Bryan Wood

I'm having problems with this taking up my laptop's memory...not sure if my laptop is a potato now or if it's intensive on resources.

US probing whether Ticketmaster does enough to stop resale bots, Bloomberg News reports U.S. regulators were investigating whether Live Nation's Ticketmaster was doing enough to prevent bots from illegally reselling tickets on its platform, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, an allegation the company denied.

US probing whether Ticketmaster does enough to stop resale bots, Bloomberg News reports reut.rs/4nB1q29

We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence.

Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets.

Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe.

It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

He’s definitely the guy who looks at an eclipse without eye protection the entire time.

Happy for you! Is it in Germany or somewhere where there is even less sun?

Photo: A man stands next to a large telephone pole next to an agricultural field. Signs on pole show approximate altitude of land surface in 1925, 1955, and 1977, a difference of about 9 meters from 1925 to 1977

There's probably the most famous picture of Poland documenting subsidence in the san joaquin valley.
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Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry | CNN While the reasoning behind the move is not clear, the two officials affected led the investigation into whether NOAA’s scientific integrity policies were violated during the so-called Sharpiegate scan...

SCOOP: Two senior NOAA officials were just placed on leave. Both led ‘Sharpiegate’ inquiry www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/w...

AI Weather Forecasts Missed the Texas Floods. Cuts to Weather Research Won’t Help The Trump administration wants to reduce the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget by $2.2 billion, eliminating research that might help advance AI weather models

Today's story, republished in SciAm:
Most AI weather models aren't very good yet at predicting local extreme weather. But they're showing promise - and experts say NOAA needs more investment in these tools, which Trump cuts threaten to stymie. www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-w...

Flood forecasting being cut: “Promising NOAA research-to-operations efforts that would actually help with some of the challenges I discuss above, including Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats, Warn-on-Forecast, and FLASH would be terminated under the current FY26 presidential budget.”

The missing piece of this viral post is that the Texas officials are lying and deflecting blame. The NWS, hobbled as it is, issued an accurate flood watch for Kerr County the evening before and accurate escalating warnings overnight as the flood was developing.

In Texas Flooding, the Most Urgent Alerts Came in the Middle of the Night

Texas officials now are busy trying to blame the National Weather Service. Beyond that misguided reaction, a few important points - a quick 🧵

Immigration raids leave crops unharvested, California farms at risk

ICE raids are leaving fields full of rotting food in California.
Even the documented workers are not showing up.

And guess what? You’ll still want your strawberries then you’ll pay more for imported ones.

This isn’t border security.
It’s cruel economic sabotage, dressed up as patriotism.

Let's check in and see how sea surface temperatures (SSTs) in the Gulf of Mexico have looked like during the peak of hurricane season since 1940. 🔥

The government cuts key data used in hurricane forecasting, and experts sound an alarm Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.

Weather experts are warning that hurricane forecasts will be severely hampered by the upcoming cutoff of key data from U.S. Department of Defense satellites.

I sought comment from NOAA and the Department of Defense on this and received this reply today from NOAA's spokesperson. They suggest we use the surviving ATMS microwave that degrades significantly at the edges. You can see how much worse off we'd be with Erick last week if we only had ATMS.

Eyewall of Hurricane Isabel. Photo credit: Dr. Sim Aberson, NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division.

New paper: NOAA research flights are important for improving hurricane forecasts. Wind data from NOAA flights improved forecasts of a storm’s path by up to 24% on average, found Melissa Piper @melissapiper.bsky.social & Ryan Torn.

Read more in AMS journal #WeaForecasting: doi.org/10.1175/WAF-...

Extreme Heat Is Deadlier Than Hurricanes, Floods and Tornadoes Combined When dangerous heat waves hit cities, better risk communication could save lives

Please take heat warnings and advisories seriously.

Drink as much water as you can stomach. Stay out of the sun as much as you possibly can. Demand that cooling needs be prioritized on the electrical grid - it matters more than so-called "data centers."

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You can't get 85% of people to agree on whether eating ice cream is better than being stuck in traffic

Important reminder that fatal wet bulb temperature doesn’t care about your body composition, or resting heart rate… or shade, or airflow

One of the biggest problems with the world is that fools are always so sure and certain about everything and intelligent people are so full of doubts and uncertainties.

Celebrated, then disparaged: mRNA’s promise is tarnished under Trump The promise of mRNA technology seemed boundless after the success of the coronavirus vaccines, but Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has singled it out for scrutiny, clouding its prospects.

mRNA vax is one of the greatest public health achievements of all time-right up there with Salk polio vax & smallpox eradication. There is a massive amount of hi quality data showing safety & effectiveness.
People will die if we abandon mRNA due to misinformation & junk science 👇

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“Tesla’s driverless ‘robotaxis’ could launch in Austin as soon as June 22. But a demo in Austin today showed a $TSLA, manually driven to test its Full Self-Driving system, failed to stop for a child-sized dummy at a school bus—and hit it.”

@cbsaustin @velez_tx

Wildfires are reaching areas that never worried before. Here’s how to protect your home A few fixes can help protect your home and neighborhood, and buy firefighters precious time.

“There’s no future I see that doesn’t have fire in it,” said CIRES Fellow Jennifer Balch in a recent CPR news article. “What we really need to be thinking about is how we build our homes and how we build our communities to make sure that they're resistant to fire.”
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Here's the White House's strategy for gutting science funding sooner rather than later. Freeze new spending and run out the clock until the end of the fiscal year (Sept 30), then claw back the unspent funds. It's being done under the cover of phone calls and other distractions.

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.

“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”

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Who could’ve seen this coming other than everyone

Most people lose sight of a major disaster after a few months. The reality is that many people have housing problems for years, especially in rural towns. Some areas will never completely rebuild and people will migrate to other parts of the state or country to make a living.

Atlantic #HurricaneSeason begins today, June 1.
Since records began, the continental U.S. has experienced four Category 5 hurricane landfalls, and ALL four of them were only tropical storms just three days prior!
Rapid intensification is terrifying when it occurs right before landfall.

Let's dive into this a bit. A short and very incomplete thread on US Forest Service research. 1/