Idiots. A user prompted Grok to issue a "heartfelt" apology, so it obliged. Another prompt telling Grok to double down made it do just that.

Like, not even GRE scores. SAT scores.

There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025. While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...

I was curious, so I looked it up. Trump's three cognitive exams were on 1/12/18, 9/13/23 and 4/11/25 — not, as he suggested today, recently. www.pbump.net/o/when-were-...

"Over the last decade, I’ve participated in rigorous research, traveled the globe, and spoken to thousands of women, leading to an astonishing discovery: you are totally fucking fine the way you are."

#genuary 2: 12 principles of animation. Here's some anticipation and overshoot done in a p5.strands shader. #p5 #p5v2 openprocessing.org/sketch/2838235

I count three that would be related to Colorado River Compact water, one metro area that had a major drought post-2000 that's not where most people would expect, and one I know already has ground water/long-term potable water concerns.

I'm not a slavish "the majority consensus will be accurate" person, but one can trust the money market to know where the money is to be found/made.

‘Cancel’ comes from a Latin word meaning “to make like a lattice.” When people needed to annul or void a document, they sometimes would mark it with crosshatches XXXXX which resembled a lattice. So the document became ‘canceled.’ ...we hope this post doesn’t get us that.

Yesterday’s sun in the ice fog

An instrument will allow people to hear and see each other over long distances

A midwinter sunset over a boreal forest near Fairbanks, Alaska, with low clouds catching warm light. #alaska #sunset #winter

Really strong but not super sharp temperature inversion early Friday morning in Fairbanks-land. Low spots (airport, North Pole, Goldstream) around -45F (-43C) up to -5F at Steese Hwy Cleary Summit and Keystone Ridge near Murphy Dome. #akwx @carrieinfbx.bsky.social

Excited to share the below announcement for our new app at pretext.plus -- author PreTeXt in your web browser, no GitHub required! Join the @mathtech.org Discord chat to grab an invite code: first come, first served! pretext.plus/projects/80f...

yes, to clarify, the joke is that these are old de Blasio tweets (he really is a Red Sox fan, Zohran is apparently a casual Mets fan because he hates the Yankees so I’ll take it) but it’s very funny that they make every new mayor look like a Sox fan

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

How do yall have your beds set up??? I’m true neutral.

Hurricane force gusts on 9 days.

For Palmer, AK, this was the windiest month during the ASOS era (since Oct 1997). Prior to then, observations were only taken from 8 am to 4 pm.

One of the reasons I was on board with Mamdani from very early on was that he seemed to me, more than any other candidate, to be prepared to offer a roadmap for popular and institutional resistance to Trumpism on the municipal level. Today is validating my optimism.

Just flat-out declaring that everything Adams did as mayor after the indictment—in the final fifteen months and five days of his term of office—was presumptively corrupt, and undoing everything that's in his immediate power to undo with a single stroke of the pen. This is the way.

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

one of my regrets during the campaign was that i never got pictures of sliwa and cuomo. checked one off my list today, and i don't think i could have imagined anything better.

#akleg Alaskans are smart enough to vote yes on one ballot measure and no on another, right? For example, if there's a big NO effort organized around efforts to repeal RCV / dark money provisions and a pretty obvious YES vote to be had on reinstating campaign contribution limits.

Fairbanks is currently under a Cold Weather Advisory. "Severe" weather is only for thunderstorms. The next level for cold is an Extreme Cold Warning.

fashion is political & she rented / borrowed a lot, my heart

What’s the difference between a cold weather advisory and a severe weather advisory because it’s supposed to get really cold? And how come Fairbanks didn’t (also?) get a cold weather advisory?

I really need to learn some autocad program. This took me way too long to make. It’s to help with gluing up dodecahedral things

If you're American, cisgender, and think of yourself an ally to trans people, please consider reading this piece by @evanurquhart.bsky.social. Nothing in there is new, exactly, but if you want to understand the sheer scale of the attack against trans people in the US over the last year, read it

Cold Weather Advisories have only been in existence for two winters now. For east Anchorage, this temperature occurs every 2 or 3 years.

👀The first use of a Cold Weather Advisory for the Anchorage forecast zone (AKZ701). The forecast low for tomorrow night in parts of east Anchorage is near -25F. Think Elmore Rd - not Midtown The criteria for our zone is an apparent temp (thermometer temp or wind chill) of -25F. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Yikes!!!

After 3+ years, I have FINISHED this chapter on the origin of the universe!! A circuitous journey that has led to our home, in which that history of the universe is carried (and in all of us). This page recaps key moments & points forward to the next chapter - Life. Onward... #Nostos #Unflattening 2

My son was **very** pleased with this gift he bought me: a Klein bottle opener! 🤣🤣🤣

Like parts of Interior Alaska, coldest December since 1980 in the Yukon Territory too.

Good morning, Juneau! #akwx #Alaska

Happy New Year!!! Happy New York!!! A Christian, a Jew, and a Muslim walk in to a subway station....THAT is the America we know and love.

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

Juneau airport reported 82.0 inches (208.3cm) of snow in December, including 49.0 inches (124.5cm) the last five days of the month. This is the second highest monthly total on record, the only higher amount in February 1965, with 86.3 inches (219.2cm). #akwx #Climate #Snow @spiraledu.bsky.social

Happy New Year. Sorry for the double images but it was single digit temps and windy so I couldn't open the window. The plants would not have been happy. We do our fireworks in Anchorage at 8pm.

The snow on the bench is yummier than other snow, clearly.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

F) For the love of all that is good and holy stop wondering if your idea is any good! That way lies madness. Your idea, whatever it is, will live or die by its execution. Commit to your idea. Eat and drink your idea. Play with it, have fun with it.

D1) again, this is difficult to pull off at longer lengths. But you don't get good at a thing by not doing it. E) YOU DON'T GET GOOD AT A THING BY NOT DOING IT done is better than perfect. Don't worry so much about "practicing right" just practice. You can adjust as you need as you go on.

December was extreme in many areas: excessive snowfall in northern Southeast, damaging winds in Anchorage and the coldest December since 1980 in the Interior. 2/2

Alaska 2025 weather and climate high and low lights. Way too many to fit on one graphic; of course the severe and long lasting impacts from ex-typhoon Halong leads the list. This was another million acre wildfire summer, and Juneau had another glacier lake outburst flood in Aug. #akwx #AlaskaSky 1/2

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Some data to start the new year. I spent 2025 collecting the daily high temperature where I live and graphing it out using different colours. It's neat to have a complete picture of a whole year.

Fantastic news for paleontology that the Paleontological Research Institute in Ithaca NY is staying open this year! Intensive fund-raising was successful & enough to pay off the mortgage for their building, helping to preserve this long-standing institution for national & international science. 🧪

Fairbanks, AK, finishes December 2025 with a monthly temperature departure of 18.2F below normal. The average high temp was -14.5F and the average low temp was -31.1F. This makes it the 8th coldest December on record (1904-present) and the coldest since 1980. @alaskawx.bsky.social