Nov 12, 2026
On Nov. 3, North Dakota, where Trump won 67% of the vote in 2024, voted on free breakfast and lunch for every public-school kid. It lost by 2,889 votes, and it ran ahead of the Democrat on the same ballot in all 53 counties.
Oct 27, 2026
I built a tracker for what US school districts actually serve kids. Then I found out that 20 of the 25 biggest districts publish their menus through two apps whose terms of use, as best I can read them, rule out collecting and republishing them.
Oct 14, 2026
Journal Safari #7. DeepMind's AlphaGenome reads a megabase of DNA, predicts thousands of genomic tracks, and matches or beats the strongest competing model on 25 of 26 variant tests, mostly by a little. It calls the direction of a variant's effect far better than the size, which makes it a scanner rather than a verdict, and a decent preview of where AI in biology is right now.