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Joe made waves a few weeks ago when he suggested Democrats could win 258 seats next year. For real? For real, for real. Joe explains how the numbers show that while it might not be 258 - everywhere could be in play. And Alex shows how bad the economic numbers have gotten - again - with a new Marist poll explaining a lot. And why does Susie Wiles' bashing Trump in Vanity Fair matter? What does it mean? Get ready for a huge 2026, folks. 
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I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable applications down the road". I want to see pushback on this. It doesn't matter if I can disable some AI feature in the settings. The fact that Mozilla is jumping on this bandwagon is deeply disappointing to me.

1. Why Were All the Bells in the World Removed? The Forgotten Power of Sound and Frequency (Jamie Freeman). Church bells: "something strange happened in the 19th and 20th centuries: nearly all of the world’s ancient bells were removed, melted down, or destroyed." (I don’t kn...

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David Shepardson, reporting for Reuters: TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, said Thursday it signed binding agreements with three major investors to form a joint venture to operate TikTok’s U.S. app led by American and global investors in a bid to avoid a U.S. government...

It’s exciting to announce that Stephen Wolfram has joined as a special advisor to Automattic. I promise this is not just because he is such an incredible blogger, using WordPress, natch. If you don’t know about Stephen Wolfram, his about page is not a bad place to start, but far more interesting is his 2019 … Continue reading Wolfram Automattica →

Casey Newton has predictions for 2026: the bubble will continue even as some AI companies fail, OpenAI will retire Sora, social media will increasingly be 16+, and other mostly AI-related predictions. On politics:

I predict AI concerns will take a backseat to the economy and a backlash to Trump’s authoritarianism. That said, I do think we’ll see the beginnings of an anti-AI movement — and perhaps a bipartisan one.

2026 might be too early for a substantial, mainstream backlash. But I do think as AI improves, both proponents and detractors will become more extreme.

“President Donald Trump on Wednesday assailed his White House predecessors for not pushing back against Venezuela earlier and stated that his intention is ‘getting land, oil rights, whatever we had’ returned by the government in Caracas.” — PBS - - - I’m absolutely disgusted...

Michael Bierut, “I Hate ITC Garamond”, for Design Observer back in 2004: ITC Garamond was designed in 1975 by Tony Stan for the International Typeface Corporation. Okay, let’s stop right there. I’ll admit it: the single phrase “designed in 1975 by Tony Stan” conjures up ...

Katie Deighton, reporting last month for The Wall Street Journal: Henry Modisett wanted his employer to stand out. Competitors of the artificial-intelligence firm Perplexity were embracing their science-fiction roots with futuristic branding that felt cold to him. So Mod...

Evergreen. Got our tree so early this year, it’s losing more and more needles every day. Just needs to last another week. 🎄

This is an amazing follow-up video from Joanna Stern on the Anthropic vending machine. I’m not super concerned about the outcome… Might be a good thing if our future robot overlords can be persuaded to trust humans. 🤪

We are happy to release our 2024 Annual Report. We’re a non-profit, and open-source; we value transparency, and we are committed to informing our users and supporters about how we operate. Our 2024 was transformative in ways we didn’t anticipate, and we wanted to capture the...

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The latest photo dump from Democrats in the House Oversight Committee includes more famous men and upsetting Lolita quotes written on a woman's body.

If you use Day One and haven’t tried the cross-posting from Micro.blog to Day One, it is kind of magical. This is what one of my blog posts today looks like after it has been automatically synced to Day One.

It can be used directly for your main journal, or in a separate journal as an extra backup.

In a way, it is heartening that I've never been good at the annual podcast tradition of Williams-Sonoma Catalog Price Is Right. This year marks my seventh attempt at it, with the only exception being the part of 2019 and 2020 in which I had neither jobs nor a podcast. I only do it once a year, and I am not otherwise in the market for ultra high-end espresso machine gewgaws or premium heat-and-eat hors d'oeuvres, but also seven times is a decent number of times to do something and absolutely suck at it roughly as bad each time. But as we kept reminding The Simpsons showrunner Matt Selman, our guest for this year's edition, it's not a competition. It's more a formatted indictment of the current phase of capitalism we all inhabit with some guessing-game aspects.

“Heated Rivalry,” a TV adaption of Rachel Reid’s gay romance novel, has taken social media feeds and group chats by storm. Thanks to a deal with HBO, this Canadian TV show has been steaming up living rooms across North America, and has become one of the streamer’s most-watch...

Tech talk ahead. Short version: I’ve turned off comments and other minor features to improve site performance here because I think AI bots are hogging things. (Bots are automated programs to scrape data from the internet. Little do they know this is a personal website of no consequence.)

GPUs have become the must-have compute of the dawning Age of AI. But maybe not every organization, or every job,

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