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Happy #Caturday. Here is a very rare portrait of Giovanni (down) and Michel (up), part of the Lemoine Studios team. The position on top of the piled-up old blanket on this chair can be hotly contested. #CatsofMastodon #cats #gatti #chats #Katzen #gatos #LifebetterwithCat

Tabby cat Michel, on top of a piled-up old brown comforter on a black-leather and metal-rod chair, looks at the camera with an expression of seriousness and concern. Tabby cat Giovanni, in front on the carpet, wants it to be known that he was fully accepting of his brother up there, but is about done.

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I wrote about the myth of the "AI-native" startup and new data finding buyers' remorse from CEOs who have attempted to spread it throughout their organizations https://www.platformer.news/ai-native-startup-myth/

Siemiatkowski has a lot of company here. Last week, IBM released the results of a survey of 2,000 CEOs from 33 countries. It found that only 25 percent of AI initiatives have delivered the expected return on investment in recent years, and that just 16 percent have scaled across their respective companies.

To a comical degree, these failed AI experiments seem to be caused by a panicked fear of missing out: the survey found that 64 percent of CEOs "say the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization."

In other words, it isn't just us in the tech press that can too easily fall for AI hype. The CEOs are falling for it, too — and they're spending a lot more money on it than we are.

@butterscotch ...indeed! lovely cat!

The Lemoine Studios inmates are back in their usual habitat, but still grateful their #Brussels Airbnb in #Ixelles came with Baboune, the owner's friendly #cat, who visited many times because the apartment was part of the territory for which he is responsible. Happy #Caturday! #lifebetterwithcat #CatsofMastodon #Bruxelles #Belgium #Belgique #travel

Baboune is a very light-colored grey tabby cat, maybe four years old, with distinctive black-stripe markings running from the corner of his eyes along the sides of his head. Here he is sitting up, watching things only cats can see.

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It was Abolish ICE back when we got arrested saying it in 2018, and it's Abolish ICE now when they're kidnapping mayors for criticizing them, in 2025.

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#bonjour #sunrise #boats #love #nature #photography

Two fishermen boats in the ocean during dawn today. Orange cloudy skies beckoning them.

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The ICE thugs cover their faces because they know they're doing wrong & breaking laws, and at risk because of it. The statute of limitations on their acts is a lot longer than Donald Trump's term. When Dems take Congress in 2026, they need to immediately make it illegal for ICE thugs to wear masks.

A wild wall lit up as a surprise in a fairly dark corridor near the Leopold Park not far from the European parliament in #Brussels, and a few minutes after that we happened to see that lovely passage into a quiet, inviting street we might explore another time, but not today. #walkingheals #urbanhiking #Bruxelles #Belgium #Belgique #travel #art #wallart

a colorful about five-story mural depicting a leopard, a puma, a grand parrot, and large, sheltering leaves

a quiet, curved, pedestrianized street with retail, restaurants, and residences, with people walking and standing calmly

Julio #Cortázar, favorite Argentine-French #writer, was born in #Ixelles, #Brussels. I appreciated finding this hommage with a good likeness of him on Rue Louis Lepoutre. #writing #Bruxelles #Belgique #Belgium #art #sculpture

a sculpted head, about 1.5 times lifesize, made from iron in the likeness of Cortázar, on a plinth of grey stone, about 1.70 meters high, with his name in letters of grey metal

When it rained, a little snail decided to travel across the back terrace of our #Brussels rental. Slow down and pay attention, said the snail. #SilentSunday #SundayVibes #Bruxelles

a dark brown snail with its eye stalks erect, its shell a spiral of brown lines on a beige-yellow background

Happy #Caturday. Here's a kitty in her window in the St. Gilles neighborhood of Brussels. #CatsofMastodon #lifebetterwithcat #Bruxelles #Belgique #Belgium #urbanhiking #walkingheals

a mostly white cat with unique, elegant grey accents on her nose, cheeks, and head, and a black and grey saddle, sits up in her window in front of white curtains

An excursion to #Anvers or #Antwerpen. Beautiful, luxurious, festive, splendid buildings, urban windmills, an over-the-top train station combining older and new elements, and masses of tourists and people oozing through downtown areas. The #city is in many ways gorgeous, sparkly in a way #Brussels is not. Amazing what #colonialism, subjugating parts of a continent, and robbing its diamonds and other treasures, was able to accomplish. #architecture #travel #Belgique #Belgium #urbanhiking

in the main train station of Anvers/Antwerpen, building elements from the 19th century have been saved and underpinned by three levels of rail lines and modern infrastructure

on an older building, a life-size figure of beautiful, maybe sad woman in a long robe, holding an unidentifiable tool or mechanical object of some kind

a view of the river Scheidt waterfront in downtown Anvers/Antwerpen, with windmills in the back

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#LetzteGeneration @letztegeneration.bsky.social @sixtus.net

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Abolish ICE

"It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers

How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it."

If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.©

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-homeland-security-hsi-customs-citizens-violations-rights-20250501.html

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Mini château dans paris , Centre :) en vrai, la bibliothèque Forney, pleine de jolies trésors. #library #paris #castle #photo #photography under the #sun 🌞 #spring

Petit chateau dans le centre de paris, en réalité la bibliothèque Forney et lieu d'expositions

Three favorites among the many gorgeous houses we see in #Brussels. Grateful for all of them. They bring so much joy even to a hot, potentially dreadful walk. #Bruxelles #Belgique #Belgium #walkingheals #architecture #urbanhiking #beautifulcity #art

Visited the Musée des Instruments de Musique in #Brussels. Badly lit, strangely curated, confusingly and sparingly signed, telegraphic explanatory labels generally placed in the shadows and beyond easy reading range - but a huge lot of fascinating, beautiful, surprising, rare, and unusual musical instruments. If you're in Brussels, don't miss this. #music #MIM #Bruxelles #Belgique #Belgium #museums #musicalinstruments #history #historyofmusic

a koto-like instrument from Ruanda, beautifully ornamented with vivid, painted flower motifs

a clay whistle in the shape of a bat or moth, from the times of the Aztec empire

a complicated, rare string instrument from old Europe with a beautifully carved head of a male human with tiny devil's horns

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Open invitation to all public servants and public organizations.

Public Social Media is here for you.

Create a Mastodon Fediverse account and communicate directly with the public, free of corporate tech gatekeepers.

These times are too important to trust public information to corporate overlords.

https://joinmastodon.org/

#PublicSocialMedia

Wandering around in Ixelles, we came to one of the best pieces of wall art ever seen by my eyes, at Chaussée d’Ixelles and Rue Maes. I particularly like how it takes advantage of the shape of the building to make its dramatic statement. Best look at it on the largest screen you can find. #art #wallart #Bruxelles #Brussels #Belgium #Belgique #walkingheals #travel

A five-story mural depicts a ship, its prow falling on the corner formed by two walls. Tall trees and lush vegetation grow on the ship's deck. An anchor comes down toward the people who stand on the roof of their flooded or sinking houses. Will they be saved?

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When a government does things, I always try to figure out who wins and who loses as a consequence. It's easy to see who loses here: the deaf community and those who help them, and anyone who would benefit in the future from discoveries these scientists might make. Not sure I see any winners, as the minimal cost saving will be offset by the cost of lawsuits. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5357617/federal-deaf-scientists-cuts-nih-education

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