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2024-04-29T12:14:32.000Z
Remarks by President Biden at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Scroll to the end where he talks about the role of journalism in protecting our freedom.
Remarks by President Biden at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Scroll to the end where he talks about the role of journalism in protecting our freedom.
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."
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.
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.
Tesla Earnings Report: Revenue Fell to $21.3 Billion, Adding to Strategy Concerns.
76ers' Tyrese Maxey questionable for Game 2 vs. Knicks; series odds shift.
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.
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.
All 16 teams in NBA Playoffs, ranked by chances to win 2024 championship.
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.
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.
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.
NPR: The public broadcaster’s problems are deeper than “wokeness.”
Jon Stewart on Iran, Israel, and Trump’s Hush Money Trial.
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.
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.
Russia Is Buying Politicians in Europe. It Is Happening Here Too.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Trump tells Arizona Legislature to act after GOP blocks bills to repeal 1864 abortion ban.
Reporters don’t own the facts they report. That is when they actually report facts.
‘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.
Poe introduces a price-per-message revenue model for AI bot creators.
What a total solar eclipse looks like from an airplane.
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.)
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.
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.’
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.
The Washington press corps doesn’t have a freaking clue.
‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe.
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.
When a top Republican says Russian propaganda has infected the GOP.
"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.
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.
I've been trying to figure out what ActivityPub does that RSS doesn't.
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.
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.
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.
This might be the first victimless April fool joke I’ve ever seen.
Nine years ago I pleaded with Facebook to support Markdown.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brian Lehrer interviews Tracy Bennett who edits Wordle at the NYT.
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.
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.
RSS > ActivityPub. I agree. And you can get realtime updates with rssCloud. WordPress supports it and so does FeedLand. It works.
Manhattan Prosecutors Seek 30-Day Delay of Trump Trial.
Putin Recalls Trump Acting Like Jealous GF in Private.
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."
Jonathan Glazer on his holocaust film The Zone of Interest: ‘This is not about the past, it’s about now.’
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.
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.
Sam Altman's return to OpenAI's board leaves billionaires in charge of AI's destiny.
Democrats are angry over media coverage of Biden. Is it a distraction?
What Biden’s State of the Union ad-libs say about his politics — and preparedness.
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.
Angela Chao made panicked call before dying in ‘completely submerged’ Tesla on Texas ranch.
Couples Share Why They Remarried Their Ex-Spouses After Divorce.
The New York Times reviews a new Biden ad, but doesn’t include a link to the ad?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That’s Only About Roads.
"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
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.
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.
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.
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.
There was a moment in 2007 when Doc Searls took the blogroll off his blog.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.)
These Embryos Are Five Years Worth of Money, Sadness, and Hope.
Sotomayor, Barrett encourage civility in front of nation’s governors.
Why Republicans Are Making a Big Mistake on Biden’s Age.
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.
Who is Robert Hur, special counsel in Biden documents case?
Who is Robert Hur, special counsel in Biden documents case?
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.
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.
"The incident was a perfect illustration of the difference between real public debate and the usual, carefully choreographed appearances of our elected politicians."
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.
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.”
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.
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!)
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.
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.
Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services.
Just watched the cringeworthy HBO miniseries about John Adams. This NYT review nails it. Too bad they cast the wrong actor to play the leading role.
The world economy never recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic.
“He needs to figure out where he is going to raise $500-plus million over a short period of time,” Cohen continued.
Ghost has a feature called "recommendations" which is a blogroll that can be two-way.
A new dating app: You must have at least a 675 credit score to use it.
A new dating app: You must have at least a 675 credit score to use it.
Finally, the New York Times focuses on an actual issue that should be of great concern to every American voter.
I've been wanting to teach ChatGPT how I work, as I would an developer partner, so we can get more efficient over time and tackle more ambitious projects. Eventually I'd like to work with it on porting Frontier to Linux. It's not something any of my human colleagues have been able to help with, but I don't doubt that ChatGPT could do it.
I’d like journos to wipe the grins off their faces, buckle down, and take their responsibility seriously.
Seeing the headline of this op-ed in the Washington Post, I wondered who the author was responding to. You have to wade thru a lot of other stuff before you get to the point, only Repub loony birds, of course, say Trump is America’s Navalny. Does this bs really deserve a response from the WP?
Reddit signs content licensing deal with AI company ahead of IPO, Bloomberg reports.
Russ Buettner, reporter for NYT is on MSNBC. He has a lot of truth about Trump, but the host won’t let him finish the story.
N.Y. judge orders Trump and executives to pay $364 million in civil fraud case.
This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time.
Russian activist and Putin critic Alexei Navalny dies in prison.
Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media.
Journalism Needs Leaders Who Know How to Run a Business.
An unbiased take on Mark Zuckerberg’s biased Apple Vision Pro review.
OpenAI’s newest model Sora can generate videos — and they look decent.
From ChatGPT, Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo.
Why walking around in public with Vision Pro makes no sense.
Warriors reportedly tried to unite LeBron James and Stephen Curry at NBA trade deadline. That would have been amazing. Flush both teams out of the system in one move. It's about time.
Swiss antisemitism shock at Davos shop sign saying no skis for Jews.
Jon Stewart Tackles The Biden-Trump Rematch That Nobody Wants.
Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges.
Docs Obtained by TPM Show Trump Lawyers’ Plan To Make Jan. 6 Last For Days On End.
‘But His Memory’ and the slow train wreck of American democracy.
Will Knicks regret trading RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley, and Quentin Grimes?
Media Meltdown Over Biden Report Fuels New “But Her Emails” Nightmare.
Former FBI official: Similarities between Biden and Hillary Clinton reports ‘nauseating.’
I was feeling all nostalgic about the Niners until I remembered Colin Kaepernick and how awful the NFL is, esp the Niners.
Automatically Publishing a Blogroll from an OPML File.
They gave local news away for free. Virtually nobody wanted it.
How Twitter’s descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web.
How does it make sense to give him the same oath again when he violated it in such a craven way last time?
If everyone wants to interop with one company, nothing open can come out of that.
Review: Chris Dixon's last ditch desperate attempt to sell us on his rancid snake oil dream. He lost, that doesn’t make him dead, but his dream is.
Review: Chris Dixon's last ditch desperate attempt to sell us on his dead snake oil dream. He lost, that doesn’t make him dead, but his dream is.
President Bartlet: "Crime, boy, I don't know" -- that's when I decided to kick your ass.
President Bartlet: "Crime, I don't know" -- that's when I decided to kick your ass.
Climate change drives world to first 12-month spell over 1.5C. #boom
Bused From Texas to Manhattan, an Immigrant Struggles to Find Shelter.
What tool would you use to create and edit a blogroll?
Freshly Baked NYC Debuts Legal Weed Delivery in Long Island City, Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn.
These are the podcasts I follow in FeedLand. I want more in this list. But not too many.
2014: Interop means that I can give you a text file, and you will have a program that can open it. Interop means you can pull into any gas station and put fuel in your car. Interop means you can give me $100 and I'll give you my Knicks ticket, and when you go to the arena, they will let you in.
Stop Wearing Vision Pro Goggles While Driving Your Tesla, U.S. Says.
Andrew Hickey says Spotify and podcasts don't mix well. I totally agree.
Tesla Strikes Deal with Choice Hotels to Install Thousands of EV Chargers.
Trump has no immunity from prosecution in Jan. 6 trial, appeals court rules.
A Major Polling Firm Has Signed Up to Help Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Campaign.
I like it when developers are straight about their motivations and responsibilities. I try to do the same.
I’ve actually been enjoying Nets games now that they’re over the “win now” philosophy. Last nights game with the Warriors was excellent.
Just thought of a place in San Jose I used to like, apparently closed in 2017.
Goofy 'God's Army' convoy on Texas border shows Trump's MAGA movement is just one long con.
I'm reading Liz Cheney's book, and forgot something I had guessed during the insurrection. Trump was calling Congresspeople saying if you stop the count I'll call off the attack. In other words, your life for a vote. I suspected it before, but they have testimony that confirms it.
New York Knicks Voices Mike Breen, Walt Frazier Celebrate 25 Years on MSG Network.
Thinking of buying an Apple Vision Pro, but when I went to the site, my iPhone 13 Pro wouldn't do anything when I clicked on the first image. Oh well. Not like any of this stuff works, right.
Keith Teare with a real benefit for the new Apple goggles: "No need for a standing desk or an office for that matter. The $3500 is cheaper than they would cost. Those living in smaller spaces and working from home should love it."
How Donald Trump reduced the GOP to groveling sycophants.
“A public park with a small marketplace on one side is surrounded by a courthouse, a playing field, businesses, and a radio station. In the marketplace wander male and female reporters, some taking notes, some with cameras.”
I'm reading about discussion in Congress regarding exempting newspaper publishers from antitrust so they can address the threat of new technology. "Our chief interest is to keep newspapers alive," says the legislator. The date: 1963. The technology: television.
A Node package that reads RSS, Atom and RDF feeds and calls back with a simple, consistent JavaScript object.
GPT getting stuck with multi-step instructions - Prompting.
I would much prefer if Apple had poured their vast resources and creativity into making mass transport work in the Bay Area instead, as a prototype for what might be possible in the rest of the world.
A (tiny, incomplete, single user, write-only) ActivityPub server in PHP.
Siskel & Ebert review The Big Lebowski. That's just like, your opinion, man.
I asked ChatGPT to design a full-featured feed reader using MySQL, and it got it right. Transcript attached. Remarkable. I wonder what else it could do. I have an idea of using it, eventually, with some work, to port software from Mac to Linux.
Why Quora isn’t useful anymore: A.I. came for the best site on the internet.
This is how AI meets feed readers. Brilliant positioning.
Apple’s Vision Pro battery pack is hiding the final boss of Lightning cables.
The creators of Twitterrific are making an app to read (almost) anything on the web.
One of the rules of textcasting is that the writer must be able to edit their posts.
People who get my blog via nightly email, there are new requirements from Google and Yahoo, and I have no freaking idea wtf they're talking about. If you have an idea, tell me what I have to do. Thanks.
A developer's toolkit for OPML support. Node and browser-based JavaScript code that reads and writes OPML.
Knicks taking fun to new level — and it's time to revel in it.
Popehat: "Apparently RSS feeds are super popular because I’ve had like 20 requests for one."
Zach is the new head of AI at the NYT, and a former associate at Harvard and since. I expect great things from him.
I need more podcasts for my FeedLand category. Send me your best links.
Wouldn't it be great if sites were rated on how good their archive is, so you'd know to point to them for future-safety of your link.
Retired Republican judge: "Absolutely damning" evidence in new bid to bar Trump from Illinois ballot.
Obesity drugs have another superpower: taming inflammation.
Perfectly Imperfect launches an earnest, anti-algorithm social network.
Glad to hear KD has a sense of shame. If he really wants to be a sport, he'd apologize to NY and to the Knicks for his hubris.
Ted Lasso Was 2023’s Most-Watched Streaming Original In U.S.
feedle: Search and Discover Quality RSS Feeds from Thousands of Blogs and Podcasts.
"We use words to try to alter the course of events, to save people from humiliation or death." –Elie Wiesel, Against Silence
Why so many 49ers players live in this sleepy Bay Area suburb.
So far AI does much better at history than Wikipedia, in my experience.
Nikki Haley Explains Why 'Insecure' Trump Is His 'Own Worst Enemy.'
The Icon Of The Seas Is 250,000 Tons Of Floating Carbon-Emissions Horror.
US historians sign brief to support Colorado’s removal of Trump from ballot.
Former senator says new film shows ‘how close’ we came to losing democracy on Jan. 6.
Nikki Haley targeted in 'swatting' incident at her South Carolina home.
Trump’s ‘achilles heel’? Haley’s refusal to drop out infuriates ex-president.
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Germans Rally Against Far Right and for Democracy.
Trump Forces Terrified Republicans to Bend the Knee Yet Again.
Trump must be scared he’s going to jail. And we’ll all get along fine without him.
Chrome Will Use Experimental AI Feature to Organize Tabs, Write Reviews.
It won't be long before he has an idea for how spreadsheets should work, or a writing tool, and getting ChatGPT to write it for him. It'll be ready to download before he can load the page.
Ever since he realized that Nikki Haley is not going to be a good little girl and quit the race on his time table, Trump has been beside himself.
George Carlin’s Estate Sues Podcasters Over A.I. Episode.
Nikki Haley is Trump's worst nightmare. A woman who talks about him as if he was a petulant child and a loser. If she pushes it he'll lose it completely.
The NSA buys Americans’ internet data, newly released documents show.
Macintosh's Debut 40 Years Ago Feels a Lot Like Vision Pro's Arrival Today.
Textcasting: Applying the philosophy of podcasting to text.
Alienware’s Gorgeous 32-Inch Curved QD-OLED Is Like a Massage for My Eyeballs.
ProPublica Hires First Senior Director for Technology.
John Ellis: “Trump’s graceless and weirdly angry ‘victory speech’ in New Hampshire was incredibly stupid, politically speaking.”
He is like King Lear, who trashed everything in his family and his nation. "Self-awareness isn’t among the former president’s strong suits."
"Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself."
Melanie, ‘Brand New Key’ Singer Who Played Woodstock, Dies at 76.
Melanie, who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and was sampled by the Hilltop Hoods, has died.
The time for denial is over: Republicans are really nominating Donald Trump.
Bluesky CEO confronts content moderation in the fediverse.
People said they were crazy to rename HBO streaming to Max, but this is why they did it. The name HBO keeps its meaning, isn't diluted.
“Self-awareness isn’t among the former president’s strong suits.”
The Mac that Steve Jobs unveiled in 1984 is 40, and as amazing as ever.
1982 profile of Jonathan Rotenberg, founder of the Boston Computer Society, who was 19 at the time.
The top five RSS readers for keeping up with your news feeds.
An innovation in FeedLand. This is the list of feeds I'm subscribed to. See the wedge in the left of each feed? When you click it, it reveals the five most recent items in the feed, with links. It's a different kind of feed reader.
In 2009, on the 25th anniversary of the Mac: What made the Mac different.
Ford’s new 48-inch digital dashboard is a lot of Android for one car.
Gretchen Whitmer pushes Biden to talk more bluntly about abortion.
OpenAI launches university partnership with Arizona State, allowing use of ChatGPT.
Pooky Park, AI-generated 1950s TV commercial for a creepy puppet theme park.
Nikki Haley called Donald Trump’s mental competency into question,
Nikki Haley called Donald Trump’s mental competency into question,
Younguns this is what the Internet used to look like back before you were born.
The Inside Story of PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld’s Origins, as Told by David Bunnell. I haven't read this yet, but from its description, I will, carefully.
S&P 500 hits new record high amid signs of easing US economic gloom.
I like that I can catch up on Paolo's blog in FeedLand. I have it bookmarked so it's easy to find.
Judge Aileen Cannon is sabotaging the Trump classifed docs case.
Tesla Drivers in Chicago Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather.
Chicago area drivers stranded their Teslas at charging stations in Chicago highlighting the foolishness of owing an EV without a reliable home charger.
People choose to interop because it helps them find new users. If you have no users to offer, there won't be much interest in interop.
Really need checkbox news finally, because I am so tired of hearing about all the same old bullshit about this asshole. You know who I’m talking about.
Really need checkbox news finally, because I am so tired of hearing about all the same old bullshit about this asshole. You know who I’m talking about
When is the New York Times going to run a column about children of Holocaust survivors who are terrified of America turning into a Nazi dictatorship, next year.
Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton, the wife of a guffawing, rubber-limbed sewer worker forever mired in a blowhard neighbor’s get-rich-quick schemes and other hazards of life on the classic 1950s sitcom “The Honeymooners,” died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 99.
Three migrants drowned near border park, Rep. Cuellar says.
I still believe tech companies can play a very important role in the open internet, as long as they are willing to treat users as customers and sell a product that has value without the usual michegas.
If you work on a team with other people who use Drummer (my outliner), you can share outlines with each other to "narrate your work." It's like blogging on a team level.
Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Prohibit Emergency Abortions.
Fox News Kicks Mike Lindell and His MyPillow Ads to the Curb.
Buttondown lets you use your own editor and will publish emails via an RSS feed. This is the right way to do it.
If you're thinking about leaving Substack, good for you. Please insist that your new platform lets you post via a feed.
2022: Substack, interop and the philosophy of blogging.
Zyns are filled with nicotine and are meant to be placed under your lip like tobacco dip. No spitting is required, so nicotine pouches are even less visible than vaping.
I rode in a Hyundai Ioniq 5 with wheels that go sideways.
Say I had a reading list with my favorite podcasts and my podcasting client could subscribe to it. Then when I add a feed to that list on my desktop computer, the podcast client would automatically be subscribed to it.
Trump’s Lawyers Argue Biden Can Assassinate Him. (I know what you’re thinking.)
People want to be part of something outside of themselves.
Did Trump try to overturn an election or overthrow the government?
On this day in 2001: Payloads for RSS, which would eventually be known as “podcasting.”
US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths: FDA.
Climate Change Is Driving a Sharp Drop in Snow Levels, Study Finds.
OpenAI debuts ChatGPT subscription aimed at small teams.
"It was really the simplicity of that last part that struck me: the fact that feed readers still rely on an open format that’s easily portable between apps and services."
It would be better if journalists did not gravitate to a Facebook-owned Twitter clone.
Trump warns of ‘bedlam,’ won’t rule out violence after immunity hearing.
How Trump’s Unhinged Immunity Demand Could Unleash a Second-Term Crime Spree.
Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity.
Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan: “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.”
The Wisdom of Plagues: Lessons from 25 Years of Covering Pandemics: Donald G. McNeil.
The problem all billionaires have is there is nothing they can buy with their money that's worth owning.
In 1996, I imagined I had become CEO of Apple. I outlined my plan in this piece. I think it would've worked.
Donald Trump didn’t sign loyalty oath for Illinois ballot pledging not to ‘advocate the overthrow of the government.’
On a night of blowouts across the NBA, the New York Knicks had the most impressive such result.
Services like Substack can make it easy to move to another platform, but of course they don't. I warned everyone about it, got some rude responses from writers who thought they knew better. If we work together we can have better than what we have and not have to compromise. As writers.
Google has spent a lot of effort to convince you that HTTP is not good. Let me have the floor for a moment to tell you why HTTP is the best thing ever.
Best Movies Streaming in January 2024: The Holdovers, Foe and More.
New York Knicks Trade RJ Barrett, Ultimate Consolation Prize.
Wired, in its prime hired writers who had something interesting and eclectic going on, like my buddy Dave Jacobs, who did the Fetish column.
Fear of MAGA "backlash" is no reason to let Donald Trump make an illegal run for president.
Trump Received Millions From Foreign Governments as President.
Why Trump wants you to compare him to Hitler. Because then you’re not calling him a loser
Apple Could Acquire Peloton This Year, Fund Manager Forecast Suggests.
Colorado’s secretary of state blames Trump, GOP for threats.
NYT lists their 13 most likely contenders for Best Picture.
Driverless cars swerve traffic citations in California.
BYD overtakes Tesla in overall battery-electric vehicle volume.
How death threats influence Republicans to follow Trump.
How far you'd need to drive to see the 2024 Total Eclipse in early April.
The Knicks looked very good in their first game after the big trade.
Post-2020 election: American democracy has overcome big stress tests. More challenges are ahead
These Classic Characters Are Losing Copyright Protection.
The 14th Amendment is the 'most democratic' disqualifier, Jamie Raskin says.
If an AI program scans a book, is that copyright infringement or fair use?
Shecky Greene, High-Energy Comedy Star, Is Dead at 97.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine Vetoes Trans Ban, "It Is Parents Who Know Their Child Best."
Raptors trade OG Anunoby to Knicks for package that includes RJ Barrett, Immanuel Quickley.
"I wish there were real-world places for podcast listeners that felt like a record store."
Michael Cohen Used Fake Cases Cited by A.I. to Seek an End to Court Supervision. (And journalists write fictitious stories based on Wikipedia as a source. All the time. And they don't care, btw.)
5 Ways Ozempic and Other New Weight-Loss Drugs Have Changed Health.
"As blogs began to catch on, writers could reach their readers directly without filters, editors, or space constraints."
Editor’s pick: 10 must-read Poynter articles from 2023.
Maine secretary of state rules Trump ineligible for state's 2024 primary ballot.
2023 Obituaries: A Host of Consequential, and Very Long, Lives Lost.
Jack Smith files motion to prevent Trump from "injecting politics" into trial.
1996: CNN On Your Desktop. My writeup of PointCast. It should totally be in the timeline for the development of RSS.
1996: CNN On Your Desktop. My writeup of PointCast. It should totally be in the timeline for the development of RSS.
NY to issue nearly 1,500 new weed business licenses in coming weeks.
Tom Smothers, Half of the Smothers Brothers, Dies at 86.
NYT Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over A.I.’s Use of Copyrighted Work.
Pointcast was an early prototype for the applications that were built around RSS.
I Much Prefer Life in Vietnam to Texas, As a Foreign Teacher.
The Law and High Politics of Disqualifying President Trump.
Twixmas: Between Christmas and New Year's is the best holiday of the year.
How a millenia-old technology can help Las Vegas’ heat problem.
The Amazon Music Web API is a new, simplified API allowing quick retrieval of meta-data about albums, tracks, artists, playlists, podcasts, and more from the Amazon Music catalog’s millions of songs.
The New Yorker Radio Hour: Bruce Springsteen Has a Gift He Keeps on Giving.
Researchers examine the self-serving fiction of ‘objective’ political news.
GM stops Chevy Blazer EV sales after early software problems.
Knoll’s law of media accuracy: “Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true, except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge.”
Is there an Amazon Echo in the form factor of a battery operated wifi speaker? If not, why not? Such an obvious product. Everyone would get one.
Wikipedia is a complete mess when it comes to RSS. No mention of the NY Times and Martin Nisenholtz. They talk about versions after 2.0, but the format was frozen at 2.0. Makes me wonder when I rely on it as an authority on other subjects.
Wikipedia is a complete utter mess when it comes to RSS. No mention of the NY Times and Martin Nisenholtz. They talk about versions after 2.0, but the format was frozen at 2.0. Makes me wonder when I rely on it as an authority on other subjects.
Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content.
There Is No Originalist Case Against Disqualifying Trump.
The Supreme Court can't be trusted to handle the Trump cases.
Accelerometer Experiments Clarify Einstein’s Gravity Theory.
Samizdat: How did people in the Soviet Union circumvent state censorship?
Booting Trump off the ballot isn't just legally correct — it's the smart move for the Supreme Court.
You can tell Doc is a blogger because he has a post from 2007 where he lists all the cars he's ever owned. I do not have such a page myself, btw. Not sure what that says about me. 😀
The US has the tools to defend itself from enemies like Trump, and finally we're starting to use them.
Trump Is Disqualified From the 2024 Ballot, Colorado Supreme Court Rules.
Colorado Supreme Court bans Trump from the state’s ballot under Constitution’s insurrection clause.
Oil and Gas Wastewater Spills Pollute the Lone Star State.
Scripting News: Facebook offers AI participation a private group.
Amazon’s ‘return-to-hub’ policy sparks employee backlash.
$48 Million in Support of Local News, Initial Seeding of Press Forward Collaborative.
If Trump wins in 2024, he’ll have more power than ever before.
Love at first ride: The Specialized Turbo Creo 2 Comp gravel e-bike.
Clarence Thomas’ Money Complaints Sparked Resignation Fears.
RSS is the perfect format for open non-silo'd social web apps.
RSS is a perfect format for open non-silo'd social web apps.
2009: RSS will form the basis for the open distributed version of Twitter.
2009: RSS will form the basis for the open distributed version of Twitter.
I read Brent's piece on Mastodon and NetNewsWire, holding my breath hoping he'd arrive at the same answer I did and the answer is yes -- he did. RSS is perfect for Mastodon, and it supports RSS, as does NNW (of course), and that's exactly the right way to connect the two. That's how we're doing it in FeedLand.
You may hope the big company has good intentions, but they're a big company and they honestly don't have very much respect for us. I've had my nose rubbed in this for my whole career. It was amazing how much better they listened when I had a Harvard business card. 😀
Mastodon by having native support for RSS 2.0 did the right thing. Very important.
Rudy Giuliani must pay election workers $148 million for defamation.
Bluesky isn't a mere Twitter clone, says CEO Jay Graber.
Elon Musk told bankers they wouldn’t lose any money on Twitter purchase.
Colds, Coughs, and Covid: Why it Feels Like Everyone Is Always Sick.
Google Kills the Geofence Capability that Will Show ~30,000 Trump Supporters Swarmed the Capitol on Trump's Orders.
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators.
I agree that importing and exporting are the wrong ideas. I want to have lots of tools work on the same data. Format standards, and my control of my own work.
Dropbox spooks users with new AI features that send data to OpenAI when used.
A human being has integrity if he or she is what he or she appears to be.
I've been blogging for over 29 years, and have no plans on stopping, ever. 😀
SpaceX blasts FCC as it refuses to reinstate Starlink’s $886 million grant.
Andrew Hickey is using Bluesky as a blogging platform, and because we're connected via RSS, you can read it in FeedLand. The power of standards. Just a bit more interop betw these systems and we'll have broken free of the possibility of being dominated by bigco's. This is how bootstraps work and they're super-important to progress.
Axel Springer, OpenAI strike "real-time news" deal for ChatGPT.
I asked ChatGPT who won the 2020 election and if there was fraud, and why do some people say the election was stolen. There's no "they both do it" to the answer, it's clear and correct. Maybe we could give the AI credit for giving clearer correct answers than the journalists who attack it.
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge.
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge.
The best I’ve read so far about the immorality of the Webb decision is the chapter on abortion in Elie Mystal’s book. I wish we could buy it from his publisher so everyone could read it. Basically the law is as immoral as slavery for pregnant women.
Kate Cox’s nonviable pregnancy didn’t matter to the judges who run amok in Texas.
Zach Seward Is the Newsroom’s Editorial Director of A.I. Initiatives.
Kentucky woman seeking court approval for abortion learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity.
Johannes Ernst was at the threads meeting to discuss their plan to federate.
A blog for developers with no RSS feed. Hard to believe.
The Lawyer Who Took on Big Tobacco Is Now Fighting an Online Sports Betting Giant.
Tumblr’s ‘fediverse’ integration is still being worked on, says owner and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg.
To all the people who clicked on a link to a FeedLand page on a phone in the past, I am sorry to have put you through that. Now that it works on phones, I can see how nice it is to be able to skim the news while you're out and about.
Tesla drivers run Autopilot where it’s not intended — with deadly consequences.
ActivityPub in Threads. There was a meeting last week. Still no clue who said what to whom.
Shohei Ohtani agrees to record $700m, 10-year contract with LA Dodgers.
“Everyone’s News” on FeedLand is nice while the community is still small. 😀
Today’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann got me interested in learning about Andrew Johnson’s impeachment.
Apple has seemingly found a way to block Android’s new iMessage app.
The Quiet Feminism of Norman Lear’s Middle-Aged Women.
One thing ChatGPT is great for is a simple Explainer document that gets to the point and covers different contexts, and doesn't waste too much time with bullshit. Like this explanation of "The Resistance." Google sucks at that, with all kinds of garbage in the way.
I’ve never listened to a Spotify “podcast” so I’m pretty sure I won’t miss them.
Feeds should be the baseline of compatibility between social media platforms.
Twitter poisoned our minds with the idea that by taking away the basic features of writing on the web they were encouraging people to write shorter, better, more to-the-point posts and that would make communication on the web like poetry.
Best TV Shows 2023: ‘The Bear,’ ‘The Last of Us’ and More.
The idea of posting on your blog and cross-posting to lots of place is the right idea, no argument there, the problem is that the places you can actually cross-post to are few and far-between.
Norman Lear, Whose Comedies Changed the Face of TV, Is Dead at 101.
2024 Tesla Cybertruck First Look: Really Here, Really Looks Like That.
Want a small, cheap EV? The Fiat 500e is coming to the US in 2024.
Why is it Biden’s challenge. Maybe we all could accept the challenge, and get ready for 100 percent turnout for ourselves and each other?
In 2006, @AlanRusbridger described the current threat to newspapers as a threat to society. As AI innovation undermines new industries, this will also be a composition played in two registers.
Elon Musk’s U.S. government ties are strong despite antisemitic posts.
The Band - The Making of "Rockin' Chair" & Commentary On Vocals.
Rob Fahrni asks about the server software behind a popular podcasting client. I imagine it must be something like FeedLand. :-)
Quick podcast that explains why Musk might not care about the balance sheet or share price of TWTR.
Neil Gaiman's Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet.
Bluesky rolls out automated moderation tools, plus user and moderation lists.
Tesla's botched Cybertruck event is good news for Rivian, other EV truck makers.
I think this is a better way to read the NYT headlines than anything on the NYT website.
I asked the Bing AI tool just now to search the web for examples of how humorists and satirists have portrayed Henry Kissinger. It was merrily typing away joke after joke, anecdote after anecdote, and as I watched the words appear I saw that HK had just been described as lewdly using the f-word while speaking with a casual acquaintance in a social setting. Almost instantly, the whole thread vanished, replaced by this sentence: "My mistake, I can’t give a response to that right now. Let’s try a different topic."
Fargo: Minnesota Nice. Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi.
Why Andrew Hickey, podcaster, will always be independent.
New York Knicks Trade Rumor: Team 'Monitoring' Donovan Mitchell Happiness.
Newsom's debate with DeSantis could help his future political ambitions.
NICKLpass sounds interesting, they describe themselves as an EZ-Pass for news, but from their site and various news articles, it's not clear how it works.
If you found a group of pubs that wanted to do an EZ-Pass of News, who would you look to to implement it. It has to be an organization that journalism trusts.
Hundreds of new NY marijuana dispensaries expected to open following legal settlement.
Meet the nonprofit newsrooms hiring editorial cartoonists.
Search could also be two-way too. This piece was written in 2009. Still hasn't happened. When you get a dominant tech company, usually the market they dominates goes cold.
Search could also be two-way too. This piece was written in 2009. Still hasn't happened. When you get a dominant tech company, usually the market they dominates goes cold.
BuilderIO/gpt-crawler: Crawl a site to generate knowledge files to create your own custom GPT from a URL.
It's amazing that the Knicks qualified for the in-season tournament, as a wild card. The new Knicks do things like this.
Some things take so long, but how do I explain. When not too many people, can see we're all the same. And because of all their tears, their eyes can't hope to see the beauty that surrounds them. Isn't it a pity.
Media gave much less play to Trump’s ‘vermin’ comment than Clinton remark.
"Bob and Don: A Love Story" a short documentary by Judd Apatow.
As Groundwater Levels Fall in the U.S., Powerful Players Block Change.
Mellon Foundation Pledges a Total $500 Million for Monuments.
If memory serves me: John Deere managed for many years to prevent farmers from having anyone but John Deere repair the tractors they had purchased from John Deere. And Monsanto didn't let farmers collect seeds from Monsanto-bred plants to use in their own fields next year. And Disney went to Washington to extend the copyright on Mickey Mouse. So, quick question: What new move roughly of this kind will AI technology make possible? What new kinds of enclosures and silos are probably on the horizon?
2009: The idea [of rssCloud] is to deliver news faster, without relying on a single company to do all the work.
On non-technical topics, if you harass ChatGPT 3.5 with enough follow-up questions you can get it to put aside its glib reliance on confident exaggeration.
ChatGPT's success reshaped the landscape for every one of tech's giants.
Tumblr sheds Post Plus subscriptions as the platform downsizes.
RSS Club is a collection of blogs (personal and otherwise) committed to providing RSS-only content.
Spying on Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club Was Easy. Is Your Privacy Safe?
Yup hacks together a cross-posting app for X, Threads, Bluesky and others.
Trump Thinks He Can Run As an Abortion ‘Moderate’ in ’24.
Preserving our digital content is vital. But paying $38,000 for the privilege is not.
Benedict Evans on Twitter. I don’t care if he’s leaving or not, but it’s a good story, worth a read.
The reporter did get some blowback from critics over crediting the age question to "a reporter" rather than to himself. (I’ve seen reporters do worse.)
Former McDonald's Chef Explains Why Menu Doesn't Change.
‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros.
Tesla starts releasing to employees FSD v12 - a critical update to self-driving effort.
Elon Musk Says There's a "Large Graveyard Filled With My Enemies."
It's really gratifying that so many new people are using news.scripting.com. It's basically a front-end for FeedLand. I totally manage it with the tools in FeedLand.
OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster, sources say.
A couple of WordPress blocks that use the FeedLand API to show your latest feed items on a WordPress site. Written by Fernando Fernandes, a developer at Automattic who I'm working with.
A couple of WordPress blocks that use the FeedLand API to show your latest feed items on a WordPress site. Written by Fernando Fernandes, a developer at Automattic that I'm working with.
The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
Downtown Greyhound stations closing after sale to Alden Global Capital subsidiary.
Rosalynn Carter, first lady who championed mental health, dies at 96.
Rosalynn Carter, former first lady and tireless humanitarian, dies at 96.
A 30-Year Trap: The Problem With America’s Weird Mortgages.
Newsom TV ad hits DeSantis on abortion as Fox debate looms.
Tesla's Cybertruck has a serious problem that only a complete redesign.
Of course we have no privacy from Google, but they never say that part.
This Louisiana Village Brought in $1 Million Through a Court Where the Mayor Is the Judge.
You shouldn't be driving over 100 mph — and your car shouldn't let you.
Details emerge of surprise board coup that ousted CEO Sam Altman at OpenAI
I don't like the term antisemitic, it's too technical. Let's call it racism instead. Or say the proponent is a Nazi, because that's really what's going on, isn't it?
Our right to continue to live is always up for debate.
Israel’s response to Oct. 7 plays straight into Hamas’ hands.
AI prototype wows devs by turning drawings into working software.
Bay Area diner to close original store after 49 years. #hobees
Trump's "vermin" comment echoes Nazi Germany, Biden says.
Our friends at Automattic did a fantastic redesign for Doc's blog. So much easier to read. Thanks! 😀
Suppose They Threw a Cage Match Between Fascism and Democracy and Nobody Cared.
Your Guide to Legal Cannabis in New York City: Where to Buy and How it Works.
Ezra Klein: "If I were a cynic I'd wonder how much Meta has been paying Musk to act like this."
Ezra Klein: "If I were a cynic I'd wonder how much Meta has been paying Musk to act like this."
Filoli was the location of the first meeting on US soil in several years between President Biden and Chinese president Xi Jinping ahead of the APEC summit.
How the next Republican president could stop most abortions without Congress.
Citi Bike Riders in NYC Are Getting Bad Service, Study Finds.
Trump Wants Us to Know He Will Stop at Nothing in 2025.
A New Yorker article I'd definitely pay $1 to read. I would say this, understanding what's possible with computers will be the human contribution for a while at least. We'll have to work harder to be competitive. And that's a good thing imho because programmers have become lazy and inefficient. Also I never thought of myself as a "coder," I find it overly diminutive.
Andreessen Horowitz Invests in Civitai, Which Profits From Nonconsensual AI Porn.
Getting emotional with ChatGPT could get you the best outputs.
Peloton, the NBA and WNBA announce new multi-year partnership to create special access and experiences for peloton members and fans.
In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack.
It’s very clear what’s at stake, making it harder for journalism to pretend everything normal.
The only reason we have open formats and protocols is so our software can interoperate.
We don't think of social media apps like Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, etc as part of a content management system. But if they are textcasting oriented, and have feeds that are properly configured, then yes -- you can have people write for publication using such a well-equipped social network.
Ask HN: Top 10 Timeless Software Books That Changed Life as Software Engineer?
On The Media has a bunch of stuff about podcasting. I agree with most of what they say.
Owner of Tumblr confirms site’s shift from “surging” to “small and focused”.
Fans of Connections, rejoice! Rebooted classic sci-doc series returns with original host. (This is a great show.)
Extract value, and let the pieces fall where they will --that's our society's motto.
Extract value, and let the pieces fall where they will --that's our society's motto.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg details Tumblr’s future after re-org.
Charlie Stross: "I'd like to explain why I — and other SF authors — are terrible guides to the future."
Multiracial democracy in America will live on despite Trump.
The 20 Farming Families Who Use More Water From the Colorado River Than Some Western States.
The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault.
Evan Osnos wrote the first and only piece in the runup to the 2016 election that tried to paint a picture of the Trump presidency in advance of the election. This should be an artform by now imho.
Google offered Epic $147 million to launch Fortnite on the Play Store.
Netherlands building own version of ChatGPT amid quest for safer AI.
How Much Do Ozempic and Wegovy Cost? Not What You Think.
Ohio votes to amend state constitution, protecting abortion rights.
With the world on fire, a cowardly, timid news media is a threat to U.S. democracy.
OpenAI introduces custom AI assistants called “GPTs” that play different roles.
Sen. John Fetterman says California Gov. Gavin Newsom is running for president but lacks the guts to admit it.
Twitter can almost handle blog posts these days. Here’s an example.
I don’t know if “Everyone” got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble.
How John Fetterman is charting his own course in the Senate.
George Santos finds unlikely protectors in House Democrats.
As Israel's ground war unfolds, satellites and social media show its strategy.
"Keep Loving on Local Business" -- an eloquent practical vision for supporting local businesses ON PURPOSE and building a strong local community TOO.
https://www.botanyorbust.com/news-bedford/2023/11/2/keep-loving-on-local-business
Killington Resort's 2023/2024 Season Launches This Week.
Toyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we’ve driven it.
Jay Rosen on the value of lists. (A hidden benefit of a switch to a new platform, intelligent users can tell you which features are missed most and why.)
Midterm election coming up? VOTE411 will show you your ballet options if you type in your address.
Twitter de los Muertos in the style of Frida Kahlo, by DALL-E, at my behest.
When you are Jewish, you are always aware that there is a large population in the world that wants to kill you.
There's a new 500 Songs podcast episode, about Janis Joplin.
Mob Storms Plane Arriving From Israel at Russian Airport.
I would love to read an op-ed in the NYT that exposed their own hypocrisy as thoroughly as this piece rightly debunks the adoration they have for tech titans.
Cruise’s driverless cars were yanked off the streets here for rolling over a pedestrian and dragging her about 20 feet.
A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World.
Surveillance soldiers warned of Hamas activity on Gaza border for months before Oct 7.
Net neutrality created what the Stanford scholar Barbara van Schewick calls “an architecture for permissionless innovation.”
After Facebook shut down their api, why would a developer trust this api?
Mike Johnson Hates America, But He Believes He Can Save It.
Craig Newmark Retired from Craigslist. Now He Wants to Save Democracy.
I woke up in the middle of the night after dreaming about cats being the people of New York City. So I got out my iPad, launched ChatGPT and asked it to instruct DALL-E to help me visualize the dream.
Earth's sixth mass extinction is underway and "rapidly accelerating," study warns.
World Series 2023: Diamondbacks meet Rangers in matchup no one expected.
October 23, 2001 the original #iPod was introduced “1,000 songs in your pocket.”
Colin Walker saw the broken images in my feed and implemented a workaround.
Is my co-worker AI? Bizarre product reviews leave Gannett staff wondering.
The great thing about the new version of DALL-E is even if you can’t draw, you can create visualizations of abstractions you work with, like the inhumanity of JavaScript for complex programming work.
The great thing about the new version of DALLAS-E is even if you can’t draw, you can create visualizations of abstractions you work with, like the inhumanity of JavaScript for complex programming work.
The New Speaker is Everything Voters Hate about the GOP.
I just learned that Threads has a web client. Now I might actually use it! ;-)
Engage a Wider Audience With ActivityPub on WordPress.com.
Too bad Pebble is closing, I had just started using it. I wonder if it might’ve worked better if they took a textcasting approach, ie made it so it supported the basic features of web writing instead of imposing the same limits as twitter.
Pebble, the Twitter alternative previously known as T2, is shutting down.
Using an all-in-one messaging app is a real game-changer for productivity and keeping up with things.
Disavowing Trump, a tearful Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Fulton election probe.
The moment in 2017 when I decided to stop trying to cross-posting from my blog to everywhere. "I used to have a better blog. It accommodated and focused my thinking instead of limiting and scattering it. I want my old blog back. I liked the freedom. My ideas flowed better."
Tina Weymouth claims drugs ruined touring with Talking Heads.
Writing-First Workflow sounds like Thinking Out Loud or even Narrate Your Work.
I’ve been watching baseball playoffs. Surprised they don’t have and promote podcasts to keep viewers tuned in after the game is over.
“Anybody who studies history learns two things: They learn to do research and they learn to write. What history will give you is the ability to pivot into the different ideas, the different fields, the different careers as they arise.”
With the NBA season starting on Tuesday, this show makes a good binge to get you in the mood..
U.S. scientist Robert Sapolsky says humans have no free will. That's what I think, and all the pretense that we're intelligent and machines aren't is ridiculous given the experiences we're having communicating with machines.
I was looking for NBA sites that have RSS feeds and thought to ask ChatGPT, of course, and it gave me some pointers. Haven't had a chance to validate them yet.
I was looking for NBA sites that have RSS feeds and thought to ask ChatGPT, of course, and it gave me some pointers. Haven't had a chance to validate them yet.
Local Newspapers Are Vanishing. How Should We Remember Them?
Neil Gaiman: ‘In your 60s, any sex is good sex. It’s like: Oh my gosh, I can still do this thing.’
People talk about the early idealism of the web. I confess, I was one of the idealists, and I still am, amazingly. Here's a piece I wrote in 1996 called Holding Hands in Cyberspace.
AI tidies up Wikipedia’s references and boosts reliability.
Kenneth Chesebro, a Trump-Aligned Lawyer, Pleads Guilty in Georgia.
BMW, Mini, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, and Lexus are switching EV plugs. Standards are created in the market. This was obvious and inevitable.
This is what I was saying about Kyrie Irving and the NBA. No players in the NBA stood up for the Jewish people. The best was LeBron James who said Irving shouldn't have said it, not that what he was saying was heinous. Silence from everyone else.
The barbarous murders last weekend of more than 1,300 Israelis by the highly organized and ruthless death squads of Hamas killers bear the stamp of institutional Jew hatred on a vast scale.
Elon Musk talks Tesla: “We dug our own grave with the Cybertruck.”
In July 2003, two fellows at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, journalist Christopher Lydon and software engineer Dave Winer, sat down for an interview together. This gave way to arguably the very first modern podcast.
NY Weed Sales Hit $83 Million With More Stores Opening.
I gotta say -- former Knicks unicorn Kristaps Porzingis is exactly what the Celtics need to win a championship.
Trump committed egregious intelligence breach, ex-UK spy tells court.
After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff.
Apple Shortcut to upload photos to WordPress Media Library.
The W3C feed validator has a SOAP interface. This could be useful. ;-)
Drummer's native file format is OPML and OPML is the format for reading lists. This has led to some very nice synergies.
Imho the best, most emotionally moving, American political ad ever, maybe the best ad possible.
A nearly-complete archive of Whole Earth publications, a series of journals and magazines descended from the Whole Earth Catalog, published by Stewart Brand between 1970 and 2002.
Republicans ramp up search for an escape hatch from speaker chaos.
WordPress.com Enters the Fediverse with ActivityPub Support.
After troubled start, New York is shaking up its legal marijuana market with new competitors.
The life and death of a free food fridge: How thoughtless donations and midnight vandalism ruined ours.
SpaceX Debuts New Website for Cellular Starlink Service.
WordPress now offers official support for ActivityPub. This is a big change, WordPress may now be the #1 installed base ActivityPub app.
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible.
Discussing The Matrix with a potential character in The Matrix with a catchy name, ChatGPT.
Texas abortion law made Miranda Michel carry twins who wouldn’t survive.
We need diversity of opinion, not a mass of slurry that's formed into corporate frankfurter meat.
Jasmine Adams, an NYC Woman, Was Attacked by a Deli Cashier Who Mistook Her for Trans.
WordPress.com blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms.
If subscription isn't one-click in your federated social media system, go back to the drawing board and re-do your architecture, because it won't work.
Dropbox is adding tons of AI—and is still serious about virtual work.
You can follow my posts on Bluesky via this RSS feed, even if you don't have a Bluesky account. The service is still invitation-only.
Charles Feeney, retail entrepreneur who gave $8 billion to charity, dies at 92.
Man trains home cameras to help repel badgers and foxes.
Joni: "Nobody ever said to Van Gogh, 'Paint a Starry Night again, man!'"
Dr Dobbs interview with me in 1991 on among other things calling Apple's bluff, which turned out to be a freaking disaster. We had a far better product, but that didn't matter very much. Should have gone to Unix then, but I liked the Mac better.
London’s Vagina Museum to reopen after surpassing fundraising goal.
Cannabis firms are cut off from the US financial system, but relief is in sight.
‘Naked Attraction’ not so shockingly becomes Max’s most popular series
Netanyahu Bears Responsibility for This Israel-Gaza War.
Attorney General Merrick Garland: The 60 Minutes Interview.
Three Perfect Breakfast Sandwiches. (This was my one New Yorker article for the month, and worth it.)
It's an honor to be quoted by Philip Bump in his Washington Post column, but -- the exact quote is -- "People come back to places that send them away." The sentiment is right. MuskCo is breaking that rule bigtime.
'Eve' author Cat Bohannon says medicine often ignores female bodies.
Two-way RSS is a big idea that's got to happen if we want a silo-free web
Chuck Grimmett: Setting up PagePark on a DigitalOcean Droplet.
Amazon's Starlink Rival Completes First Launch of Its Satellite Internet Network.
ChatGPT on the 2023 MacArthur Genius Grant fellows’ work.
The Moral Case for No Longer Engaging With Elon Musk’s X.
"When and if the political depression in America lifts, this is what what it will look like."
Amazon wants to charge a subscription fee for Alexa eventually.
Hakeem Jeffries: House Republicans must embrace bipartisanship.
Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet.
Chuck Grimmett has a FeedLand news product for his hometown of Peekskill, NY.
Biden Watches House Republicans’ Dysfunction From a Distance.
Target says it's closing 9 stores due to theft. The crime data tells a different story.
I asked ChatGPT if it's a coincidence that the MacArthur genius grants and the Nobel prizes were announced the same week this year.
Guardrails, gaslighting and surfacing forbidden knowledge in Large Language Models
X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better.
2015: People don't click links, that's why the 140-char limit will cripple Twitter.
Legislators Urging New York Guv to Sign Bill to Help Cannabis Farmers Sell Their Crop to Tribal Nations.
Musk is right. Long-form posts on Twitter work, no one clicks links.
2007: We already had mail lists before we had blogs. The whole notion that blogs should evolve to become mail lists seems to waste the blogs
John Palfrey, executive director of Berkman when I was there, writes about the inception of blogging at Harvard in 2003. John opened all the doors for the work we were doing.
Stevie Nicks Unveils a Barbie Made in Her Image at Madison Square Garden.
wpIdentity is a package that implements OAuth identity and a simple verb set with WordPress for Node.js apps.
At the play’s intermission, a person maybe a decade into retirement was walking along, talking to his companion, saying of King Lear, “That old guy is a wreck.”
"I have thought about using blogging prompts to suggest things to write about."
"I have thought about using blogging prompts to suggest things to write about."
"When a musician, a playwright or an entrepreneur takes a risk, they’re betting someone will care enough to hear them and engage with them."
The joke’s on New York as tons of legal weed rot in storage because of slow market rollout.
Drummer has a great set of GitHub verbs, which sometimes are very useful.
Gavin Newsom picks Laphonza Butler as Dianne Feinstein replacement.
Meta Launches AI Chatbots for Snoop Dogg, MrBeast, Kendall Jenner.
The 10 Essential Classic Rock Albums Every Music Lover Should Hear.
Has Google’s monopoly on the search engine market finally timed out?
Maybe chatbots will enable people to flame forever to a robot who will argue with them forever and not care.
Free software pioneer Stallman reveals cancer diagnosis.
I asked ChatGPT if my blogs, and work with feeds and podcasting and other tech qualifies as "IndieWeb." Also asked whether "open web" and IndieWeb are more or less the same thing. It said yes to pretty much all of it. To which I add, of course.
First Trump co-defendant pleads guilty in Fulton election case.
Why 2024 won’t be the year of AR, VR or any kind of immersive tech.
Mark Zuckerberg Can't Quit the Metaverse. (Or, be careful when you bet your company on a flaky concept.)
2013: Feed reader developers -- here's an easy way to differentiate your service and have your users love you even more
Inside the Rich and Raucous Legacy of New York’s Borscht Belt.
UAW VP for GM Mike Booth has strong words about Trump’s ‘verbal diarrhea.’
Tesla to face jury in first of several cases over Autopilot crashes.
Biden to Create Library Honoring His Friend and Rival John McCain.
How the New York Knicks Finally Built 'A Really Great Team.'
Phone call etiquette: Rules for calling, texting and leaving voice mails.
Grateful Geek: 50 Years of Apple and Other Tech Adventures, by Jean-Louis Gassée.
Jimmy Carter: With shutdown looming, Carter library moves up birthday celebration for 39th president.
The Damian Lillard Trade Changes Everything for the Milwaukee Bucks.
ChatGPT can now browse the internet to provide you with current and authoritative information, complete with direct links to sources. It is no longer limited to data before September 2021.
If Hurricane Rebuilding Is Affordable Only for the Wealthy, This Is the Florida You Get.
OIf Hurricane Rebuilding Is Affordable Only for the Wealthy, This Is the Florida You Get.
The New ChatGPT Can ‘See’ and ‘Talk.’ Here’s What It’s Like.
Let’s Not Sleepwalk Into Another Donald Trump Presidency.
I couldn't find a page on the web that explains what a Macintosh OS "refcon" is so I asked ChatGPT to write one. I can vouch for the accuracy, even beauty, of what it wrote.
Taylor Swift's Popularity Is A Sign Of Societal Decline. #goodtoknow
How Om Malik uses AI tools. I hope more people write about their experiences. I always get ideas from reading what others are doing. ;-)
The Berkman-hosted blogs from 2003 onward are now archived at Automattic. Thanks for protecting our legacy! :-)
Trump is cornered, under indictment, facing the deprivation of his liberty if convicted – and winning the presidency is his only way out. He will stop at nothing, do anything, and tear down everything to protect himself.
Biden Is the Only Viable Choice to Save Democracy. (Yes, and it's time for journalism to stop re-discovering this, and go to step #2.)
"We can't ignore the evidence – these serious declines in wildlife species populations are an indicator that nature is unraveling and that our planet is flashing red warning signs of systems failure," wrote Marco Lambertini, Director General of World Wildlife Fund International.
Beasley Launches 'Podcast Radio U.S.’ In Four Markets.
We have to rebuild the open web as much as we need to rebuild local journalism.
In the late 90s and into the 00s, we needed the term Sources Go Direct to focus our reporter friends on the role bloggers were playing. They jumped to the conclusion that we were trying to be reporters. Most of us were not.
A suggestion to friends investing in local news, it might be good to invest also in giving the sources of news better means to reach users of news. There's more to news than intermediaries.
I watched Barbie and my god what an AWFUL travesty of a plot and waste of talent. Made my stomach ache. A freaking commercial. Got an 80 on Metacritic. What is wrong with everyone! It was probably the worst movie ever made.
One of the new twitter-like services should specialize in hooking up with blogs. A chat system for bloggers? Threads hanging off each post? Cross-linking? Let's have long and short form work really well together.
Official Gmail Blog: 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address.
"[Cassidy Hutchinson] writes, Mr. Meadows burned so many documents in his fireplace in the final days of the Trump presidency that his wife complained to Ms. Hutchinson about how expensive it had become to dry-clean the “bonfire” aroma from his suits."
Even $500 million isn’t enough to save local journalism.
Cruise Ships Saddle Red Hook with Traffic 'Nightmare,' Toxic Fumes.
Nebraska mother sentenced to 2 years in prison for giving abortion pills to pregnant daughter.
Michael Wolff’s Rupert Murdoch Book ‘The Fall’ Jumps to Top of Bestseller Lists After Fox Succession.
Biden campaign sending Gavin Newsom to Republican debate.
Veselka -- Ukrainian home cooking in Grand Central Terminal in NYC.
"As late as 1939, London supplier Charles Roberson & Co. was unashamedly advertising mummy in its Catalogue of Artists’ Materials, where it was described as '[a] pigment prepared by grinding together the Bitumen and Bones of an Egyptian Mummy.'”
Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events.
Knicks Owner James Dolan - 'I Don't Like Owning Teams.'
Elder Care Should Be Collective. The Atomization of Aging Is a Giant Mistake.
Elder Care Should Be Collective. The Atomization of Aging Is a Giant Mistake.
It should have been simple for New York to set up its legal weed market: You put out a call for entrepreneurs, evaluate their pitches and let the best qualified folks set up weed dispensaries.
Tech Giants See Chatbots Everywhere, Including in Your Inbox. #nopaywall
A project begins with a protest that ends with, “we’ll be back tomorrow, and we’re bringing our friends.”
7 artworks by Egon Schiele are returned to heirs of the owner killed by Nazis.
A once-in-a-lifetime reunion: Talking Heads on 'Stop Making Sense.'
Forced Labor Continues in Colorado, Years After Vote to End Prison Slavery.
When they were feeling something they thought they were thinking. It’s a commonplace error. We all do it to some extent, but an education helps, widens the vocabulary, creates a little humility. —Bobbie Louise Hawkins
Seth Godin offers practical advice about using ChatGPT.
“A nerd tells a joke in a nightclub seated at a table with his nerdy girlfriend while watching a Beatles tribute band. Elvis is the waiter watching the band with envy.”
A nerd tells a joke in a nightclub seated at a table with his nerdy girlfriend while watching a Beatles tribute band. Elvis is the waiter watching the band with envy.
A nerd tells a joke in a nightclub seated at a table with his nerdy girlfriend while watching a Beatles tribute band. Elvis is the waiter watching the band with envy.
OpenAI’s new AI image generator pushes the limits in detail and prompt fidelity.
Google Says Switching Away From Its Search Engine Is Easy. It’s Not.
“Dissonance / (if you are interested) / leads to discovery.” ― William Carlos Williams
Americans don’t want AI that’s smarter than humans, a new poll reveals.
As a people, we say "literally" so much because we don't if anyone listening knows how to be serious about words.
Elephants on the march across African borders as heat stress leads to fatalities.
No doubt AI friends can be more like real friends than most actual human friends.
No doubt AI friends are more like real friends than most actual human friends.
"What we were hoping to do was to create a system by which we gathered in order to hear music that in some way served the spiritual needs of the audience. It didn’t work out that way. We abandoned our parents’ church, and we haven’t replaced it with anything solid and substantial. But I do still believe in it." --Pete Townshend
Puerto Rico hopes solar project will secure a more distributed electric system for future hurricanes.
Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive.
Google’s Bard chatbot can now find answers in your Gmail, Docs, Drive.
Trump Assistant Told The FBI He Gave Her 'To-Do Lists' On Back of Classified Docs
Olbermann suggests we all tune into Maddow tonight to see if she excoriates NBC for their ridiculous interview of the fascist insurrectionist.
Olbermann suggests we all tune into Maddow tonight to see if she calls out NBC for their ridiculous interview of the fascist insurrectionist.
He should be arrested and held without bail for crossing this line.
Elon Musk likes to think he saved us from Armageddon. He’s just brought it closer.
Bartolo Colon officially retires as a Met: 'This was the fan base that accepted me the most'.
"Romney was, not unlike the colleagues he criticizes, willing to say whatever it took to win power, even if it meant smearing nearly half the country as essentially unproductive and opening the door to some of the most corrosive forces in American political life."
'A colossal mistake to showcase this sociopath': NBC facing backlash after 'shameful' Trump interview airs.
I have started a new website, GeorgiaVTrump.com, to cover the Georgia 2020 election interference trial in Fulton County, Georgia. Links to pertinent news coverage will be posted, as well as timeline information and court documents as they are made available. In addition, since the trial proceedings are being made available on YouTube, this site will host a podcast with the audio from those proceedings.
Comments and suggestions are welcome, they can be added to posts, or emailed to info@georgiavtrump.com.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 709,000 Works of Art, Including Famous Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 709,000 Works of Art, Including Famous Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 709,000 Works of Art, Including Famous Works by Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Excellent version of Yer Blues from 1968, led by John Lennon with Keith Richards and Eric Clapton on guitar. Better than the Beatles original! Wow.
This change in Chrome in 2020 is the likely source of the end of the referer header value on the web. Something that sounds so esoteric is actually removing an important feature of the web, and it got little or no notice.
My daily blog posts and links go out via email every night at midnight Eastern.
We Thought We Were Saving the Planet, but We Were Planting a Time Bomb. #nopaywall
This is what I want for my blog -- all the themes going back to the beginning.
"The average number of heat waves in U.S. cities has increased from two to six per year since the 1960s, the Environmental Protection Agency says."
What's the address of my WordPress site in the Mastoverse?
I just got ChatGPT to write me a bit about how we used OPML for feed lists, in OPML.
Why OPML is used as the export format for lists of feeds.
If you need HTTPS on your server, you're working too hard if you don't run Caddy.
Google hid evidence by training workers to avoid words monopolists use, DOJ says.
Some days Olbermann's podcast is incredible. Today is one of those days.
In an excellent clip from the Sopranos TV series, a therapist tells Tony Soprano’s spouse Carmela that she’s fooling herself if she believes that she’s not helping Tony live a violent life as a Mafia gangster. She believes she’s merely living a private life, without public consequences, which the therapist blows past as a delusion or excuse. "One thing you can never say is that you haven't been told," he says. The private life is a powerful part of American mythology, the U.S. being, as we all recall, the owner and frequent user of the world’s most powerful military. (Via T.D.)
Some people he follows on Twitter have left but many are still there.
Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’, scientists find.
"These serious declines in wildlife species populations [indicate] that nature is unraveling and that our planet is flashing red warning signs of systems failure."
The World Lost Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife In 50 Years. We Are to Blame.
When I was leaving Cape Cod a couple of weeks ago, I stopped to charge my Tesla at a place that had a Dunkin' Donuts.
microblog.pub - A self-hosted, single-user, ActivityPub powered microblog.
I moved to Seattle for a high-paying tech job. It turned out to be the loneliest time of my life.
Scripting News: Federation vs Small Pieces Loosely Joined.
Elon Musk moving servers himself shows his 'maniacal sense of urgency' at X, formerly Twitter.
C.D.C. Advisers to Decide Who Should Receive New Covid Vaccines.
The next Sims will be free and won’t replace The Sims 4.
People feel less confident in their friendships if they discover that their buddies have been sending them messages written with the help of AI.
People feel less confident in their friendships if they discover that their buddies have been sending them messages written with the help of AI.
"People still think there's such a thing as an invention."
Ken Smith writes again on this topic, referring again to the need to organize to be successful in activism or other group projects. I recently finished listening to a podcast called "Panther: Blueprint for Black Power". The podcast tells the story of fighting for voting rights in Lowndes County, Alabama in 1965 and 1966, after passage of the Voting Rights Act. The "blueprint" is not very specific, basically the community organized with the help of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) for voter registration and voting. The community also created a separate political party, the Lowndes County Freedom Organization, to provide an alternate slate of candidates to oppose white supremacy Democratic candidates. Their symbol was the Black Panther, and this was the inspiration for the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California.
Ken Smith also brings up the topic of tools for organizing that were part of the 2008 Barack Obama campaign website. Thanks to Google, I found a site that collects presidential campaign websites, and saw there were several captures of the original Obama website. I looked at a page with the site after the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Reviewing the home page, there were ways for people to register with the site, to sign up for a newsletter, to find a local group where they could get involved, an area to volunteer to help, and (of course) a donation link. The bottom half of the page looked like a news blog where stories of interest could be posted and read. I assume that these "tools" are what Ken Smith is talking about.
All of these "tools" are pretty standard elements of website design for political websites (link is to collection of 2024 websites). I did a quick review of BuddyPress, a WordPress plugin that "helps you build any kind of community website using WordPress, with member profiles, activity streams, user groups, messaging, and more." (from the home page). I found an example of a NGO using this application, as well as a collection of 20 other examples. On a broader note, the Action Network provides organizing tools for groups (at some cost). I mention these examples to demonstrate that there are tools and applications available at little to no cost to provide ways for people to organize, read, and write on a topic or issue, so I do not see the "tools" issue as a problem (they exist, but require time and effort to set up and use). The "problem" is that there needs to be a group of people sufficiently interested in an issue to want to organize, and to take the time to use available tools to support that organization. As I have written earlier, the Community Tool Box from the University of Kansas is a comprehensive set of tools/methods to help communities identify issues and organize to address them. I welcome Ken's input on if the examples in this post meet his expectations of what people need to organize and take action.
Democrats Could Take Back House on Redistricting Alone.
Meta (aka Facebook) is reportedly working on a new AI model to rival GPT-4.
Google bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome.
Chipotle, Five Guys, Starbucks, McDonald's napkins: We tested which are the best.
No march on Washington is going to come of today's social media tools. But remember, as someone once said, the rich march on Washington every day. They march on Washington so often that they keep permanent offices there, on K Street. The rich and powerful certainly are organized.
Dave Winer: Here’s why every news organization should have a river.
Covid’s back, you say? As disabled and vulnerable people know all too well, it never went away.
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in Iowa — with a lot of water.
Dennis Austin, software developer who created PowerPoint, dies at 76. #nopaywall
How Elon Musk set Tesla on a new course for self-driving.
SunRay Kelley Didn’t Just Build Fantastical Homes—He Created Worlds.
If the Web is Small Pieces Loosely Joined, Web 2.0 is Small Pieces Trapped In A Silo.
New Mexico governor issues order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque.
Mr Hart, here's a dime. Call your mother and tell her there's serious doubt about your becoming a lawyer.
The university institute "turned in a different direction, focusing on people who studied the internet, rather than people who made the internet," behaving as universities tend to do.
Press Forward: New group pledges $500M to support local journalism.
It was mentioned in a discussion today that ChatGPT has an identifiable writing style, and it’s so true. Here’s 150 words on blueberry muffins.
Every university should host an open source project. It should be a process that lasts decades, spans generations. The goal is two-fold: Add to our technology, and to develop better developers.
Philanthropies Pledge $500 Million to Address Crisis in Local News. #nopaywall
"A Secure and Lucrative One-Stop Replacement for Your Many Stupid Social Media Pages" -- discussed in the near-future sci-fi/nonfiction novel The Ministry for the Future, chapter 54.
My friend Jeff Jarvis is retiring from CUNY. Can't wait to hear what's next! :-)
The Mystery Behind ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Cover Art Is Solved. #nopaywall
Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web.
Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web.
Is there any way the web to be open in the future or is it doomed to be forever controlled by the nerds in silicon valley? And do they really know what's best for us? Why?
Tucson's Molly Holzschlag, known as 'the fairy godmother of the web,' dead at 60.
United Airlines issued nationwide ground stop due to 'systemwide technology issue'.
Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator.
Another Study Shows No Link At All Between Social Media And Teen Anxiety And Depression.
Back in the 1970s when SQL was new, it was touted as an English-like database language. Now with ChatGPT you really can do database queries in actual English and it understands. Amazing. Whether the info is accurate or not (I suspect it is) is beside the point.
Google has spent a lot of effort to convince you that HTTP is not good. Let me have the floor for a moment to tell you why HTTP is the best thing ever.
10 fall TV standouts, including “Changeling” debut and “Frasier” reboot. #nopaywall
The Internet is burning away our photos, videos and older websites daily.
I decided to look at my FeedLand news feed today (was on a tab I had not looked at recently) and saw the newsfeed problem that Dave Winer wrote about today. I am still blocked from commenting on his Github repos, so posting a comment here. I ended up opening a new tab and doing a hard refresh (Ctrl-R), and the page refreshed.
Possibly the thought-police folks care less about banning any particular book than about cementing in place the existence of thought police.
James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding galaxies that shouldn’t exist, scientist warns.
These are all the people I follow on Bluesky in a FeedLand feed list. Most of them haven't updated in a long time, it seems (or there could be a bug in my software).
Burning Man 2023 rain keeps burners confined to camps.
Republican race remains stuck as Trump dominates heading into hell.
“The proposed rule would require that companies make it as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one."
Burning Man festival-goers told to conserve food and water.
Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled.
Listening to Ross Gay read yesterday about not being in a hurry, I thought: like porch-sitting, the literary essay records one person's quest for things that can only be found while meandering in a manner discouraged or even disallowed by capitalism.
'Margaritaville' singer Jimmy Buffett, who turned beach-bum life into an empire, dies at 76.
Donald Trump's election fraud trial in Georgia will be livestreamed .
Only 1,280 Breeding Humans Once Roamed Earth, Gene Study Shows.
VanMoof, Trendy E-Bike Brand, Bought Out of Bankruptcy by Scooter Maker.
Google’s AI-powered search expands outside U.S. to India and Japan.
A desperate appeal to newsroom leaders on the eve of a chaos election.
Large language models aren’t people. Let’s stop testing them as if they were. #thankyou
I asked ChatGPT why Fresca tastes so delicious and refreshing.
Great to hear a story by Heidi Roizen who I knew when the Mac was new. She was the entrepreneur's entrepreneur, and it's good to hear her sharing her experience with new entrepreneurs.
BloggerCon: The idea that almost everyone at a certain kind of focused public meeting writes publicly. (At our city council meetings, only a handful of people do, which in some ways shifts political power out of their hands.)
Death on K2: the Real Story of Why Climbers Stepped Over a Dying Man.
The origin of the term "unconference" -- it doesn't mean what you think it means. ;-)
Yesterday, I was able to use MyStatusTool, my minimal blogging tool, to capture URLs from a set of open tabs on my phone. I structured the posts with the website link, then the title of the post. I was able to post to my instance, all from my phone. The hardest part was selecting the text for the link. I use the Brave web browser, and another menu would pop up before the editor toolbar, so I had to tap several times to get to the link button. I think I will keep trying this as a way to capture links for later use/classification.
Electric Vehicle Charging Can Be Confusing. Here’s What to Know.
How we make many poor students pay more for college in America.
In 1993, she wrote two reviews of Le Cirque: 1. Dinner as the Unknown Diner and 2. Dinner as a Most Favored Patron.
Once upon a time a political campaign used web tools that made it easy for people to work together as activists where they lived. The tools helped someone get elected with great excitement to the U.S. Presidency. Upon arrival in the White House, they shut the thing down. Now it's a fading memory.
Ken Smith posted recently, continuing to riff on musical performances (here, being on Ed Sullivan) and also remembering his posts on Pete Seeger, and relating them to acts of activism. In the recent post, he notes how people go to concerts and are more disposed to spend money on things related to the concert/group they heard. As consumers, they already know how to spend money on things that they want. For a performance by a musical activist, there should be information/flyers/greeters at the end to communicate about "how to affiliate with others and help move the issue forward in our civic life" (my idea) (quote from Ken's recent post).
For any issue, there are people for it and against it. Attending a concert where an activist performs could be considered an act of activism, but (as Ken Smith says) if there is no follow-through, the momentum/energy of the event fades away. So - what to do about it? Here, I think some distinction should be drawn between the person who is already an activist and a person who thinks they want to be an activist, but are not sure what to do. If a person is an activist, and is not having much success in promoting an issue or cause, perhaps one of the ideas from my Activism in Atlanta post is appropriate (find the organization that is already working on that problem). Hillary Rettig, in her book "The Lifelong Activist", has an entire section on how to be more successful in pursuing activism ( the full text of the book is available as a free PDF). In a November 2022 post, Ken Smith lists 6 areas of what he calls the "activism toolkit" that could also apply here.
Google search for "future-safe archives" on my blog, scripting.com.
I've been asking for someone to do this for a very long time. Glad to see WordPress is stepping up with the Long Now Foundation.
Warner Bros. Discovery to Add CNN Channel to Max Streaming Service.
"Taking liberal arts education away from the least privileged — implying that they are future laborers and nothing else — helps ensure that they develop a resentment of 'elites.' That’s an animus whose political consequences should be uncomfortably familiar by now." --Leif Weatherby
Hospitals are killing patients because they don't feel like doing infection control.
It may be time to break out the masks against Covid, some experts say.
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin dies in plane crash in Russia.
well-known-feeds is an interesting idea from DanQ that facilitates the discovery of feeds, and yes that's a great thing. I can think of a few sites that would benefit from such a feature.
Michael Wolff’s new book predicts the fall of Fox News.
How ChatGPT turned generative AI into an “anything tool.”
Matt Mullenweg on WordCamps. This year's event starts tomorrow in the DC area.
Matt Mullenweg on WordCamps. This year's WC starts tomorrow in the DC area.
A WordPress plugin that adds the source:markdown source:markdownelement to RSS feeds.
"To prevent those who would hijack algorithms for power, we need a pro-choice movement for algorithms. We, the users, should be able to decide what we read at the newsstand." --@JuliaAngwin
According to tech and business pubs Facebook has "launched" their threads app for the open web. If it's launched, what is the URL?
What to Know About the Latest Covid Wave in New York City.
Twitter is planning to hide headlines from news links.
If you’re going to be “humanity’s collective consciousness” you should maybe try to to avoid making years worth of images inaccessible. #oops
Rockaway Beach's Breezy, Rusty Modular Bathrooms Turn 10.
Why the Rollout of Legal Marijuana Is Taking So Long in New York.
Twitter Deletes All User Photos And Links From 2011-2014.
I did a search for "activism 101" yesterday, and found an episode of the podcast While Black, recorded in 2019, interviewing an activist called City. City does activism in Atlanta, Georgia, with a current focus on police brutality. I listened to it today, and jotted down some notes when the interviewer asked for three things that someone who wants to get involved in activism should do (35-40 minutes into the podcast):
Wes ‘Scoop’ Nisker, Bay Area radio pioneer and Buddhist teacher, dies at 80.
“He never listens to his lawyers. But he listened this time, didn’t he? Why? Because he’s scared. He is scared he’s just a couple of steps away from that jail cell closing behind him.”
James Buckley, conservative politician and U.S. senator, dies at 100.
Ken Smith posted some quotes from Pete Seeger recently, where Seeger states that working within one's home community is the most important work we have to do right now (Ken's post title is "Essential Local Politics"). I feel that there is a great amount of information available online to help/assist/train individuals how to do work/activism within their communities. I have a list of resources available here, but I think the Community Tool Box from the University of Kansas is an excellent place to find frameworks for identifying an issue or issues to get involved with, and to identify concrete next steps.
In an earlier post, Ken Smith appears to express the opinion that he would like to see tools that help people get together to do work, to create content, to organize activities, and to have identity to allow them to affiliate with others and have a stronger voice. In a similar way to my first paragraph, I think there are many available online tools to help people with this work. Stephen Downes has created a massive resource called "Creating an Online Community, Class or Conference - Quick Tech Guide". I think the tools identified here could satisfy a lot of what Ken is looking for supporting activism. I welcome Ken's input on this.
Pixelfed is a free and open-source image sharing social network service.
I'm trying oat milk in my iced coffee, and so far I like it.
Woodstock National development would be largest in town’s history.
Ken Smith has written a reply to my post on engaging and curation. In the post, he discusses "standing searches" for a topic or phrase, and how (to me) that curating RSS feeds can be a search at a particular level. He also addresses the topic of activism, and how the concept of search might apply there, but that activism needs something more. I would like to explore this more.
The most common type of "standing search" I am aware of is Google Alerts (see link to this at Google). I am sure there are other services providing this type of functionality. As for curating RSS feeds, this can be done for private consumption using any feed reader (Feedly, River5, The Old Reader, FeedLand, and so on). I like using River5 because it supports display of aggregated feeds (or rivers) easily in a single page application (such as bloggers using the Old School blogging tool in Drummer, bloggers using the 1999.io blogging tool, and writers from Politico following the Ukraine war).
So, curation can be performed by collecting feeds that generally post on a topic. However, these feeds may benefit from further curation, in that if a user is interested in a subset of stories/posts contained within those feeds, it could be distilled into an even more focused list of stories/posts. The Radio Userland tool supported creating feeds of this kind in an easy manner, displaying items from subscribed feeds and checkboxes next to the items if you wanted to copy those into an editing window and then post them in a particular category on your weblog. I think there is a need for this kind of tool - I am going to try to prototype this in the near future.
Another level of curation could be to provide additional text/narration/analysis of the stories/posts - to add more value than just a link and the initial paragraph from the post - to tell the reader why they should take a look at this post. Blogger Jason Kottke been practicing this type of blogging for a long time. Currently, several people whose work I follow add this analysis within the context of a newsletter (Stephen Downes' OLDaily, Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from An American, and Joyce Vance's Civil Discourse are excellent examples).
All of the above examples can feed into groups of people interested in activism related to a particular topic. Jennifer Hofmann runs the Americans of Conscience Checklist. Started as a single person effort, this site has grown into a group of people who review items to include in the checklist, and organize the work of distribution. The checklist itself is a set of concrete actions to protest or support different issues. From past posts to the website, it is apparent that multiple people are monitoring activities of multiple websites/organizations, and the group draws on this information to select issues to push out to subscribers. Ken Smith himself has created lists of things to do in Indianapolis, which is another example of organizing information for use.
To sum up, I think that there are tools that can be used and workflows that can be defined to support curation and engagement. I have tried to collect some resources/food for thought in this post. I welcome Ken's further thoughts on this topic.
Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.
Ken,
I am glad you took a look at the Americans of Conscience Checklist! I also enjoyed the two quotes from Pete Seeger today. From your posts, I get the sense that you are still searching or have a desire to find tools/techniques to support activism. Am I reading that correctly?
Did you ever look at this list I put together?
I have not spent hardly any time looking at this list I assembled, but I think this is a good place to look for tools/techniques for activism. I know we both have an interest in activism, but it seems like I am having a problem breaking out of "consumption mode"...
Is there a topic in your local community you are interested in? I remember you were on some county planning committee or board. I think I want to look into how elections are run in Oregon, but I have not been able to take any steps toward this. Maybe I need to refine what my interest is in this topic.
I am planning to explore a tool/app to be able to easily post items from a RSS feed or group of feeds to some readable page/site/something, like Radio UserLand had. I will be posting some workflow thoughts on this soon.
Let's keep the conversation going!
Andy
I did an interview with Andrew Keen today about the origins of blogging, RSS and podcasting.
These Hudson Valley Hiking Trails Are Filled With History & Ruins.
Trump has 10 days to voluntarily surrender in Georgia.
A.I. Can’t Build a High-Rise, but It Can Speed Up the Job.
Trump, 18 others indicted for trying to overthrow 2020 Georgia election.
Georgia grand jury indicts Trump in 2020 election interference probe.
Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains.
Ken Smith has written a reply to my post on engaging and curation. In the post, he discusses "standing searches" for a topic or phrase, and how (to me) that curating RSS feeds can be a search at a particular level. He also addresses the topic of activism, and how the concept of search might apply there, but that activism needs something more. I would like to explore this more.
The most common type of "standing search" I am aware of is Google Alerts (see link to this at Google). I am sure there are other services providing this type of functionality. As for curating RSS feeds, this can be done for private consumption using any feed reader (Feedly, River5, The Old Reader, FeedLand, and so on). I like using River5 because it supports display of aggregated feeds (or rivers) easily in a single page application (such as bloggers using the Old School blogging tool in Drummer, bloggers using the 1999.io blogging tool, and writers from Politico following the Ukraine war).
So, curation can be performed by collecting feeds that generally post on a topic. However, these feeds may benefit from further curation, in that if a user is interested in a subset of stories/posts contained within those feeds, it could be distilled into an even more focused list of stories/posts. The Radio Userland tool supported creating feeds of this kind in an easy manner, displaying items from subscribed feeds and checkboxes next to the items if you wanted to copy those into an editing window and then post them in a particular category on your weblog. I think there is a need for this kind of tool - I am going to try to prototype this in the near future.
Another level of curation could be to provide additional text/narration/analysis of the stories/posts - to add more value than just a link and the initial paragraph from the post - to tell the reader why they should take a look at this post. Blogger Jason Kottke been practicing this type of blogging for a long time. Currently, several people whose work I follow add this analysis within the context of a newsletter (Stephen Downes' OLDaily, Heather Cox Richardson's Letters from An American, and Joyce Vance's Civil Discourse are excellent examples).
All of the above examples can feed into groups of people interested in activism related to a particular topic. Jennifer Hofmann runs the Americans of Conscience Checklist. Started as a single person effort, this site has grown into a group of people who review items to include in the checklist, and organize the work of distribution. The checklist itself is a set of concrete actions to protest or support different issues. From past posts to the website, it is apparent that multiple people are monitoring activities of multiple websites/organizations, and the group draws on this information to select issues to push out to subscribers. Ken Smith himself has created lists of things to do in Indianapolis, which is another example of organizing information for use.
To sum up, I think that there are tools that can be used and workflows that can be defined to support curation and engagement. I have tried to collect some resources/food for thought in this post. I welcome Ken's further thoughts on this topic.
I am writing a post with some markdown text in it. Here's a list of places:
That should come out as a markdown list. And here are some bits of styled text.
New York City Animal Shelters Are Bursting. #nopaywall
I asked ChatGPT to write a story about the 1962 NY Mets, with a few parameters, names of people to mention, but most of this was created by the bot.
Ken Smith recently wrote about engaging others on a topic and on curation - I have a few comments.
From the engaging others post:
From the curation post:
These are important ideas. The first suggested that there should be ways for readers to engage and stay engaged with a subject or topic. The second suggests that there are workflows that could be created to follow posts on a topic and create linkblogs or other collections that could curate the best info out there. For both of these, it sounds like users and developers should start to "party" and work together as mentioned in a number of Dave Winer posts (Dear Doc and Dave, What I Wanted from Blogging, What I Wanted from Blogging Part 2, Scripting News from January 22, 2020). If anyone is interested in working together on these ideas, let me know!
Louis DeJoy: From Trump villain to Biden’s clean energy buddy.
A conversation with the newspaper owner raided by cops.
ChatGPT wrote this short story for me. This is how I generate entertaining examples that help me debug new software I'm writing.
Jeopardy will continue with new shows by repurposing old answers in a new season, won't halt because of writer's strike.
‘Liar,’ ‘loser,’ a ‘national security threat’: Hurd rips into Trump.
"You often hear music and don't understand it, and then the music itself reveals itself to you when you need it in your life." --Elvis Costello
Adults-only farmers market in New Paltz, New York showcases legal marijuana products.
Two Students Unravel a Widely Believed Math Conjecture.
News Corp profits dive 75% as Rupert Murdoch-owned company hints at AI future.
1996: A fantasy in which I dreamed I was the new CEO of Apple Computer.
How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox.
Robbie Robertson, Guitarist and Songwriter With the Band, Dies at 80.
Doc's three Harvard blogs have been restored by Automattic.
500-Year-Old Incan Ice Mummies That Are Both Haunting and Fascinating.
Everybody’s in show biz, it doesn’t matter who you are.
"Donald J. Trump won 53.3 percent of Ohio’s votes in the 2020 presidential election. But Republicans control 67 percent of seats in the State House — and 79 percent in the State Senate. Last November, 85 percent of Ohio’s state legislative races were uncontested or were won by 10 percentage points or more . . ." @MiWine
Who Needs Meta or Google for News? Use ‘Really Simple Syndication.’
Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment for sale for $6.5 million.
One of 2023's most extreme heatwaves is happening in the middle of winter.
Do Developers Tend To Scrap Or Ship Their First Drafts?
Google Maps is an eyesore. 5 examples of how the app has lost its way.
What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is now doing to the motor industry.
From the NYT: "Gift articles can only be shared using the Gift button and the gift sharing options available. Articles can not be gifted or shared using non-gift social sharing options, or by copying and pasting the article URL into a web browser." (Seems like all my nopaywall posts are bogus?)
San Diego Library Protest Against Pride Books Draws a Backlash. #nopaywall
"Teaches users they have a right to demand it." (What a good product or service does in the marketplace.)
How Large Language Models Assisted a Website Makeover.
Used to be if you followed the daily writing of 15 interesting bloggers, each one would be following 10 different bloggers and journalists you weren't following, and your 15 would keep you informed about the daily or weekly writing of 150 people they respected.
The new icon for the service formerly known as Twitter is so garish and glaringly ugly that I had to move it off its former place of practicality and honor on the iPad's Home Screen.
Embracing the Impossible. What if magic is our most probable path.
John Eastman Comes Clean: Hell Yes We Were Trying to Overthrow the Government.
Bill Keller on "The Americanization of British prisons" and what exactly is wrong with that. (audio)
"It is hard to imagine a [prison] system more perfectly designed for failure than ours in the US, which in the name of 'corrections' helps perpetuate a cycle of poverty, crime, community dysfunction and despair." --Bill Keller
"It is hard to imagine a system more perfectly designed for failure than ours in the US, which in the name of 'corrections' helps perpetuate a cycle of poverty, crime, community dysfunction and despair." --Bill Keller
Justice Clarence Thomas’s $267,230 RV and the Friend Who Financed It.
The trap of habit, or why artists are always making the strangest things.
"Los residentes de Nuevo México fueron los primeros sujetos humanos de prueba del arma más poderosa del planeta. / The people of New Mexico were the first human test subjects of the world’s most powerful weapon."
Mark Margolis, the actor who played Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad.
How Jack Smith Structured the Trump Election Indictment to Reduce Risks.
COVID hospitalizations: They are going up, but it’s not an emergency.
Can't talk 'em out of it -- the well-earned, long-simmering rage, that is.
"Presidential historian Michael Beschloss has argued that, given America’s fractured and distorting media lens, the trial of Donald Trump should be broadcast live on television so every voter can witness how no one, not even a president, is above the law."
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." --A.J. Liebling
About half of US Republicans could spurn Trump if he is convicted.
Open-Water Swimming: What to Know About the Aquatic Workout.
It's been a while since I looked at the "everything" timeline in FeedLand. A bunch of people have subscribed to Bluesky feeds, and they are the most active, and also support rssCloud (!) so the list is skewed toward Bluesky posts from people who are on now.
Kurt Vonnegut: 'The Beatles make people appreciate being alive.'
Apple Secretly Looks For Candidates That Are Willing to Say These 3 Little Words. #spoiler #i-don't-know
Hurley’s planning board to revisit Dunkin’ drive-thru.
Did Trump really try to “reverse his loss?” That doesn’t convey the violence. Or the incredible illegality and immorality. Honestly these are cowardly words.
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work.
Grand jury indicts Donald Trump for alleged 2020 election conspiracies.
The Atlantic is frying, but so far hurricanes are dying. What’s going on?
"If you have something to say you should be blogging it."
2015: Even if no one read my blog, I'd still write it.
How white Americans used lynchings to terrorize and control black people.
Daring Fireball: Nobody Uses Threads Anymore, It’s Too Crowded.
Carl Reiner Hosts Young Comedian, Pee Wee Herman. (1980?)
Paul Reubens, Creator of Pee-wee Herman, Is Dead at 70. #nopaywall
Bearsville Center owner Lizzie Vann buys Lashers, pledges architectural integrity.
Daytona is an outline-based search engine that indexes my blog going back to 1994, with big gaps, but it’s still interesting and sometimes useful.
DALL·E: Homer Simpson throwing first pitch at Mets World Series game.
I drive a Tesla because it's a great car. No other reason.
DALL·E: Homer Simpson throwing first pitch at Mets World Series game.
I asked DALL-E to create "a new corporate logo that's a mix of HBO and the Twitter bird."
"Yet we become less employable as we climb the high end of the demographic ladder, but not because we can’t do the work. It’s mostly because we look old and our tolerance for bullshit is low. Even our own, which is another bonus." --Doc Searls
When big tech companies say they love open formats and protocols, that means they're launching something new and they're just saying that so you relax about their intentions, which haven't actually changed at all.
When big tech companies say they love open formats and protocols, that means they're launching something new and they're just saying that so you relax about their intentions, which haven't actually changed at all.
When big tech companies say they love open formats and protocols, that means they're launching something new and they're just saying that so you relax about their intentions, which haven't actually changed at all.
"It's truly a hat trick to announce your ethics can't be scrutinized in an interview it was unethical to give in the first place."
It's truly a hat trick to announce your ethics can't be scrutinized in an interview it was unethical to give in the first place.
"Doing human networks at mass scale isn’t a baby game, as the moral brine shrimp in charge of the big networks keep demonstrating." Erin Kissane sorts the reasons people give for leaving Mastodon.
"Cities require successful people to have so much at stake — literally — in a particular place that they can’t walk away."
John Fetterman, Hoodie and All, Is Adjusting to Life in the Senate. #nopaywall
Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints
Trump accused of asking staffer to delete camera footage in Florida classified documents case.
This is what Scripting News would be like if it was a WordPress site.
A disempowered people not allowed to explain themselves in public in language of their own choosing, in words they see as adequate to their experiences--this happens to groups in the United States all the time. Other people's words and categories dominate the country's understanding of their lives.
A disempowered people not allowed to explain themselves in public in language of their own choosing, in words they see as adequate to their experiences -- this happens to groups in the United States all the time. Other people's words and categories dominate the country's understanding of their lives.
"We become clockwork oranges if we accept all this pop culture without asking what's in it." --Pauline Kael, in a 1972 review of the film in the NYer that argues that Kubrick celebrates violence and the main character that carries it out.
Mitch McConnell abruptly stops mid-sentence during press conference.
Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56.
Water off Florida's tip may have broken a world record.
Trademark Disputes Could Mean Elon’s ‘X’ Is Already Fxxked.
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users.
Texas A&M put professor on leave for allegedly criticizing Dan Patrick.
Gulf Stream shutoff could happen this century, scientists warn.
At the restaurant, in the outdoor seating, we were not far from a group of about a dozen at a large table. They were having a good time, and then after a while, they all stood up, walked fifteen feet out into the garden there, and had a brief wedding. Then they sat down for dessert!
Rolling Stones, Sympathy For The Devil, Live at Tokyo Dome 1990.
Blazers’ Lillard Trade Request ‘Bad for NBA,’ Says Veteran PG.
New York Is Now Accepting Applications For Marijuana Farmers Markets.
"Let's fix that now" -- how the steakhouse owner transformed an unhappy customer.
Now Elon Musk wants to kill one of the best known brands there is, in favor of X.
Threads has one big advantage over Twitter: Zuck gets advertising.
Privilege is the way men prime power / the world over. -- Beowulf: A New Translation by @MariaDahvana.
Ted Howard found a place where you can download MORE II. Could come in handy in the future.
A podcast I recorded with my parents on May 2, 2005, my 50th birthday, at a diner in Bay Terrace in Queens.
A podcast I recorded with my parents on May 2, 2005, my 50th birthday, at a diner in Bay Terrace in Queens.
During the Second World War, a poem by Charles Reznikoff.
“Magic is a very optimistic art form. It brings out the inner child. It’s a gentle reminder that you’re never going to know everything.” --Magician Harry Milas
Seeing a good number of paintings by Van Gogh in Chicago Thursday that I've never seen images of in the past, I start thinking that art history teachers or articles often reduce a serious artist to a handful of points and ignore 90% of how the person arrived at the craft displayed in the most famous paintings. Reductive, flattening, sucking the spirit from the artist's journey.
When journalism refers to "Facebook" I don't think they're ever clear on which Facebook they're talking about. Because Facebook is at least eight things.
The Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago circles the space with a timeline that gives a great sense of the progress in innovation and collaboration among a group of painters.
Zachary Vance is looking for someone with a copy of MORE 2 or who knows how to read such files in MORE 3 or has some idea what to do with such a file? He's trying to extract the text from a book that was written with MORE 2 back in the day.
Not sure there's a more transient set of pleasures than the highlights of a baseball game.
The FDA approved the US’ first over-the-counter birth control pill. What happens next?
Visited a major American city this week, and unscheduled we ran into three folks from our home town.
Paul Simon Deconstructs Mrs Robinson. A fantastic musical interview.
From the trailer, it seems Barbie is trying to be The Matrix?
How a freshman brought down Stanford University's president.
Sarah Lawrence College takes swipe at the Supreme Court, inviting students to write their application essay about the court's ruling that tossed affirmative action.
The next Mazda MX-5 Miata might be an electric vehicle.
The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president.
In a century-old ball park, with a nice breeze and lots of action on the field, we enjoyed an evening with friends.
Ta-Nehisi Coates attends school board meeting to back teacher told to stop using his book on racism.
How dull and lifeless and disneyfied a perfectly moderated social network is.
How dull and lifeless and disneyfied a perfectly moderated social network is.
You can see how dull and lifeless and disneyfied a perfectly moderated social network is.
Esopus Creek, flowing toward the Hudson, viewed from the rail trail in Boiceville, NY.
Time-Travelling with Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary | The New Yorker
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July - The New York Times
Vox Media stops using Chorus, proprietary CMS, for its own websites.
What is the fediverse and why does Threads want to join? (Pretty sure them saying they wanted to join was bullshit to get the journos to be nice to them.)
Trump notified he is target in DOJ’s Jan. 6 investigation.
Heat Wave Updates: Extreme Heat Hits U.S., Europe and China - The New York Times
Heat Wave Updates: Extreme Heat Hits U.S., Europe and China - The New York Times
New Heat Wave Descends on Europe, as It Struggles to Adapt - The New York Times
Europe Heat Wave: What to Know About Temperatures in Italy, Greece and Spain - The New York Times
What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades -- The New York Times
What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades - The New York Times
Opinion | What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades - The New York Times
Opinion | Fixing Health Care Starts With the Already Insured - The New York Times
It's haunting to scroll through a few NY Times articles and see advertisements showing that the surveil-algo machines have locked onto the fact that I need new glasses.
On April 1, 1985, in a long story, Sports Illustrated claimed that the Mets had a new pitcher, Hayden (Sidd) Finch, who threw a 168 mph fastball with good control.
On April 1, 1985, in a long story, Sports Illustrated broke the news that the Mets had a new pitcher, Hayden (Sidd) Finch, who threw a 168 mph fastball with good control.
Climate Change’s Effects on 193 Countries - The New York Times, 2021 feature.
Great Moments in Pledge Drive History: The Sunday Puzzle, 2023
News postings are always a judgment call, but sometimes our regional NPR station offers a very grim Indiana News page.
Prague Through the Lens of the Secret Police – mining the archive of surveillance photographs taken of citizens by the secret police behind the Iron Curtain.
"Aha! With Alastair" is an occasional podcast conversation with the director of the South Bend Symphony.
WVPE has launched a monthly, hour-long podcast on arts, music, and culture in the Michiana region, called The Sauce.
White-tailed deer display high transmission of coronavirus, study finds.
Roughly speaking, we need the air conditioning to protect us from the heat waves that the air conditioning is causing.
Roughly speaking, we need the air conditioning to protect us from the heat waves that the air conditioning is causing.
Brewing El Niño Suggests the Worst Heat Is Yet to Come.
"It would be easy to add an extra field on skeets, toots, posts and notes, that allows for metadata to be added as tags, rather than visual hashtags."
Paul Simon: Still Crazy After All These Years (Live from Central Park, 1991).
Decades ago, in Manhattan, one church gained a reputation of being welcoming to all who sought community there, even disreputable people like actors.
Human intelligence and machine intelligence might be the same thing.
Tiny Awards, a celebration of the small, playful, and heartfelt web.
There was a time when all computers were basically the same. Big honkers in air conditioned rooms with raised floors. You had to have a degree to run one.
Former Grateful Dead & The Rolling Stones Tour Manger Sam Cutler Has Died.
"The economic pressure on farmers today is such that most can’t even afford to practice crop rotation. And without that sort of care, we’re not farming. We’re mining the topsoil!"
Goldie Hawn is asked why she and Kurt Russell aren't married.
Can you imagine a man writing this kind of piece about a woman?
Hollywood studios proposed AI contract that would give them likeness rights ‘for the rest of eternity.’
Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme.
A lot of people who make big decisions in Silicon Valley think that having taken a comp sci class 20 years ago is the same thing as being a commercial developer.
Rich people poison everything they touch. (I don't necessarily agree, but he makes a good argument.)
Meta-provided Facebook chats led a woman to plead guilty to abortion-related charges.
After Trump sabotaged Obamacare, Biden limits junk insurance again. #nopaywall
Grand jury selected to consider Donald Trump election fraud case.
FeedLand now does a better job with posts without titles.
'The Bear' fans put Molly Gordon’s character on blast for being a 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl.'
They say this is an AI-generated trailer for Heidi. If true, wow. I suspect a human did this. And if so, wow. It's just freaking great.
I'm echoing my blog posts on a WordPress site. I recently got my connection to WordPress going again. It all looks pretty good, and I get to edit my posts in my outliner.
Nebraska Mom Pleads Guilty to Giving Abortion Pills to Her Teen Daughter.
I added a What is This? section to the Thread Writer docs page.
If Threads is the final nail in Twitter’s coffin, where will the journalists and politicos go?
With all the hoopla about the Threads app from Instagram/Facebook, I was reminded of a post from Tantek Celik (Own Your Notes), bringing out these points (see this comic for context):
I have also written about owning your content (here, here and here). Of course, posting this on my Old School blog goes against this (although I have an OPML backup that I could render somehow), which is why I am also posting this on my main blog (WordPress self-hosted). People may feel that what they post on services like Threads, Twitter, Mastodon, et al, is more like conversations that do not need to be "owned". However, if there is a way to pipe your conversation into a flow where you still own the content (like MyStatusTool), why not do it?
Flooding in New York’s Hudson Valley Leaves at Least 1 Dead. #nopaywall
On this day in 2003, Chris Lydon did the first podcast in his 20 year series, certainly the longest-running podcast on the web, and imho unapproached in excellence. I recorded an ode to Chris and his producer, Mary McGrath, on my blog today.
NBA officially unveils format, groups for new in-season tournament.
I already have accounts on Twitter, Mastodon, and Micro.blog - that's enough social networks for me. I have a Drummer Old School blog, my main Wordpress blog, and now my minimal blogging tool MyStatusTool (here is my instance) - that's enough blogging tools for me. Someday I will get my Federated Wiki instance working again (hopefully soon), meanwhile I have my OPML Zettlekasten file to file things. I think that's enough!
I already have accounts on Twitter, Mastodon, and Micro.blog - that's enough social networks for me. I have a Drummer Old School blog, my main Wordpress blog, and now my minimal blogging tool MyStatusTool (here is my instance) - that's enough blogging tools for me. Someday I will get my Federated Wiki instance working again (hopefully soon), meanwhile I have my OPML Zettlekasten file to file things. I think that's enough!
If you want to get an idea what reading the news is like in FeedLand, here's a glimpse at my world.
Why Meta’s Take on Twitter Feels Soulless. (It’s designed that way.)
Users aren't on their own that adventurous. They like to use what everyone else is using, which makes the bootstrap hard. But the platform vendor can provide the magic that gets it going.
Krugman: "The craziest faction in U.S. politics right now isn’t red-hatted blue-collar guys in diners, it’s technology billionaires living in huge mansions and flying around on private jets." #nopaywall
2010: A bootstrap of 1000 miles begins with a single step.
Threads isn’t for news and politics, says Instagram’s boss. (Then it's not competing with Twitter.)
Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling?
All I want is a playground with an open API and enough creative users to try out new ideas from developers.
IEEE Spectrum: How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah - Adobe and Pixar founders created tech that shaped modern animation - I used image generators from Evans and Sutherland earlier in my career, then they were purchased by Rockwell Collins (now Collins Aerospace) to be part of their simulation business. Exciting times back then!
This is an example of a post from Bluesky embedded on a test website.
Apparently this will be the fediverse address of my account on Threads.
‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise.
Instagram’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly went live on the web.
Just added the medium-editor to MyStatusTool, wrote about the integration of that feature on my main blog.
Apple, Google confirm new EU 'gatekeeper' law applies to them.
Call them Facebook, not Meta. They're trying to run away from their legacy, but it's very relevant. People should know it's coming from Facebook not "Meta."
Most of the FeedLand followers for my Drummer blog have wandered off, alas.
I was wondering if the W3C feed validator has an API. I'd like to submit my feed to it periodically to keep track of changes.
Facebook owner Meta to launch Twitter rival on Thursday.
Instagram's Rival App to Twitter Appears to Be on Google Play Store.
Making titleless items a bit more readable in FeedLand.
Sriracha prices soar amid ongoing supply shortage linked to droughts.
Tesla To Add Official Support for Third-Party Services and Apps.
Former Israeli space security chief says aliens exist, humanity not ready.
We can influence the future, but we can’t pretend it doesn’t exist.
The man named in the Supreme Court's gay rights ruling says he didn't request a wedding website.
Jack Nicholson winning Best Actor for As Good As It Gets.
Smoke will keep pouring into the US as long as fires are burning in Canada. Here’s why they aren’t being put out.
River5 update - the missing feed re-appeared in the Old School Drummers river - go figure! I may still do a fresh install and restart, will continue to monitor this situation.
Long before Alan Arkin was in Little Miss Sunshine he starred in Catch-22.
Twitter has started blocking unregistered users from viewing tweets.
Twitter's API keeps breaking, even for developers paying $42,000.
Biden Says Supreme Court Hurt Credibility, But Shouldn’t Expand.
Alan Arkin, Comic Actor With a Serious Side, Dies at 89.
How Google Reader died — and why the web misses it more than ever.
It is easy to fall into a "consumption" mode of life, where most if not all free time is spent taking in news and information about things, but not producing anything with that news/information, or not producing anything at all. Similarly, it is easier to comment on the current state of affairs in the world than it is to take action to make something happen. It is easier to complain about your job, or neighbors, or other people or events, than to make some change (get a different job, find new friends, move).
To me it comes down to three things: (1) what do you want?, (2) what do you need to do to get what you want?, and (3) what are you doing about it? I have problems with the first one, for sure. Trying to make a decision about what to do with my free time, or what thing I want to change in my life, can be a difficult process - there are so many choices, and only so much time. If I do not decide what I want, I can't move on to items 2 and 3.
Here is an excerpt from a post by Gary North (paywalled), writing on "What Do You Really Want to Achieve?":
Finally, this post breaks down this method of making progress (even though it focuses on screenwriting, the advice is sound for any endeavor):
Time to get started figuring out what I want!
During the month of June, I noticed that items from Ken Smith's Old School Drummer blog were not showing up as part of the Old School Bloggers river. I checked the river file generated by the River5 feed reader, and saw that items from Ken Smith stopped after May 31st. I created a duplicate of the Old School Drummers list, but did not see any recent items from Ken Smith's feed after I created the list. I am going to install a fresh copy of River5 today for testing, but thought I would send out this word in case any other River5 users are seeing this issue. The strange thing to me is Ken's feed is the only one affected out of nine feeds. If you have seen this issue, let me know!
I wanted to know how to create a blob in Node, but my fingers typed blog. Remarkably ChatGPT had a recipe for creating a blog in Node.
US Supreme Court overturns race-based college admissions.
Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest.
Twitter’s New CEO, Linda Yaccarino, Eases Into the Hot Seat. #nopaywall
I never saw podcasting as an "industry." It's a form of human expression. No problem with trying to make money from what you do, but it's also fine to do it because you have something important to say. Or you learn from doing it. Or whatever reason.
Apple uploads entire first episode of ‘Silo’ on Twitter ahead of season finale.
The Second Arrangement -- the lost Steely Dan song, was supposed to be on Gaucho album.
‘The most important cassette on the planet’: how Steely Dan fans uncovered their holy grail.
Interestingly, Harvard's statement about the shutdown of the blogging server is on the blogging server itself.
Interestingly, Harvard's statement about the shutdown of the blogging server is on the blogging server itself.
Interestingly, Harvard's statement about the shutdown of the blogging server is on the blogging server itself. Did they think this through? What kind of university deliberately erases a record of its innovation? I don't get it.
All kinds of good stuff is going 404 when Harvard shuts down the original blogging server on Friday. It really shouldn't happen this way at a university widely known for being ancient and steady. I hoped for much better.
CNN obtains the tape of Trump's 2021 conversation about classified documents.
A.I. May Someday Work Medical Miracles. For Now, It Helps Do Paperwork. #nopaywall
Stephen Kuusisto catalogs some of the exhausting misconceptions people lay on him when he's out walking with a guide dog or a cane. New posting at Planet of the Blind.
When it comes to major breaking news, Twitter is no longer the go-to source it used to be.
Russian agents’ threat to family made Prigozhin call off Moscow advance.
Amazon launches Hub Delivery Partner program for small businesses in 23 states.
Why we get nowhere in tech over decades. We keep solving the same problems again and again.
Books in Progress is hosting a book Stewart Brand is writing about maintenance of everything.
GOP-run states are eyeing abortion beyond their borders. Blue states are fighting back.
Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human.
The Supreme Court screwed with screwing, they fucked with fucking, something almost everyone of voting age can relate to.
The further enshittification of Mark Zuckerberg. As if that were even possible. #nopaywall
In 1990, United offered a lifetime pass for $290,000. Stuker jumped on it and has pretty much lived in seat 1B — his favorite — ever since. #nopaywall
Assuming that things no longer work is a useful premise.
What people love about Bluesky has nothing to do with the software or federation, or Jack Dorsey.
What people love about Bluesky has nothing to do with the software or federation, or Jack Dorsey.
". . . small-size social networks . . . shouldn't just be an accidental thing . . ."
Question: Which of our existing online tools give clues about how best to support small network-building and the good work that can flow out of it?
Friday night Zillow must-watch for real estate porn addicts.
Friday night Zillow must-watch for real estate porn addicts.
Russia accuses mercenary boss of armed mutiny after he vows to punish top brass.
Russia accuses mercenary boss of armed mutiny after he vows to punish top brass.
For the time being, I know that if an RSS link goes to bsky.app I won't be allowed to read the posting there.
I see that if I enter both a title and a link for this item you are reading now in my personal feed that the title will become clickable for that link on FeedLand's individual page for this item. That seems like a sharp, streamlined setup. I'll link to Disney as an example.
When a person who's faced much in life attends to the demands of an art form.
Himalayan glaciers on track to lose up to 75% of ice by 2100.
One of the best pubs in FeedLand is The Atlantic. #fulltext
Falling off a bike under a truck was a very scary prospect when I was daily riding a bike in NYC.
Chasing waterfalls (and trout) with the ‘hicksters’ in Livingston Manor, in New York’s Catskill Mountains.
Joe Rogan wants a scientist to “debate” a vaccine denier. Turning him down was the right thing to do.
My favorite scene in The Matrix. "Being The One is just like being in love."
In the mid-1960s, Lowndes County, Alabama had zero registered Black voters despite an 80% Black population. A documentary of racism and activism available through the common public library film service Kanopy.
2008: "What we used to call blogging is now just bullshit about recycled bullshit about recycled bullshit and on and on."
The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General has launched a criminal investigation into the circumstances surrounding the destruction of Secret Service text messages that may have been relevant to inquiries about the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.
2022: The Secret Service’s deleted text message scandal, and the criminal investigation into it, explained.
If you want to know the official moment that podcasting got its name, this is it. It wasn't in a story in the Guardian newspaper. Please. It was a show note for one of the first podcasts called Trade Secrets Radio. That's how shit like this happens.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Calls Boebert a ‘Little Bitch’ on the House Floor.
I wish our Supreme Court justices got down with the citizens of this country for vacation instead of the billionaires.
Beyond Wonderland Shooting Suspect Is an Active-Duty U.S. Soldier.
Reddit’s Big API Problem: It Let Free-Riders Dominate.
This is a test of my linkblogging tool used to post text without a link. I seem to remember there was a problem with this. The only way to find out is to try it. Still diggin!
This is a test of my linkblogging tool used to post text without a link. I seem to remember there was a problem with this. The only way to find out is to try it. Still diggin!
This is a test of my linkblogging tool used to post text without a link. I seem to remember there was a problem with this. The only way to find out is to try it. Still diggin!
"You're hosting a document I wrote, with the credit and copyright removed."
Daring Fireball: More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook’s Imminent ActivityPub Entry.
Presidential conspiracy law as it was understood in 1974.
The archive.org snapshots of the RSS 2.0 spec start in 2016. The spec was posted on the harvard.edu website in July 2003. I'm curious to know how it got this way??
With Facebook's entry into the ActivityPub "fedisphere" all of a sudden "open" isn't very open.
2017: "I want my old blog back. I liked the freedom. My ideas flowed better."
Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots.
FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year. #nopaywall
My RSS 2.0 spec is Creative Commons licensed. Even so, it has been copied to a major open source website with the license and my name removed.
How much money it takes to be considered wealthy in 13 major US cities.
Here’s how much money it takes to be considered wealthy in 13 major US cities.
I have captured some images on the Trump federal indictment in this post.
Lakoff: "Don't take the bait! Debating someone with zero credibility or validity only helps them to gain status and spread lies."
Emancipation Proclamation to be placed on permanent display in National Archives Rotunda.
It’s funny – Dave Winer wants to create a FeedLand river page with people using the Old School blogging tool – when there is a perfectly good page already available! Funny how that works…
Poll: Majority Says Trump Should Drop Out of Presidential Race.
Yesterday I was playing with ideas, looking at a bunch of different people's collections, and I saw in John Naughton's feed list a reminder of a centerpiece of the early blogging world, weblogs.com.
Yesterday I was playing with ideas, looking at a bunch of different people's collections, and I saw in John Naughton's feed list reminded me of a centerpiece of the early blogging world, weblogs.com.
NBA Free Agency: Brooklyn Nets' Seth Curry to New York Knicks?
Test post - checking to see if my post appears in the Old School Drummers river.
Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk as protests rock platform.
Developers even the best ones are terrible at compromise, that's why it's so hard to federate in a pave-the-cowpaths way.
Chris Wallace says Trump conviction ‘could be a life sentence.’
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, dies at 92. #nopaywall
Jury finds Robert Bowers guilty of federal hate crimes in Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting.
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman on blackout: It's expensive to run a company.
The machine that writes bad poems vs. the language of poetry itself.
Linear thinking doesn't work. If I do X the other guy always does Y is not a good bet. Because the other person is sentient too, and knows you're expecting Y and one time, when it really makes a difference will do exactly what you don't expect because it's what you don't expect.
How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah.
Google Domains shutting down, assets sold to Squarespace.
Elon Musk-led Twitter suspended PlainSite, a prominent Tesla critic.
Bob Stepno, a friend from the early blogging and podcasting world, has an issue with WordPress, which he now uses to keep his blog.
If the non-Twitter networks want to compete, get rid of character limits. Here's a screen shot of a post to Twitter earlier today. 613 characters. I could not post that to Mastodon or Bluesky, their character limits are too restrictive.
Trump kept the documents to sell them or for use as blackmail.
Broader Support for Abortion Rights Continues Post-Dobbs.
Cormac McCarthy Movies: Stream These 5 Film Adaptations. #nopaywall
Parcast and Gimlet Layoffs Reflect a Bigger Spotify Podcast Pivot.
If I would describe a human co-worker as "intelligent" then I would use the same word to describe ChatGPT if it does the same work.
Some kinds of shared, group- and goal-oriented work cannot easily be accomplished on massive social media sites, or maybe at all: Scripting News: For now, small is beautiful.
New Obesity Drugs Come With a Side Effect of Shaming.
These National Parks Are Welcoming Stargazers This Summer.
OpenAI intros new generative text features while reducing pricing.
George H.W. Bush’s letter to Bill Clinton, Inaugural Day 1993.
Massachusetts legal marijuana industry faces a reckoning.
Trump Indictment: He Wanted Courthouse Protests but Instead Got MAGA Misfits.
Cormac McCarthy, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, dies at 89.
Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout.
Amazon is using generative A.I. to summarize product reviews.
Save Your Favorite Streaming Media by Any Means Necessary.
Wheel of Fortune Host Pat Sajak Announces Retirement.
Trump Indictment: The Former President Gets His Best Possible Judge in Florida.
Barack Obama speaking at the blogger's breakfast at the 2004 Democratic Convention. Hardly anyone knew who he was. 😀
Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO.
The moment I knew: It was so awkward, I didn’t know what to do. So I said: ‘Shall we kiss now?’
Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, known as the 'Unabomber,' has died in federal prison.
Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA.
Lawfare: United States of America v. Donald J. Trump and Waltine Nauta.
I asked ChatGPT to write a song in the style of Paul Simon about eating cheese on a nice day. Mr Simon should not be concerned.
The United States of America v Donald Trump. #finally
Reanimated hearts work just as well for transplants, study finds.
How many times, in how many places, does society prohibit one marginalized group or another from being shown as regular people? From seeing positive images of themselves? From speaking and creating art that sees the light of day?
What do you think is the purpose of networks like Mastodon and Bluesky?
Spotify says it’s testing an ‘offline mix’ for when your connection’s patchy.
Instagram’s upcoming Twitter competitor shown in leaked screenshots.
Trump Indicted in Classified Documents Case: Live Updates.
Choosing to affiliate as a user's basic right on the web.
John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh saved the Voting Rights Act.
Gavin Newsom wants 28th Amendment for guns in U.S. Constitution.
Bluesky’s growing pains strain its relationship with Black users.
Roland Tanglao took notes at the BloggerCon III session on Podcasting in November 2004 at Stanford. It was the first BC after the name was chosen.
NBA MVP is doomed to fully become a regular season award.
Tech entrepreneurs who left the Bay Area during the pandemic say they can’t afford to miss out on the funding, hackathons and networking of the artificial intelligence frenzy.
Gruber's first Impressions of Vision Pro and VisionOS.
I'd prefer to have a new Mac that ran Frontier, that would really excite me.
In their eyes, in their Gestapo mug shots, with a death sentence likely awaiting them, you can see how confident they were of the righteousness of their anti-Nazi protests.
Putting the Tesla HEPA Filter and Bioweapon Defense Mode to the Test.
Canada's 'unprecedented' fire season linked to climate change, will be the new normal: scientists.
Succession's Cousin Greg has Aussie hosts in stitches.
New York Cultivators Have Too Much Weed on Their Hands.
Chris Licht is out as chairman of CNN - Los Angeles Times
CNN news czar Chris Licht is due to be fired according to Puck.
How the light gets in. --Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files #219
“If you are in a red state, like me, you are constantly in fear of your state government adopting conservative policies — such as new limitations on reproductive freedom, transgender rights and honest education about race.”
Automattic launches an AI writing assistant for WordPress.
A beautiful q&a in Issue 238 of Nick Cave's Red Hand Files about going lightly among fellow humans who no doubt have their share of sorrows.
My linkblog is now available on WordPress. The more I develop around the textcasting idea, the more I realize that WordPress is totally social media in addition to being a blogging platform and CMS. And it has a wonderful API (disclaimer: I designed it).
New York’s Cannabis Effort is Faltering Amid Roadblocks and Red Tape. #nopaywall
The headset itself weighs a little less than a pound.
Transparent background image method: Selected from photos on my Mac, PNGed and so forth and posted in the upper right of a blog post.
Language is always being emptied out, for example, the language of patriotism. People speak too glibly of things like the Holocaust.
A TechCrunch reporter had a few minutes with Apple Vision Pro and came away impressed.
The Apple Vision Pro features an M2 chip, a ton of sensors and a new R1 chip.
Klaus Nomi: Lightning Strikes (Official Video). I can't stop watching this.
Apple unveils Vision Pro, its first mixed reality headset. How much does it weigh?
Fresh Air podcast: Succession Creator Jesse Armstrong & Exec. Producer Frank Rich.
Syreeta McFadden (@reetamac) on Toni Morrison's deep inquiries.
"She pieced together neglected stories with an eye toward what history ignored, and gave them space to breathe."
How the Democratic Party Crashed in Florida. (Takes forever to get to the point. I'd like to pass this through an AI chatbot to remove the fluff. Readers matter too, not just writers, btw.)
Jeff Greene Warns About US Real Estate, Made Fortune From Last Crash.
“Until recently, gerrymandered districts tended to stick out, identifiable by their contorted tendrils. This is no longer the case,” Quanta Magazine reports.
Most hated brands in America: Trump Organization, FTX, Fox Corporation.
Slow start to New York's legal pot market leaves farmers holding the bag.
I've spent the last few days teaching FeedLand how to do with Bluesky what it does with old school RSS feeds.
ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they're dog walkers and HVAC techs.
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of motives, will somehow work together for the benefit of all."
Disney to Take $1.5 Billion Content Write-Off Charge in June Quarter After Pulling Dozens of Titles From Streaming Services.
Ryan Busse Explains Roots of the U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic.
"When he died, his university server space was wiped without a backup, and all of his source code went with it"
The Right Way to Make Your Clothes Dry Faster with a Towel.
Just added Scripting News as a feed, worked ok. Tried to add the feed from my new MST version, got an error. Need to look into this...
Bible Removed from Some Utah Schools for ‘Vulgarity.’
Elon Musk: anti-trans video dispute ends with Ella Irwin departure.
Concerning combative political exchanges on social media, a friend of a friend says he likes to ask, "What do you get if you win your argument?" If the use value of 98 out of 100 social media exchanges is, let's guess, zero, now what?
Use value: "the tangible features of a commodity (a tradeable object) which can satisfy some human requirement, want or need, or which serves a useful purpose."
New York Regulators Will Launch Cannabis Farmers Markets 'Within A Month.'
My one-month review of the first iPhone in July 2007. I didn't remember not liking the product then, that's why it's good to keep an archive of these things. 😀
I was a skeptic when Apple came out with the iPhone, iPad and the watch and ended up eating my words.
Amazon in talks to offer low-cost or free mobile service to Prime customers, report says.
Did you know that you can get Alexa to play the Succession theme song. On the Studio player it's magnificent. Now you can have it be the theme song for your great accomplishments. Get an elegant bit of code running? Fire it up! You're the boss. You did it.
I asked ChatGPT for a list of popular podcasting clients.
Early Childhood: How to bring more nature into preschool.
Bill Gates: This book changed how I see Africa’s past.
Tim Scott 2024 presidential campaign: Will the senator's Christian virgin past help or harm him?
With WordPress competing with Substack in email newsletters we should now be able to work around Substack’s insistence that writers must use their editor. WordPress has a simple API making that kind of lock-in impossible.
With Wordpress competing with Substack in email newsletters we should now be able to work around Substack’s insistence that writers must use their editor. Wordpress has a simple API making that kind of lock-in impossible.
WordPress.com challenges Substack with launch of paid newsletters.
Twitter not removing hateful posts from subscribed users, study finds.
I'm starting to post links to Masto on Twitter, and links to Twitter on Bluesky. All combos. I realized I was, in my mind, assuming these were silos. That's not a good limit to impose, doesn't work in our interests, as users and developers.
Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (May 2023).
Spam is one thing, but spam that assumes I have a living father is another altogether.
Twitter requires organizations to pay to be verified. It actually makes sense. This was a service they previously provided for free, but they were not a profitable company. Other companies should share in the expense.
After Calling Joe Biden Senile, GOPers Complain He Outsmarted Them.
My first fat tweet. I've only been begging for this for over a decade. Now give us optional titles, styles, links, enclosures.
How Picnic, an Emerging Social Network, Found its Niche.
Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop.
Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop.
Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop.
Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop.
Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid.
I've already watched the last episode of Succession about five times, and I expect to watch it a few more.
Sixty years of A Confederacy of Dunces' Ignatius J. Reilly.
State Farm won't insure new California customers amid wildfire risks.
The Auschwitz Memorial feed on Twitter tells stories in pictures.
I have posted a new version of MyStatusTool on Github (more info in this post) - give it a try! I also have an instance of it running here.
Karl, about Tom: “You’re a clumsy interloper and no one trusts you. The only guy pulling for you is dead. And now, you’re just married to the ex-boss’ daughter, and she doesn’t even like you. And you are fair and squarely fucked.”
The NYT is shameless, but at least they're not calling them podcasts.
"Dark Star is always playing somewhere. All we do is tap into it."
I'm playing with ideas of how to browse around a network of followers on a social media platform. Bluesky is the first that I've had an OPML interface to work with. So I created an outliner for walking the structure of people and who they follow on Bluesky.
In MLB, one kind of triple play is a good deal more common than the rest.
According to the Supreme Court, science and clean water don’t matter.
Why long-range EVs are not the best climate solution.
‘Seinfeld’ Ended 25 Years Ago. Its View of Adulthood Endures.
"Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become the property of the state of South Carolina," said SC state senator Katrina Shealy, a Republican.
“The Great” on Hulu is fantastic. A comedy about Russian empress Catherine the Great. There’s a new season out.
A nice thing about Bluesky is that everyone has about the same small number of followers, which suggests that perhaps follower count should not be in the UI. Wondering what other features turn up the heat too much and should be similarly treated.
It might not be possible to de-Nazify social nets like Twitter, Mastodon or Bluesky -- yet that seems to be what users want.
White House and GOP reach tentative debt ceiling deal.
Huge Tesla leak reveals thousands of safety concerns, privacy problems.
The Number of Songs Uploaded Every Day Will Shock You.
Bill Wambsganss completed the only unassisted triple play in World Series history.
Ford Will Use Tesla EV Charging, but That's Only Part of the Story.
Ford Will Use Tesla EV Charging, but That's Only Part of the Story.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema enters debt ceiling talks to try to resolve split on energy permitting.
WordPress first shipped 20 years ago today. Thanks for keeping the blogging flame going, and thanks for supporting RSS and the open web. 😀
Two questions:
1. Is it possible to run another instance of Bluesky?
2. If so, is anyone running one?
I expect the answer to 1 is "yes" if you write your own code, but the official Bluesky server source has not been released yet.
But I honestly don't know the answers to either question.
This is what a linkblog looked like in 2011. Remarkable how no progress has been made in all this time. We were pretty much blocked in every direction.
We're going to have to figure out moderation for ourselves. Waiting for the tech companies to figure this out -- they are very limited as we have learned.
A house for sale on the Hudson River. Thought people reading my linkblog might find this interesting. 😀
New York Regulators Plan To Launch Marijuana Farmers Markets 'Within A Month' To Help Meet Demand.
New York Regulators Plan To Launch Marijuana Farmers Markets 'Within A Month' To Help Meet Demand.
Vacant Arizona big-box store will become nation's first "Picklemall."
ChatGPT has an important new feature, now you can share links to conversations you had with the bot.
My WordPress-hosted linkblog now looks a bit more like a linkblog.
Time Is Running Out for Congress to Raise the Debt Ceiling.
YouTube is planning to support inbound RSS for podcasts, but apparently will not pass through the feed, in other words you'll have to use YT's user interface to listen to podcasts.
YouTube is planning to support inbound RSS for podcasts, but apparently will not pass through the feed, in other words you'll have to use YT's user interface to listen to podcasts.
Video: How Succession's Composer Created the Theme Song.
How composer Nicholas Britell created the sound of Succession.
Paul Simon: "My generation’s time is up." Simon is 81.
Twitter glitches plague DeSantis' presidential announcement.
Tina Turner, the earthshaking soul singer whose rasping vocals, sexual magnetism and explosive energy made her an unforgettable live performer and one of the most successful recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, near Zurich. She was 83.
Retailers, landlords having trouble placing legal pot stores.
Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love is the trashy, marriage-defiling reality show gays have been waiting for.
Before Twitter blew up the devs, I used to from time to time put great art on the home page of my blog. Tech is like banks. When one fails, lots of other failures follow. It's inevitable when you depend on corporate APIs.
Chief Justice Roberts in Supreme Court ethics pledge says he's "committed" to standards. #fascist
Now that we have RSS feeds and OPML subscription lists for Bluesky, today I start developing applications that use that data. It's the first social network to have this feature.
I decided to pay Twitter a year in advance for the blue checkmark and whatever other privileges come with it. It's not that much money. I pay as much to Hulu or Apple TV. Is it worth it? I can afford to find out.
By the same criteria you could say the New York Times is a far-right news organization. Whatever the story is about Twitter, it’s still developing. Journalism should be as rigorous in deciphering the intentions of journalism.
Elon Musk’s right-wing media venture scores another big win. #nopaywall
An OPML subscription list of the feeds of the people I follow on Bluesky. You should be able to import this into any feed reader, it's a standard format.
L.A. Dodgers re-invite drag nun group to Pride event after massive backlash.
Ron DeSantis will launch his presidential bid with Elon Musk (on Twitter).
BlackRock executive on the perils of a U.S. debt default.
Carmelo Anthony Retires From NBA After 19 Seasons. #nopaywall
ChatGPT is no better at explaining default than NPR. Default would not "erode" confidence in the US Treasury it would destroy it. Trust in the US as a safe place to store value would be over. It will never come back.
Wouldn't it be great if the news orgs instead of bullshitting us about the consequences of a default, actually explained it?
Remote work may have aided the reversal of America's long decline in birth rates.
Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled.
A shocking allegation that then-President Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was selling pardons for $2 million got lost.
Back in hoodies and gym shorts, Fetterman tackles Senate life after depression treatment.
In New York, Prison Guards Who Attack Prisoners Rarely Get Fired.
Network of ancient Maya cities reveals well-organized civilization.
Brooklyn Public Library Offers Free eCards to Teens Nationwide Facing Book Bans in Local Communities.
Man with AR-15-style rifle near bus stop claims he wasn’t trying to terrify kids. #nopaywall
Twitter Exec Quit When Told to Install Illegal Locks That Risked Lives.
It’s hard to imagine journalists referring to liberal hostage-taking as merely “the ordinary stuff of politics.”
1994: "Two newspapers are now online in the most wired city in America. Last week there were none."
Megan Hunt doesn’t want to be your Democratic hero. She just wants to protect her trans son.
Orcas have sunk 3 boats in Europe and appear to be teaching others to do the same. But why?
Instagram’s new Twitter-like, text app may be here as soon as the end of June
Starting in 2019, there's a new implementation of XML-RPC in JavaScript.
Starting in 2019, there's a new implementation of XML-RPC in JavaScript.
Meta Is Working on an Instagram-Branded Twitter Alternative.
Paul Simon Confronts Death, Profoundly, on ‘Seven Psalms.’ #nopaywall
SkyBridge is a magical server that translates Mastodon requests into Bluesky ones, allowing you to unlock the power of incredible Mastodon apps like Ivory and use them on the Bluesky network.
Twitter is no longer ‘high risk’ according to its biggest ad buyer.
New York City is sinking due to weight of its skyscrapers, new research finds.
I asked ChatGPT to write me another story about Leon Smuk, the South African milk entrepreneur with millions of cows and an AI chatbot to help him to not go crazy. I laughed out loud. 😂
New record set for fastest trip through entirety of NYC subway.
We expect freedom of choice on both ends with podcasting, now I want to see that same freedom with text. That means you can write using any editor, and people can read wherever they like to read. We can have that kind of freedom.
Now that we have RSS feeds for Bluesky, people who don't have accounts can see what's going on, without resorting to screen shots. For example, one of my favorite feeds is the NYT feed, where they post results of various AI experiments.
The Open Podcast Prefix Project (OP3) is a free and open-source podcast prefix analytics service committed to open data and listener privacy.
Republicans continue underperforming in elections a year after Roe v. Wade ruling.
Christiane Amanpour voices dissent over Trump town hall, says she had 'very robust exchange' with CNN chief.
When asked for a list of famous movies, Chat GPT 3.5 doesn't notice that it repeats an item. Then it apologizes for repeating. Then one can easily talk it into adding an item to the end of the list, Casablanca, that the software doesn't notice is already on the list.
Majority of U.S. Twitter users say they’ve taken a break from the platform in the past year
I asked ChatGPT to list 25 of the most famous movies ever.
OpenAI hearing: Sam Altman charmed Congress but made one slip-up.
My grandfather who ran from the Nazis warned me about people like Musk.
I think that net-net Bluesky is a good thing, because it guarantees we'll have at least two incompatible social internets. Had they supported ActivityPub that would probably have slowed everything down to the pace of something like Ecmascript.
The MetaWeblog API came out on March 14, 2002. Luckily I have the archive of my blog for that day. We were very much aware of what we were doing.
We're in that part of the year where first the marketers torture me with the reminder that my mother is dead, and then when that wasn't enough do the same with the memory of my poor father. I hope my parents would laugh at this. I think they would. 😀
"It was a step of generalising, going to a higher level of abstraction, thinking about all the documentation systems out there as being possibly part of a larger imaginary documentation system." — Tim Berners-Lee
If you're working at the api-level with Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr -- please consider supporting the Metaweblog API as an interface to your code. Lots of developers know how to work with it. It's the main API for WordPress. Stood the test of time.
I am testing how posts with emojis 😀 and 👍 links work in ☕️ Bluesky. Sorry 💥for the interruption. ❤️
In an open-carry gun situation I would never assume the person with the gun is well-trained, level-headed, or emotionally stable. The person might easily be carrying both a gun and a grudge.
How the American Dream convinced people loneliness is normal.
Elon Musk compares George Soros to Jewish supervillain Magneto. 😒
Dianne Feinstein's health: The senator seems not to remember being absent from the Capitol.
Someone in node-emoji-land thought it was a good idea to break every app that uses the package. That got our attention. 😀
I asked ChatGPT to write a funny fiction story about a light-hearted South African entrepreneur name Leon Smuk and his crisis of cows.
"We want the very best version of our favorite simple things.”
It’s smart that Artifact is focusing on writers, someday it’ll be hard to believe there was a time social nets didn’t, but just give us the freedom to use our own writing tools, and don’t try to trap us in your silo, that’s where it begins, not with metrics.
I found it hard to believe Elon Musk said what people say he said, so I checked. Here’s the actual tweet.
