I feel it coming on. I’m about to embark on the journey of completely revamping my notes and tasks systems.

Notion, Obsidian, iA Writer, and physical notebook here I come.

Hacker News discusses the merits of slapping recording devices off the faces of Meta glasses wearers:

Slapping a pair of glasses that are recording you, processing your face, sending biometrics and images back to one of the worst privacy offenders on the planet off of the face of someone who is willingly doing all that without asking your permission is a perfectly appropriate reaction. Put your shoulder into it.

ChatGPT uninstalls surged by 295% after DoD deal

This AI Agent Is Ready to Serve, Mid-Phone Call:

The audible AI assistant will be baked into the phone call, offering services like live language translation to anyone who chooses to opt in.

Aka, telecommunications companies found a new way to spy on our phone calls, so they can then sell to governments and ad-tech firms. I’m so tired, yall.

Why We Struck Iran:

Trump gets away with all of this by pretending we’re not really at war—a falsehood with which Congress is happy to play along. Asked if the U.S. is at war with Iran, Sen. Lindsey Graham told Meet the Press: “I don’t know if this is technically a war.” Absurd as that sounds, Democratic leaders are adopting the same framing. Sen. Chuck Schumer says the strikes are “risking wider conflict” as if this isn’t already that; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says the operation has “brought us to the brink of a possible war,” as if this isn’t already war.

How much market cap can we wash away by simply using the term “Microslop?” My guess is a lot.

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash

OpenAI strikes deal with Pentagon hours after Trump admin bans Anthropic:

It’s not clear what is different about OpenAI’s deal with the Pentagon versus what Anthropic wanted.

OpenAI caved and Sam Altman is misleading the public? Also, CNN failed to mention that it was just two years ago that OpenAI had non-military use ban in its code of ethics.

Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic’s red lines in Pentagon fight:

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a memo to staff that he will draw the same red lines that sparked a high-stakes fight between rival Anthropic and the Pentagon: no AI for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons.

I accidentally just made the best chocolate banana bread. I was lazy so I didn’t look up measurements and just kinda guessed, which, I assume is not wise when it comes to baking. But, damn, is this delicious.

• 3 bananas
• 2 eggs
• 1 pile flour
• 1 blonk of butter
• Extra blamp of olive oil
• 1 spork baking soda
• A twinkle of salt
• 1/2 jar mom got me for Christmas of sugar
• 2 drizzles vanilla
• 3 zaps cinnamon

Y’all ever play The Publix Game?

You try to maximize the number of BoGo items you can buy, while still sticking to a grocery list that complements your current inventory.

But, you have to do it while pretending you’re a contestant on Supermarket Sweep.

The opening paragraph was so intriguing that it took me a few pages to realize I was reading smut lol.

I also kept thinking “wow, I like second-person. I could write this. I have a few blog posts in second-person.” So, am I an aspiring romance author now?

The Internet is roasting AI models' maths skills again. This time for not being able to count to 200.

The last time the Internet made fun of AI’s trouble with math was when someone discovered none of the models could count the numbers of “r’s” in the word “strawberry.”

OpenAI and Anthropic responded with a public relations campaign to convince everyone their respective models won gold at the Math Olympiad.

I wonder what they’ll cook up for Count-Gate.

How ICE became the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency (JAN 2026):

But ICE’s budget has skyrocketed during President Trump’s second term, becoming the highest-funded U.S. law enforcement agency, with $85 billion now at its disposal.

Dems should’ve sacrificed everything to stop the One Big Beautiful Bill. When the dust settles history won’t be kind to them about how they handled the bill’s passing.

When I visit my old neighborhood, I’m required to eat at the Pershing Food Mart. It’s one of the best Puerto Rican restaurants that just so happens to have a gas station.

One day I’ll write about these things. I want to write about my experiences growing up in Orlando. One day. For now, I’ll share my lunch.

Your emails mean a lot to me. 😊. I have them all flagged and read them when I’m feeling down. You inspire me to write more, and to put more fun stuff in fromjason.

So, thank you!

FediForum “Growing the Open Social Web” Un-Workshop position statement:

Big tech’s centralized social networks remain vital for activism and organizing (meet people where they are, and that’s where they currently are)

This is a great post all around. I’m still grappling with the idea of “meeting people where they’re at.” I’ve deleted most of my corporate social media. But now it feels like I’m preaching to the choir.

Politics, Governments, and Elections | TikTok Advertising Policies:

we do not allow paid political advertising because the nature of political ads is not something we believe fits the TikTok experience.

Does this change in time for the midterms, or do they wait for the presidential election?

“Selling Safety”: A Journalist’s Guide to Covering Police Technology:

This guide helps journalists see through the spin. It breaks down how policing technology companies market their tools and how those sales claims – which are often misleading – get recycled into media coverage.

This is rad. I’m glad this guide exists. But, I also wonder why journalists need to be told that they shouldn’t just repeat press release statements from cops and surveillance tech companies. Are we okay?

mfw capitalism.

Google, Microsoft pay creators $500,000 and more to promote AI:

Other artificial intelligence players, including Anthropic and Meta, are also hiring social media creators to post sponsored content on apps like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and even LinkedIn.

Obviously this doesn’t confirm that Hank Green specifically was paid by Anthropic. But considering the pro-Anthroopic, AI culty videos he made recently, it’d be nice for him to confirm he wasn’t paid.

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with ‘world in peril’ warning:

“The world is in peril. And not just from AI, or bioweapons, but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment,” Sharma wrote.

The last person to pull this “the world is in peril, I’m leaving” resignation stunt was Geoffrey Hinton from Google. He now works for an AI academic non-profit funded by Google. Sort of like a weird golden parachute?

At this point I can’t tell if this is a public relations stunt, AI psychosis, or some mixture of both.

My only fear is the lengths they’ll go to in order to convince us that they created a god.

Lots of cool websites in this curated list: Weeknote #1987 • Robb Knight

ICE knows you blocked them on Bluesky

Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts:

Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.

The timing of all this doesn’t look great for Bluesky and Mike Masnic. Bluesky, the Public Good Corporation, launches “Find Your Friends” in December 2025.

Then, ICE joins Bluesky, the decentralized social media platform, a month later. Bluesky verifies ICE, which triggers a mass-blocking by Bluesky members. ICE is now the third most blocked account on Bluesky.

DHS now has a public list of everyone who blocked ICE. Not to mention the firehose of everyone’s activity data. But don’t worry, DHS super duper promises it won’t collect the personal information of Bluesky’s users in a special Bluesky-specific privacy policy.

Why is DHS going out of its way to reassure Bluesky’s user-base by carving out a special privacy policy? What does ICE give a shit about Bluesky’s public relations?

And Bluesky’s response? Nothing. Because you can’t be accountable for people’s private data if you kill the concept of privacy.

Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I’m switching back to Android:

I randomly tried Android again for a few months last spring. Using a functioning keyboard was revelatory.

Having just written a thousand-word essay exclusively on my iPhone, I’m with this person. Typing on iOS is excruciating. It’s not just the autocorrect either. It’s layers of muscle memory over two decades, tapping a millimeter off target because Apple keeps changing the keyboard. It’s all a mess.

My niece and I made an album cover for our new band Nova Band. We make pop music and we love cotton candy.