Hope it likes weird hours and low pay

A screenshot from a Claude Code session that says Claude is "Newspapering..." where it uses many synonyms for thinking.

I have many thoughts about this:

I too lacked confidence in my guess but I knew it wasn't Frazier -- he was 15.

... Mickey Joseph?

An AI generated image of a statue of Fred Hoiberg outside of Pinnacle Bank Arena.

It's not real ... but by the end of the weekend, it should be ... and that size. #nebrasketball #huskers

About three strums of the opening chords of Tomorrow the Green Grass can plant me in my apartment in Little Rock, Arkansas living through a moment after a breakup but before graduation and what that all felt like at the time.

A screenshot from an iPhone showing a snow alert in Nebraska at the same time as a wildfire weather alert.

How am I supposed to feel about things when right now, in Nebraska, the weather alerts are that it’s randomly snowing out of the blue … and the risk of wildfires is high today? Fire snow.

Over on LinkedIn, there was some hand-wringing about the Tampa Bay Times using AI to write some boilerplate real estate stories and I had enough feelings to start a blog post about it and then throw it away. No one gives a shit about things from 2009.

Whooo boy thread number 3 has me feeling some kind of way.

Scraping Sports Data With R – Matt Waite’s Collection of Miscellany A blog about random fiddling with code and data.

All three notebooks in one giant blog post: mattwaite.github.io/nicar/2026-i...

A screenshot of an Ebay auction for a vintage mimeograph machine for $111.

Just doing a little shopping. Hell, might even make a TikTok account restoring these things.

Einstein - AI Homework Agent Einstein logs into Canvas and does your homework automatically. He has his own computer — he can watch lectures, read essays, write papers, and participate in discussions.

If Canvas doesn't view this as an existential threat, they have no idea how ready I am to replicate college in the 1980s. companion.ai/einstein

Flew from Frankfurt to Chicago on Lufthansa on a 747. It was so huge it felt like flying in slow motion. Could not believe we were airborne at what felt like 35 mph.

(Laughs in academia)

Ads in ChatGPT? I cannot *wait* to fail an essay because it says "Times v Sullivan is the backbone of press freedom in the United States, just like the Ford F-150 is the backbone of the American worker. F-150: Built Ford Tough."

A screenshot of some code that has a note that says NONE OF THIS WORKS

Always fun to dust off some old code ...

Also, I am fully prepared to follow you into battle toting a pug.

Anyone checked in on Sting since you hooked that up? Also any nearby obelisks?

I wonder what the 2025 redraft of the albums of 1991 would be among those same players. Girlfriend is still a first rounder but #1 overall pick?

Put it this way: I have a dataset of public records I've received as part of a story I'm writing. I'm interested in X, but you may be interested in Y and Z. Why not make them available to you? A search box and a result set in a single page web app is not enshittifying anything. It's opening access.

The rise of the throwaway news app "Instead of expensive and ambitious apps that will require updating and maintaining, in 2026 we will use AI to make quick one-page web apps that let a user search through some data to find something t...

And I'll provide the chaser: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

“Show your work” makes a triumphant return "News organizations will realize that sharing their methods — like publishing detailed methodologies, developing projects in the open, and yes, giving away stuff for free — is essential to building tr...

I'll give you @kleinmatic.bsky.social with the shot: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/show...

That poster has lived in my head for more than 20 years now. I think about it at least once a week.

A fake motivational poster from Despair.com that says Meetings: none of us is as dumb as all of us.

We made a better fake image of this in less than 5 minutes during a class on the evolution of fake news yesterday. Buckle up, society. bsky.app/profile/jour...

a group of men are watching a chicago bulls vs miami heat basketball game ALT: a group of men are watching a chicago bulls vs miami heat basketball game

My reaction:

What I was confronted with:

Depending on how ancient you're talking, there's been a lot of rather breathless writing about Gemini 3's ability to turn *hand written* tabular data into csvs. No experience myself, but I've read some historians absolutely wetting themselves over it.

Haven't written about it because I haven't made it all work but I've been very impressed with DeepseekOCR's ability to turn PDF tables into markdown tables. I figure once you have that you can parse them into CSV with a little more work.

Using the IDE meant it had access to python and could write the pdfplumber script for me and then execute it. What you see in that post, I had to execute nothing except the prompts and got a csv at the end. Don’t think the web interface can pip install python libraries it needs as it thinks.