"HAL, Open the cat litter box doors!"
"I'm sorry, Fluffy, I can't do that"
#ai #catlitter
Ha ha ha... Just read more of their press release. "This next-generation AI-powered cat litter box, featuring multi-cat facial recognition, toilet behavior tracking, data-driven analyses and more,.... By capturing multi-dimensional data on litter habits and behavior powered by AI, its integrated camera lays the foundation for comprehensive feline health monitoring tailored to understanding and translating pets' needs " #ai #catlitter
Houston/CenterPoint still battling outages. 25,725 customers affected as of May 29, 2024 at 12:57 p.m. #TXwx #poweroutages #Houston https://gisoutagetracker.azurewebsites.net/
Washington Post: The climate refugee crisis is here
Catastrophic flooding in southern Brazil has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. Many say they won’t go back.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/28/brazil-floods-climate-refugees/
#climate #refugees #climateemergency
Wow, it's the middle of the night in Pakistan and India, and the "feels like" temperature in Hyderabad is 106F. Earlier it was "feels like" 120F including humidity. #heatwave
Interesting, saw someone selling rooted grape cuttings at the farmer's market at $30 each. (I have so many in pots in my backyard which I cannot give away, LOL). #gardening #grapes
BBC: In pictures: North India boils as temperatures near 50C
"On Thursday, temperatures soared beyond 45C in many states and touched 48.8C in Rajasthan state's Barmer city.
India's weather department has said that the heatwave is likely to continue till Wednesday.
Several regions are facing water and electricity shortages due to spikes in power consumption."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyjj7y7zy74o
#heatwave #heatwaves #India #climateemergency #climate
Yellowstone National Park: "Man approached bison too closely in Yellowstone National Park and was injured" https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/news/240429.htm #touron #nps #yellowstone #wildlife #bison
TIL: perfume is considered a "hazardous material" by the USPS. (I mean, I always thought the same in general, but you can't mail it without special packaging/declaration/etc.) #perfume #postage #USPS
Deepsea eruption expected off B.C. after intense quake activity | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/earthquakes-deepsea-eruption-magma-vancouver-island-bc-1.7140915 #BC #Canada #volcano
Random #geolocation of (another) terrible free movie on Amazon Prime. (Rapture, 2019). 34.4890,-118.3266 #AguaDulce. Off to find a better movie, LOL.
Well, I'm disappointed that #Thunderbird email (open source, Mozilla) has nearly everything in the app wired for telemetry. When you create an account, when you start a session, when you read an email. You can disable it without an ad-blocker, but you have to know they're logging all that data first. Not obvious when you install. #pihole
Couple sick of mowing an acre of lawn in #Vermont replaced the lawn with #wildflowers -- now a local attraction #lawns #lawnmowers https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/09/15/wildflower-meadow-lawn-grass-vermont/
"Containment zone" created around #Nipah #outbreak in #India https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/nipah/india-shutters-schools-establishes-containment-zones-nipah-outbreak-area
nostr:npub1gajvsj4vhehzjtpq9sax45j49qa623vtl6fu6djjrjzm05w48l8srt78dz Yes, using my callsign as my handle here.
***NOT reliable*** but out at the end of the #GFS run there's a big spinning thing off the coast of North Carolina on 9/23/23. The forecasts that far off are not very accurate. But definitely keep an eye out. #NCwx #VAwx #cyclone #hurricane
Latest on #Morocco #earthquake from the New York Times (GIFT LINK) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/10/world/morocco-earthquake-marrakesh?unlocked_article_code=oKyMzj2rvxTguZnezb5quRhaB92wtP44Q_bDkzwhrCWG_MGLAkLRvC_YOoVPaj0WEfHbt6lXzNmtI7kmeO6foTTPyc4aBevWl-etlUWk9vN-hKZAKAc_7rUyyTiEXUcD0ItOa_vaWtdr9ZdnlMuQMO1GTDeBIvg7LXuyv8X39cP7yNJcnuMnDcg4OEItqc_WTSNSNb0J4dwa_99jnh8YblFdNBoKZtbj_bbrWoxrHSYEa21n07WYomfW3Y3rHSLlXf_w9WrMEa5LFBuYFJdpf5wXA6vbLksDw5CZZQiUHvib6KgnmZvgYftr-DSxEYw8IxN3JsafX5i0fi8RpzlMkmFKY5MkRdhgwL8qlQw&smid=url-share
#CALFIRE contract #helicopter crash yesterday in the Sierra National Forest. Pilot treated and expected to be okay. #wildfires https://abc30.com/helicopter-crash-sierra-national-forest-under-investigation-tea-fire/13760527/
#SmashMouth frontman Steve Harwell dead at 56 (!) https://apnews.com/article/smash-mouth-steve-harwell-obituary-868ae1aa513ce66dbf5ef0499c13261a
More confirmed #covid cases on campus in 2023 than in 2020 and 2021. And this is AFTER widespread testing has been discontinued in our community. 🤔
