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Linh Pham
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Wait Wait Stats Person, SW Release Engineer, AI Pessimist #StarTrek #DoctorWho #Python #TBTLTen #Fedora #NoBridge https://stats.wwdt.me | https://linhpham.org Pronouns: he/they Mastodon: https://linh.social/@qlp Pixelfed: https://pxl.linh.social/qlp
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Just a short blog post with updates to the Wait Wait Graphs and Wait Wait Reports Sites to fix an issue where shows with an all men panel were not getting counted correctly.

I found the issue after entering information for this week's #WaitWaitDontTellMe 🤦

#WaitWaitStats
Wait Wait Stats Updates: November 2025
The Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me! that aired on November 1, 2025 was the very first show that had a panel consisting of three men: Adam Burke, Alonzo Bodden and Josh Gondelman. This happened a little over...
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Whoa! This is the very first time the show has had an all men panel!

Here's the report of the panel mix before this week's show: reports.wwdt.me/shows/panel-...

#WaitWaitDontTellMe
...in order to keep the battery charged and you are hauling around a lot more weight that isn't contributing to the actual work in moving the vehicle.

Also, a complementary report...

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Smoke screen: the growing PHEV emissions scandal
New analysis finds long-range plug-in hybrids and extended-range electric vehicles are a diversion on the road to zero emissions.
www.transportenvironment.org
The only way that PHEVs and REx-EVs have lower emissions than ICE (and maybe standard hybrids) is if the vehicles are driven almost entirely in EV mode.

Driving PHEVs and REx-EVs like ICE or hybrid vehicles (ie: not charging them nightly) means that the car has to generate more emissions...

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Even though I don't have a means of charging an EV overnight, I will be going with a full BEV and not a plug-in hybrid or range-extended EV because of the extra complexity, weight, and emissions that PHEV and REx-EV end up having.

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Plug-in hybrids pollute almost as much as petrol cars – EU data
Even in electric mode, PHEVs still burn fuel and emit 68g of CO2/km, on average. Their hidden fuel consumption costs the average PHEV driver €500 extra a…
www.transportenvironment.org
Just a thought...

Maybe Crowdstrike isn't exactly the best brand to sponsor a race car given that crashes can happen and pieces of the car may strike the crowd.
Just a reminder that I post photos of the notes that I take when listening to (or when I get a chance to attend a taping of) #WaitWaitDontTellMe on both #Flickr and on my #Pixelfed accounts.

The album on Flickr is sorted oldest to newest entry.
Wait Wait Don't Tell Me! Notes
Photos of the notes that I write down for each Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! show from late 2017 onward. Photos are published under the terms of CC BY-NC-SA.
flickr.com
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Speaking of people that spark joy, meet Sarah Langs, stats nerd/maven, who wakes up every day determined to convince the world that Baseball Is The Best.

She's also living with ALS, and always fundraising to find a cure. You can donate here: fundraise.projectals.org/campaign/fis...
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Unsurprisingly, when an LLM is trained continually on "junk web text," researchers found that process ends up inducing "lasting cognitive decline" for the model.
Researchers show that training on “junk data” can lead to LLM “brain rot”
Models trained on short, popular, and/or “superficial” tweets perform worse on benchmarks.
arstechnica.com
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New episode from Live Wire with Luke Burbank: Edgar Gomez, River Selby, and Hunter Noack

Writer Edgar Gomez discusses his collection of essays Alligator Tears, which follows his various hus...

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If it's not DNS that breaks things, it's expired SSL certificates and GPG keys. I suppose it's the latter right now...

#MySQL
MySQL Bugs: #119212: Expired GPG signature key for package repository
bugs.mysql.com
@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social If you want to check out another great creator who repairs older computers and CRTs, I highly, highly recommend @adriansdigitalbasement.com.
The reason why GM wants you trapped into their spin of Android Automotive is to milk as much data and subscription money off of you as possible.

For me, if there's no CarPlay or Android Auto, it's off my list. I have everything on my phone and don't need yet another fscking subscription!
Why GM will give you Gemini — but not CarPlay
GM CEO Mary Barra and new product chief Sterling Anderson on the company’s Gemini-powered AI assistant and self-driving EVs.
www.theverge.com
Also,

3. East Palestine, Ohio was where the horrific train crash happened
@lukeburbank.bsky.social @walsh.bsky.social A little late to listening to yesterday's pod:

1. Nutritional Yeast
2. I worked for a regional lumber and hardware supplier that had popcorn machines at some locations. I would always nosh on some when I go on yard visits for IT stuff

#TBTL
Explaining the differences between #Intel and #AMD modular processor designs using LEGO? Yes, please!

@craftcomputing.bsky.social: Explaining Intel's Clearwater Forest Xeon and Intel 18A with Lego!
Explaining Intel's Clearwater Forest Xeon and Intel 18A with LEGO!
YouTube video by Craft Computing
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Raise your hand if you ever inadvertently caused a 2+ hour outage (which was impossible to fix in a deterministic manner) due to DNS misconfiguration. #itwasdns
Will the stars falling out lead to few star wars?
Timbers and the Blazers are the only major league teams in Portland? What the actual?

#MLSSeasonPass #NWSL #AppleTV