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Sam Gardner
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ATMO/Lightning research group⚡️
BS @tamu.bsky.social '23 👍 MS @ttu.edu ‘25 🔫🆙
Big fan of meteorological applications of RF 📡
Python/data viz! Some of my work: https://hdwx.tamu.edu 🖥️
Storm chasing, but very casually⛈️🚙
Opinions = mine (unfiltered stream)
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katemckean.bsky.social
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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dopplershift.bsky.social
When they said AI was coming for programming jobs, I didn't think they meant creating stupid, conflict-driven drama too: github.com/matplotlib/m...

Seriously, launch all this AI-driven bullshit into the sun. Or give us a way to hold those behind these agents and their generated idiocy accountable.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...
github.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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mattlanza.bsky.social
Wake up babe. New floodplain maps just dropped.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
New FEMA draft flood maps show Houston-area flood zones may expand
Years in the making, the draft FEMA floodplain maps rely on higher rainfall estimates and more advanced modeling techniques, significantly expanding the current Harris County flood zone boundaries.
www.houstonchronicle.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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kcoxdc.bsky.social
We asked the Ring CEO pretty directly about this on the show late last year.

www.theverge.com/podcast/8220...
JAMIE SIMINOFF, RING CEO: So, the mental model, or how I look at it, is that AI allows us to have ... If you had a neighborhood where you had unlimited resources, so every house had security guards and those security guards were people that worked the same house for 10 years or 20 years, and I mean that from a knowledge perspective. So, the knowledge they had of that house was extreme; they knew everything about you and that residence and your family, how you lived, the people that came in and out. And then, if that neighborhood had an HOA with, call it private security, and those private security were also around and knew everything, what would happen? When a dog gets lost, you’d be like, “Oh, my gosh, my dog is lost.” Well, they would call each other, and one of them would find the dog very quickly. So, how do we change that and bring that into the digital world is — NILAY PATEL: Can I just ask you a question about that neighborhood specifically? JS: Sure. NP: Do you ever stop and consider that that neighborhood might suck? Just the idea that every house on my street would have all-knowing private security guards, and I would have an HOA, and that HOA would have a private security force. You can easily paint that as dystopia. Everyone’s so afraid that we have private cops on every corner, and I’m paying HOA fees, which is just a nightmare of its own. JS: So, I would assume you live in a safe neighborhood. NP: I hope so, yeah. JS: No, today, I’d go to ... If you want, I’ll take you to a place where people live and have to, when they get home from school, lock their doors and stay in their house, and they can’t go out and — NP: But I’m just saying the model. The model is, everybody is so afraid that they have private cops.
February 10, 2026 at 3:28 PM
wx4stg.com
yet another update on this, going to office.com now takes me to an error page, so maybe they've realized no one likes their chatbot when they just want their f'ing emails
February 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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madisoncondon.bsky.social
Beleaguered man by fire saying to woman: "I have heard rumors to the effect" Beleaguered man by fire saying to woman: "That there are people who actually enjoy writing"
February 9, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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eos.org
Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...
Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos
Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...
eos.org
February 6, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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weathermatrix.bsky.social
14-day Power Outage Loop. Still ~20,000 without power from the ice storm in Mississippi!
x.com/PowerOutage_...
February 7, 2026 at 5:43 PM
wx4stg.com
Does anyone have todo list app recommendations? Preferably (in order of priority):

- not a subscription
- nested lists
- separate lists
- notifications/reminders
- local or self-hosted
February 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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tomwarren.co.uk
hackers took over Notepad++ update servers and distributed a malicious update for the app. The update servers were vulnerable for roughly six months 😬 www.theverge.com/tech/872462/...
Notepad++ updates got hijacked for months and could have spied for China
The hack was resolved in a December update.
www.theverge.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:52 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Oh! “A federal judge on Friday ruled the Energy Department violated the law when Secretary Chris Wright handpicked five researchers who reject the scientific consensus on climate change to work in secret on a sweeping government report on global warming.”
A Secret Panel to Question Climate Science Was Unlawful, Judge Rules
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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techconnectify.bsky.social
Let's do this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
You are being misled about renewable energy technology.
YouTube video by Technology Connections
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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bobkopp.net
@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

#SaveNCAR
Share your comments on NCAR with NSF
Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March
agu.quorum.us
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
wx4stg.com
Presented my work on CCN and ECAPE effects on sea breeze convection this morning at #AMS2026! Publication soon (hopefully) stay tuned!
January 27, 2026 at 8:11 PM
wx4stg.com
well we’re off to a “great” start
January 24, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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bretthooverwx.bsky.social
US weather for any AMS annual meeting in all of recorded history
A closeup picture of a car's dashboard with all indicator lights illuminated, an absolute ass disaster of automotive illness. Also: an option to "PUSH CLOCK"? Do people need to push the clock sometimes?
January 22, 2026 at 1:02 PM
wx4stg.com
A while a go I saw a post (I can’t remember if it was here or the other place) about someone working on an nvidia driver for macOS/arm…? Did I imagine this? or does anyone else know what I’m talking about? because I can’t find it now..
January 17, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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canarymedia.com
For the first time ever, Texas got more power from solar than coal last year.
Chart: Solar is finally bigger than coal in Texas
Sure, coal had a comeback in 2025. But the year also marked the first time Texas got more power from solar than from the increasingly expensive fossil…
www.canarymedia.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:59 PM
wx4stg.com
It really is amazing how cheap this stuff is getting
January 16, 2026 at 7:58 PM
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wikimediafoundation.org
Twenty-five years ago, Wikipedia was an unlikely idea: a place where anyone could share free knowledge.

Today, it’s one of the most visited sites on Earth, not powered by corporate ads, but by people.
At the top, a participant of the Mascara Festival smiles while wearing traditional attire. In the bottom, people smiling and dancing during the Sandurot Festival. Text says: Happy 25th birthday, Wikipedia!
January 15, 2026 at 10:58 AM
wx4stg.com
Through the magic of Making The Same Mistake Twice™, rsync creates directory structure and files when backing up to an external drive… but all of the files are zero bytes.

Today I learned this is not a file system type issue—it just happened backing up to an ext4-formatted drive
wx4stg.com Sam Gardner @wx4stg.com · Jan 1
good news! I have finally organized all* of my openSCAD projects used to design things and published them on github

bad news! * = last week I wiped my laptop to upgrade fedora 42 -> 43 and switch KDE -> cosmic. I didn't need to wipe, I just felt like it. I failed to back up any of my projects!
January 14, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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weatherwest.bsky.social
Well, it's now official (per NOAA): Dec (and Nov-Dec) 2025 were the warmest such periods on record for Western U.S. (and also for most individual Western states). It has been an extraordinarily sustained period of winter warmth, and this eerily balmy winter continues into Jan.
Map from NOAA Climate at a Glance depicting the relative rank of Nov-Dec 2025 temperatures on a county-by-county basis. Most Western U.S. counties experienced their warmest Nov-Dec on record, as depicted by all locations dark red in color on the map.
January 14, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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firewxguy.bsky.social
🎉xmACIS2Py 2.0 Released🎉

xmACIS2Py 2.0 is now on pip and Anaconda with A LOT of new features and updates!

xmACIS2Py 2.0 Examples:

Data Access & Analysis: github.com/edrewitz/xmA...

Graphical Summaries: github.com/edrewitz/xmA...

#python #data #climate #weather #climatology #analysis #stats
January 13, 2026 at 4:41 AM
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hikikomorphism.bsky.social
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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harrypujols.com
The Chevy Volt is now the McRib of cars.
January 12, 2026 at 4:10 PM