As an adult if I was running around shooting my mouth off about how tough or American or whatever I was, and my opponent said the equivalent to “okay, let’s fight then,” that would be the end of whatever I was doing. I’m all set. 🫡 Bye now!
12 August 2026 @ 4:48 pm
Early indications from FRTracker data are that commenter identity has little to no bearing on the likelihood of an agency making changes between a proposed and final rule. Variation between agencies outstrips any between commenter type.
https://frtracker.app/blog/who-comments-on-rules-that-change
11 August 2026 @ 9:48 pm
A lot to unpack vis a vis paper choice.
11 August 2026 @ 2:55 am
Taking this Anthropic announcement on watermarking text as read, I still won’t be comfortable accusing a anyone of using AI when 1) simple editing may remove it and 2) written material passed through a model may be flagged.
11 August 2026 @ 2:43 am
Looks like my Fight Club-esque split personality spending every night on X replying “why don’t you come to Mastodon and/or Bluesky and say that?!” is paying off.
That or the Nazis are getting tired of bickering with themselves about which way the eagle’s head is supposed to point or whatever.
10 August 2026 @ 6:09 pm
I weighed in to The Guardian, reiterating my position on the NYC pied-à-terre tax: good policy, flawed rollout, caused by bad data. Fixable.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/08/mamdani-new-york-pied-a-terre-tax
10 August 2026 @ 12:03 pm
What role do tech CEOs think they’ll have post-apocalypse? So you ride it out and survive, okay cool. As society is rebuilt do you seriously think the survivors are going to be like “well obviously you are all still trillionaires.”
https://archive.is/u9PmA
7 August 2026 @ 6:27 pm