Mike Wolfinbarger
@jmwolf.bsky.social
Trying to reason with hurricane season.
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“I set the GDP of Slovenia on fire for the last thing, so trust me on the next thing” is a hell of an argument
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 3:58 AM
“I set the GDP of Slovenia on fire for the last thing, so trust me on the next thing” is a hell of an argument
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RadarScope 5.5 is rolling out today for Apple platforms, Android, and Windows. It includes MRMS, GOES, and RTMA products for Pro Tier Two and AllisonHouse customers on Windows, and new watch and warning types for all platforms.
November 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
RadarScope 5.5 is rolling out today for Apple platforms, Android, and Windows. It includes MRMS, GOES, and RTMA products for Pro Tier Two and AllisonHouse customers on Windows, and new watch and warning types for all platforms.
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The Nashville radar is down. But, the good people who serve you every day at the NWS finally received the 130lb palette with the part on it. Their two techs are now lugging that part to the top of the radar tower to try and get the radar operational before SVR arrives. All while not being paid.
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The Nashville radar is down. But, the good people who serve you every day at the NWS finally received the 130lb palette with the part on it. Their two techs are now lugging that part to the top of the radar tower to try and get the radar operational before SVR arrives. All while not being paid.
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15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
15 years ago, I said every social media founder should be forced to use and live with the default settings of their platforms. Now I would say that the AI founders should have their tools pointed at their families for a year before they can deploy them elsewhere.
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Immigration-driven diversity increases innovation
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History | Journal of Political Economy: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Immigration-driven diversity increases innovation
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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“Show us on this doll where the mustard touched you.”
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“Show us on this doll where the mustard touched you.”
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"I could smell the onions and mustard."
November 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
"I could smell the onions and mustard."
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"In a time of seemingly infinite polarization, his truculent, life-affirming catalog is one of the few things most Americans can actually agree upon." Happy birthday to the man behind 'Damn The Torpedoes'. Here is an overview I wrote for the Ringer a few years back. www.theringer.com/2019/10/18/m...
“Everybody’s Had to Fight to Be Free”: Tom Petty’s ‘Damn the Torpedoes’ Turns 40
Recorded at a time of roiling complication for the Heartbreakers, Petty’s virtuosic hooks and desire for resonance made this the band’s finest—and angriest—album
www.theringer.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"In a time of seemingly infinite polarization, his truculent, life-affirming catalog is one of the few things most Americans can actually agree upon." Happy birthday to the man behind 'Damn The Torpedoes'. Here is an overview I wrote for the Ringer a few years back. www.theringer.com/2019/10/18/m...
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Remember what I repeated over and over and over again for years like it was a goddamn assignment, the biggest lesson my life so far has taught me: borders also keep you in.
If this gets through, we're all on that list. And then there's no fleeing anything.
September 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Remember what I repeated over and over and over again for years like it was a goddamn assignment, the biggest lesson my life so far has taught me: borders also keep you in.
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If this gets through, we're all on that list. And then there's no fleeing anything.
September 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
If this gets through, we're all on that list. And then there's no fleeing anything.
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one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them
September 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
one of the clearest signs you're dealing with a strong and principled political movement is when they want to make it illegal to make fun of them
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Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
September 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Charlie Kirk was a champion of free speech and anyone who says otherwise will be fired
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Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
September 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
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george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh
September 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
george lucas made a three film opus about how a combination of tariffs, incels, and anxiety would give rise to fascism and we all made fun of him smfh
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i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
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District and appellate courts, I think fairly, keep asking the Supreme Court to clarify what they actually mean—i.e. "If the new rule is that the Trump admin can never lose then you have to say that" and the Supreme Court keeps being like "No, you're supposed to just do it without us having to say."
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
District and appellate courts, I think fairly, keep asking the Supreme Court to clarify what they actually mean—i.e. "If the new rule is that the Trump admin can never lose then you have to say that" and the Supreme Court keeps being like "No, you're supposed to just do it without us having to say."
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Every year, the Heritage Foundation puts out an "economic freedom" index, ranking every country in the world by (more or less) how lightly they're regulated.
There are four Nordic countries in the top 15.
There are four Nordic countries in the top 15.
One thing I feel like everyone needs to understand: those social-democratic Scandinavian nations we're all jealous of? Their market economies are *less regulated* than ours. More free. It's just that they collect a lot of taxes on the back end & fund social services & infrastructure.
I’m sorry 😞
The US needs an overhaul. Socialism should not be an evil word.
Good things are possible but for once the US needs to look to other countries as an example. I hope you get a leader that can inspire the populace to care for each other.
The US needs an overhaul. Socialism should not be an evil word.
Good things are possible but for once the US needs to look to other countries as an example. I hope you get a leader that can inspire the populace to care for each other.
September 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Every year, the Heritage Foundation puts out an "economic freedom" index, ranking every country in the world by (more or less) how lightly they're regulated.
There are four Nordic countries in the top 15.
There are four Nordic countries in the top 15.
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Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
Bessent States That Trump Might Announce a National Housing Emergency This Fall to Tackle Increasing Prices and Falling Supply
September 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Weird, putting tariffs on construction materials and throwing day laborers in concentration camps should have solved the supply problem by now
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Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023.
The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.
That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.
That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks
YouTube video by Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Our national parks generated $56 billion in visitor spending and supported 415,000 jobs in 2023.
The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.
That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
The entire National Park Service budget was just $3.6 billion.
That’s some return on investment — so why is Donald Trump taking an axe to our parks?
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Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
August 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Joe Biden is out buying ice cream while everyone is asking whether Trump is dead.
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Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
August 30, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Old Soviet joke for today:
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.
After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”
“I’m looking for the obituaries.”
“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”
“Not the one I’m looking for.”
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average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks
average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
August 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks
average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
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If you're explaining that you're not dead, you're losing.
We should do this every day tbh
the haters and losers will say it's foolish to indulge in wild speculation but you can't deny it's extremely funny that they have to write headlines like this
August 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
If you're explaining that you're not dead, you're losing.
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There's the authoritarianism, and then there's the just shitting on humanity parts - eg, the vaccine and renewable energy cancellations - which are a new nihilist twist on historical authoritarianism, death for its own sake. (Calling RFK eugenicist is giving him too much credit for reasoning.)
August 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM
There's the authoritarianism, and then there's the just shitting on humanity parts - eg, the vaccine and renewable energy cancellations - which are a new nihilist twist on historical authoritarianism, death for its own sake. (Calling RFK eugenicist is giving him too much credit for reasoning.)