Literal lol.

My son wants to ride his bike on his own all the time. I am terrified he's going to get hit and killed, even in our own neighborhood. It wouldn't be as bad if I wasn't constantly scared of it even when we're riding together.

Absolutely not.

The work continues!

S-tier "L" for Zuck.

Few things are more infuriating than the increasing amount of time I lose to various cybersecurity measures. At this rate, I'm going to have to type in a novel on a biometric keyboard every 15 minutes by the time I'm 50.

After 4 years of the US doing this to Russia in Ukraine, this turnabout is not exactly surprising.

wow we are arriving at the exact situation every single person imagined within one second of seeing their first robot dog

Hot take: gambling metastasizing through society is maybe not the best. Maybe there are things we shouldn't gamble on.

Yes, you know the tool you use to get places? We're going make it less reliable and more expensive for us to run. You don't have any choice in this. If you don't like it, Mapquest is still available.

Eric has been an incredible advocate and source of information about the daily safety issues on Indy's streets. His work, and the work of fellow advocates, has forced Indy media (myself included) to face the very real safety problems on our streets. We're lucky to have him.

Mountain warfare AND amphibious landing when the enemy has a very good idea where you'll be and you still haven't been able to fully degrade their AAA is... not an ideal military planning scenario.

This isn't a high-minded post. I'm enthusiastically a hater when it comes to sports.

In sports, the risk/reward math always favors being a hater over being a fan.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

But also industrial monoculture agriculture has been an ecological disaster. Market concentration is generally bad for everyone and agriculture is already comically concentrated. GMO crops you couldn't collect useable seeds from were one of the first enshittifying industries!

Blackrock is freezing private credit withdraws. [Cue @edzitron.com and the "is that good" meme]

The limited efficacy of air power alone has been known since the Battle of Britain in WW2. This is why combined arms is the standard for every nation-state military since.

LLMs absolutely have used. But we are not assessing them in light of their true costs right now, which makes it very hard to guess their eventual impact. They are not nearly as useful as Sam & Dario say and are inherently limited in ways that don't have straightforward solutions.

I only use these for bits in the GC now because they have lost all usefulness as a journalist.

Adding pro-sports-esque gambling sponsorships would be one of the only ways to make America's political culture more toxic. Thankfully, this mostly just seems to be sharing election results reporting.

I am intrigued to see how Gov. Braun's "make electricity cheap again" effort with the IURC will do now that Indy's power company is going to be owned by (a company that is itself owned by) Blackrock.

Reminder that politics is very simple and easy. This is why we have not been debating them literally forever. If you disagree with me it is because you are stupid and evil. Not because governance is an intractable, nigh-unsolvable puzzle that literally no one has ever been very good at.

Only 8% of Americans use Uber at least once a month. But yes, giving Gemini access to my every move and trusting it to choose a ride that is in MY economic best interest seems like a selling point, Samsung. A solution in search of a problem.

AI in games, like microtransactions, feels like something developers are doing *to* audiences rather than for them.

Rise of Skywalker is the winner. If I'd seen Banshees of Inisherin in theater, maybe it would have come close. But RoS was just... incandescent rage.

A study reported by The Register showed that 98% of CIOs had pressure from the board "to demonstrate measurable, increasing ROI" from AI, with 71% believing that their AI budget would face cuts or freeze if targets aren't met by mid-2026 www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/n...

Legitimately curious why I would trust the CEO of NVIDIA when he says all his customers can keep buying NVIDIA chips with no evidence? He is very much not an impartial source of information. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/n...

The successive waves of humans immigrating to Greenland and then abandoning it is fascinating. When the Vikings settled, they didn't conquer anyone, southern Greenland had no pre-existing human settlements. And then the Norse all left by 1500 (the proto-Inuit may have had a role in that).

Grim news for the stock market if this continues.

Update: Today's amendment guts the pro-density parts of the bill.

It occurs to me that a big, unresolved issue in the AI trade is liability. When an AI hallucinates and that results in a bad outcome, who is responsible? Or when it operates fully in response to an illegal request, who is responsible?

Increasingly irritated that we are calling large language models AI. You'd think I'd be over this by now AND YET.

Interested to see the Indy urbanist response to House Republicans proposing a bill that caps parking requirements and allows single stair cases for multifamily housing under a certain size. A fairly YIMBY bill is HB 1001, at my first reading.

"But doctor... I am Pagliacci." "That's okay. Alphabet signed a deal with OpenAI so all of the Pagliacci content on Youtube has been fed into Sora and you can have it generate your own, personal digital Pagliacci." "Won't this destroy my livelihood?" "PagliacciGPT will cheer you up!"

ChatGPT is just Clippy after Microsoft banished him to the Upside Down.

Then: Starfox 64 Now: Starfox 64 Forever: Starfox 64 Honorable Mentions: GoldenEye 007 and Starcraft

Slept 8.5 hours last night. Somehow more tired than usual. We love a Monday.

LMAO, Stranger Things and the Colts had the same quality arc this season.

This is a gentle reminder that the FBI has had every single document in the Epstein files for a number of years so it's probable that literally no one in the files will face charges because of their release.

I am reminded of the fact people in like 2019 thought crime was at an all time high when, in fact, it was near an all time low. The period most millennials associate with good times (the 90s) was in fact the high point for violent crime. Even the COVID spike was nowhere near the 1994 crime rate.

Niki Kelly remains first-in-class for statehouse coverage. Extremely grateful we've been able to include her analysis on Crossroads Politics this year!

A central reason people don't understand induced demand, I think, is that there's about a 5 year lag between the new construction and when traffic catches back up. It makes the connection seem tangential and not direct correlation.

It is hard to think of a more saturated market than "dudes who are interested in Roman military history." Famously, it's something American men think of OFTEN.

The Princess Bride is one of those foundational movies for me. Foundational to my sense of humor, to family lore, to my understand of what makes a "good" comedy. RIP Rob Reiner.

It's a bit troubling that a man who says he is on the path to building a digital God cannot conceive of how to raise a human child. Deities, I have to imagine, are more complicated than babies.

This is just silly. There is not enough power or money to do this. It takes 5 years to build a single powerplant. We are not being serious right now.

I think there is probably a middle ground between "everything is better" and "everything is worse" that captures the way planned obsolescence and "fixing this violates the warranty" have made products worse. I think products are generally safer AND less durable.

Black Mirror goes Kafka.

Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya.