Saturday Night Live is neither all good nor all bad, no period of the show has ever been an absolute home run or a total failure, it’s the sum of thousands of people’s work, by its nature ebbing and flowing in quality, often very subjective
This is one of the best snl sketches i’ve seen in a while
If they had, Hegseth wouldn’t have even considered using it for war crimes, though.
Consuming 5-6 caffeinated beverages certainly factors in to productivity, too!
It seems Nao from @blef.fr just got open-sourced.
Nao is a framework for building and deploying an analytics agent. Focused on data engineers. Included is a nao-core cli for getting context on metadata, modeling, and rules.
And a chat UI to run analytics on your data.
👋 Reminder: the Gemini APIs in ai.dev have a batch mode, which not only saves time – but also money (up to 50% of the standard costs)!
If you're sending in many requests all at once, I strongly, *strongly* recommend taking a look.
ai.google.dev/gemini-api/d...
Love that the smirking alligator is both a hypothetical wildly different species that would exist if evolution were real and also a species that looks just like us and there evolution is not real. Good work, alligator!
“Hey Claude, please science this data for me”
🎸✨Instead of hiding my questionable and ever-evolving @lastfm.bsky.social history, I built a Python bot to roast me about it every morning!
🤖 Poe API + ScriptBot (w/ Gemini⚡️)
⚙️ @github.com Workflows (running daily for free)
📩 Gmail (to bring it all home)
And the best part? ~$1.75 per year to run.
This week on Counting Stuff, my brain is overloaded doing new-work-onboarding and so the only bandwidth I had was writing tips on onboarding to data work to at least make it less chaotic. slightly. #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/effective-tr...
I am honored and humbled to join @amyactonoh 's ticket to deliver for Ohio’s working families.
Amy is the only candidate in this race who will tackle our affordability crisis and work to lower costs, clean up the corruption
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Strong ticket! Congrats!
I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB!
• File formats!
• Market movements!
• The richest person in the history of the world!
>A suspect is in custody following an incident that occurred at Vice President JD Vance’s home on Monday morning.
>The incident happened at Vance’s East Walnut Hills house, located on William Howard Taft Drive.
Willem Dafoe
"William Defoor" eh?
“The bigger point is simply that Bill and Ralph don’t care. If you’re still upset about the Kimball vs Inmon wars, see a therapist and get help.”
This week on Counting Stuff, to close out the year a hobby post on how gemstones are cut if you ever want to do it, with lots of hands on photos! #hobby #gemstones #dataBS
www.counting-stuff.com/making-shiny...
A red on white shirt design depicting a cartoon cat and a cartoon dog in a street fight, slashing at eachother with knives. The dog has brass knuckles, the cat has a chain, the cat's head is not connected to its body and the dog's torso is cut in half. The cat says "is there no escape from this cycle of violence?" The dog replies "what tragic creatures we are, built only to inflict and to feel pain."
Last new shirt design of 2025, with an important message that i think could bring about a lasting world peace if everyone buys one that is my hope
roryblank.bigcartel.com
Change in employment since Trump took office, by sector. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
A new PNAS paper finds that polarization increased immediately after the release of Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance” and the advent of the late-2000s electro-pop era, which both appeared around the same year, 2008.
Hey everyone, we’re doing cargo cults now! Come on!
Do those glasses record to the cloud? Hope Meta's keeping track of those for future discovery requests.
Jacobian?
If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated
Great week for new frontiers in prosecutorial misconduct / incompetence
wake up babe, new units of measurement just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...
Just presented this! You can check out the code here:
(note: the layout is screwy and config options don't get shown, but not bad for coding by voice while out and about and not even looking at the results until around midnight). No code was actually touched by me.
github.com/kylestratis/...
They're really going all in on the horny teenager beat: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/m...
Wagging the dog
Remember when Childish Gambino released the video for This is America and everyone was amazed at all the symbolism? The stuff from the Trump admin is like the funhouse mirror of that with the polarity all flipped.
