Channeling my mom's xmas morning breakfast tradition with Eggs Florentine. (She did Benedict, but, ham)

a lot of people don't realize that Christmas carols and traditions are actually folk memories of suppressed pre-Christian events, namely the end of the Third Age and the Fall of Sauron.

I wanted to do something different this year and my friends suggested fondue. I loved the idea, so here we go!

Macedo and Lee misrepresent what actually happened during the pandemic and are unable to confront Covid's actual toll, presumably because it undermines their premise. A longer take here w/my colleague Greg Gibson: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/revisionis...

And even relative laggard PJM (hi guys) is following the trend - 2025 was a good leap for us. Our total is still low compared to most other parts of the country but our trend looks really good.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

This is interesting and thought-provoking and god, Magda, I'm sorry you're the one having to deal with having this asshole in your department even though I don't know which way I feel about the legal decision without a lot more thought. 🤓 (Because he is an ass, but speech is hard.)

Interesting! We got our first #pittsburgh parking ticket by mail today (no physical ticket on the car). Makes sense, though it lengthens the feedback loop between violation-response, but I bet it's faster & safer for the meter readers. Now if only they could just deduct the ticket automatically...

Applesauce blintzes with sour cream and cherry preserves.

Doh. This will have little effect on people outside of the time community (unless folks set a boulder nist NTP server as their only choice, which would be unwise). but it's going to be a lot of un-fun extra work for nist folks. Wonder if it temporarily breaks NIST's calibration service TMAS, though.

Good morning breakfast chawanmushi

Copy-pasting of citations is already bad enough -- it creates a game of telephone that can end up misrepresenting the original work. Don't trust ai on citations. You should be reading (skimming at least) the cited work anyway to be certain it says what you're referencing it for.

Hm, we have leftover potatoes. Should we make more latkes tonight? 1) yes 2) yes, obviously

Is this what Pittsburghers term a bit slippy? Only saw two stuck city buses getting the kids home from school, so I guess it could be worse. 🤓

Reading the orange site is often a bad idea but this exchange made me guffaw and I'm glad the snarky quip hasn't been sent to oblivion.

I'm cackling like a maniac reading this while walking to work and worried that people are going to call the cops on the crazy guy.

I think I'd prefer a Waymo to a human-driven cab*, but you'd have to pay -me- to get in a tesla robotaxi. * (I do not have enough information to have a strong personal opinion about whether Waymos are actually safer than humans _under identical circumstances_, but it's plausible.)

Sad I had to take this photo from inside, the sky was absolutely amazing tonight.

I seem to have (co)-inherited some interesting things.

Brrr good morning

Soooo many potatoes

6 or 6.5" of snow and 12F outside. This winter storm warning lived up to its name. 🤓 #pittsburgh

For unavoidable reasons we ended up driving to the North hills, back through the city to Edgewood - on a steep hill that we saw another car fail to climb - and back home. In 3-4" snow. I learned: I love our new tires (Michelin Crossclimate2). Best all-weather I've ever owned. 🤓 Worked superbly

Pittsburgh has both the best burger king _and_ the best Wendy's in the world

It's not just lazy fiction, it's bad fiction. Consider the energy it takes to launch: - starlink sats are 1250kg, - it takes effectively 500 gigajoules to get that to LEO (41.25GJ for the payload but then you have an entire rocket around it). Let's pretend it had 8x H100 GPUs, using ~5kW 1/

in a tiny job update: I'm taking over as co-director of CMU's parallel data lab (PDL). in a bad news update: I just used the phrase "align with CMU's brand strategy" unironically in an email to the administration. might need an intervention...

Huh. That's twice now my Google pixel 10 pro has spontaneously rebooted after I've walked home in sub-25F weather. Is this a known thing?

Wow, huge win using AI to generate exam questions (You're correct, I never hit "send", because by the time I had gotten most of the way through writing down what I wanted, I realized what question I wanted to ask, switched over to my editor, and wrote it down). Rubber-duck debugging wins! 🤓

I let myself touch 120v wiring again to fix a problem with a cold kitchen. Homeassistant and a cheap wi-fi controlled power switch save the day. wiredream.com/boilerfun2/

I let myself touch 120v wiring again to fix a problem with a cold kitchen. Homeassistant and a cheap wi-fi controlled power switch save the day. wiredream.com/boilerfun2/

If we ever needed evidence to use against the Internet, I think we have it

Making lemon blueberry almond pancakes for breakfast this morning, and zesting the lemon still gives me flashbacks to a terrible limonene extraction in undergrad organic chemistry.

This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office. More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases. As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.

Wendig's hilarious writing almost - but not quite - overcomes the sadness I feel about Google abandoning user trust and the idea of giving correct information.

ok, dice roll. The forecast for #pittsburgh has had tonight/tomorrow morning's low at about 13F for several days now. that's a _lot_ of time to be prepared. will the schools do a 2h delay? Guess we'll find out tonight. :p Because gosh who would have guessed it will be cold tomorrow morning? sigh

yes, yes, that's definitely what I want. My first car was a 1982 toyota corolla. Small, not very comfortable. 21mpg. 0-60 in 13.4 seconds. Today I drive a 2017 Honda CR-V. It's boring. It's reliable. It's spacious. It gets 30mpg. And it does 0-60 in 7.5 seconds. fuck that, I'll take the 2020s.

i like a clear, plain-english privacy policy

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky We've hit peak Psychology Humour

since i have lots of grow lights for starting seeds, i rescued the parsley and chives before today's snow and will see if i can keep them ticking over winter. may expand to some other herbs if it goes well. (the chives are more alive than they look - that light is a blue/red one) #gardening

Snow day Dutch baby.

Ahh yes, how do I know I live in Pittsburgh? 2 inches of heavy wet snow and all the k-12 schools are closed. So much for getting much work done today.

I would like to express my belated thanksgiving gratitude to random clueful people who make videos that save me hours, like this guy who decided to teach the Internet how to fix a leaking radiator valve with Teflon when you can't get a replacement (that was me tonight): youtu.be/rOYbl_gzgFs?...

After great success in reducing the street price of cocaine by redirecting federal law enforcement to deporting harmless immigrants, Trump administration identifies next path to keeping noses powdered cheaply.

You can't read this thread and not believe we'd all be much better off with measures such as speed/light cameras, cannabis decriminalization, and more use of social services to respond to non-criminal emergency calls. People with guns should be for serious situations, not tickets.

I don't always tell people to listen to the pope, but when I do, it's because he's right about not using AI for your homework.

Ugh. Air quality in my part of #pittsburgh is bad enough that I fired up the smellPgh app again to fruitlessly yell about it. I like many things about Pittsburgh. The air is not one of them.

Enron had RAPTORS. Meta has GATORS? ;)

Being able to ask when you don't know or understand something is a superpower. (Even if Mamdani may have already known it, in which case he's just an excellent showman. :)

This NYT article was lovely. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...