You know you married the right person when you put on Side 2 of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” and when it’s over, she says to play it again.

Google search, Amazon retail, and various social media sites didn’t have to cajole users, scolding people that imagined future benefits won’t materialize unless they adopt a product that doesn’t interest them. People just, you know, used the tech. By choice.

NEW: Glasgow City Council has just approved a massive AI-generated mural to be painted in the city centre. The illustration of Scottish elements inexplicably contains a bald eagle. The planner says those upset about it are "keyboard warriors" who should "calm down"

Different ways to misspell it. Po Pough Peau Peaux P'oh Pow (as in window)

Respectfully, & I say this as a former journal editor (BMJ, PLOS Med) & Nature author: I think your editorial decision-making process here went wildly astray. I really do not think journals should allow members of the Trump regime to launder unsubstantiated, unscientific MAGA/MAHA talking points.

I fail to see what has actually been improved by for the user in this redesign. Enshittification. App deleted, Met Office informed.

What if you just took all the land masses and compressed them onto a single map, not worrying about size, relative position or latitude? 🤪

“But the biggest effect is that peer review now becomes more about discernment or taste. If anyone can produce a competent empirical paper on any topic, the bottleneck moves to identifying which questions are important to ask in the first place.” Indeed.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Yes, this! Came here to add it. Make it your Home Screen bookmark instead of plain old safari/whatever browser. Make it your startup page. Just don’t go to Google dot com and use this instead!

also: @udm14.bsky.social udm14.com

I knew I was missing this one. Thanks!

Special issues of journals comprising a large fraction of articles coauthored by the guest editor overseeing that special issue. This is scientific misconduct. Thank you for your service by documenting this problem.

Strange name for a weatherman

The UK’s only author-run co-operative publisher Gritstone celebrates its tenth anniversary By Andrew Bibby

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The poor old cold conveyor belt jet must wish it had a more headline-grabbing name…

WEATHER VS CLIMATE Climate is what you expect (30-year average for a day), weather is what you get (the actual day). Here's 2025 daily temperature anomalies for the United States, using NOAA data for 2025 (weather), compared to the 1991-2020 average (climate). #StateOfClimate

Friendly reminder to stop using arbitrary thresholds to determine extreme heat / cold. Use percentiles instead. By using a 95F threshold, the usual suspects show up, but when using the 95th percentile, different spots light up. #StateOfClimate

How AI sees the world.

It's super easy to trace the Mohawk and Upper Hudson Valleys in terms of electric outages, via National Grid. FRAM flat ice estimates from @nysmesonet.org data show peak totals of about 2/3". Thankfully the freezing rain should stop soon in NY. Outages out west are due to 60+ mph gusts. #nywx

One figure that didn't make the cut in the blog post (suggested by @eloquentscience.com) compares the temperature changes from the Dec 2022 front to others in the literature. It had faster temperature drops than all the other cold fronts, but not the incredible Spearfish, SD event from 1943.

This was very fun to work on, emerging from student class projects a few years ago. How sharp can a cold front get? We were able to point to some answers.

Also said advocates obviously seem not to know the difference between "use" and "utilise"

Barbara Hepworth ~ Winter Solstice, 1971 #WinterSolstice

Happy birthday, Joe! The Whitworth Observatory at the @officialuom.bsky.social is from his legacy funding. Live weather data: whitworth.cas.manchester.ac.uk/live/whitwor... Some history: www.cas.manchester.ac.uk/restools/whi...

20 DECEMBER 1775, CHARLESTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS: A shell from the thirteen-inch naval mortar on Bunker Hill reaches as far as Cambridge, where Washington’s headquarters is located. “We have four of these,” records redcoat John Barker, “with which we ought to work the Villains.”

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called The Rohan Stones

A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Nick Cave Troll

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

I just received a peer-review request from a journal. The deadline? January 2. Clearly, no one thinking about what they are doing at that journal.

That Felon & the GOP are doing all they can to stay in pwr no matter what after the midterms isn't a secret Voting is our primary plan; it can't be our only plan when dealing w these rogues "call your state legislators & your gov’s office. Ask them [to make real plans to handle the rogues' grabs]"

Uniter As many are sharing All in the Family clips, I must Repost one from @ladystargem.bsky.social and thank her & @classicactress It’s a beautiful moment between Jean Stapleton and Rob Reiner about losing a friend to LGBTQIA violence. #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue #ResistanceUnited

"the plan being to fully close the center's Mesa Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado" This seems rather specific. When DOGE started, they targeted leases and govt buildings. I wonder if the goal was to sell off the leases/properties to real estate developers. Mesa Lab sure would be a prize for someone.

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

Two comments on my course evaluation, same student: Best part of the lecture: "Joni Mitchell turning up in the clouds lecture." Other comments: "Dave is a good lecturer & his jokes were under-appreciated. Tough crowd."

I've enjoyed reading this book. Lots of good practical nuggets in there to help become a better leader. Many dog-eared pages. Thank you for writing it.

Happy 91st birthday to actress Dame Judi Dench, born on this day 1934 in Heworth, York. Appeared in many Shakespeare plays before starring in films such as A Room With A View, GoldenEye, Mrs Brown, Chocolat, Notes On A Scandal and Philomena.

Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

The new US #NationalSecurityStrategy is so alarming that I spent hours today on this piece, rather than my real work. We the Europeans, and especially the #NB8 countries in #NATO 's Eastern Flank, MUST prepare to defend our #democracy and deter #Russia by ourselves. jmkorhonen.net/2025/12/05/w...

BREAKING: Election Advocates Demand Recount in Tennessee open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...

Saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Cropper - a guitar player's guitar player. Even if you don't know the name, you're sure to know some of the hits he contributed his bluesy playing to. RIP. www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

Nice radar image of narrow cold-frontal rainband passing now.

Congratulations, Wonkhe, for choosing to post AI slop graphics: a dragon with one wing.

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

What a great voice, with such classic songs to his name. If you haven't heard Jimmy Cliff before, check out "Many Rivers to Cross". Wonderful lyrics, soulful performance. One of the best songs ever. #JimmyCliff www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjW5... www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review. For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.