Freedom of speech is crazy right

A follow

you should give

For realz

Per your website q&a "One pack of 10 cuttings covers a small garden area" - my question is how big do you consider a small garden area? 4*4 or larger?

wtf is right, Canadians of nostr need to explain…

Good Morning!

Black please

I’ve been adding half a lemon every glass of tea this week…

Holy shit

Good Morning Stay Sovereign Godspeed

👀👀👀 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHrr9eNURHI

How much gum by weight came in that?

Fuck…. "You've been training Google's AI for 15 years. You had no idea. 500,000 hours of free human labor. Every single day. By people who thought they were just trying to log in to their bank. reCAPTCHA is the most successful invisible data operation in internet history. 200 million people solved it daily at its peak. Almost none of them understood what they were actually building. Waymo, Google's autonomous vehicle company, is worth $45 billion today. It got a critical portion of its training data from you. For free. On every website you've ever visited. Here's the full story. How it started: a clever idea In 2000, spam bots were destroying the internet. Forums flooded. Inboxes crushed. Websites needed a way to separate humans from machines. Carnegie Mellon professor Luis von Ahn solved it. He invented the CAPTCHA: a distorted word only a human could read. Bots failed. Humans passed. But von Ahn saw something more. Millions of people were spending cognitive effort on these challenges. What if that effort could do two things at once? In 2007, he launched reCAPTCHA. The twist: instead of random nonsense, it showed two words. One the system already knew. One scanned from a real book computers couldn't decipher yet. Your answer helped digitize it. The books were from the New York Times archive. And Google Books. 130 million books worth. You thought you were logging in. You were doing OCR for the world's largest digital library. Google acquired reCAPTCHA in 2009. Image Then Google changed the game The squiggly-word era ended around 2012. Google had a new problem. Street View cars were photographing every road on earth. But photos are raw data. For the AI to be useful, it needed to understand what it was seeing: signs, crosswalks, traffic lights, storefronts. So Google redesigned reCAPTCHA v2. Instead of distorted text, it showed photo grids. "Click all squares with a traffic light." "Select every crosswalk." "Identify the storefronts." Those images came directly from Google Street View. Your clicks were the labels. Every selection told Google's computer vision model: this pixel cluster is a traffic light. This shape is a crosswalk. You weren't passing a test. You were building a dataset. Image The scale nobody talks about At peak, 200 million reCAPTCHAs were solved every single day. 10 seconds per challenge. That's 2 billion seconds of human labor. Every day. 500,000 hours. Daily. Paid data annotation costs $10 to $50 per hour. At the low end: $5 million in free labor extracted every single day. And reCAPTCHA wasn't on one app. It was on every bank. Every government portal. Every e-commerce site. Every login page on the internet. You had no choice. Want to access your account? Annotate the dataset first. Google didn't ask. Didn't pay. Didn't even tell you. Image What all of it built The data fed directly into two products. Google Maps. The most used navigation tool on earth. Its ability to read street signs, identify businesses, and understand urban geography was built, in part, on billions of human annotations from people trying to log in to websites. And Waymo. Waymo is Google's self-driving car project, spun off as its own company in 2016. To navigate safely, a self-driving car needs to recognize thousands of visual patterns with near-perfect accuracy. Traffic lights. Crosswalks. Pedestrians. Stop signs. The ground truth training data for that recognition? Annotated by millions of humans. Via reCAPTCHA. Without their knowledge. Waymo completed over 4 million paid rides in 2024. It operates in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. It is expanding monthly. It is valued at $45 billion. The foundation was built by unpaid internet users trying to check their email. 0:10 / 3:41 Why nobody could replicate this Data annotation is expensive. Companies like Scale AI, Appen, and Labelbox exist entirely to solve it. They employ hundreds of thousands of workers to label images, sometimes for less than a dollar an hour. Google solved this differently. They made annotation mandatory. Not for pay. Not with consent. As the price of entry to every site on the web. The result: billions of labeled images. Global coverage. Every weather condition. Every time of day. Every city on earth. No annotation company could build this. The internet itself was the factory. Every person on it was an employee who never signed a contract. Image The version you're still doing today reCAPTCHA v3, launched in 2018, doesn't show you a challenge at all. It watches how you move your mouse. How you scroll. How long you hover. Your behavioral fingerprint tells it whether you're human. That behavioral data feeds back into Google's AI systems too. You never opted in. There was never a box to check. You are still doing it right now, on most of the sites you visit. The irony that should bother everyone Luis von Ahn's original vision was brilliant: redirect the cognitive effort humans already spend on spam filters toward something useful. Digitize the world's books. Solve a real problem. What Google did with that vision is something else. They took a security mechanism users had no choice but to use, deployed it across the entire internet, and harvested the output to build commercial products worth tens of billions of dollars. The users got nothing. Not even awareness. The deepest irony: you spent years proving you were human. By doing exactly the kind of visual recognition work that AI could not do yet. The work that, once learned, made human visual annotation unnecessary. You proved you were human. By making yourself replaceable”

Appliances and cabinets!

Err the seeds I’m talking about are heirloom non gmo organic vegetable seeds…

Natty?

Some of our oldest seed stock is still good… Seeds from 2009 that have been in the back of the fridge…

Shallow = wider pot then tall, less then 6in in height. Deep = taller pot then wider, 12in or taller