Sam Learner

A part of the table with two bars, both of which say "20.1%", but one is about a fifth full and the other is about half full

broke: 20.1% is about a fifth
woke: 20.1% is about half
bespoke: it's both

A table showing "American Voter Sympathies in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (November 2025)" from "BigDataPoll" where a bunch of values are supposed to be shown as bars but the size of the bars seem to bear almost no resemblance to the labeled value. The colors are also in credibly confusing as the rows have "Democrats"/"Republicans" listed, but the bars have been colored by their column value?

can't even take in whatever this poll is supposed to be saying because I'm getting so angry at whatever is going on with the sizes of the bars + the blue/red color scheme that is *not* mapped to party ID...

Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?

MAMDANI: I've spoken about--

TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.

Screengrab from BLS website showing the BLS calculation of the monthly relative of price change for OER in area α. A very long (though probably perfectly-reasonable) equation in some pretty sprawling notation

economists need to GET OVER THEMSELVES

the lesson some people seem to have taken from Trump is that "winning an election" is an ontological good, "losing an election" is an ontological bad, and what happens in between doesn't matter. "addressing climate change" isn't a thing you do, it's a chip you slide on/off the table

a screenshot of an email sent by Jeffrey Epstein on Jun 23, 2018: "i htink weak thoughts?"

"i htink weak thoughts?"

not sure you can really call it "publicly-traded" though lol

The AI boom comes to America’s loneliest place Plans for a 230-mile transmission line threaten Nevada’s wilderness and have united hunters and wildlife groups

power, data and birds on the loneliest road in america: www.ft.com/content/729d...

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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A precinct in Borough Park where Andrew Cuomo received 94.5% of the votes in the mayoral election (1090 votes), Eric Adams received 2.5%, Curtis Sliwa received 2.2%.

the anti-Bushwick

hmm, didn't know they were getting different data. that's interesting, thanks!

but is it an "ability to make faster calls" or is it just a "willingness to make slightly more uncertain calls"?

definitely starting to feel like the special election results were a more reliable indicator than the polling...

Google's AI overview when asked "chicago total energy usage average per day" AI Overview: "Chicago uses approximately \(82.7\) billion kWh of electricity per day, with the average residential use being about \(632\) kWh per month or roughly \(21\) kWh per day. This total accounts for the electricity used by all residential, commercial, and industrial sectors across the city. Total city electricity usage: \(30.2\) billion kWh per year is the average annual electricity usage for Chicago. Divided by \(365\) days, this equals about \(82.7\) million kWh per day.Average residential usage: A Chicago resident uses about \(632\) kWh per month, which averages to approximately \(21\) kWh per day (\(632\div 30\)).Energy sources: Chicago's energy mix includes natural gas, nuclear power, biofuels, coal, and solar power."

in the span of three sentences, I am told that:
- Chicago uses 82.7 billion kWh per day*
- Chicago uses 30.2 billion kWh per year

*21 kWh for each of the 4 billion people that live there, I guess

hi! would you mind sending me info on this too?

ah wait you're right! my bad, it's ~20 people

The stage for "wait wait don't tell me"

making all of my friend's parents extremely jealous

Per court filing, a federal immigration agent pointed a gun at a U.S. citizen protesting and told him “bang, bang,” and “you’re dead liberal.” From a weekend Loevy civil rights firm filing

I think that often, the more useful a tool is, the harder it is to commit to maintaining. the one project I've had to fully kill was because a group of researchers was using the data (court filings on cleveland evictions) and I just couldn't guarantee that it would be reliable long-term

I get frustrated when a maintainer for some library/tool I depend on throws in the towel, but I get it

from 2020-2022, I put about a dozen open source projects on the web and every year since, I suffer for it with my time/money/energy

long-term maintenance on this kind of thing is just impossible when it's not a full time job

How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution

Our story today on how storage is changing grids and extending the use of clean power

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How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

New: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution.

A boom in grid-scale storage is solving renewables’ reliability problem and extending the use of clean power.

Latest visual story w/ @nassosstylianou.bsky.social @samlearner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social

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How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution Vast battery units are shoring up grids and extending the use of clean power

NEW: How mega batteries are unlocking an energy revolution

Massive shipping containers packed with powerful batteries are shoring up grids & extending the use of clean power

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I'm just a guy with £50 of cash that I took out at the airport, wandering around London trying to find places that will accept it in exchange for the stuff that they're selling. you wouldn't believe how hard it's been

a plate with hashbrowns, beans, tomato, fruit salad from a hotel buffet

first morning in London, thought I'd grab myself a traditional full english breakfast! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

LMAO the rule being used to block funding for the Hudson and Second Avenue projects appears to have only been drafted and posted as of last night. www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

the red teamers who have been doing "adversarial testing" on this thing for 18 months seem to have overlooked "framing someone for a crime". alas!

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Feds march into downtown Chicago; top border agent says people are arrested based on ‘how they look’ Immigration agents wearing tactical gear and carrying long guns made arrests in downtown Chicago and the River North neighborhood Sunday. “This is not making anybody safer — it’s a show of intimidatio...

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago.

He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”

“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...