fullhoffman.com/2026/03/10/t...
"If the model gets 10x better, is this still needed?"
Twenty-plus years ago, did big, long Atlantic story based on formal "war game" involving "preemptive" attack on Iran.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Lots of details have changed since then. But not the fundamental conclusion of the war-game: ARE YOU CRAZY?? DO NOT EVEN THINK OF DOING THIS.
-Zero Congressional consultation or approval.
-Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war.
-Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year.
-Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."
By me, on SOTU.
(Most before paywall.)
(This replaces previous, deleted post, where the system freaked out at an illustration from Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.')
fallows.substack.com/p/nasty-brut...
Started with a grab bag of links but narrowed this post down to AI only, as a bookmark for the future. clock.pencoyd.com/2026/02/16/p...
During the Olympics, you see athletes of all colors, cultures, and languages. And I’m just talking about the American team.
Diversity makes America great.
Dozen things that caught my reading eye recently. clock.pencoyd.com/2026/02/09/l...
Spotify sends their "prices going up" email during the Super Bowl. Trying to bury the $$$.
"People will do the stupidest thing in the easiest way to get the most utility out of something until it hurts too much, and then they’ll only pull back just a little bit." @danhon.com about OpenClaw, and humanity more generally
"We are set to repeat as a nation every single mistake we made after 9/11 with CBP and the Border Patrol — but worse."
Today's occupations by federal forces are the result of 20 years of compounding mistakes (or intentional corruption) www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
For those already in civic tech fas.org/publication/...
I don't quite fit the definitions, beyond "depending on modern digital government" as all citizens do. Still, sharing success so we can repeat is worthwhile.
Tom Lehrer, 50 years ago.
"National Brotherhood Week"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIlJ... 2 min performance
tomlehrersongs.com/824-2/ full lyrics
"Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie."
We can’t stop “winning” can we? FML.
With your impressive archive, understandable. Back in 2003, I linked to www.dashes.com/anil/index.p... and that failed earlier today (Jan 27 2026). Dating in case you fix!
I pointed to @anildash.com "A Personal Panopticon" back in 2003. Here's an updated link, since I haven't done any systematic link rot updates to old posts www.dashes.com/2003/04/01/a...
Me, musing on Brin in 2003, during anti-war protests. "[Brin] sees Big Brother, and advocates… go with the flow, and overwhelm the system, turning it to the advantage of individuals rather than just corporations and governments." clock.pencoyd.com/2003/04/07/t...
This week: Julia Angwin, "The Best Weapon You Have in the Fight Against ICE" Hint: cameras www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/o... (via @davepell.bsky.social)
David Brin, The Transparent Society, 1998 www.davidbrin.com/transparents...
"By ensuring accountability through "reciprocal transparency," we can detect dangers and expose wrongdoers."
Sharing for reach. Love to have great technical people working for the city, improving the experience for all of us.
Here is the different presentation in the daily headlines email from the NYT.
@ziibiing.com understand you have more urgent things to do (and thank you!) -- you might consider applying for Project Galileo support www.cloudflare.com/galileo/
Working for me. Used it yesterday to find a way to help from outside MN: thank you!
Appreciate that the .org also works, via redirect.
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
Just resurrected my blog, which was most active 2003-2006, and sad how many links out are dead. Will consider this tactic. Thank you.
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)
