Hawks, Tigers Set for Japan Series Showdown, by Yuri Karasawa. Go Tigers!

Dodgers, Blue Jays to meet in World Series: prediction, key players and more, by Andy McCullough and Steve Berman. I don’t have a horse in this race, but this ought to be an exciting one.

This Is Our Country, by Cleve Jones, a hero of mine.

Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say, by John Ismay, Laurel Rosenhall, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs.

The New York Times Argues “Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win.” But the Data Shows the Strategy Is Tapped Out, by Dr. Adam Bonica. <q cite=https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-york-times-argues-moving?utm_source=activity_item>[The] task isn’t to moderate harder. It’s to give voters a reason to believe politics can deliver real change.

New England’s final coal plant shuts down years ahead of schedule, by Sarah Shemkus.

Ben Werdmuller asks: What Made Blogging Different?

Two interesting tools, both via Karl:

• Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown.
• nb is a CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

February 26^th & 27^th, 2026: The First International Symposium on Invisible XML (ixml), which is a language and process for identifying structure in documents[… that] allows users to exploit the implicit structures in documents without the need for explicit markup. (via Norm)

what does it take to hang on, by Winnie Lim.

The Majority AI View, according to Anil Dash, is that technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they’ve been over-hyped, the fact they’re being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.

Measured AI, by Gina Trapani: The extreme hype surrounding generative AI and technologies like LLMs over the last few years has been exhausting. Coupled with fear-based marketing against a backdrop of rolling layoffs—“if you’re not embracing AI you’ll be left behind”—it’s downright toxic.

The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, by Drs. Timnit Gebru and Émile P. Torres.

Using Government IDs for Age Assurance, by ekr.

No Kings Changed My Mind About America’s Future, by Katelyn Burns.

Good advice from Dr. Ruth Pearce that I’m unlikely to follow: Reject Trans Doom-Posting.

How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights, by Juliet Jacques.

Abigail Thorn asks: Who are the dolls which must be protected?

Anti-Trans Democrat Seth Moulton Booed At Boston No Kings Rally After Sen. Markey Wears Trans Flag, by Erin Reed.

Also by Erin: Federal Judge Rules In Favor Of Public Schools In 16 States That Refused To Comply With Trump’s Trans Ban.

The internet has long been a source of information and support for transgender people. Now, trans rights and the internet itself are in a moment of crisis. What happens next? The future of being trans on the internet, by Sydney Bauer, Talia Bhatt, Jude Doyle, Parker Molloy, Janus Rose, and S.E. Smith.