Kurtis M.

OpenAI Steps Over a Red Line Anthropic Refused to Cross After announcing a sudden and surprising deal with the Pentagon, OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman moved quickly this weekend to show he had won meaningful concessions from military leaders.

For a while, Anthropic was the Lyft to OpenAI's Uber -- a company with a better reputation but ultimately doing the same thing.

Now the line dividing the two leading AI firms glows bright red.

My @opinion.bloomberg.com column this morning (🎁) : www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I’m going to Costa Rica in a couple months

We're doomed: Jim Cantore is in Plymouth
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#Massachusetts

#wxSky #Bostonwx

I have devoted much of my weather & climate career to engaging with journalists--including 200-300 news media interviews per year, many of which involve recurring conversations to facilitate timely & contextually accurate coverage. This recent collapse has been stunning and deeply disconcerting.

Good thread on the storm

#wxSky #Hernando

Crossing fingers my flight leaves before the storm

Impacts from the expected Blizzard are intensifying

#blizzard #winterstorm #wxSky #bostonwx #mawx #Hernando #StormHernando

( #NWSWPC): 🚨 EXTREME Impacts

The latest Winter Storm Severity Index highlights areas including southeast PA, NJ, Long Island, RI, and southeast MA as having the HIGHEST IMPACT LEVEL. This means EXTENSIVE AND WIDESPREAD DISRUPTIONS to daily life, as well as DANGEROUS OR IMPOSSIBLE TRAVEL. #wxsky

#wxSky

French toast alert is at 5 slices!

#mawx #bostonwx #wxSky #blizzard #frenchtoastalert

#Blizzard warnings issued for #Boston area

#wxSky #bostonwx #mawx

This is the National Blend of Models (NBM) and isn’t just one model—it’s a weighted blend of many models, with more influence given to those that perform best. For snow, it’s essentially a bias-corrected, skill-weighted average, which usually makes it more reliable than any single model alone.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's emergency tariff power on a 6-3 vote. The opinion, at least on first read, looks to be *very bad* for the president.

The White House Plan B was to try and invoke other authority to do the same tariffs, but the Court's language seems to say that won't fly.

Sample headline:

"Gutting NCAR will make your insurance premiums cost more. Here's how:"

Updated yearly zonal mean temperature anomalies since 1900 (by latitude) - regional trends, greater year-to-year variability in the N. Hemisphere, & pronounced #Arctic warming

Note: uncertainties in Southern Ocean data & latitude is not scaled by distance. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

For those familiar w/ "ARkStorm/ARk2.0" flood scenarios for California, a comparable event has been unfolding on the Iberian Peninsula. These ridiculous rainfall accumulations, caused by a long series of extremely moist atmospheric rivers, have brought widespread severe flooding to Spain & Portugal.

SUPER excited to see this live in the world. In particular hugely admire this team's dedication to openness and transparency about methodology, code, assumptions.

Every tool has strengths and weaknesses, but sharing openly is how the whole community can improve. Big kudos @carbonplan.org

Yes, the Wedding During Bad Bunny's Super Bowl Halftime Show Was Actually Real The wedding that took place during Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl LX halftime show was actually real.

Wait…that was an actual wedding‽

#halftimeshow #badbunny #superbowl

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From Bad Bunny's #SuperBowl halftime performance.

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

And these words on Bad Bunny’s football held up to the camera at the end: “Together We Are America.”

Lady Gaga!

#badbunny #superbowl

The dream dplyr update for my data cleaning pipelines 😍

filter_out() is going to be SO nice, no longer will I need to wrangle with annoying is.na() conditions

replace_values() and recode_values() also going to be a dream too, go read the post!

#rstats

#wxsky

Congrats everyone you did it. Above freezing for the first time in 9 days. Longest stretch since 2018 (13 days). #wbz

The U.S. will likely lose its measles elimination status. Here's what that means The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.

The South Carolina measles outbreak is now bigger than last year's Texas outbreak and is happening as the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status. n.pr/46gC8jB

President Trump has filed a lawsuit against the IRS, in which he demands that the IRS, which he as president controls, pay him $10 billion.

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#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles