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Experimentation seems to show that Firefox can play videos from here if you load them from my home machine, at https://home.vin-dit.org. That is a complete replica of this site. Maybe this has to do with Caddy handling things better than Apache??? Also, in the Firefox developer console it seems Caddy is using HTTP/3. 🤷‍♂️

Some fun videos here:
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Now at hostwinds.com, hope that solves some issues....

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May 11 https://www.wired.com/story/i-work-in-hollywood-everyone-who-used-to-make-tv-now-training-ai/ This seems important to me. Very well written. Life in the trenches of enabling AI via gig work. I'm not "liberating" the text because Wired is doing good work and not charging excessively.
May 06 ** 3 

        % cat snip.desktop 

[Desktop Entry]
Name=SNIP
Comment=capture screen area                           
Exec=/home/jholland/bin/snip
Icon=terminal
Categories=Accessories
Terminal=false
Type=Application

beastie:√ ~ % cat bin/snip
#!/usr/local/bin/zsh
rm ~/Desktop/screengrab.png
import  ~/Desktop/screengrab.png

This makes a useful screen capture functionality in Mate Desktop, using the "import" command to do the hard work, from Imagemagick. "/usr/local/bin/zsh" and "/home/jholland/bin/snip" can of course be adjusted as needed or wanted. It appears in the Mate Desktop menu under Other. I put snip.desktop in /usr/local/share/applications but on Linux you don't need "local" in that path.
May 06 ** 2 While waiting for that video to transcode, I read this piece the NYT sent me in my email, though I'm no longer a subscriber. Seems worth republishing, so here it is: Nino.html
May 06 Just Monday night, Sherrilyn Ifill appeared on the Daily Show and was interviewed by Jon Stewart. They said there would be a longer video on their website, but I haven't seen it yet. Anyway, here's the video from Monday night as broadcast: Sherrilyn_Ifill_VRA.mp4 .
May 05 ** 2 small frog being squeezed in a hand with another hand pointing at it-the big caption says 'Disable your ad blocker to view this site' and the word balloon from the frog says 'NO'

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May 05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory This is interesting. Heard about Haidt from a Barry Magid talk. Why do some things seem right to some people and wrong to others, in a moral sense? This seems to be a relatively recent intellectual idea. I want to look into it, but I'm still working on a long book by Donald Lopez.
May 01 ** 2 https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-the-most-complex-forms-of-ice-yet-20260427/ Can ice-9 be far away? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice-nine
May 01 Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit !!!