Tom Hilton

@tvhilton

Politics, backpacking, travel, photography, & all-purpose snark. Looks like I picked the wrong election year to quit sniffing glue

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Tom Hilton@tvhilton· 27d

Laughing my ass off

"The White House has strict ethics guidelines that we expect all staffers and officials to follow," said White House spokesperson Davis Ingle when contacted by ABC News. "The staffer in question is fully cooperating with the CFTC."

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· 28d

This seems bad. Is this bad?

If widely used AI systems undergoing model collapse perpetually produce narrower outputs, “long-tail” ideas might eventually fade out of the public’s consciousness, limiting the scope of human knowledge and exacerbating common biases in society.

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jul 13

SF weather in a nutshell

Screenshot from the weather app:
San Francisco
70 degrees
Feels like: 64

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jul 12

Rambutan, Cousin of Lychee was one of Toho’s weaker offerings

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 26

It just keeps getting worse

My guest this week believes that our problems today can be traced back to the sexual revolution. She argues that it reset relations between the sexes in a fundamentally negative way and ultimately benefited men. Louise Perry is a columnist for The Wall Street Journal’s Free Expression section and the author of “The Case Against the Sexual Revolution.”

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 26

All you need to know:

Hosted by Ross Douthat

Produced by Sophia Alvarez Boyd

Mr. Douthat is a columnist and the host of the “Interesting Times” podcast.

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 17

Babylon Bee of all places had this gag. When the Bee is more critical of Trump than Virgin Ben...

Oh No! Trump Negotiates Deal with England and Now They Have the Colonies Back

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 16

When you think you're arguing against parking meters in Golden Gate Park but you're really arguing that cars shouldn't be allowed there at all

parking meters in a PARK are not good . They are UGLY and take away from the beauty of (created at times) nature!! Parks are supposed to be an oasis to calm, to ground us, to find a respite from the city environment. Parking meters and their hideous pay stations that get vandalized and don't work half the time, will RUIN GG park.

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 15

Memorandum of Misunderstanding

Lindsey Graham A @LindseyGrahamSC
I am pleased to hear the memorandum of understanding with Iran to allow the Strait of Hormuz to open has been agreed to. I will be watching closely the ensuing negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear program and other matters.
I am somewhat concerned that Iran's view of the agreement seems different than what the American negotiating team is claiming.
Under our law, any nuclear deal with Iran will be sent to Congress for review and a

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 13

Four ties, all from ca. late '40s to mid '50s, all with a style on a continuum from Art Deco to Googie, three in red and blue and one in green and red (the last with a vaguely wintry look, arguably a Christmas tie with plausible deniability)

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 12

I'm a big fan of Sen Whitehouse but his name does present a lot of potential confusion

Whitehouse Launches Investigation into Cronyism, Corruption at Kennedy Center Under Grenell

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 11

I guess something happened?

Four posts in a row:
omg
OH MY GOD
Omggggg
Holy shit !

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 8

Principal Skinner asking himself Am I out of touch?, then responding No, it's the children whose brains are turned to mush by LLMs

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 8

We don't usually see each others' header. Here's mine*. Quote post with yours (if you feel like it). *Turns out I hadn't set a header photo yet, so I just added this.

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 2

Mattole Beach Yes, that is a drum kit on the beach. No, I don't know why it's there.

Beach with driftwood and a drum kit in the foreground, mountains in the background, blue sky above, and a fog bank in the distance

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 2

Mattole Beach This is the northern end of the Lost Coast Trail; the southern end is in Shelter Cove.

Beach with a river winding through, cutting sand bluffs on the uphill side; mountains in the background, and a fog bank looms behind them

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 2

Coast along Mattole Road; Sugarloaf Island, on the right, is the westernmost point of California.

Dark sand beach with bleached driftwood in the foreground; in the distance is a large haystack-shaped island

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 2

Mattole Road south of Ferndale

Green meadow with a dirt road running through it, sloping down to forest; in the distance is a fog bank with still more distant mountains poking just above it

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Ferndale Cemetery. "Died from cramp while bathing"

Frank W.
Son of Rev. J.M. & Charlotte Bartlet
of Laidbrook Manor, S. Devon
Died from cramp while swimming
May 2y, 1883, Aged 22 ys.
Make them to be numbered with thy servants(?) in glory everlasting

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Ferndale Cemetery

Two small rectangular stones, one with a decrepit cross that looks like lath strips nailed together, both with brightly-colored plastic flowers

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Ferndale Cemetery

Cemetery extending up a hill, backed by forest; multiple trees in the cemetery are in bloom

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Festa do Espirito Santo, Ferndale

A little boy in a black tuxedo with red tie and cummerbund, wearing running shoes, carries a white cage with a white dove (or pigeon?)

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Festa do Espirito Santo, Ferndale

A girl wearing a white dress, crown, and cape is flanked by another girl in a peach-colored dress and a little boy in a white suit, and preceded by a woman carrying a sign that reads "Arcata Little Queen"

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Festa do Espirito Santo, Ferndale

Young woman in a white dress with a regal cape, wearing a tiara and holding a crown, is looking at her mom maybe?, who is holding up part of the cape

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Church of the Assumption, Ferndale

Tall, super-pointy white church (in black & white)

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Ferndale, CA

Looking down main street of quaint Victorian-era town, toward forested hills in the background

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Gould Grove, Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Fallen redwood on the right, standing redwoods in the background, redwood sorrel in the foreground

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

(Former) Cape Mendocino lighthouse, at Shelter Cove. It was declared surplus in 1991, and a volunteer group in Shelter Cove bought it for $1. The military lent a helicopter and gave the crew training exercise credit to relocate it.

Squat two-story lighthouse under a cloudy sky

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

Abalone Point, Shelter Cove

Headland with a patch of goldfields and rocky coast behind it

Tom Hilton@tvhilton· Jun 1

It's also a weapon