Al Shaw

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developer / reporter / map maker at ProPublica • dm me on signal: ashaw.01 • also at: @a_l@mastodon.social • he/him 🔗 https://shaw.al

HRRR-CONUS run of surface smoke @ July 16, 2026 at 1am showing swath of smoke running from northern Michigan and Ontario down through NY, eastern PA and NYC.
Screenshot: left, current location of the Tour de France peloton, right: screenshot of Reuters climate monitor showing today's high of 96F, 17.1F above normal in the same location.
Onion headline: Report: That’s Enough Soccer For Now
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Screenshot of an interactive map of Oklahoma titled, "Does your Oklahoma water system has oil field wastewater wells near public drinking water wells." The map shows the outlines of public water systems and a search box to enter an address, ZIP code or name of a water system in the state.
Nick Pinto reports from a Citibike on the Hell Gate livestream
Texas Tribune Guild Instagram post reading: More than 90% of union eligible members participated in the contract ratification vote, which resulted in unanimous approval of the inaugural contract. Under the new agreement, most Guild employees will receive a 3% raise this year and all will receive at least a 1% raise in 2027 and 2028. The contract includes: • Salary minimums of $62,000 for starting reporters, newsroom and business staff; • 2% retention raises for every three years spent at The Tribune; • 10 sick days and 10 days of bereavement leave, in addition to 20 PTO days; • Layoff protections, including for inverse seniority; • A commitment to not lay off journalists to replace their news-gathering and reporting work with Al; • An additional 8 weeks of severance pay for non-journalists laid off solely for the purpose of implementing Al; • Guidelines on newsroom and employee use of Al; • Worker protections around field work safety, mental health and secondary trauma and immigration and work permit processes.
Concrete staircase coming down to the street from the new LACMA building in LA
Simpsons meme with Bart saying, "This is the hottest summer of my life," and Homer responding, "this is the coldest summer of the rest of your life."
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The XKCD swordfighting in the hallway cartoon, but instead of "my code's compiling" it's Claude saying "Taking longer than usual. Trying again shortly (attempt 6)."
Highlight of a table row from an interactive database showing the following text: King & Spalding LLP, Services as Partner, As a partner at the law firm of King & Spalding LLP, the legal services I provide are subject to District of Columbia Bar Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 and New York Bar Rule of Professional Conduct 1.6 on "confidentiality of information," which prohibit knowingly revealing a confidence or secret of a client, including the identity of a client or the fact of such representation. Notwithstanding this, I have disclosed representations of clients where the client consented to the disclosure or the fact of the representation is known through public filings. I provided services to 51 additional clients who are entities where Rule 1.6 applies and where disclosure of the client identity and the fact of representation would reveal a client confidence or secret.
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404 Media headline: "Guy Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT"
Command line output in a terminal that says, "Done in 155.54 ms !"
Futurism headline: A Prominent OpenAl Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say "I find it kind of disturbing even to watch it."
Zoomed in section of the photo showing a corked bottle in the bike's water bottle cage marked "olive"
Edited Onion headline reading, "Why do all these [Politicians] Keep [Opening My Wallet]?"
Screenshotted excerpt from Ha'aretz story: "It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire." The soldier added, "We open fire early in the morning if someone tries to get in line from a few hundred meters away, and sometimes we just charge at them from close range. But there's no danger to the forces." According to him, "I'm not aware of a single instance of return fire. There's no enemy, no weapons." He also said the activity in his area of service is referred to as Operation Salted Fish – the name of the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light".
Sticker saying, “I voted early in the city of New York.”
Line from Nikhil Rajpal disclosure showing continued employment at X Corp.
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NOTICE AS TO DEFENDANT USDS CONCERNING ESTIMATE OF VOLUME OF RESPONSIVE RECORDS Pursuant to the Court’s Orders dated March 10, 2025 and March 19, 2025, Defendant United States DOGE Service (USDS) provides this estimate of the volume of records responsive to the Freedom of Information Act Request directed to it, as narrowed in Attachment A to Plaintiff’s reply brief in support of their motion for a preliminary injunction. USDS cautions that this estimate is preliminary, and that USDS has not yet been able to conduct a review for responsiveness, and deduplication; and USDS maintains its position that no records are subject to release under FOIA because USDS is not an agency subject to FOIA. With those caveats, USDS provides the following preliminary volume estimate: approximately 58,000 documents.
Book excerpt 1: "As trash cans went unemptied, carpets unvacuumed, and bathrooms uncleaned, workers gritted their teeth. The restrooms became a particular problem, as Musk's piling of people onto fewer floors caused the toilets to..."
Excerpt from complaint: The U.S. DOGE Service representatives asked for contact information for each of the members of the Board. UADE management responded that this contact information was personal and that therefore she would first need to obtain permission from the Board members to share it. The U.S. DOGE Service representatives then left the meeting and never followed up to request contact information for the Board. 44. On Saturday, February 22, 2025, U.S. DOGE Service representatives did reach one member of the Board, John Agwunobi. They stated to Agwunobi, incorrectly, that all the other members of the Board had been terminated, and asked Agwunobi to implement the U.S. DOGE Service's vision of the minimum statutory functions of USADF.
OPM website says, "Therefore, to the extent feasible, FOIA requests for agency records should be submitted by email to FOIA@opm.gov during this period to ensure a more timely response."
Text from Trump Executive Order: Sec. 3. Terminating Illegal Discrimination in the Federal Government. (a) The following executive actions are hereby revoked: (i) Executive Order 12898 of February 11, 1994 (Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations);
Screenshot of Zeit Online headline: "Ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß ist ein Hitlergruß."
Edited NYTCooking screenshot with button that says, "Shop ingredients at the Park Slope Food Coop." Under that, text says, "Your first shop still requires you to do a shift." Under that, in smaller gray text, it says, "Just use the intercom if you can't find something."
Pop up message from a shopping website saying: PFAS Restricted Item: Cannot Ship to NY or CA Starting 1/1/2025, New York and California prohibit the sale of new products that are not PFAS-compliant.
Chart showing distribution of census blocks by formaldehyde cancer risk with a large cluster around the 1 in 100k mark and a single highlighted block in blue near the center of the distribution.
The time has come to think the unthinkable. The two-state solution- the core of the Oslo process and the present "road map"- is probably already doomed. With every passing year we are postponing an inevitable, harder choice that only the far right and far left have so far acknowledged, each for its own reasons. The true alternative facing the Middle East in coming years will be between an ethnically cleansed Greater Israel and a single, integrated, binational state of Jews and Arabs, Israelis and Palestinians. That is indeed how the hard-liners in Sharon's cabinet see the choice; and that is why they anticipate the removal of the Arabs as the ineluctable condition for the survival of a Jewish state.
Port Authority airport sign in Helvetica on black with yellow backgrounds for arrows and flight icons
@A_L tweet from Aug 23, 2016 saying, "I would pay for Instagram before stories, before the algorithm, before non-square images, before video, before ads, and pls re-add Gotham."
Tweet from @A_L from Nov 3, 2015 saying, "We need Twitter in 2007. Just an app that is Twitter as it was in 2007. Make this happen, folks."
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Headline: Plastics are turning up in dolphin breath
PurpleAir data display showing the current AQI is 25 (Green).
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NYT subhead, which reads, "The polls, taken before the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, found President Biden trailing Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania and slightly ahead in Virginia."
Tweet from Al Shaw (@A_L), Feb 28, 2022 reading: Pure speculation, but how much of this "automation" is actually people in low wage countries watching hours of video? The 2 hr delay for a receipt smacks of the Expensify "smartscanning" magic. Link to NYT story with highlighted quote, 'You should receive your receipt within two to three hours,” an employee at the exit said.'
Zoomed in PurpleAir map showing an outdoor sensor reading 144 AQI and a nearby indoor sensor reading 39 AQI