Morning Coffee Roundup - February 6

Found while savoring my morning sip...

Thank you, Wiley.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That, I believe. 

It's Friday! 

Onward.

Rade 

 

 

 

Your Daily Meme... and MEN!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spring is right around 

the corner!  

 

"Sure... whatever you say..." 

 

 

 

 

Anti-AI: Firefox to allow users to block all AI

Positive news:  Mozilla Firefox is rolling out a major privacy and control upgrade: starting with version 148 on February 24, 2026 

I have been a user of Firefox for decades now.  I trust the browser enough that I use it exclusively on all my devices (PC, phones and tablets).  The extensions have been a Godsend for blocking ads on YouTube and Yahoo Mail, and the Facebook container protected my PC from anything coming through the Meta channels. 

There has been a lot of speculation about Mozilla falling into the AI snare.  At the moment, there are a few tweaks you can use to keep AI out, but with the release coming out later this month, it sounds like Firefox will go full-throttle in providing the ability to block AI content.  

 

Google Gemini AI "helper" on Blogger

I'll be curious - on the Blogger editing window, there is an annoying Google Gemini AI "helper" icon (located at the arrow in the screen shot). I have disabled it; otherwise, it would follow my cursor around the screen offering to insert (crap) into whatever I was typing.  

My YouTube video suggestion screen is routinely flooded, equally, with videos about overcoming AI slop, and videos about how "...WONDERFUL Gemini will work for ME!"... if only I would turn the functions back on.  Yeah, no.  Not going to happen. 

I'll keep you folks posted! 

Rade 

 

Let's Give Women Something To Smile About

 

Thank you, Stephen Colbert!    

It's time to play the music, it's time to light the lights!

"It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight!"

HOME RUN!  My gosh, for 30 minutes, I was 13 again!  The show hit every note, checked every box - it was exactly what I needed to watch.   

 

 

From the opening number... (video will link on YouTube)

 

 

...to Statler and Waldorf... 

 

 

To the closing sax note... 

 

The whole gang was back; Miss Piggy, Benson Honeydew and Beaker, Gonzo, Fozzy Bear, Rolf, Sam... just marvelous.  It was a GOOD nostalgia; good energy... good (and very much welcome) feelings. 

 

I hope there will be much more.

Onward.

Rade  

 

 

 

Your Daily Meme

 

Your Daily Meme

 

Morning meditation.

 

Caught a tugboat going down the channel, breaking the sheet ice on the bay;

the moon just hanging in the sky above it. 

 

When we first moved here, there was a large coal-fired power plant on the far bank of the bay.  They used the water from the bay to cool the turbines, and as a result, the upper bay was, for a long time, a lot warmer than the lower Narragansett Bay.  They decommissioned and dismantled the power plant about a decade ago, and since then, the water in Mount Hope Bay has gone back to normal temperatures.  So much that in recent years, the bay below us has frozen over on several occasions.  

 

A view from the top of our street.  Ice and snow on the bay. 

This is following a week of temperatures not rising much above freezing. 

 

I have a neighbor who was born and raised in this town, and remembers a time before the power plant when the bay would freeze so solid they would skate on it.  Considering she is just a few years older than me, that does not feel like it was all that long ago.  

 

They have done a remarkable job of cleaning up the bay; the shellfish (clams, oysters, etc.) are remarkable.  We now even have oyster farms a few miles down the coast from our home. Makes me feel there may actually be hope for the planet.  

 

Just a peaceful morning.  Savor them when they happen.  
 

Onward,

Rade