to do with the merger just a change in late night programming environment.
Colbert brings in ratings and has been the #1 non-FOX late night host for the last 9 months.
I don't want it to believe it is for censorship but it certainly looks that way to me.

2024-12-26 03:03:30 UTC

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I heard an interesting question posed about multigenerational ark ships. After generations of living comfortably on the ark and having developed a strong ark culture why would they ever want to get off the ship when they arrived?

2024-12-24 22:48:36 UTC

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I'm going to miss the FDA when it's gone.

2024-11-23 17:17:21 UTC

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In a way I agree but what else would you call it? I'm drawing a blank on anything that sounds better.

2024-11-23 17:11:55 UTC

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Nice pics.
Glad to see there's some water up there. Farther south is so dry. We did get rain for the last 1.5 days but I doubt much is making to the streams.

2024-11-03 14:57:35 UTC

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Here are some more recent comments by Ms Cheney:
"Cast your vote for the person that you know is going to lead this country with a sincere heart"
"There is only one candidate in this race who is a responsible, stable adult. You might say we disagree on issue X or issue Y, but I know with great confidence that Vice President Harris is somebody who is going to be a president for all Americans."
#Harris #Harris2024 #Trump

2024-10-19 23:48:57 UTC

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A lot of the Trump supporters that like Trump because they want a dictator see an up and coming Hitler in Mr Vance. Plus he is as prolific a lair as Trump and better at it in some weird way.
Also isn't obvious that Trump's health is deteriorating quickly now?

2024-10-19 16:30:49 UTC

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Look the bottom left of the page in a browser and there is an About for your server (not the About for Mastodon). At the bottom there should be a Moderated section. That will list what your instance is doing block-wise to those other servers.

2024-10-19 14:50:35 UTC

My thought for today:
After hearing a commentator say one of the reasons the US election is so close is that a good portion of Trump supporters want a fascist dictator like Trump and will use their vote to get it. I guess I saw it before but that was like a light bulb going on. People want that in America?
I have to start working on accepting that fact and what it means.
#Harris #Trump

2024-09-28 17:12:06 UTC

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One of my 12 year old twins is aspiring to be an artist. She absolutely hates AI art. I have been watching some of these AI Panavision trailers that are all over YouTube. She yells at me when I do. I watched a YouTube on how they are made and it is disturbingly easy. But clearly ripping off others' IP. One of my favorite movies is The Fifth Element. Here is one of the AI trailers of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEByKfcNmk

2024-09-09 03:07:41 UTC

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The article I originally read was much gloomier than the ones I found looking for it but these have some good information:
https://research.noaa.gov/2023/10/16/noaa-scientists-link-exotic-metal-particles-in-the-upper-atmosphere-to-rockets-satellites/
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-satellites-upper-atmosphere-impact-earth.html

2024-09-08 02:00:11 UTC

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I was talking about intentionally using them as a weapon. The Kessler effect I think is more unintentional (but still very possible).
I will try to dig it up but I read a troubling article on the effects of aluminum ions on the upper atmosphere from Starlink "de-orbiting" so many satellites. They do it all the time already. That atmospheric layer shouldn't be conductive but may soon be. What that would do to life on Earth is hard to predict.

2024-09-08 00:59:39 UTC

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This thread put a troubling thought in my head. Controlling the most widely used internet connection is power but couldn't a constellation of so many satellites be a weapon? Send 100 of them after a rival's low earth sat. One should be able to crash into it. You could arrange the satellites so that other launches would likely not make it past the "wall" of Starlinks.

2024-08-09 04:31:57 UTC

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I really like the music video "You need to calm down"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkk9gvTmCXY
Also the whole album "Lover" has a good mix but that's more than 6 songs.