Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit.

People Are Slowly Realizing Their Auto Insurance Rates Are Skyrocketing Because Their Car Is Covertly Spying On Them.

Best Practices for Working with Large Language Models.

According to Google the NYT ran 52 stories containing the quote: "A sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."

In Race to Build A.I., Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade.

2024 Tesla Cybertruck vs. Rivian R1T vs. Ford F-150 Lightning.

Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Many of Them.

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco.

Tesla Autopilot investigation closed after feds find 13 fatal crashes related to misuse.

Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media.

Roy Cohn: “Don't tell me what the law is, tell me who the judge is."

What Happened to “The Shining” Actress Shelly Duvall.

I asked ChatGPT to write a report, and got back a good list with background info, never could have gotten it from a journalist (too conflicted, too lazy, often outright corrupt) or Wikipedia (controlled by trolls).

Concert promoter Peter Shapiro takes over at Bearsville Theater.

Arizona fake electors indicted: Kris Mayes unveils grand jury charges.

Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction Is Overturned.

Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers.

Sidenotes.

My Dinner With Andreessen.

Meta AI is a serious ChatGPT rival.

Recommend this podcast with Joe Trippi explaining how RFK is a missile from Trump aimed at Biden. Pretty convincing.

Does the O'Reilly "Radar" site have a feed? I'd like to subscribe.

Inside Dems' thinking on saving Mike Johnson from an ouster vote.

I would have hired Doug Engelbart

Happy 'Inject Bleach To Fight Covid' Day!

Tesla Earnings Report: Revenue Fell to $21.3 Billion, Adding to Strategy Concerns.

NBA 2023-24 season awards finalists.

Will GenAI Kill The Web?

Ten Peter Gabriel songs.

76ers' Tyrese Maxey questionable for Game 2 vs. Knicks; series odds shift.

Columbia in crisis, again.

And similarly, over on Feedland.com, due to necessary and understandable steps in the evolution of the product, those who subscribed to aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 6101 are no longer getting updates with my new writing on the Old School blog. The new feed is aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 10029 . . . So be it.

And similarly, over on Feedland.com, due to necessary and understandable steps in the evolution of the product, those who subscribed to aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 6101 are no longer getting updates with my new writing on the Old School blog. The new feed is aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 10029 . . . So be it.

And similarly, over on Feedland.com, due to necessary and understandable steps in the evolution of the product, those who subscribed to aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 6101 are no longer getting updates with my new writing on the Old School blog. The new feed is aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 10029 . . . So be it.

Ghost announces it will support ActivityPub and "become part of the largest open publishing network in the world." I don't think that's true. Just sayin. And size isn't the only thing that matters, btw. 😀

And similarly, over on Feedland.com, due to necessary and understandable steps in the evolution of the product, those who subscribed to aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 6101 are no longer getting updates with my new writing on the Old School blog. The new feed is aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 10029 . . . So be it.

And similarly, over on Feedland.com, due to necessary and understandable steps in the evolution of the product, those who subscribed to aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 6101 are no longer getting updates with my new writing on the Old School blog. The new feed is aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 10029 . . . So be it.

I see that due to early changes to Feedland.org, necessary and understandable steps in the evolution of the product, those who subscribed to aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 556405 are no longer getting updates with my new writing. The new feed is aka Ken Smith / Feed id: 549368 . . . So it goes.

Archives as Commons.

Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

In Utah, the Town of Alta Thinks Small, With a School to Match.

How the push to unseat Johnson could unfold.

Trump Doesn’t Talk About the Pandemic.

All 16 teams in NBA Playoffs, ranked by chances to win 2024 championship.

Flickr Foundation.

ChatGPT is dumber than it looks.

Real software crashes, loses data, is hard to learn and hard to use. But it's a process. We'll make it less shitty. Just watch!

A Fallout fan’s spoiler-laden review of the new TV series.

A New York-style pizza recipe with extraneous information.

Succession star Brian Cox blasts Joaquin Phoenix’s "truly terrible" Napoleon.

Each form of online discussion has a grain to it.

dave.podcatch.com -- my personal podcast station.

Bill Would Strip Secret Service from Trump If Convicted.

Zeldman: The web is an imperfect medium for perfectionists.

We need working together to survive climate change and fascism. It would be good to crack this nut.

PodPress: Podcasting with WordPress.

Facebook has its own ChatGPT called meta.ai.

Creating structure with generative AI.

Kari Lake downplays 1864 abortion law, says Arizonans can travel ‘3 hours’ for procedure.

We can collaborate with the machines, and maybe that will unlock collaboration between humans.

Pretty sure we knew this on January 7. It would be pretty amazing if the president couldn't get the Secretary of Defense on the phone.

Ye Olde Blogroll.

NPR: The public broadcaster’s problems are deeper than “wokeness.”

UWS' Absolute Bagels Line Changes Direction.

Jon Stewart on Iran, Israel, and Trump’s Hush Money Trial.

Protest shuts down Golden Gate Bridge.

Ripley Ending Explained, What Happens to Tom Ripley?

A directory of completed audio fiction.

Unlocking the Potential of Fiction Podcasts: A Call to Podcast App Developers.

Axios CEO Believes AI Will 'Eviscerate the Unprepared' Among Media Companies.

There are a lot of things that Mastodon & ActivityPub can’t do.

There are a lot of things that Mastodon & ActivityPub can’t do.

Einstein's Famous "God Letter."

How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future.

The eight best bagels in NYC, according to the city's Bagel Ambassador. (They got the #1 bagel place right, it's in the neighborhood in Queens I grew up in, Utopia Bagels. They are the best in NYC these days imho.)

Librarians fear new penalties, even prison, as activists challenge books.

Ton Zijlstra‘s Editor Is Between a Tiny Little Textbox and a full-blown CMS.

Followgraph for Mastodon.

Russia Is Buying Politicians in Europe. It Is Happening Here Too.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

The History of WordPress from 2003 - 2024.

Trump tells Arizona Legislature to act after GOP blocks bills to repeal 1864 abortion ban.

Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty.

Reporters don’t own the facts they report. That is when they actually report facts.

OpenAI makes ChatGPT ‘more direct, less verbose.’

‘Civil War’ Review: We Have Met the Enemy and It Is Us. Again.

So this ticking time bomb was sitting there all the time the journalists were talking about how Biden is too old to win the election with Trump. Biden was never the issue, the issue was the freaking supreme freaking court.

Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI.

The explanation of "podping" fails to mention rssCloud, which predates all of this stuff.

This is what it feels like to let Tesla FSD do the driving for you.

This is a post on my test Ghost site.

Matt Mullenweg on Beeper and Texts.

Kari Lake, Then and Now.

Poe introduces a price-per-message revenue model for AI bot creators.

What a total solar eclipse looks like from an airplane.

Beeper is joining Automattic.

Introducing bitly — the incredible professional’s URL-shortener | switchAbit, bit.ly, twitabit central

2008: Introducing bit.ly — the incredible professional’s URL-shortener. A lot of people don't know this was my launch. Unfortunately the product didn't continue on the path I wanted for it.

Scripting News: On Tesla, Nazis, X and the Macintosh of cars.

Tesla made “full self-driving” free for a month. Here’s one owner’s review. Not too far from my own, which I probably should write up.

Elon Musk thinks we'll have AI smarter than any one human by next year. (Were already far beyond that.)

How to Use Google Gemini to Summarize YouTube Videos.

Timelapse eclipse from Buffalo.

The Beatles: Here Comes The Sun.

Trump Bets That Voters Will Buy His Feigned Moderation On Abortion.

Trump's latest position on abortion tells you one thing -- they know it's a very dangerous issue for them.

Aviation vs. Eclipse.

Jerry Grote, Mets Catcher for 1969 World Series, Dies at 81.

Great map of Total Solar Eclipse of 2024 Apr 08. I've been looking for this for weeks. I still wasn't going to drive to see the eclipse. I've seen a total eclipse. Imho its not magical. We have an eclipse every night at sunset. YMMV of course.

The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense.’

Why is the Press Making Trump Seem More Normal?

There are relatively affordable rooms in Rochester NY, which is in the path of the full eclipse.

'Ripley' returns in black and white — and is so much better for it.

House Republicans Are Amplifying Russian Propaganda. (This is hardly news. All the polling they do, wouldn't their time be better spent focusing on facts today, and forget about magic thinking and polling.)

Ted Turner: I bet you’re all wondering what it feels like to be a billionaire. It’s disappointing really. I’ve learned that great wealth isn’t nearly as good as average sex.

I can't recall ever receiving spam as a result of subscribing to a podcast feed, and I have never gotten messages when I unsub begging me to come back.

Poor misunderstood Nazis.

The Washington press corps doesn’t have a freaking clue.

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe.

Tens of Thousands Rally Against Netanyahu.

I imported Molly White's OPML file into FeedLand, here's the resulting feed list. Tomorrow I'll get it to display as a blogroll. Interop is the best.

Update: Molly White's blogroll does have an OPML file. I ❤️ interop.

Electric charging on NYS Thruway. I can't imagine it can handle the traffic to and from the eclipse over the next few days.

This is such a great list. I'd love to have it in OPML so I could plug it into FeedLand.

‘Are you better off today than four years ago?’ is the wrong question.

We need a song like this for abortion in the US.

Four Takeaways on the Race to Amass Data for A.I.

When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP.

RSS in JSON.

Nice new blogroll from Molly White.

"blueskyreader" is a simple little app I put together last year, it still works, nicely, and it's an interesting idea imho. I'm not going to get to do this myself anytime soon.

2007: Twitter as coral reef.

A cycling newb tries a cargo e-bike: The user-friendly Maven.

WordPress.com has Studio, a native app for running WordPress locally, and GitHub Deployments.

One thing Twitter is good for — getting support from your cable ISP.

Blinken warns: Israel risks becoming indistinguishable from Hamas if it doesn't protect Gaza civilians.

New York's Pot Legalization 'Disaster' Was Entirely Predictable.

Elon Musk realized he created a badge of shame with blue checks on X.

Doc has the first blogroll on a WordPress blog. We got it working today. Still more CSS issues to work out.

Doc is looking for DALL-E-3.

I've been trying to figure out what ActivityPub does that RSS doesn't.

Item posted by mistake. Please ignore. Thanks!

Item posted by mistake. Please ignore. Thanks!

WordPress.com parent raises $160 million.

Attract Backyard Birds, Not Backyard Bears.

A billionaire helped bring ‘3-Body Problem’ to Netflix. His business partner ensured he never lived to see its premiere.

More people than ever are listening to podcasts, but there never should've been a "podcast industry."

Texas Highways Have Torn Through Communities and Dominated Our Cities.

How I'm filling the Twitter-size hole in my life.

2023: I wondered it there wasn't a position for a lite version of WordPress, a user interface designed for one person, not a group.

Apple wouldn’t let Jon Stewart interview FTC Chair Lina Khan, TV host claims.

The Miseducation of Kara Swisher.

Google Podcasts is gone — and YouTube Music can’t replace it.

Google is the one entity you must trust above all. No way around it.

Google who claims to be looking out for everybody else’s privacy turns out, of course, is the biggest privacy invader that has ever existed.

Yes, Britannica, you can write it this way, softening the focus, blurring the details in that decade of mounting atrocities: "Because she was Jewish, she left Nazi Germany in the summer of 1938 to settle in Sweden." It's not as though she trotted over to a travel agent on her lunch break and casually booked her travel across international borders to safety.

"Why 1984 won't be like 1984."

This might be the first victimless April fool joke I’ve ever seen.

Nine years ago I pleaded with Facebook to support Markdown.

I still want an EZ-Pass for news.

How the Atlantic Went From Broke to Profitable in Three Years.

Tens of thousands of Israeli protesters call for Netanyahu’s removal.

I thought it might be useful to watch a NOVA documentary about AI, but it was just the usual very very old scare story, when the truth of what's happening today is much weirder. It's one thing to imagine the future, another to live it. Too bad they didn't accept the challenge.

Kara Swisher tells other reporters what they want to hear about tech.

Anatomy of a Fall on Hulu is really good.

There aren’t two sides to facts.

Lex Fridman's Podcasts Give Tech CEOs a Friendly Place for PR.

Michael Moore speaks the truth. No one will save us but ourselves. It's time to take responsibility.

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same.

Gore laments rise of ‘artificial insanity’ at Lieberman’s funeral.

Yes, The Republicans Are Fascists.

Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far.

How ultra-Orthodox conscription could destroy Benjamin Netanyahu.

Sam Bankman-Fried 25-year sentence: Why the judge sentenced the founder of FTX so harshly.

These 50 companies have donated over $23 million to election deniers since January 6, 2021.

Jon Stewart Deconstructs Trump’s "Victimless" $450 Million Fraud.

Joe Lieberman, former U.S. senator and VP candidate, has died

Magic Kingdom Authoritarianism.

What an award-winning podcast taught me about podcasting.

Mastodon issues 30-day ultimatum to Trump’s social network over misuse of its code.

Tesla is pushing a free one-month trial of its FSD Beta driver-assistance software to US customers.

15 WordPress Pro Developers You Should Follow in 2024.

Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components. Sounds great. Anyone using it??

Federation is the future of social media, says Bluesky CEO Jay Graber.

Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run.

Actually, the internet's always been this bad.

Why do we always cut Trump a great deal when he's always selling us out. When will he pay?

If you want to watch my blogroll from a mobile device, this is the place to go.

If you wanna watch my blogroll from a mobile device, this is the place to go.

NASA eclipse map.

6 U.S. cities in the 2024 eclipse's path of totality.

Trump’s $454 Million Judgment Is Due.

Led by NBC, U.S. corporate media is learning to live with Trump.

Here is the MetaWeblog API, the common glue that connected editors to blogging systems in the 00s. It was supported by most of the popular systems (not sure if Blogger did).

I had to do a little work on the XML-RPC site and stumbled across this page of links into the 1998 version of the site. The text is all the same, but the style is very 1998. 😍

Steve Wozniak: We're saying 'Oh, you might be tracked by the Chinese'. Well, they learned it from us.

This week's On The Media is a must-listen for how Trump keeps his MAGAs happy.

‘At 80, I’ve discovered a sexual energy I didn’t know I had’

If the Repubs lose the house before 2025, the Dems could in my dreams nuke the filibuster and change the number of Supreme Court justices to 256 (a nice power of 2). Overturn Dobbs, reinstate Roe and 14th Amendment.

If they lose the house before 2025, the Dems could in my dreams nuke the filibuster and change the number of Supreme Court justices to 256 (a nice power of 2). Overturn Dobbs, reinstate Roe and 14th Amendment.

If they lose the house before 2025, the Dems could in my dreams nuke the filibuster and change the number of Supreme Court justices to 256:(a nice power if 2). Overturn Dobbs, reinstate Roe and 14th Amendment.

Fargo's Marge Gunderson Is the Best Coen Brothers Character.

I've started bingeing "3 Body Problem" on Netflix, and two episodes in, I'm loving it.

I know Google doesn't have a heart and it isn't a living thing, but it's bad PR to make that so freaking obvious.

Democrats Would Save Johnson In Return for Ukraine Aid.

2017: Chess champion to miss Saudi Arabia tournament over women's rights.

Scripting News: Why we're lucky WordPress is here and other topics.

On Cloudfest, hosts and WordPress.

Hey Joe, don’t forget that four years ago we had Roe v. Wade.

Hey Joe, don’t forget that four years ago we had Roe v. Wade..

Spray chalk. What a great idea.

Reddit IPO: Share sale values social media firm at $6.4bn.

Nvidia's Omniverse shows the enterprise side of Apple's Vision Pro.

AP, Lenfest Institute open call for Democracy Demo Day presenters.

Oprah, Ozempic and Us.

America is “sleepwalking toward dictatorship,” she warned.

2024 Tesla Cybertruck vs. Rivian R1T vs. Ford F-150 Lightning.

Amazon.com: Opill Daily Oral Contraceptive, Birth Control Pill, Full Prescription Strength, No Prescription Needed, 84 Count.

OTC birth control: Consumers can start ordering Opill online today.

Media entities have this ludicrous trend of disclosing that they have used “AI” on some article or the other. If that is the case, they should disclose they used Google Docs or Microsoft Office and their built-in “grammar” and “spelling” and other features.

NYS Legal Cannabis map.

Tens of millions of Americans have had long COVID, and the number will keep growing.

"I have zero coding skills, but I was able to coax ChatGPT to write a JavaScript tool for blogging."

Re-Creating The New York Times’ Website in Under 30 Minutes Using WordPress.com.

"All of this confirms that when Trump threatens a bloodbath he means a bloodbath." The Bloodbath Candidate - by Timothy Snyder

Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House.

I just updated dave.podcatch.com to use the latest tech.

Endangered Firefox?

Finally got to see the last season of Happy Valley. It was as good as the reviews said it was.

I think it could be reported as fact that trump threatens democracy.

Can you imagine what Trump's credit rating is?

No One Likes the January 6th Rioters.

Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction.

Great point of view from an open source maintainer receiving a huge pull request.

Duke River of News is a FeedLand site.

Why people are falling in love with AI chatbots.

Protests against Putin erupt at polls on last day of Russian election.

Trump warns US will see ‘bloodbath’ if not re-elected.

New Children's Crusade: The Christian Right is Radicalizing Young People.

NYC legal weed: Why legal stores are few and far between.

Om: Why I redesigned my home page.

Brian Lehrer interviews Tracy Bennett who edits Wordle at the NYT.

It’s Time to Unleash Kamala Harris—to Trigger Trump.

So please, dear reporters and editors, try to factor actual proven facts into the context of your reporting.

March 1999 was the month when RSS became a phenomenon. A lot of that documented in the archive of Scripting News for that month. 25 years ago.

Protocol Entrepreneurship.

This is Manton's blogroll from micro.blog, rendered in my blogroll engine. We can do that because we use the same freaking file format. This is the social web folks.

Bluesky, Mastodon and WordPress, in the same social web. One of those Golden Spike moments.

Saying the web misses Google Reader is like saying that the United States misses President Trump.

Saying the web misses Google Reader is like saying that the United States, misses President Trump.

People and Blogs interviews bloggers about their blogs.

Seeking share URLs for every platform.

RSS > ActivityPub. I agree. And you can get realtime updates with rssCloud. WordPress supports it and so does FeedLand. It works.

22 of the Funniest Novels.

How Hollywood fails women on screen.

TWiT's Lesser Known RSS Feeds.

On the limitations of writing for the fediverse.

Death of a father.

Manhattan Prosecutors Seek 30-Day Delay of Trump Trial.

Seeking a first-class Fediverse platform.

Putin Recalls Trump Acting Like Jealous GF in Private.

Scripting News: Blogrolls are for watchers.

Scripting News: Blogrolls are for watchers.

Quotebacks sounds interesting.

I was glad to hear that Om Malik, one of the (original) ur-bloggers, has a blogroll on his site. I was almost going to say "still" but blogrolls are now officially on their way back.

" . . . and to overturn the online world being dictated by profit to one that is dictated by the needs of humanity. It is only then that the online ecosystem we all live in will reach its full potential and provide the foundations for creativity, collaboration and compassion."

MacWrite and MacPaint, a coral reef.

Jonathan Glazer on his holocaust film The Zone of Interest: ‘This is not about the past, it’s about now.’

100 Greatest Beatles Songs.

What U.S. States Have Legal Weed in 2024?

Zach Seward is a friend who got a kickass job, starting up the new AI effort at the NYT. Totally looking forward to what he's coming up with.

Airbnb bans the use of indoor security cameras.

Google's newest office has AI designers toiling in a Wi-Fi desert.

The WordPress blog we used to launch bit.ly in 2008. Possibly the most explosive rollout I've done. People loved bit.ly then.

Weeknotes.

How to Turn Off Comments on Your Facebook Posts.

Sam Altman's return to OpenAI's board leaves billionaires in charge of AI's destiny.

Democrats are angry over media coverage of Biden.

Democrats are angry over media coverage of Biden.

Democrats are angry over media coverage of Biden. Is it a distraction?

The History Crisis Is a National Security Problem.

What Biden’s State of the Union ad-libs say about his politics — and preparedness.

Tesla Fans Upset About New Model 3 Turn Signals.

And they'll get plenty of help from the press who are happy to repurpose Repub talking points as news.

In my experience AIs are more intelligent than most humans.

We are living in a golden age of light bulbs.

Angela Chao made panicked call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch.

Couples Share Why They Remarried Their Ex-Spouses After Divorce.

Biden’s ad.

Biden’s ad.

The New York Times reviews a new Biden ad, but doesn’t include a link to the ad?

2017: My story of ObamaCare.

Microsoft says it hasn't been able to evict Russian state hackers.

With command performance, Biden put Dems’ fears to rest.

State of the Union shows Biden age coverage needs a rethink.

The Most Shocking Things About Skiing in Europe.

Happy to say Biden did exactly what I asked him to do in this post, in last night's SOTU.

Biden found the through line between two central campaign themes.

ChatGPT is my Commander Data.

I feel like when I'm working with ChatGPT that I'm talking with Commander Data from Star Trek.

There are leaks coming out of the NYT re their editorial processes. It's about time.

WordPress Developer Docs Shows Off a New Block-Based Redesign.

Perhaps the T in NYT really means Troll. It's really embarrassing they think so little of their readers. Reminder: Many of us are adults.

The big news isn’t that Nikki Haley won — the big news is that Trump lost. #Loser.

Veselka looks to ease back into a 24/7 schedule starting with weekends first.

You know better but I know him.

Haley defeats Trump in Vermont GOP primary. ❤️

Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina is impressive.

My friend Guy Kawasaki has a new book out, right now, which you can buy. If you want a great read from a person who knows how to develop and market ideas with humor, wisdom, love and integrity, this is the one to get.

RSS and feeds in general are back in style.

If Trump Prevails, How Will Section 3 Be Litigated On Or After January 20, 2025?

U.S. students will take the SAT entirely online this year.

"Dave Winer used ChatGPT to illustrate a few of his favorite songs. I tried it with books, movies and a TV show."

"Dave Winer used ChatGPT to illustrate a few of his favorite songs. I tried it with books, movies and a TV show."

Is this statement true: Congress and the states have the power to amend the Constitution, not the Supreme Court.

Congress and the states have the power to amend the Constitution, not the Supreme Court.

The "Supreme Court" did more than law-making, they usurped the power to amend the Constitution.

Super Tuesday Facebook Outage Stirs Election Conspiracies

Apple Stock Gloom Deepens as Pressure to Show AI Progress Mounts.

Supreme Court metadata reveals last-minute change in Trump ballot case.

Too bad they didn’t include storage for developer applications.

Can you believe these idiots think this is news?

The Supreme Court Just Erased Part of the Constitution.

If you're into reading code in outlines, this is the database-level code in FeedLand. The link opens in Drummer. There are comments at the head of the big routines, listing blog-like changes in the code and the thinking behind them.

Gravatar Manifesto: One Profile, Everywhere.

Glad to see a NYT editorial that properly calls the Supreme Court out on their cowardice or corruption, or whatever it is.

Journos seem to think Americans can't understand the basics of world politics, but somehow we understand the rules and history of the NBA, NFL and MLB. The functioning of politics isn't really any more complicated.

There’s a lot of history here. Google Reader insisted posts must have titles, and at the same time twitter said posts may not have titles, so they could never interop. Truth is some ideas are so simple a title is inconceivable.

Why ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Roiling the Right.

Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads.

What Biden Is Thinking About the 2024 Election.

"Outside of X, the public isn’t reading the right. And as a result, X now shapes the right as much as even Fox News." #surprising

How to use ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini AI tools.

There's a rule in covering elections that they don't make projections or even analyze results on TV until all the polls are closed. We need an analogous rule that says there should be no reporting on polls until after the election, to allow the people to form their own opinions, for the same reason.

Ralph Nader Looks Ahead, at Age 90. What He Sees Is Not What You'd Expect.

Aren’t you sick of this bullshit yet? It’s not a freaking race! Stop being idiots. Please.

Trump allies plot abortion crackdown for second term.

Trump Can Still Face Trial Before the Election.

JSR: the JavaScript Registry.

The Supreme Court and the Constitution were never going to save us from Donald Trump.

Mount Everest is too crowded and dirty, says last living member of Hillary team.

Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport.

Voice Note Etiquette: How Long Is Too Long?

Feeds you can get to from my Mastodon account.

Trump immunity case: SCOTUS’ delay is not based on legal procedure, it’s to help Trump.

Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June.

5G is ‘ now’ eating cable’s lunch.

Alexey Navalny was one thing Vladimir Putin can never be: heroic.

Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon.

Mourners chant Navalny’s name at funeral of Putin critic in Moscow.

Is the Media Enabling Trump to “Usher in a New Era of Fascism”?

Come on it’s not that the Repubs like Putin or are fascinated by him, they’re scared of him.

The Atlantic Ocean is freakishly warm right now. Scientists are sounding the alarm.

Heather Cox Richardson has a podcast. This is the URL of the feed.

IndieWeb page on blogrolls.

Finding Your Hobby: Birding.

There was a moment in 2007 when Doc Searls took the blogroll off his blog.

Why Is Trump Trying to Make Ukraine Lose?

Illinois judge removes Trump from ballot because of ‘insurrectionist ban.’

Hackers Threaten to Leak Trump Trial Docs If Ransom Isn’t Paid.

Hackers Threaten to Leak Trump Trial Docs If Ransom Isn’t Paid.

AI Grifters Fill Amazon With Kara Swisher Memoir Ripoffs.

Looking for fantastic examples of blog rolls like this one from Ton Zylstra. It’s the data that matters don’t pay too much attention to how it looks.

Looking for fantastic examples of blog rolls like this one from Tom Zylstra. It’s the data that matters don’t pay too much attention to how it looks.

Richard Lewis, Acerbic Comedian and Character Actor, Dies at 76.

How Humans Lost Their Tails.

Biden is a Democrat, and Netanyahu is a MAGA.

Substack’s platform now has direct messages.

Because (sarcastically) it's every American's Constitutional right to blow away as many of their fellow Americans as possible in as short a time as possible.

Have a look at the webcams at the local Belleayre ski area where it's raining and in the 50s. Sad sight. It will get cold again and they will make snow. It's not quite over yet.

I want to write code in a very high level language I invent as I go and have it compile it to JavaScript.

Europe snow: At a mountain resort with no snowfall, skiing faces a total wipe-out.

Frozen embryos shouldn't be considered people, two-thirds of Americans say.

One user's perspective on the switch from Movable Type to Wordpress in 2004. I wasn’t paying attention, that was the year of podcasting.

One users perspective on the switch from movable type to Wordpress in 2004. I wasn’t paying attention, that was the year of podcasting.

I asked ChatGPT for a "list of 25 interesting blogs that regularly update.

Scientists Are Freaking Out About Ocean Temperatures.

Repbubs will be sad for sure if Trump loses, but we'll all be sad if he wins, except for the grifters and the Nazis, they'll be happy.

Variety: "Biden has long lacked the ability to bend the medium of TV to his ends." That's true of Democrats as a group. In contrast, the Repubs do this very well. It's the only thing they do well.

Officials admit to blown call as lowly Pistons lose again.

My two cents, I can’t think of a single example of a tech revelation reported by Kara Swisher.

When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You.

Trump's CPAC speech showed clear signs of major cognitive decline.

The feed for the NYT Daily podcast has 2000 items in it, with episodes going back as far as May 15, 2017. That show was about James Comey's firing.

Every time you find yourself typing into a tiny little text box the alarms should go off.

Behind Taylor Lorenz’s ‘painful, agonizing’ interview of the Libs of TikTok activist.

Republican Opposition to Birth Control Bill Could Alienate Voters, Poll Finds.

A new leader for Press Forward, at a pivotal moment for journalism.

Newsom launches abortion ads in Republican states to fight ‘war on women.’

Robert Hur is probably not a name familiar to you, and that's a failing of the American journalism. He's a presidential assassin.

A Pilot Drew a Penis in the Sky and Wrote ‘See Ya’ During a 6-Hour Flight. And that's the way it is on February 25, 2024.

This story ought to wake up our journalists. This is the same guy who ordered the rioters to attack the US Capitol. Think about that, and take these threats very very very seriously.

Trump gives chilling CPAC speech on presidential agenda.

An increasingly detailed picture of former President Donald Trump’s second-term agenda is emerging — one that would make the near-daily shocks of his norm-shattering first White House tenure look tame.

When Media Outlets Shutter, Why Are the Websites Wiped, Too?

Book Review: ‘Burn Book,’ by Kara Swisher.

This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing.

Joe Biden gives the media a desperately needed lesson about Donald Trump.

Nazis mingle openly at CPAC, spreading antisemitic conspiracy theories and finding allies. (Thanks for not calling them neo-Nazis.)

A lot of Redditors hate the Reddit IPO.

Is it time to give up on old news?

These Embryos Are Five Years Worth of Money, Sadness, and Hope.

STAT readers on older presidents.

Sotomayor, Barrett encourage civility in front of nation’s governors.

Why Republicans Are Making a Big Mistake on Biden’s Age.

Reddit is getting ready to go public.

Arc browser’s new AI-powered ‘pinch-to-summarize’ feature is clever.

I've heard a lot of good things about the Arc browser. They have a blog, but no feed linked into the blog's home page. It's important.

How to freeze-dry a website.

Who is Robert Hur, special counsel in Biden documents case?

Who is Robert Hur, special counsel in Biden documents case?

Why does Robert K. Hur still have a job at the DOJ?

Biden impeachment effort on the brink of collapse, because it was 100% bullshit, it never should have been given any credence by journalism.

A view into how our supposedly trustworthy journalists deal with exposing their own corruption. They don’t.

The truth about trump is that while he might claim a huge net worth, it’s all mortgaged, many times, fraudulently, so the banks could repossess all of it, but haven’t for fear of having it all crash, and them getting pennies on the dollar.

Vice is abandoning Vice.com and laying off hundreds.

Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters.

Bluesky: An Open Social Web.

Bluesky opens up federation, letting anyone run their own server.

Statement from President Joe Biden on Alabama Court Decision.

Tommy Tuberville On Alabama Embryo Decision: Great! Wait, Bad!

Hillary Clinton warns birth control is ‘next’ after Alabama IVF ruling.

Fetterman to Democrats criticizing Biden: ‘Get your MAGA hat.’

Substack now lets writers curate a ‘network’ of recommended publications for their subscribers.

Twitter's big competitive advantage.

"The incident was a perfect illustration of the difference between real public debate and the usual, carefully choreographed appearances of our elected politicians."

An Approach to Paying for Everything That’s Free.

Am I the first to subscribe to the new Megnut? 😀

Great news, Megnut is going to start blogging again. Nice!

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis.

Farhad Manjoo, columnist at the NYT, has an RSS feed, but it hasn't updated in a long time. Whatever became of him? Did he retire? He will be missed.

Does anyone have a current feed for fivethirtyeight.com?

Logseq, a company I thought so much of I invested, had a blog but hasn't updated since August last year. How does such a young entrepreneurial excellent company keep in touch with their users and friends?

Another blog that hasn't updated in quite some time, JOHO the Blog by David Weinberger, a Cluetrain author and longtime friend. If the blogosphere is to reboot, we'll need some love from Dr Dave.

Another feed, Megnut, hasn't updated since 2013. A founder of the company that created Blogger.

I'm trimming my subscription list, removing feeds that haven't updated since last summer, and noticed that Joel On Software is one. He's one of the prolific influential bloggers.

A Russian Military Blogger Dies After Criticizing Army Losses.

In search of a digital town square.

We haven't even gotten started, but at least now we're starting to get started. ;-)

“Women who actually know what happened, they feel under attack and almost powerless.”

Moscow Mitch will be first to go to the gulag.

Is the New York Times neutral on the future of democracy?

How Twitter’s descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web. (I don't agree that Twitter has descended into chaos, but it is time for a new web.)

Harvard Crimson: New York Times, Get out of My School.

Breaking Bad in one minute.

You gotta wonder if journalists could find some actual news to write about.

I really don't believe Trump is our problem. I think the problem is journalism.

Another bullshit story concocted by the NYT. I'm not there now, but I don't believe for a second that there's any unusual antisemitism at Harvard.

Fastest-Growing Black Hole Is Eating a Sun Per Day. (That's a pretty good headline!)

5G is eating cable’s lunch.

I think it's wrong to say Mastodon is a Twitter rival. It's not what it is. It's something different.

I was writing a story about sizing ski boots and asked ChatGPT to make an illustration for the story for me.

Why The New York Times might win its copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.

Millions of us see the problem. What are we going to do about it??

Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinated.

Trump ranked last by historians, Biden 14th.

Easy/lazy tech journalism.

Jon Stewart on Tucker Carlson’s Putin Interview & Trip to Russia.

John Oliver Offers Clarence Thomas Millions to Resign Immediately.

LeBron James free agency: Ranking every team's chances of landing the King as Lakers try to fend off suitors.

Putin's regime is 'running out of fuel,' a Russian opposition activist tells NPR.

Inside Aleksei Navalny’s Final Months, in His Own Words.

'American Fiction' And The Wet Eyes Of The Sentimentalist.

Trump’s hubris has brought about the downfall of his family’s business empire.

Marge in Fargo: "There's more to life than a little money. Don't you know that?"

I swear to god John Lennon wrote the anthem for 2024 back in 1971.

New FeedLand feature: Red icons for feeds that are in error.

The NYT says the resistance is exhausted. Bullshit. We're very well rested. And the NYT is a den of assholes.