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If there was ever any doubt, the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco proves it: You can't trust Trump's America, or any deal within this administration's orbit. thewalrus.ca/the-gordie-h...

Need the two soyjaks pointing but one of their faces is Stan Rogers

Thanks! Most of the time I’m making the stone conform to circumstance, this time I let the stone be a rock.

accepting the things I cannot change

I still find asking for membership difficult. But shared support keeps my independent work alive, the Genius Loci Digest free, and free photography available to heritage places and craftspeople. If you've found value in my work, I'd be grateful for your support 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

Varley as in Fred Varley but not Fred Varley his niece Grace Varley a very kooky woman so bought a painting

Thank you Paula!

fewer things more sure in life than the truth that poorly-prepped mortar patches will fail hard

David Pyle made a distinction betw ‘workmanship of certainty’ (predetermined outcome) and ‘workmanship of risk’ (open-ended) and of course most tasks are fully neither but fall somewhere between the two. We are often free to *choose* which of these approaches we take to our work though.

Smurf-ass profiles on this building smdh

Fair, but then your argument has nothing to do with Oklahoma having a lower median net worth, more to do with it having a more encouraging regulatory environment. Nobody’s going to dispute that when things are discouraged by reg they tend to be more expensive.

Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past

Love the more colloquial term for these a ‘squint’

You really don’t have to pretend like you’re in the middle of an argument here you can just state your case but if you’re looking for a serious reply I’d say that places with lower wages will produce more labour-intensive (as trad building tends to be) goods than places with higher wages.

"My view is you can’t trust the U.S. Their signature on a trade deal isn’t worth very much, and what we’re looking at in the future is basically a shifting, unstable relationship,” - Intl trade lawyer Lawrence Herman. (Gift) www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

The current Centre Block rehab in Ottawa involves isolating the building from the bedrock in order to transport to Winnipeg.

Love this quote; wrote a thing along these lines some time ago. bsky.app/profile/jame...

Reminds me of a fabulous quote from the head of Cologne cathedral, when asked whether seeing the cathedral without scaffolding was a pipe dream, she said “It’s not a pipe dream it’s a nightmare, it would mean we no longer care about maintaining it.” On monuments Scaffolding = love! ❤️

Spectacular crenulated turbidites of the Halifax Formation (Meguma Terrane), Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia. These strata were laid down in the Ordovician in the southern hemisphere and deformed during the Devonian Neoacadian Orogeny, as Meguma accreted to the North America margin. ⚒️

To paraphrase @doctorow.pluralistic.net the problem isn’t that LLMs can do your job, the problem is that you get fired because they‘ve convinced your boss that LLMs can do your job.