Corey Ward

I don't mean to be alarmist, but I am seeing a lot of people thinking way too small about the incoming President’s plans and intentions. He plans to use the military to round up dissidents on day one. It's plausible that things we've said online will be used to justify incarceration without trial.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

I called a lot of what's happening now 11 months ago. Not because I have a crystal ball, I just don't believe in magical thinking.

The “Debate Me Bro” Grift: How Trolls Weaponized The Marketplace Of Ideas Among the attempts to create hagiographic eulogies of Charlie Kirk, I’ve seen more than a few people suggest that Kirk should be respected for being willing to talk to “those who disagree with him” as a sign that he was…

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings: -Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove) -Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%) news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

2025 feels like being awake during surgery

Needed this reminder today.

I've said it before, I'll say it again: pitch it as increasing SCOTUS to at least 100 Justices, with randomly selected pools of 9 to hear each case, such that no single Justice matters so much.

These examples were first try, and the only selection I did on the photos was choosing a couple that I took and didn't mind sharing (no personal stuff). Eerily accurate, especially the downtown skyline shot—100% accurate. And this is with GPT 4.1 Mini!

Spun up a quick tool to generate captions for photos using OpenAI GPT 4.1 Mini. The captions are automatically added into the image metadata (exif). Makes them more searchable on iOS and macOS. Cost: $1/2k images.

I got tired of putting route tests in awkward folders in Next.js and came up with an easy fix: coreyward.svbtle.com/next-js-igno...

What a shame it'd be if people started using the website that lists the locations of these license plate reader cameras to find them and vandalize them.

Buried deep in the text of the more than 1,000-page bill is a measure to restrict the federal courts’ authority to hold officials in contempt if they violate court orders.

Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

Jesus fucking Christ. I’m pretty pro-capitalism, generally speaking, but it’s gotta come with checks. 19 fucking families earning $1 trillion in 12 months is LUDICROUS.

“Scholars and observers of republican societies have made this point from ancient times to the present. A republic is only as good as its citizens.”

Going hard in the Car & Driver comments.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Prior to the election some friends and acquaintances were frustrated with our two party system. Some voted third party, even. I can’t help but feel like they all took for granted that we’d have at least two parties. Not sure that’s panning out well as we speed toward a one-party system.

Never forget: Sen. Elizabeth Warren kicked off her career as a college professor.

I’m seeing a lot of people making fun of their incompetence for this, but that’s not what this is. This whole regime is a gang of bullies, headed by a bully, and like all bullies, they’re cowards. Stand up to them, and they whimper away.

If you've been switching IDEs a lot lately, you might have been annoyed when a `git rebase` launched the wrong editor. I know I was. So I wrote this short script to use the current IDE instead. Works with VSCode, Cursor, and Windsurf. Easy to add others if needed too!

In an amicus brief for Perkins Coie filed today, 27 former USG officials write that EO’s targeting law firms amount to a constitutionally prohibited bill of attainder. Read Harold Hongju Koh, Fred Halbhuber, and Inbar Pe’er’s historical context and analysis: www.justsecurity.org/110109/presi...

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

The White House has shared the equation used to come up with these tariffs. It was almost certainly AI generated, and it's boneheaded. This is not a serious presidency, but it's seriously eroding the power of our representatives, and our power abroad.

Infamously non-profit organization in a multi-year transition to a for-profit model with contractual obligations to finish said transition this year puts out blog post calling itself a non-profit and extolling the virtues of such… 🤔

Don't forget…

The United States has lost. Not to any external adversary, or to an economic pressure, or even an enemy from within. It has lost to ignorance, and a desire for more of it, that has led us to elect a leader hell bent on achieving it. It’s sad, and sadder still, entirely expected.

Sora seems chock full of funny mashup images right now.