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For those keeping track, ICE loot drops have now given us a flash bang and a magazine. If you get a 30 constitutional observer raid together, I think you have a 5% chance of getting us an APC to transport whistles to coffee shops.

Accurate.

Ashli Babbitt ignored clear orders from law enforcement with a mob behind her and MAGA called it murder. Now they defend killing a terrified mother who tried to avoid the agent and was given no clear instructions. The contradiction says everything.

The same people who spent yesterday, and the past five years, insisting a Black police officer who shot an insurrectionist breaking into the Capitol should be prosecuted are today bending over backwards to defend an ICE agent who shot a woman in her car in cold blood. Scum.

So Miami is really ending that debate on whether the last seeds in the CFP actually matter. Wow.

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[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

Forever a Christian nation, celebrating the birth of Christ, an immigrant, by deporting…immigrants.

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Before the 1990s, plane crashes caused by microbursts used to kill planeloads of people fairly regularly. Dr. Ted Fujita and NCAR scientists figured out how to detect microbursts and warn pilots about them. Since then? Zero airliner crashes from microbursts.

Going to the office 3 days a week really made a difference, amiright?

Eagerly waiting to hear from those allies “on both sides of the aisle” who value NCAR’s work

So much of this feeling is what bothers me about the LLM push. It’s a way to generate the content equivalent of fast food, not save people time to cook good meals at home. (I know not EVERYONE, but <gestures around>)

Sounds about right.

Two weeks ago, I posted that Python 3.14 was the fastest available/usable Python in @conda-forge.org.To keep new releases as quickly usable as possible, I'm reviewing this week what we did in this release and what we can already do to make Python 3.15 even faster: uwekorn.com/2025/12/15/p...

Need an mPING for frozen fog

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But…why does this exist?

Python scientist users and educators: how long do you want to be warned about deprecated behavior in your research code & classroom examples/exercises before things change? What pace of change do you find acceptable? (This is not about @metpy.bsky.social)

This Lane Kiffin debacle means every other coach, fan, and commentator can just stop it with the pearl clutching about the lack of loyalty from players in the portal era. You want loyalty? Needs to start at the top.

It’s possible that Texas A&M just isn’t all that good? They were undefeated against 7 of the bottom 8 teams in the SEC standings—and lost to the only one they played outside of that. Otherwise, it’s all contingent on a 1-pt win over ND—whose major claim to fame is only losing to Miami and Texas A&M.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Why are all the operation names suitable as condom brand names?

That’s Alabama’s 7th loss at home since 2008. I’ll take that OU win however we get it. This fan base won’t be SEC-ready until it just takes the W’s however they come.

Societally, we are a short step from someone suggesting staging actual Hunger Games would be a good premise for reality programming, and apparently some kind of crypto (bullshit) coin.

So are the immigrants illegally on welfare or buying houses? Neither is a thing at scale, but you sure as hell are not doing both.

South Loveland, CO #aurora

The good thing is that regardless of who wins tonight it isn't the Yankees.

The AI video Trump posted of himself dumping shit all over America from a plane was metaphorically the most accurate piece of propaganda he’s put out this year.

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Remember when this same network asked if Obama gave a “terrorist fist bump”?

That safety for OU is significant for some

Seems like the proper way to honor Kirk in his death is to give a solid “Meh” since empathy has “done a lot of damage” and his shooting death is just the price to pay for those sweet, sweet 2nd amendment rights.

Again.

They told me if I voted for Kamala Harris we'd become a socialist country, etc., etc.

The GOP needs to look up the phrase “the government controls the means of production”

To: All Staff Subject: IMPORTANT REMINDER!!! NEVER lend animals your phone to order items online. Gavin just confiscated another anvil and six rockets from the coyote enclosure.

I can’t help hearing all the arguments about “erasing history” when statues honoring civil war losers were being taken down.

Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.

Compare this

I had the pleasure of transferring 840TB of data on S3 this summer. attn: @radarscope.app @jmwolf.bsky.social

In conjunction with the AWS Open Datasets team, we are changing the AWS S3 bucket that contains up-to-date NEXRAD Level II archive data. There is a new bucket name and SNS notification topic, but no other changes. The legacy bucket name will be discontinued September 1, 2025. buff.ly/WVBvt26

I remember, years ago, thinking with AI we’re repeating all of the same kinds of mistakes that were made with nuclear technology, esp. with regards to not thinking through consequences or long-term damage. Yup, still feel the same. We’re living in Black Mirror 24/7 now.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

We are not biologists. We don’t need to build taxonomies on what something IS. Focus on DOING, not BEING. Almost every OOP intro gets this wrong. 2/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84...

If schools were actually preparing kids for white-collar work they wouldn't be phone-free, you'd have to have your phone on your desk all day for the authenticator apps

“Vibe coder” is to “programmer” as “image/video Gen AI” user is to “artist”. I’m happy for all to be welcomed into their respective communities, but let’s not gloss over obvious complications.

this is the only confederate statue they should be allowed to keep