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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

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

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Sam Mar 15

@thomasfuchs And able to keep push its thumb down on moving your opinions in a desired direction

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Sam Mar 14

@clmerle If you have a chance tomorrow go see Emily Nemens, I spent a while in the line waiting with her to get rebooked out of Seattle back to Tucson. Spent a while chatting. I have started her book Clutch and will follow that with Cactus League. We were in line for 5 hours

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 Mar 13

@thomasfuchs Oh no. So early

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Sam Mar 7

@preslavrachev Probably so they have something to blame when they strike a school and avoid any accountability

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.

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