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DOD CTO Emil Michael says the Trump administration shouldn't take stakes in AI companies and signals opposition to regulatory oversight of AI companies (Kevin Breuninger/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/16/emil-michael-ai-regulation-trump.html

Pentagon CTO says U.S. government shouldn't take stakes in AI giants, questions adding AI rules
President Donald Trump has angrily pushed back on the calls from industry and lawmakers for an AI slowdown or greater regulation.

Why the Jared Goff incomplete pass call against the Saints was correct https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7600823/2026/09/16/why-the-jared-goff-incomplete-pass-call-against-the-saints-was-correct/

Wir müssen uns bei der Ukraine erneut bedanken: die Angriffe auf Russlands Yandex Datencenter reduzieren in Deutschland die Bot-Angriffswelle der AfD und lähmt damit die elektornische Kriegführung gegen unser Land. Bot-Angriffe auf die Demokratie sind um 70% reduziert durch ein paar gezielte Treffer in Russland. Wer es bislang nicht wahrhaben wollte: Russland führt Krieg gegen Deutschland, "hybrid" ist er in vollem Gange und die Unterstützung für Staatsfeinde klar.

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers
The world is getting a break from Russian bots thanks to Kyiv.

Well apparently "[Burnham] added that in the 'longer term' the government would look at potentially banning the single-use grills during summer months."
Obviously nothing can be done about it while Parliament is on holiday.
In previously administrations announcing a Minister for Drought seemed be the answer...

Fatal critique of Andy Haldane's latest nonsense.
Not Keynes nor Friedman, but Marx.
Is Keynesianism dead? – Michael Roberts Blog
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/09/10/is-keynesianism-dead/

Is Keynesianism dead?
“Is Keynesianism dead?” says Andy Haldane, former chief economist at the Bank of England, writing in the Financial Times.  Haldane’s answer is “Keynesianism, if not dead, is potentially defunc…

#marswaterhistory

Why is war so economically costly?
Our answer is that modern war lowers output not only by destroying productive factors,
but also by making the surviving economy work less efficiently
Our key policy implication is that restoring allocative efficiency
–and preparing institutional arrangements that facilitate rapid reallocation in times of stress
–is critical for sustaining economic capacity, defense, and national security.

The Allocative Cost of War - Marginal REVOLUTION
Why is war so economically costly? Our answer is that modern war lowers output not only by destroying productive factors, but also by making the surviving economy work less efficiently. Using uniquely comprehensive firm-level data collected during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, we document a dramatic collapse in allocative productivity in Ukraine. To […]

Cowboys Say Key ‘Heavy Lifting’ Role Goes to 3rd-Year Starter for Week 1 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/demarvion-overshown-defense-green-dot/

ICYMI (because I did), Automattic’s board put Mullenweg on paid leave from his CEO job.
https://adrianroselli.com/2019/05/a-model-for-wordpress-accessibility.html#Update09 (anchor link)
Keeps his board position, ownership, and is still lead…

A Model for WordPress Accessibility
I am going to propose a way to increase the overall accessibility of the WordPress ecosystem. It requires acknowledging some mistakes and using those as the base for building a better platform. I long for a world where a metric for featuring #WordPress themes and plugins in the repo is…

Well said,
"Models will keep getting cheaper and better. Your competitor gets the same discount, so it buys you nothing. The durable edge is the data you have organized and can trust, testing you actually run, and people who can tell when a confident answer is still wrong."
#AI