Storm chaser and photographer. Live-tweeting random thoughts of the day. Building @chase_archive

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Joined July 2008
Still can't believe this happened. Still can't believe this is a photo I took. 📍Wellfleet, NE 6/16/25
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If you drove west to east across WY on 6/12/17 you would've gone from near-freezing at Evanston... to 80's in Rawlins... to tornadic supercells once you approached the NE border. (An update of Chase Archive I'm still working on backfilling, but I thought this was super cool)
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But in all seriousness hope everyone in the town is okay
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(1/2)Between about 6:45-9:00AM today, an estimated 2” fell on the headwaters of Gould Wash! That was enough to send a flood wave down the Wash and into the town of Hurricane.
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In today’s news, I think we need to cancel @SirlinJohn more often for all the good sh*t he sees
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Unironically, I like today's setup better for AZ than yesterday's
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well this is quite suboptimal
Whats happening right now is probably way worse than the Hugging Face incident. AI-powered attacks are hitting real organizations while major platforms disclose breaches and critical flaws. - Microsoft reports AI agents targeting hundreds of organizations, reaching privileged cloud access in under three hours in multiple cases. It attributes the ConnectWise compromise to the same group. - CrowdStrike documented four operators running successful AI-agent campaigns. One compromised at least 15 Argentine healthcare organizations. - PHP2Shell: AI helped turn longstanding PHP flaws into working exploits. Cloudflare’s CEO reports millions of exploitation attempts. Their AI involvement is unknown. - Railway disclosed possible access to customer secrets. LiteLLM shipped a backdoored release. Zeabur confirmed another breach and is shutting down. - GitLab patched a maximum-severity flaw affecting 12 years of releases. Node.js patched a serious code-execution vulnerability, with Vercel deploying firewall protections. Feels like a turningpoint.
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Who’s at Shiprock tonight for an upwards-bolt fest?
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Man I gotta start living in the desert SW
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That feels like a tornado near Heber-Overgaard right now
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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The short-term way that AI will destroy us is it will identify all the vulnerabilities every system on the Web has
welp. the Internet was nice while it lasted.
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Just an amazing supercell approaching Show Low right now. #azwx @NWSFlagstaff
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Arizona’s “the look”. Near Winslow
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This is probably the cell that gets to the Grand Canyon later… some solid rotation on it and highest tornado threat in the short term I think
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Wait WHAT
Mount Shasta was sure putting on a show with multiple stacks of lenticular clouds earlier today. Check out this incredible view from Heart Lake! Stunning! 📸: Jai Ananda
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If someone built an AI that learned from all these “failed” conversations, and simulate different dating scenarios to train people how to be a better conversationalist, they’d become rich overnight
Matched with a guy yesterday and this is the extent of our convo before I stopped replying. Oh no it’s fine I love when guys treat dating apps like I’m interviewing them
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I say “failed” in quotes because this is fine as a normal conversation, but how to build connection is the criterion we’re indexing for here
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Seems difficult to grok at first but then realize smartphones are the solution to one of humanity’s biggest problems: boredom.
Timeless. Here’s why:
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