David Wunderlich
@davidwunderlich.bsky.social
Among other things, I write about college football for
Gator Country. US Navy husband. Known as Year2 elsewhere, but that's from an old blog I started in 2006 and it's been a while.
Gator Country. US Navy husband. Known as Year2 elsewhere, but that's from an old blog I started in 2006 and it's been a while.
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“People walk around everyday
Playing games and taking scores
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Well, be careful you don't lose yours”
-Aretha Franklin, “Think”
Playing games and taking scores
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Well, be careful you don't lose yours”
-Aretha Franklin, “Think”
The volcanoes on the Big Island are big enough to have a wake when the wind blows
February 19, 2026 at 7:14 AM
The volcanoes on the Big Island are big enough to have a wake when the wind blows
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This day, five years ago.
RIP the Perseverance Skycrane, giving us one of the most badass sci-fi-like photos in space exploration history.
RIP the Perseverance Skycrane, giving us one of the most badass sci-fi-like photos in space exploration history.
February 19, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This day, five years ago.
RIP the Perseverance Skycrane, giving us one of the most badass sci-fi-like photos in space exploration history.
RIP the Perseverance Skycrane, giving us one of the most badass sci-fi-like photos in space exploration history.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL
YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.
USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+
NOT.
A.
DRILL.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.
USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+
NOT.
A.
DRILL.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
February 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
THIS IS NOT A DRILL
YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.
USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+
NOT.
A.
DRILL.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.
USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+
NOT.
A.
DRILL.
www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...
I have no specific comment about Jaden Rashada settling with the head coach of James Madison University
February 18, 2026 at 10:15 PM
I have no specific comment about Jaden Rashada settling with the head coach of James Madison University
Untold farmers fell into the trap of checking on their 60/40 portfolios before the Battle of Gettysburg was decided
February 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Untold farmers fell into the trap of checking on their 60/40 portfolios before the Battle of Gettysburg was decided
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Running Triple Option with Darren McFadden, Felix Jones, and Peyton Hillis 🔥
February 17, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Running Triple Option with Darren McFadden, Felix Jones, and Peyton Hillis 🔥
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a delightful example of the process of determining what can be known from the evidence available, and at what point we have to recognize that further clarification is conjecture
what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇
February 17, 2026 at 8:42 PM
a delightful example of the process of determining what can be known from the evidence available, and at what point we have to recognize that further clarification is conjecture
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The evidence from 2025 — revised jobs data, the inflation path, household balance sheets — increasingly suggests the economy did achieve something close to a soft landing in 2023-24. Tariffs might’ve scrambled it. Now the question is whether it can get back there.
www.wsj.com/economy/fede...
www.wsj.com/economy/fede...
The Economy May Have Stuck the Soft Landing. Nobody Wants to Jinx It.
Inflation is easing, jobs are holding up, and growth is solid. But after years of high prices and with new risks emerging, declarations of victory feel premature.
www.wsj.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:41 PM
The evidence from 2025 — revised jobs data, the inflation path, household balance sheets — increasingly suggests the economy did achieve something close to a soft landing in 2023-24. Tariffs might’ve scrambled it. Now the question is whether it can get back there.
www.wsj.com/economy/fede...
www.wsj.com/economy/fede...
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In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
February 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
How dumplings spread around the world
(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)
Solar + batteries is not the future. It’s the present!
Holy shit we're actually on track to see solar-powered batteries squeezing out gas power for days at a time. It will be interesting to see what happens this summer in California.
February 17, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Solar + batteries is not the future. It’s the present!
Spring games are returning with the post-spring portal period dead. All that talk from various schools and media outlets about how spring games were outdated and bound to die out about now anyway is revealed to be the obvious bunk it was, it was all just coaches’ paranoia about portal scouting
After initially indicating that Bama would not have a spring game this year, DeBoer has backpedaled and conceded to having one on April 11 with the caveat that not all services/concessions in the stadium will be offered because Morgan Wallen is playing a concert there the next Saturday. #mdwm
AS GOD INTENDED, Oklahoma football will have a proper spring game again this year, it will be the weekend before the Masters AGAIN AS GOD INTENDED, and it will be the boring but necessary spring spectacle to get everyone through the summer.
February 17, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Spring games are returning with the post-spring portal period dead. All that talk from various schools and media outlets about how spring games were outdated and bound to die out about now anyway is revealed to be the obvious bunk it was, it was all just coaches’ paranoia about portal scouting
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Single Wing + SUPER Counter 😍
February 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Single Wing + SUPER Counter 😍
W is preferable to Trump because he’s not to anyone’s knowledge a serial sexual assaulter, but: DHS/ICE, Iraq, Katrina, Roberts/Alito… you do not need to hand it to him. Maybe TARP, his one exception like Operation Warp Speed is for Trump. He should’ve discredited his party for a generation.
THIS MAN CREATED ICE
BRO, WHAT THE FUCK IS THE MATTER WITH YOU?!
February 17, 2026 at 4:52 AM
W is preferable to Trump because he’s not to anyone’s knowledge a serial sexual assaulter, but: DHS/ICE, Iraq, Katrina, Roberts/Alito… you do not need to hand it to him. Maybe TARP, his one exception like Operation Warp Speed is for Trump. He should’ve discredited his party for a generation.
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Roberto Hernández
Pitcher
Debut: 1991 - Retired: 2007
PIT - SFG - PHI - LAD - CLE - KCR - CHW - NYM - TBD - ATL
Pitcher
Debut: 1991 - Retired: 2007
PIT - SFG - PHI - LAD - CLE - KCR - CHW - NYM - TBD - ATL
Roberto Hernández at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Roberto Hernández
baseball-reference.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:50 AM
Roberto Hernández
Pitcher
Debut: 1991 - Retired: 2007
PIT - SFG - PHI - LAD - CLE - KCR - CHW - NYM - TBD - ATL
Pitcher
Debut: 1991 - Retired: 2007
PIT - SFG - PHI - LAD - CLE - KCR - CHW - NYM - TBD - ATL
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Just saw Sen. Mark Kelly say on the BBC that he’s considering a run for president. I don’t want him to be the nominee but he does have a twin, which could tee up an interesting Dave (1993) situation.
February 17, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Just saw Sen. Mark Kelly say on the BBC that he’s considering a run for president. I don’t want him to be the nominee but he does have a twin, which could tee up an interesting Dave (1993) situation.
Never use the LLM as the automation. Ask it to write a traditional script or application to do the automated task and then test, test, test before trusting it. The python script or Google AI Studio web app may have bugs, but they will execute the same way every time because they’re just code
As someone who just caught Claude Code fabricating data within minutes of it completing a task, I have no empathy for an analytics team that used hallucinated business metrics for 3 months before figuring it out.
Gen AI tools are for a decent first draft, they shouldn't be trusted blindly.
Gen AI tools are for a decent first draft, they shouldn't be trusted blindly.
February 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Never use the LLM as the automation. Ask it to write a traditional script or application to do the automated task and then test, test, test before trusting it. The python script or Google AI Studio web app may have bugs, but they will execute the same way every time because they’re just code
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Happy valentine's day ❤️
February 15, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Happy valentine's day ❤️
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Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in…
Credit: Volcano Hideaways
Credit: Volcano Hideaways
February 16, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during Kīlauea’s episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like I’m fixing to push someone in…
Credit: Volcano Hideaways
Credit: Volcano Hideaways
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love a bit of continvouclous morging
February 16, 2026 at 5:10 PM
love a bit of continvouclous morging
This kid is awesome
14-year old Miles Wu recently won the top prize at a junior innovators competition for an origami shape that can hold 10,000 times its own weight “that could be used to build deployable shelters for emergency situations like natural disasters”. [smithsonianmag.com]
This 14-Year-Old Is Using Origami to Imagine Emergency Shelters That Are Sturdy, Cost-Efficient and Easy to Deploy
Miles Wu folded a variant of the Miura-ori pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight
www.smithsonianmag.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
This kid is awesome
“People walk around everyday
Playing games and taking scores
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Well, be careful you don't lose yours”
-Aretha Franklin, “Think”
Playing games and taking scores
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Well, be careful you don't lose yours”
-Aretha Franklin, “Think”
February 16, 2026 at 7:51 AM
“People walk around everyday
Playing games and taking scores
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Well, be careful you don't lose yours”
-Aretha Franklin, “Think”
Playing games and taking scores
Trying to make other people lose their minds
Well, be careful you don't lose yours”
-Aretha Franklin, “Think”
Reposted by David Wunderlich
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
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Vinny Castilla
3B-SS
Debut: 1991 - Retired: 2006
SDP - COL - HOU - ATL - WSN - TBD
3B-SS
Debut: 1991 - Retired: 2006
SDP - COL - HOU - ATL - WSN - TBD
Vinny Castilla at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Vinny Castilla
baseball-reference.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Vinny Castilla
3B-SS
Debut: 1991 - Retired: 2006
SDP - COL - HOU - ATL - WSN - TBD
3B-SS
Debut: 1991 - Retired: 2006
SDP - COL - HOU - ATL - WSN - TBD
This is why “in the Epstein files” is not specific enough for passing judgment. I saw the file days ago, and this is true. It was just a roster of conference speakers.
A lot of names can be incidentally named in a million emails between well connected people.
A lot of names can be incidentally named in a million emails between well connected people.
Just finding out now that the CEO of Chuck E Cheese is mentioned in the Epstein Files
February 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
This is why “in the Epstein files” is not specific enough for passing judgment. I saw the file days ago, and this is true. It was just a roster of conference speakers.
A lot of names can be incidentally named in a million emails between well connected people.
A lot of names can be incidentally named in a million emails between well connected people.