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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 17/09/2026

And also, there is an extremely strong argument that your choices for this House seat were Marcy Kaptur or a Republican

Kaptur won the 2024 election 48.3% to 47.6% with a margin of less than 2,500 votes

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 16/09/2026

Fortunately, my brain is irreversibly hardwired to think about this guy anytime anyone mentions Sankey diagrams

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 28/08/2026

Also for those not up to speed on the lingo www.hillbillyslang.com/definitions/...

"Revenuer" is a Southern and Appalachian term for a federal revenue officer who hunted illegal liquor operations - the moonshine-still agent of folklore and Prohibition stories.

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 08/08/2026

But obviously only a fraction of use and ignores by far the 2 most popular ways to use LLMs (ie Claude and Codex subscriptions). Does Grok even have a coding subscription plan? Grok 4.5 is the 14th most used closed source model on OpenRouter right now

OpenRouter closed source model use rankings from 11 to 18

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 23/07/2026

github.com/lexicon-comm...

Technical Steering Committee

Boris Mann @bmann.ca
Ms Boba @essentialrandom.bsky.social
Nick Gerakines @ngerakines.me
Rudy Fraser @rudyfraser.com
Ryan Barrett @snarfed.org
Tom Sherman @tom.sherman.is
Bluesky, PBC @bsky.app

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 24/06/2026

For example, if done well, it should be able to handle a schedule like this where you have a mix of days of the week that vary based on month, constant date holidays, moving date holidays and store specific special days not tied to a holiday www.bronners.com/store-hours

June

Monday - Thursday: 9am - 5:30pm
Friday - Saturday: 9am - 7pm
Sunday: 12pm - 5:30pm

July - September

Monday - Thursday: 9am - 7pm
Friday: 9am - 8pm
Saturday: 9am - 9pm
Sunday: 12pm - 5:30pm

October - December

Monday - Thursday: 9am - 7pm
Friday: 9am - 8pm
Saturday: 9am - 9pm
Sunday: 12pm - 6:00pm

January - May

Monday - Saturday: 9am - 5:30pm
Sunday: 12pm - 5:30pm

Closed

New Years Day
January 10: Closed at 4pm
January 22: Closed at 3pm for Inventory
Good Friday: Closed 12pm - 3pm
Easter
U.S. Thanksgiving
Christmas Eve: Closes at 4pm
Christmas
New Year's Eve: Closes at 4pm

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 23/06/2026

Now maybe it was a statement only released via email to a media list and posted no where else online and no other outlets picked it up. Googling quotes from the statement turns up that site and apparently someone on 8kun (ie rebranded 8chan, ie unmoderated 4chan) shared it within 2 hours

Google search results for a quote from the statement that only returns 3 results, 2 for Drop Site News and one of a repost of the article on 8kun

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 15/06/2026

And then, of course, you’re automatically operated into getting a bunch of texts. But they try to hide the fact that you have a profile so you can’t find any settings to stop the texts. There is a log out button so I must be logged in. I feel tricked into accidentally signing up for their spam app

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 12/06/2026

The decision matrix is approximately like this

Elon Musk companies — investment decision matrix. When you invest you make money, but Elon gets rich enough to destroy the world

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 25/05/2026

Congratulations to the 2026 NCAA DI men’s lacrosse national champion Princeton Tigers

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 12/05/2026

Lots of charts like these out there for jobs, GDP, GDP per capita, etc Much less media attention around the point at which jobs are fully recovered because as long as the trend is in the right direction, couple of months matter much less than start/end or existence of a recession

Chart comparing job losses and recoveries in various US recessions

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 10/05/2026

Not sure it's worth reading too much into this because it sounds like no one really knows for sure what actually went wrong

Tigert, who sent the 2025 letter to QTS, said the utility didn’t know about the water hookups because the connection process “got mixed up” as the county transitioned to a cloud-based system while also trying to accommodate an industrial customer. Tigert also said her staff is small and at capacity.

“Just like any water system, we don’t have enough staff. We can’t keep staff,” she said. “I’ve got one person that’s doing inspections and plan review, and so he’s spread pretty thin.”

She said it’s possible her staff did know about hookups but that she hadn’t been able to locate the inspection report. “I may have hit ‘send’ too soon,” she said about the 2025 letter to QTS.

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 09/05/2026

Rents not increasing similarly seems to indicate it's not really driven by any fundamentals. Last time housing prices increased like this in 2005-07, people thought a lot of incorrect things about housing price increases, so the false optimism is gone instead replaced with a connection to recession

Chart of the cost of renting vs buying a house over time

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 09/05/2026

Almost go time on one of the best days of the year

Scoreboard showing NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament first round games starting at 12 pm

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 04/04/2026

Bluesky user data is a start of the comparison cherry picking choose your own adventure. Simultaneously exploding, dying and plateauing depending on which narrative you would like to support bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Graph of Bluesky daily likes since the beginning of the site. Source: https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 23/02/2026

The different discussion energy between US politics Bluesky and atproto dev Bluesky is pretty wild. Feels like this meme but I'm not entirely sure who is the one standing in the corner and who is dancinf

Guy standing in a corner at a party thinking "They don't know" meme

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 22/02/2026

Tied at 15 until 1:42 left to play

Goal details from the Hampton VMI game showing it tied at 15 until VMI took the lead with 1:42 left

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 22/02/2026

Right on schedule for next week

VMI 17, Hampton 15 from the Inside Lacrosse scoreboard

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 21/02/2026

So I heard this is the official app of sports now

Screenshot of a localdev version of sports data in atproto showing a list of NBA teams

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 18/02/2026

I think it depends a little bit on how you define the area of policy we are talking about. I identify a lot with this Fareed Zakaria quote www.cato.org/blog/liberta...

The reason that libertarians seem extreme and odd is not that they are a furious minority, angry at a world that seems to have passed them by, but rather the opposite. They are heirs to a tradition that has changed the world. Consider what classical liberalism stood for in the beginning of the nineteenth century. It was against the power of the church and for the power of the market; it was against the privileges of kings and aristocracies and for dignity of the middle class; it was against a society dominated by status and land and in favor of one based on markets and merit; it was opposed to religion and custom and in favor of science and secularism; it was for national self-determination and against empires; it was for freedom of speech and against censorship; it was for free trade and against mercantilism. Above all, it was for the rights of the individual and against the power of the church and the state….

The reason that libertarianism seems narrow and naive is that having won 80 percent of the struggles it has fought over the last two centuries, it is now forced to define itself wholly in terms of the last 20 percent. Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice if you were in Prussia in the 1850s, but in America in the 1960s? Libertarianism has become extreme because the world has left it no recourse.

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 17/02/2026

Hoping desperately that this holds true

Nassim Taleb tweet: I've seen gluts not followed by shortages, but I've never seen a shortage not followed by a glut.

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 14/02/2026

I haven't confirmed, but I think this is the first time they have ever lead after 1Q against a D1 team. Something to build on over the next 2 weeks

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 13/02/2026

Send me a @germnetwork.com DM so that I didn’t just set this up for no reason

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 22/11/2025

That dip that you see at the beginning was under Carter. If you isolate the years Reagan was in office, wages were up modestly

Real wages during Reagan's term in office

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 21/11/2025

When you are talking about the allocation of consumer expenditures, it’s literally true. The wedges of the pie chart have to add up to 100%. If you are saving or investing the money, it’s not an expenditure

Consumer expenditures by category chart from 2023 BLS data

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 21/11/2025

IMO, the thing that dramatically changed since 2022 is the cost of buying relative to renting. If you are ~35, for much of your adult life buying was cheaper. 30% of your income on a mortgage is cheap if you currently pay 35% in rent but expensive if you rent for 25%

Chart of premium/discount to buying a house vs renting

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 13/11/2025

If you aren't familiar with Massie, this quote is the quickest way to catch up. So many levels to it reason.com/2017/03/15/t...

"All this time," Massie explained, "I thought they were voting for libertarian Republicans. But after some soul searching I realized when they voted for Rand and Ron and me in these primaries, they weren't voting for libertarian ideas—they were voting for the craziest son of a bitch in the race. And Donald Trump won best in class, as we had up until he came along."

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 31/10/2025

Many of them depend significantly on the quality of the execution. If you throw together a knight costume in 20 minutes from stuff you have at home, it will be really bad. But if you go raid a Medieval Time wardrobe and borrow the horse, that might be #1. But Walker? How could it be good?

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 29/10/2025

did a quick Google search and uh, wow, the comparison is much worse than I would have guessed www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"We are quite profitable," said Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of software firm Novell who this week took the helm from Google co-founder Larry Page. "And we are not one of those companies that reached profitability because we didn't buy any pencils during the quarter."

Mr Schmidt, who has been chairman of privately owned Google for three months, said the Silicon Valley company had made an operating profit in the first half of 2001 and a net profit in the three months to July. Only a few big internet players have reached profitability in the US, including eBay and Priceline.

Analysts said Google, which is used by 50m web surfers each month, has won a loyal fan base thanks to the clarity and speed of its searches. Where competitors have cluttered their sites with banner adverts and expensive content - and irritated users by taking payments for skewing searches - Google offers a fast, no-frills service.

"It searches a higher proportion of the web than most other engines," said Rebecca Ulph, an analyst at Forrester Research, "and it is increasingly used to power the searches behind other portals."

Another analyst told reporters Google's revenue could reach $50m next year.

Google already supplies some search technology to its larger rival Yahoo!, the once profitable portal which - despite attracting 200m users a month - fell into the red earlier this year after its advertising orders dropped off.

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 18/10/2025

Still going strong at 6:30 pm in the Maryland suburbs at #NoKings

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 15/10/2025

Where do they think the white people who killed Native Americans learned things? Someone should go look up what countries those people came from so we can find out

Map of US counties where German Americans are the largest ethnic group. Source: the Economist using US Census Bureau data

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 30/09/2025

You're not wrong that it can be done. They just would have had to change fundamental things about the way to app works. Not my area of expertise, but this is the key comment from @danabra.mov github.com/bluesky-soci...

GitHub comment: I've looked at this today. So far it doesn't seem to be possible to add a Referer header on iOS (without dropping down from SFSafariViewController to WKWebView which I'd rather not do) or on Android (where CustomTabsIntent only takes CORS-safelisted headers, which Referer is not).

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 01/07/2025

This says 27 this season and only $12 million guaranteed next year www.spotrac.com/nba/player/_...

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 10/06/2025

Give @dieworkwear.bsky.social an EB-1 visa for extraordinary ability in the art of posting. He has to be close to fulfilling 3 of these criteria if he hasn't already www.uscis.gov/working-in-t...

List of 10 criteria for qualifying for an EB-1 visa from USCIS website

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 24/05/2025

If you needed an update in 1 image on how things are going in the Maryland Cuse game

Cuse head coach Gary Gait in a surrender cobra with the score showing his team down 8-1 to Maryland

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 04/05/2025

Haven't been posting as many highlights here as I should have been, but Selection Sunday conference championship games is a great time to get started again

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 29/04/2025

I did check and the 82-84 the CPI for new cars has increased substantially less than for all items. What am I missing about that? fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CUUR0...

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 28/04/2025

Sure, pick a different measure if you want. Still is going to say the same thing fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES12... Millions of people are struggling, but that doesn't mean there aren't fewer than used to be struggling

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 02/03/2025

Oh boy, Mac Christmas splitting back left and pulling up in transition to put Duke up 11-5 on Penn

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 01/03/2025

Fantastic skip pass over the D from Spanos to Ford for a Maryland goal #lacrosse @insidelacrosse.bsky.social

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 01/03/2025

Swim move => get tripped and get back up => twister finish for the goal what a goal from Coulter Mackesy #lacrosse

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 19/02/2025

100% correct. In 2010 the Tea Party opened up an establishment / insurgent axis within the GOP in addition to the moderate to conservative one fivethirtyeight.com/features/the... Don't know what to call the new Dem one that's emerging other than fight/not fight, but it's clear it's something

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 15/02/2025

So many 👀 games on the scoreboard right now www.insidelacrosse.com/league/DI/sc...

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 09/02/2025

Someone is getting their school's first ever D1 men's lacrosse win today

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 01/02/2025

and we have college lacrosse in 2025

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 09/01/2025

Yeah that is maybe the most notable exception. I believe I first encountered this opinion from Fareed Zakaria that is referenced here (www.cato.org/blog/liberta...) so just going to quote it

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 28/12/2024

Hypothetically, if I knew of a city that was within a 4ish hour drive from the greater Toronto area and regularly sold out minor league hockey games in a modern, 8k seat arena, could we get an NLL team there?

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Patrick McEwen @pmcewen.com · 04/12/2024

Looking for the actual data that is based on to know for sure and this is not exactly the same metric, but does show Wisconsin as below average, but not at the bottom in terms of not speaking English at home

Map showing: Percentage of Population 5 Years and Over Who Spoke
a Language Other Than English at Home: 2019

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