David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@qoto.org

In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service provides one of the most accurate forecasts available. Even though that's the case, they are forbidden by law from creating a smartphone app.

You can thank weather forecasting cable channels and websites for that. Even though they use NOAA's data, they didn't want competition from the best weather forecasting service. So, they bought themselves a law and that means worse service for all of us.

JWST Sees the Same Supernova Three Times in an Epic Gravitational Lens

Thanks to a powerful gravitational lens, astronomers were fortunate enough to see the same supernova three times in a distant galaxy. The lens is the galaxy cluster RX J2129, located about 3.2 billion light-years from Earth. When examining the region, researchers noticed that one of the lensed galaxies is duplicated three times - and they all contain the same supernova. Because the light took different paths, the same supernova is seen hundreds of days apart, showing its evolution in a single image.

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2023/02/Seeing_triple

I still remember when I caught Scott Adams red-handed around 2010 making fake accounts on MetaFilter to pump himself up, acting like he was a fan posting random fawning comments. I told Nick Denton and he published it all on Gawker, then it came out he had more sockpuppet accounts on reddit doing the same thing, arguing in favor of Scott Adams and his brilliance.

He's always been an awful human being.

@ProPublica fans: I urge you to read this dark, lengthy story about a child who died.

Why? Because you'll feel better afterwards.

Counterintuitive, I know. Readers are burnt out on bad news, we're told.

But burnout isn't just about bad news. It comes from a sense of powerlessness over events.

At its best, then, long-form journalism can disarm bad news — by illuminating the structural forces and human actors at play.

And this is some of the best I've read in a while.

https://www.propublica.org/article/wisconsin-dairy-farm-jefferson-rodriguez

With the future Vice President in San Francisco in 2019. #BlackJoy #BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #SanFrancisco

Something very important is happening in Wisconsin, and we all need to pay close attention. A few states hold the key to the 2024 election and the future of our democracy, and Wisconsin is one of them. The stakes of an upcoming election in the Badger state, in today’s piece. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/a-little-known-election-in-wisconsin?sd=pf

Today is Thursday, March 1089th, 2020. #CovidIsNotOver

Three Zoom calls today and everyone is just going to have to deal with my hat hair and wind-burned cheeks from repeat shoveling. ❄️

@mc_frontalot you be MC Restalot now, ya hear? Take careo’yourself.