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

This is the same genetic code that thought selling STEAK through THE SHARPER IMAGE would be a success.

I'm going to stop posting screenshots because I strongly urge people to read the full article; here is a gift link I will just say that this is one of the most disturbing pieces I've ever read about AI, and I've read a lot of disturbing pieces about AI

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I seem to remember being told that we should allow people to fly the Confederate flag, since it was “people’s heritage”, even though it was the flag of traitors fighting to preserve slavery.

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First time since 2019 that OU softball ended the season with a loss.

I’m old enough to remember when the GFS was the “MRF” and we called them “MRF-canes”

finding it impossible to become inured to these sorts of accounts of what LLMs are doing to high school students' ability not only to read or write, but to think, or even to "have interests," as this teacher puts it

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Every fucking ICE agent at these raids looks like he has to buy his own new Truck Nutz every Father's Day because his grown kids are no-contact

The real informative polling question would be: “Knowing what you know now, would you change your vote?” I feel like the number changing would be depressingly low.

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

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Pretty reasonable take. I’ll push back on the ethics a bit, with a focus as someone who came of age while SCO v. IBM over Linux code was a thing. The utter irony of MS, who claimed Linux infringed on all sorts of IP, now pushing IP-infringing AI systems for software development makes me feel things.

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Who’s maintaining the radar now, dipshit? How’s the data getting to S3 for all those private companies to use? (Hint: this is currently completely unfunded) What’s going to replace the nearly end-of-life systems? (Also now basically unfunded)

“Magic beans” is the best analogy I’ve ever heard for this

Can’t wait to have their logo plastered on the lanyards at AMS again.

I’m old enough to remember going to a convincing talk at the NWC on whether “tornado emergencies” were too extreme to be effective warning products. Not to mention “You won’t survive if you don’t get below ground” from TV. Seems like we’ve come so far in this field and yet nothing has changed.

I will believe AI is coming for the software engineering jobs when it can fix stupid shit like this: github.com/Unidata/MetP... However, I am currently in the mood to pay large sums of $ for reliable technology that helps me avoid tracking down stupid corner cases in chains of tech I don't control.

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OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Apparently 3 margaritas ISN’T too many to be able to wire up one of my house’s Ethernet ports.

Is a measles outbreak a sign of being great again?

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