I’ve been catching up on The Diplomat on Netflix the past couple weeks. Kari Russell is wonderful, as expected. But then Allison freakin’ Janney shows up and boom, next level achieved.

2025 Reads: If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future by Lepore, Jill 📚

And just like that, the middle kid’s car is packed and they are headed back to college for year 2. Last year was a family trip for move-in; this year we’re just waving goodbye from our doorstep. I don’t think it really gets any easier.

The emcee here at AI4 gives off big early-season Roman Roy vibes. It’s so awkward.

I’m in Las Vegas this week attending the AI4 conference. First time in Vegas. And wild to see 8000 people here talking and learning about aspects of AI.

Guess it was our turn for torrential rain this morning: 2.75” in the past two hours. Looks like it’s done now.

A reminder that 5 years ago today was the Iowa derecho that knocked out our power for almost two weeks. Let’s not do that again.

#iawx

I get that the Cubs are blowing out the Cardinals, but the Fox announcers are just insufferable and the kid umpire in the stands needs to go home and ump some tee ball.

Submitted a support email for Castro watch behavior, got an email back within 15 minutes acknowledging it’s a bug and that it should be fixed very soon. Encouraging support responsiveness!

Last night I was all shiny about the Castro podcast app. This morning on my run I found one annoyance: while it would pause the podcast for workout prompts as expected, it didn’t restart the podcast after the workout prompt was done. Feels like an obvious miss.

Wow, so is Fastmail’s web interface hosed up this morning for everyone else, or is it just me?

Read emails aren’t visible in the web view. A check box shows up so that you know there’s logically something there, but it’s not visible or selectable.