Chris Neklason / is on Nostr

Infrastructure geek. Award-winning journalist. Full-stack developer. Pro-democracy.

Eats, shoots and leaves.

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2024-07-28 05:27:11

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Witness the forehead-height human forehead smears on glass doors with "pull" signs.

2024-07-27 18:53:44

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Yes! Just did a Google and found it in their blog:
"This includes delving more deeply into all-hazards, or better put, more hazards than just wildfire. Over the past two years, our reporters have also been monitoring floods, weather advisories, and other disasters that involve life and safety with no single place to find actionable information – just like wildfire used to be before Watch Duty."
Awesome!
https://www.watchduty.org/blog

2024-07-27 18:12:56

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We'd delete our accounts there but were banned and unable to login back in March 2023 because reasons. (never learned why, suspect our weather/traffic/sig alert bots).
Still feel some butt hurt over that, we invested a lot of time in sitrep comms during winter storms of 2023.
Watch Duty way surpasses Twitter for fire info now.
Need something for flood season next.

2024-07-26 16:27:47

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The Google in-search AI might have some value, though.
Google has already indexed and page ranked for "information value" related to various queries.
So If I query for "how do pension obligation bonds work" (don't ask) it returns a couple paragraph summary along with what it thinks are the top 2 or 3 articles on the web related to the query.
The summary is produced on the fly, from the linked articles.
The one thing AI does do is summarize data fed to it in a prompt.

2024-07-09 16:08:50

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There are!
Jackery, EcoFlow and Bluetti have units with add-on stackable batteries for whole-house service.
It's not cheap.

2024-07-09 02:53:48

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Dude, get a 2-pack of cheap burritos and then try out the Pepcid maybe for a 2-fer.

2024-07-09 02:44:17

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Okay, I-am-not-a-doctor but this is in the news -- antihistamines:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9903129/

2024-07-09 02:39:30

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Are you long COVIDing?

2024-07-06 18:14:20

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So glad to be in the tiny coastal sliver which is colored Karl-the-Fog gray in the map...

2024-07-03 03:10:42

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Any plans for a Watch Duty RSS or JSON feed of active wildfires and prescribed burns, with map coords and perma links to WD incident info?