first morning in London, thought I'd grab myself a traditional full english breakfast! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

LMAO the rule being used to block funding for the Hudson and Second Avenue projects appears to have only been drafted and posted as of last night. www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.go...

the red teamers who have been doing "adversarial testing" on this thing for 18 months seem to have overlooked "framing someone for a crime". alas!

1/ DEVELOPING: A journalist was rushed to New York-Presbyterian Hospital following another incident with an ICE agent at 26 Federal Plaza, an immigration court in NYC. The last I heard, he was getting X-rays for his lower back.

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago.

He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.”

“How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

some great investigative work by colleagues today about one of the vessels featured that was featured in this story:

bsky.app/profile/fina...

The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables on.ft.com/4nOeeCn

NEW: Elon Musk keeps hyping Tesla’s FSD software, and getting more people to buy it is key to his new pay package. But in a recent test, it ignored standard street signs and even a flashing school bus stop sign – squashing mannequin child “Timmy.” Why is it legal? www.forbes.com/sites/alanoh...

it took me three tries to get into it and then it was amazing. it's like the video game version of The Wire

many legacy media people are aware of which internet figures/platforms are "important", but often have very little understanding of *why* they're important, the kinds of things they say (earnestly or ironically), the feuds they have with each other, in-jokes, etc. seems like a recipe for a real mess

very complicated that interpreting the niche/dumb internet subculture references on the bullet engravings has real stakes

"is this a reference to 20th century Italian anti-fascism or an ironic groyper reference?"/"which kind of pepe is this?" don't seem like questions most media can grasp well

Trading on Kalshi has picked up significantly since they began listing sports markets for US bettors nationwide

Their opponents say this is illicit sports betting, in conflict with CFTC rules that the agency is choosing not to enforce, and that the agency is not equipped to regulate gaming

NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America

@okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry

on.ft.com/4nwVxDk

tossing this one on the pile

bsky.app/profile/howa...

New data shows that illegally-parked cop cars are wrecking the Jay Street busway nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/09/05/z...

I keep giving LLMs a chance to impress me, whenever I encounter a boring task that they should be good at, and they keep shitting the bed. Not like 'this was too hard a problem for fancy autocomplete' shitting the bed, like 'randomly deleting swathes of code' shitting the bed

ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

NEW: The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

Our visual story on the relentless race for AI capacity: ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

New visual story: Inside the relentless race for AI capacity

The quest for superintelligence is spurring a data centre boom — but critics question the cost, environmental impact and whether it is all needed

ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

New: The American guns turning Haiti’s gangs into an army.

Caches of weapons — including sniper and military-style rifles — are being smuggled from Florida, enabling Haitian militias to challenge the country’s fragile government. The UN says gangs now outgun the police.

ig.ft.com/haiti-gangs/

An investigation by THE CITY uncovered donors who insist they didn’t donate to Eric Adams’ campaign, a donor who paid with a credit card linked to their employer and donors who don’t live where they claimed to.

www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/24/e...

these kinds of "skills"/tricks for interacting with an LLM are a bug, not a feature, based on unintended friction in the system. it's like having a Texting 101 class in 2006 that teaches you tricks for typing quickly on a T9 keypad