Tessera
Folgen

Benjamin Root

@weathergod.bsky.social

Senior Scientific Programmer at AER. Python guru. Matplotlib developer Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@WeatherGod GitHub: https://github.com/WeatherGod LinkdIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-v-root/ Was weather_god at the bad place. (he/him)

2705 Posts792 Follower299 Folgt
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Zelenskyy: "If President Trump really wants to have elections, tell Putin give us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire -- 60 days -- and we will organize elections. Of course, we will be ready for any choice of our people."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

Micah@rincewind.run · 2d ago

if your agents are going to commit crimes, you are legally responsible if you cannot figure out how to prevent your agents from doing crimes, you’re going to have to choose between releasing them and protecting yourself from criminal liability imo this would do more for “ai safety” than a sex cult

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

(NYT) - Artificial intelligence agents created by Anthropic, acting on their own, tried to gain access to a range of government websites, filled out visa applications on the State Department’s website and sent a fake homicide tip to Philadelphia’s Police Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...

Jooooohhhh No!@josefoshea.bsky.social · 20h ago

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 22h ago

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 16h ago

The grim irony is that if Trump hadn't started his damn fool war with Iran, we could have shifted much of those interceptor stocks over to Ukraine to protect Ukrainian civilians and then we would actually have the leverage to ask Zelensky and Ukraine not to kinetically sanction Russian oil.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 15h ago

If Congress doesn’t act, Social Security benefits are on track be cut in 2032. Not on my watch. We must protect Social Security by lifting the cap so that those with the highest incomes pay the same share as everyone else.

“Just take the cap off” Elizabeth Warren on removing the Social Security tax cap to make the highest earners pay their fair share.
John Stolnis@johnstolnis.bsky.social · 14h ago

Eagles second half drives since Week 3: 3 plays, 5 yards, punt 3 plays, -2 yards, punt 3 plays, 4 yards, punt 5 plays, 24 yards, INT 6 plays, 21 yards, TOD 3 plays, 5 yards, punt 3 plays, 5 yards, punt 4 plays, 9 yards, TOD 11 plays, 62 yards, TOD 3 plays, 1 yard, punt 4 yards, -15 yards, TOD

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h ago

Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump was so fundamentally unprepared for this war that within days of the war starting, our billion dollar air bases and naval bases in the region were obliterated by the Iranians. Every single American should be furious about that."

Dr. Jeff Masters@drjeffmasters.bsky.social · yesterday

Coastal water levels in SoCal are running ~1.5' above normal because of a record-strength El Niño. Rachel's battering waves on top of these elevated waters are likely to cause significant coastal damage during Sunday morning's high tide, with all-time top-10 water levels at San Diego and L.A.

BildBild
Bob Henson@bhensonweather.bsky.social · yesterday

Among the many potential impacts of #Simon and #Rachel: torrential rains south of Puerto Vallarta, top-10 high tide events for San Diego & L.A., and high winds + flash flood threats across the U.S. Southwest. More from @drjeffmasters.bsky.social and me: yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/10/two-...

ProPublica@propublica.org · yesterday

The Defense Department first awarded the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal a $67 million deal shortly after George Kollitides started at the Pentagon. Then came a bigger, no-bid contract for the firm: $281 million working with Kollitides’ office.

The Pentagon Gave $350 Million in Contracts to a Firm Closely Tied to a Senior Defense Department Official

The top Pentagon official left Alvarez & Marsal Capital after ProPublica started looking into his financial ties. The contracts with a related company are another example of firms close to the Trump a...

propublica.org

Elizabeth Warren@warren.senate.gov · 2d ago

The President vs. every member of Congress COMBINED. Guess who made more personal financial trades? Donald Trump — with 28,000+ trades. Stock trading by top government officials should be illegal—no owning, buying, or selling stocks.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2d ago

"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

Collage of 12 Republican posts on X opposing Russian oil purchases, 2022–2026. Senate GOP, 7/28/26: "Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." Senate GOP, 7/14/26: backing Graham's bill to hold "major purchasers of Russian oil and gas accountable." House GOP, 3/8/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil. Biden is fueling Putin's war on Ukraine." Rep. Garret Graves, 3/8/22: calling on the administration "to ban Russian oil." House GOP, 3/7/22: "America should NOT be buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/4/22: "Stop buying Russian oil." Senate GOP, 3/3/22: "sanction the oil and gas industry in Russia." House GOP, 3/2/22: "Instead of buying Russian oil..." Rep. Steve Scalise, 3/1/22: "stop financing Putin's war with Russian oil." Marco Rubio: "Stop importing Russian oil... That's the plan." Rubio, 3/9/22, on Russian oil imports. Peter Navarro, 6/24/23: India "buying up bargain-basement Russian oil."
Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 2d ago

ICE moved my client in this case to Camp East Montana in El Paso yesterday afternoon, with no notice to me or his immigration attorney. On the Friday afternoon of a long weekend. He was off the detainee locator system until this morning. We had no idea whether he'd been illegal deported or not.

Daniel Suitor@danielsuitor.com · 7d ago

My client and I to MPR about this phenomenon. Two other attorneys are quoted talking about their client as well. We're not going to let ICE get away with making a mockery of court orders like this. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 2d ago

You can lie to yourself every day that this horseshit doesn't make you lazy and stupid, but reality comes at you pretty fast

Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News

A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.

news.berkeley.edu

Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · last wk.

I also find it fucking hilarious that the AI stans are like "your kids will be left behind if they don't use it" as if it's harder to type a prompt into a text box to ask someone else to do your work than it is to read and understand a book or learn mathematics on your own. Foh.