Las Calaveras, a Mexican restaurant in (of all places) Hyuga, Miyazaki, Japan. The food was amazing—home cooked Mexican food, was the first place I’d ever had cochinita pibil, and I had quite a few dates there with my (now) wife.

Cory Doctorow pulling zero punches when it comes to AI:

Once again, I recommend @t8erboi.bsky.social’s excellent essay, because people are going to continue not learning this lesson. twolabyrinths.com/posts/trump-...

Hi-viz over camo to distinguish between state violence forces feels like the ultimate expression of context collapse, of the separation of use/practice from signification/meaning, of the nullification of symbolic efficacy and total absence/impossibility of shared or intuitive interpretation

i'm fucking dead

Meanwhile, Microsoft Word is giving me notes about what year products are released in. Rather annoying when you're being constantly given notes about your writing, but all of those notes are wrong in obvious and straightforward ways.

The resistance I see in every video from Minnesota is inspiring. Regular people are standing up to heavily armed fucks who have no regard for human life; no moral compass; no true desire beyond harming other people.

This is the safest, most moderate course of action that offers some prospect of de-escalation. It is the only way for Democrats. Don't do it and we're on a glide path toward brutal fascist dictatorship or civil war. This isn't going to just stop on its own.

“Organizations can survive bad code easier than suppressed truth. Human debt is harder to repay than tech debt.” https://brittahummel.substack.com/p/why-i-left

Cloud migration meeting is never about birds.

I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.

"Corruption hot mic moment: Forgetting that he is being recorded, Trump tells Ford management that company chair Bill Ford calls him "all the time" to get Trump to remove "environmental garbage" legislation."

why do musketeers use swords not muskets

BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.

ICE removes rape protection for its victims: prospect.org/2026/01/14/i... ICE says it's not responsible for ICE staff sexually assaulting their kidnapping victims: www.aclu.org/news/immigra...

Nara's legendary Amusement CUE is getting rid of its retro games in February, so let's take a look at what we're going to lose. This place is open until midnight! In Nara, everything shuts down early. Except CUE.

Sharing quick tidbits from the Hill today. I asked Rep. Garbarino, House Homeland Chairman, about reports of the Chinese breach into House committees' email accounts. He said he's "not prepared to talk about that right now." www.nextgov.com/cybersecurit...

This isn't it. Try going 100% in the other direction. Let's put a green thumbtack-shaped buoy in Puget Sound (the "sea tack") to advertise Sea-Tac.

this kind of straightforwardly tyrannical behavior from government officials isn't, of course, unknown in US history, even recently, but it's worth saying again that it fundamentally violates the US's whole system of government, which binds agents of the state and citizens alike to the rule of law

I was verified on pre-Elon Twitter (probably the least notable verified profile, honestly) and was fine not being verified here until I learned that a minor tech Substack writer was verified by Bluesky. Would be nice if there were published standards. @support.bsky.team

EXCLUSIVE | Sensitive details of around 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees—including almost 2,000 frontline agents—have allegedly been released by a DHS whistleblower. trib.al/AQEJlIa

preview says 3, as of now the headline is updated to 6

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

They should've released an album of the smooth jazz on Hey Arnold. It was solid.

JUST IN: Minnesota sues Trump administration to block surge of federal immigration agents reut.rs/4sIahTg

I'm surprised blimps aren't used more in advertising—there are about 25 airships left, and Goodyear owns three. It'd be great to see Samsung operate a blimp, but I'm not sure the world is ready for an OLED Zeppelin.

Talked about how MAGA continues to embrace the abuser's lament: "if you don't shut up about me hitting you, I'll be forced to hit you again, so it's all your fault."

Not going to miss the "let's open software and sell it as new" store.

I have been out here using the em dash for like fifteen goddamn years and I will be damned if I let AI take it away from me

Well, this is how I learned the Federal Reserve is on Bluesky.

I have a note: journalists shouldn’t post AI slop in a time of national crisis

Remember, when Vance was caught spewing racist lies that Haitian immigrants were eating people's pets, he admitted that "if I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do." Proudly, openly a liar.

She is aggressively trying to turn the wheel AWAY from the ICE agent. It is her very last action. They provoke her, surround her, then kill her in cold blood. I have barely slept since this happened and I don't think I'll ever stop being angry about this.

A suburban mom with stuffed animals in the glove box and her dog in the back seat was executed in broad daylight and they're calling her a domestic terrorist. Murderers.

Link, for no specific reason: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...

Absolutely incredible that there exists a human with the bullseye perfect expertise for this moment and they are already here and posting. We have the juice.

Names aren't classified, publishing a government higher-up's name is not "doxxing," and journalists are entitled to publish news, even if it is classified, as long as they don't break the law to get it. It's not the press's job to keep the government's secrets.

BREAKING: Renee Good, just slandered by VP Vance as a "deranged leftist" turns out to have just dropped off her child at the school a block away and was not involved in the protest - per Minnesota Public Radio News Trump's Terrorist ICE murdered her.

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

Remember: Federal officials do not enjoy categorical, absolute immunity from state-level prosecutions. They are entitled to removal to federal court. But conduct that is unreasonable or unnecessary for the execution of their law enforcement duties is susceptible to criminal prosecution.

There's a lot of tech companies that purchased the naming rights to sporting arenas, like the Intuit Dome in California or the Lenovo Center in North Carolina. I'm surprised that Microsoft hasn't followed this trend, but I'm also not sure the world is ready for LinkedIn Park.

I've got a magazine subscription that I wanted to change to digital delivery only, but I can't manage my subscription online *at all*, so I've cancelled instead. 🤷‍♂️

I’m not sure why I feel compelled to write in my free time, when I already spend my work day writing, but: I’m starting a blog! It’s like a podcast, but for people who prefer reading. premise.blog

RIP Microsoft Office, 1990-2026, apparently killed by the "Copilot" brand assuming www.office.com is accurate Truly, the ways and wiles of Microsoft's branding team are beyond human comprehension

I finished Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones! Funny thing, I beat my first Fire Emblem game two winters ago in quarantine after getting COVID on a business trip, and now I think I just associate winter with Fire Emblem.

Get to know my music taste in 365 songs! Inspired by @kyleor.land's #365games thread, I'm going to post every day about a song that is meaningful to me. These aren't necessarily the "best" songs, but they're all songs that left an impression in some way, with a loose theme each week. #365songs

あけおめ

Doing a bit of winter cleaning, and I'm struggling to bring myself to throw out some old glasses I owned from 5-10 years ago. My prescription hasn't changed too much in that time, but I don't wear them (and probably won't again).