Hey man I get what you're saying but what if you were saying something different

One resident of the apartment building ICE raided told Reuters that agents broke down her door, then "told them to go back to their country and made a sexualized remark about Venezuelan women, she said. One of the agents hit a man in front of her son." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

twenty years ago spam was a bad thing that the DOE issued bulletins about & built countermeasures against. now the bulk of human software engineering capital is oriented towards producing more of it faster.

we should have drafts

Embrace Mamdani-and-also-Spanberger Thought like, unironically, this is the real and true big tent of liberalism. we have room for both of these strategies, where they are appropriate. they are, in very important ways, not in conflict.

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all. The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

"Only the portrait of a deceased individual may appear on United States currency and securities." 31 USC 5114(b)

today's newsletter: a consideration of the many wonderful cars in One Battle After Another, in particular Willa's 2005 Yaris, Sensei's T-Bird Super Coupe and Bob's boosted 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

Nobody else is writing about this, so please re-post my two-part series about the imminent sale of what one expert calls “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” Preservationists need to move fast. Part one: newrepublic.com/article/2010... Part two: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

NEW from @emilychang.bsky.social: two of the Piedmont families who lost their college students in a Cybertruck crash have now sued Tesla, over claims that defects in the doors of made it a “death trap” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Menus as literature, a review: reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202...

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

These are the quarterbacks since 2010 who complete passes at roughly the rate Microsoft Excel’s AI mode accurately edits spreadsheets

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”… “Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

Very interesting piece.

ChatGPT is not yet causing the massive upheaval in the US labor market that many have feared since the chatbot’s launch in 2022, according to a new study by a research center at Yale University. https://cnn.it/46OHuC6

hard to see how the White House's gleeful cancelling of Congressionally-approved spending is going to result in any kind of government funding agreement

Is Paramount+ not working? I'd like to see some champions league thanks

Space Force declares ATLAS space domain awareness software 'operational' - Breaking Defense

NEW: Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on Trump's mass detention and deportation plans.

Trump's war on rural America continues

There's a section of Young's memo (131ff) where he describes the "frictionless" review process to find people to punish. He notes there could be more in the secret meetings, but USG refused to share details of those. Then says, I don't want to assume you're incompetent, so this must be the intent.

evergreen tweet

pete davidson has always sucked

John Roberts was part of the 3-judge panel presiding over Hamdan v. Rumsfeld while actively interviewing for a seat on the Supreme Court. He didn't recuse himself, didn't inform Hamdan's lawyers, and ruled in the Bush admin's favor the day before he interviewed with Bush himself.

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

useful piece. again and again it seems LLMs can be very useful *if you know what you are doing and are familiar with their strengths and limitations* lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90...

What do we talk about when we talk about Poptimism? slate.com/culture/2025...

“Is everyone in Hollywood just okay with whatever OpenAI prefers?” ☎️ @mattbelloni.bsky.social trying to give the town a (necessary) wake-up call re: AI cos trampling on IP rights “…the AI ship is going to sail… with Hollywood staying well behind—and eventually wondering where its business went.”

Omg. I’ve never seen anything like this in a judicial opinion:

I wrote an OpEd on the most impactful wildfire bill to pass out of the legislature this year. But that faces a very real veto threat. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

This is so so awful. He left four children (all Americans, not that it should matter) and a grieving wife (also an American, not that it should matter)

It really does not get more explicit than Trump telling top active-duty military generals that they will need to participate in occupations of large cities run by his political opponents as part of his "war from within"

NEW: Y Combinator used to be a haven for weird, risk taking startups that defined new categories. Now it's pumping out hundreds of AI startups into what its former CEO calls a bubble. A bunch of recent YC grads told me what the incubator is like in the AI age. www.inc.com/sam-blum/how...

Trump’s approval in the swing states is abysmal open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

I have a piece out today comparing the current ARG bailout to MX 1994 (quite different); ECB behavior in 2010s (closer as it targets voters); current BZ tariffs (ding-ding-ding--it's a market intervention that's also an intervention in domestic politics). www.barrons.com/articles/arg...

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“State Capitalism with Trumpian Characteristics” --with a h/t to Greg Ip and Deng Xiaoping www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...

Flag, targeting, using the crown of the helmet.

Just as Firefly was preparing for the return to flight following the FLTA006 failure, the first stage for FLTA007 was lost in an anomaly on the test stand, resulting in a huge fireball. Really unfortunate to see, and hopefully they can recover quickly. 🎥 via @Elevatorcait

hearing there was some kind of incident at a Firefly's test facility today...

some important observations on San Francisco politics here: www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

now imagine the conversations that engineers developing critical tech in aerospace or transportation have about using LLMs as user interfaces, much less independent agents