Meagan

YouTube video by ActiveWormz Miss Universe 2025 – Norway’s National Costume | Salmon-Inspired Look!

@cathrinew.net I have questions...
youtu.be/Y3LKm-_9LXY
(Miss Norway salmon costume)

United Airlines quietly adds clause for passengers who refuse to use headphones United Airlines passengers who make noise by not wearing headphones may be booted from their flight

I'm not sure I've ever been happy about an airline updating its contact of carriage before.
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A cup overflowing with peanuts, cucumber, and tamarind with a red colored sauce at the bottom.

I have now moved on to pepihuates. Do y'all know about Japanese peanuts?

This is a Mexican snack that has varying recipes. The way I like it includes cucumber, jicama, Japanese peanuts, tamarind pieces, chamoy sauces, lime juice, tajin, and Valentina sauce. Other versions use Clamato.

Denver auditor alleges police oversight body lacks transparency; agency disagrees The civilian agency that oversees the Denver Police Department and Denver Sheriff Department and makes recommendations to improve their policies and practices has been limited by conflicting mandates ...

Denver auditor alleges police oversight body lacks transparency; agency disagrees
www.denvergazette.com/2025/09/23/d...

Denver auditor refuses to sign city's current contract with Flock Group: "I just want that data secure" Denver Auditor Tim O'Brien is refusing to sign the city's current contract with Flock Group, the company behind Denver's network of more than 100 license plate-reading cameras.

Denver auditor refuses to sign city's current contract with Flock Group: "I just want that data secure"
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Audit finds Caring for Denver Foundation misused taxpayer funds An audit of a nonprofit contracted by Denver to manage a fund intended for social services found the organization misused taxpayer dollars. The Caring for Denver Foundation, under a contract by the De...

Audit finds Caring for Denver Foundation misused taxpayer funds
www.denvergazette.com/2026/02/19/a...

This is a Tim O'Brien (and team) appreciation post. Thanks for thoughtfully doing your job and being persistent but not a dick (at least not publicly).

Tech giant Palantir moves headquarters from Denver to Miami after months of protests The company has been instrumental in the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.

Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

Palantir moves headquarters from Denver to Miami
denverite.com/2026/02/17/p...

Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.

Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
"That’s when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports."
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#dataquality

Screenshot of the OVA website, showing all courses

The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org

Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

I don't disagree. But my government seems to be brazenly doing more questionable/unlawful things these days, and people who would have never thought the government would come after them have found themselves in that circumstance. So this has more implications/affects more people than it used to.

Don't use my photos as a test. They likely aren't perfectly straight, but they are much better than I can normally do. But lots of sources confirm my statement about straight lines appearing bent or wavy with astigmatism. Your post made me double-check. www.optometrists.org/general-prac...

#mvpbuzz #dataplatform | Meagan Longoria I'm behind on posting this (lots of things going on for me personally right now), but I got to add another disk to my Microsoft MVP award. For those counting, that's disk number 10 (about 9 years in t...

He also made me the grabby thing in this video which is both useful and amusing. So I can't speak to the cost, but I can speak to its usefulness.
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A photo grid hanging on a wall.

My boyfriend has one, and he occasionally prints stuff for me. I have some fun stuff, but the most useful thing he made me was a spacer for spacing my photos in a grid. I have a slight astigmatism that cannot be corrected by contacts so I never know if anything is straight.

Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

🤔 Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports
techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/m...

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit A conversation with Graham Granger, whose combination of protest and performance art spread beyond campus. “AI chews up and spits out art made by other people.”

Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I closed my office door while participating in a livestream with @shan-gsd.bsky.social, and my dog was not pleased. When I opened it, she walked past me into the room to make sure everything was as she last left it. Did not care about me, just annoyed that she was denied access to the room.

I found them in my local Safeway grocery store, but you can buy them on Amazon. Target seems to have the tajin watermelon rings, which are still good, just not my favorite.

Hahaha. I decided to try CoPilot in PowerPoint because I just couldn't get something to work. The response:

You’re asking the right questions — this is one of those areas where PowerPoint’s limitations surface hard, and you’ve run straight into them.

snak club tajin chili & lime gummy bears

Please allow me to introduce you to my current unhealthy snack craving: tajin chili & lime gummy bears. I have to take a few and put the bag far away so I don't eat them all in one sitting. They also have tajin watermelon rings and peach rings, but the gummy bears are better IMO.

This is a screenshot of the original dashboard. The dashboard can be viewed here: https://workout-wednesday.com/pbi-2025-w13/

This is a screenshot of the dashboard I recreated using only python. I didn't open Power BI desktop until the end just to view the file.

Here's a screenshot of the code I used to create the dashboard. The full code and the data processing scripts I also used are available here: https://www.russellshean.com/powerbpy/example_dashboards/Sanky%20Chart%20and%20Table/chart_and_table.html

I'm working on a #python package to create #PowerBI dashboards. As a demonstration of the package, I used the package to finish the Week 13 #WOW2025 challenge by @sqlgene.com.

Here's a link: www.russellshean.com/powerbpy/exa...

@mmarie.bsky.social @shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social

While I have probably said that about data architecture, I feel like you need to use more words to follow the instructions.

Editor to generate a fake internal server error page complete with You, Cloud, Server in red and green

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

Part of a deck, with the top boards removed. The foundation is a cinder block, but the vertical posts are only half sitting on the block. There are leaves and trash around the posts.

This is a wood deck that I am tearing up because it was poorly built and not very safe. It's not connected to any other structure, just sitting on the concrete blocks. If you step on the edge, the whole thing tilts to that side.

Turn this into a metaphor for data architecture/engineering.

Power BI – Date Slicer with Default Selection - Power of Business Intelligence Magic of the new Power BI Button Slicer: the current calendar month is always selected by default. In the video, I change the system date, … Read More

Shoutout to @avatorl.bsky.social for this blog post. The settings/UI have changed a bit since the button slicer went GA, but it worked like a charm.

Power BI – Date Slicer with Default Selection: www.powerofbi.org/2025/06/05/p...

If you are in the southern hemisphere and want to make a summer version of this report, feel free! Monsoon season? Fluff from poplar trees? Whatever you can find data to support!

@shan-gsd.bsky.social @merrykerry.bsky.social

This week's #Wow2025 for #PowerBI is posted! We are making a first snowfall scatterplot. Create the visual and add your own wintery spin! We've been notified about a potential security issue with the WoW website. So you can safely check it out here: community.fabric.microsoft.com/t5/Data-Stor....

The Turbo-Charged Abacus: What LLMs Really Are (And Why We Get Them Wrong) LLMs are sophisticated pattern-matching engines, not thinking machines. Our hardwired tendency to anthropomorphize combined with dopamine-driven addiction pathways is changing how we interact with the...

Currently reading: The Turbo-Charged Abacus: What LLMs Really Are (And Why We Get Them Wrong) by @arcticdba.se
www.arcticdba.se/posts/turbo-...

To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI “The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”

😡🤮😥 This is ridiculous and awful. It must be difficult to be a college student or professor in Texas right now.

Reason #125421 I'm glad to have left Texas long ago.

www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...