Tim McDaniel
@andymac89.com
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Here's a good case for AI. Unless someone is sending me handwritten emails, I don't need it in Gmail.
The Google Gemini3 LLM is remarkably excellent at reading weather observations from handwritten logbooks.
Example of recovering hourly pressure observations taken in Oxford in December 1883 and January 1884, compared to human-keyed data from relatively nearby sites.
Climate data rescue solved?
Example of recovering hourly pressure observations taken in Oxford in December 1883 and January 1884, compared to human-keyed data from relatively nearby sites.
Climate data rescue solved?
December 8, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Here's a good case for AI. Unless someone is sending me handwritten emails, I don't need it in Gmail.
Pumpkin is keeping me company after I got my wisdom teeth out yesterday. He's the best buddy
December 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Pumpkin is keeping me company after I got my wisdom teeth out yesterday. He's the best buddy
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One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Wisdom teeth removal took 3 1/2 hours today, so I feel like absolute shit. The bottom teeth just didn't want to let go. It took two different dentists, like 4 dental assistants, and 5 x-rays to get it all.
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Wisdom teeth removal took 3 1/2 hours today, so I feel like absolute shit. The bottom teeth just didn't want to let go. It took two different dentists, like 4 dental assistants, and 5 x-rays to get it all.
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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Hundreds of people gathered in Gaza’s Khan Younis to attend a mass wedding with more than 50 couples.
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hundreds of people gathered in Gaza’s Khan Younis to attend a mass wedding with more than 50 couples.
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“but the article didn’t include his associations with far-right extremist groups, the $100 million libel lawsuit he once filed after being called a Nazi and a pedophile, or the alleged ‘assassination plot’ that killed his accuser-slash-legal-opponent.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...
He’s an Unapologetic Fascist Who ‘Despises’ Democracy. He Still Wants You to Vote for Him.
He was once leader of the Proud Boys, has posted racist threats online, and sports a white nationalist tattoo.
thebarbedwire.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“but the article didn’t include his associations with far-right extremist groups, the $100 million libel lawsuit he once filed after being called a Nazi and a pedophile, or the alleged ‘assassination plot’ that killed his accuser-slash-legal-opponent.”
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...
thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/02/j...
Welp. 😂
Y'all. These Tennessee results are really fucking good. Even if we lose it, it'll be a huge swing in our favor.
December 3, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Welp. 😂
Y'all. These Tennessee results are really fucking good. Even if we lose it, it'll be a huge swing in our favor.
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Y'all. These Tennessee results are really fucking good. Even if we lose it, it'll be a huge swing in our favor.
Set up and ready to go
December 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Set up and ready to go
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They tell us cars are freedom, but certainly not a means to financial freedom.
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
They tell us cars are freedom, but certainly not a means to financial freedom.
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For every proposal to improve urban life, there is an immediate reaction from someone living in a rural exurb who is ready to lose their mind over the costs and implications on their privilege to drive a 2-ton living room on wheels through a city they don't live in.
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
For every proposal to improve urban life, there is an immediate reaction from someone living in a rural exurb who is ready to lose their mind over the costs and implications on their privilege to drive a 2-ton living room on wheels through a city they don't live in.
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Pete Hegseth Wakes Up At 3 P.M. With Dozen Missed Calls From The Hague
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Pete Hegseth Wakes Up At 3 P.M. With Dozen Missed Calls From The Hague
I think I'd like to follow a cohort of college students over the next few years to see if they tend to be more religious or conservative relative to students who attended college prior to the right-wing crackdown we've been seeing on college campuses.
December 2, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I think I'd like to follow a cohort of college students over the next few years to see if they tend to be more religious or conservative relative to students who attended college prior to the right-wing crackdown we've been seeing on college campuses.
My husband and I are quite good at charging our Volts, but it's interesting that we're most likely a minority in that regard.
Lots of studies showing a similar result: people who buy "plug-in hybrids" do not, as a rule, plug them in. They are mostly used & operated as gas cars.
(My take is, EVs are improving so fast, PHEVs are gonna look like a silly kludge w/in 5 years or so, well within the lifetime of a car.)
(My take is, EVs are improving so fast, PHEVs are gonna look like a silly kludge w/in 5 years or so, well within the lifetime of a car.)
Drivers aren't charging their plug-in hybrid cars, research suggests | CBC Climate Change News
Plug-in hybrid cars are a compromise for people wanting range with electric capability. But new research finds they’re less green than you think — so how should they fit into a zero-emissions future?
www.cbc.ca
December 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
My husband and I are quite good at charging our Volts, but it's interesting that we're most likely a minority in that regard.
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I can't count how many hours I've spent on the phone fighting with my insurance company over my daughter's inhalers.
We need to ban insurance companies' prior authorization practices - now.
We need to ban insurance companies' prior authorization practices - now.
December 1, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I can't count how many hours I've spent on the phone fighting with my insurance company over my daughter's inhalers.
We need to ban insurance companies' prior authorization practices - now.
We need to ban insurance companies' prior authorization practices - now.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
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when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
when its definitely not a hostage situation
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Sure seems just a little bit suspect that the gutted Consumer Product Safety Commission's highest profile action this administration is going after e-bikes.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Sure seems just a little bit suspect that the gutted Consumer Product Safety Commission's highest profile action this administration is going after e-bikes.
Found out that my State Rep has a Democratic Challenger for the first time since 2018. I needed that news today
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Found out that my State Rep has a Democratic Challenger for the first time since 2018. I needed that news today
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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The best time to start building a national high-speed rail network? Twenty years ago.
(And definitely not the week before #Thanksgiving. Just saying.)
edition.cnn.com/interactive/...
(And definitely not the week before #Thanksgiving. Just saying.)
edition.cnn.com/interactive/...
November 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The best time to start building a national high-speed rail network? Twenty years ago.
(And definitely not the week before #Thanksgiving. Just saying.)
edition.cnn.com/interactive/...
(And definitely not the week before #Thanksgiving. Just saying.)
edition.cnn.com/interactive/...