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Al Merose (he/him)
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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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November 15, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Call me picky, but I this this experience could be greatly improved.
November 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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This is the best figure I’ve seen in a whitepaper in a long time, bravo @ai2.bsky.social, delightful.
Figure 2 Global distribution of data for OlmoEarth pretraining. We randomly sample 285,288 locations based on OpenStreetMap categories. What's your favorite map projection? I like the Peirce quincuncial projection centered on Antarctica. They said it didn't make any sense for this figure though. They said "We hate Antarctica, that's why we don't sample any points there". I said, "Hey, there is one point there!" They didn't have a response to that so they tried to silenced me by deactivating my acc
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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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
October 29, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Sunday afternoons are for jazz and installing linux on your old laptops.
The Ubuntu 24 boot screen, which my reflection in the black of the screen Spotify screenshot: Alone Together Kenny Dorham
October 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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I love art
October 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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If you see this, post a picture from your device without explaining it.
Close up: black pen on white paper, the face if a woman over and over spilling into each other.
October 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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This reminds me of Taylor Lorenz’s recent podcast episode on clankers: “Robots won’t be oppressed. Robots will be doing the oppressing.”

overcast.fm/+ABHI4VaWKtM
On the DOGE for AI website, a slide that reads: Will DOGE 1.0 have impacts in other areas of our civilization? Picture it: In HR disputes, employees who file bully reports can be terminated (teamblind.com). What if we have Al-arbitrators? In insurance claims, what if Al-arbitrators stand between policyholders / adjusters? In IRS tax audits, what if Al-arbitrators stand between taxpayers / examiners? HOH Al arbitrators excel at logic-based and fact-checking disputes to ensure justice ... Can we think bigger? International trade disputes? Environmental disputes? Geopolitical conflicts?
September 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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My wife made these stickers custom for us and other speed limit enjoyers of our home town.
A sticker on a blue Subaru that reads “Aromas Pace Car”. Below the words are a row of snails. The sticker is a lighter shade of blue than the car.
September 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk...

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Jason S. Campbell tweets: ``` Charlie Kirk: "It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment" ```
September 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Album cover: stereolab’s “dots and loops”
September 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Album Cover for of Montreal’s Cherry Peel
September 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Utter brilliance. Bravo.
August 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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This is a funny citation for a machine learning paper.

(arxiv.org/pdf/2103.03206)
But permutation invariance means that the Perceiver's architecture cannot in and of itself exploit spatial relationships in the input data. **Spatial relationships are essential for sensory reasoning (Kant, 1781)** and this limitation is clearly unsatisfying. In the attention literature, position information is typically injected by tagging position encodings onto the input features (Vaswani et al., 2017); we pursue this strategy here as well. While position information is typically used to encode sequence position in the context of language, it can also be used to encode spatial, temporal, and modality identity.
August 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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I love this video and so does my cat
August 25, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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I’m proud to have played a small part in making this pop up on Google Flights a thing
A google flights search results page. Next to the flight, there’s a warning that says: “Contrail warming potential: Medium” Then, when you hover over it, there is a dialog that says: Contrails, or "Condensation trails," are the line-shaped clouds behind planes and contribute about a third of aviations total climate impact. Learn more about contrails.
August 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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*opens app at a lull during my family reunion*

Gosh, what a chilling news day
Trump, Claiming Weak Jobs Numbers Were 'Rigged, Fires Labor Official Economists said President Trump's decision to oust the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics could undermine confidence in government economic data. Fed Governor Steps Down Early, Giving Trump Opportunity to Shape Central Bank The resignation comes as President Trump has openly pressured the central bank to lower interest rates and called for Jerome H. Powell, the chair, to step down. Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down The company is among the first casualties of a vote to strip roughly $500 million in federal funding from NPR, PBS and local stations across the country.
August 2, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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July 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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I got a hilarious “collaboration” proposal from the “wizad”.
Subject: ✨Remote Collaboration Proposal💕 From: ***** wizad *** Body: Hi, Alex! I hope you are doing well. I’m (NAME), a senior web engineer from (COUNTRY). I’m seeking a collaboration with an American talent like you. To be honest, I was so impressed and really excited to look at your profile. I have been thinking about how Americans and Asians can collaborate better. Here's how it works: you handle your profile to attend interviews and team meetings, and once you land a job, I take care of all the development tasks and offer support with technical decisions. We can split the income fairly. Many others have successfully done this, and I can share proof and case studies if you're interested. If you're interested in my proposal, could we chat for 10 minutes? Thanks for your time! Best, (FULL NAME) 💕
July 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Loool! Spotify categorizes D&G’s “Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia” under the category “Business & Careers”
A screenshot of the Spotify app of the audiobook. The text reads: “Included in Premium Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Gilles Deleuze • Felix Guattari + 2 others # 4.8 (10) • Dec 4, 2023 • 21h 26m About Chapters More like this Try out the book Listen to samples, clips, and more.” More text about the book. In the “Genres” area is a chip that reads “Business & Careers”
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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Manufacturing update:

Since the 50s, the US installed a right wring terror state in Guatemala, suppressing a democratically-elected union friendly govt, leading to the massacre of its people. While the chapter is not over, I suspect it is directly related to today’s refugee crisis at our border.
Screenshot of my audioboom that reads “Chapter 2: Worthy and Unworthy…” of “Manufacturing Consent: The …” A half finished tub storage system I’m making in my driveway
July 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Listening to Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” while I’m manufacturing this tub storage
A picture of a half completed tub storage system. Its a wide, rectangular wooden structure where you can slide in tubes. I plan to put it in my garage.
July 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Drink what hip wine makers and bartenders are reaching for
Epic handshake meme Left: wine culture Right: cocktail culture Handshake: vermouth is where it’s at
July 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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What I mean to say is, this here is ol’ toothache
I’m in a yellow button down shirt holding ol’ toothache, an antique accordion that was my wife’s grandfather’s. It reads “M. HOHNER” on the side. From my finger position, a musician would be able to tell that I don’t know what I’m doing.
June 30, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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Everyone is obsessed and upset by my use of emdashes — but I’m not stopping!
Joan Westenberg on LinkedIn saying: “If I see one more post about emdashes or how to identify if a post has been written by Al, I swear to God I will turn Linkedin around and go straight home.”
June 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM