License plate on a Cybertruck parked near soccer fields in San Francisco. THKELON.

Extraordinary find. Now, will we honor it?

Has anyone else noticed the app is like 1/2 gym photos the past few days? Is it just everyone with their New Year’s resolutions? It’s actually kind of motivating, I have to admit. Almost enough motivation for me to log off so I don’t have to see all y’all. 😉

Fondly remembering when I taught Python to MS DS students at San Jose State. Never taught at uni before, only coding bootcamps. I asked if I could look at past syllabi and they were like 'you're expected to develop your own.' Alright, dude I was just trying to see what y'all have done in the past.

Yes! My Chair has agreed to my new course suggestion. Our MBA / MPA program focuses on sustainability and social justice. Turns out they used to offer one but the previous instructor got too busy. I feel like my first semester course drops off right when things get interesting. This should be fun!

Why would this be an enticement? If you apply you will NOT get hired.

Made some snarky comments lately which I deleted. This site doesn’t need to become that. I’m just stressed and frustrated by the actions of our govt in the short term (Venezuela), and in the long term inequalities we’re all facing.

Just suggested a new course at the uni I teach MBA students at - essentially 2nd sem data analysis. I think students would appreciate the option for a more quantitative focus, and I hope the faculty chair is at least receptive. Excited about this possibility!

Hey quick question: How?

Well this is no way for a FIFA peace prize recipient to behave.

Hi null is going to be my new greeting when forced to deal with people I don’t really respect.

Not to brag, but

My 2025 top movie picks 5 star films: Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet 4.5 star films: It Was Just an Accident, The Secret Agent, Sentimental Value, Marty Supreme 4 stars: Mickey 17, Wake Up Dead Man, Bogonia 3.5 star: Train Dreams, If I Had Legs I’d Kick, Frankenstein

2025 has been an absolutely fantastic year for film, which is so great after 2-3 off years. I rated 3 films at five-stars, which to me, marks a great film. Sinners, One Battle After Another, and Hamnet. Even better all 3 of these films are completely different from each other.

I’ve seen this screenshot floating around so I want to say the allegation is that lobbyists with access to Trump are being paid millions, not that Trump is being paid millions. That possibility seems worth investigating, but isn’t in and of itself evidence of Trump committing crime. Links in replies

A guy with ‘No DMs, I won’t reply’ in his bio followed me. I followed back, he immediately DM’ed me

Lol. In light of Nicki Minaj’s latest Trump endorsement, I remembered this banger from Covid days.

When this is all over - and make no mistake, although the road may be long and painful, it will end - none of these companies ever gets to claim to support LGBTQ rights. ‘A principle is not a principle unless it costs you money.’

This seems bad.

Biscuit (left) playing poker Christmas Eve. He won $50.

Me, rationalizing my inability to sleep at night or nap during the day: Maybe I’m at a phase in my life where I just don’t need sleep anymore.

Women began outpacing men in educational attainment in the 1980s and 90s, graduating at higher rates from high school to grad school. What’s more, this trend holds across all ethnic groups. I wonder how much of the current right-wing backlash to higher education and institutions is due to this.

That’s no way to speak about the BlueSky user base.

An AI tool mislabeled a clarinet as a rifle, triggering a school lockdown with terrified kids, parents, and teachers, including a full-blown police response. The CEO shrugged and said ‘that’s a feature not a bug.’ In the past, the same system has mislabeled a shadow as a weapon.

Delicious

Me, waiting for Santa

No words can express my shame.

AI Researchers: That’s why AI must use this 7-point responsibility matrix including equal represent, explainability, and fairness. Above all we recommend always keeping a human-in-the-loop to monitor and validate outcomes. CEO: My new AI tool targets homeless people for disposal with 90% accuracy

‘Social media is not real life’ Ok, then why are all the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men desperate to own and control it? Why did the fact that another country owned a popular social media app necessitate congressional hearings and provoke bipartisan national security fears?

I walk my dog pretty late before bed, usually btwn 11pm-12am. (Yes, I live in SF, yes I feel safe.) The amount of wildlife I see is amazing! We think of cities as being apart from nature, but I see so much at night. Raccoons, coyotes, possums, skunks, cats, bats, owls. It’s a whole ecosystem.

No thank you.

Holy crap! The FBI just ruined an innocent man’s life! If I were this person, whose name go splashed all over the Internet do half a day I would start suing them now and not stop until I’d drained the federal reserve.

I’ve taught data & AI at unis ~5 years. I usually avoid trans topics—not because they don’t matter, but to avoid seeming to push an agenda. I’m visibly trans. This sem. stdnts asked for more LGBTQ content, so I used Gallup LGBTQ data to teach sampling and error margins. Their engagement gave me hope

Tim Cook: Apple Intelligence and Vision Pro were total flops, we need a win. Random Apple Exec: What if we make the phone screens look like crap and have everything take twice as many steps? Cook: You’re promoted!

Off to teach my final (MBA) class of the semester! Students present on a topic of their choice, displaying data in a Tableau dashboard, which they’ve worked on throughout the semester. I’m always blown away by their creativity and passion!

Remember when conservatives were complaining that social media was censoring conservative voices by bowing to government pressure? Hahaha. Good times.

Live feed of the DOJ trying to indict Letitia James.

That they suck?

LOL. Our young and vibrant leader.

Client: We’re relying on your expertise in this process. Me: My expert opinion is don’t do it. Client: No not like that.

I don’t know how I got a whole article in Malagasy directed at me, but I gotta say, it’s kind of cool.

My 80 yr old dad is sending me videos of respectable looking AI ‘doctors’ promoting whatever evidence-free product someone is pushing. I honestly don’t know if he recognizes they’re AI but supports the message or thinks they’re real. It’s so weird. I’m embarrassed to ask, but I think I have to?

Me, except I use a hammer.

Just so we’re clear, the ‘compromise position’ is to exclude trans women.

For years on Instagram I only watched dog videos, but oh so gradually Instagram figured out nearly everything about me except that the cluster of me being trans, alt, educated, and socially anxious has convinced Instagram I MUST be goth when I am 0% goth irl. I’ll take the company though.

I know people think it’s unwarranted for Trump to get the soccer world peace prize, but to be fair, he’s ended all wars everywhere

What does this pointless cruelty serve?

I’m pretty sure this is an Andy Daly character come to life.

My 6 yr-old dog Biscuit knows I don’t like him to bark when we’re at the house and so, all on his own, last week he took up whisper barking instead. The loud barks are from the neighbor dog, while Biscuit is quietly answering back. He figured this out by himself! What a good boy.

The Indiana University football team is undefeated this year. My entire family graduated from IU - my dad and mom met and graduated from there, my sister, and brother both graduated. I’ve never, and I mean never, seen the family group chat go off like this. It’s practically vibrating. Haha.