On days like this I feel bad for joking with my friend Eric that his work for the UN specializing in “rules of the sea” were not really that interesting.

I hate to make predictions like this, but after Mamdani is in office Trump is going to send ICE to hassle Nannies in NYC around preschool drop off and pickup. It would be like targeting a Home Depots elsewhere as it’s where a lot of immigrants are. And it would create tons of pain for NYC liberals.

Well, how about that? Seems just a little inconsistent with the position (and sworn testimony) DOJ presented to Judge Xinis.

So NVDA, the poster child for the AI boom beats and has strong guidance and investors use it to sell. Not really a great market sign for the “it’s not a bubble and has a long way to run” crowd. If we start to see more data center financings run into trouble, this could get really ugly, fast.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

Can the press PLEASE stop writing articles about things like “President to review cutting federal spending to NyC after Mamdani elected” without ONCE noting that federal spending is set by CONGRESS and not the President. This BS doesn’t work unless you keep failing to inform the public.

Okay, the world may be crazy, but Pebbles here is just hanging out while I’m working remotely today. Thanks dude for just being you.

Just remembering a friend who used to throw a “day after Halloween” brunch. You were required to wear whatever remained of your costume and bring anyone you may have “slept over” with shall we say. Ah to be young.

These motions are going to be part of the playbook for more cases to come. And they are exceptionally well done.

Lots of paranoia about a mayoral candidate who wants to increase taxes on people’s SECOND million dollars of annual income. I mean sure, nobody wants to pay an extra $20,000 in taxes, but if you make $2mm and it’s maintenance it so other people can live in the city it’s a good investment. Grow up

I’d be more suspicious of someone who just referred to a relative as their “second cousin, twice-removed” or such. Real Americans wouldn’t talk like that unless they were genealogist nerds. I will die on the hill that using subjunctive mood is ok though, since mom was an English teacher.

Then president is publicly talking about picking winners and losers in the economy- from Ranchers to Chip manufacturers— and the national media is concerned about a NYC mayoral candidate being anti-capitalist because he wants some free busses and city operated grocery stores in food deserts.

I wonder how long it will take people to realize that the President is so out of it that Miller and Vought gave him a construction project to keep him busy. It’s the same way you give a toddler legos to play with so the adults can have a conversation. He likes building big things- not governing.

"Having struck out with Uganda, Eswatini and Ghana, ICE now seeks to deport [Mr. Abrego] to Liberia -- a country with which he has no connection, thousands of miles from his family and home in Maryland… Costa Rica has agreed to accept him as a refugee, and remains a viable and lawful option."

I'm sure this dramatically understates the numbers giving the brutality and cluelessness of the ICE efforts. Lawyers should be raising their hands to bring some of these cases so the stories are told.

I do wonder what fun has been happening at every private credit firm that has grown a giant trade credit financing book post First Brands. Like, how many guys that were patting themselves on the back for putting hundreds of millions to work are now wondering if they do any real diligence.

Perry asks, what if the president is relying on "completely invalid evidence?" "What if DHS folks are not tethered to reality in their assessment of events. Does that matter?" Hamilton: "A couple points …"

Has any member of the press asked for copies of the warrants DHS used to raid the private homes of every person in a Chicago apartment building? Unless there were a ton of warrants signed by a judge, detailing the places to be searched and the people to be arrested this was all illegal.

Soldering up a #adafruit propmaker feather for some Halloween lightsaber fun.

If Colbert and Fallon don’t book Kimmel as a guest on their shows asap it’s a huge miss.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

I do wonder how much of an invasion of the 4th Amendment Kavanaugh would see if federal agents were detaining and searching all white men, in suits, near business centers, speaking English with East Coast accents —because that is correlated with perpetrators of white-collar crime.

Odds Tuesday the old man declares a national emergency and martial law to distract from everything else? Too high.

Now just hear me out for a second. If that guy was a “sandwich artist” can his tossing of the sub not just be protected first amendment activity?

Trump is panicking because the economic numbers are giving a recession vibe. From the Chief Economist at Moody's.

I actually found this expansion pack the other day lol:

The kids finished the claw machine project with #circuitpython and some feather boards from #adafruit. I’m super proud of all they did to make this work and it was a huge hit with all the kids around here. #maker. A good mix of CAD/3D printing, woodworking, soldering and coding.

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Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Llama model on a Raspberry Pi repeats token generation about its disconnected state until it runs out of memory, crashes, and starts back over again. I love projects like this, and it's only his second video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fNY...

So I guess Congress is just going to give up all its power and our democracy in about six months’ time.

A productive weekend. She mounted the gantry and the controls, now we just need to mount the last (y axis) stepper motor and belts and we can start moving the RP2040 feather, motorwings and lighting related electronics inside to start testing the kids’ code. #maker #adafruit

Kids finally wore me down so they have a new baby brother. #cavapoo.

So anybody know why soho is swarmed with plainclothes cops/ feds like crazy right now? Don’t see anything on the news…

Kids claw machine project getting back on track, as my son gets to play with all the bigger tools to build up the box.

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

Mack Trucks will lay off between 250 and 350 workers at its Lehigh Valley Operations center outside Allentown over the next three months, due to economic uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs, a company spokesperson said Thursday.

People really need to stop parroting “reciprocal tariffs” for a bunch of arbitrary tariffs done on the back of an envelope to take net imports to zero. Framing matters, and it’s a disservice to ordinary Americans to misname what is going on here.

* CHINESE STATE MEDIA: CHINA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA REACH A CONSENSUS THAT THREE SIDES WILL JOINTLY RESPOND TO THE U.S. TARIFFS @reuters.com

Dallas Fed Manufacturing Activity Index for March comes in at -16.3 vs -5.0 expected and -8.3 in Feb. And now for the comments section. www.dallasfed.org/research/sur...

Part of a thread, and it is correct. DOGE's actions make more sense when you begin with: They don't want government services to be more "efficient." They want government services to end. Sure, they'll steal $ with "AI" contracts, but they don't intend for those to work either. They want to end it.

So I give it about 60 days until somebody tells Trump that Lincoln suspended Habeas Corpus and he gives it a try himself to start disappearing “radical leftists” who oppose his actions.

In which the gang learns that the rule of law is useful for M&A activity

The president has hardly any deeply held beliefs and so just throws everything against the wall and pivots to whatever sticks with his base. One exception: Tariffs- which he has always believed are the answer to all economic issues. The market is finally starting to understand this.

I’m guessing it’s not a great sign for the economy that the coffee and bagel cart in lower Manhattan is also selling loose eggs for people that can’t find/afford a dozen…

While I might have bricked the old #adafruit M4 Express (firmware overwrote bootloader bug) the kids did make good progress wiring up 3 steppers, the joystick, alphanumeric display, and some relay for lighting and the servo for the #clawmachine build. Quick learners! Now ordering rp2040…

Ugh just realized the old (salvaged) adafruit m4 feather I was using to build the claw machine with the kids had the old firmware with the bug. Bricked the board and need to reprogram it- but probably not worth it since I don’t have a JTAG debugger. I guess time to move to an RP2040 feather. Oops.

Kids making good progress in the claw Machine prototype this weekend- but it is starting to look a bit like a bomb from a 90s action movie I must confess. Stepper motors and countdown code all working now though- so that’s a plus.

Just finished reading Erik Larson’s Demon of Unrest — The parallels between how southern slave owners felt in the lead up to Civil War and how current MAGA hates DEI and feels “equity” is stealing their birthright and deserved wealth as white males… well it is astounding. And profoundly depressing.