I feel like we've collectively forgotten how much safer food and cars and basically everything else gets, and how fast that happens, as soon as there's real liability involved. Because strict liability is how you align the incentives of corporate behaviour with the general public good, and aligned incentives are magic. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html

bram-xmlui-stress-test.md. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

The vanishing of Mitch McConnell.

Health data appears to be most affected by administration’s attempt to wipe findings that don’t align with its priorities, tracker shows

The Bram binary now embeds SQLite with its FTS5 fulltext indexer and search engine. When you run Bram in a local GitHub (or GitLab) repo, here is what it indexes: – the JSONL session files wr…

I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities

Agents are hardwired to be prolific writers and readers of code. As my work on Bram progressed I found that their code-first instinct wasn’t serving me well. So I began pushing them to be, al…

Status update: ingesting Mastodon. https://intertwingly.net/blog/2026/07/06/An-IDE-You-Dont-Install.html

Massive tech companies tried to own syndication. They failed. https://buttondown.com/blog/rss-vs-ice

The reasoning layer owns intent. The control plane owns consequences. Seven factors for governing what AI agents do to enterprise systems of record. - workato-devs/seven-factors

Attention is replacing hours. But is it 120% time all over again?

The through-line this cycle was the reliability of Codex driving issues through the full worklist cycle (propose → apply → commit → close). Exercising Codex end-to-end drove both the features it ne...

What this would do When a Bram session discusses the shape of a feature — proposing approaches, weighing alternatives, redirecting on specifics — that discussion is exactly the kind of thing that c...