Here's the teaser for ANTARCTICA UNEARTHED:

SF BAY AREA! You are invited to a sneak peek screening of my documentary ANTARCTICA UNEARTHED before it goes to national TV broadcast next year. Wednesday, October 15 at 7pm near Palo Alto, CA. Free to attend but registration required: arielwaldman.com/screening (cc @darthbluesky.bsky.social)

the latest episode of Foundation sums up the 21st century so far in a single line

cat scan 50% complete

Mentoring Guy Pierce in Memento, specifically

sufficiently advanced vibe coding is indistinguishable from mentorship

it's entertaining to start a fresh instance of Claude Code and point it at a folder of code that it spent days writing. Ask it to verify the tests, the implementation and the plans, and see how mean it is about its former self.

conference organizers saying the quiet part out loud

Andor robbed at the Emmy nominations. Justice for Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Elizabeth Dulau and Genevieve O'Reilly!

some amazing wildlife in Oserengoni Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya with @arielwaldman.com

first steps with the @hf.co SO-101 AI robot arm

benefit of my current mild insomnia: happened to be awake at 5am when Costco still had the Switch 2 in stock for next day delivery

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it’s been a good week for live music. Saw Overmono, Underworld and Nils Frahm in SF and Oakland. Top notch all round.

my first significant encounter with tariffs exposed directly in the shopping cart (MiniDSP audio gear ordering from the manufacturer)

somehow I lost interest in James Blake's music between Overgrown (2013) and Playing Robots Into Heaven (2023). Hugely enjoying filling in that gap in great depth over the last ten days.

hello Copenhagen!

traveling in Europe and using my American passport, I feel the instinctive British need to apologize for it

happy Avril 14th to those whose celebrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjuS...

TV memes against fascism

All bangers all the time open.spotify.com/album/3ipw8R...

hey Berlin folks new and old, I'm going to be in town April 20th until 24th. Let's hang out!

By popular demand: SCIENCE AROUND AND FIND OUT t-shirts are now available! 20% of proceeds are donated to The Nature Conservancy. The shirt was inspired by reactions to my protest sign at @standupforscience.bsky.social 🧪🦠 #scicomm

It's HERE! IT'S REAL! I cannot wait for this book to be out in the world. 27 days until MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER hits the shelves! In the meantime, if you're tired of autocratic billionaires and their horrifying ideas for the future, pre-order the book here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...

4.2! Dublin.

Nano-quake?

looking back on my saved images from March 2020

just look at my cat who loves to jump

very very good new album by Max Cooper: open.spotify.com/album/3Ue4fv...

got a good blood test result today: after 18 months of concern, I am no longer pre-diabetic. Celebrating a small personal win in dark times.

Hey, hey! A really awesome thing happened this month and I have a couple of exciting announcements to share:

a really beautiful capture of one of the best San Francisco landmarks. Gaussian Splatting is pretty amazing these days. vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tow...

finally got around to organizing all the random Raspberry Pi, Mac Mini and IoT servers in the hallway closet. 10” racks are a really nice homelab form factor.

A best thing of the past few weeks was getting to see @arielwaldman.com introducing her film about Antarctica! Coming to PBS this fall!

So grateful for the chance to watch a gorgeous new documentary from @arielwaldman.com this evening! Antarctica Unearthed totally mesmerized & recharged me. Teaser for this film (which wouldn’t have been possible except for NSF funding) - m.youtube.com/watch?v=HHT5...

So looking forward to seeing @arielwaldman.com’s new film, Antarctica Unearthed. youtu.be/HHT547tuubo?.... Ariel is an inspiration. @nationalacademies.org

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seen on a house in San Francisco today

spent the day driving slowly across California, from Lake Tahoe to San Francisco, and trying really hard not to look at the internet.

it's January and the time for best-of lists is over, but I'm going to do it anyway because I forgot, and it fits in a single post...

welcome to Sarah, Sarah and Sarah, my three very real new followers

an entire book about crisps. excellent. www.economist.com/culture/2024...

Madagascar 2024 trip photo dump! www.flickr.com/photos/mbidd...

hat tip to @noisejockey.bsky.social for recommending Alien Romulus. Third-best Alien film ever! Just a really good scary action film that respects its legacy and goes on a fantastic immersive ride.

where do people post photo galleries these days on the web? I have a lot of nice photos from a trip. I want to be able to link to them and show them off outside of an Instagram postage-stamp square.

Dopplr pre-dates the iPhone. Always been curious to see what a serious mobile-first take on the idea would be like.

Earlier today in Madagascar 🥹

today’s lemur friends from Ankarana National Park