Al Merose (he/him)
@al.merose.com
Technical staff @OpenAthena.ai, community member @pangeo.io & @m2lines.bsky.social. Weather, Climate, Oceans Research. Programming, Politics, Postmodernism (oPinions are my own).
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Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
November 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.
Holy crap the substance is scary
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Holy crap the substance is scary
We built something like this at Google Research. This project reimagined a programming model around “particles”, and provided provable guarantees of privacy in an AI mediated OS (“Arcs”).
Unfortunately, the project and team was a victim of the 2021 layoffs.
github.com/PolymerLabs/...
Unfortunately, the project and team was a victim of the 2021 layoffs.
github.com/PolymerLabs/...
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We built something like this at Google Research. This project reimagined a programming model around “particles”, and provided provable guarantees of privacy in an AI mediated OS (“Arcs”).
Unfortunately, the project and team was a victim of the 2021 layoffs.
github.com/PolymerLabs/...
Unfortunately, the project and team was a victim of the 2021 layoffs.
github.com/PolymerLabs/...
Coming out of a rabbit hole about imagining Zarr as video container format.
Could this enable server free streaming video? If Zarr stored torrents, could I directly watch a video from a magnet link? Could we exploit webrtc somehow on the client side for fast p2p data transmission?
Could this enable server free streaming video? If Zarr stored torrents, could I directly watch a video from a magnet link? Could we exploit webrtc somehow on the client side for fast p2p data transmission?
November 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Coming out of a rabbit hole about imagining Zarr as video container format.
Could this enable server free streaming video? If Zarr stored torrents, could I directly watch a video from a magnet link? Could we exploit webrtc somehow on the client side for fast p2p data transmission?
Could this enable server free streaming video? If Zarr stored torrents, could I directly watch a video from a magnet link? Could we exploit webrtc somehow on the client side for fast p2p data transmission?
✋ building websites
👉 buying domains
👉 buying domains
November 8, 2025 at 10:55 PM
✋ building websites
👉 buying domains
👉 buying domains
Imaginary numbers were an old school way of representing vectors (w/ rotations) — and they’re still used a lot in computer graphics. There’s a unified representation of both kinds of “vector things” called Clifford algebra, which is ideal for physics, especially Schrödinger’s equations.
it is baffling that there are physicists who deny that there are physical values best represented by imaginary numbers
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-t...
Physicists Take the Imaginary Numbers Out of Quantum Mechanics | Quanta Magazine
Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of the theory into a new era of inquiry.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Imaginary numbers were an old school way of representing vectors (w/ rotations) — and they’re still used a lot in computer graphics. There’s a unified representation of both kinds of “vector things” called Clifford algebra, which is ideal for physics, especially Schrödinger’s equations.
Bugonia was great. Felt like The Menu (high praise).
November 8, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Bugonia was great. Felt like The Menu (high praise).
Learning every additional detail of the Mamdani team makes me want to cry 🥲
November 6, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Learning every additional detail of the Mamdani team makes me want to cry 🥲
I’m proud of NYC and CA 🥲
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
I’m proud of NYC and CA 🥲
This is the best figure I’ve seen in a whitepaper in a long time, bravo @ai2.bsky.social, delightful.
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
This is the best figure I’ve seen in a whitepaper in a long time, bravo @ai2.bsky.social, delightful.
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Prop 50 is about making sure workers and communities keep their voices in Congress. #YesOnProp50
La Proposición 50 busca garantizar que los trabajadores y las comunidades mantengan sus voces en el Congreso. ¡Sí a la Proposición 50!
La Proposición 50 busca garantizar que los trabajadores y las comunidades mantengan sus voces en el Congreso. ¡Sí a la Proposición 50!
November 4, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Prop 50 is about making sure workers and communities keep their voices in Congress. #YesOnProp50
La Proposición 50 busca garantizar que los trabajadores y las comunidades mantengan sus voces en el Congreso. ¡Sí a la Proposición 50!
La Proposición 50 busca garantizar que los trabajadores y las comunidades mantengan sus voces en el Congreso. ¡Sí a la Proposición 50!
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 AM
F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby
![Puns are not the games of a mediocre mind. Duchamp found in them "a source of stimulation both because of their actual sound and because of unexpected meanings attached to the interrelationships of disparate words [...].
Sometimes four or five different levels of meaning come through. If you introduce a familiar word into an alien atmosphere, you have something comparable to distortion . in painting, something surprising and new."42](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lozmph3nfogiyoi23m4qrxus/bafkreigf5ue5nl5vdw43ckxlhgqyv263gc6s7muwlqfxjd73oqa2rmd3ou@jpeg)
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Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
@ryankmetz.bsky.social I really enjoyed your conversation with Wil on @geospatial.fm
overcast.fm/+ABAWL3ZN1YU
overcast.fm/+ABAWL3ZN1YU
Voting in the Geospatial Economy — Geospatial FM
Ryan Kmetz is Research Director at IQSpatial. We are privileged to have his time in this episode. He talked with us about economic conditions faced by geospatial workers in the US. We reflected on the...
overcast.fm
October 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
@ryankmetz.bsky.social I really enjoyed your conversation with Wil on @geospatial.fm
overcast.fm/+ABAWL3ZN1YU
overcast.fm/+ABAWL3ZN1YU
This makes me proud to primary program in Python. What a great community to be a part of.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This makes me proud to primary program in Python. What a great community to be a part of.
Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
YouTube video by MIT OpenCourseWare
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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endianness is just a plot by Big Endian to sell more byte swap operations
October 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
endianness is just a plot by Big Endian to sell more byte swap operations
Let the eat cake
$170B for ICE and Border Patrol
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
$40B for Argentina
$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet
$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation"
$200M for Kristi Noem's jets
$98M for Trump's golf outings
But no money to lower your healthcare costs.
October 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Let the eat cake
This still is the funniest joke on the web
happy none pizza left beef day!! it's been 18 years and is now old enough to vote
October 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
This still is the funniest joke on the web
Sunday afternoons are for jazz and installing linux on your old laptops.
October 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Sunday afternoons are for jazz and installing linux on your old laptops.
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white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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October 17, 2025 at 10:08 PM
white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly
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Need to put your Icechunk or Zarr data on a map in minutes? Watch this demo to see how xpublish-tiles renders cloud-stored arrays directly into interactive MapLibre maps — no preprocessing needed. youtu.be/EK2HG_lSgA4
Wicked Smaht DEMO: Dynamic Map Tile Rendering from Icechunk to Mapbox with xpublish-tiles
YouTube video by Earthmover
youtu.be
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Need to put your Icechunk or Zarr data on a map in minutes? Watch this demo to see how xpublish-tiles renders cloud-stored arrays directly into interactive MapLibre maps — no preprocessing needed. youtu.be/EK2HG_lSgA4
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🌍 Announcing SamudrACE, our AI climate emulator built so scientists & planners can run “what-if” climate experiments quickly. Traditional models are slow and costly; SamudrACE makes high-quality simulations fast & more accessible. 🧵
October 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🌍 Announcing SamudrACE, our AI climate emulator built so scientists & planners can run “what-if” climate experiments quickly. Traditional models are slow and costly; SamudrACE makes high-quality simulations fast & more accessible. 🧵