Outside of the usual AI making things worse thread, I’m fascinated by the “GenZ students given compassionate concession due to school shooting, abuse the fuck out of it” angle here.-

I think we just passed oops.

Maybe I’ll stick my local credit union youtu.be/hiE7NvONU5U?...

And on that note, we need to keep speaking out on the importance of NSF NCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social Voices are being heard!

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Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

Must really suck to be the Spurs (or fans) and blow more leads than (insert punchline). Good.

NSF Unidata's advisory committees have reorganized themselves into a new structure to invite participation from a wider range of community members. Read more: buff.ly/pGJ1lsX

Being military, I wonder how many voted for the current administration? Doesn’t make this right, but my attitude right now is that until people are forced to deal with consequences of their choices rather than hypotheticals that things might veer away from the sheer lunacy we’re living under.

Should really investigate ways to remove bacteria from milk and other foods. Perhaps warming it to a temperature that kills the bacteria but doesn’t cook the food.

Never thought for the life of me I’d ever root for the Knicks, but here we are.

Meanwhile I’m trying to chart a course to retire as early as possible (partly motivated by the state of public funding for science) so I can avoid AI and pretending it’s some miracle technology. In a decade the erosion of critical thinking and human creation due to AI is going to be palpable.

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

I’d prefer to buy 100 envelopes, “fart around” with my PlayStation in the comfort of my home, and avoid interacting with any human I don’t trust.

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

Still ridiculous to frame it as “mostly successful”, but sounds like the problem wasn’t the explosion at the end.

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.