Tom Lee
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I leave message here on service but you do not call
adding PACER to the list of services where I'm mysteriously banned (after saying mean things about them in public -- cf tiktok)
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some visual tweaks today, but mostly just enjoying having a full 24h of temperature/humidity data the wild swings in the latter reflect the tree being close to the front door--you can see when our cleaners arrived & left
#treelemetry
treelemetry.tomlee.space
2 days ago
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I want to acknowledge that the most recent linear regression is not great. I'm hopeful it will snap into shape as more data arrives--we had an unfortunate outage this morning when I overwatered & got the sensor wet. Systems still recovering. We will declare a SEV & do a full postmortem
#treelemetry
3 days ago
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I am very pleased to present this year's upgrade to my Christmas tree analytic dashboard
treelemetry.tomlee.space
although water level updates are now delayed by 5 minutes, I am confident that our dedicated userbase will find the site's new functionality more than makes up for it
#treelemetry
3 days ago
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good stuff
laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google...
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How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across Londonās restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
https://laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google-maps-quietly-allocates?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true
3 days ago
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John Rogers
4 days ago
Unfortunately I did not pay for Premium Grandma w/out Ads and had to settle for free Grandma, and she starts every conversation telling me it would be cool if I got a job with ICE.
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I don't want to detract from everyone's enjoyment of some perfectly fun negative polarization but all that research about normalish typefaces having meaningful accessibility differences has surely been killed by the replication crisis by now, right?
5 days ago
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This is great, though hearing the DMCA described as āoutdatedā rather than just ābadā is a bit
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...
8 days ago
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This is an important way that the rule of law is being eroded. Itās also very important to understand that crypto cannot be legislated away
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...
The good news, as I argue here, is that it *can* be coopted
tomlee.wtf/2025/05/12/e...
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How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/technology/how-a-cryptocurrency-helps-criminals-launder-money-and-evade-sanctions.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
8 days ago
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Drew Breunig
8 days ago
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I love this time of year. C'mon guys, post yours
#boschwashed
#dishwashersky
9 days ago
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and now a brief interlude in which I try not to fall off the roof
9 days ago
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SwiftOnSecurity
9 days ago
Holy shit
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Noel Hidalgo š½ā¤ļøš²
9 days ago
Completely un-American.
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ā„ā¤Kriston Capps
9 days ago
When Frank Gehry submitted his first proposal for the Eisenhower Memorial, it included a mock-up for a monumental sculpture. The statue depicted Ike as neither the president nor general but rather as a "barefoot boy," which is how he described himself returning to Kansas in victory after WWII.
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Whatever Bugs Bunny may have doneā listen, you have to understand, it was a warfare scenario. Subterfuge has been an accepted martial tactic since time immemorial. This is well understood
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9 days ago
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Kath Barbadoro
9 days ago
Raising āthe Grink was there when trump got a cyber truckā awareness
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I love this time of year. C'mon guys, post yours
#boschwashed
#dishwashersky
9 days ago
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Ryan J. Reilly āpaints a vivid and urgent portrait of⦠disarrayā
10 days ago
Donāt worry itāll get even funnier.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories
The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/pipe-bomb-suspect-told-fbi-believed-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-rcna247544
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no disrespect to Ms. Rachel's more tropicalia-inflected ouevre but I gotta say: every time I listen to "I'm an Excavator" I become more certain that Blippi owns a copy of Slanted & Enchanted
10 days ago
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I mean... journalists HATE correcting errors, fact checking only happens at magazines, sponcon is designed to confuse the audience I don't want to kick an industry while it's down, but
simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/1/j...
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A quote from David Bauder, AP News
More than half of the teens surveyed believe journalists regularly engage in unethical behaviors like making up details or quotes in stories, paying sources, taking visual images out of context ā¦
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/1/journalism/#atom-everything
12 days ago
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ā³att
12 days ago
Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal
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Jesse Hawken
12 days ago
Just pure unadulterated evil
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jokes on you, I already did that last week
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12 days ago
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no, no, drool is *good*! a very auspicious sign, your agency will flourish in the coming year
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13 days ago
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interesting musings from
@petewardponte.bsky.social
on what a lack of enthusiasm for optimization suggests about whether we're in an AI bubble
petewarden.com/2025/11/29/i...
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I Know Weāre in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me š
I first got into deep learning in 2012, when AlexNet came out. I was CTO of Jetpac, a startup that aimed to provide information about bars, hotels, and restaurants by analyzing public photos, for eā¦
https://petewarden.com/2025/11/29/i-know-were-in-an-ai-bubble-because-nobody-wants-me-š/
13 days ago
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oh man. I have one of these thermostats. I forget, did they kill someone with a hacked thermostat on Mr. Robot? eh, it's probably fine.
nolongerevil.com
HT
@nelson.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy
for the link
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No Longer Evil - Revive Your Bricked Nest Thermostat
Open-source custom firmware for abandoned Nest Gen 1 & 2 thermostats. Turn your bricked Google/Nest device into a fully functional smart thermostat.
https://nolongerevil.com/
13 days ago
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Neil Stenhouse
18 days ago
I have seen them a lot around DC and they were all either standing, walking, getting coffee, or saying hello to kids. Iāve heard multiple stories of horrible shit done by ICE and nothing at all done by national guard.
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Alex
19 days ago
People keep posting about how āmaybe Leavitt will learn a lesson now that itās happening to her sister-in-lawā andā¦you are missing a key point. The woman is Leavittās brotherās *ex* & Leavittās entire family - including her brother & his new wife - seem pretty eager to deport this woman.
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Keith Ivey
21 days ago
A councilmember who won his primary last year with 23.7% of the vote wants to delay implementing ranked choice voting. The at-large CM who won her last primary with 35.9% agrees that making her run for reelection next year under RCV would be a bad idea.
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the DoD appears to be set to break ties with Scouting America (formerly Boy Scouts of America). Scouting and the military have been partners for a century. Not the most disgraceful aspect of Hegseth's tenure, but I think it captures the essence of the rot
tomlee.wtf/2025/11/25/s...
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Scouting America (now with less America) ā Tom Lee
https://tomlee.wtf/2025/11/25/scouting-america-now-with-less-america/
19 days ago
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I'm optimistic that this can be gotten under control but it's a little crazy that IDEs have been shipped that nudge you toward giving an LLM arbitrary shell access--without sandboxing having first been figured out
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/25/...
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Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data
PromptArmor demonstrate a concerning prompt injection chain in Google's new Antigravity IDE: In this attack chain, we illustrate that a poisoned web source (an integration guide) can manipulate Gemini...
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/25/google-antigravity-exfiltrates-data/#atom-everything
19 days ago
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If youāve seen the photos itās clear this is someone struggling with a dire mental health problem. The stakes are high but they have little to do with partisan politics. Those suggesting otherwise discredit themselves
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23 days ago
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really donāt buy this. He declined to pick a fight with someone he respects as a fellow mediagenic phenom. It means nothing, will have zero impact on anything. He is not ideological and even if he were this is a noop
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23 days ago
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Daniel Schuman
23 days ago
(5) When she's gone, the Clerk runs that office (the 14th district of Georgia, I think) until a successor is elected. So this reduces the number of members in the House and the number to make a quorum (6) Also, IIRC, any discharge petitions she signs on stays valid even after she's gone.
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Daniel Schuman
23 days ago
For what it's worth: (1) even if she has resigned, it hasn't taken effect yet. (2) you can't resign by tweet. She has to turn in the letter. (I think) (3) Are there take-backs? Maybe before it's received. (4) She still retains a number of privileges, including floor privileges.
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Excited about this, I kind of thought itād be years before they let these robots intrude on the airport taxi racket
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23 days ago
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ok but āplay the media better than Donald Trumpā is not a reasonable standard to hold anyone to. I say this in complete earnest
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23 days ago
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I think the parsimonious explanation here is probably that her recent break w Trump shook loose some career opportunity conversations and sheās excited to cash out
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23 days ago
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very funny to watch my timeline here try to make sense of the Mamdani/Trump summit. A testament to Trumpās enduring and superior ability to fuck with you. Thatās what itās about: an aged master of the media recognizing a rising young talent. He genuinely likes people he considers peers at this.
23 days ago
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gotta give them credit, this was inspired
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24 days ago
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ME: *grinning from the audience section of the school auditorium*
jmail.world
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Jmail, logged in as
[email protected]
You are logged into
[email protected]
, Jeffrey Epstein's email. Sourced from the November 2025 House Oversight Committee data release.
https://jmail.world/
24 days ago
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Isaac (from the Internet) Gantwerk Mayer
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The missing piece of
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
ās enshittification thesisāwhich has much to recommend itāis ambitious 20 and 30something product managers who are expected to deliver double digit growth in mature business lines Their bossesāwho used to have that jobāare pleased & relieved when
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southpaw
27 days ago
Really ties all the threads together, this one
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seems like a productive exchange and frankly not a huge deal to catch & correct an error the part that calls for some soul-searching relates to the appetite that caused this claim to be so greedily lapped up by an audience hungry to justify its antipathies
x.com/AndyMasley/s...
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Andy Masley on X: "This is the single most massive factual error in a major book I've ever personally noticed on my own, and I think I'm the first person to notice it? Empire of AI asserts that a data center is using 1000x as much water as a city. In reality, it's 22% of the city's water. https://t.co/5S08XG30cU" / X
This is the single most massive factual error in a major book I've ever personally noticed on my own, and I think I'm the first person to notice it? Empire of AI asserts that a data center is using 1000x as much water as a city. In reality, it's 22% of the city's water. https://t.co/5S08XG30cU
https://x.com/AndyMasley/status/1990181855753347433
27 days ago
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I enjoyed this post
www.alexirpan.com/2025/11/16/a...
but I think it mistakes "perfection" as a critical quality. the other part of the title is the key: "authentic". the aesthetic product matters largely because of how it connects us to our shared human social ecosystem
tomlee.wtf/2023/01/27/w...
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Authentic Imperfection
Auto-Tune is great.
https://www.alexirpan.com/2025/11/16/authentic-imperfection.html
28 days ago
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I admire
@anildash.com
for trying, however gently, to push back against the AI denialism thatās so prevalent here. There is lots to fear, regret, mourn about this change. But itās somewhere between silly and pathetic to deny these things are popular and, yes, useful
www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/w...
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I know you donāt want them to want AI, but⦠- Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
https://www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/wanting-not-to-want-ai/
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rat king š š
about 1 month ago
this is 1. incredible and 2. basically a silversun pickups song
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