Wear your colors proudly!

Hacking for good in NYC,
www.linkedin.com/posts/wiggins_announcing...

I’m speaking at Nerd Nite. Come on down. Heckle me, I need the humility. austin.nerdnite.com

Marching

Austin, TX #NoKings

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

resolved: sandwiches taste better when cut diagonally

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

Went to a naturalization ceremony this morning in the Eastern District of New York. It was strangely emotional, right down to when the judge told the 100 new citizens they now had the right to vote.

Ultra 3. Upsized, yes. Upgrade? Only if it allows me to leave my phone behind during errands.

My health app gives recommendations each morning. Today, it told me not to let my pet sleep in bed with me and to cut back on caffeine. I'm going to delete the app.

Ok, the firehose code is well covered by blog posts. I9ve cleaned it up further and brought in support for asyncio. If what you want to write is the code that fills out any missing posts, that would be useful.

Sure, are you planning to offer this as a service? Setting such a business up is a possibility. I’ve been collecting the stream since Oct. ‘24. We have used it in several classes. Once we move the data into BigQuery, Google provides all of the infrastructure we need.

Still in Norway enjoying the fjords.

Well done, Slartibartfast.

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.

The Onion's American Voices: Former Japanese Internment Camp Used As Immigrant Detention Center “That’s a lot to squeeze onto one plaque.” Tina Engle, Paranormal Eyewitness “It’s great how America is able to turn the atrocities of our past into the atrocities of our present.” Harrison Weiss, Gerbil Psychologist “A few more coincidences like this, and I might start to worry.” Moses Brazdorf, Sandwich Craftsman

theonion.com/former-japan...

The President’s Weapon Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

80th anniversary of the explosion of “Little Boy” over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6th, 1945. MAD is not safety. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Promised the Moon: how one Canberra school kid experienced the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969. 🧪 #PlanetSci

'The age of the Jetsons is no longer a cartoon fantasy. Surely, soon we will all be wearing jetpacks.'

A set of six boxes with dots labeled: Data -- unfilled random dots Information --- some shaded green some purple Knowledge -- Connected with lines as in a cluster diagram Insight -- Two "unusual" points highlighted Wisdom -- A highlighted line connecting the two unusual ones Conspiracy Theory -- A figure of a dragon, drawn in magenta ignoring the points

#dataviz 📊 Connecting the dots:
From data to knowledge to wisdom to ... ???

Superman is the story of an immigrant who grew up in Kansas, landed a low-paying job as a reporter in Metropolis, and still had time for a hobby because urban housing was affordable.

Arriving at SeaTac for #scipy2025

Texas diversity on July 4th. Pepper jack cheeseburgers, guacamole, blue corn chips, Shiner Bock, and Bruce Wayne versus Yakuza!

Maybe I’m just old fashioned, but I really don’t think the NATO secretary general should be calling the President of the United States “Daddy.”

The cover of Harvard Magazine’s July/August issue shows two boxing gloves hanging on strings of Ivy. One boxing glove is crimson with the Harvard coat of arms. The other is red white and blue, with a gold seal showing Trump’s face. The cover reads: “it’s on..your guide to the battle for Harvard’s future.”

The cover of Harvard Magazine’s July/August issue:

Attending H.M.S. Pinafore by Austin Gilbert & Sullivan Society. #VictorianFun

My daughter, the comedian

Goals

We, the people, have spoken!