A striking cinnamon-brown, black, and white shorebird, the American Avocet stood out on the mudflat of the Lake Erie marsh near the Michigan/Ohio state border.
The slightly-upturned long thin black bill is distinctive as is the white body with white-striped black wings.
The American Avocet is a rare bird in Michigan and one I had never seen before.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Elegant American Avocet
Remember the post I published in late March 2023, with steps you can take to restrict ChatGPT from using content from your WordPress site?
It may not have worked, if your site’s content was already scraped.
Which it did with this site, lireo.com.
Not what I expected.
Continue reading Is Google’s Large Language Model Using Your Website Content As Training Data?
If you happen to be walking down Penniman in downtown Plymouth, Michigan, take a moment to stroll through the alleys on the west side of the street.
You’ll find an amazing art exhibit on one of the red brick building walls north of Sean O’Callaghans, between Harvey and Main Street.
Sadly, there’s no information about the artists or titles with the paintings, something I’ve come to expect from outdoor art installations like the Detroit Institute of Arts Inside|Out program.
Continue reading Photo of the Week: Plymouth ArtWalk