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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The Falklands War involved many deaths over imperialism and sheep/penguins. Europe won’t roll over. Take your “two dogsled” comments and fuck yourself. Greenland has more history and culture along a random side road in Nuuk than half of the States.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I can’t draw comics, so I used words as my brushes (and as words), and Google Gemini Nano Banana as my ghost artist. Still uncomfortable attributing an image that obviously apes other styles.

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...YOU KNOW WHAT THEY SAY:
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE WEATHER, WAIT FIVE MINUTES!
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EVERY TIME THIS IS SAID, WE SEED ANOTHER HURRICANE OUT OF SPITE.
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MEMBER OF PUBLIC
WEATHERMAN
A TALE OF METEOROLOGICAL MISCHIEF!

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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

I am SHOCKED that a FIFA Peace Prize recipient would bomb another country on Christmas. Absolutely stunned.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Putin threatening Belgium is fucking tragic man, get a life and go back to shit claims of rivers in Moldova

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

If you use Perplexity, watch out for their increasingly scammy behaviour including their refusal to refund a mistake I literally have receipts for. “Big AI” will get its comeuppance soon and academia will pick up the pieces by optimising for truth, not greed.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Regarding obs: what about atypical archive of obs such as the vertically pointing MST radar near Aberystwyth? Regarding reanalyses: they’re fantastic for setting baselines when evaluating forecasts. Also case studies of old events with as close to “like for like” as possible.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Did you know… I used to be a meteorologist 😅

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Addison Rae’s 2025 album is full of clever decisions incl. from the two MxM producers. These trio of women should forge long-term collab! “In The Rain” only has two bass drums per two bars (standard 4/4). Parallel 4ths and various modes. Shifting entire orchestration down a semitone in Diet Pepsi…

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Yeah! It’s a function of practical tests’ trustworthiness. I can’t vibe-code a prediction model and pray it doesn’t have a snowfall bias. But then our new website is entirely supervised “coding with natural language” allowing high school students to be trained, contribute, learn. Mantra: caution! 😥

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Worst aspect is making LLM tools look like web browsers, or my insurance company’s chatbot. Prompt/content engineering is increasingly becoming my job, and it’s creative, unpredictable (!), jaw-dropping (sublime & ridiculous!) — if academia is fumbling in the dark, we’ve mainstreamed an experiment!

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Watching GitHub CoPilot CLI agent try to commit on my behalf & repeatedly forget to “git add” first. It’s silly/inefficient but impact is relatively low. But writ large, if one deploys an AI-driven systems lacking a suitable penalty, “if it breaks, it breaks” creates amplifying, unforeseen ripples…

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

The genius of Left Behind by Slipknot is how atonal yet dissonantly melodic it is at times

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

So we aren’t using the same word then. Inference is the act of proposing the next symbol based on current state(s). LMs in general don’t understand what you mean on Google Translate either. It can still be correct. That’s inference too.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’ve got some Teesside dialect I can give you son, ha’way then you daft melt

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Cited two of those papers recently after deliberately writing with a LLM sceptic on LLMs, haha, and he was right there with his Bullshit papers.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Nope, my first big use of LLMs was fixing a six year math problem I couldn’t work out. It’s Shannon at the core: information transfer. I don’t care what it sounds like and neither does info entropy quantification.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Truth is a pattern, a sequence, that can be true by accident. I don’t think truth must be intentional. Maybe that’s way off into philosophy at this point

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

We definitely have different definitions of inference…

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

(I did a first round and it hit me I haven’t seen an email about R2. Oh no…)

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

I’ve got that horrible feeling a spam filter has blocked emails from AMetSoc for a while now, not for first time, and I’m going to be mortified if a paper review has gone through the cracks.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Stochastic sampling of anthropologic states unfortunately led us to discovering an efficient way to democratise interpretations of truth (“all stupidity counts one”) via popularity contests, and throw the idea of fact-curation to the wind. Truthiness now defined by aesthetic, rhetoric, advertising.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Blows my mind. The waste of money, energy; the staggeringly consistent incompetence… If you’re going to cosplay a LLM that’s actually just Microsoft Graph + Grammarly’s stunt double, maybe don’t shoehorn it into every piece of IP you own. Dreadful, and damaging abuse of the term “AI”.

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Tomer Burg @burgwx.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Given higher than usual confidence of rapid intensification (RI) from analyses of an exceptionally favorable environment & with the aid of newer hurricane models (HAFS) & Google DeepMind, NHC was able to skillfully predict Melissa's RI days in advance.

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

python.org

The official home of the Python Programming Language

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

You’ve posted this a lot I see. How do you know?

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Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

So: this year I Prevail lost a clean singer, promoted rhythm guitarist to co-lead vox, lead guitarist plays an octave down to double the bass line, but the bassist often is playing synth. Got it. Remaining question— who’s baking the cookies between songs!? (If you haven’t seen the videos…)

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The Knights That Belong To The Set On My Other Side

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

In LaTeX, the symbol for "in" ($\in$) can be typeset in opposite direction by reversing the command term ($\ni$). It's the little nerdy things!

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Because stupidity is a status symbol.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

My dog is an Anti-fart activist, which is exactly the kind of far left extremism I expect from a Husky.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

If they keep going, it’s like cutting up your ex’s wardrobe and stopping after two pairs of knickers when you realise she’s taken it all on holiday. “Erm, I guess no more cutting, just staring at the disappointing mess…”

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I think I’m in dad joke mode with the AI/Al rubbish, my son is giggling at me for no reason and you get that rush of power, you know

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Once again, our friend Alan “shoehorn” Aluminium is back!

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

If someone wants to get rid of you and you give them the stage in the name of “free speech”, don’t be surprised when you’re done in by Darwinism. No. Be intolerant of intolerance: this is a mandate as liberals. Free speech doesn’t tend to infinity as much as rose-tinted worldviews wish it did.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/09/2025

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2025

Funny how the guy yelling about professionalism looks like a middle manager at Men’s Wearhouse.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hopefully someone is around to deport me. The government phone keeps going to voicemail

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Fuck you, we aren’t done “with that shit”.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Oooh yeah this is a sweet re-recording.

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I’m behind…! Thanks for reminding me. I am half-fuelled by satire these days

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John R. Lawson @johnroblawson.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Yeah I think that’s my worry too. Most real people not in the ivory towers and bubbles (cough) have thrown out the baby with the bath water at this point.

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