Mark J. Remillard

Found out I passed the NY bar exam yesterday while I was in Philly—what better way to celebrate than by visiting the cradle of American democracy and law? 🇺🇸

tonystockprotrader.comTony Hawk has a new identity.Meet Tony Stock. Pro skater. Questionable stock trader. Watch the series from Ramp.

This is a good campaign by Ramp. This is how you can made advertising fun and interactive. Or maybe it’s just playing on my Tony Hawk Pro Skater nostalgia? tonystockprotrader.com (I have no affiliation with Ramp)

Even a half page ad in the Times that piqued my interest

Odds of Apple mentioning this in the next keynote?

nytimes.comCourt Tosses Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is PlayedAn appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played at a trial.

This is a wild story. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

I’m hard-pressed to think of something more endearing than when a dog brings a stuffed toy with them on a walk. Are they proud of it? Do they think they might need it so they should bring it just in case?

mjr.newsWhat everyone is missing about Samuel Tunick and the GrapheneOS duress PIN caseThe government has charged a man for allegedly using a duress PIN they say wiped the contents of his phone, but does the underlying technology and the statute support that view?

What people are missing about the GrapheneOS duress PIN case: The government has charged Samuel Tunick for allegedly using a duress PIN they say wiped the contents of his phone, but does the underlying technology and the statute support that view? #grapheneos #privacy mjr.news/what-everyon...

mjr.newsMy rescue dog, the starMy rescue dog Lainie makes her social media debut

My adorable rescue pup, Lainie, made her social media debut today! 💫 she was featured on @thedogist.bsky.social in connection with @peoplemusic.bsky.social mjr.news/my-rescue-do...

mjr.newsMJR News moves entirely self-hosted and other changesMJR News no longer uses Substack as its hosting platform

Some changes have come to @mjr.news! I've been working for weeks on moving away from Substack to a #selfhosted setup. Now, all of the site’s infrastructure & data (outside of two exceptions) are controlled by me. More people should regain autonomy in blogging: mjr.news/mjr-news-mov...

16 Sept

Some of these new captchas are getting ridiculous. I, a human, cannot complete them either in time or closely enough with a finger on a screen to pass. Guess I won’t use your website then.

axios.comThe secret Trump administration battle to fight Chinese AIThe launch of Kimi K3 is giving the fight new urgency.

14 Sept

Update one week later: haven't returned to commercial LLMs. But the speed of Qwen3.8 on my hardware can be frustrating at time. I consider it a trade-off for the privacy benefits and cost savings.

Mark J. Remillard@mjr.news

Cancelled all LLM subscriptions today. It's been more than two weeks since I've touched a commercial LLM. Instead, qwen3.8 27b running locally has been incredible. It's not as fast as commercial models but it's still quick and capable. It's amazing how far quantized, open models have advanced.

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ACLU

@aclu.org

9 Sept

BREAKING: We filed another motion asking a court to block President Trump's latest executive order that seeks to dismantle birthright citizenship, months after the Supreme Court upheld this essential right.

If the future of AI turns out to be local and open, that could ripple through the rest of the economy. Trump Admin, unsurprisingly, is picking sides with the closed models www.axios.com/2026/07/20/a...

nytimes.comCorporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I.Companies like AT&T are increasingly using cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over expensive ones from Anthropic and OpenAI.

7 Sept

But Nvidia entering it's support behind open models and it's purchase of Hugging Face certainly puts some weight is the open models corner. The question remains what Nvidia does with Hugging Face and whether it stays true to its open model and free-to-download platform.

I'm not the only one. I open the paper today to see that corporations are making more use of them too: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/t...

7 Sept

This could spell huge trouble for commercial providers and their investors. I was thinking that enterprise might be an area where the advantage (so long as it exists) of frontier models is worth the expense. But even some major companies are finding open-source models capable enough.

24 Aug

This is hilarious. I want all my messages delivered by digital carrier pigeon with a .2% of death en route

cnn.comGoogle is buying all of Spirit Airlines’ data to feed its AI models | CNN BusinessDid you ever fly on Spirit Airlines? Or work there? Or send an email to someone who worked there? Then your information will soon be feeding Google’s artificial intelligence model.

19 Aug

Isn't that nice? You bought an airline ticket 10 years ago, and now you're helping train Google's AI whether you like it or not www.cnn.com/2026/08/18/b...

15 Aug

But the spirit and movement that Count Binface inspired lives on!

13 Aug

I love that the @nytimes.com apparently spoke with the screenplay writer of the iconic thriller Air Force One to get his thoughts on Trump's café car switch out of Ankara last month. Incredible.

Same.

Bar exam = ✅

This will carry me through the bar

techcrunch.comUS accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunchA U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...

24 July

I’ve been wondering how long it would take for the government to bring a case for using a duress PIN to wipe your phone: techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/u...

21 July

Saw this on my walk today. It’s July.

16 July

I appreciate the troll that left a rating on Quttinirpaaq National Park as being "good for kids."

propublica.orgFCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar DealsAccepting tickets to the Kennedy Center honors gala compromised the commissioners’ impartiality, ethics experts told ProPublica. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has been gifted at least $63,000 worth of ticket...

15 July

This is your government: “After voting for a Paramount merger, Commissioner Olivia Trusty took tickets worth over $12,000. FCC Chair Brendan Carr has accepted tickets worth at least $63,000.” www.propublica.org/article/para...

15 July

The problem with books on AI? By the time I get to reading them they’re already outdated.

Mark J. Remillard reposted

advocacy.mjr.newsTell Your Senators: Vote No on the KIDS Act & KOSAA free and open internet. Download a ready-to-send letter urging your U.S. senators to vote no on H.R. 7757 and S. 1748.

5 July

The #KIDSAct and #KOSA threaten to upend how millions of Americans access the Internet, affecting their free speech and association. Despite their disclaimers, the predictable result is platforms mandating user age verification. Here's how to contact your Senator: advocacy.mjr.news?utm_source=b...

9 July

Anyone know what the rent is in that high rise in Midtown I keep seeing on the news? I’m interested.

open.substack.com'A Design of Subtle Coercion' and the Argument for PrivacyThe best case for privacy is not about secrets. It's about having the space to write your own self.

7 July

The best argument for #privacy rights is not about secrets or hiding anything: open.substack.com/pub/markjrem... #privacyrights

6 July

Is he saying the war in Ukraine is a civil war? Did Putin tell him that? Also, it’s been 532 since he took office. He said he’d have the war in Ukraine over in one day.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Russia-Ukraine: "Who would've thought that drones would become such a factor? ... You hear about the civil war, you hear about all these different terrible wars, but this is really horrible. So I had a very good call [with Putin]. I think we're getting close to getting it done."

advocacy.mjr.newsTell Your Senators: Vote No on the KIDS Act & KOSAA free and open internet. Download a ready-to-send letter urging your U.S. senators to vote no on H.R. 7757 and S. 1748.

5 July

4 July

Instantly historical photo and sad this is from 2026.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“.. Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C.” @reuters.com

advocacy.mjr.newsTell Your Senators: Vote No on the KIDS Act & KOSAA free and open internet. Download a ready-to-send letter urging your U.S. senators to vote no on H.R. 7757 and S. 1748.

4 July

Legislation that may fundamentally change how Americans access and associate online—the great economic and cultural vessel of our time—should be enacted with the utmost care, not fast‑tracked. Contact your senators and tell them NO on #KOSA and #KIDSAct advocacy.mjr.news?utm_source=b...

4 July

Happy Fourth of July 🇺🇸 “The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” ~ Thomas Paine.

advocacy.mjr.newsTell Your Senators: Vote No on the KIDS Act & KOSAA free and open internet. Download a ready-to-send letter urging your U.S. senators to vote no on H.R. 7757 and S. 1748.

3 July

#KIDSAct is being considered in the U.S. Senate along with #KOSA. These bills may fundamentally change how Americans access the Internet. Advocate for a free and open Internet by contacting your Senators! advocacy.mjr.news

I think it’s important to point out the revisionist incentives surrounding 14A & SCOTUS’ birthright citizenship decision. This issue is not going away and in 5 or 10 years there may be many who believe that BC, as we’ve known it for 150+ years, was actually “created” by this decision. It wasn’t.

The idea that SCOTUS did something affirmatively unique here, as Walsh frames it (“opened the floodgates,” “destroyed,” “imagined”), may eventually leave Americans with the view that BC is just a bad SCOTUS decision not actually rooted in history & precedent, therefore it can & should be overturned.

People upset about the birthright citizenship decision acting like SCOTUS didn’t just uphold what’s already been the law’s modus operandi for 150+ years. The was no “floodgate” opened as a result of this decision.

Also acting like ending birthright citizenship is the only way to avoid our government being captured, as if it’s just so easy to become president. Maybe free and fair elections are a better safeguard?