# morning brief (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover morning brief. Page: Feed: --- ## [Friday News Brief: Remote plane crash takes 8 lives, James O’Keefe tests Alaska’s voting](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/friday-news-brief-remote-plane-crash) _2026-08-21 · The Alaska Story_ Alaska State Fair is underway, dirty politics breadcrumbs lead to Laborers 341, Mukluk fire in Tok is still burning, and a lot more news ## [Wednesday News Brief: Nick Begich, Dan Sullivan, Tom Begich, Bernadette Wilson](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/wednesday-news-brief-nick-begich) _2026-08-19 · The Alaska Story_ Mary Peltola and Decoy Dan sail into November general election, but meanwhile the Department of Justice has issued subpoenas ## [Election Day Extra News Brief: Fire in Tok, new polling data. Polls open at 7 am](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/election-day-extra-news-brief-fire) _2026-08-18 · The Alaska Story_ Happy birthday, Wally Hickel, who would be 107 years old today. ## [Monday News Brief: They are lining up to vote in droves. Are you going to vote, too?](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/monday-news-brief-they-are-lining) _2026-08-17 · The Alaska Story_ Peltola's campaign in meltdown mode, as she and Anton reportedly part ways ## [Friday News Brief: Above the noise with DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/friday-news-brief-above-the-noise) _2026-08-14 · The Alaska Story_ The special session fizzles, Mary Peltola gets an unhelpful endorsement, Juneau floodwaters drop, early voting surges, you can still vote early this weekend ## [Wednesday News Brief: Suicide Basin slushes over top, rocks bury Klondike Highway](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/wednesday-news-brief-suicide-basin) _2026-08-12 · The Alaska Story_ With less than a week until the primary election ends, what do the poll aggregators and forecasters say about the governor's race? ## [Monday News Brief: Peltola's radical record, Alaska schools reopen, gasline stalls again](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/monday-news-brief-peltolas-radical) _2026-08-10 · The Alaska Story_ One week and a day left until the Alaska primary is over and the mailbox campaign flyer avalanche ends ## [Friday News Brief: Murkowski opposes Blanche for Attorney General](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/friday-news-brief-murkowski-opposes) _2026-08-07 · The Alaska Story_ Rep. Jamie Allard reminds us why we recognize 💜 Purple Heart Day 💜 today ## [Wednesday News Brief: Who's supplying the dark money that's behind Bill Hill?](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/wednesday-news-brief-whos-supplying) _2026-08-05 · The Alaska Story_ No-network candidate appeared out of nowhere, suddenly has millions. So dark, that money, all connected to George Soros. ## [Monday News Brief: Voting begins today in Alaska](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/monday-news-brief-voting-begins-today) _2026-08-03 · The Alaska Story_ Elon Musk's PAC is going to help get out the vote in Alaska, why did Bill Maher say he would rather vote for Sarah Palin? ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bsRk3EavjIBi) _2026-08-03 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Friday News Brief: Anchorage's mayor speaks out on gasline, irritating fellow Democrats](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/friday-news-brief-anchorages-mayor) _2026-07-31 · The Alaska Story_ Record low temperatures set in Kodiak and Utqiagvik. Speaking of cold, only Mary Peltola could say the Working Families Tax Cut of 2017 was bad for Alaska families. ## [Wednesday News Brief: Anthropic was one strike, but JKT is now tied to another scandal](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/wednesday-news-brief-anthropic-was) _2026-07-29 · The Alaska Story_ What a tangled web he weaves ## [Monday News Brief: Anthropic's Alaska takeover bet is on JKT](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/monday-news-brief-anthropics-alaska) _2026-07-27 · The Alaska Story_ Poised to take over state by buying a governorship? Also, Ballot Measure 1 needs some explaining, as it's not as simple as the Democrats are saying ## [Friday News Brief: Flying season in Alaska. Buckle up and watch the video.](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/friday-news-brief-flying-season-in) _2026-07-24 · The Alaska Story_ Plus, why did Lisa Murkowski suddenly leave DC for Alaska 'family emergency'? And our Number of the Day is "1." Why? (Hint: Mar-a-Lago.). ## [Wednesday News Brief: Campaign finance edition, and is Palin helping Peltola again?](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/wednesday-news-brief-campaign-finance) _2026-07-22 · The Alaska Story_ Watch video of a gal throwing poop on the Governor's House. She's now famous! ## [Monday News Brief: House Speaker Johnson heads to Alaska in August](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/monday-news-brief-house-speaker-johnson) _2026-07-20 · The Alaska Story_ He'll crisscross Southcentral talking up the record-setting accomplishments of Alaska Congressman Nick Begich ## [Friday morning brief: Governor calls out 'Bulls\*t' Bill Wielechowski, Giessel](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/friday-morning-brief-governor-calls) _2026-07-17 · The Alaska Story_ Groundhog Day for the no-gas-for-you Legislature: Another gasline special session is queued up for July 27 ## [Midweek morning brief: What one new trick does the Alaska Senate have in store?](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/midweek-morning-brief-what-one-new) _2026-07-15 · The Alaska Story_ A novel way to kill the gasline? And speaking of death cult, the death cult with an Alaska-born-and-raised trans leader is the subject of a new book ## [Monday Morning Brief: Questions surround Mary Peltola's residency](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/monday-morning-brief-questions-surround) _2026-07-13 · The Alaska Story_ An election loophole that was news to us and are you bearish or bullish on the Legislature getting gasline legislation done this week? ## [Friday Morning Brief: Decoy Dan wants taxpayers to foot his legal bill](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/friday-morning-brief-decoy-dan-wants) _2026-07-10 · The Alaska Story_ Dipnetting starts in Kenai. Newsweek discovers Alaska governor's race... ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/tZbjybQWpktQ) _2026-07-10 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Wednesday: The cavalry arrives, the FBI moves in, and the polls continue to underestimate us](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/wednesday-the-cavalry-arrives-the) _2026-07-08 · The Alaska Story_ Zuckerberg's yacht(s) are in Auke Bay and Eaglecrest has a new ski area manager ## [Presidential pardon, EagleExit, a new rendition of the salmon toss (Seward Highway style)](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/presidential-pardon-eagleexit-a-new) _2026-07-06 · The Alaska Story_ And then there was that stray 'tornado' funnel cloud in the Interior to cap off Independence Day ## [If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat](https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/07/05/taste/) _2026-07-05 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ A reflection on taste, style, attention, and why AI makes the ability to notice matter more than ever. ## [Freedom Friday: Happy Birthday, America!](https://alaskastory.substack.com/p/freedom-friday-happy-birthday-america) _2026-07-03 · The Alaska Story_ Decoy Dan may draw a federal investigation over civil rights violation ## [Two kinds of scheduled work in Codex](https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/06/28/two-kinds-of-scheduled-work-in-codex/) _2026-06-28 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ A simple rule for choosing between Scheduled Tasks and Scheduled Messages in Codex. ## [Three Ways Codex Can Use a Computer](https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/06/16/three-ways-codex-can-use-a-computer/) _2026-06-16 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ When to use Computer Use, Chrome, or the in-app browser in Codex. ## [Six levels of complexity in a Codex morning brief](https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/05/18/six-levels-of-complexity-of-an-ai-powered-morning-brief-with-codex/) _2026-05-18 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ A simple way to teach Codex through an AI-powered morning brief that grows into automations, project threads, drafted work, and memory vaults. ## [Codex-maxxing](https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/05/10/codex-maxxing/) _2026-05-10 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ How I use Codex as a place where long-running work can live. ## [What Music Do You Listen To?](https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/04/02/what-music-do-you-listen-to/) _2026-04-02 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ My top albums and artists from Spotify — and what the mix actually says about taste. ## [Sunsetting 567 Labs and Open Sourcing the Course Content](https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/02/02/sunsetting-567-labs/) _2026-02-02 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ Sunsetting 567 Labs, closing the courses today, and open sourcing the written content from transcripts as ebooks. ## [Install Manifest V3 Extension (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CGLybAVG9Nq2) _2026-02-01 · **Sponsored**_ Get this Manifest V3 extension from the official TronBrowser Store listing. ## [Things](https://jxnl.co/writing/2026/01/24/things/) _2026-01-24 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ A list of things I've been using and plan to use. ## [Do Your Engineers Know How to Leverage AI?](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/do-your-engineers-know-how-to-leverage-ai/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu · Jason Liu_ A letter to the readers of the AI Coding Accelerator. ## [Coding Agents Speaker Series: Lessons from Industry Leaders](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/coding-series-index/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ Deep insights from the teams behind Devin, Amp, Cline, and Augment on building effective coding agents. Learn why simple approaches are winning over complex architectures in autonomous coding systems. ## [RAG Master Series: Complete Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/rag-series-index/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ Comprehensive guide to building, improving, and scaling RAG systems. From fundamentals to advanced enterprise implementations with real-world examples and proven strategies. ## [Domain Experts: The Lever for Vertical AI](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/domain-experts-the-lever-for-vertical-ai/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ How to successfully apply LLMs in specialized industries by building domain‑expert review loops, augmenting prompts with expert knowledge, and earning customer trust. ## [Text Chunking Strategies for RAG Applications](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/text-chunking-strategies-for-rag-applications/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ Technical session with Anton from ChromaDB on text chunking fundamentals, evaluation methods, and practical tips for improving retrieval performance ## [Why Grep Beat Embeddings in Our SWE-Bench Agent (Lessons from Augment)](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/why-grep-beat-embeddings-in-our-swe-bench-agent-lessons-from-augment/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ Insights from Colin Flaherty on building autonomous coding agents and how agentic approaches reshape retrieval-augmented generation systems. ## [Why Cognition does not use multi-agent systems](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/why-cognition-does-not-use-multi-agent-systems/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ A deep dive into why multi-agent systems might not be the optimal approach for coding contexts, exploring context engineering, challenges of context passing between agents, and how single agents with proper context management can outperform multi-agent setups. ## [Stop Trusting MTEB Rankings (Kelly Hong, Chroma)](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/stop-trusting-mteb-rankings-kelly-hong-chroma/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ A deep dive into generative benchmarking - creating custom evaluation sets from your own data to better assess embedding model performance. ## [How Extend Achieves 95%+ Document Automation (Lessons from Eli Badgio)](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/how-extend-achieves-95-document-automation-lessons-from-eli-badgio/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ Insights from Eli Badgio, CTO of Extend, on mapping document workflows, building task-specific evaluations, and implementing partial automation with human-in-the-loop approaches for 95%+ extraction accuracy. ## [The 12% RAG Performance Boost You're Missing (Ayush, LanceDB)](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/the-12-rag-performance-boost-youre-missing-ayush-lancedb/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ Practical approaches to enhancing retrieval quality through fine-tuning, re-ranking, and understanding trade-offs in RAG systems ## [Why Glean Builds Custom Embedding Models for Every Customer](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/why-glean-builds-custom-embedding-models-for-every-customer/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ How Glean achieves 20% search performance improvements through customer-specific embedding models, unified data architecture, and smart feedback loops that most enterprise AI companies are missing. ## [Lexical Search in RAG Applications](https://jxnl.co/writing/2025/09/11/lexical-search-in-rag-applications/) _2025-09-11 · Jason Liu_ Guest lecture with John Berryman on traditional search techniques, their application in RAG systems, and how lexical search complements semantic search