This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

mexicans are perfect

I've been thinking about the Rangers' decision to display One Riot, One Ranger, and what it says about who this team is for. So I wrote about that. It's a big ol' bummer. www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Back on the first point, I think perhaps it's a good thing that PIs who have been treating their grad students as postdocs as work horses could have their AI now. Perhaps they should stop working w research assistants for the net benefits of everyone involved and the good of the research culture.

It was never about fairness in high school sports, it was always about destroying trans people’s lives

Already moved one of my classes almost entirely off canvas. Definitely need to do the other now.

Again, they are who they are. We don't need to pretend they are something different.

It's a little ironic that they ran a picture of the class that made me (re)-discover the joy of teaching over an article about how shortsighted Act 15 is. www.dailycardinal.com/article/2026...

Fucking cowards. You have lawyers for a goddamn reason

4-5 years ago there were MDs like Lucy McBride crowing about the urgency of normal, getting kids back to school. There were PR hacks like David Zweig supporting them. Now kids are being sent to immigration detention, getting measles & these folks are nowhere to be found. It was never about the kids.

It should not be preferable for a student to use an automated tool rather than ask their tutors for help. Until we address that basic collapse of confidence and trust, we will be horrified by each new technological development. 7/7

At the same time - since we are nominally & ostensibly a "public university" - the state should have funded this long ago. That the state government retains ~full regulatory control over university decisions like this, while being a minority funder now, is bad policy, like all unfunded mandates.

new newsletter post up about all those folks who insist they "can't have an open conversation about AI"

Can’t recommend this position highly enough!

God my students are so fucking great.

@dmagazine.bsky.social 's coverage of this team over the last few years has been sensational. This article about the AD trade is right up there w/ the single best paragraph about what it means to be from Dallas (s/o @mikelikessports.bsky.social)

you don't say? at some point we're going to acknowledge what every study ever on this subject has said, right? right? www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

If only computers had built in clocks in order to tell time using some sort of deterministic machine-readable format. But alas, the only way to know whether it's daytime is to pay nearly a dollar every 30 minutes to ask a fancy autocomplete bot.

Yeah I think at this point re UBI while I have seen some debate about its effects in rich countries there's just now a lot of empirical evidence that we can actually simply transfer money to people in the global south and its really just... good. We should just do it. Justice and expedience align.

They just don’t get it - they’re trying to replace the part of our job we like the *most*. If they could make an AI tool to vibe-complete travel, reimbursement, and annual reporting paperwork they would make a fucking FORTUNE

What a fucking disaster. Not only are OpenAI and the likes unleashing this shit on the world, they are deliberately leaning into the harms that their business model causes with products like Prism.

Our existing institutions for upholding research quality (journals, peer review, grant panels) are ill-equipped for the coming tsunami of probably correct but trivial stuff.

Sad to have to cancel the talk today but looking forward to giving it in the fall!

New York sours are beautiful

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Vote against the funding bill and shut this shit down.

The agent who murdered Renee Good had 18 years of experience, @baldwin.senate.gov. Stop claiming it's training that's the problem. I'm a constituent and this is embarrassing. Don't "get ICE out of Minneapolis." Get ICE out of business completely. And if you won't, make way for those who will.

pro-tip: if you're not indian, don't fucking talk about us like this

If only you were in a position of power to exercise some kind of leverage against the administration to make this happen.

Fuck ICE

So much good stuff in Jake Kemp's take on Christian Parker, but this bit may be my favorite. Jake always arrives at a viewpoint I wish I thought of: www.dmagazine.com/sports/2026/...

Bueckers’ 2025 WNBA rookie base salary was $78,831. Giving $50,000 from winning the Unrivaled FT contest is rad.

Paige Bueckers (Dallas Wings, Breeze FC) is donating $50,000 to relief efforts organised in response to ICE raids in her hometown of Hopkins, Minnesota. On Monday Bueckers won $50,000 in the #Unrivaled free throw competition after successfully scoring 13 free throws. (Source @brwsports)

All of this!!

I've got "One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life" rattling around in my head w/ "I will sacrifice some length of my days to add depth to another person’s experience of the rest of theirs". Don't clearly see connection (yet) but I think there's something there

You absolutely don’t want that smoke from people who ate horseshit to celebrate the first eagles Super Bowl & throw batteries at Santa

I will never not find joy and smile whenever I replay Dak saying “Yeah, here we go” in my head

Calling a timeout there is a disaster! If you fail with three timeouts, you can still get the ball back using your timeouts with a stop. Now, the game's down to one play.

"Read the papers you are citing" is SUCH an important point, and it seems like almost no one ever does it. If you do it, it's a scientific superpower! In my experience researching, consulting, and expert witnessing I'd say at least ~30% of the citations I come across are just flat out wrong.

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Let me ask you one question. Is your money that good? Will it buy you forgiveness? Do you think that it could? I think you will find when your death takes it toll all the money you made will never buy back your soul.

overthrowing govs, sending people to detention facilities for torture, cutting taxes for the rich, slashing social spending for the poor, increasing military spending, promoting christian nationalism, demonizing gays, surveilling citizens under "national security." same old GOP.

This partially motivated me to make cherry bounce the last few years, as I wasn’t certain that I’d get cherry heering. Happily enough, it made an even better Singapore slings & blood & sands

THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS

{toggle} does one thing: adds a button to hide code output in #quarto docs. Took two versions to do that one thing well. Now it works everywhere... tabsets, callouts, nested containers, you name it. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/toggle/ 🐙 github.com/coatless-qua...

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.