The Missing General: Neil McCasland, UFO Claims and an Unfolding Mystery
Two weeks have now passed since retired U.S. Air Force General William ‘Neil’ McCasland vanished from the edge of Albuquerque, and the facts, such as they are, remain spare, cold and strangely…
The freedom stack
There is a sentence near the beginning of Arielle Roth’s remarks to the Media Institute’s Communications Forum luncheon, delivered in Washington on 25 February, that is worth sitting…
cognitive security
This is a follow-up from my previous post about AI as an economic weapon. If you haven't read it, I suggest that you do before proceeding.AI as economic warfarePeople often ask me how I feel…
Updates OpenTK: alerts voor antwoorden op kamervragen, betere kamerstukdossiers en meer!
Hallo allemaal, Vorige maand mailde ik over wat verbeteringen, waaronder dat als kamerstukken verwijzen naar andere kamerstukken, OpenTK daar nu klikbare links van maakt. Hier is een boel fanmail…
Buying a new camera
After a very quiet photography year 2024 I saw that there was a »march against the right« scheduled in my city. Since I really enjoy photographing protests I thought it would be a good opportunity to…
PCI Pays Property Tax. A Lot of It, Actually.
Was dead-ending 2nd Avenue a mistake, given the property tax volcano that is PCI? (Truth in blogging disclosure: Your author is a frequent visitor to the Physicians Clinic of Iowa medical mall,…
Agentic AI is a new liability problem. Our legal system is not ready for it.
The AI industry is in a building frenzy. Agentic systems are being deployed faster than anyone can count. The conversation right now is almost solely focused on the benefits agentic AI can deliver.…
The Aleb judgment on ‘safe third countries’ in asylum law: the CJEU’s answer to EU legislative amendments?
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SOS: Who’s Saving Our Soils?
Have you heard of the EU Soil Strategy for 2030? It was launched in November 2021 as part of the European Green Deal, and its first law, the Soil Monitoring Law, went into force in December 2025. But…
The war in Iran is a strategic blunder
Sixteen days in and Iran is waging asymmetric warfare exactly the way one would expect: decentralized resistance, with military units operating independently to inflict economic pain on the US and…
The Logician's Swindle
What makes a puzzle annoying ? When is solving a problem rewarding, and when is finding out the answer just frustrating ? If we could answer this, we might get a long way towards making the world a…
No. 71: Commission Guidance on the CRA - Placing on the Market
The CRA guidance treats placing on the market differently for standalone software and embedded systems. Longer support periods and workarounds cause higher costs for machine and device manufacturers.…
Florida’s Fight Over Preservation
2026 is shaping up to be a tectonic shift in the politics of preservation here in Florida. There are forces at work to remove the meager support historic preservation in Florida has enjoyed since the…
A Necessary Gerrymander
The Supreme Court of Virginia will determine whether voters can change congressional maps before midterm elections. Republicans, including two incumbents in the Shenandoah valley, have sued to stop…
Who is behind Astel Ltd?
This Guest blog from Alan Brown is the first of two which question whether the two transparency regimes operating in Scotland – the Register of Persons Holding a Controlled Interest in Land…
The Federal Government’s Assumption of State Debts
           Many expenses incurred in the American Revolution by the colonists were borne by colonial governments rather than the Continental…
Moon Monday #266: Current mission updates and future governance questions
* On February 25, NASA rolled back the SLS rocket and its attached Orion spacecraft from the vehicle’s launchpad at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to its assembly building about seven…
New Developments in Privacy and AI Law – Video
Watch Daniel Solove and Omer Tene (Goodwin) discuss the latest developments in privacy and AI law. Subscribe To Prof. Solove’s YouTube Channel Privacy Training Privacy Law Fundamentals Book The…
DMV wants to upload California drivers license data to the national REAL-ID database
The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has requested more than $55 million in additional funding for costs related to uploading information about every California drivers license or…
The BIP
The ordinals BIP pull request was closed on March 4th, 2026 after being open for over three years. I tried to respond to all topical comments and criticisms, which was made slightly challenging by…
Canada is about to enforce mass surveillance
Last week, Bill C-22 was introduced in Canada. The bill addresses two topics: law enforcement access to personal data held by communication providers (like ISPs and wireless carriers) and building…
The Pull Request That Should Govern You: FreeBSD Discipline, Coreboot Integrity, and the Emoji Law of Timeline Ω-7
In Timeline Ω-12, laws are passed like bad PRs: no description, no tests, no reviewers, merged by the author, pushed directly to main. Meanwhile FreeBSD requires a mentor, a mailing list thread, and…
LLMs as Raw Prediction Models
Turning off web search and tools to see how Gemini analyzes the Iran war using only its training data.
Our visa to green card journey
From H-1B1 to O-1 to approved EB-1A and EB-2 NIW, and what it took to build a shared life in the U.S.
Weekly digest 57
Monday, March 9, 2026 0:47: Weekly digest 56: https://thetangent.space/2026/digest56/ 8:00: Time for a stressful day at work of my own making 9:14: Oh, it's sorted. Cool Tuesday, March 10, 2026…
China pivot
Europe would be well-advised to pivot more quickly towards China from the US. China is far more reliable than the United States.
Curtis Yarvin Compares Africans to Cattle, Cuddles A Soros
Curtis Yarvin, the Dark Enlightenment guru beloved by Peter Thiel and JD Vance, compares Africans to cattle and befriends a Soros
Radio and Repression in Stalin’s Soviet Union
Thoughts on "Transmitting Terror."
My Thoughts on Epstein Files
I have watched an one hour documentry about epstein files yesterday, and I want to write down my thoughts. This is going to be my first post on politics (can you call it politics? its more of a true…
Unintended Consequences
We appear to be living in a world currently beset by unintended consequences, or at least a world in which the main proponent does not seem to have thought about the consequences the rest of us now…
F2F #78: Moving to Claude
For the past years, I’ve relied heavily on ChatGPT for writing, brainstorming, and coding help, but over time its generic tone, weak long‑form reasoning, and unreliable integrations started to show -…
The Lunch Lady is Not the Story
Two arrests were announced on the same day by a Florida sheriff’s office — both involving its own employees.
From spy agency to jailbreak tool: how a stolen American exploit kit exposed Apple's security blind spot
A US defence contractor's iPhone hacking tools were sold to a Russian broker, weaponised by Chinese criminals, and repurposed by teenage jailbreakers in under twelve months
"Bombs, Bargains, and a Strategy That Isn’t One" or “War, Oil, and Unintended Consequences”
Just read an op-ed piece in The Telegraph entitled Trump’s plan makes perfect sense, and it’s working and I have my own opinions. The writer opines Trump is doing an “Art of the Deal”…
Newsletter Issue #3
Optro Rebrand, UK Gov Cyber Fix Times, Insider Threat Teams, UAE AI Guidance, & Enterprise AI Risks.
New Thoughtpiece: Demanding Perfection is Political
By now even the people most inclined to give Aristotle a solid pass would probably begrudgingly all admit he wasn't wrong or exaggerating when he commented about people being political animals, even…
Development is political
Test your goddamn inputs people
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