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While "parasitic convection" is not a formal meteorological term recognized by agencies like NOAA's National Hurricane Center,
the phrase describes secondary, unorganized thunderstorm activity outside of a cyclone's core that competes with or alters the main storm's structure.

Greg Porter (@gporterwx.bsky.social)
Here is a term that I've never heard of before. Parasitic convection. Apparently, that's what is causing these weird bursts of deep convection on the edge of Hurricane #Polo I guess hurricanes can grow parasites

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There comes (hopefully) a time in life when one recognizes that the law and the system called a "justice system" have nothing to do with justice.
Maybe it's when you see the system's complete disinterest in even investigating rich pedopholes. Maybe it's when you hear about a 6-year-old immigrant separated from his parents and compelled to take the stand in his own defense. Maybe it's when you see it give every benefit of the doubt to killer cops so they can get away scot-free, while doing nothing to change the cultures that continue to produce police shootings. Maybe it's when you see a woman prosecuted for having a miscarriage. Maybe it's when you read the court's opinion upholding the idea that police do NOT have a duty to protect civilians, or the opinion stating that if police choose not to uphold the law that's fine and they aren't accountable for that.
Whenever you see it, a natural question is: when did this happen? How long has this been going on?
Thankfully that question is easy to answer: just open up a history book and look for the founding date of whatever nation you live in.

The Fediverse, however, has *all* of the idiots too horrible for X and Meta, but they only federate with each other, mostly. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
I'm considering blocking anyone who posts content from Meta platforms, as I already do for X content. It's always just rage-farming. People, mostly, are idiots. As a result, a big chunk of what we say is junk. Meta and X thankfully have more than their share of the worst idiots, so I avoid them.

Happy Birthday Diana Muldaur (88)!
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Black Wax Cafe on Instagram: "Happy 88th Birthday, Diana! Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress. Muldaur’s television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, as a supporting actress on L.A. Law in 1990 and 1991. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, Muldaur started acting in high school and continued on through college, graduating from Sweet Briar College in Virginia in 1960. She studied acting under Stella Adler, and made her name on the New York stage. She was at one point a board member of the Screen Actors Guild and was the first woman to serve as president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (1983–1985)"
0 likes, 1 comments - blackwaxcafe on August 19, 2026: "Happy 88th Birthday, Diana! Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress. Muldaur’s television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, a…

Got the replacement diodes and reworked the probe demo board with the messed up one.
Here it is before defluxing. A lot of hand soldering and rework on this one plus two extra oven cycles so it's pretty ugly, let's see how it cleans up in SWAS. Gonna give it an extra good scrub since it's so messy

Losers of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our loser status.
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Sridhar Ramesh (@radishharmers.bsky.social)
Electoral politics is systemically biased against losers who lose at everything, even though we comprise the majority of the population.

Neue Betriebssysteme als Public Beta: Unterstützte Hardware plus Downgrade-Tipps
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 und Co. stehen zum Download bereit, wenn auch nur als öffentliche Beta. Ein Überblick der verwendbaren Geräte – und wichtige Tipps.

Neue Betriebssysteme als Public Beta: Unterstützte Hardware plus Downgrade-Tipps
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 und Co. stehen zum Download bereit, wenn auch nur als öffentliche Beta. Ein Überblick der verwendbaren Geräte – und wichtige Tipps.

The #SantaBarbaraCounty Board of Supervisors took the first step of what promises to be a protracted and historic pivot to pull the plug on all onshore oil development anywhere in Santa Barbara County.
This Tuesday, the supervisors narrowly approved
— by a 3-2 vote —
⭐️a ban on any new onshore oil drilling. 
The last time a new drilling proposal was approved took place in…

Testing out all of the lab exercises for my probing class next week

Final probing demo board ready to go to fab, unless anyone else finds something in the next couple hours.
Two 6 Gbps TX-only transceiver lanes, two low speed DAC outputs, four LVCMOS18 GPIOs on SMAs, four LVCMOS33 outputs on probe clips, and a MLT3/PAM3 output on SMAs. Plus test points on all the power rails and the USB.