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The Santa Barbara City Council passed a temporary rent freeze
in a 4-3 vote on Tuesday,
putting a halt on rent increases for up to a year
while the City Council works toward drafting a more permanent rent stabilization ordinance
to be considered later in 2026. 
The rent increase moratorium will be officially adopted next week
and would be effective 30 days later.
The council failed to get the fifth vote needed to qualify for an urgency ordinance,

Santa Barbara City Council Passes Temporary Rent Freeze
Council will adopt a moratorium on rent increases while the city drafts a permanent rent cap.

I missed this one:
#12886 [css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12886
Essentially a discussion how responsive text can satisfy 1.4.4, especially in this fit-to-container pitch from Google.
I added a comment …

[css-fonts-5] Text Fitting: Default scaling limit · Issue #12886 · w3c/csswg-drafts
In the original issue we received valuable feedback that a native fit-to-width solution can potentially introduce a simple way for authors to violate Success Criterion 1.4.4 Resize Text, in the sam...

NFL mock drafts keep connecting the Raiders to the Heisman winner https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/07/nfl-mock-drafts-keep-connecting-the-raiders-to-the-heisman-winner/

About 60% of the Reuters newsroom uses AI tools, including one that suggests what to cover based on press releases and another that creates first drafts (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/inside-reuters-agentic-ai-video-experiment/

Inside Reuters’ agentic AI video experiment 
Reuters is experimenting with using an AI agent to speed up its video production process, and hired its first AI TV producer.

2 Early Cowboys Mock Drafts: You Vote https://insidethestar.com/2-early-cowboys-mock-drafts-you-vote

Reclaiming the human mind 🧠
In our latest #GEANTCybersecurity expert article, Panayiota Smyrli (Digital Security Authority) examines a quiet shift: as automation grows, our critical thinking shrinks.
AI drafts our ideas, finishes our sentences, and even nudges our decisions.
Panayiota invites us to step back, slow down, & reintroduce small mental challenges: doing t…

Remember how grumpy I was with CSS making things `inert` (for CSS carousels)?
Well, CSSWG is doubling down, using it to justify more wrongness.
Brian notes the false equivalency:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/13040#issuecomment-3487102861

[css-ui] `interactivity: focusable` · Issue #13040 · w3c/csswg-drafts
Motivation The ability to make elements focusable via CSS has come up before by @frivoal. There is already precedent in controlling focusability via CSS, just not directly, but as a side effect of ...

2026 NFL mock draft: New team takes over No. 1 pick in updated first-round projections after Week 14

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2026-nfl-mock-draft-updated-first-round/

…a bio hacking project that measures time and caffeination level where if I haven't hit the magical late-enough-or-caffeinated-enough level, it silently puts all posts and outbound mails into send-later drafts instead of sending.
Maybe including this one.

Going into 2026 with only 7 potential blog post ideas sitting as drafts. Not bad. Might be a record 🤯
#blogs #blogging #writing

The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every "Best of" compilation, the discarded drafts, the love letters to lost eras, and I fed the entire body of work into the AI maw. My digital soul, offered up for digestion and analysis...

The Replicated Man: AI and the Ghost in the Archive | David Boles, Blogs
I finally did it. I committed the act of digital suicide. It was a gesture of clinical curiosity and personal dread. I took twenty years of archives, every Boles Blogs entry, every “Best of&#…

The key questions that will shape fantasy football drafts in 2026 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6930364/2025/12/31/the-key-questions-that-will-shape-fantasy-football-drafts-in-2026/

The Draft Value Chart Doesn’t Lie: Dallas Shouldn’t Trade Pick 25 https://insidethestar.com/the-draft-value-chart-doesnt-lie-dallas-shouldnt-trade-pick-25

"The First Draft of Anything Is Shit" / Hemingway via Samuelson?
#quote #hemingway #writingcommunity

Some people work their #email in such a way as to strive for no unread email at the end of the day. Amateurs.
What I strive for is no unsent drafts by the end of the day. I hate getting to 4PM with half a dozen half-finished responses...

@… But I do want to save the draft, but only its latest version. At the moment it saves all previous edits as separate drafts that are not intended to be sent.

The Raiders are gifted a shot at their future QB in new wave of mock drafts https://raiderramble.com/2025/12/28/the-raiders-are-gifted-a-shot-at-their-future-qb-in-new-wave-of-mock-drafts/

All four reporters at Suncoast Searchlight, a nonprofit news site, accused their EIC of using generative AI tools without disclosure; one reporter was fired (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/florida-no…

Florida nonprofit news reporters ask board to investigate their editor’s AI use
Suncoast Searchlight’s four reporters told the board their editor-in-chief was using AI editing tools and inserting hallucinations into drafts. The next day, one of the reporters was fired.