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Our latest Climate Shift Index alert is out, summarizing the additional record heat this week: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index-alert?#record-breaking-march-heatwave-intensified-by-climate-change-continues-to-shatter-records-across-the-us

"From March 24 through 27, more than 42.5 million people across the western U.S. will experience at least one day with maximum temperatures at CSI of 3 or higher, indicating a strong influence from climate change."

Join our press briefing later today with Covering Climate Now for more: https://coveringclimatenow.org/event/press-briefing-virtually-impossible-heat-the-future-of-the-american-west/

Sam Mar 19

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116252721957511557

When your daughter has a friend who is a “theater kid” and a great baseball player they end up on the team that faces off against the bananas. Congrats Jake you are a great Party Animal

Sam Mar 19

RE: https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/116251106540182814

This is my life as a contractor

Sam Mar 17

David Gerard Mar 17

yt comment:

> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.

Sam Mar 13

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Daniel Swain Mar 13

Similarly, my Weather West post from earlier is also still on track. This will be a "double peaked" heat event, with "lesser" peak centered over Southern California today before a minor pullback this weekend. Then, next week, the main event begins... https://weatherwest.com/archives/43745

Extraordinary and prolonged March heatwave to break records and decimate mountain snowpack across U.S. Southwest, including much of California - Weather West

March 11, 2026 - Daniel Swain - "Winter" 2025-2026 warmest on record across most of Western U.S., including SoCal & Sierra Nevada Well, now it's official: Winter (Dec-Feb) 2025-2026 was the warmest on record across the majority of the American West, and a top-3 warmest winter nearly everywhere that it didn't quite cinch the record. That includes nearly all of the Colorado #

Weather West - California weather and climate perspectives

Sam Feb 24

kottke.org Feb 24

Top tier nerd shit. “WalkmanLand is a tribute to the long forgotten portable music players from the 80-90s. The Walkmans.” https://walkman.land/

Walkman.land

The most complete portable pocket audio cassette player database. WML is a tribute to the Walkmans.

Sam Feb 23

Heidi Li Feldman Feb 22

My home state of #NewJersey has a substantively important, perfectly named bill up for consideration. https://www.nj.com/hudson/2026/02/what-is-the-fk-ice-act-nj-bill-targets-immigration-enforcement.html
The Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered act, aka, the FUCKICE act.

What is the F**K ICE Act? N.J. bill targets immigration enforcement.

The acronym stands for the Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act, introduced by two Hudson County Democrats.

Sam Feb 12

Wren Reilly Feb 12

When people told José Andrés that they didn’t like the food that World Central Kitchen was cooking, he didn’t tell them “well it’s free, take it or leave it”, he listened. He asked for feedback. WCK cooks food that offers familiar comfort for people experiencing disasters. Be like WCK.

This is a post about FLOSS.

Sam Feb 12

If you care and don’t want the Dems to cave for meaningless concessions again you can call them. I use 5calls.org when I need to find numbers and even sample scripts

Sam Feb 10

Jennifer 🍄Feb 9

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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