adding PACER to the list of services where I'm mysteriously banned (after saying mean things about them in public -- cf tiktok)

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

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

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

good stuff laurenleek.substack.com/p/how-google...

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.

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?

This is great, though hearing the DMCA described as “outdated” rather than just “bad” is a bit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/t...

This is an important way that the rule of law is being eroded. It’s 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...

I love this time of year. C'mon guys, post yours #boschwashed #dishwashersky

and now a brief interlude in which I try not to fall off the roof

Holy shit

Completely un-American.

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.

Whatever Bugs Bunny may have done— listen, you have to understand, it was a warfare scenario. Subterfuge has been an accepted martial tactic since time immemorial. This is well understood

Raising “the Grink was there when trump got a cyber truck” awareness

I love this time of year. C'mon guys, post yours #boschwashed #dishwashersky

Don’t worry it’ll get even funnier. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

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

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...

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

Just pure unadulterated evil

jokes on you, I already did that last week

no, no, drool is *good*! a very auspicious sign, your agency will flourish in the coming year

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...

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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I have seen them a lot around DC and they were all either standing, walking, getting coffee, or saying hello to kids. I’ve heard multiple stories of horrible shit done by ICE and nothing at all done by national guard.

People keep posting about how “maybe Leavitt will learn a lesson now that it’s happening to her sister-in-law” and…you are missing a key point. The woman is Leavitt’s brother’s *ex* & Leavitt’s entire family - including her brother & his new wife - seem pretty eager to deport this woman.

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.

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...

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/...

If you’ve seen the photos it’s 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

really don’t 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

(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.

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.

Excited about this, I kind of thought it’d be years before they let these robots intrude on the airport taxi racket

ok but “play the media better than Donald Trump” is not a reasonable standard to hold anyone to. I say this in complete earnest

I think the parsimonious explanation here is probably that her recent break w Trump shook loose some career opportunity conversations and she’s excited to cash out

very funny to watch my timeline here try to make sense of the Mamdani/Trump summit. A testament to Trump’s enduring and superior ability to fuck with you. That’s what it’s about: an aged master of the media recognizing a rising young talent. He genuinely likes people he considers peers at this.

gotta give them credit, this was inspired

ME: *grinning from the audience section of the school auditorium* jmail.world

The missing piece of @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy’s enshittification thesis—which has much to recommend it—is ambitious 20 and 30something product managers who are expected to deliver double digit growth in mature business lines Their bosses—who used to have that job—are pleased & relieved when

Really ties all the threads together, this one

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...

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...

I admire @anildash.com for trying, however gently, to push back against the AI denialism that’s so prevalent here. There is lots to fear, regret, mourn about this change. But it’s somewhere between silly and pathetic to deny these things are popular and, yes, useful www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/w...

this is 1. incredible and 2. basically a silversun pickups song