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.

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Sigh.

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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.

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

[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.

From NSF: www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

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.