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I have considered the #collapse of the #GulfStream and the larger system of the #AMOC something that might happen in the next 100 years. But #ElizabethKolbert wrote in her article in the #NewYorker on Oct14, #WhenTheIceMelts about the 27 #tippingpoints, and #feedback loops.

"The fact we can't simulate these step-change increases and understand why it's happening is terrifying." -- Prof. Hayley Fowler "The impact of warming the ocean could lead to new classes of heatwaves we've never seen before." -- Prof. Valerio Lucarini bbc.com/future/article…

Draymond Green Ejected In The First Quarter, To The Tearful Exasperation Of His Team defector.com/draymond-green…

Best theory of why the #Dali lost control and caused the #KeyBridgeCollapse

Crystal clear, crucially important. About democracy, not just Trump.

AI is the first tool in history that can: 1) create new things by itself, 2) make decisions by itself. It cannot be compared to any previous technological revolutions. Inventions like the printing press and even the atom bomb ultimately empowered humans – because humans always decided how to use them. AI, on the other hand, is an autonomous agent that can create and decide without us. How can we go on developing AI without being sure that it will not escape our control? Without knowing that its creations will not harm humanity? Watch the full @MSNBC interview from last month on bit.ly/TheBeatYNH #ai #humanity #technology #artificialintelligence #tech #future

@jason61987 Encouraging prediction of an #AR coming soon

Monday, December 18, 2023, 1:17 PM, PDT: 545 DM Low pressure is starting to develop 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. This is the start of the formation of the secondary low, which will emerge and have a southward trajectory. This low-pressure system will move into Southern California on Thursday and Thursday night. As of right now, intensive rapid development is expected within the next 24-30 hours over the Central Pacific. This system will tap into subtropical moisture south of the Hawaiian Islands in the next 32 hours, bringing copious amounts of rain to the southern California region. There is an increasingly elevated chance of thunderstorms on Thursday. The trajectory and positioning of solution models have the system going close to Point Conception early Thursday afternoon into Thursday night, which will provide the perfect setup for rainfall from Santa Barbara down to San Diego. If the main low pressure gets within about 65 to 130 miles of the Channel Islands, rainfall totals will increase across Ventura County, LA County, Orange County, and San Diego County. Rainfall totals are still expected to be between 0.80 to 2.0 inches. However, if thunderstorms do develop, rainfall totals of 1.8 to 4.0 inches seem justified with this particular system. More updates will continue as the system nears our region. The first system is moving into parts of Southern California this afternoon, which will moisten up the atmosphere and prepare us for the second system. There is no offshore flow at all, which is a good sign for further storm development as the lower levels of the atmosphere moisten up. #cutofflow #ElNino #Californiastorms

I read every page 50 years ago. Would be curious to take another look.

The legendary publications of the Whole Earth Catalogs — all 20,000 pages — are now available online for free in a hi-res scan almost better than reading the original newsprinted ones. It's a trip. Many thanks to @barrythrew for making this happen. wholeearth.info

Musk does not seem to understand that links to external media are an essential aspect of why i use Twitter, as an index to news

Sounds like he was a #sailor

Good read on #LLMs and potential applications. Now I want to learn about #neurosymbolic models.

@zombalia UPDATE: The Lahaina banyan tree suffered serious injury yet amazingly, it is still there. But everything else around it was destroyed. It's now been confirmed that six lives were also lost in the Lahaina fire. 😢

That's a big hunk of ice

I watched seasons 1 & 2 of #100-Foot-Wave documentary about the evolution of big wave surfing at #Nazare. hbo.com/100-foot-wave

In Texas, a beach has become the unfortunate site where maybe thousands of lifeless fish were found washed ashore. This phenomenon can be attributed to rising sea temperatures, causing reduced oxygen levels, ultimately resulting in mass suffocation similar to this one. Sad, sad.

Ben Moore shows a climatology of atmospheric rivers (ARs), focusing on a composite of AR clustering affecting the U.S. West Coast, as was the case in Dec 2022-Jan 2023 with exceptionally heavy precipitation: #WAF32

Supercells with #tornado potential in eastern MA! Flash flood warnings in southern NH. Watching the cell SW of Worcester @accuweather

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