When we picture the end of the world, the first thing that springs to mind is typically the cinematic version of "things going wrong." We picture the musical score rising to a crescendo as the climactic events take place. Our heroes are fighting to stop some big giant, unstoppable threat. Even if they are ultimately...

Macgillivray Brings Perspectives on AI, Policy-Making, Social Justice, and Trust and Safety to the Board of Directors

MEMORANDUM OPINION re 53 Order on Motion for Protective Order and Motion for Stay and Preliminary Injunction. Signed by Chief Judge James E. Boasberg on July 14, 2026. (lcjeb4) (Entered: 07/14/2026)

This past weekend, along with my friend Naveen and his family, we drove up to the Point Reyes region. We wanted to enjoy the nice fall weather and have lunch at Saltwater in Inverness, one of my fa…

AI is changing how products behave and how they are built. Product lawyering has to change too.  Product counsel have always needed to unde...

If you are considering a new lens for taking pictures on safari, I highly recommend the new NIKKOR Z 70-200mm. I took it along with a 400mm ...

This is as of May 2026, it’ll likely change. Models: I mostly use the Anthropic models (a mix of opus , sonnet and haiku ). At this p...

Why the “AI race” with China isn’t a race and isn’t worth running.

How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love

My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance

Finally finished up a bot for posting an article from Suck.com everyday through Mastodon and BlueSky (I would have done Threads too, but ...

Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

Claude Code logs a bunch of stuff via jsonl. The logs are a little hard to read but include all the requests a user makes and a bunch of oth...

A parser for Claude Code's json logs. Contribute to amac0/ClaudeCodeJSONLParser development by creating an account on GitHub.

I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.

Starring a different celebrity each night, Tim Crouch’s experimental meditation on the nature of grief remains a thing of wonder

Am playing around with AI coding. Which is fun and frustrating and very educational. Am going to post some of my attempts and observations. ...

President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda

If law firms won’t defend the rule of law, who will?

The editor of The Atlantic tells the story of how he was accidentally included on a private text thread discussing war plans.

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