Ah. But where is your goat cheese pizza?

The Shocking Truth About This President That We’ve Been Sitting on for Months Is Now Available for Preorder “The suggestion that one has ‘sat on’ revelations of grave public importance until they could be accompanied by a handsome dust cover, embossed serif typogra...

"This line of inquiry fundamentally misunderstands the role of political access journalism, publishing, and, perhaps most critically of all, some pretty sweet jacket design."

Did you consider adding a scoop of protein pints and turning it into a protein packed float?

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”

OpenAI wants to be off the hook if its frontier AI models go rogue and cause 100+ deaths or more than $1 billion in financial damages. from @mzeff.bsky.social

I love the Yomiuri’s framing of this: ‘expressed a desire to learn Japanese, and oh yeah, made some comments about Pearl Harbor’

www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/202603...

Reporter: Why didn't you notify Japan that you were going to attack Iran?

Trump next to the Japanese PM:

"Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Habour? You believe in surprise I think much more so than us."

Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors The Grammarly "Expert Review" feature uses AI to provide feedback on papers using the name and work of real professors, dead or alive.

"I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed."

Also worth noting that it was developed in Japan where elder care is a big concern given the aging population

How a Close Associate of Epstein’s Found Career Redemption in Japan

あーやっぱりこうなったか。
日本人のエプスタイン文書登場者、伊藤穰一(千葉工業大学学長)がNY timesで記事に

“エプスタインの側近が日本でキャリアの再生を掴んだ経緯
日本の政府高官らは伊藤穰一氏が率いる技術・起業イニシアチブを支援しているが、同氏のジェフリー・エプスタイン氏との関わりが、このプロジェクト立ち上げの取り組みを危うくする可能性がある。”
2026年2月26日
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/b...

The Health and Human Services secretary seems as committed to swimming in jeans as he is to destroying the nation’s immune system.

👖 bit.ly/4s4nQv3

Over 50% of game developers now think generative AI is bad for the industry, a dramatic increase from just 2 years ago: 'I'd rather quit the industry than use generative AI' The latest GDC survey also found that managers are more likely to use generative AI than their employees.

"Our standing rule is: If one of us brings up using GenAI in any of our work, then it's safe to assume we've been assimilated by The Thing and should be burned alive by Kurt Russell," said a game design consultant in the US.

RIP nuclear non-proliferation. "The unthinkable is on the list of Japanese security options. Lawmakers and others are already whispering about the possibility of going nuclear" www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...

リベラル自認の10～30代、「自民に投票」3割　中道は1割届かず：朝日新聞 衆院選をめぐり、朝日新聞が大阪大の三浦麻子教授（社会心理学）と実施したネット意識調査で、自らのイデオロギー（政治的立場）を左寄り（リベラル）と自認している人の投票先は、40代以下だと自民党が最多だっ…

Another survey showing that ideological labels don't have the same "stickiness" for young Japanese voters. (Converse 1964 rules everything around me.)

digital.asahi.com/articles/ASV...

Snow covering truck and drive. Snow covered house visible in background

Election Day 2026, Chiba, JP

But they don’t appear to have made any effort to prevent misuse from happening again and they don’t appear to be going out of their way to stop ICE or anyone else from misusing their product

Wrongfully Accused by an Algorithm (Published 2020)

The manufacturer knows you’re gonna do that anyway and just puts that on their so they’re not liable. NEC’s face recog algorithm showed up several years ago in a one misrecognition case in MI

www.nytimes.com/2020/06/24/t...

More reporting from wired on cbp/ice’s mobile fortify developed by NEC. As they write, manufacturers like NEC are quick to note that their products aren’t actual meant to positively ID. But this is like the warning on q-tips not to shove them in your ears

www.wired.com/story/cbp-ic...

今回ばかりはいくら考えても批判めいたものしか浮かばず（まあそれだけ現状がひどいんですが）選挙に行くことを勧めることにも躊躇するような事案も多々あり、選挙絵は描くまいかとも思ったんですが、やはりそれでもみんなには選挙に行ってほしいなと思い直し、批判は捨ててまずこういう世界にしたいなというのを描きました。まあインフルエンサーでも何でもないんで自己満足ですが・・・
排外主義をはじめとするあらゆる差別に反対します。弱者を切り捨てる政策には賛同しません。戦争につながる外交の放棄にも反対します。文化や教育、科学技術をおろそかにする政策にも反対します。
＃投票に行こう

この記事にもあるけど、高市政権の成長戦略の重点分野の一つに「防災・国土強靭化」がある。

災害激甚化や公共インフラ老朽化を考えれば、間違いなくやるべきことなんだけど、一方で排外主義を煽る中で、「誰がその仕事するの？〈日本人〉だけでできるの？」という疑問がある。

農業もそうだが、建設の現場は外国人労働者なしでは回らなくなってるのが現状。おまけに建設資材の高騰で、新宿駅南西口再開発計画のように、建設予算が足りず、施工会社が見つからないなんてことも起きてる。

要するに、日本の産業経済の現状と政策が乖離してるし、とくに外国人政策と農業・インフラ政策とで、政策同士も矛盾してるのが気がかりすぎる。

To all the non-academics who don't understand the point of academic freedom and don't care to learn about it, let me give you a factor you might care about:

Tenure is the biggest reason you get my services at a steep discount over my private sector value.

I always imagined it as two bursts of blood spurting out the top. But yeah, this makes more sense

Don’t be fooled: “adopting the slogan ‘viewpoint diversity’ legitimizes radical-right propaganda.”

Why Cops Frequently Got Caught Planting Drugs in 2017 Look. All technology comes with a learning curve.

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked.

When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

AAUP President on the Elimination of Tenure at Oklahoma Regional Universities and Community Colleges. WASHINGTON—AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Governor of Oklahoma’s signing of Executive Order 2026-07, which immediately eliminates the conferral of academ...

AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt's Executive Order issued today immediately eliminating academic tenure at the state’s public regional universities and community colleges.

Faculty, students push University of Minnesota to denounce ICE and killing of alumnus Alex Pretti It illustrates the complex balancing act for colleges and universities in responding to ICE actions.

“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson

definitely recommend novice on colds where possible

A letter to the director of the CIA from Senator Ron Wyden saying he has sent a classified letter that expressed concerns.

This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Well, they were