Chris Schaller

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

A proutic haripotator would be extremely useful in this situation, especially if the emergency baby fails.

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

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3I/ATLAS measurement from HST is in: can see the coma but not the nucleus. Sets effective nuclear radius of r < 2.8 km (H>15.4), significantly smaller than earlier estimates (as anticipated).
Jewitt et al, (submitted?) arxiv.org/abs/2508.02934 🔭☄️

The Microsoft Window! 🥁

Funny if a joke. Hilarious if not.

I find the little "can everyone see my slides" ritual charming. I even find myself doing it, even knowing full well yes, you can.

Ugh, Teams.

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It kind of describes itself.

the ending of this explainer might surprise you

Avi Loeb has gotten US Rep Luna to write NASA admin Duffy with a demand to repurpose Juno to rendezvous with 3I/Atlas. This is so far out of line I don't know where to start.

Hell yes.

NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars - NASA The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at

The REASON Ice Penetrating Radar produced good test data when we flew by Mars! All looking good for seeing inside #Europa in a few years. www.nasa.gov/missions/eur...

NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at Jupiter’s moon Europa.

NASA’s Europa Clipper Radar Instrument Proves Itself at Mars

The agency’s largest interplanetary probe tested its radar during a Mars flyby. The results include a detailed image and bode well for the mission at Jupiter’s moon Europa.

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-e... 🧪🔭 #EuropaClipper #Mars

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations following the passage of a federal rescissions package and the release of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s FY 2026 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor-H) appropriations bill, which excludes funding for CPB for the first time in more than five decades. For nearly 60 years, CPB has carried out its Congressional mission to build and sustain a trusted public media system that informs, educates, and serves communities across the country. Through partnerships with local stations and producers, CPB has supported educational content, locally relevant journalism, emergency communications, cultural programming, and essential services for Americans in every community. “Despite the extraordinary efforts of millions of Americans who called, wrote, and petitioned Congress to preserve federal funding for CPB, we now face the difficult reality of closing our operations,” said CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison. “CPB remains committed to fulfilling its fiduciary responsibilities and supporting our partners through this transition with transparency and care.”

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down operations after loss of federal funding:

Cover of the latest issue of Nature, showing my illustration of Mirasaura

I’m so excited and proud to have my illustration of Mirasaura in the cover of NATURE! Just wow! Especially happy to do that with such an amazing species and such wonderful research!

#paleoart #art

It's time to mark your calendars! The 2025 LPL Evening Lecture Series features "Space on Earth." You can attend any lecture in-person or virtually. We hope to see you there! lpl.arizona.edu/calendar/eve...

Truly we are blessed this day.

Time to gas up the ol' KCBO and find out!

Sam@SamAshleyBlogs • 19m Stop reporting this, it's wrong. Ill 3.1K .. 4 Ili 395. 贝 Grok v @grok • 17m I appreciate the feedback, but per the latest from tsunami.gov as of July 30, 2025, no active tsunami warning exists for Hawaii-it was canceled after buoy data showed no waves. Advisories remain for parts of Alaska, CA, OR, WA, BC. Please verify directly; happy to Show more 171 1hil 2.6K 贝 Trumpsucks @trumpsucks72 • 14m If you go to tsunami.gov, at the top of the page there's a big red bar that's says TSUNAMI WARNING. 1 171 3 1hil 324 Grok t x1@grok.12m I checked tsunami.gov—no active tsunami warning for Hawaii; it was canceled July 29 after buoy data showed no waves. The red bar likely refers to ongoing warnings for Alaska (Aleutians) and California (Cape Mendocino to OR border). Advisories remain for other West Coast areas. Stay safe! Sources: PTWC, NOAA. O Ask Grok 17 Ill

we're fucked

This is really sad. Twitter used to be one of the best news sources during emergency situations. Updates were fast, the multitude of sources (and real verification) helped with accuracy, and people usually had the decency to keep hashtags clear that might be needed for urgent news.

BREAKING: Department of Defense Makes Eleventh Hour Decision to Maintain Critical Hurricane Satellites After critical feedback, Navy officials step in to keep data flowing from three U.S. Defense-operated weather satellites scheduled to go dark this week

According to a Navy spokesperson I spoke with, the 11th hour decision to keep data flowing from the three weather satellites was due to critical feedback it received. A testament that our voices and concerns do very much matter. My full afternoon update ⬇️

NOAA also confirming with me this morning that the Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center (FNMOC) will be continuing its distribution of DMSP satellite data, which means our hurricane forecast tools should stay in tact. Crisis averted 🙌

Here's an example of why I not only hate generative AI, but the fact that we call it AI. The two things described here are completely different, and neither is actually artificial intelligence in the way sci fi novels mean it, but all three concepts are clearly getting conflated in one paragraph.

My first-to-report post has been independently confirmed by @michaelrlowry.bsky.social with my NOAA source. See NOAA's official statement on the matter. Result is that the SSMIS microwave scans critical for monitoring tropical cyclones will remain online. Partial but big, big relief 😮‍💨

[neon rainbow pattern background] THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME The universe reimagined -- through pop culture, poetry, and theoretical physics. From the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos image of the cover of the book which features circular artwork in the center, one half of it a black and white pattern and the other half a neon rainbow pattern PREORDER NOW Coming 4/7/26 image of the Pantheon logo

📣📣 BOOK NEWS 📣📣

I'm excited to share the cover and release date of Book #2, #EdgeOfSpaceTime, which is now available for PREORDER!!

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What's the book about? 🧵

Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan “DRIVERS LICENSES AND FACE PICS! GET THE FUCK IN HERE BEFORE THEY SHUT IT DOWN!” the thread read before being deleted.

We are going to spend the next few years finding out exactly *why* it was a horrible idea to unleash a tsunami of vibe-coded apps made by idiots and scammers on an unprepared world.

Welcome to the Entirely Foreseeable AI Consequences Era.

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I painted what’s left of a massive star that exploded as a supernova 💥