In the NYT Magazine: Over 4 years, a dozen of my daughter’s current and former teammates (including my child) ruptured a combined 19 ACLs. Knee injuries have become a global crisis for teen girls. Yet we’ve known for 25 years how to reduce ACL tears. What went wrong? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/m...

It's worth reading Anthropic's blog post: www.anthropic.com/news/stateme... I want to underscore that even if you hate Anthropic and uses of Artificial Intelligence, it is important to ensure the lines that they're laying out in this doc are not crossed, regardless of the tooling.

NEW EXTRA POINTS: shared a guest post today that highlights the folks who keep the official stats...who are under WAY more pressure this time of year...and how that job is even hader/more important in the mass gambling era: www.extrapointsmb.com/p/the-hidden...

Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs shows how easily pseudonymous users can now be re-identified from unstructured text alone. When discussing our EJMR paper at NBER SI 2023 Catherine Tucker argued that rising compute would soon erode online anonymity. The future may already be here.

That's my union.

In a Pennsylvania state House special election yesterday, the Democratic candidates won with less than 7% turnout, per the county election board. In a district of 60,000+ people with 32,000 voters, just 2,250 decided the outcome. This was a race that could have flipped the chamber.

"You tried and you failed. The lesson is: never try."

This seems fine, no issues here: companion.ai/einstein

50something campus cop meets 20something student on fetish site (after being told off for wearing his uniform in sex pics), begins a relationship that turns abusive, she breaks it off, he shows up at her job in uniform to intimidate her. State police board clears him, separate board delicenses him.

Go on, Shimron. #WIvZim

"In it, he wrote that Lenerz's opinion piece is 'inconsistent with pedagogical interests of the school' because it contained 'strong criticism of the school board' and 'political dissent or activism'." Public school: no opinions for you, kids. cc @gullyd.bsky.social

I joined CQ just after Rhodes Cook retired, but his presence was never far from the newsroom, especially for those of us who covered elections & compiled electoral data. He loves politics & has to be one of the very few who worked on Nixon's 68 campaign & McGovern's 72 race. RIP rhodescook.com/bio/

From @philipncohen.com, a case for discussing our policy on AI-generated research.

So we killed USAID and are sending vibe-coders to help other countries. Got it.

American exceptionalism

That's my university!

Sure:

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

Modern science does miraculous things and we should shout it from the rooftops.

Hello. POLITICO is hiring an editorial director of newsroom engineering. It’s a cool job! politico.wd108.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/POLITI...

It's a good thing there are no controversies in computer science, engineering, medicine, law, education, business, language, math, biology, chemistry, political science, communications, economics, data science, agriculture, history, public health, atmospheric science, criminology, linguistics, ...

"The memorandum, seen by Reuters, does not specify any financial terms and says the project "shall be facilitated by the United States General Services Administration and by the Pakistan Ministry of Defence." What? www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Look, if there's one industry that has always prided itself on its numeracy, it's journalism.

I've started reading fiction in the past 4-5 months (I mostly did not before) and I believe one reason is that it helps me to avoid thinking "what could i have my AI coding assistant working on?" thoughts, plus what @simonwillison.net calls "cognitive debt". simonwillison.net/tags/cogniti...

In my humble opinion, if we want to push back on the current political culture of trampling on the very concept of civic virtue, we're just gonna have to live with some people tying those virtues to their faith. It's okay to talk about why a belief in Jesus makes you want to be a good person IMO

Tre Johnson, RIP. One of those athletes who took his intellectual development as serious as his physical. Turned to teaching high school. And was one of few Washington players studied and courageous enough to speak out against its old opprobrious name in our documentary Imagining the Indian

Same, my dude, same.

I'm starting to get too old for that kind of excitement, @terpswbb.bsky.social, but you love to see it, especially against Ohio State.

Pakistan's somewhat brainless batting here means I get the full range of commercials targeting South Asians in the U.S. #IndvsPak

"Automated payment reminder" - definitely not scammy political fundraising tactics at all.

A fundraising "survey" from Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., asking recipients what government spending to cut. Not sure what agency "DOW" is, unless he means the Department of War, which is not exactly a favorite target of GOP budget hawks.

attn @matthodges.bsky.social maxhalford.github.io/blog/text-cl...

"People are complaining that we send them too many fundraising emails. Got any ideas?" "That's not a problem, it's an opportunity."

Pretty sure this is a Steve Berry "Cotton Malone" novel plot.

Am sitting in on a CS class on OSINT techniques this semester and we definitely need a version of this for journalism students.

The @terpswbb.bsky.social WBB game last night was frustrating to watch because the way Penn State plays sometimes is kind of an insult to team basketball. Just jarring.

More than a year after its formation, I continue to track DOGE's activities and try to shed light on their staffing based on what limited information I can find. dogetrack.info

Strong Michael Scott declaring bankruptcy vibes

"Howard also said the university consulted a higher education law expert to make sure the word Black could be used and does not violate state law." The law is working as Florida intended, then.

This is going to turn out to be something extremely stupid.

Good story by former @merrillcollege.bsky.social students Michael Howes & Taylor Lyons about the decline of girls participation in high school basketball in Maryland: www.baltimoresun.com/2026/02/10/f...

⛰️ #Colorado 2024 General Election Precinct-Level Results and Boundaries now available! Includes results for: ✔️ President ✔️ US House ✔️ State Legislature ✔️ State Court of Appeals & Supreme Court ⬇️Download now Shapefile: tinyurl.com/ye26r5ev CSV: tinyurl.com/3k4yra7u #ElectionData #OpenData #DataBsky

New research just dropped, as the kids say. My partner @medialawprof.bsky.social and took a look at how states are trying to stop people from using AI to lie. We settled on A) it probably won’t work, B) is very probably unconstitutional, and C) tech companies need to prioritize tools to help users.

New blog post: A case study on using Claude Code in data journalism -> kschaul.com/post/2026/02...

Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.

Still very surprised that this happened (both the win and the fundraising email)

Funny now news organizations keep finding this.

idk, seems like an unproductive thing to do:

Looks like a rare chance to suggest people learn about former Rep. Vito Marcantonio, a New Yorker who supported Puerto Rican independence and was LaGuardia's campaign manager. Not a pal of @dicknixon.bsky.social, but an effective advocate for Harlem: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Ma...

Not long after hitting a game-winning 3, UMD's Diggy Coit appears as the sender in an athletic department fundraising email. Do other colleges do this, @mattbrown.bsky.social?