felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language

2026: the year of destigmatizing the “it” pronoun

Every time I abbreviate Claude Code in a commit message, I feel like I’m talking about a quirky aunt. “CC made sure that all the tensors are only moved to the GPU from the main process.” Yup, that sounds like Aunt CC alright!

I’m not through all the results yet, but I really like this paper. arxiv.org/html/2506.01...

These are some of my favorite hungry ghosts

Agents, may I welcome you in to the marin.community?

Data Science at the Singularity 2: Electric boogaloo arxiv.org/abs/2310.00865

claude --the-stack-that-smiles-back

There is a large class of things that are fun specifically because they are useful in theory but not at all in practice.

--skip-permissions--no-not-that-permission

I haven’t checked this at all, but I always thought Claude was an homage to Claude Shannon, and the name “Anthropic” was some sort of pun or nod towards his notion of information theory (entropy).

Thoughts on Weather Foundation Models 3/3 with @al.merose.com YouTube: youtu.be/jUe3rvTmv7Q Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7d9Y... Substack: www.geospatial.fm/p/thoughts-o... #gischat

Don't call it a shutdown. It's an ICE Out.

If we don’t have a constitution anyway then Zohran should be president

The problem with silicon valley is it’s full of people who want to be the next Zuck rather than being the next Salk.

Who needs a body horror when you have The Pitt?

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going to the .DS_store, anyone need anything?

I was supporting a project from GDM to use ML to boost the value of wind energy before and during this grid breakdown in Texas in 2021. deepmind.google/blog/machine... I would hate to think that all the value we created for renewables was just captured by crypto minors.

Attention folks in the weather, climate, disaster, wildfire, and Earth science communities: NSF has just published a new "Dear Colleague" letter inviting feedback (by Mar 13) on the proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). www.nsf.gov/funding/...

NEW | India is forging a different #energytransition path to China 🇮🇳⚡ Where China built first on coal and gas, India is taking a shortcut — using cheap solar to meet rising demand, relying far less on fossil fuels, and electrifying transport earlier. https://loom.ly/UFDLamw

#gischat NEXT EPISODE IS WITH @al.merose.com ON WEATHER MODELS! It is episode 2/3: Video: youtu.be/8v35U05PoDw Newsletter: www.geospatial.fm/p/thoughts-o... Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/4yOl...

For me, the Claude Pro plan is infinitely better than the Max plan. When I run out of tokens for Claude Code, it makes space for me to research and write the next goals I’ll set. I like having space for thinking.

Do what you can, when you can, where you can. There is no wrong way to get involved. You don't need to be a full-time activist, either. You don't need to post about it if you don't want to, or make speeches or read Marx or whatever's holding you back. Just start. We'll see you out there

Judith Butler sussed people like Burchill out long ago…

A Trumpian plan to get a Nobel Peace prize: 1. Threaten to destroy NATO and create a crisis over acquiring Greenland 2. TACO on starting a shooting war with France 3. “I have ended so many wars. I deserve the Nobel Prize.”

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

NEXT EPISODE IS WITH @al.merose.com ON WEATHER MODELS! It is episode 1/3: Video: youtu.be/DCkJfXHGra4 Newsletter: www.geospatial.fm/p/thoughts-o... Podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/41TO...

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

This is pretty crazy arxiv.org/pdf/2601.04701

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

oh? you harassed another queer person off the microblogging site? do you feel good? has the revolution been achieved? are we closer to communism, comrade?

Nothing like taxiing in an airplane at SFO while receiving a tornado warning weather alert for south SF.

This is super cool

Christ, it really is a neomedieval era, isn’t it?

Why does it feel like a Tuesday night?

How is it that he keeps finding ways to make me like him more!!!!! youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE

I have a rough draft of a post about this here: alex.merose.com/no

Who wants to start an entropy cult with me? 1: medium.com/@vishalmisra... 2: arxiv.org/abs/2409.09232

This year, I’m doing my annual goal setting and ideating in a veterinary hospital. My little cat Twiggy seems to have eaten a dozen hair ties. What an omen for 2026. alex.merose.com/goals/

My 2026 resolution is to say “no” more.

Nothing said “goodbye 2025” like the winery next door catching fire last night

For NYE, I recommend “Al’s Sparkling Americano”: - 1 pt Campari - 2 pts Vermouth - combine and stir with ice - fill halfway with tonic water - top off with a double shot of espresso Tonight, I’m going with this nice Spanish vermouth, it’s nice and floral. Cheers 🥂

I called it: arxiv.org/html/2512.22...

google: we have invented agi but have hidden it in such an obscure website no one will ever find it anthropic: through our interpretability research, we discovered claude imagines himself wearing a bow tie at all times openai: we added slot machines

Really fun to read the redbook (redbook.io) to see a db legend politely talk shit about DHH ten years ago.

Likewise, I propose we call Type I errors “yeah, no” and Type II errors are “no, yeah”

The Cython type annotations interface is 🤌