for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

I lived in the Hudson Valley around the time he was pretty active on the nuke plants and he was always kind of a dipshit

people this monstrous always have ample monster in them, they don't just flip some switch

Communicating changes in the intensity of UK heatwaves Communicating how a global warming of ‘just’ 1°C affects people is challenging. The hottest UK summer days have warmed more than 3 times faster than the rate of global warming in the past century, ca...

Communicating changes in the intensity of UK heatwaves

Global warming of ‘just’ 1°C does not necessarily sound like a problem. But in the UK, the hottest summer days are warming much faster than typical summer days, changing our experience of heatwaves

rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I have generalized AMOC collapse fatigue.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

The ghost of Martin Luther, the original poster, will come back and pin you to a church door for all to revel in your shame.

I’m actually not that interested in oil price discourse but I do want to see more recognition that as a major oil producer, the US *benefits* from high oil prices. Our choice to let private interests vs the public own the oil — which is globally extremely unusual — means those profits are private.

I think of war through the lens of someone who survived one. It means displacement and irreversible trauma.

The continued war with Iran will mean more death, more suffering, and more chaos.

End the war.

MAGA Indians Went All In on Trump. Many Right-Wingers Can’t Stand Them South Asians are a powerful, visible minority in the Trump administration. They’re also facing a racist backlash, fueled in part by the white nationalist Groyper movement.

please read my latest story or I will add more bologna

www.wired.com/story/maga-i...

Pivoting from AI as an accountability sink to AI as an accountability pump

Risk Data Gap Will Bleed Onto Balance Sheets Also, the prediction market has catastrophe problem

The market has not priced the balance sheet risk of losing the data foundations of private market catastrophe models as a result of Trump Administration budget cuts, stresses @kellyhereid.bsky.social @libertymutual.com

www.riskmarketnews.com/trisk-data-g...

Very cool! Would be happy to take a stab at doing this on Julia once the term ends.

At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.

This “-maxxing” and “-mogging” stuff comes from an ugly place and has never been particularly funny. But what about if *I* adopt it, but ironically,

Bessent dismisses the threat of climate change and melting ice caps:

"As we all know, the natural habitat for the Earth is actually water."

And we’re back to Model UN

And then after has to be about undoing more and fixing the structures that allowed it to happen

First 100 days in 2029 has to be about undoing as much of this bullshit as possible.

Too many crisis alerts to keep up with

The Salford site was empty when a reporter visited this week Lucy McLaughlin + photo of empty concrete floored room

Folks, the first truly environmentally friendly data centre

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"

The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

2026 and 2028, I’m only voting for the Dems who say stuff like this

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

The impacts of #urban areas on #clouds & #precipitation are complicated due to multiple competing pathways.

In our new @agu.org paper (doi.org/10.1029/2025...), we explore how the #Houston metropolitan area influences summertime cloud formation & #convective storms using both models & observations.

And my protege betrayed the principles that I taught him, but it’s cool, we all go through different paths in life and have to find out own way.

Looks like an establishing shot from Man in the High Castle.

I just had Claude Code go backpacking in Yosemite for me. I hear the views were absolutely breathtaking!

It only cost $8.47 in API calls.

Here's the step-by-step process:

Whole generations will grow up weak and coddled, never knowing the sacrifices we had to make to get supplemental protein in like 2003