Finally met @dataandpolitics.net at the Underworld show in Denver. See live music! Have fun before it's illegal!

Tonight: Pink Pantheress in Oakland Tomorrow: Underworld in Denver Saturday: Mau P in Red Rocks It's concert season and I'm ready. See live concerts before having fun is illegal!

My niece in Florida recently had a medical emergency and had to undergo brain surgery. Her doctor? A former college football player who was later drafted by the Titans and later was signed by the Steelers. Now, he just saves kids' lives as a pediatric surgeon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_R...

Pro tip: If you bring home chips from El Pollo Loco, dogs will absolutely adore you.

This Friday, I'm heading to Denver with my daughter and her friend to see Underworld. Due to travel requirements, the friend leaves age 17 from California with a passport showing their gender and name assigned at birth. They turn 18 on the trip and identify with a different name and gender now.

Music rec of the night: Kenobix, who I've never heard before. YTM recommended them and they have something for everyone. This is great background music for the week. Some classical violin mixed with soaring vocals and EDM. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Live look at GOP HQ, moments after getting Dem proposal to end the shutdown.

"The 2026 Polestar 4 is a unique and compelling luxury EV compact crossover with enough fun-to-drive panache to make a spirited driving enthusiast out of anyone." The Verge: The Polestar 4 takes EV minimalism to the next level www.theverge.com/transportati... (Don't let your friends buy Teslas)

De Anza College in Cupertino, CA has a football team. deanzasports.com/sports/fball... They are 10-0. They won their last game 99-3, with 99 unanswered points. www.youtube.com/live/Kqk0ZOV...

Watching The Playlist (2022) on Netflix, which ostensibly follows the launch of Spotify, and I swear every film director thinks startups purchase Nerf guns before desk chairs.

Berkeley is beautifully underrated. I dropped my daughter off safely at a concert in SF, and took BART across the bay to visit this exceptional place. I first stepped foot on this campus thirty years ago, and it seems little has changed in a generation.

Yes, the foster puppy does spoon. Thanks for asking.

Today, Parallel Web Systems launched (parallel.ai), founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal. Their mission -- make AI agents access the best of the web more easily for highest accuracy and lower cost. One to watch. Appreciate their about page and mission too. parallel.ai/about

This fluffy dope of a puppy is likely getting adopted soon. There's an offer for Abby to join the family of some well to do CFO in Los Altos Hills, where she will no doubt be pampered. I'm considering going as well.

Apple is turning to Google's technology to help revamp Siri and power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.

“The web is awesome, browsing is awesome, and I see it as just this next computing shift." -- Parisa Tabriz, VP of Chrome The browser is back. www.theverge.com/tech/813944/...

New: I profiled Sierra, the $10B AI customer service startup from Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, which wants to make AI agents the primary way businesses interact with customers. For the piece, I talked to their old bosses, Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai www.forbes.com/sites/richar...

Bluesky rn

"In the future, space may be the best place to scale AI compute." Exploring a space-based, scalable AI infrastructure system design research.google/blog/explori...

Hey @bencollins.bsky.social can you buy Teen Vogue, please?

PCMag: 'The Truth Is Paywalled.' Internet Vets Lament the State of the 'Open' Web www.pcmag.com/news/the-tru... Link rot and page suffocation make me sad. The Web was supposed to be forever and now it's too hard to even find what's happening right now.

Three of the 12 most pivotal plays in baseball history by cWPA occurred last night

I hate this game so much and it's fantastic.

When I first started umpiring for Little League, a lot of kids wore 27 for Mike Trout. Now, every team has a #17, in honor of Ohtani. Also, small sample size... the Asian representation in our local leagues has really exploded the last few years.

Speedy is very crabby about being upstairs when all the Trick or Treating is downstairs @darthbluesky.bsky.social. He is accurately wearing a crab costume too.

AI turned Google Cloud from also-ran into Alphabet’s growth driver "Google Cloud has become one of Alphabet's fastest-growing businesses, powered by massive bets on AI and years of costly investment in datacenters, custom chips, and networking gear." finance.yahoo.com/news/ai-turn...

"The NHC began using the #DeepMind model at the start of the Atlantic hurricane season in June. For the 13 named storms that have formed so far, the DeepMind model has generally performed well in predicting both their tracks and intensities." with @franklinjamesl.bsky.social [1/2]

We are taking name suggestions for our latest foster puppy. She's golden, but she's a Great Pyrenees, not your ordinary retriever. And she knows it. She's 12 weeks, fluffy and ready for adoption soon. What should we name her @darthbluesky.bsky.social?

My twins have been working on college applications all month. In order to push this toward the inevitable finish line, I may have said I was the "Shohei Ohtani" of editing college application essays last night. Whatever it takes to get it done.

On the last day of Fall Ball Little league, there was a rainbow over one of the fields. Baseball is the best. (Yes, it rained a lot later, and as an umpire, I got very wet. Worth it.)

Every single day it's like this. Your rights and assumed freedoms are being eroded in front of you, but the stock market goes up.

Another night, another live concert in SF! Today's event: Stereolab. Have fun while it's still legal!

Tonight's plan: See The Wombats live at the Regency Ballroom in SF. Tomorrow's plan: Believe it or not, Stereolab at the Regency Ballroom in SF. See live music! Have fun while it's still legal!

Greetings from San Francisco. Safe and quiet and beautiful as always. No federal intervention required.

One of my kids can't take her precalculus test thanks to AWS. Another one can't look up his grades for the same reason. Thanks, Obama.

The Mariners lost and a large Seattle based company took down a good portion of the web. Coincidence? I think not.

UC Berkeley’s real Nobel prize is a free parking spot www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... "With five Nobel Prize winners, the University of California broke the record for the most Nobels going to one institution in one year." Go Bears.

I just moved my kids' laundry and found eight bucks in the air filter. If this trend continues, that's a few grand a year!

I'm in the front row for Cal vs UNC, Cal is winning early. Bill Belichick is fuming. And yet, Ohtani's Dodgers performance is the story of the night. Berkeley still beautiful. Go Bears!

Tonight's plan: Purity Ring in San Francisco at The Warfield. One of my favorite bands at one of my favorite venues. Good use of a weeknight. See live music! Have fun while it is still legal!

First slow, then fast.

The Acquired podcast is doing a series on Google and has 3 episodes up. Part 1: The Origin of Search www.acquired.fm/episodes/goo... Part 2: The Complete History and Strategy of Alphabet www.acquired.fm/episodes/alp... Part 3: Google: The AI Company www.acquired.fm/episodes/goo...

The moral of today is pretty clear. Baseball good, tariffs bad. We need more extra innings and fewer orange frauds fouling things up.

October concert calendar: Above & Beyond w/ Gabriel & Dresden Purity Ring (SF) The Wombats (SF) Stereolab (SF) November concert calendar: Pink Pantheress (Oakland) Underworld (Denver!) Mau P w/ Andrew Beyer (Red Rocks) Sasha & Digweed (Alameda) Fill up your calendars before fun is illegal!

I got a new monitor in January and it's been very good. Earlier today, I was looking in my Downloads folder and I saw items going back to last year, and I was trying to figure out how that was possible, only to realize the computer was the same the whole time. Duh. Technology, how does it work?

I'm treasurer for our local Little League, and the fiscal year ended on September 30. Board meeting is tomorrow, so I told my daughter I had to "go play Quicken". I mean, what else is Quicken besides a giant puzzle game with bad graphics where you never actually win?

My son and I showed up at 12:50 today to umpire the 1 pm Little League game, only to find out it started at 12 and they had a coach behind the mound. Schedule mixup! It was about 90 and I was plenty hot, so when the game finished in record time (for us), I didn't object. Game two is at 3:30. ⚾🌞

Back at Shoreline Amphitheatre tonight to see the marvelous Above and Beyond. Got the best seats possible too! Will be an excellent show. See them if they ever come your way.

Pretty wild to see @jay.bsky.team burn the good will for Bluesky in just a few days. Maybe if they had actually hired a head of comms, instead of leaving that job role open for months, somebody would give her advice on how not to communicate with users. jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...

I've never met @jay.bsky.team. I've told everyone to please join Bluesky and leave X, daily. But if you are engaged in a community, you learn from it and you listen. When the community asks you to make it healthier, don't make tone deaf jokes. This is a "let them eat cake" choice. Disappointing.