Notices by Peter Drake (peterdrake@mstdn.social)

These hummingbirds are getting bigger all the time. #BirdsOfMastodon

Voters: If we give you back both houses of Congress, will you impeach him?

Dem leadership: What if we hold two years of hearings first?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/democrats-plan-trump-investigations-over-impeachment-if-they-win-house-sources-2026-08-08/

#uspol #impeach

RE: https://mstdn.social/@peterdrake/116765924129368419

Time and the applicant pool are running short for the cybersecurity-related courses. If you can teach IN PERSON (not negotiable) in Portland, OR, please apply ASAP! If not, please boost and let your contacts know.

#ComputerScience #cybersecurity #jobs #academia #education #pdx #portland #FediHired #GetFediHired

Does anyone in the Portland, Oregon area happen to need a few 14x24x1 furnace filters? Our new setup takes a different size and it seems a shame for them to go to waste.

#portland #pdx #hvac

#FediArt52 27. Heavy

#MastoArt #drawing #ColoredPencil #uspol #July4 #4thOfJuly #IndependenceDay #freedom #USA #politics #cartoon

Belugas are named after the sound they make before they dive.

Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon is hiring IN PERSON adjunct faculty in computer science for the 2026-2027 academic year.

https://lewisandclark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Faculty/job/Undergraduate-Campus/Adjunct-Instructor---Lecturer-in-Computer-Science_R-004962

#ComputerScience #jobs #academia #education #pdx #portland #FediHired #GetFediHired

I have both NotifyBot and tags.pub set up to notify me when someone posts to #FediArt52, but neither notified me about this post.

@courtney @evan

https://mastodon.art/@tawtaw/116544015790251489

@evan Why not just follow the hashtag directly?

@steter @jalefkowit Wasn't it Billy who was always losing numbers?

#FediArt52 13. Moss

#MastoArt #drawing #ColoredPencil #mosstodon #LichenSubscribe

Good rhino news:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn4g41n9j4lo

#rhino

Disabled (e.g., blind) users of BoardGameArena:

Which games have you found MOST accessible? Are there any that work well with screen readers?

#disability #accessibility #blind #a11y #BoardGames #BoardGameArena #bga

I went 3-0 to win the single digit kyu division in the Corvallis Go tournament. The last game involved a terrifying ko fight in byoyomi. #go #igo #baduk #weiqi

To run an app that you wrote yourself, MacOS now demands that you juggle oranges, do a tap dance, and sing the Catalina Magdalena Lupensteiner Wallabeiner song.

#mosstodon #perspective

Drop, cover, and hold on. #MastoArt #drawing #ink #earthquake #preparedness #cascadia #disaster #ShakeAlert

I've been working on some exercises to introduce Python syntax without a computer. Here's a peek. If you were thinking of learning Python, give it a shot!

https://github.com/PeterDrake/PythonWithPencilAndPaper

#python

Thought-provoking ideas in chapter 2 of @emilymbender and @alex's The AI Con:

- Weizenbaum's ELIZA was meant to show that producing language does NOT imply thought.

- Babies don't learn language from passive exposure, so whatever LLMs are doing is fundamentally different.

- The notion of AGI is tied to the old racist notions associated with IQ tests. (I've thought of the G in AGI as meaning "not limited to a particular task", but rating relative intelligence has this issue.)

#ai

Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon is hiring a director for its new Environmental Innovation Center.

https://lewisandclark.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff/details/Director--Environmental-Innovation-Center_R-004763

Please boost for reach.

#academia #environment #jobs #FediHired #GetFediHired