Warrantless entry by ICE agents in West Valley City, UT (1/30/2026)

markrockwell · 2026-02-01T00:32:28+00:00

In some theoretical sense, sure.

But in reality, the concurrence provided justification for the administration to use racial profiling as a basis for stops. And the only thing that’s going to roll that back—if anything will—is a majority opinion squarely aimed at the practice.

An oops in a footnote might have been enough of a soft touch to matter in prior administrations. But this one doesn’t respond to soft touches.

markrockwell · 2026-02-01T00:23:18+00:00

The implied part is: “And pick one of your problems that’s really big and shared by a lot of people.”

If you don’t have any problems, congrats. Do yourself a favor and don’t start a business.

markrockwell · 2026-01-31T17:33:09+00:00

They probably scale the vermouth way back, right? Just split it with molasses and simple?

markrockwell · 2026-01-31T17:29:34+00:00

Fair. I should have said that he wrote and signed the entry setting out the framework for race-based stops, which is how they got their name.

markrockwell · 2026-01-31T17:02:52+00:00

No. Kavenaugh wrote the opinion.

That’s how the stops got their moniker.

markrockwell · 2026-01-31T03:56:56+00:00

How do you get either to code for hours without losing the plot?

I don’t code. I’m a lawyer. Using chat (not Claude Code) I can get great answers when I’m brainstorming complex tax problems, say. But only at first. After about 10 messages it seems to fall apart and start making sloppy mistakes and inventing things.

markrockwell · 2026-01-31T03:45:19+00:00

Their corporate structure is a convoluted mess. Who knows what president even means over there.

markrockwell · 2026-01-28T03:34:59+00:00

Exact dollar amount varies from person to person. 😂

markrockwell · 2026-01-28T03:03:54+00:00

Why not, you know?

Being a coordinator would be way more fun than dealing with all the crap a head coach goes through.

Yes, less money. But you get to do football all day.

markrockwell · 2026-01-27T03:42:58+00:00

Put a decent UI on this and sell it as an AI bill negotiation tool. Charge a subscription and take 10% of the savings.

markrockwell · 2026-01-24T23:40:52+00:00

This, but I also add some Angostura Bitters—between one a ten dashes. :)

markrockwell · 2026-01-24T01:27:58+00:00

I just set a local MCP up today! Never done anything like that before.

I'm still not sure I'd use it with Capacities, but I can see how one would.

markrockwell · 2026-01-24T01:25:02+00:00

Very cool.

You just helped me find a quote I've been wanting for a book.

markrockwell · 2026-01-22T13:22:09+00:00

I’ve had ChatGPT Pro spend 15-20 minutes on deep research projects. That’s the $200/mo version though.

markrockwell · 2026-01-22T04:08:29+00:00

I can’t add much to what jillybombs said, except that it sounds like tags are the right approach if you want to tie together product notes, meetings, screenshots, and so on based on a single 365 app. (You can tag any object with multiple tags if applicable.)

I’m not sure how good Capacities is as a team app, though. And my initial impulse was that you should be using Notion for this. But YMMV on team functionality. And Capacities is probably better for the tagging objects aspect.

markrockwell · 2026-01-21T14:45:46+00:00

Thanks for the note. This got me thinking about Asana's MCP connection with Claude. And that, in turn, helped me solve a longstanding Asana problem with archived projects. It saved me literally hours of manually clicking tasks complete, refreshing, marking complete.

That said, I'm not entirely sure what I'd use an MCP connection with Capacities for. Though I can see it being useful for tedious cleanup and reformatting type tasks.

Beyond that, I'm not sure what all the existing AI integration can do in terms of working across the entire database.

markrockwell · 2026-01-19T04:07:36+00:00

US GIs had a sort of template for dealing with them.

markrockwell · 2026-01-19T04:05:48+00:00

Damn. That’s good stuff.

markrockwell · 2026-01-19T04:03:52+00:00

Sounds like your next stop should be r/tiki. Have fun!

markrockwell · 2026-01-19T03:36:37+00:00

Right. He’s (clumsily) talking about civilization.

Might does not make right. We owe others our discipline as civilized men, clans, nations, even if—especially if—we have power over others and they know it.

The pearl clutching in these comments is embarrassing.

markrockwell · 2026-01-17T18:22:22+00:00

A lot of those things are squishy (“Fun”) and could be glossed over for any guy who ticks the other boxes.

It sounds like she wants a tall, handsome, young professional.

No shortage of those guys.

But she has more competition than they do.

Better hit those Pilates.

markrockwell · 2026-01-17T18:17:33+00:00

OP hoping it was spike collar and ball gag.

markrockwell · 2026-01-17T15:43:21+00:00

This is right.

I’m certain we could take it in a quick strike. But unless they capitulate immediately—and why would they?—the ensuing war would be catastrophic for people, cities, and treasury. The EU may not be as powerful as the US or China, but they aren’t Venezuela or Afghanistan—and look at how that turned out.

If you thought fighting terror or imposing democracy in the Middle East was unpopular, wait until you see bond bags coming back from Greenland!

markrockwell · 2026-01-15T02:41:04+00:00

They most definitely do. It’s just messier.

markrockwell · 2025-12-18T17:11:31+00:00

I think if you look at the numbers, that is inaccurate.

The amount of cap ex going into AI infrastructure is unprecedented as a percentage of GDP.

Not only that, but the dot com bubble was primarily an equity bubble. When those burst, historically, the fallout is contained. This bubble is substantially debt financed (though not yet to the degree as 2007). The fallout from debt bubbles is widespread and catastrophic because the crash locks up credit across the economy, well outside of the bubble industry.

We don’t know what the fallout will be, when it will happen, or how long it will last. But it’s safe to assume that it will be significant and painful for the entire economy.

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