Clearly I would not be built for Mariners fandom.

the chat gpt commercial where the scrawny kid asks the robot for workout tips is anti-social behavior because you could just ask someone who actually works out & maybe find an accountability workout buddy. Also pullups? Really?

somewhere out there, the erin brockovich of the AI data center era is taking notes. jk that person is an influencer.

mantra of the day: delegation isn't a pattern library

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Had a really rad time talking to Sean on this podcast that made me dredge up a story of participating in Odyssey of the Mind in 3rd grade.

I was thinking I might want to run a global State of Design research, as it relates to our current state of the world. Not "which is the best tool for you as a designer" but more like "how do you feel" about job security, AI... Basically, stuff that is affecting you professionally (and personally)

Well here's the breakthrough with OSAA adding boys volleyball as a spring sport...it means we can -- not this year, but in the future -- start to have the convo about splitting boys & girls tennis. It clears out one less spring sport & would help court constraints IMMENSELY. #opreps

Much respect for Boone letting this kid working into the 7th inning. Jays sabermetric dorks would've pulled him in the 3rd inning.

Jays bullpen has long been garbage and it was going to back to bite us at some point. Yankees weren't going to just roll over, but it's not over yet.

🗣️ We're hosting an archival version of "plainlanguage.gov" to help make sure this trusted resource remains available to folks who need it.

Pretty wild when you realize the vast majority of public LLMs are just an AI layer on top of Wikipedia and Reddit. Basically, the "future" only exists because the past was open source

First time in a few months I’m chiming back into the agent experience & context engineering conversations. We keep narrowing “context” to prompts and tokens, but we’re missing the bigger terrain these systems enter. Also launching a personal research project: blog.ronbronson.com/context-is-n...

Dispatches from the front lines of Portland (albeit with military helicopters roving downtown day & night joining the crow roost)

A few more innings to go, but the dome rocking and scoring like this... truly the best. Especially against the Yankees.

i refuse to spend time trying to ascribe meaning to these devices when it's no different than hating cars or lawnmowers. rerouting a practice (slurs) meant for human difference to devices doesn't instantly recharacterize its condition. i don't name my cars or a random bathroom spider, either.

I'm live on the air until noon on @freeformportland.org and have been waiting all week to play McFadden & Whitehead because there's a hopefulness (and a realism) about 70s Black music that we'll never get back. So many weird psychedelic records & So much eclecticness & experimentation too.

unknown mortal orchestra did on "hunnybee" is arranged so damn well. the melodies are absurd. (I'm playing it on my radio show now.) youtu.be/E7qYE0p--GU?...

I have maintained for a while that the reason everything around the world (funded by petro-states and carbon oligarchs) is happening rn is because the most powerful industry to ever exist on the face of the Earth has no future. And so it must wipe the future out of our imaginations.

Blue Jays finally winning a post-season game and what a way to do. Hope they saved some runs for tomorrow.

Best thing about forums is somebody dredging up an 18 year old thread to say "hey thanks your post saved me lots of time on a SQL thing I'm doing right now."

An interesting study, but I fear the simpler explanation mentioned is closer to the truth: it’s not that Finnish politics is especially resistant to polarization, it is that serious questions of national survival transcend polarization. nordicpolicydispatch.substack.com/p/why-finlan...

Are they gonna turn Geese into the new Turnstile? Feels like it. Band that goes from niche to literally everywhere

MLB Playoff expansion is good only in that, a 3-game wild card series is probably more resilent than say, Game 162 and an anti-climatic Wild Card one-game playoff.

New from @pamherd.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern? Some states are threatening to end SNAP. Why? Trump is setting state governments up for failure, cutting resources, adding administrative burdens while imposing massive financial penalties for errors. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-big-be...

Prime Ministers are actually elected to something & subject to no-confidence votes. This is something else entirely.

trying to email the school district I grew up in because a bunch of us want to endow a scholarship for a classmate that passed away & you can't actually email anybody publicly, all they have is an app you have to download?

Even if I don't think we are in such dire straits, there's something worthwhile in this piece; deep dive into the history of reading & the panic it once created. Surprisingly good long read. It's crucial our default frame isn't the Western lens on everything, tho.

Portland getting an Erewhon seems fitting for these times. Wonder where they're putting it.

manipulation engineering www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/b...

ngl I cannot explain why this new geese record is working for me, but every listen is better than the last

The more that AI agents ‘remember,’ the more helpful they are. But without careful design and clear rules, we risk creating agents whose memories become less like a helpful assistant and more like a permanent surveillance file, write Kevin Frazier and Joshua Joseph:

New LP from Geese is as good as everyone says. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Anytime you can win a division is a cause for celebration, didn't think the Jays did enough in the offseason to make this happen, but proud of them getting it done this year. Hope they go all the way. #mlb #baseball

Scanning the college football matchups & it breaks my brain with these wild in-conference matchups now.

the internet was a mistake

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New blog post! I've previously tested consumer genAI tools with legal questions. Result: lots of popcorn. Now I tried a professional genAI tool. It's less bad—it doesn't cite fake cases. Instead it cites irrelevant cases and doesn't really offer much benefit over just using a search engine.

Yhdeksäs vuosipäivä artikkelista, joka julkaistiin suomalaisessa sanomalehdessä ja jossa haastateltiin minua rakkaudestani pesäpalloon. #pesis

Yeah I can't look at this feed. What a mess.

maybe for the last time (live), doing my radio show on freeformportland.org from 10-noon

it’s important to do things for your teenage self every so often, as a way of staying on speaking terms with the person you used to be

wyoming-colorado should happen more, but I didn't realize the series is 20-2, CU. that would explain why this never happens more (also both schools having the same rival probably helps in colorado state...) #cfb

My word Taylor Townsend playing doubles at BJK Cup was something www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkT7...

Too bad Etta James people didn't have Marvin Gaye's lawyers for Tennessee Whiskey

when i was in norway last week, ran into a first-gen person at this bar & she was asking me where my (grand)parents were from and I had to explain "uh, USA." and before them. "yup, still USA."

Hello, peopleos! I'm looking for work and am hopeful someone in this place can help. Here's the low-down of what I've been up to, how I can help, and yes, I will move to Ireland. :) If you don't know of anything at the moment, a quick repost is appreciated.

there will be an enduring hell to pay for the institutional hospice we live in where 20th century organizations, what Jane Jacobs called the ligaments of neighborhood life, fade dissolve or go broke because modern life offers no reward for communalism.

I was trying to imagine what the 1991 version of this would be MC Hammer in Red Square sponsored by Pepsi and "recorded live for the world?"