Christopher Tull 🌎💧

Public technologist grappling with the unfolding planetary crisis. Views are my own.

Supporting water managers @cadc_io. Previously @NYU_CUSP, @MPICybernetics

[gian @giansegato]

spent my 11-hour flight back from europe working on a very long report. started as a slack message but morphed into a several pages long doc. wifi was as shitty as it gets. after finally making it home i realized that the computer had forcefully restarted. opened slack: draft was gone :(

hail mary: claude pls save me, no clue how but pls try

it checked APFS snapshots, time machine, slack indexeddb, write-ahead logs, service worker / http caches, local storage, app logs, hibernation image... nothing. all gone

but then... it realized i have alfred installed. so it checked the clipboard snapshots alfred keeps in sqlite. sad news: alfred clipboard memory gets deleted after 24h. aggressive retention policy. however! when sqlite runs DELETE, nothing gets actually deleted. it only marks pages as reusable, but it doesn't override the physical bytes. so claude decided to do a raw-scan of the db, reverse eng alfred data format, figure out the portion containing the timestamp, stitched everything back together across overflow pages... and handed me the exact final version of my report, the last one i cmd+C'd

all this, in a single shot

... day 200 of "what if you had an elite hacker you can ask anything to"

[Christopher Tull 🌎💧 @ctullito]

@AndyMasley @BoysenRyan say what you will about AI generated music, but this one vibes.

[Anna Riedl @AnnaLeptikon]

Just remembered with fondness the “Tolkien character or antidepressant” quiz and got exactly 12/24 correct this attempt, haha. Link in the comment. How many did you get?

[okazakitomohiro @oo_kk_aa]

ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています

[7B - SKD @7B_SKD]

Photos of the Marshes of Southern Iraq, Mesopotamia, in 1967.

These photos were captured by the lens of the international photographer Tor Eigeland.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New newsletter: MODERN FATHERHOOD WOULD BE UNRECOGNIZABLE TO A 1950'S DAD

Compared to their Boomer parents, childcare time among Millennial dads has more than doubled.

Compared to their Silent Generation grandparents, it’s nearly quadrupled.

You will be hard-pressed to find any part of day-to-day modern life that has changed more in the last half-century than the way today’s parents—and fathers, in particular—spend their time.

The new American dad is more present and more exhausted—but also, more satisfied with life. What's behind this half-century transformation? Today's piece combines history, economic analysis, and gorgeous charts galore from @AzizSunderji

[Christopher Tull 🌎💧 @ctullito]

@tyromper Started sprinting recently. Last week at the end of my 3rd hundred meter I somehow landed with a STRAIGHT leg and fell in a heap with both my boys watching 😅 Not too bad but still nursing a sore ankle. Will get back out there once healed. 💪

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

THE FIRST MAN IN HISTORY TO BREAK 2 HOURS IN A MARATHON!!!🤯🤯🤯

Sabastian Sawe 🇰🇪 has just shattered the World Record at the London Marathon, running 1:59:30!!!

He makes history as the first man to officially break 2 hours in the marathon.

Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 in his debut ran 1:59:41 to become 2nd fastest alltime, while Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 finished in 2:00:28.

All under the previous World Record.

[Fin Moorhouse @finmoorhouse]

@JorgeA77832 I agree the spending is more modest as a share of US GDP at the time — here's the graph

[Christopher Tull 🌎💧 @ctullito]

Wow, this is crazy. I wonder what we will call this when we look back? The Data Center Boom? Birth of AI?

[Fin Moorhouse @finmoorhouse]

The hyperscalers have already outspent the most famous US megaprojects

[Christopher Tull 🌎💧 @ctullito]

@jamesonhaslam So clean 👌

[jameson (big deck energy) @jamesonhaslam]

Aussie chippy content is cinema

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

this is such a well written article on how to squeeze most out of Claude Code or Codex:
> keep your setup barebones, frontier companies absorb what works best
> give agents only the context they need
> separate research from implementation. decide the approach, then build fresh
> use neutral prompts. don’t lead agents toward predetermined answers
> refine agents by using other agents
> iterate rules and skills every once in a while

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨BREAKING: A study finds ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios and never surrendered

It’s so fucking over

[Delba @delba_oliveira]

10x productivity tip: use Claude hooks with sounds so Claude alerts you when it finishes a task or needs permission.

But that's not the tip, the tip is to add your favourite childhood game sounds like the Starcraft, Warcraft, or even Mario.

[Lulu Cheng Meservey @lulumeservey]

Fun fact: the Fellowship of the Ring wasn’t recruited, a bunch of them just happened to be in Rivendell

Boromir came to figure out his prophetic dream

Legolas came to report that Gollum had escaped

Gimli came to get advice after emissaries of Mordor visited Erebor

Maybe it was fated, but def not explicitly planned. And then when the need for a heroic world-saving quest came up, the remainder of the nine qualified largely by virtue of being there

[Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful]

All of US history took place while Pluto orbited the Sun - once
(via @jkottke)

[Christopher Tull 🌎💧 @ctullito]

@memechaotic Metrolink posting 👍👍👌👌

[Christopher Tull 🌎💧 @ctullito]

So close to Ventura! But no dice yet :(

[Waymo @Waymo]

We're officially authorized to drive fully autonomously across more of the Golden State.

Next stop: welcoming riders in San Diego in mid-2026! ☀️