The news gets worse.
https://katu.com/amp/news/local/fir...ire-in-fairview-near-i-84-and-ne-223rd-avenue

Fatal two-alarm fire breaks out near I-84 in Fairview; Gresham firefighters battle blaze

 

 

This is downtown Boston. We were socked in with 0 visibility fog. This isn’t cloud cover.

 

This is downtown Boston. We were socked in with 0 visibility fog. This isn’t cloud cover.

That's some pretty serious fog, halfway up the Pru and the Hancock and over most of the buildings downtown!

 

That's some pretty serious fog, halfway up the Pru and the Hancock and over most of the buildings downtown!

Yeah, it was incredible. Most of the coast had zero visibility

 

The sun rose on the new year at 8:20, with a clear blue sky - nice day for a walk in the countryside.
The 13th Century church at Ashby Puerorum, and a close-up of one of the gargoyles, which I think represents a cat.

 

Sunset today around 4:00 pm.

 

Did some messing around last night with my phone camera taking long exposure shots of fireworks. I do this occasionally and each time I am just as amazed as before, at how the camera can see things that I can't. It was a very dark night, not pitch black but close to it. These pictures make it look like dusk. You would have stumbled over everything but the rocket if you were there. It was hard to hold the phone still using a golf cart as a tripod but I'm blaming the quality on all the smoke.

 

 

Did some messing around last night with my phone camera taking long exposure shots of fireworks. I do this occasionally and each time I am just as amazed as before, at how the camera can see things that I can't. It was a very dark night, not pitch black but close to it. These pictures make it look like dusk. You would have stumbled over everything but the rocket if you were there. It was hard to hold the phone still using a golf cart as a tripod but I'm blaming the quality on all the smoke.

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How the girl managed to get such a perfect circle? Wow.

 

How the girl managed to get such a perfect circle? Wow.

I didn't even consider that it would be hard to make the circle; I was too focused on getting her to keep her head still so her face wouldn't be blurry. She made 3 attempts and all 3 were perfect circles. Now that you pointed it out I think you are right, if I had been the one holding a sparkler we would be looking at an oval or a peanut shape.

 

Christmas lights in the square in front of the Church of the Presidents, Quincy, MA.

 

Invested a $20 at the Las Vegas airport, heading back home. What a wonderful woman!

 

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How much is a credit?

 

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Invested a $20 at the Las Vegas airport, heading back home. What a wonderful woman!

I had the biggest crush on Linda Carter when I was a kid ... did you know that she has mexican ancestry?

 

How much is a credit?

I wish it was $1 instead of one cent but it was a $4.00 bet.

 

I had the biggest crush on Linda Carter when I was a kid ... did you know that she has mexican ancestry?

Very fine ancestry!

 

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/2/24059955/samsung-no-such-thing-as-real-photo-ai

How does Samsung defend itself against the notion that its phone cameras are spitting out fake AI photos of not only the Moon, but most anything else you’d care to aim them at these days? For starters, the company’s head of product is saying that every photo is fake.
Samsung EVP Patrick Chomet told TechRadar recently:

There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you’re seeing], and it doesn’t mean anything. There is no real picture. You can try to define a real picture by saying, ‘I took that picture’, but if you used AI to optimize the zoom, the autofocus, the scene – is it real? Or is it all filters? There is no real picture, full stop.

What a weasel thing IMO to say about the effects of AI processing vs image enhancement. Our eyes are sensors (a capture of light being reflected off of whatever), so everything we see is 'fake'?

Are these 'fake' because I used the standard Google Photo enhance on it?

Yes, these are real pictures from some actual location in space and time. No, it's not the actual 'real' things that are there but that's not the point of AI processing making a composite (something not from the actual space and time) image from your original image capture.

 

Sunset in San Pedro, NL, México ... by my lovely wife :

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frosty morning, with blue sky above the mist.