intelati

Practice the mundane so the exceptional is required less often

I'd like to say I planned this quote but, honestly, it was completely off the cuff. Whole article is a great read www.theguardian.com/environment/...

...only certain instruments—an infrared and visible imaging instrument and a hyperspectral infrared sounder. No lightning I keep coming back to this because the (not studied) best predictor of future lightning in my experience is previously seen lightning from GLM www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

I've visited Minnesota in early May, and I'm certain that it's the greatest place in the world. Absolutely certain.

This never gets old (& also shows how hard forecasting AI is even for AI) “Hey Claude Fable & GPT-6 Astra, Without looking anything up, when do you think we will solve the Exponential Time Hypothesis?” (I only show part of the answers for space)

Bluesky has four kinds of users

just last week I was struggling with an impossible task: what to eat for lunch. I love cracking a hard problem but this was just overwhelming. So I asked my personal AI assistant. It said "sandwich," which was just perfect. I had it place the order on Uber Eats and 45 minutes later I was eating.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Consider the absolute worst person you know... Russell Vought (Insert your npc here) a Christian and is married also a documented awful person ... a person actively harming other humans ... is a Christian ... in a Christian marriage

are your neighbors well? are you perusing peace? are your hands to the plow of love? are you diligent to the care of the creation? are you careful? thoughtful? considerate? do you give a single damn? These are the questions at the heart of the Gospel

It really is striking how pushers of AI insist its overarching value is to liberate us from tedious work so we can spend time on life’s meaningful things only for rich tech people to repeatedly share how they use AI to outsource the work of bonding with their kids.

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Albert Pujols doing colon cancer screening commercials.

Story from KOAT-TV in ABQ about the northern NM flooding. Amazed this is not getting more national coverage. www.koat.com/article/new-...

One thing that I think we do tend to forget, though, as a person who does believe in data, is that this is official on-the-books data. One of the ongoing pressures that is very hard to measure is everything getting more digitized means less fraudulent activity.

You’re gonna think you might know where this is going and then about halfway through you’ll learn you were Wrong

The Incredible Leg-acy of Harvey Kuenn

Lol. Not sure who needs to hear this, but the federal government has no standing to prevent a state from certifying their election results. Also, this is the type of PR stunt you pull when you think you are going to lose.

Saw an old guy with the craziest drip today

Spouse and I got lost in Rome on New Years Eve and were walking, and walking, and walking, trying to find the river because we knew we could follow it back to our hotel near the Vatican. Then we saw this and thought, "Frick, we are REALLY lost."

You think We Need One More? Alright I'll Get You One More, Charlie Brown

Waiting for the rain to come.

Airbnb hosts stripped of their ability to make the people paying them also do a bunch of chores

The goal was never “children should learn about this from their parents.” It was always “children should only learn it’s bad”

These pages no longer provide international observations. It's a good thing that weather stops at international borders. 😢

Man. www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

Well, that's the best example of mansplaining I have seen in a while...

I will probably start with an aim of being a blocking tight end but will ultimately spec into being an stealth archer regardless.

Benjamin Franklin after spending some time in the present: I have watched PornHub. Truly the nation has exceeded all of my expectations. Let me shake your hand. Me: Thanks, but they're Canadian. Also I'm not shaking your hand.

Bring back Notgraphs

Apt name

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

Besides the horrible “how you doing fellow kids” tagline, he was “ghosted” FOUR times

50 percentage points worse than 2024 revisions.

Be careful of the sneks

literally illegal