Chris Kuang

You mean to tell me… Red Sox swept 2-0 by the Yankees Yankees swept 3-0 by the Rays …and the Rays are now down 3-0 to the Brewers? Woof

that’s how bad he wants to stay out of prison lol

This is addressing a symptom more than the underlying corruption, but have we seriously considered whether a unilateral pardon power is a good thing? I know it’s in the Constitution and all, but if we were to do serious constitutional reform?

Definitely charge private aircrafts more fees than what consumers pay for their flights

Does arresting the wife of an enlisted man and mother of four US citizen children, a person who’s been here since she was 6 years old, make our country great again?

10/10 no notes

there is no reason to get conservative with Mevis as your kicker and the way the Rams offense is dominating

At what point do we put a Statue of Peanut Tillman in the HOF? Insane generational influence

"The open web is a public good. We should not allow this behavior to become the “new normal” for the people or organizations that maintain it." Kudos to the @wikimediafoundation.org team for saying this explictly: wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/10...

Drake Maye

Hard to cheer for an Eagles player but Lane Johnson is absolutely worthy www.nytimes.com/athletic/766...

ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

I, personally, would not go on the record with a reporter to announce I’m in favor of destroying the playground my kid is currently loving because I drive to work once a week (and the road still wouldn’t go there anyway), but everyone lives their lives differently I guess

My blurb: “The End of Death tells the gripping story of a tireless doctor (Norman Shumway), a drug (cyclosporine), and a law (recognizing brain death) that combined to make heart transplants one of the miracles of modern medicine.” #econsky #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/08/how-...

The president threatening the entire nation of Norway because it didn’t give him a prize he wanted? A prize for peace, when he literally started a war that destabilized the world economy? A prize he thinks he deserves for WINNING wars (that he didn’t even actually win)?

it is going to be so funny watching San Francisco's spectacularly shitty AI billboards transform over the next few weeks into spectacularly shitty SI billboards because the people paying for them are somehow even lamer than we thought

Sling Passes (1, 3, weekend passes for $5-15) were such an underrated "hack" for watching sports, especially in the era of platform fragmentation. The cost to watch sports continues to go up. Not good!

Something something free speech ?

Holy shit Kiké

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

I forgot to post this amazing bit of sports journalism from earlier in the week

The US Web Design System is load-bearing infrastructure for thousands of government websites. It makes it easy for small teams with no resources (i.e. most .gov teams) to make usable, accessible websites that work for everyone. Today, it's as close as it's ever been to being replaced with AI slop.

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

Hard to believe we’re still, somehow, in the app phase of government service delivery? It’d be nice if, oh, we had a design system that helped agencies make accessible, mobile-friendly websites for all… we could even call it the U.S. Web Design System… fedscoop.com/irs-launches...

Seriously, just do not use muse

The American Dream takes many forms. This must be one of them: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/d...

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

This is dumb. The tradeoff is some smoke now so there’s not a lot of smoke later.

How to destroy strong working relationships, camaraderie and collaboration among staff: Create a system that evaluates staff in comparison to one another rather than based on how well they do their jobs. www.fedweek.com/fedweek/opm-...

Understanding America's election system is the best antidote to election fears, says Cato's Walter Olson. He breaks down why results take time and what that tells us about election integrity. Watch The Cato Weekly Podcast: https://youtu.be/Gp45uuZ4jGw

Interested in AI + society across disciplines? Come join the community we're building (with @irenetrampoline.bsky.social, @rajiinio.bsky.social + Alane Suhr) @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social. Tonight, 5:30–7, season 3 kicks off with a focus on AI + cybersecurity and recent HF/OAI & related events...

What a replay review

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Arch Manning and a room full of journalists laughing about an AI video of Steve Sarkisian slapping Holly Rowe is a horrible look. awfulannouncing.com/college-foot...

There's something fitting about the switching costs discussion and Amazon case study in Enshittification to finally get me to leave Goodreads for Storygraph.

Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.

No way this is true ??! We need a @slangsonsports.bsky.social for the NFL

Must read.

What a coincidence to finish Lonesome Dove last week and see this drop yesterday on my way to work by @packym.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/notborin...

U.S. Open and NFL season soon making me appreciate even more the west coast time difference for watching prime time games (and prime prime time—as it’s 1:50am ET and match still nowhere close to done)

A US president lying about 9/11 should be a major scandal. For Trump, its just Tuesday. www.cnn.com/2026/09/08/p...