https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/ostarine-olympics-doping.html
I’d love 3lbs of muscle! It may be bundled with GLP1 if approved.
The sports problem is that it’s TOO easy to detect and its widespread use makes accidental exposure a real possibility.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-10-2026
It is possible that the walls are crumbling.
“Brad Karp, senior partner for Paul Weiss … plotted with Epstein to get a woman they disliked charged with a crime and deported.”
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-trouble-with-tulsi-gabbard-and
Only a few have credibility now. You cannot run a democracy like this.
https://toosimple.substack.com/p/china-return
Treading water, not too unhappy yet.
Not every big reach grabs the brass ring. A sympathetic story of failure at the extremes of science.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/health/gender-surgery-malpractice-varian.html
Patient who had mastectomy as teenager wins lawsuit for surgery that did not meet “standard of practice”. If insurance companies stop coverage that will be the end of adolescent gender affirming surgery in America.
https://www.apricitas.io/p/americas-1t-ai-gamble
There is an incomprehensible amount of money in the world seeking investment opportunities.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-9-2026
Explainer on the curious status of America’s Puerto Rico colony.
https://webkit.org/blog/17808/interop-2025-review/
This is counter to the 2026 narrative and must be ignored.
Seriously – much better than expected
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/management-as-ai-superpower
Very advanced students with exceptional skills. Compatible with thesis that current ai helps most those who have the most (skills).
Most extraordinary acceleration may come with loose specification and a wide tolerance for variable output.
(Anecdotal reports that the enhanced productivity is surprisingly fatiguing for today’s human component.)
https://www.platformer.news/social-media-screen-time-manchester-study-haidt/
It is very hard to study, but it’s reassuring. Correlation may be that teens with mental health vulnerability spend more time on social media. They may do better off social media.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-5-2026
I hadn’t thought of that but, yeah, definitely.
“FBI has “summoned state election officials from across the country for an unusual briefing on ‘preparations’ for the midterms” on February 25”
I wonder if the cost of zero days will fall.
https://followmehere.com/2026/02/08/human-hair-grows-through-pulling-not-pushing-study-shows/
“pulled upward by a force associated with a hidden network of moving cells”
https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/06/apple-silicon-macs-have-2-types-of-thunderbolt-ports/
“can’t be used to install or update macOS on a bootable external disk”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-7-2026
To do mass purge of non-credentialed US residents in a manner consistent with US law and basic decency would take decades and cost at least 10-20x the current ICE budget.
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/mann-doctor-faustus-fascism-far-right
So good
“A Socratic error that has long persisted in our culture is that intelligence, education, and moral insight at least reinforce one another where they aren’t causally related”
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/profiles-in-cowardice-tariff-edition
The crooked six face doom.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/american-decency-still-lives
Policy is debatable but evil is evil. You know it when you see it.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/06/llms-and-software-development-roundup/
Illustrative because reactions range from “great stuff” to “waste of time”.
From those I trust I think is closer to “great stuff” but it’s a somewhat different skillset form pre-ai coding.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/06/apple-news-scam-ads/
Apple turned into 1970s IBM
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/05/time-machine-in-tahoe/
I may never install Tahoe. Just skip macOS 26.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-4-2026
You would think someone would have noticed.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-darkness-descends
He is a fabulous cartoonist.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-dangerous-spectacle-of-ice-at
The people have learned from Minneapolis…
“More than 150,000 people signed petitions to bar federal agents and rapid-response legal networks are mobilizing in Santa Clara”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/2/introducing-the-codex-app/#atom-everything
“Claude Code had to rebrand to Cowork to better cover the general knowledge work case”
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6
Give me an S! Give me an i! Give me a …
https://notes.kateva.org/2026/02/mass-disability-marta-russell-wrote.html
I also came to the topic from the world of disability, but with a medical, economic and ecological perspective. Completely independently, but we arrived at a very similar position. Maybe there’s something to it.
https://www.faughnan.com/reform.html#Proposal
I came across a web page I last updated around 2004 and wrote in 1996. If we ever get past Citizen United these are still things to explore.
“Carlson blamed Jews—sorry, people “eating hummus”—for killing Jesus, and insinuated that a similar cabal killed Kirk.”
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/03/the-fallen-apple/
“Apple’s software and developer relations fell apart on [Cook’s] watch.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-mark-kelly-hegseth-rank
They fear Kelly’s 2028 run. They will not stop.
https://gwynnedyer.com/2026/iran-do-massacres-work/
Egypt: “army and police snipers shot 2,400 protesters dead in two squares in central Cairo and the protests stopped”
Massacres work. In the short term anyway.
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-invisible-recession
The divorce of sociology from economics has been catastrophic
https://sfstandard.com/2026/01/27/coyote-swam-to-alcatraz-san-francisco/
We have lots of coyotes but this seems high
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-31-2026
Stephen Miller is replaying Hammond’s hits.
“Jess Ting’s name appears in (at least) 466 separate documents in the Epstein Files. Mount Sinai, the hospital from which he operates, appears in (at least) 1,093 separate documents.”
The more we learn about Epstein the more we find he grew on fertile ground.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-wonkish-note-on-tariffs-and-inflation
0.8%, supposedly because they are less than advertised.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reality-distortion-in-the-age-of-trump-and-the-corrupt-court
America is experiencing a complete breakdown of the federal government. If it continues states will start to look at leaving the union.
“Clawdbot runs entirely on your computer, locally, and keeps its settings, preferences, user memories, and other instructions as literal folders and Markdown documents on your machine.”
It will have another name tomorrow, then it will be bought by someone.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01/22/clawdbot/#clawdbot-update-2026-01-28
“To say that Clawdbot has fundamentally altered my perspective of what it means to have an intelligent, personal AI assistant in 2026 would be an understatement.”
Clawdot will be obsolete by the time you read this.
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
So funny to see the young people reuse the term “personal digital assistant”. Will the acronym PDA return? Will historians be confused? Running this tech is very risky.
“The amount of value people are unlocking right now by throwing caution to the wind is hard to ignore, though. Here’s Clawdbot buying AJ Stuyvenberg a car by negotiating with multiple dealers over email…
… People are buying dedicated Mac Minis just to run OpenClaw, under the rationale that at least it can’t destroy their main computer if something goes wrong. They’re still hooking it up to their private emails and data though, so the lethal trifecta is very much in play.”
Early PCs had no antiviral protections at all. They ran that way for a goodly amount of time.
PS. PDAs unable to do things because of their deep (subconscious) model restrictions is fun to compare to human conditioning.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-29-2026
“Italian officials used military satellites to hack U.S. voting machines in an operation coordinated by China”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/no-kings-is-back-on-march-28th
Audio has details.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28-2026
Trump will do everything in his power to control the midterm outcomes.
https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology
He has a blog. He may be the author. Also Amodei is the only tech CEO with a functioning brain.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/01/minneapolis-uprising/685755/
A very good description of the MSP resistance. I am at the periphery of it and this provided me context for those more directly engaged.