Oh, you’re still eating analog rice? Twentieth century rice? Manual, non-Uzbek, legacy rice?

Just going by the titles, an Edwardian musical writer could do huge numbers posting on this site. Imagine getting dunked on by someone with the display name The Bing Boys are Here. He’s wearing a straw hat in a slutty way and half his replies are just the word “oojah”.

Would you rather fight the “Hamilton” version of “Oppenheimer” or the “Oppenheimer” version of “Hamilton”?

If I were Ridley Scott I would release a final cut of “Gladiator” (2000) in cinemas that’s exactly the same except he says “husbeast to a murdered wifemonster”.

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

Researchers from University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa created a simple ocean-based model to predict El Niño and La Niña 15 months ahead using ocean surface temperature and height data. It achieves forecast skill similar to complex models. The current forecast predicts a strong El Niño later this year. 🌊

They laughed at Galileo. Louis Pasteur was only allowed to present his results as Pierrot. They made Simone Weil wear a diving helmet and swim fins. I guess senses of humor have really changed.

referring to the boring parts of books as “mummystuffing” web.ub.edu/en/web/actua...

🎼 Why are there so many 🪕 🎶 songs about loquats? 🎻

Your phone will never take a good photo of the moon except for this one rare exception.

Reading a book about Sicily, set in Sicily, by a Sicilian, and at one of the many, many parts of this Sicilian story where the Sicilian characters mention Sicilian things in Sicily, a previous reader has made a marginal note: “Sicilian”.

Interestingly most of the research into POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia) happens because of space science; it astronauts who have been in space for long periods of time suffer from it when they return to earth.

Hard not to be jealous of anyone bobbing gently the Pacific with three friends and no signal right now.

⚒️🧪 Got an @earthscope.org email saying that the #ArtemisII re-entry shockwave may be audible in coastal southern California between 17:00 and 17:15 PDT or so today! If you're in this area, fill out a USGS felt report with details of what you do (or don't) hear! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

I strongly suspect that this is part of a much larger pattern and a lot of the “people are using AI for THAT?!”/“people are taking out loans just to XYZ”/“did you hear about the weird fad on that one social platform?” news is this kind of countersignaled PR. www.theverge.com/business/905...

Who do I ask for the raw for art002e000193? I know JSC has a process for releasing them.

That’s a great question. A man doesn’t have to walk down any roads at all before you call him a man—he’s already a man. Would you like me to suggest some better ideas for songs, or should we explore the wonderful world of children’s riddles?

Sending a box of angry hornets to the work address of everyone who distributes data in the netCDF family of formats with a smug little note letting them know the hornets are self-documenting.

I think that if the intro to your video is “Thing – you know, [complete description of thing]”, as if you don’t know how the phrase “you know” works, but really you’re just too lazy to write a carefully pitched intro, you should have to post a no-excuses apology, sincerely reflect, and make amends.

Please make all necessary preparations to read my wonderful partner’s wonderful book.

Sending good vibes to the adult whose feelings I hurt as a teen in 1998 for suggesting that Deepak Chopra might in some way lack credibility or integrity.

(Mostly off social media right now due to The Horrors, which I do not optimally digest in this format. If I follow you, I would welcome an e-mail or other asynchronous communication from you. Otherwise, expect me when you see me.)

checking my spam folder

You gotta hear this song, it'll change your life I swear. (plays the Shins cover of "Wonderful Christmastime")

Critics are raving about Potato!

Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us. www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...

Here’s a thread of comparisons as I have time. The source data will all be © Vantor, CC BY-NC if from their Open Data Program. My goal here is not to deride standard pansharpening methods, only to show what’s different – what this is all about.

I just published Potato, a new pansharpening package. It aims to render certain kinds of satellite imagery more clearly and accurately than what’s for sale and on satellite maps today: github.com/celoyd/potato/

They laughed at Galileo. Louis Pasteur was only allowed to present his results as Pierrot. They made Simone Weil wear a diving helmet and swim fins. I guess senses of humor have really changed.

Miss you all but am still sort of temperamentally misaligned with broadcast social media for the moment. I remain reachable, even borderline friendly, in other media.

Alison Gopnik’s AI interpretations continue to interest me in way that almost no one else’s do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBmz...

Miss you all but am still sort of temperamentally misaligned with broadcast social media for the moment. I remain reachable, even borderline friendly, in other media.

🟡 M4.8 #earthquake detected 3 km ESE of Berkeley, California at 9/22/2025 2:56:12 AM PDT This reflects data from the U.S. Geological Survey that is subject to change. Visit the USGS page linked below for the latest #quake information

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Every time I notice how this dashboard software labels its axes I emit a pulse of psychic distress strong enough to rustle papers, nudge the empty seltzer can on my desk, make the more nervous of the crows on the power line out the window take off, etc.

Best thing I saw last week was someone posting a video of Dire Straits’ “Money for Nothing” with the caption that it was too bad they wasted a nice guitar riff on a song about furniture. The tsunami of poorly typed replies from old men, properly harnessed, could have sent a tractor to Aldebaran.

I’m sick of all the damn helium littering. These days every back alley and vacant lot is strewn with the refuse of irresponsible balloon animal artists and feckless blimpeurs.

while you're all paying attention to this let me remind you that USGS, which produces this invaluable information as a public good, is currently facing a 39% budget cut

If you look at the buoys near the Kamchatka earthquake (www.ndbc.noaa.gov) you can see it nudged enough water to make easily measurable waves even in deep ocean. Heaps of energy.

Lately I keep having to choose between open access and paying my staff's salaries. It would be nice... not to have to do that.

It’s amazing how little you have to capitalize in written English to be (1) clear and (2) formally correct! RAW photos? Those are just raw photos! RE the last e-mail? That’s the Latin word “re” and not an abbreviation! Are you learning Martial Arts? That’s not a trademark! Let that shift key relax!

We talk about the northern and southern hemispheres, centered on the poles, and the eastern and western hemispheres, centered on 90° E and W, but we don’t hear enough about the implied third pair of hemispheres, those centered on Null Island and the equator/antimeridian point. In this essay,

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1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst 2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin... 3. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cro... What these very early-’90s things share – the low-fat esotericism with artificial history flavor – was mostly bad, I fear (without revisiting). But it feels due to come back around in some form.

I gather there is a feud going between (what remains of) media Twitter and (what remains of) sports Twitter, and I would just like to say: Healthy, respectful debate about discourse norms in shared spaces is incredibly important, and I hope that somehow both sides lose the feud very badly.

“Oh, solid enough they seemed to touch, Had anyone dared it. Marvellous creation, All various shapes and sizes, and no sizes”

Bearded post-hipster, to rockabilly-adjacent partner, as they arrive at a block party I’m walking past, in a mildly happy tone, as if discovering something nice: “peanuts – they’re just beans!”

You’d almost think the cool-kid “AI critics” getting piping mad about stochastic parrots/souls/press releases/fingers/hallucinations/… were missing the point, and in fact doing the equivalent of yelling “don’t buy Rolexes; they’re expensive” in that their critiques tended to subtly help its target.

Okay so excited to finally share that I'm part of this really cool team of people trying to spin up a new worker owned publication in the Bay Area! We're fundraising now and it would be so rad if you supported us! Awoooo!!