Data, Dirt, and Agentic AI: Why I Coded a Gardening App
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Battling grocery monopolies, testing AI coding agents, and planting a mutant sweet potato with my three-year-old.
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If 3.5% of Us Protest, We Win
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We need 11.9 million people to show up to the No Kings protests this weekend. Here is the data on why nonviolent resistance actually works.
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The Elephant and the Rider: What My Conservative Friend Back Home Taught Me About the ICE Protests
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Today and tomorrow, thousands of Americans are protesting ICE. My conservative friend back home thinks they're crazy. I think he's missing something important—and a book about moral psychology might explain why we're both a little bit right.
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Zohran's Math: Can Taxing the 1% Really Pay for Free Buses, Childcare, and Rent Freezes?
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NYC's mayor-elect wants to tax millionaires 2% more and raise corporate taxes. I crunched the numbers – and dreamed bigger.
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Teaching AI Agents to YOLO Responsibly
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I built a security wrapper so AI coding agents can run wild in Docker containers without accidentally joining a botnet or deleting your life's work.
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Science is Cool... But Have You Tried Deporting People?
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A nation's budget reveals its priorities. Ours says we'd rather build a deportation machine than cure diseases or invent the future.
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Save Mr. Stephen!
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Sport a mustache for a month. Let's save Colbert from CBS's cowardly cancellation.
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Voulez Vous Coucher Avec, Une Convicted Felon, Ce Soir?
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Thoughts on Cory Booker's disappointing vote to confirm Charles Kushner as French Ambassador.
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My Own 'Can't Let It Go': Trump, the Press, and Golden Lapel Pins
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A perspective on John Oliver's recent segment on the White House Press Pool and golden lapel pins.
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