are any of these new stories?

why don’t they rename it the “department of lethal”?

actually, scaling by moore’s law at constant cost was lots more hopeful and exciting than scaling by a hockey-stick graph of compute expense.

can a president “enact”?

“‘Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them,’ [Gorsuch] wrote.” // WTF is he going to do about it if they do, except take up each and every defying case to overturn them? they absolute should. ht @bananapantz.bsky.social

republicans may finally succeed at manufacturing the sovereign debt crisis they’ve always warned us about.

cowardly and dovish aren't the same thing.

not all heroes wear capes.

well, they’ll say. at least it wasn’t a wedding.

people who interact too much on X just become worse people (at least as public figures online). i’m not sure how much of this is a selection effect, and how much is a treatment effect.

the United States’ strategy seems to be national suicide, except maybe AI will save us!

the Google remedy is the second tech decision where it seems to me plain law and precedent were ignored and subverted because a judge was too chickenshit to be responsible for remedies that would actually matter. ( The other was SEC v Ripple, www.cooley.com/news/insight... )

i don't like to think of myself as this kind of person, but the weakness of the remedies in the Google case (following the forthrightness in the decision finding Google guilty) has me wondering "how did they get to him?"

"Google’s leadership is utterly unchastened. Google CEO Sundar Pichai and chief legal officer Kent Walker will get bonuses for what they did… this decision isn’t just bad, it’s virtually a statement that crime pays." @matthewstoller.bsky.social www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-judge-le...

so much of solo software development is about faith. when working on a new project, for weeks or months most of the time you have nothing, just symbols and lost time, maybe some tests you can run, but not a thing that does the thing you want. many projects never escape this state. you gotta believe.

(Oops. The stat isn't quite right. It's 0.000003 of the country's population, or 0.0003%. Still makes the same point.)

so, basically we’re rebooting the “anti-terrorist” Middle East drone assassination program as an “anti-drug-trafficking” extralegal execution program in Latin America and the Caribbean?

“As new technologies emerged, Alphabet and its peers bought and swallowed them, in much the same way the Greek god Kronos ate his children to prevent their emergence as rivals.” @bcappelbaum.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...