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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

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Apple iPhone 6 Plus – ƒ/2.2 1/30 4.15mm ISO50 – Mission, MN

Source: Sharpshot Nature .Com 00074-tod-001335 Toad

मुस्कुराहट / Smiles – Kaushal Kishore

 

आ जाती है मुस्कुराहट अपनी लबों पर, 

जब दिखती है अपनी पुरानी तस्वीर सालों बाद…

आज ली हुई तस्वीरें भले अच्छी न लगे, 

लेकिन मुस्कुराहट लाएंगी फिर वही सालों बाद…

😊 😊 😊 😊 😊 😊

Our old photographs bring smiles to our face,

As memories flood back with a warm, nostalgic pace…

The pictures we snap today may seem quite plain,

But after a few years, the same will bring smiles again…

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–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: मुस्कुराहट / Smiles – Kaushal Kishore

Language – Anonymously Hal

We existed together as witty innuendos 
and double entendres. 
Our sarcasm became blatant 
and often drifted to the edge of indecency. 

Yet that was our language... 
Smart yet immature. 
Intelligent yet crude. 

But now our once familiar language 
has been translated into something so vastly foreign and incomprehensible to me. 

The banter I loved now lost. 
Our words polite and mediocre at best. 

Source: Language – Anonymously Hal

August 16-17, 2024 North side Mushroom Hunt and Trail Blazing | Saint Andrews Forest Farm

Chanterelles harvested from northwest corner of SAFF on Saturday.

We had not explored the north side in months and decided to spend this weekend making trails and looking for mushrooms over there. We are sure glad we did. With both days added together, we had about three pounds of mushrooms.

Friday’s wild mushroom harvest from the north side of SAFF includes three different varieties of chanterelles and indigo milk caps…

Source: August 16-17, 2024 North side Mushroom Hunt and Trail Blazing | Saint Andrews Forest Farm

Easy AI: Classifying Images with AI Models – Bellingcat

Suppose you’ve scraped thousands of images from a Telegram group or social media site, some of which may be crucial to an investigation of an ongoing conflict. You’re looking specifically for photos and videos of weapons, but these are mixed in with memes, screenshots and other unrelated material, and manually reviewing and categorising the images would take more time than you have. What do you do?

In this guide, we show you how you can use artificial intelligence (AI) models to speed up such tasks – even if you don’t know how to code – with the help of the Smart Image Sorter, an open-source tool we created.

Source: Easy AI: Classifying Images with AI Models

Failure to deal with mpox outbreak ‘is risk not just to Africa but whole world’ | Global health | The Guardian

A failure to show solidarity with African countries at the heart of the mpox outbreak will put the world at risk and harm preparations for future pandemics, health leaders have said.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday declared an international public health emergency in the face of rising cases that are spreading beyond the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where the virus is endemic.

More than 18,700 cases – and over 500 deaths – have been reported so far this year in Africa, already higher than for the whole of 2023. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared a continental public health emergency.

Dr Ebere Okereke, associate fellow in the global health programme at Chatham House, said: “The consequences of failing to respond robustly to these declarations could be severe, potentially leading to the increased spread of new and more dangerous variants. The risk of a failure to act now is not just a risk to Africa, but to the rest of the world.”

Source: Failure to deal with mpox outbreak ‘is risk not just to Africa but whole world’ | Global health | The Guardian