Sean Ernst, Ph.D.

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

A model of a snowy level from Mario 64.

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

Jane Goodall reaches out and touches a small monkey.

Jane Goodall was my first childhood hero, as I loved animals as a kid and was inspired by her story. I still remember the National Geographic specials about her. RIP.

And with the 15z advisories -- #Hurricane #Imdelda & #Humberto are just 479 miles apart.

This might be the closest two simultaneous hurricanes have ever been in the Atlantic basin in the satellite era (since ~1975).

Close enough for their outer sfc circulations to interact as well.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

This whole section really.

The gas giant Jupiter is seen here tilted at a 45-degree angle relative to the poles, showing the Great Red Spot near the left edge. Along the bottom portion of the planet, eight dark brown impact sites can be seen, stretching from the far left to the far right.

#PPOD: Some of Hubble's most "impactful" observations captured comet fragments crashing into Jupiter. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was shredded by Jupiter’s gravity, and its fragments (21 in all) plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere over the course of six days in 1994, during Hubble's fifth year. 🧪 🔭

YouTube video by Syncere Introducing Lume

new nightmare furniture just dropped

In the foreground is Saturn's giant moon Titan, its hazy, peach-coloured atmosphere extending into space. Behind is Saturn itself, its upper hemisphere crossed by the shadows of its vast ring system.

Saturn, rising behind its largest moon Titan.

This scene is a composite of images taken by the Cassini spacecraft on 31 March 2005. At the time, Cassini was 7,000 km from Titan and 1.2 million km from Saturn.

Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI/Ian Regan/Val Klavans

Fun with data:

In the last 24 hours, the NYS Mesonet's Schaghticoke station has had 3.51" (so far, most in NY). That's just .1" shy of a 24-hour record at that site.

In the 90 days *before* this period, they were the driest station in the whole state, with 4.1" (in east-central NY). #nywx

u dropped this: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/are-democr...

Portrait image of a massive solar filament looping up from the surface of the Sun as it snapped apart, releasing a massive amount of energy.

#PPOD: Toward the middle of 2012, a long-standing solar filament suddenly erupted into space, producing an energetic coronal mass ejection. The filament had been held up for days by the Sun's ever-changing magnetic field, and the timing of the eruption was unexpected. Credit: NASA's GSFC, SDO 🧪 🔭

If @ametsoc.org or @nwas.org ever gave out a "Graphic of the Year" award, it should go to Jay Cordeira, displaying the synoptics behind the Predecessor Rainfall Event before #Helene

It's an amazing graphic and displays our double whammy of 'rain and then more rain.'

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column 'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column

"We spent six years thinking about a fascist takeover of a galaxy far, far away. Six years thinking about ordinary beings as an authoritarian regime comes in for the kill. Many people saw parallels between Andor and the real world. I see them as well, particularly in the events of the last week."

A protester outside an ICE detention facility marches through clouds of irritant gas carrying American flags. A sign lying on the pavement by his feet reads “EVERY ICE AGENT WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT.”

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

YouTube video by Practical Engineering An Engineer's Perspective on the Texas Floods

on flooding, engineering, comms, and oh so many issues:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FfM...

Significant layoffs at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (Richland, WA) today. Hundreds of people lost their jobs and were given under 30 minutes to gather their things and be walked off the premises.

/20 In closing, this is the result that the Right, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, and their crew have successfully fought for: a system where the federal government can deliberately violate your rights and there is no effective remedy - meaning you don’t really have the right.

Wow — this is really, really sad.

Some great friends, incredible meteorologists, and highly capable scientists have come from the program in Lincoln. If this happens, it’s truly a loss.

Here's the preliminary info from @NWSBoston regarding the Saturday tornado in Holden and Paxton

EF-1 tornado

It's the first tornado confirmed anywhere in New England this year 🌪️#wbz

Screenshot of Axios story about conservatives alleging that the MSM is underplaying the brutal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska by a Black man on a train in Charlotte. Reality check: As Republicans have consistently highlighted crime, Democrats have accurately pointed out that violent crime rates have been decreasing since pre-pandemic highs. What's next: Trump won't just discuss this case once, his team says. He's going to keep highlighting crime because it's important to him — and he believes it moves voters as the GOP tries to keep control of Congress in next year's midterms. "Crime is not a data thing — it's a feeling thing," the Trump adviser said. "Politicians don't understand that it's about how you feel when you walk on the subway platform." "It's not about whether you're a victim. It's about whether you feel you're a victim or not." https://www.axios.com/2025/09/08/iryna-zarutska-stabbing-video-republicans-maga

So if the real problem is not the amount of crime, but people's feelings of fear... then wouldn't the real source of the problem be the people overhyping individual crimes in order to scare people?

Unless you *want* people irrationally scared about crime, in which case it makes perfect sense...

View of Quebec in Canada, taken from the International Space Station, whose solar panel arm can be seen in the upper left. On the far right, a round, snow-covered lake contains an island of snow-covered trees. A large waterway cuts through the middle of the image and arcs to the the left. The ground is covered in trees and snow. The horizon and blue limn of Earth's atmosphere are visible in the distance.

#PPOD: More than 214 million years ago, a five-kilometer-wide asteroid collided with our planet, forming the Manicouagan Crater, a prominent feature of Earth today. Seen from space, the vast, annular reservoir surrounds a central island that is uplifted. Credit: NASA, ISS Expedition 59 🧪 🔭

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Simply spectacular imagery of Hurricane Kiko's stunning eye.

White House cuts to science funding threaten AI weather forecasting institute The Trump administration has proposed a 55% budget cut for the National Science Foundation, but Congress has yet to pass a budget.

More news on AI2ES. Please help save science funding in general but also help save AI for weather!

www.nbcnews.com/science/scie...

TEXT: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me, not time or political circumstance, from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law. GOVERNOR JB PRITZKER'S MESSAGE TO DONALD TRUMP

My message to Donald Trump is very simple.

"Go to an old cemetery. See all the baby graves from before the 1950s & 60s? After that, hardly any. That's when people started vaccinating their children. If you're unsure what to do to protect your kids, the answer is literally written in stone." — Michael Okuda

How quick we forget.

Silksong was always a lie.

Relationships matter so much in preparing for disasters. Relationships build trust. Trust leads to action.

Epstein abuse survivor says Epstein's "biggest brag" was his connection to Donald Trump.