We don’t seem to be eating that many at the moment, probably because the appeal of cooked food is limited when the weather is so hot. So I decided to do something a bit different.
I hard-boiled half a dozen eggs and jarred them with cider vinegar and some chile flakes.
I shall leave them a couple of weeks and then give them a taste.
No, not a beard and moustache, I’m not a Navy boy. I just managed my three BP readings for today. Almost a cause for celebration 😀 I’m fairly happy with these. Whether the GP will be or not remains to be seen at my next appointment.
But this piece made me laugh for totally unrelated reasons. Readers of Viz will have a little chuckle to themselves about the “outing” of Farmer Palmer, I’m sure 😀
Get orf moi laaaand!
But morning and mid-afternoon are pretty much where I expect. It’s kind of reassuring when readings are consistent, but not so great that I’m starting to struggle once my BP gets down into the 140s.
Linkies to recent stories about AI “going rogue”.
Now it’s not obvious why all three of the businesses involved here should announce that their AI hacked another all within days of each other, so I can understand why people are saying that actually it’s all a PR thing to demonstrate how “smart” their AIs are — once Open AI start the others have to follow because who wants to lose money by being left behind, right?
But if we take the story at face value, how long is it before a “malicious actor” enables the AI system to cover its tracks at the same time? I feel sure that such a thing will happen at some point: if it’s possible, someone’s going to do it. That’s just the way human beings (at least, some of them) are.
I struggle to imagine that people in government or the intelligence services are not already thinking of using AIs in that way to attack other nations at which point everything is going to get madly out of control.
I doubt it would just be government vs. government either. What might happen if, say, a nation that has fallen out with the USA manages to hack Tesla, or NYSE?
I’m off out to the shops in my (minimally computerised) car to buy some paper and crayons for when it really hits the fan 😀
These cucumber plants, that is. They get decently watered regularly, but they’re suffering in the heat almost as much as I am.
Still, the important thing is that cucumbergeddon is approaching 😀
Shame the photo is out of focus 🙁
Forgot the evening reading again, but the morning reading was pretty much where I now expect it to be. My body just can’t cope with 114/80 though.
Coverage of a car crash on Merseyside.
The odd thing for me though is that the piece reads as if the car was in control. There’s no mention of a driver losing control or anything like that. “The car” left the road and “the car” crashed into a lamppost. Well, yes, but I assume there was a human being behind the wheel who had something to do with the whole thing?
I noticed this plant whilst watering in the polytunnel this evening. From memory I think (I’m fairly sure) it’s a chocolate sweet pepper. I counted nine large fruit on it. I think this one might be one to save some seed from 😀
On my tomatoes, that is. Quite a few of them have reached or are close to reaching the top of the polytunnel now. In previous years I’ve dropped the strings by about half a metre allowing the bottom of the stem to rest on the ground. At the moment however, that would leave many unripe fruit sitting on the compost and likely to become the target of a slug attack.
Whilst I was watering this evening I had a different idea. Close to the bottom of some of the plants where I have removed the leaves and side-shoots, further side-shoots are emerging as in the photo. I’m thinking that it might be interesting to pinch out the top of the plant and then allow one of those sideshoots to become a new leader to see what happens. I shall try it on a few plants and probably continue with the rest as I have always done.
