This is legitimately chilling. tldr: US financial accounts are guarded like nuclear codes. Our adversaries would sell their souls to know, say, who’s on the CIA payroll and who all we do business with. That info is now likely to be compromised. (via Kottke) DOGE’s Cyberattack Against America https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/11/doge-cyberattack-united-states-treasury/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=ZG9nZS1jeWJlcmF0dGFjay11bml0ZWQtc3RhdGVzLXRyZWFzdXJ5&pid=PNILoiIJgqmxsxl

This episode of the Ezra Klein Show podcast is the most reasonable and intelligent political conversation I’ve heard in a long time. Sharp questions and really smart answers, along with some good takes on basic civics. If you want to make a bit of sense of the current moment, have a listen. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-yuval-levin.html

This is a really nice profile of Tommie Burton, the anthem singer at the Kraken hockey games. The fans genuinely appreciate him, and it seems the feeling is mutual. https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/kraken/krakens-unlikely-anthem-singer-has-gig-bigger-than-i-could-ever-have-imagined/

A perfect fall evening on the University of Washington campus, looking south from Red Square at Mt. Rainier in the distance.

This is sad: the Living Computer Museum is closing for good. This was such a great place, filled with everything from old mainframes to Apple IIs to NeXT boxes to C64s… just about anything you could think of. And most of them you could actually touch and use! Losing this museum is a real bummer. https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/paul-allens-living-computers-museum-labs-will-close-permanently/

Information Architecture in the Age of AI, Part 4: The IA-powered AI Future: https://www.stumax.com/2024/06/11/information-architecture-in.html

Information Architecture in the Age of AI, Part 3: The Problems With GenAI: https://www.stumax.com/2024/06/03/information-architecture-in.html

Information Architecture in the Age of AI, Part 2: The Benefits of Generative AI: https://www.stumax.com/2024/05/30/information-architecture-in.html

Information Architecture in the Age of AI, Part 1: The Many Faces of AI : https://www.stumax.com/2024/05/28/information-architecture-in.html