@howard.fm You've done a great job at hiding your email address from the internet! Can you please follow me back or contact me by email so I can ask you a question about llmstxt org?

New York City's tech chief steps down, Mamdani's tech priorities still unclear statescoop.com/new-york-cit...

New Jersey is the first state to pass a law codifying its digital services / innovation office. New Jersey's governor-elect has also committed to keeping around Dave Cole, the state's innovation chief. But when asked whether the CTO will also stick around? statescoop.com/new-jersey-m...

North Dakota is running a competition for its new "I Voted" stickers. One of the entries is very midwestern: "You betcha I voted" www.sos.nd.gov/about-office...

This Ian Parker profile of Peter Navarro has one of the better burns I've seen in some time: src: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Despite everything, NYC is pushing hard for blockchain. “Outside of crypto, tell me a use of it,” Ed Toner, Nebraska’s former chief information officer, said in 2021. “Tell me a widespread value-add that blockchain has ever delivered, ever. I challenge everybody.” statescoop.com/nyc-eric-ada...

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

given that making Greenland part of the US makes no sense, Jeff Landry is the perfect man for the job

@gcaw.bsky.social's Atlantic piece about Lolita/Epstein is great, but this part is mmwah:

Every cyber truck i see now I'm going to imagine is being driven by a burly dude getting in his feels talking to grok

Michigan CIO Laura Clark quietly resigns, governor names acting replacement statescoop.com/michigan-cio...

Instead of just scoffing at their arrogance and lies, which I'm not wholly opposed to, here is the Lancet article calculating that the recent USAID cuts could lead to 14 million additional deaths. Well done boys www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

AI tops cybersecurity in survey of state IT priorities New: statescoop.com/nascio-state...

Dallas is going to put AI-powered cameras on its trash trucks. A few other places have done this already. I'm sort of a luddite anyway, but I wouldn't this in my town: statescoop.com/dallas-texas...

damn, I love learning about stuff src: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

California lawmakers are demanding more information on an early earthquake warning system managed by the U.S. Geological Survey after it issued a false alert last week that a magnitude-5.9 earthquake had struck near the California-Nevada border.

just a very stable genius doing his thing

It's a great day when I get to edit a story that includes wildlife. This time it's invasive frogs and little fire ants: statescoop.com/hawaii-biose...

Man on street say Trump EO still bad: statescoop.com/trump-state-...

Legal experts and everyone in my fifth-grade social studies class.

Something I'd never considered before, but NY just passed the nation's first law requiring diaper makers to list the ingredients: nyassembly.gov/leg/?default...

The nonprofit Center for Civic Futures on Tuesday announced it will award $8.5 million to accelerate the development of artificial intelligence projects designed to improve public benefits programs over the next two years. statescoop.com/center-civic...

If at first you fail a bunch of times because it's something almost nobody wants, just draft another executive order: statescoop.com/state-ai-law...

I interviewed Michael Geraghty, New Jersey's CISO, for a story about a new civilian cyber corps the state is starting. I found it highly relatable that he registered a website domain name for the project in 2017 but only launched the project this month. statescoop.com/new-jersey-c...

OnSolve CodeRED, a voluntary, opt-in emergency notification system used by law enforcement agencies and municipalities across the country, has been permanently shut down in the wake of a ransomware attack. via @mattkapko.com : cyberscoop.com/crisis24-ons...

New from me, latest on federal attempts to preempt state ai laws: statescoop.com/congress-sta...

we poke fun at him, but this is tragic

“Device hoarding” un fucking real Both major political parties agree we have one job and it’s to buy shit

Today's non sequitur: the Kentucky secretary of state's website prominently features a quotation from Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist from Rush

I don't like to get too controversial on here, but ever since discovering cotton candy grapes, regular grapes can take a hike

whatever the Xai people did to make grok speak more positively about its owner seems to be backfiring

Breaking: The FCC has voted 2-1 along party lines to eliminate cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies that the commission adopted at the end of the Biden administration. Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon. Story coming shortly.

“... switching to AI requires money for labeling and sensors to accumulate data, installing CCTVs, cleaning the data, planning how to use it, building customized solutions for robot operations and deploying personnel. These are costs we never imagined.” shorturl.at/ZXaXA

I don't appreciate being attacked by the media like this

UPDATE: Person infected with bird flu in Washington state has H5N5. It's the first time H5N5 has been found in a human

Bradley Tusk’s Mobile Voting Foundation has announced an open-source software development kit that, its creators claim, can be used to develop smartphone apps that allow fully secure and verifiable online elections. statescoop.com/votesecure-b...

This is legal permission for someone to assassinate me if I ever unironically utter aloud the words "I'm a grok guy."

big news

This is a greatly written article containing horrible things. That people are allowed to get away with treating animals this way is maddening.

A sad day for justice. Sure, today it's just sandwiches, but what will be thrown next, quesadillas? Gyros?

What is this country becoming when it will elect a man who doesn't even do crypto scams?

How are movie villains running the country? This is unreal www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

There's growing activity in the state govt IT ecosystem to scale up and mature AI efforts. Today, the AI Readiness Project, joins that trend with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and the nonprofit Center for Civic Futures: statescoop.com/ai-readiness...

wait, aren't they supposed to be harassing day laborers?

The Beeck Center has a new fellow who will focus on helping state and local govts with AI. The timing is interesting — some say agencies are entering a new phase of their AI work, which will require (even more) careful thinking to get the best results. New story: statescoop.com/state-local-...

Jeez that sounds familiar (Source: Grokipedia — wanted to see what it had to say this fella)

New from me and @colinwood.me⬇️

@katie-drummond.bsky.social truly doing God's work by writing this. I've been talk-shouting this at people for three years. And no one ever listens. www.wired.com/story/ai-jou...