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Note published on March 29, 2026 at 6:17 PM UTC

2026-03-29T18:17:02+00:00

the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has more All-In podcast hosts than professors

Note published on March 29, 2026 at 1:10 PM UTC

2026-03-29T13:10:47+00:00

i love reading crypto reporting

Note published on March 28, 2026 at 3:30 PM UTC

2026-03-28T15:30:52+00:00

see you there

☒ buy milk
☒ feed the dog
☐ hold them accountable
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Note published on March 26, 2026 at 1:02 PM UTC

2026-03-26T13:02:27+00:00

damn, i just knew i was forgetting something!

Note published on March 25, 2026 at 2:31 PM UTC

2026-03-25T14:31:58+00:00

some Coinbase customers are horrified that the Coinbase app is encouraging them to gamble

they're so close

Note published on March 25, 2026 at 1:58 PM UTC

2026-03-25T13:58:16+00:00

i wonder if they make human versions of this dog vest

Note published on March 24, 2026 at 10:02 PM UTC

2026-03-24T22:02:43+00:00

work-from-couch days are his favorite

Note published on March 24, 2026 at 7:47 PM UTC

2026-03-24T19:47:05+00:00

i love combing through FEC data because how else would i have learned of Big Nut

Note published on March 22, 2026 at 10:29 PM UTC

2026-03-22T22:29:29+00:00

the great pierogiing

90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective

2026-03-18T03:25:51+00:00

90% of crypto's Illinois primary spending failed to achieve its objective

The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries (Stratton in the Senate race, Ford in H-07) or supporting their opponents.

The Fairshake pro-crypto super PAC network spent $10 million to oppose Senate candidate Juliana Stratton and $2.5 million to oppose H-07 candidate La Shawn Ford, both of whom won their primaries

The PACs' only victories in the state were where they contributed money towards outcomes that were already highly likely. They opposed Robert Peters (H-02), who had been polling in third place and ultimately received 12% of the vote. They supported Bean (who was leading the polls in H-08) and incumbent Budzinski (H-13).

Sadly this early spending in Illinois used up less than 6% of what the super PACs have on hand, so buckle up for a looong eight months.

Note published on March 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM UTC

2026-03-17T19:30:54+00:00

never noticed the glob deprecation warning: "support for old versions may be purchased (at exorbitant rates)"

Note published on March 17, 2026 at 1:04 PM UTC

2026-03-17T13:04:10+00:00

Sam Bankman-Fried’s mom, a former law professor, has been asked to please stop filing documents on her son’s behalf in regards to his motion for a retrial (where he is supposedly representing himself)

My custom keyboard layout

2026-03-13T14:50:50+00:00

My custom keyboard layout

A list of my favorite custom keyboard features thus far, courtesy of TailorKey:

Caps word: Engages the caps lock function only until you hit a word boundary (anything that's not an alphanumeric character, underscore, or backspace basically). So helpful I'm wondering how I ever typed without it.
Home row modifiers: Tap asdf or jkl; and they function as normal letters, but hold them and they function as modifiers (ctrl, alt, cmd, shift). Tremendous.
The "select word" functionality. This is a macro for alt-leftarrow (move cursor to beginning of word) followed by alt-shift-rightarrow (select to end of word boundary). There's also a select line, but I haven't found myself using that much yet.

I've also added some of my own customizations:

A key that triggers a script that flattens whitespace from selected text
Keys to uppercase, lowercase, titlecase, and sentencecase selected text
A key that triggers a macro to type "site:citationneeded.news ", which I type constantly while writing my newsletters and trying to find a past newsletter where I referenced something
A two-key combo to trigger the typically three-key cmd-shift-4 screenshot selected area command
A two-key combo for "paste and match style", which is the hand-breaking four-key ctrl-option-shift-v
A two-key combo for — (em dash), which is typically three (alt-shift-hyphen)

And I've moved some of my previous shortcuts that tended to bump up against other shortcuts (like alt-arrowkey to snap windows to portions of the screen) to esoteric key combos involving F13+ that will never conflict. (I don't have physical F13+ keys, but by using layers I just map comfortable keys to the shortcuts I want).

Note published on March 12, 2026 at 2:27 PM UTC

2026-03-12T14:27:58+00:00

my new keyboard layout has “caps word” functionality (think caps lock but just for a single word) and my god traditional keyboard manufacturers need to get with the times

where has this been all my life

Note published on March 11, 2026 at 1:42 PM UTC

2026-03-11T13:42:59+00:00

The Binance crypto exchange has just filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its article reporting that Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired.

The article, and related investigations by the New York Times and Fortune, were cited in an inquiry over the alleged sanctions evasion by Senator Blumenthal, and a request by Sen. Van Hollen and others for an investigation by the Treasury and Justice Departments. Today the WSJ reported that the DOJ had opened such an investigation.

Binance spends much of the filing complaining that news outlets like the WSJ do not give them enough credit for how hard they're trying. I'm not sure bragging about stopping $131M in illicit transfers quite lands when the whole point of this article is that you allegedly allowed 10x that.

Note published on March 10, 2026 at 6:59 PM UTC

2026-03-10T18:59:17+00:00

The Coinbase-backed "Stand With Crypto" advocacy group has declared Illinois Senate candidate Juliana Stratton to be "strongly against crypto" solely because she made a statement criticizing the $5.5 million the crypto industry had already spent to oppose her

Note published on March 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM UTC

2026-03-10T15:38:28+00:00

with great sadness i had to retire my trusty Ergodox Infinity, but: new keeb! expect typos as i learn how to type again

(MoErgo Glove80)

the Ergodox was also ortholinear with thumb clusters so the transition shouldn't be too difficult, but the default layout on this one is a little different (thumb shift and modifier keys mostly)

Note published on March 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM UTC

2026-03-09T15:08:21+00:00

There are a number of senators who’ve taken a look at this but there seems to be no will to move forward because No. 1, people don’t understand A.I., but because, No. 2, we’ve seen the entry of really big political money tied to A.I. Just like the crypto space, a lot of senators are scared to stick their neck out even though action is being demanded of us on this issue.

Fascinating comment on AI regulation from Elissa Slotkin of all people, who received $10 million — the second-most support — from crypto PACs in 2024.

Note published on March 5, 2026 at 11:01 PM UTC

2026-03-05T23:01:32+00:00

Today the SEC filed a proposed final judgment to settle their lawsuit against Justin Sun and his businesses for $10 million and no admission of wrongdoing.

Sun has spent between $112 million and $233 million on contributions to Trump-linked crypto firms.

In January, House Financial Services Ranking Member Maxine Waters sent a letter to SEC Chair Paul Atkins expressing concern over the SEC's "retrenchment from crypto enforcement", citing the Sun case and urging Atkins to hold him accountable.

Chair Atkins has suggested that the crypto cases his agency has dropped were merely over "registration issues" that were "red herrings" from the Biden admin. But the complaint against Sun also alleged serious fraud.

In July, shortly after Sun announced his plan to purchase another $100 million of the $TRUMP memecoin, the Sun-involved and -themed SUNDOG memecoin posted a meme showing its corgi mascot holding puppet strings attached to the White House.

Note published on March 2, 2026 at 3:45 AM UTC

2026-03-02T03:45:38+00:00

just went to start the hem of a top-down sweater i'm knitting

pattern says "switch to US 4 needle"

"what do you mean, switch to"

knit practically the whole damn thing on needles two sizes too small