Here's my interview with CNBC on how Zuckerberg's vacuous talking points about AGI and open source exist to distract from how Meta burned $180bn in capex (and more off-balance-sheet) to make also-ran LLMs that don't deliver an iota of the promise of "personal superintelligence."
content ideas: 1. average people chill out and enjoy foods and don't argue about which one is "the best" 2. normal, regular folks watch a movie and don't talk and then at the end agree to meet next week to do something again 3. run-of-the-mill parents complain gently about the weather
Okay, folks: The big El Niño update is now out on Weather West! This sure looks like it's going to be a dramatic year from a global climate perspective, and there are major implications for extreme events (across California, the U.S. West, & well beyond).
Special update: Rising odds of a strong-to-historic El Niño event in 2026, with growing likelihood of significant regional-to-global scale impacts - Weather West
June 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - A quick refresher: What is El Niño and how can it affect global weather patterns? El Niño is the warm phase of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), a semi-regular recurring cycle that transfers vast amounts of heat and momentum from the tropical Pacific to the global atmosphere. It is triggered every 3–7 years when the #
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Whatever happened to the TikTok algorithm, my fyp is currently twerking hand puppets and tarot card readings insisting someone who wronged me is about to receive karmic justice.
This was my Thanksgiving. Delicious brisket by @bigjuevos.bsky.social, scratch mac and cheese, eschebeche, and cabbage salad by moi.
Cool shot of racing another plane on the way back from seeing my nephew.
I can’t wait for the next Taylor Swift album to be called Lix.
This *gesturing wildly and in every direction* is utterly exhausting.
Tornado in little Scotts Valley today flipped some cars
@nativesantacruz.bsky.social any news on tornado in Scotts Valley? power poles down. car flipped over in safeway parking lot. young girl hurt by debris smashing thru windshield. this is info I'm getting from my wife that was down there shopping. she was in car when passed in front of her
If you have to beat a 58 year old man on points, you’re losing
I’m over these b/s stats coming out of MLS. “We should be better than our stats.” But, you aren’t. xG is a made up number. It isn’t based in things that happened. PPG is real, pass completion is real, SoG is real. I’m tired of using a stat to say “We should be better.”
Back at the power outages again! Heard it’s been worse up in Boulder Creek though. I hope it isn’t squirrels this time.
New post on upcoming prolonged heatwave across Southwest. In CA, San Joaquin Valley and SE deserts stand best chance at breaking records (perhaps even July monthly ones!). And possibly more anomalous heat to come later in Jul... #CAwx #CAfire https://weatherwest.com/archives/27855
Major and prolonged heatwave develops by this weekend over CA & Southwest; Record temperatures possi...
Remarkably mild start to summer will be a (not so distant) memory by this weekend Map depicting the relative historical ranks for average temperatures over the past 30 days. Although parts of the N...
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