Baldur Bjarnason

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Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff. https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/ https://softwarecrisis.dev/

A cat stretching out on its back on asphalt and yawning.
A black and white photo of a blackbird launching into flight as a teen on a scooter rides past. We see part of a tractor in the foreground.
A ditch in a green pasture. A bit of mist lies over everything. Yellow buttercup flowers have overgrown the ditch.
The same photo of a bench in a field in fog, again using ACROS black and white film emulation from Fujifilm but with more exposure adjustment and a bit of a contrast adjustment using the curves tool.
First off, we have a JPG as delivered by the Fujifilm camera. It's of fog over a field with a couple of lone trees and a bench. In the background we see the roots of a mountain. It's kind of a flat image
The path past the geothermal field behind the horticultural school. We see what's supposed to be a "security" fence separating the hiker from boiling mud
Lukka, a black and white "tuxedo" patterned cat on a fence looking very intent.
The sound of walking followed by the sound of horses passing by
Grása, a long-haired grey and white cat, walks past some wild flowers growing next to the pavement.
A long-billed orange wading bird in the middle of a field of grass filled with flowers that are (mostly) native to Iceland
A goldcrest perched inside a halo of leaves. This colour photo is a relatively naturalistic photo that just uses the tone curves provided by the camera manufacturer but with exposure adjustment and a bit of a saturation boost.
A landscape-oriented photo this time. Emphasises the circular pattern of the branches that frame the goldcrest.
A picture of a manual typewriter with some text typed out on a page
A small herd of horses in a field. Buttercup flowers dot the field and you can see trees in the distance.
A black and white photo of a starling on a fence post.
A common redshank, a smallish wading bird, perches on a fence post and objects to the photographer
Seen from above, a cat is sleeping in some grass
We see a small house by a river, only the walls remaining. Grass is growing around it.
A ruined house, now just brick walls with no roof, built next to a river. The banks of the river are covered with greenery.
A black and white dog lying in some grass.
A tortoiseshell cat sitting on a lawn staring at the photographer
A ditch filled with sunflowers leading to a tree, in the distance we see power pylons on a mountain
A bumblebee hovering over a dandelion
An orange male crossbill on a timber balcony railing. He has scattered seeds all over the place. His beak curves and crosses itself in a distinctive way
A brown horse grazing in a field. Behind it we can see a fence and beyond the fence are trees.
Screenshot from a PDF of the Intelligence Illusion containing the following text: "Section 230, and similar laws in other countries, let hosting companies host without being liable for what their customers upload. Without those laws, social media networks and search engines would not exist. In most countries these laws have some limits, but overall what they mean is that you aren’t legally liable for the comments that somebody posts on your service." "One problem with integrating generative models into your product, especially a hosted product, is that many of the uses of AI are likely to fall outside these protections. If somebody gets your online AI chat widget to talk like a genocidal Nazi, you might be as liable for that as if you had published pro-genocide Nazi propaganda yourself. That would mean that exposing these tools to your customers risks exposing you to enormous legal liability."
A blackbird in the middle of a lawn, head down, getting a grip on some invertebrates.
Black and white photo of a redwing bird on a barbedwire fence separating us from a geothermal field.
A ginger(?) horse grazing. Steam from a geothermal well wafts past.
A black and white photo of a group of horses grazing. Trees line up behind them. A pipe runs through a ditch below them
Seen under a thick tree branch, a hen stands between two dandelions and stares at the photographer.
A cat stretching out on its back on asphalt and yawning.
An insect that looks like a honeybee gathering pollen on a dandelion
Horse in a field. Behind it is a line of trees.
A small bird with a two-coloured beak staring down the photographer while near some grass
The corner window at the local cat shelter. On the left side is a distracted ginger cat. On the right side is a very serious looking grey and white tabby
A redwing, a small orange-brown bird with a bit of red on its wings, on a pile of wood chips with a grub or small insect in its mouth.
The sun seen through steam in Hveragerði.
A couple confers over something in the sun in a Montréal park.
A mother dragging a reluctant child over the road in Montréal.
A black and white photo of old buildings next to the river Avon in Bath. 2015.
A photo taken in Bristol. The cobbles are still wet from the rain. A pigeon is chasing after another pigeon.
The fire escape by the dormitory belonging to the University of the West of England.
A bicycle is locked to a railing in Clifton, Bristol.
A black and white photo taken through an arch in Bristol city centre. A woman is on the other side taking photos of the architecture.
A photo from an old-style newsroom showing a number of screens with various broadcasts and clocks showing various time zones.
A scanned film photo of a cat taking shelter from the rain under a car.
The geothermal area at the root of Hverfjall. Yellow flowers in the foreground. A mountain in the background. Steam rising in-between.
A page from the graphic novel “Marshal Law” with the following dialogue in all caps. The page shows the villain in a hospital bed being presented with two artificial maternal figures, one soft and cuddly, the other sharp and made of wire “Your mother is here, danny... do you recognize her?” “Is it soft mother ?” “Or wire mother?” “ma… ma…” “Yes, but which mama, danny?”
A black and white photo of a blackbird launching into flight as a teen on a scooter rides past. We see part of a tractor in the foreground.
We see containers behind a line of very straight trees. Behind the containers is a line of spruce trees and a mountain, Hverfjall
Out of the Software Crisis by Baldur Bjarnason
A black and white photo of a white wagtail, which is a small black and white bird, on the ground.
A black and white photo of a seagull on a streetlight
It's an oystercatcher on a lawn. That being a long-beaked bird that mostly doesn't catch or eat oysters
A small bird, grey and white with a yellow streak, sitting on a large rock.
Grása, a long-haired grey-and-white cat, lounges on the sidewalk.
A view of the corner of the cat shelter, the corner window is in the centre. Two cats are relaxing on the right side of the window.
A black and white photo of a blackbird in a tree. The trees are still bare. The blackbird has worms in its beak.
This bird is a long-beaked shorebird or wader with an orange head and grey wings. It is watching the photographer