https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/trump-epstein-files.html
“alleged incident would have occurred in the mid-1980s when she was 13 to 15 years old, but they do not include any assessment by the F.B.I. about the credibility of her accusation”
“Justice Department had also not provided them to the Oversight Committee”
https://www.ms.now/opinion/trump-falsehoods-state-of-the-union-speech-fact-check
Bingo of course. From a fact checkers library.
“In 1994 he and Susanne Pelger, a colleague at Lund, concluded that an image-forming eye could evolve in just a few hundred thousand years.”
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/early-cancer-detection-test-put-test
“Lots of reasonable and/or exciting ideas in medicine collapse when you put some weight on them”
One day something like Galleri might work, but for now everyone is skeptical.
Compared to RFK Bhattacharya is … well … not quite as crackbrained stupid. Just a regular blight on humanity.
https://netnewswire.blog/2026/01/27/netnewswire-for-mac.html
It’s not just me.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/23/2025-six-colors-apple-report-card/
Tsai’s contribution. Apple’s software division needs a complete rebuild, which needs a new CEO.
“You can’t export your passkeys for offline storage and later reimport into the Passwords app.” Password app is now quite good, but not good enough.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-zombie-tariffs
“This means that nations Trump tried to punish … have just received a big break. Meanwhile nations that groveled to Trump, like the UK, have just learned that they humiliated themselves for nothing”
https://www.persuasion.community/p/janice-stein
As Kahneman et al showed, humans are only intermittently rational. I suspect LLMs are substantially more rational.
Trump will try anything and everything.
The oligarchs in the Trump admin know the world is warming due to CO2 emissions, but they figure the gains to America outweigh the harms to the rest of the world. Especially if America expands to control Canada, Greenland, and the arctic. Climate engineering will take care of the needs of the empire if America warms too much.
CO2 mitigation measures are an unwanted distraction that may reduce the value of American oil.
“inadequate testing, proceeding with the flight when engineers did not fully understand earlier thruster malfunctions and inadequate oversight of Boeing by NASA.”
They still don’t understand the thruster problem. The reiteration of NASA’s confidence in Boeing suggests they wish they had another option.
“The study’s goal was to show a 20 percent reduction in advanced cancers among those who got the test. That did not happen.”
The brief NYT review doesn’t discuss false positives. It’s likely that after a certain age we have a lot of cancer more or less lurking around. There’s no way this should get covered by insurance or medicare but that depends on bribes to Trump.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/iphone-usb-c-port-uses-beyond-charging/
External monitor and keyboard on USB-C hub to USB-C iPhone is appealing. It’s the kind of thing we thought the iPhone would do 10y ago.
Many Americans need a working computer on special occasions, but don’t own one. A USB-C monitor/hub targeted at computer-less iPhone users seems possible. (I’m guessing Android already does this?)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-1-pro/
Google Antigravity offers it.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/gemini-31-pro/#atom-everything
Qualitatively better SVG illustrations.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/23/summer-yue/#atom-everything
ai compacts memory, forgets instruction to don’t actually delete things.
Neat error condition. (Victim was an expert so presumably had backups or didn’t care too much)
https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/red-green-tdd/#atom-everything
Changing process to adapt to ai dev. “…”use test driven development, write the tests first, confirm that the tests fail before you implement the change that gets them to pass”.
“Build a Python function to extract headers from a markdown string. Use red/green TDD.”
The world was disappointed when Apple did nothing. I have a wallet FindMy that’s useful but I’ll try the Nomad
Charter schools have many ways to discourage high cost students.
“I was in the middle of the reset-your-password dance with verification across different devices when the phishing mail came in.”
They play the odds.
https://www.twincities.com/2026/02/22/real-world-economics-the-fed-of-old-and-of-today/
“We have crawled out on a rotten limb from which it is difficult to get down.”
An old school conservative moderate economist who is fiercely anti-Trump.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionaires-gone-wild
“we have experienced a fundamental change in the way our society works. Everything … is under extreme threat from the tidal wave of billionaire influence”
It’s time to tax.
https://www.minnpost.com/cityscape/2026/02/the-regrettable-failure-of-northstar-commuter-rail/
The would may be changing too quickly for this kind of project.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/inside-trumps-ice-concentration-camps
The campus violate ICE’s own standards. And the world’s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/americas/cuba-oil-blockade-trump.html
Cuban government likely to negotiate a surrender. They have no choice. Illegal blockade of course.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-organize-safely-in-the-age-of-surveillance/
I go for complete transparency myself, but a useful primer
https://inessential.com/2026/02/18/why-not-objective-c.html
Fun read for a non-dev.
“in my next post I’m going to talk about how I wrote some new code in Objective-C and loved it”
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/17/ios-27-rave-update-to-clean-up-code/
Several books could be written about how Apple lost the ability to code
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/17/ios-26-4-stolen-device-protection-enabled-by-default/
Yikes! I would also prefer a passwords passphrase option. I will not touch this before 26.5 even though I will install 26 when .4 is out
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/18/searching-for-apps-with-spotlight/
I may skip Tahoe completely
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/19/how-to-erase-your-apple-silicon-mac/
More ways to erase than I knew
A valuable take on the shift ahead
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-16-2026
DJT is basically Washington’s nightmare.
“In September 2025 the IRS granted tax-exempt status to the Donald Trump Mount Rushmore Memorial Legacy, making it a charity that can accept tax-free donations.”
https://www.jalopnik.com/2097868/automakers-love-in-car-subscriptions-drivers-dont/
My yearly cost of car ownership is down because vehicles last so long now. That’s a problem for manufacturers
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-worst-president-ever
“focus on three surpassing abuses: His violation of his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution; his use of the power of the federal government to threaten and punish his critics; and his gobsmacking corruption.”
Survival is not guaranteed, but I think more likely than not.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/#atom-everything
It’s different from the post-Apollo aerospace crash. More like the abrupt end of the 1960s clerks who made up a transactional database of humans.
A skillset for which demand has plummeted.
https://toosimple.substack.com/p/rural-life
“The house has five floors. As do many in the village. It’s a mini-Manhattan, concrete and glass, rising up from rice paddies.”
“For a dust grain floating in the air, collisions with photons and surrounding gas molecules will produce decoherence in … a millionth of the time it takes for light to traverse a single proton”
“quantum Darwinism”
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/get-early-start
Astonishing! Thought to be circadian T cell variation but absolutely nobody expected an effect this size. Lots of studies coming on this.
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/15/last-week-on-my-mac-repair-assistant-has-replaced-diagnostics/
My theory on the docs is that different parts of apple dev don’t talk to one another
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-12-2026
Gabbard and Wiles were covering up something involving Jared around May 2025
“may or may not be related that in early April 2025, the administration abruptly fired National Security Agency director General Timothy Haugh and his deputy, hours after dismissing several staffers at the National Security Council”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/politics/trump-racist-video-gop-blowback?cid=ios_app
“The White House argued that Trump remains “the unequivocal leader” of the GOP”
Trans: Trump sees powerful rivals overtaking him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/well/mind/narcissist-narcissism-myths-facts.html
A few things I didn’t know. It seems a prerequisite for working for Trump.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-thoughts-on-the-authoritarian-international
Wealth taxes a hot topic now.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
A reason for people to live closer to family. Seriously.
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/steve-yegge-on-ai-agents-and-the
Humans can’t keep up. The LLMs do not tire.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/magazine/dissociative-identity-disorder-mental-health.html
May be as common as schizophrenia but can respond to treatment.
I suspect “identity” in humans is much more variable than most imagine.