Getting links out of my inbox and tabs into a blog post. clock.pencoyd.com/2026/01/15/l... Glad to have the blog back online, which is a (small) story for another time.

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

Incredible, measured takedown of macOS Tahoe icons. Makes clear why the feel is off. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i... from mastodon.online/@nikitonsky (via @daringfireball.bsky.social)

Let's break the Internet with this today.....

Thought this would be super simple & fast. Nope. clock.pencoyd.com/2026/01/01/r...

www.tbray.org/ongoing/When... We are benefitting from the once-dark fiber (fibre) from the dot-com bubble.

Power outage again in western SF. Limited but we are included. Whee.

Wrap up 2025 in 6 words: “Can’t say we didn’t warn you.”

"We don't run profiles on the person who exercises consistently, maintains friendships, sleeps 8 hours, and builds nothing more remarkable than a sustainable existence. But sustainability is remarkable. It's actually quite difficult. Ask anyone who's tried." www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Today? You sent this today, PG&E?

Appreciate update but no context on whether things are improving. Outage map is worse + another two hours = confidence? #hugops because we all depend on this infrastructure.

I'm pro more ways for tech experts to improve common infrastructure, like government. USDS and 18F were gutted. Now Tech Force announced, and I'm wary. If not outright skeptical. FAQ explains not DOGE but if you're explaining, you're losing. Curious what @cydharrell.bsky.social thinks.

Attended this talk live. History applied to current events helps with context. Visualizations as art: fantastic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsBn... @katecrawford.bsky.social & @longnow.org

Tom Whitwell's annual post is less narcissistic and wider ranging than Spotify Wrapped. medium.com/@tomwhitwell...

It's more inspiring when the NYTimes allows data to drive the story. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c... Feels similar to the local successes that @jfallows.bsky.social and Deb Fallows surface often.

Avoid mediocrity, always. "...if you don’t listen to smart humans who tell you the truth, you will achieve an impressive nothing or, worse, a mediocre something." @rands.bsky.social latest is less an essay than internal dialogue shared. randsinrepose.com/archives/the...

"The average family will pay $1,800 more for groceries, clothing, and other necessities thanks to the Trump administration’s trade policies in 2025." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Sharing for awareness. Government funding has to come from somewhere. Better taxpayers than most other sources. One more organization under fire: the IRS donmoynihan.substack.com/p/five-quest...

I keep deferring MacOS "upgrade" to Tahoe (26.1) because (a) not excited about liquid glass UI and (b) not clear about any other benefits. Am I missing anything? Usually in favor of staying current, but unconvinced, so far.

Election Day

Not surprising, but still chilling and worth paying attention to the individual cases.

Sign of the times: as a pedestrian at a crosswalk, I trust a Waymo to stop more than a human driver.

TIL: Federal Universal Service Charge (or Fee) DRAMATICALLY increases your wireless bill for international calls. Quarterly rate set by FCC for FUSF: www.fcc.gov/general/cont... (Q4 2025 is 38.1%) Carrier contributions "may be recovered from customers." Narrator: they are!

A pragmatic view on AI, looking over a longer horizon, from @rmhrisk.bsky.social Whether AI is as disruptive as the printing press or the internet itself, TBD. That's a stretch, for me. But I've heard similar from thoughtful people who are often my canaries about technical (r)evolution.

As intended, @anildash.com wrote a clear piece about opinions about AI that are more nuanced than general attention. www.anildash.com/2025/10/17/t...

"Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves." Topical, despite original publication date of 1954 for The Two Towers, with Gandalf commenting on the Palantir... thank you, J.R.R. Tolkien.

frankchimero.com/blog/2025/se... "What makes the Market for Lemons concept so appealing (and what differentiates it in my mind from enshittification) is that everyone can be acting reasonably, pursuing their own interests, and things still get worse for everyone."

surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/08/t... "But you neglect at your peril the engineers who are working nine-to-five days at boring companies."

I'm not exactly sure Elon is the guy I'd want to take advice from regarding "the war on drugs" in San Francisco.

"The reason I spend so much time writing it down is that I don’t want to explain it to you face-to-face." randsinrepose.com/archives/one...

Nuanced proposal on how to reduce costs over time for public transit buses in the US. Rich with data, acknowledges reality (political and otherwise), but still offers ideas for improvement. (PDF) www.brookings.edu/wp-content/u...

Another excellent exhibition at SFO. #GiveMeARing @sfomuseum.bsky.social

FDA approved the abortion pill mifepristone 25 years ago. So why is RFK Jr. raising questions about it now? He's trying to roll back abortion access nationwide. I'll keep fighting against attempts to restrict access—because medication abortion is safe and effective. Period.

Watched this in snippets over the past few weeks. Enjoyed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

When humans celebrate their competition: heartening youtu.be/0xvHfXD2FcA?... (Oh, and watch the world record be broken, again.)

randsinrepose.com/archives/che... "I find great comfort in the written word. It gives me satisfaction to translate the mess in my head into occasional helpful words and phrases." Amen. Unfortunately, not everyone wants to read, or receives the same message from identical words.

Let's say it again: 1) Harvard said "No," and Trump has backed off. 2) Chicago (and Illinois) said "No," and Trump has backed off. It's day by day. But those who said "OK, sure," have gained nothing at all. Except shame.

Science isn't stopping, fortunately. I can imagine negative uses of this tech but the positives are immense for health monitoring. news.ucsc.edu/2025/09/puls... Via @davepell.bsky.social

I know little about making music, but exploring any song from The Police gets me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Another possible explanation: millions of dumb, selfish people were deliberately lied to by a billionaire-funded right-wing propaganda apparatus with the explicit goal of enraging them & hurting the Dem administration. Dumb, selfish people believed lies. Doesn't that ring a little more true?

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

This is very, very powerful. Please read. Link here: dbarkhuff.substack.com/p/i-should-b...

"As a leader, I am surprised to find that improving my core skills in communication, setting expectations, and planning benefits both the robots and the humans." randsinrepose.com/archives/eve... another one linked by @rianvdm.com (thank you), written by @rands.bsky.social

"You stop talking to be right and start talking to be useful." theproductleaderinsider.substack.com/p/the-game-y... via @rianvdm.com

Thread worth reading. (Meta-point: Why oh why oh WHY do our leading media outlets frame these issues as if they were just another chapter in a political-tactics almanac.)

Was it William Gibson (Neuromancer) or Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) who reminded readers that their seminal cyberpunk novels were NOT manuals? @pkrugman.bsky.social and @himself.bsky.social mention the power and (mis)direction of those fantastic stories. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Music isn't my primary language, but this works today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH0-... (h/t @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy)

Channeling John McEnroe when I got this email today "You can't be serious!?!?"

Trump promised not to cut Medicaid and his signature legislation cuts Medicaid by nearly $1 trillion.