Chris Waltrip
@chriswaltrip.bsky.social
Software engineer, amateur astronomer, cat dad, BBQ enthusiast. He/him. ATX.
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
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You: Ugh, this migraine is killing me. I’m going to take excedrin
Alien: (50,000 light years away) Our psychic broadcast telling them blueprints for an infinite free energy machine has failed. They used the inhibitor
Alien: (50,000 light years away) Our psychic broadcast telling them blueprints for an infinite free energy machine has failed. They used the inhibitor
October 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You: Ugh, this migraine is killing me. I’m going to take excedrin
Alien: (50,000 light years away) Our psychic broadcast telling them blueprints for an infinite free energy machine has failed. They used the inhibitor
Alien: (50,000 light years away) Our psychic broadcast telling them blueprints for an infinite free energy machine has failed. They used the inhibitor
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"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk
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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.
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can't remember whether I've ever shared my Predator essay here, but it feels like a good time to do so
Predator | Priscilla Page
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June 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
can't remember whether I've ever shared my Predator essay here, but it feels like a good time to do so
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You gotta wonder if Texas Republicans are looking at their new congressional map and wondering if they made a huge mistake.
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 AM
You gotta wonder if Texas Republicans are looking at their new congressional map and wondering if they made a huge mistake.
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IF YOU ARE IN LINE TO SPEAK ILL OF DICK CHENEY, STAY IN LINE!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
IF YOU ARE IN LINE TO SPEAK ILL OF DICK CHENEY, STAY IN LINE!!
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These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
November 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
These big wins will embolden Dems to take on Trump's lawbreaking and show there's a price for GOP enabling of him. Folks hate to hear this, but normal patterns are asserting themselves: Liberalism isn't dead, Rs are likely to lose in 2026, and Trump is really unpopular, not a magical exception.
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Following all of the software engineering, data engineering, etc subreddits is really depressing right now because all anyone talks about is a) how bad hiring is, and b) how bad the actual work itself is now due to dealing with LLMs in the workplace.
November 4, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Following all of the software engineering, data engineering, etc subreddits is really depressing right now because all anyone talks about is a) how bad hiring is, and b) how bad the actual work itself is now due to dealing with LLMs in the workplace.
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so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:25 PM
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
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Sam watching helplessly as Frodo starts to identify with Gollum, a weird, transparently insane bald freak in a diaper who eats live birds and mutters about murdering Sam and Frodo all the time, was a mood without a strong modern parallel until people started falling for AI.
October 30, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Sam watching helplessly as Frodo starts to identify with Gollum, a weird, transparently insane bald freak in a diaper who eats live birds and mutters about murdering Sam and Frodo all the time, was a mood without a strong modern parallel until people started falling for AI.
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it's cool how America's entire political apparatus genuflects to a pudding brained buffoon with the same approval rating as botulism
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
it's cool how America's entire political apparatus genuflects to a pudding brained buffoon with the same approval rating as botulism
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nothing pulls you from the farce of believing that your unemployment has anything to do with lack of skills like looking at the cohort of people who are employed and realizing their heads are so far up their own asses they must technically be wind instruments.
October 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
nothing pulls you from the farce of believing that your unemployment has anything to do with lack of skills like looking at the cohort of people who are employed and realizing their heads are so far up their own asses they must technically be wind instruments.
Wake up honey, new mustard just dropped
This is why when it comes to mustard you have the Bengali kasundi, about 5 pages of blank space and then far in the distance, looking like a dot in space, you have the runner up
We need to talk more about the disappearance of the bialy and good nyc deli mustard.
If the mustard isn't clearing your sinuses why eat it?
If the mustard isn't clearing your sinuses why eat it?
October 20, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Wake up honey, new mustard just dropped
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I've found a really good Python library to create your own Sky Maps: starplot.dev. Really amazing to prepare observation nights. And great support of his developer, Steve Berardi.
#AstroMethods
#AstroMethods
Starplot
Star charts and maps of the sky in Python
starplot.dev
September 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I've found a really good Python library to create your own Sky Maps: starplot.dev. Really amazing to prepare observation nights. And great support of his developer, Steve Berardi.
#AstroMethods
#AstroMethods
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10-3 marks the anniversary of the recording session for Chronic Town at Mitch Easter’s Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem. Tracks recorded “1,000,000,” “Ages Of You,” “Gardening At Night,” “Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars),” “Stumble,” “Shaking Through,” “White Tornado,””9-9” (attempted but abandoned).
October 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
10-3 marks the anniversary of the recording session for Chronic Town at Mitch Easter’s Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem. Tracks recorded “1,000,000,” “Ages Of You,” “Gardening At Night,” “Carnival Of Sorts (Box Cars),” “Stumble,” “Shaking Through,” “White Tornado,””9-9” (attempted but abandoned).
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"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."
Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump
The prominent liberal pundit made up a fake version of Charlie Kirk to praise, laundering his reputation the way a lot of mainstream media launders MAGA
www.arcdigital.media
September 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"And they are adamantly opposed to recognizing bad faith, so they let themselves be used, over and over, in an endless attempt to find reasonable common ground with political forces bent on division."
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The problem is they climbed up the escalation ladder too quickly. They've run out of credible "or elses."
Or else what? You'll try to murder Congress then pardon the guys who did it and call them patriots? You'll have the Supreme Court overturn precedent without even explaining their reasoning?
Or else what? You'll try to murder Congress then pardon the guys who did it and call them patriots? You'll have the Supreme Court overturn precedent without even explaining their reasoning?
Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists
September 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The problem is they climbed up the escalation ladder too quickly. They've run out of credible "or elses."
Or else what? You'll try to murder Congress then pardon the guys who did it and call them patriots? You'll have the Supreme Court overturn precedent without even explaining their reasoning?
Or else what? You'll try to murder Congress then pardon the guys who did it and call them patriots? You'll have the Supreme Court overturn precedent without even explaining their reasoning?
Always a delight to see GWAR in the news.
September 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Always a delight to see GWAR in the news.
WTF
The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney
September 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
WTF
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Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
August 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.
Cool interview with Andy Saunders about his book, "Gemini & Mercury Remastered", and his work re-processing the 1960s US crewed-spaceflight photo archives with modern, digital technology. #photography #gemini #spaceflight
60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal incredible details
“It’s that level of risk that they were taking. I think that’s what really hit home.”…
arstechnica.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Cool interview with Andy Saunders about his book, "Gemini & Mercury Remastered", and his work re-processing the 1960s US crewed-spaceflight photo archives with modern, digital technology. #photography #gemini #spaceflight
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Neuer Stadtteil in M https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/neuer-stadtteil-in-m-1928
September 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Neuer Stadtteil in M https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/neuer-stadtteil-in-m-1928
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who up refluxin’ they acid
September 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
who up refluxin’ they acid