Charles Worthington

Love all the Christmas traditions like pretending that eating raw broccoli is enjoyable

the mac n cheese and the apple crumble in the fridge getting ready for a back-to-back performance tonight

Harriet Tubman was born while John Adams was alive and died when Ronald Reagan was alive.

Adams: 1735-1826
Tubman: 1822-1913
Reagan: 1911-2004

When Adams was born, Hydrogen had yet to be identified.

When Ronald died, he could’ve been listening to Hoobastank.

Mature decision.

This year @dcpublicschools.bsky.social implemented a ban on phones and all screened devices. Caught up w a friend that teaches High School who said the change has been transformative and given him more optimism than he’s had in years.

This is awesome, I hope schools nationwide follow suit!

@aarongleeman.bsky.social you need to teach the Athletic’s AI headline bot about the Pohlads 😂

Do Twins have to eat any of Paddack contract to get this move?

AI-assisted software development represents the biggest opportunity to improve government digital services in my time working on the problem so far.

We need lots of civic tech teams trying things, and sharing what they’ve learned.

Looking forward to an epic @aarongleeman.bsky.social rant on this TV broadcast error

Remember when every Target in America had an entire photo lab with machines the size of cars and a misfit crew of pirate teens overseeing the photographic output of the whole community?

Overhauling Authentication at FlightAware As FlightAware moves away from its monolithic Tcl tech stack to a distributed micro service architecture, many core services need to be split out from the monolith to keep the system running.

Good write up of FlightAware’s implementation of an auth service. Interesting they decided to roll their own in Go, and view that as lower cost than outsourcing.

flightaware.engineering/overhauling-...

Interesting that Apple has not been able to use AI to stop random iCloud accounts from spamming things like this, while at the same time shipping a broken notification summary feature to tens of millions of people.

Good point! Is the player perception that they are roughly 50/50 or still a lot of angst on that?

This adds to less than $5B. Joe Pompliano reported total MLB revenue of $11.6B in 2023. I wonder if it’s up or down in 24 with the TV situation but either way seems like payroll is less than 50% of revenue.

Seems like a salary floor is just as needed as a cap!

Robert Duvall wearing cue cards for Brando in the Godfather

Child actor wearing cue card for Brando in The Godfather’s death scene

Horse head wearing cue card for Brando in The Godfather’s death scene

did you know Marlon Brando didn’t learn his lines for The Godfather, forcing his costars to wear cue cards?

Don’t like to exercise? Try this simple, science-backed trick. ‘Fartleks’ are an effective way to add intensity to activities, which a growing body of science indicates can make your workouts more beneficial.

Struggle with stage fright? Join your local community theater’s production of Anything Goes!

www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

We are not planning for AI to ever decide a claim, human always in the loop.

Yes, exploring it actively

VA AI Use Case Inventory The VA AI inventory serves as the record of artificial intelligence systems across our organization. This public inventory showcases our dedication to responsible innovation and transparent governance...

You can explore the whole inventory here: department.va.gov/ai/ai-use-ca...

🔎 VBA is using AI to detect fraudulent direct deposit account updates, by flagging potentially suspicious transactions to VA investigators for review and remediation if needed.

💻 We're piloting (1500 users) an on-network generative AI chat interface approved for use with VA data for tasks like drafting emails, summarizing documents, making meeting notes, etc. More than 70% of users agree or strongly agree that the tool has made them more efficient.

🩻 VHA has deployed several FDA-approved devices that use computer vision to enhance clinician performance, which has resulted in significantly improved detection of tumors.

Today VA released our 2024 inventory of the 227 Artificial Intelligence use cases VA is using or implementing to improve outcomes for Veterans, staff experience, and operational efficiency. Some highlights in this 🧵

How to Rebuild the Arsenal of Democracy Trae Stephens & Michael Kratsios break it down.

“In the United States … our elite class has basically decided that they don't want to work on any of the problems that matter. They want to make monkey JPEGs. And that's really annoying.”

This is a great interview.

www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-reb...

Sorta scary to think the front office’s #1 priority this offseason is “reduce payroll by $5M, while also making the team better or at least not worse”

🎨🌆⏩

Congrats Aaron!

how many more years must millennials wait for Vampire Weekend to make a Christmas album??? brutal

I’ll have a zero eggs please

A large great gray owl takes off from its perch atop a small birch snag. Its five-foot wings are spread right out in a down stroke as the owl looks up toward its next perch. A bare tamarack fills the background behind it.

This is one of those photos that you can't quite believe really happened. I encountered this grey gray owl (1 of 2) on my way home from town. It was so focussed on hunting, that I could stand to the side and watch. I didn't have my camera set to continuous shutter, so I'm stunned this came out. 🪶🌿