Over the last two weeks, ice extent on the... #GreatLakes has dramatically increased with Lake Erie reaching 95% ice cover & the combined Great Lakes reaching 51%! Learn about current Great Lakes ice coverage & how it compares to previous years: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratoryshow more

This really visualizes how much Lake Effect snow Erie,... PA & much of the Lower Great Lakes has seen. Over 20" of snow over the last 24 hours for some areas along The Great Lakes - with highest totals pushing 30 INCHES in Erie, PA. #PAwxshow more

The Big Wheel does it! Scotty Thiel parked it... in Eldora victory lane with a last lap last corner pass to win the Great Lakes Sprints main event on Family Fireworks Night 🏁show more

There is something hugely satisfying in seeing Kemi pouring... her creamy products over a stiff dry cone. 🥵 This is what our great nation wants! Incidentally how can Mel Stride be both inside & outside the ice cream booth at the same time? Call it Conservative magic! 🇬🇧show more

Freezing temperatures across the country cannot slow down the... U.S. Coast Guard. With some parts of the U.S. dealing with the most ice they’ve seen in a decade, Coast Guard icebreaker crews are hard at work on missions in the Great Lakes, Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic waterways to keep commerce moving and ensure American life continues without interruption. These missions will keep commercial goods like food and fuel flowing throughout the country and keep America going. From lifesaving evacuations to high-seas interdictions—and now interior icebreaking operations—these heroes more than live up to the Coast Guard motto: Semper Paratus, Always Ready.show more

Marjorie Taylor Greene tried explaining away Climate Change by... arguing that no one paid taxes during the Ice Age: Let me break this down a little bit for you: - The last ice age began approximately 2.6 million years ago and peaked approximately 20,000 years ago. - At its peak, temperatures were estimated to be approximately 10°F cooler than they are today. - That equates to a temperature rise of 0.05°F per century over 20,000 years. - Over the last 100 years (1 century) alone, the average surface temperature has increased by 1°F - This is 20 times faster than it had gained on average over the 190 centuries prior. - What changed? Industry and the burning of fossil fuels. Carbon dioxide causes a greenhouse effect, keeping heat in the Earth's atmosphere and surface. The levels of CO2 have increased drastically over the last century. FACTS matter and so do educated politicians.show more

What we’re seeing right now could be historic. If... Hurricane Humberto is upgraded to a CATEGORY 5, it would mark two consecutive years with multiple Cat 5s in the Atlantic. That hasn’t happened since the Great Depression. Every satellite frame is more intense than the last. The 145 MPH eyewall is only getting more deeply submerged in a whirling ice bath of convection.show more

Shortly after 5 pm yesterday, Deputies responded to a... call for a dog in distress in the area of 228th and Harney Street, just south of Waterloo. When they arrived they were informed by homeowners that a dog had fallen through the ice on the lake and was treading water. Deputy Kubik, a DCSO K9 handler, made use of a kayak that was on one of the homeowner's docks and quickly made his way across the ice, using his oar to break the ice as he paddled to the dog. About the time he reached the dog, Waterloo Fire & Rescue also arrived and assisted in pulling Deputy Kubik and Boomer the dog back to shore. Once on shore, Deputy Clark took the 'chilly dog' inside to warm him up with a hair dryer. We are happy to report that after a brief vet visit yesterday, Boomer is doing great. Thank you to our courageous Deputies and our partners at Waterloo Fire and Rescue for their assistance.show more

"I tried carnivore for two weeks and felt awful... at the gym." Your body has been running on glucose every three hours for the last thirty years. You then asked it, with five days' notice, to learn a new fuel system. Of course you felt awful. What was actually happening in those two weeks: - Glycogen stores depleting before being replenished from fat and protein - Sodium dropping rapidly without enough replacement - The liver upregulating gluconeogenesis (this takes weeks) - Ketone production ramping up gradually - The whole hormonal cascade recalibrating The transition is uncomfortable. The transition takes 4-6 weeks for most lifters, longer for some. You quit at day twelve and concluded the diet doesn't work. The diet didn't fail. You quit before the adaptation completed. This is like attempting to learn French, giving up after two lessons, and concluding French is impossible to learn. The conclusion is not about the language. It's about the time you gave it. Six weeks. Then judge.show more

The New Orleans New Orleans JazzFest is the Best.... I love festivals and love this one the most, so I highly recommend it. I started coming 31 years ago and have only missed two because I love it so much. I come with a bunch of friends, our adult kids, and in some cases our and our friends' grandkids - so we've evolved three generations around the festival over three decades and they all love it because it's so great. It's great because it has the best music - all imaginable types from all over the world, including the biggest names (I saw the The Rolling Stones three days ago) and the most talented lesser-known great musicians (like the Meters, the Nevilles, Trombone Shorty playing simultaneously on 9 stages. It's an orgy of great music. And it has the best food -- not just for a festival but for food experiences anywhere. If I had to pick the top place to go for great eating, New Orleans would vie for my top pick. That's because it has the best indigenous food in the US, and the local restaurants have food kiosks at the Fest serving unique delectables like crawfish strudel, soft shell crab po-boys, seafood gumbo, etc. I recommend what I just told you plus a boiled crawfish sack and crawfish monica. And the people's vibe is cool too because the people couldn't be more diverse in ethnic and economic backgrounds while they share the same love of the great fundamentals of music, food, and camaraderie. It is funky - too funky/grungy for some until they settle into all the good stuff. And that's just the Fest. New Orleans has lots of great music clubs and restaurants that we wallow in after the Fest, typically til 2 or 3am. I suffer from FOMO, so I'm challenged here. My favorite music club, my favorite band, and my favorite people are the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The music is great because the Preservation Hall (which is a tiny converted, old-world residence that holds about 40 people) attracts the best musicians in the world. There's an abundance of exciting flavors here to stimulate all your senses and it's a great place to go with friends. So I suggest you check it out next year. #JazzFestshow more

In 1958, Charles Hapgood published the book Earth's Shifting... Crust, arguing that Earth's outer crust occasionally shifts rapidly over the mantle, leading to abrupt climate changes and catastrophic floods. He said that this mechanism could explain events such as the end of the last Ice Age and the preservation of instantly, fully frozen mammoths with food in their digestive systems. Albert Einstein himself wrote a letter to Charles Hapgood, and he also wrote a short foreword to Hapgood's 1958 book, Earth's Shifting Crust. In it, Einstein commented that Hapgood's hypothesis deserved serious consideration. He wrote: "The idea is original, of great simplicity, and—if it continues to prove itself—of great importance to everything that is related to the history of the Earth's surface." Because this is a very dangerous idea, it was suppressed so people wouldn't panic and society wouldn't collapse, because we are close to such an event and the elites are building doomsday bunkers.show more

These claims have been floating around for two days... now, and somehow not a single outlet has felt the need to check them against the actual footage. Here is what happened. First, the NYPD was not shutting down a harmless snow day snowball fight. Officers responded after receiving calls about disorderly conduct around the park. Over the loudspeaker, they told people to enjoy themselves and remain inside the park. One officer can clearly be heard encouraging the kids to have fun. They stood back and monitored the situation. Then the snowballs started flying. Not just light powder tossed between friends, but hardened snow and chunks of ice aimed directly at officers. Second, yes, there were kids involved. There were also grown adults in the crowd. Some of them were not calming things down. They were egging it on, urging people to throw ice at uniformed officers. Third, these were not soft, playful snowballs. Many were large, compacted chunks of ice, some the size of a football. Ice like that can break bones and split skin. It did. Officers were hospitalized with facial lacerations. The footage is available for anyone who wants to watch it. When members of the press decline to describe what is plainly visible because it may hurt Mamdani politically, that stops being journalism. It becomes advocacy.show more

New year. First flight of 2026. Westbound again. Today’s... flight arcs away from London and bends north, following the geometry of the planet rather than the flatness of a map. The great-circle route pulls us toward Greenland’s 🇬🇱 ice and the far northern reaches of Canada 🇨🇦, places so vast and sparsely inhabited that distance still feels absolute. Town names like Iqualuit, Yellow Knife, and Crazy Woman, all part of this northern adventure. From altitude, the scale is humbling: ice, rock, forest, and very little else. There’s method behind today’s routing though. Over the North Atlantic, aircraft don’t simply choose a line and go. We fly along daily-published “roads in the sky”, tracks that are repositioned every 24 hours to account for the atmosphere’s moving parts. Eastbound traffic rides the jet stream’s tailwinds for speed and efficiency; westbound flights step away from that river of air, trading distance for fewer headwinds and a smoother, more economical crossing. The sky itself is the variable, and the routes adapt to it. It’s a reminder that aviation is less about conquering nature and more about cooperating with it, listening to the winds, respecting geography, and letting physics do its quiet work. Looking forward to starting 2026 with a day in Vancouver and perhaps seeing some Harbour Air seaplanes. Happy New Year everyone I hope 2026 is a great one. See you on the other side of the Atlantic… again. #A350 #PilotLife #AvGeek #GreatCircle #NorthAtlantic #FlightPlanning #JetStream #AboveTheClouds #NewYearFlying #GlobalAviation #VancouverBound #AirlineLife #vancouver #Canada #heathrow #HappyNewYear2026show more

Today was milestone for me that was a long... time coming as I finally was able to tour Giga Berlin along with three of the original drone pilots that showed the world the factory as it began it’s construction back in early 2020 all the way to present day as a world-class & mature factory. Tobias Lindh has been providing ground & drone views for over 6 1/2 years, from the very beginning, with the first tree removal necessary for the earthwork for the foundation to get underway & then construction of the factory proper. He continues to provide us coverage of the factory & inspired me to try to cover Giga Texas way back in 2020. The Wolfpack Berlin - Robert & Andreas brothers Andreas & Robert also began covering Giga Berlin from the very beginning & featured well edited and beautiful cinematic drone flights over the factory for the first several years. They also inspired me to improve how I flew my drone and edited my videos. Together, Tobias, Andreas & Robert played an important role informing a world-wide audience of the progress of the factory. We had a great tour of the factory, along with Tesla Welt - german Podcast about Tesla, werk.lab & PIT HOSTΞTTLΞR 🇨🇭 , seeing much of the operation of Giga Berlin & I benefitted by getting insights & observations from the three drone operators that literally have watch everything arrive, be installed and put into operation over the past 6+ years. I did individual interviews with each of them and those will be coming out soon! For now, here are a few teasers & photos of us in the factory. Thanks to Tesla & lifeatgigaberlin for meeting with us and giving us a great tour!show more

That sigh your dog just did? It’s 16,000 years... old. Two studies published this week in Nature pushed back the genetic record of dog domestication by 5,000 years, detaching it entirely from the story of farming. The humans who first lived with dogs had no fields, no livestock, no permanent address. They were ice-age nomads, moving constantly across a frozen continent, and they had dogs with them anyway. Not for agriculture. Not for herding. Just because somewhere along the way, a wolf that wasn’t quite a wolf anymore sat down next to a human fire and stayed. The particular way your dog presses against your leg when something feels wrong, positions itself with a sightline to the door, watches you without watching you – that’s not a quirk. That’s a collaboration 16,000 years in the making, running without interruption through every plague, empire, and revolution since. Dogs are great. I love my dog. 🐕 Gandalv / Gandalvshow more

Watch the difference in the practice swings and the... shot. See the head dip & knee buckle? Have seen this from Lexi before. Can’t remember which major it was, but it was last season in the closing stages of the final round and tight lies. It’s a classic move from those who have anxiety with their pitching and are trying to help the ball in the air. I know it well. I had the chipping / pitching yips for a few years and was a complete mess. Head moving down & leaning back to the right shifts the low point of the club to an earlier spot. Club hits the ground too early. When you look at great pitchers they are usually shifting a little left, and slightly extending up after impact. Not dipping down and back. Imagine standing side on to the target and tossing to the landing spot with your trail arm. The dip down and knee buckle is completely at odds with how you would move. I am confident an expert short game coach could really help her with this. I reckon she is in the horrors mentally standing over these shots. No disrespect to Lexi, she’s obviously a great player. Yes, I’m just an armchair fan sitting on my couch 😎.show more

I just built my own wiki generator plugin for... my agents. My agents can now generate wikis for anything I ask. One of my favorite wikis is called PaperWiki. This is a great example of what Andrej Karpathy describes. It uses obsidian vaults to organize papers, retrieve LLM-generated summaries, diagrams, and other advanced views for paper exploration. When Obsidian UI is not enough, I use my own artifact generator inside my agent orchestrator (see clip for example). This allows my agents to build any kind of view or exploration feature that I need. The papers are all curated with automations and several rules/patterns I have manually built over the years. On the surface, this looks basic. But behind the scenes, there are advanced search capabilities, connections, metadata, derived data, and other interesting bits of information that are extremely useful for my research agents. This is mostly built for agents. The artifact preview is just a high-level way to validate and quickly assess the quality of the wiki, suggest improvements, and it's also great for research. I use tobi lutke's qmd for all search capabilities. Everything is markdown. The summaries and even the diagrams. The wiki updates on its own based on several automations I have optimized over the past couple of weeks. The wiki grows and self-improves based on several requirements important for my research use cases. This is as personalized as it gets. There is nothing like it out there. And I use my research expertise to continue improving it over time. This is a vanilla wiki. There are so many things I want to build on top of this. Different aggregations, views, artifacts, etc. All to help automate more of my research work and accelerate productivity. I think the biggest leverage here is how powerful this could be for discovery and experimentation. One of my goals is to use it to find deeper connections and insights that would otherwise elude the top human researchers and use those to generate interesting new hypotheses and research experiments. That way, my agents can use autoresearch to explore research ideas at the frontier. Stay tuned for more.show more

I FIND GREATER BUSHENYI TO BE INCREDIBLE! KAMPALA SACCOS... MAY WANT TO MAKE STUDY TOURS HERE Over this Easter holiday in Bushenyi, I was hoping to find some time to write a more formal piece on law. Instead, as you can see in these clips, Kabagareme, the booming Saturday meat market got in the way. You will never find a better meal, a better price and the extra satisfaction of actually supporting the local people’s “hustle” Deeply satisfying on all fronts. Kabagarame is yet another example of the high levels of civic awareness and organization of the people here. Apart from always being well represented in National since independence, Bushenyi has achieved social-economic transformation through embracing formal education very early on. It’s not uncommon to find families with three generations of university graduates here unlike almost anywhere else in Uganda. Most 50-60 year old Ugandans are one generation removed from peasantry. And, I think that Bushenyi’s case is not the case of the “diploma disease” that afflicts Uganda, generally. There’s a big difference between papers and an education. The former, I hear, you can buy at Nasser road, the latter, you cannot. It must translate in the way you think and live. The people here for example, organized their land holding as early as the 1960s when most land here got surveyed and titled. Elsewhere, land fragmentation, disorder, disputes and violence still block economic progress. Access to credit for example, is much easier when you have titled land. The per capita income here is even by visual estimation only, high. Generally, every household has a combination of any of the following crops; coffee, tea and bananas or all three. They will generally keep at least a few crossbred cows. Each of those is a cash crop in its own right. I have never seen a grass thatched house here. Especially tea factories dot the magically beautiful green hills along with several schools whose performance in the National exam, a National obsession, is among the very best in the country. The stretch between Kyamuhunga and Kasese covering the present day Rubirizi and Bunyarunguru districts is perhaps, the most beautiful part of Uganda. It spots the beautiful magical twin crater lakes of Kyema and Kamweru (“Africa”), the Kazinga channel, lakes Edward and George. One can have the breathtaking, sweeping panoramic views of Queen Elizabeth National park, Mountain Rwenzori, and all aforesaid lakes, atop the West arm of the great East Africa rift valley. There are so many hotels in Bunyaruguru of which Kyangabi Crater Resort has always been my favorite. Although, it has to be said, the views are at King Fisher Lodge. The big revelation to me this holiday however is how well the SACCOS here seem to be doing. I took interest in taking a closer look at upcountry SACCOS from my friend Muhimbise Atiki and Kakande Alex ‘s recent analysis of Y-SAVE’s no dividend in two years situation. From anecdotal evidence, the biggest SACCOS here include Kyamuhunga, Mushanga and Muhame. At least two of these SACCOS have a loan portfolio of ugx. 50BN each! Today, one declared and gave dividends. SACCOS might be the local solution that has been brewing to building local capital. SACCOS might also finally break the back of the trust deficit and therefore high risk that underbelly Uganda borrowing resulting in high interest rates. Kampala SACCOS may, after putting down The Intelligent Investor, need to come here for a practical education. There’s a lot to admire and learn.show more