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1/2 Thanks to @… for this interesting article. It speaks to me. :)
I’ve been weather blogging @… since 2005. It is interesting how it has changed, and how I have changed.
My website used to be just data from the (expensive) station I bought when I moved back to Port Alberni. It was a hobby and a side project to practice web/coding skills I use at work. My focus was on creating useful data for people that was more local/relevant than the official EC station outside of the city.
Then I put up a webcam and learned how to make timelapses. This got the attention of local media… because pictures. :)
Then I added a blog and started to write about the weather almost daily. This was before Facebook. There was a popular local online forum where I would post things. The media would also follow my website and they started to call me when there was extreme weather (usually very hot or very wet/stormy).
Then Facebook started to get big and I made a page that eventually had a few thousand followers. I would blog often. Lots of traffic from Facebook… this was 2010 and on. I blogged about climate and weather pretty equally.
Like anyone in Port Alberni, I was/am obsessed with the Martin Mars and got wrapped up in that issue along with others which combined with the weather following probably gave me just enough exposure to have me elected as a councillor in 2014.
I continued through that 4 years, blogging often in addition to councillor duties and work, heavily on facebook, then it all went sideways on my own poor judgement (go ahead and google it, it’s ok :)) and I was not reelected, but Facebook by 2018 had also changed. Cambridge Analytica, etc.
….Continued…
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-weather-apps-data-wildfires-storms-preparation-obsession-social-media/

BoN Appetit Team at LeWiDi-2025: Best-of-N Test-time Scaling Can Not Stomach Annotation Disagreements (Yet)
Tomas Ruiz, Siyao Peng, Barbara Plank, Carsten Schwemmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12516

BoN Appetit Team at LeWiDi-2025: Best-of-N Test-time Scaling Can Not Stomach Annotation Disagreements (Yet)
Test-time scaling is a family of techniques to improve LLM outputs at inference time by performing extra computation. To the best of our knowledge, test-time scaling has been limited to domains with verifiably correct answers, like mathematics and coding. We transfer test-time scaling to the LeWiDi-2025 tasks to evaluate annotation disagreements. We experiment with three test-time scaling methods: two benchmark algorithms (Model Averaging and Majority Voting), and a Best-of-N sampling method. T…

Details on Greta’s torture at the hands of the Israelis:
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25LgKq/greta-thunberg-they-kicked-me-every-time-the-flag-touched-my-face

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

from my link log —
You know more Finnish than you think.
https://dannybate.com/2025/08/03/you-know-more-finnish-than-you-think/
saved 2025-08-07

Le Monde joins more than 20 publishers in offering NYT subscriptions to some subscribers at no extra cost, exposing NYT to new audiences (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/new-york-times-le-monde-bundle-ai-translation-onbackground/

Can The New York Times Be the ‘Essential’ Newspaper for the Entire World?
A new subscription bundle with Le Monde, coupled with the promise of AI translation, underscore its untapped international audience

Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/canadas-pacific-coast-hit-hard-by-trawling-with-limited-transparency-report/

Canada’s Pacific Coast hit hard by trawling, with limited transparency: Report
Trawling vessels pursuing fish are damaging marine ecosystems in Canada’s West Coast waters and could be operating illegally in some cases, and yet they work with insufficient transparency, a new report says. Nine large trawlers have together trawled swaths of the ocean collectively larger than the size of Ireland since 2009, according to the report, […]

Hi everyone,
@… and I had the honour of speaking to four lovely people from Gaza today over video chat on Signal and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family:
• @…
• @…

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

I wish mastodon had a “throttle” feature. https://merveilles.town/@lrhodes/115379960146577252

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2023/in-memory-of-tom/

In Memory Of Tom #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
A tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language that can be AOT compiled.
https://wareya.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/my-tiny-1000-lines-fastish-embeddable-scripting-language-can…

My tiny (1000 lines), fastish, embeddable scripting language can be AOT compiled
TLDR: I made Filli (this is a link), a Lua/python-like embeddable language written in C23 (or C99 with GNUisms; compiles as C++ too!). The license is permissive. It’s sandboxable, like Lua. I…