I’m nerding out.

What a way to visualize packets moving though the meshcore network. This is eastern Tennessee and north Georgia.

Pastor laid hands on the sick.

Cure for road rage

33000 tons lifted 16 meters.

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The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Oil on canvas • 361 × 520 cm

Caravaggio - 1608

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist was painted by Caravaggio in 1608 while he was in Malta. Commissioned by the Knights of Malta as an altarpiece, it is the largest painting he ever created and still hangs in St. John's Co-Cathedral. Although Caravaggio was briefly made a Knight of Malta, he was later imprisoned, escaped, and was expelled from the Order.

I found some nice cheery news for everyone.

Ford fired all the gray beard engineers and put an indian in charge of AI.... And they are back pedaling.

Ford executives said they have hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them were former employees, while others had been working at suppliers — after artificial intelligence and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality level.

Bloomberg reports the company’s chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been “relying more and more on automated quality systems” with disappointing results. So the company “brought back technical specialists,” and those specialists “hunt for failure points before a part ever reaches the plant floor.”

Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering, added, “Mistakenly we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.”

To be clear, this doesn’t mean Ford is abandoning its AI plans entirely. Instead, it’s using the rehired employees — referred to as “gray beard” engineers — to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools.

This rehiring seems to be paying off, resulting in what Ford CEO Jim Farley said are things like lowered warranty and recall costs, “contributing to literally hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars of a tailwind for Ford on cost.” The automaker also claimed the top spot among mainstream brands in the JD Power Initial Quality Survey released this week.