Wow. If this decision holds up on appeal, the redistricting war Trump kicked off to save the GOP majority in the House will likely result in a net gain for *Democrats.*

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

Not new, but #Zuckerberg criminal energy once more: Visiting a website with #Facebok Pixel installed a local server on ur #Android device which connected anonymous users' behavior (incl incognito mode) to real users if u also had the Facebook or #Instagram app. localmess.github.io 🤯

Tis a fine troll, but sure ‘tis no presidential candidate

Bummer. Best of luck. Look forward to more good stuff in the future.

Cole Palmer's mascot hitting his trademark celebration 👀

Catalist's 2024 "What Happened" report is out. I consider this the most reliable source for how various demographics voted in the 2024 election. catalist.us/whathappened...

Signal Leak Shows Trump Only Takes Federal Secrets Seriously When It Suits Him In the Trump era, the definition of an official secret depends on whatever works best for the president.

Details about a flight of immigrants that landed many days ago? Too secret to reveal.

Details about an imminent military strike? Not classified, not a breach of national security and not a big deal.

Secrets under Trump depend on who asks and who tells.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

The story of this man's abduction and deportation to a brutal El Salvador prison, without any due process—and apparently by mistake!—is the stuff of nightmares, literally ripped from some dystopian fiction. Kafka or Orwell. Or Stalin's Russia. Hitler's Germany. Or apparently, Donald Trump's America.

Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels, printer for school, homework printer you are a printer we are all printers After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.

There is only one answer to “what printer should I buy” and it’s the one with the hilarious headline by @reckless.bsky.social making fun of “best printer” roundups www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/241...

What would Jesus cost?

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming.
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Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

DUNK. OF. THE. YEAR.

This is a crazy paper. Fine-tuning a big GPT-4o on a small amount of insecure code or even "bad numbers" (like 666) makes them misaligned in almost everything else. They are more likely to start offering misinformation, spouting anti-human values, and talk about admiring dictators. Why is unclear.

This. This. This.

I've said it before but it's more true now; if Clearlake bought the club from Clearlake now they'd sack everyone and do a year long tour going on about how badly we're run.

Toni Kroos got photobombed from Steph Curry range 😅

Entire government agencies are being reshaped, career experts are leaving and power is shifting — often behind closed doors.

ProPublica is investigating.

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Enough is enough - time to go 😎

Related to mass federal firings today: If anyone out there in private sector has a need for a highly-qualified PhD-level wildfire risk modeler (or MS/PHD-level meteorologist), available immediately, please do reach out via email or DM! (Not for me, but trying to help others out.)

Dear federal scientists: If you have been affected by the probationary firings and would be willing to speak with Science, please reach out to me by email (klangin@aaas.org) or on Signal. We can guarantee annonymity.

I'm a reporter at the SF Chronicle hoping to speak with scientists who were impacted by the government firings. Specifically NOAA scientists, especially those in California. Open to hearing from you on the record, off the record or anonymously.

email: anthony.edwards@sfchronicle.com
DMs open