the distant sky itself

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[jetix]

A Kermode Bear goes hunting, 2021/10

[lamignonette]

[fashionlandscapeblog]

Ivan Pokidyshev

Термография, 2024

Oil on canvas.

[lamignonette]

[arthistoryfeed]

Andrey Remnev, The Unplaiting of the Hair, 1997. Egg tempera and oil on canvas, 100x100 cm.

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Bringing this back.

Vincent Price shares his 75th birthday with a special guest, Ratigan (1986)

[thunderstruck9]

Gerhard Nordström (Swedish, 1925-2019), Ridå [Curtain]. Oil on canvas, 97 x 106 cm.

[thinkingimages]

Bas-relief of holding hands in Kom Ombo Temple.

The Temple of Kom Ombo is an unusual double temple in the town of Kom Ombo in Aswan Governorate, Upper Egypt. It was constructed during the Ptolemaic dynasty, 180–47 BC. Some additions to it were later made during the Roman period. 

[knightofleo]

the hauntings of Andrew Wyeth

[lilithsaintcrow]

"This week I discovered the same pattern, executed by Google. Google Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking."

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. — Th

Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise t

[spockvarietyhour]

Google Chrome Secretly Downloads Huge Local AI Models

Google Chrome automatically installs local neural network components on user systems via default configurations. The browser downloads a 4GB

Procedures for disabling it

[ex0skeletal-undead]

A video for disabling on Windows which made it very easy:

[historicaldress]

EMERALD GREEN CUT VELVET CAPE, 1870’s - 1880’s. 

Velvet triangle having a deep floral border with cord and velvet trim having knotted fringe and quilted silk lining.

[thrdnarrative]

A boy rides a statue horse in Kano, Nigeria

[aboutoriginality]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Leo Nowak, Summer Day, 1940. Watercolor, charcoal, conté crayon and pencil on paperboard.

Photo: Bonham's

[alaskanay]

American Kestrel | Raptors of North America

[vintagewildlife]

Alligator from below By: Fred Ward From: Life Nature Library: Reptiles 1963

[homura]

there are quebecois here