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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 1d

JupyterLite team gives you MatLab scripts via GNU Octave...in your browser! "Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave code directly on your browser. GNU Octave is a free and open-source Scientific Programming Language that can be used to run Matlab scripts. " blog.jupyter.org/gnu-octave-m...

GNU Octave Meets JupyterLite: Compute Anywhere, Anytime!

We are thrilled to announce the newest member of our JupyterLite kernel ecosystem: Xeus-Octave. Xeus-Octave allows you to run GNU Octave…

blog.jupyter.org

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 2d

Why are they even looking for more???

This is another 475 million tonnes of CO2 !!!

"there’s no room for new fields to be opened. When you’re in a hole, you have to stop digging.” - Dr. Greg Muttitt, @iisd.org

#ClimateEmergency

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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 2d

Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHtI...

Full Mehdi Hasan speech at No Kings protest calls Trump out, says immigrants 'love this country'

YouTube video by USA TODAY

www.youtube.com

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

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PPP Grifter @pppgrifter.bsky.social · 3d

Too late dipshit. You said it, you meant it, we saw it, we know.

You’re only apologizing because your employees and customers started calling you out for it.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 3d

All very early stage as I validate ( intended! 🫣 ) the idea.

Looking for use cases for the MVP. Contact me if you see value in this kind of service for you or your team. Real life pain stories wanted, please share your woe. Very keen to hear how something like this might make things easier.

Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 3d

Validations can be simple and schema-based (JSON Schema, Relax NG, etc. ) or more advanced and involve things like simulations (EnergyPlus, FMI-based sims) or involve libraries that are a pain for users to install and use directly for infrequent tasks.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 3d

I'm developing a new web application that helps orgs create automated, API-based data validations for their community of users.

www.simplevalidations.com

Meet Your Data Validation Assistant | SimpleValidations

SimpleValidations lets you build robust data validation workflows with schema checks, simulations, and credentialing.

www.simplevalidations.com

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 3d

@michaelburchert.bsky.social Saw this on LinkedIn today and thought you might find interesting given your work ...

Submission site: www.editorialmanager.com/enb/default2...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

There is a reason "offsetting" does not exist in the vast majority of cases of avoidable harm to human safety: it would be laughed off as physically absurd and outright fraudulent.

Somehow, in the single most catastrophic physical threat facing our species, it became accepted as normal

Carbon credits are failing to help with climate change — here’s why

The idea that emissions can be offset through projects that claim to avoid releases or to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is fatally flawed.

www.nature.com

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 7d

Mark Litwintschik wrangles GIS data on U.S. solar farms step-by-step.

tech.marksblogg.com/american-sol...

American Solar Farms

Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...

tech.marksblogg.com

Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 7d

Scientists: be careful with your preprint submissions. "In the absence of sanitization, submissions may disclose sensitive information that adversaries can harvest using open-source intelligence." arxiv.org/abs/2510.03761

You Have Been LaTeXpOsEd: A Systematic Analysis of Information Leakage in Preprint Archives Using Large Language Models

The widespread use of preprint repositories such as arXiv has accelerated the communication of scientific results but also introduced overlooked security risks. Beyond PDFs, these platforms provide un...

arxiv.org

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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 11d

Saying the climate is too complex for tipping points is like saying your body is too complex to die. Complexity doesn’t prevent collapse…..it just gives you more ways to reach it.

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10d

Dave Deek asks "Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?"... to which I would add "despite our declining attention spans."

All-Natural Geoengineering with Frank Herbert's Dune

Can We Terraform the Earth Using Life Itself?

www.governance.fyi

Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10d

Been meaning to move my projects from Heroku to Fly.io or Render.com and I just got a big burst of energy for next week.

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/m...

Marc Benioff says Trump should send National Guard to San Francisco

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that President Trump should deploy the National Guard to San Francisco to combat crime: “We don’t have enough cops, so if they can be cops, I’m all for it.”

www.sfchronicle.com

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 10d

“I think China is using [clean technology] in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.”

www.ft.com/content/013e...

The ‘profound’ global impact of China’s rise as an electrostate

The country’s companies now dominate many clean technology industries

www.ft.com

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10d

So when you snark "A mushroom could provide better leadership."...it's like "well, yeah, obviously."

Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10d

Macarthur award video on Kiers.
youtu.be/efGRijyD4jQ

Toby Kiers | 2025 MacArthur Fellow

YouTube video by macfound

youtu.be

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10d

So appropriate for late 2025. "Plants and fungi maintain stable and fair resource exchange by sharing or withholding resources according to the trading partner’s performance."
www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Toby Kiers

Investigating symbiotic relationships among plants, fungi, and other microbes and their role in planetary health.

www.macfound.org

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10d

"The goal is to build places so good that people are freed from the necessity of driving."

American Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 10d

This billboard misses the point entirely.

We should be designing cities where adding 15,000 new neighbors doesn't automatically mean adding 15,000 more cars. The goal is to build places so good that people are freed from the necessity of driving.

Stage is set for a vote on a tense zoning fight that involves the North Side's Broadway

As charges of NIMBY-style narrow-mindedness fly about, Edgewater's alderperson is pressing for zoning changes she says can promote neighborhood vitality.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 10d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10d

Coffee roaster digital twin. autoroaster.com

From the HN post: "The models are custom Machine Learning modules that honor roaster physics and bean physics (this is not GPT/transformer-based). Buncha math." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4549...

(You know you're going to jack the heater to 100.)

AutoRoaster

autoroaster.com

Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 10d

John Fulghum makes trading physical cards with NFC tags as a way of interacting with music: fulghum.io/album-cards

Album Cards: Rebuilding the Joy of Music Discovery for My 10-Year-Old

What's the modern equivalent of flipping through CDs? Physical album cards with NFC tags that bring back the tactile joy of music discovery.

fulghum.io

Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 17d

@rozenmd what's your take on K8S: worth the complexity for solo SaaS efforts? ...or best to stick with services like Heroku, Fly, etc. Quote on HN today: "hardest part is getting comfortable with k8s (still worth it for a single node!) but I’ve never had more uptime and resiliency than I do now."

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Daniel McQuillen @dmcq.bsky.social · 17d

Good article by @rozenmd.com on running a small SaaS: maxrozen.com/on-four-year...

Four years of running a SaaS in a competitive market - Max Rozen

Looking back on the last four years, what worked, what didn't.

maxrozen.com

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