Notable links: January 16, 2026
An occupation in Minnesota and finding your way to work that doesn't harm
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Remarks on the Federal Government’s Ongoing Presence in Minnesota
“It is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government." So record it.
The Curiosity Tour
"A way to approach a job hunt that uncovers extraordinary, unlisted opportunities" - using a distilled framework that makes something that might look daunting feel easy.
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
"Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground."
The Zurich protocol
They came for the newsroom. It was ready.
Bari Weiss Is The Symptom
"The truth is that prestige journalism is lousy with Bari Weisses, up and down the line. Ask any journalist trying to cover the genocide in Gaza or the social death of gender nonconformists."
How to know if that job will crush your soul
"But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to aspire towards roles that enable us to do our best work, to have the biggest impact, and to live according to our values."
47 lessons
Things I've learned.
How I hire engineers
Building a community means looking beyond coding tests.
Notable links: January 2, 2026
Looking ahead: humans are cool again.
What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?
"Instagram no longer believes it can beat AI by making more or better content. It wants to be the referee, to decide what is real and what is not, and to build systems that can do it at scale."
2025: The year in LLMs
Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.
Technology
The next big thing in 2026 will be...
This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human.
Media
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."
life
A 2026 checklist
A way to build a habit out of what's important.
2025: a personal year in review
Highlights and hopes for the new year.
Notable links
Friday links: December 26, 2025
An alternative Christmas; lies we tell ourselves.
Technology
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
Tim's 2026 predictions are worth paying attention to - and form a great map for following where the open social web is going.
Technology
An ... interesting year
On fascism, technology, and finding the helpers.
Technology
Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud
"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."
Media
Lies we tell ourselves
We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.
Notable links
Friday links: December 19, 2025
Predictions for journalism; paperbacks are dead; feeling the fear.
Business
The Go/No Go Date
"Feeling fear goes hand-in-hand with being ambitious. Imposter syndrome is real and normal. In fact, if you aren't feeling fear in what you do, I'd argue that you aren't being ambitious enough." Here's a way to build in the fear and do it anyway.
Media
Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2026
"Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here's what they told us." Some essays from the annual collection that caught my eye.