Jay Gruber

@jays.name

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Bainbridge Island, WA. Software engineer. He/him Like cooking, reading, soccer, dogs, brewing beer

Hopper threatening Molt (scene from A Bug's Life)
2 frames of Scar from the Lion King performing the song Be Prepared
Mr. Met, mascot of the NY Mets. He is wearing a pinstriped baseball uniform, has a baseball for a head, and a Mets hat. He is standing facing the camera with his arms open a bit. The life of a mascot is a lonely one. No one truly knows the real you. Perhaps he could use a hug.
Wooden stairs on the way down to a beach
The rear of the museum Floor to ceiling windows with a stepped roof. Inside, some carved poles are lined up with each step change in the roof by height.
A rose garden with the paths laid out on a geometric sort of star pattern, water and mountains in the background
A carved pole "Reconciliation Pole"
A wall with cross sections of several different types of rock
Some sort of projectile launcher mounted on a wood pallet made with a metal track and resistance bands. These folks were using a ballpoint pen as a projectile. They had a target with a grid set up and were measuring I don't know what.
A big rock with an uppercase E painted on every side
Foreground: some tall windows with a bit of glare Inside: a whale skeleton, hanging from the ceiling
A carved pole, looks like a person gripping a snake by the tail
A clock tower!
Closeup of an informational sign: State Champion Camperdown Elm It was in 1640 that the "Earl of Camperdown" in Dundee Scotland noticed a branch growing on the floor of his elm forest. He grafted it to a Scotch Elm tree and it took hold producing the first Camperdown Elm. The Scotch Elm is the only root mass the Camperdown Elm will grow on. The tree is a mutant and cannot self produce. Every Camperdown Elm tree in the world is part of the original and they must be grafted to a Scotch Elm tree to get started. When the graft starts to grow, the Scotch Elm branches are cut off leaving only Camperdown Elm. This magnificent tree depends on humankind to keep it as a species. This Camperdown Elm is the State Champion. This tree was planted in 1875. It measures 20 ft. in height with a 26 ft. crown and a 7 ft. circumference
A screenshot of blackvotewatch.org. It shows cards (letter grade, picture, name, party) for 3 WA Democrats: Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, Emily Randall. all have As
A dog laying on a wood deck in the sun
A goalkeeper sitting on the ground after a stoppage-time goal, thinking about the days when stoppage time did not regularly approach double digits.
A group of four standing outside, presumably a nuclear family. Man with a miner's helmet, his wife, son and daughter. They are accompanied by Coalie the Lump of Coal. Coalie has a translucent speech bubble that is in front of the faces of the mother and daughter, obscuring them. The speech bubble text: "Coal miners have powered America's growth, and each year OSMRE transfers over $1 billion to support health care and pension benefits for eligible miners and their families"
Highlighted text from an ebook, Charles Sumner, Conscience of a Nation by Zaakir Tameez: Sometime around October 25, the Vigilance Committee attorneys deployed their strategy. They managed to persuade local officers to arrest the hunters, and they were detained for several hours before being released. When the hunters left the court-house, an interracial crowd of thousands of protesters stood outside hissing and flashing pistols, then followed them to their lodgings.
Highlighted text from an ebook, Charles Sumner, Conscience of a Nation by Zaakir Tameez: Meanwhile, Sumner and other lawyers on the committee connived several creative legal tricks to slow down the hunters. They drafted bogus legal petitions against the hunters, charging them with various crimes including intent to kidnap. While the petitions had little chance of succeeding, they hoped to persuade local officers to arrest the hunters and charge them bail prior to release on the pretense of these charges.
A screenshot of a post on docs.surf. The site is styled to look like an Internet Explorer browser in front of a classic Windows desktop background. The post: Domain Steal I've been messing around with the idea of building a feed of all standard.site documents and evolving it into an aggregator, and omg, it's going great... Steve Simkins 1 day ago
Competition > Centralized Planning. As America's AI ecosystem demonstrates, robust competition by small teams, with transparent metrics for results, is the engine of commercial AI leadership. We must bring this model into the Department and encourage robust competition to spur faster military AI integration. Small, accountable teams will win over process in a race characterized by dynamic and unpredictable innovation. We will measure success through continuous field experimentation: putting AI capabilities in operators' hands, gathering feedback within days not years, and pushing updates faster than the enemy can adapt. I direct CDAO to establish AI system usage and mission impact metrics for evaluating the success of these AI acceleration efforts. To enable market dynamics to drive resourcing, decisions about future resourcing and deprecation of associated capabilities will principally be made on the basis of these metrics.
Clarifying "Responsible AI" at the DoW - Out with Utopian Idealism, In with Hard-Nosed Realism. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and social ideology have no place in the DoW, so we must not employ AI models which incorporate ideological "tuning" that interferes with their ability to provide objectively truthful responses to user prompts. The Department must also utilize models free from usage policy constraints that may limit lawful military applications. Therefore, I direct the CDAO to establish benchmarks for model objectivity as a primary procurement criterion within 90 days, and I direct the Under Secretary of War for Acquisition and Sustainment to incorporate standard "any lawful use" language into any DoW contract through which AI services are procured within 180 days. I also direct the CDAO to ensure all existing AI policy guidance at the Department aligns with the directives laid out in this memorandum.
A "reconsider woman" meme Top text (next to woman making a disgusted face): Build a wall and Mexico will pay for it Bottom text (next to woman making an interested face): Build a firewall around Twitter and Twitter users will pay for it
A dog lying on its side on a couch
Foreground: a man dressed in furs running across the ice. The text: Hundreds of Beavers Background: Hundreds of people dressed in cartoonish anthropomorphized beaver costumes. They are angrily chasing the man.
FBI Director Kash Patel staring directly into camera, serving his best Clockwork Orange gaze
The Doug (the flag of Cascadia) Background: top to bottom - blue, white, green horizontal bars Foreground: silhouette of a Douglas Fir
Theodora the dog is taking a break from splashing around in kiddie pool full of water to smile for the camera. There is an evergreen tree in the foreground
A still of the "I am Spartacus" scene from the 1960s film. Overlayed text: "I think you should tell readers if your source is a Nazi"
A wooden troll statue. The troll is standing in front of a building, a museum. The troll is on Ballard, WA
A wooden troll statue. The troll is playing some sort of wind instrument (maybe an ocarina). The troll is in West Seattle, WA.
A wooden troll statue. The troll is seated, cross-legged. The troll is on Bainbridge Island, WA
A wooden troll statue. The troll is standing with hands on two trees. The troll is in Issaquah, WA
A wooden troll sculpture. The troll has a beard. The troll is seated. The troll is on Vashon Island, WA
A brindle dog laying on a reddish deck in the sun.
A dog with an Irish flat cap on his head
Two dogs sitting in the grass in the sunshine, with tree branches and leaves in the foreground
Two books side by side: The Last American Road Trip - Sarah Kendzior A Southern Panther, Conversations with Malik Rahim. Edited by James R. Tracy
3 medium sized dogs sitting and looking at the camera (indoors)
A top-down view of a glass jar full of kimchi
3 dogs sitting at attention on a wood floor, all 3 looking just off camera
A scene from the film A Christmas Story, showing neighborhood bully Scott Farkus and Grover Dill, Farkus' crummy little toady. Dill has his mouth open to speak
Two dogs resting on a dog bed, one using the other as a pillow