The overall weighted-average tariff is 29%. The highest in over 100 years. Bigger than Smoot-Hawley.

Let’s be clear… Using this calculation is batshit insane.

I just got off the phone with a business owner in Mississippi. He’s pumped millions into a business distributing a product he imports from China. His contract with the company prevents him from manufacturing it in the U.S. He also has contracts with a number of large retailers

TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands that are entirely populated by penguins? BROOKE ROLLINS: C'mon Jake. Whatever. Listen, the people that are leading this are serious,

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BYU PhD student Suguru Onda just had his student visa revoked without notice. He’s being told to go back to Japan within 15 days because of his alleged criminal history. But he only has two speeding tickets and a fishing citation from 2019 that was dismissed. KSL NewsRadio

“I don’t think I ever met him”

Happy Pride Month.

LAPD units responding from across the city to DTLA for protests at the federal building.

Two new LLMs trained entirely on public domain or openly licensed text! I got the 2T one running locally on my Mac after porting it to MLX - notes on that here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/7/com…

There is a book on Amazon called "Modern AI Revolution" by Geoffrey Hinton. This is a scam. It has nothing to do with me and I wish Amazon would remove it.

"hey gab, read me a bedtime story" "once upon a time, this fuckin robot..."

To avoid conflicts, I wouldn't even let Obama refinance his family home when I was his ethics czar Now Trump is hoovering in hundreds of millions in violation of the law! That's a threat to our national security as I discussed MSNBC

How many times I gotta blow this horn?

Less is More: A Counterintuitive Approach to Agentic Coding linkedin.com/pulse/less-mor… via LinkedIn

I think you can also strike out the first seven words. With that behaviour, it doesn't matter what your beliefs are.

I've had preview access to GPT-5 for a couple of weeks, so I have a lot to say about it. Here's my first post, focusing just on core characteristics, pricing (it's VERY competitively priced) and interesting details from the GPT-5 system card simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/gpt…

Struggling to pinpoint why your #PostgreSQL query is slow? EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) gives the execution plan, but complex plans can hide performance clues. 🧠Plan visualizers save the day! What are your favorite tools for visualizing & optimizing Postgres query plans?

My resignation letter from CDC. Dear Dr. Houry, I am writing to formally resign from my position as Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), effective August 28, 2025, close of business.

Instructions/reasoning are now everywhere in retrieval - we want embeddings to do it all! 🚀 But... is it even possible? 🤔 Turns out, it's not possible for single-vector models 😱 theoretically and empirically! To make it obvious we OSS a simple eval SoTA models flop on! 🧵