Took the fancy camera out to try to get a good aurora pic

Wikipedia is doing a year in review now. Initial reaction is lol, but it's actually kinda fun and nice.

One of the people involved in this is Stephen Coates, an IP lawyer that managed Twitter’s trademarks. So this hilariously has the weight of not being some rando doing this.

@katamay.bsky.social and I are workshopping triathlon ideas. I came up with kayaking, climbing, then trail running. She came up with pommel horse, barrel racing, then free throws. She called it, "Oops, all horses".

Here's my Tidal recap

Leeta enjoying yesterday's snowfall

I looked at my Anisota "harvest", which shows stats for Bluesky and other Atmosphere apps. Most of my stats aren't impressive. Feels like gamification, which is funny because their whole thing is calm vibes, lol. Anyway, pretty proud of this one:

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

View from the #Amtrak Lake Shore Limited line, somewhere in PA, iirc

Really great article about a city that decided to do things. Contrast this with Los Angeles not being able to build an eight-mile bike path in nearly a decade with the final bill now projected to be $1 billion.

Fairy house on the Connecticut river

My spouse & I just wrote a poem together: Roses are variegated Violets are purple Poems don't have to rhyme Turtle

My wife just shared some "hot gossip" about the ravens at the local bird hospital/sanctuary.

Do we have anything like this in the pipeline? If not, can it be introduced? @rebeccawhite.bsky.social @troyheadrick.bsky.social

Change in the number of ICE detainees at identified "threat levels" from October 2024 vs. November 2025. www.howtoreadthisch.art/ample-exampl...

Tariffs apply to goods, not services. Zero in on the goods-producing sector, and you'll discover that it's hemorrhaging jobs. Indeed, the start of the trade war marks the peak in that sector, and it's been in recession ever since.

The three worst English harvests in order - 2020, 2025, 2024 One year's worth of bread has been lost in the last 5 years Not hard to see how shortages and ultimately rationing will become evident as climate breakdown bites ever harder www.edp24.co.uk/news/2553206...

#Aurora in VT. Really neat to see it, even with the clouds.

This “deal” is a bad deal for Americans. These pinky promises from Republicans won’t save anyone’s healthcare. We can’t just surrender and leave working people worse off. It’ll be a no from me.

802: @welch.senate.gov's voicemail box is full (good sign that people are reaching out), but you can still send an email.

@mayorofchicago.bsky.social, @govpritzker.illinois.gov, what are you doing about this?

Not every month will set a new record, but the warming trend is obvious. This graphic shows #Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through October 2025... 🧪 + Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue) + Download higher resolution: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Just read this post about Mr TIFF (Stephen Carlsen) by @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social and found it both interesting and moving. I really appreciate the efforts of people who are preserving the history of makers and doers (as opposed to movers and shakers), which is so often lost.

Elder millennials remember this

More trains, please.

I have a linguistics degree. This is bullshit.

If the delimiter is a pipe or tab, why are you calling it a csv?

It makes sense that gopls-current doesn't support older go versions, and it's nice the error message says my go version is too old. But finding the compatible gopls ver is annoying. I had to go to github releases to get ver nums & work backwards. Maybe specify compatibility in the release notes?

Electric Lady

In case you were wondering we are now entering the age of retreat. www.theguardian.com/... And here is a list documenting retreat globally. en.wikipedia.org/wik... This has all happened as we approach crossing 1.5ºC permanently. What happens at 2ºC, which will be crossed in the next 15-20yrs?

ai is like cars

Zow. www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

A trustworthy personality assessment would ask if you make funny faces in group pictures.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Plato: The state should be ruled by a philosopher king. Also Plato, a philosopher: Let's do castes! No education for lower castes. No intermingling between castes. Eugenics is good. Slavery is good. Women are degenerates.

World series means world series

Just saw Come From Away at the Northern Stage, and it was SO GOOD. The show is just lovely. Just full of humanity. The production was big city quality. Musicians, actors, crew: 😙🤌 This run is sold out, but if you ever get a chance to see it anywhere, or see any show at the Northern Stage, go.

1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.

Plato was a neckbeard

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🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whenever I hear or read a construction like, "all X aren't Y", I have to translate it in my head to, "not all X are Y". "all X aren't Y" literally says there is no overlap. No Xs are Ys. But it's the more popular way to say "some, but not all, X are Y". Maddening.

I love an educational sign. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_C...

All you have to do is look at the first post of all of these accounts to see THEY ARE HERE TO TROLL. Don’t take the bait. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Still one of my favorite blog posts: simplystatistics.org/posts/2019-0... #datascience #StatsSky #statistics #Academics

Required reading if you aren't already familiar with media bias