Will Slack

I like the random distribution - cities don’t merit rounder numbers. (Same with area codes imo)

Insider Trading Is Going to Get People Killed War markets are a national-security threat.

What @saahildesai.bsky.social said

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

People still don't grasp that LLMs are an averaging machine, not a knowledge source.

The thing that has me concerned about AP selling election night returns data to prediction markets is that people are going to compare things like this to projections based on estimated remaining votes and allege fraud because the markets can’t be wrong

I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job.

It Does Not Work That Way

From NOAA Satellites:

The arctic blast that put much of Florida into a deep freeze also created these mesmerizing cloud streets caught by bsky.app/profile/noaa.gov 's GOESEast.

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Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... Unpopular opinion: Meme law is bad and if you have the New York Times movie and poetry critic writing your legal analysis it’s still the bad place even if the outcome is righteous.

You may be more conscientious about charging than other people constantly experiencing battery anxiety. (As the range changes in a car, or the icon of the phone)

Battery improvements haven’t match solar cell improvements - that’s all the popular conciousness knows.

Thank you!

"clue discrepancy?"

Sore winners sure miss the mechanism of why they won and what's now expected with the victory.

Nobody seems to think the Heckler’s Veto cuts both ways. It’s basically a corollary of the face-eating leopards.

and by the way, i’m not just saying this as rhetoric. that is actually what the numbers are, and i’m qualified to say that, as someone in the field

A family member deleted their TikTok account today. I asked why? They said, "I read the new terms of service".

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

What's your take on how Ireland runs their elections? They still have just a few parties despite the wider system, and they aren't subject to polarizing primaries.

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Let's talk about Cold Air Damming (CAD), specifically in reference to the southern Appalachians. Let's also talk about some struggles models have with simulating both the strength and the erosion of CAD. You will commonly read/hear CAD referred to as "the Wedge" in the south. Long chain incoming.

Funding bill extends TMF and cyber measures through September The authorization for the Technology Modernization Fund had lapsed in December, leaving its leadership unable to make new investments.

I am, once again, asking reporters to please link bill text/etc in stories that are specifically about new releases 🙏🏼

www.nextgov.com/modernizatio...

The Court of Appeals of Georgia is closed today to honor and celebrate the life and legacy of one our greatest Georgians and Americans: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A graph showing five lines on spending from 2021-2025. The 2025 line is consistently higher than the others.

h/t @donmoyn.bsky.social. All of this past year and the reckless spending is still accelerating - and this is adjusted for inflation, so the constant dollar values are worse.

The best war exhibit I've ever seen was "A Distant War" at the Danish War Museum (Krigsmuseet) in Copenhagen, recreating a Danish military camp in Afghanistan.

It showed the experience of the soldiers on the ground as they honored the alliance we now dishonor.

Had the realization a while back that I basically code switch in Slack between typing like this

and typing like this depending on who i'm talking to and how they type lol

and boy is that untenable once everyone's suddenly in this same channel

Increasingly it's clearer to a lot of people what i have been saying for a while: people use "inflation" and "prices" to talk about their own difficulty making ends meet or affording big ticket items once "inflation" became a big media news story. It's not actually about CPI or even increases.

On social media, there is no equivalent to a story on page A15. Either you are A1 front page or you are nowhere.

Leaders who can fill that front page with content of their choice can effectively blockade anything they don’t want to get attention

Have you been empaneled before? TBH I found it a really affirming process for me in 2018(?)

We should have a basic program randomly generate 1000 district maps and then allow parties to veto maps until you land on something fair-ish, then redraw the map to make sense with a supermajority threshold for adoption.

Or better, use multi-member districts so more parties can be competitive.

The normalization of weaponized gerrymandering is going to continue to harm us all more and more as politicians follow their new incentives and become more responsive to the primary electorate vs the general electorate.

An excel spreadsheet with each cell filled with the word Gloria