The fact that there are academics arguing this (holding people accountable for all content in a publication you signed onto) is unfair or too hard is mind-boggling.

I expect relying on people to ground and proofread AI to be as immensely successful as policies inspired by “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” People are the problem. People will continue to be the problem. Policies need to account for actual human behavior and not some ideal.

Suitable for “Yoga” like GRIB is for storing data

Maybe the “AI revolution “ is like COBOL at the turn of the millennium. I should just bide my time until I can charge ridiculous consulting rates to clean up the mess.

It would help if anyone editorializing that “AI means we won’t need programmers” had to wait a year, then spend 6 months cleaning up after an AI-built codebase. Somewhere these imbeciles completely forgot that a good chunk of software project care and feeding isn’t writing code.

Performance evaluations and “network feedback” IYKYK

And I thought Democrats were the communists. Talk about seizing the means of (re) production. Yes I know communism != fascism, but I suspect communist USSR and China are in many people’s initial thoughts when thinking about this.

Technically, per Trumpian Math, this is a 1910% decrease in value.

Just putting these out for no particular reason:

Given the bang up job protecting NSF and NCAR they’ve done to date I fail to see how this even moves the needle for people. Unless this shows people what being in NSF-funded science looks like right now? NSF has spent $500M of $8B allocated by Congress in 7 months of FY26. We weren’t safe before.

I have questions. Report says “landspout”.

Currently wondering if there’s a way I can combine this with AI to write a grant that would get funded by NSF in this world.

“It’s amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.” - Harry Truman As Trump proves often, the reverse of this is also true. It’s amazing how much you can fuck things up when the only thing you care about is getting the credit.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Bad things are happening but at least Alex Jones is sad—that’s a beacon of hope I can enjoy. Full episode is worth a watch if you want the hear the full saga.

Before focusing on the next budget, can we start by making sure the last budget actually matters and is enforced?

Wait, are teens supposed to be helping birth rates or are they supposed to “not have sex and babies unless you can afford them”?

To all who celebrate

Happy Easter, shitter's full

We are literally too stupid to continue as a species.

Yes, extensive AI use can allow you to move quickly as a programmer. Congratulations! You’re now a manager. You now plan more and think at a higher level and do less of the detailed technical work. Your tech skills may atrophy. You delegate work but remain responsible for what happens on your “team”

The country has a gambling problem

A thing about watching the Olympics I really like is how no one ever tells me to bet on anything

I’m reviewing applications for a job I’m leading hiring on. I wonder if any of these people realize that when they feed the same prompt as 170 other people into chatGPT that it gives them all the same answers. I have read the exact same sentence about power mapping in 100+ applications.

On further reflection, I would like to see the FDA release their Ba-wit-da-vegetable nutritional guidelines. I feel like this would be a watershed moment in the nation’s history.

Reading through all the AI-generated sludge in our intern applications is just energy sucking. I hate it. Those that were genuine in their excitement, regardless of grammar, were so much better. AI just sucks the soul out of content. Which is why it works so well for business communication 😈

I’m old enough to remember when Clinton’s “but I didn’t inhale” was a full-on controversy

Really feeling the support of those “allies on both sides of the aisle” right now

...I just... www.nsf.gov/news/transit...

When they said AI was coming for programming jobs, I didn't think they meant creating stupid, conflict-driven drama too: github.com/matplotlib/m... Seriously, launch all this AI-driven bullshit into the sun. Or give us a way to hold those behind these agents and their generated idiocy accountable.

The morning so far

Watching Bad Bunny for me is like any other halftime show. I I didn’t expect to love it, and no, I didn’t. But I still fail to understand how featuring an artist from an American territory, #1 Spotify streaming artist, is “unamerican”.

I've seen a lot of articles saying "Yeah, it's cold but it doesn't get that cold anymore" or "it's not as cold as you think it is," and I really, really, really don't agree with making those points to force a climate change conversation. It's been damn cold. End of story.

There’s still time to get your “limited edition” Unidata luggage tag!

Nothing like some last minute panic to get those slides through the ADHD “I don’t feel like it” barrier.

Are you at #AMS2026? Come chat with NSF Unidata staff members at the UCAR booth (#119 in the exhibit hall) from 9:45am - noon this morning. We'll also be there from 3:00-6:00pm, and from 1:00-6:00pm on Wednesday. Check our schedule for times: buff.ly/NIXTDSe

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Sigh.

Can you think of someone who has helped you (and others!) on your path as an Earth Systems scientist? NSF Unidata's Russell L. DeSouza Award honors those who help our community share ideas, data, and software. It's easy to make a nomination! buff.ly/DM8YPfx

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.

Heads-up! Downtime for EDEX Server, JupyterHubs, and TDS NEXRAD on Friday, Jan 2, 2026 www.unidata.ucar.edu/news/edex-se...

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