"While officials and police leadership in the area align with residents on the issue, Areman also expressed reservations regarding the potential for “consequences” as a result of adopting a public-facing policy or statement." A striking statement from my local community: whyy.org/articles/che...

Casey Newton's annual updates are always great. This year, perhaps predictably, the biggest highlight for me is his ambitions around community. We need stronger community platforms to support newsrooms. werd.io/what-i-learn...

Happy to be in this piece alongside @werd.io!

Notable (but not surprising) that as far as I can tell every late night talk show commenting on the Kimmel situation studiously avoided making comment on Charlie Kirk and what he said themselves.

On reflection, I think I’m pro-rapture.

Yessss it's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers, season, motherfuckers

On point. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

Has the internet led to more polarization, or is this more of a great unmasking, where people feel more comfortable to share opinions they've always held? werd.io/how-aestheti...

Goh...

Fact check: true.

My internal monologue right now is basically this statement on repeat:

As far as I can tell no one else has yet reported (tell me if I missed something!) on the DOJ dictating what meetings NIH employees can attend, which, well, seems odd to me.

Booked a Covid shot. PSA: there are new (and stupid) restrictions, but you can get it if your BMI is over 25, which is 3 out of 4 Americans.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

Spent the morning being a horsey for a kazoo-playing three year old who is happy to see his daddy. I couldn’t ask for more.

The future.

Back in Philadelphia. They should hand you a cheesesteak or a Wawa hoagie when you step off the plane.

I’m serious about playing the Muppet Show theme when you’re taking off. Try it next time you fly.

If it seems like a tech company is behind you in assessing how its tech will affect your industry, I’d offer that it’s not behind. It doesn’t really care and is offering what it thinks is just enough to gain your segment as a customer. You are not important to it.

There are a whole bunch of people who are not technically right-aligned who thought that diversity initiatives went too far, have tried to place roadblocks, and quietly welcome the undermining of what they consider to be far left organizations. To them I say: you will be remembered as collaborators.

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Too short a trip to San Francisco. Lots done, lots talked about, lots of people seen, but it’s never long enough, and there are scores of people I didn’t get to see. Hoping to visit again before the end of the year. This still feels like home.

Absolutely abortive trip in a Waymo. There was a protest down Sutter and it completely freaked out and decided it was going to drive in a big loop before resuming the route it had already been on. Impressive.

I wrote a piece about gathering first-party data without breaching reader trust for the News Product Alliance. newsproduct.org/blog/the-fir...

The Onion is absolutely killing it and I’m so glad they have the ownership and the culture they do in this moment. Hard to imagine what it might have looked like right now under its previous owner.

I’ve had a very good day. My head is spinning with ideas and new takes, which is exactly where I like to be. And I got to be in conversation with smart, nice people, which is even more of what I want.

as you cancel disney subscriptions, please remember to support your favorite independent media. there are amazing people doing critical work with very little support, and things are only getting harder. here are some of my favorites: www.citationneeded.news/friends/. feel free to post yours below!

People keep bringing up my framework for evaluating AI with me. I’m so glad folks have found it useful. More to come! werd.io/evaluating-ai/

Daycare just sent out a message saying “go birds!” but sadly forgot the other two lines

Whoever built the sales software that automatically makes outgoing calls to a prospect from a number with an area code geographically close to them: I appreciate your ingenuity but also I hope you can’t sleep at night.

Who knew Fallon would win the market through attrition?

Over the last week I’ve become aware that lots of infrastructure depends on local government, school board, etc, meetings being posted on YouTube. That’s quite a scary dependency & a potential vector for harm. We need to get to a world where these meetings are stored & shared in a more aligned way.

Pleased to be back in famously lawless crime-ridden hellhole San Francisco.

In the Bay Area people are still masking on public transit and I’m grateful to see it.

Liquid Glass is really reminiscent of terrible Linux windows managers in 2007. Really glad we made that aesthetic mainstream!

I love London so much. So much. Did you know that London has the lowest level of ethnic violence of any city of comparable size in the world? Multiculturalism has in fact worked here. They just don’t want it to be true because we happen to have a Muslim mayor.

They filmed part of this in Oxford, where I grew up, and some of my friends were so excited that they met Val Kilmer in a local club and stood at the urinal next to him. Claims to fame.

Other San Francisco observation: there are multiple open offices to let on South Park? Not sure I’ve ever ver seen that before.

Took a potentially life changing blood test. Needed to fill in my credit card details first. 🇺🇸

San Francisco billboards report: about 2/3rds AI, 1/3 enterprise compliance.

This is excellent news. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Touchdown! Hello, San Francisco.

For some reason I have severe flight anxiety today. (I had a plane crash dream last week, which is probably it. I know life is not Final Destination and it was a product of my worries about other things.) So, help me through it? 1 like = 1 deeply held opinion about something trivial.

I used to uncomplicatedly love any kind of solo travel, including work trips. I still very much love seeing people and different places. But also, my little buddy spent all night clinging to me because he didn’t want me to leave. And my own separation anxiety is through the roof.

I have to wake up in four and a half hours to go catch a flight to SF, so obviously I’m completely wired and can’t sleep.

Is Brisbane as nice as Bluey makes it out to be?

The nice thing about gardening in 2025 is that I can spend my Sunday surrounded by horseshit figuratively *and* literally.

Make a band singular: Fran Ferdinand

“Dad, what’s this?” “Well, that’s the TARDIS.” “What’s the TARDIS?” I’ve trained for this.

Not superb. www.commondreams.org/news/rubio-t...