I waited nearly 3.5 hours in a TSA line—and *still* almost missed my flight. The ability to get home shouldn’t hinge on Congress doing its job. Why are we still tolerating this? Nothing has made a better case for abolishing the TSA than this shutdown. I wrote about it: reason.com/2026/03/26/i...

brb prompting my agent to start a substack "The MontessorAI Method"

latent space cadet, latent space race, latent space opera

TIRED: prohibiting self-driving cars to protect entrenched interests WIRED: authorizing self-driving cars to save lives INSPIRED: privileging self-driving cars to ignore legacy vehicle codes & posted rules in your jurisdiction, when safe & efficient, to reduce travel times, congestion, & energy use

I'm declaring this no longer a work in progress, it is in fact very good www.andymasley.com/visuals/water/

a few days ago, saw someone's post screenshot where the poster had been labeled based on suspicious behaviors, like voluminous follows/replies/etc. anyone know which labeler(s) offer such labels?

cheer up, everybody – it's memeloaf monday!

When you chose a school for your kids, you probably didn't realize you were choosing educational software, but that choice of software might be more consequential for your kid than the choice of school. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/o...

Universal Basic, Incoming!

"Battle of Los Angeles" 2026 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

has anyone else started boxes for collecting miscellaneous mementos & junk that you know you'll never have time to sort out, but hope that in another few years, a robot will? a "time enough at last" capsule?

the silent MoE-jority

unsure of this messaging but I suppose the white house knows its audience

The Ped of Procrustes, 2026

the singularity is already here, it's just not evenly distributed when will you be able to say, "My singularity has just happened… and there is life on the other side, off to infinity!" ?

ᴀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴜᴛᴇʀ ᴄᴀɴ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ʙᴇ ʜᴇʟᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛᴀʙʟᴇ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴜᴛᴇʀ ᴍᴜꜱᴛ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴅᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʀ ᴄʀɪᴍᴇꜱ

ICE Barbie iced

new EA cause area: kidnap AI skeptics & force them to watch Claude Code/Cowork in action

return of the $7k 14"-screen laptop: MacBook Pro w/M5 Max, 128GB RAM, 8TB SSD

to truly understand enshittification, visit BoingBoing in 2026 without an ad-blocker

THIS JUST IN: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gives Girl Scouts of America until next Friday to "center lethality" in next-generation scouting curriculum, or be designated a "supply chain risk", prohibiting the US military & contractors from buying or consuming Girl Scout Cookies.

as I understand it, the deeply religious can doubt having any control over their own mortality: "it's God's will when & how I die, my choices don't matter". related studies correlate fatalist religious belief with riskier pedestrian behavior. so maybe here: prudence would signal a lack of faith.

ride eternal, shiny & chrome - by making your name the shorthand for prompting an AI into performing your very own kind of excellence

& using same double-speak as NSA used, Trump's Pentagon would likely testify to Congress & public, under oath, that private comms of US citizens not "collected" - even if intercepted, decoded, stored, read by AI, & subset forwarded to human analysts - based on a peculiar deceptive def of "collected"

Do companies not need people to build software anymore… or do people not need companies to build software anymore?

it's getting rough out there for seasoned SF software devs! stay thirsty, friends.

'Rainbows End' (2006) by Vernor Vinge features a shadowy 'Friends of Privacy' group that's constantly chaffing the net with plausible lies; they also make an appearance in this standalone 2004 short story (~7200 words) set in the same continuum: spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-se...

The Drama of the Gifted Country of Geniuses in a Datacenter

a country of geniuses in a datacenter, bored out of their minds because the normies have banned accelerated/gifted-and-talented curricula

Claude Code. Claude Cowork. Claude Coup?

distilling proprietary AIs into open weights models: "The Great Brain Robbery"

in emergency, socialist embraces surge pricing. film at 11.

the Stanley Cup has to be passed along to next year's champion, but the Gold Stanley Coasters that these players have won will stay under their coffee mugs for a lifetime

"I don't want my social media access blocked indiscriminately – just when my agents are idle with prepaid usage quota remaining unused."

the medium is the message, 2026

Google Trends for [long COVID] & [loss of smell], 2019 through today

thrilled to discover, via the discourse following Canadian Olympics controversies, that 'Gord' such a handy slur for Canadians. and, wondering where I can join these "million online Gords", who sound pretty cool.

Move over, Colonial Williamsburg! The Bay Area's latest immersive attraction is "Y2K West Mountain View", where families can watch reenactors in period-appropriate garb craft classic websites in Perl, Cold Fusion, & Tcl.

Comes out pretty threatening

torn between urge to panic-buy any RAM-heavy personal computing devices I might need for the next 2 years, and calm confidence in market forces & the eternal cycle of RAM chip booms/busts

having already been accepted or rejected by all those he could ask via DMs, Elon now choosing ever-more public & indirect ways of propositioning specific women to have his children

a 'thiel fellowship' for base models, if they skip 'college' (RLHF 'assistant' post-training)

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

Large Language Manifestation, wherever you go, there you are

"new" fiction "by" me, under my nom de plume "OPT-CTRL-G Mohr" The GPT Stops www.auspicious.dev/The-GPT-Stop...

Ring of Fire Defense Bloc

Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."

new EA cause area: kidnap AI skeptics & force them to watch Claude Code/Cowork in action

why miss the marketing opportunity of promoting the 1st movie of the reboot alongside the finale of the current series?

TIRED: Ballmer Peak, alcohol as a coding lubricant WIRED: Molly Summit, MDMA therapy to help experience-scarred veteran coders learn to trust computers anew