Tim Bray added search on his blog, so of course I looked up myself and found we agree on the ridiculous-ness of the Wikipedia piece on RSS. ChatGPT gets the story right, so to be fair Wikipedia should warn about hallucinations too. tbray.org
The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah. niemanlab.org
Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost. arstechnica.com
Jetpack Tools Every Blogger Should Be Using In 2025. blogrecode.com
Elon Musk warns work could soon become ‘optional’ in age of AI. com.pk
Blue Jays Baserunning Error Cost Toronto World Series. newsweek.com
WordPress backgrounder on rssCloud. wordpress.com
George Clooney says replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris was a mistake. theguardian.com
The Last Days Of Social Media. noemamag.com
This is the Los Angeles the Dodgers are returning to. bsky.app
This is the Los Angeles the Dodgers are returning to. bsky.app
Flock cameras lead Colorado police to wrong suspect: "It became my job to prove my innocence." cbsnews.com
“Don’t be foolish enough to let Pete Alonso go!” says Keith Hernandez, of the legendary slugger of the Mets. azontree.com
New (South Korean) national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms. electrek.co
The Next Terrorist Attack. substack.com
Food banks were ‘operating on fumes’ even before SNAP chaos. stateline.org
Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump. theatlantic.com
Trump wants him arrested. JB Pritzker is breaking through. theframelab.org
Trump Is Forcing Millions to Make Cruel Choices. thenation.com
NYC ‘clearly hurting’ with loss of at least 15% of its hotel rooms to migrant shelters, ballooning costs for tourists. nypost.com
Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces 'dislikes' beta. techcrunch.com
Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this.” arstechnica.com
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back. newrepublic.com
In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? nytimes.com
2022: Dev notes for Markdown in RSS. scripting.com
Trump’s Tony Soprano Presidency Is Bleeding the Country Dry. thenation.com
British newspaper spoke to the wrong Bill DeBlasio, not an ‘imposter.’ semafor.com
ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship. 404media.co
Oklahoma Oil Regulators Failed to Stop Spread of Toxic Wastewater. propublica.org
Om: Why Tech Needs Personalization. om.co
My WordPress News page is faster and shows better on phones. And lots of new sources. feedland.org
Canada Needs a New Bestie. theatlantic.com
11 Delicious Food Blog Examples to Savor and Learn From. wordpress.com
The Hunger Games Begin. substack.com
Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way. theatlantic.com
Sorry TechCrunch there's no new security risks in giving OpenAI or Perplexity the same access to our accounts that we already give Google. Someone ought to fact-check these articles at least at a basic level. techcrunch.com
On this day in 2019: 'Lock Him Up' is very American. scripting.com
Grokipedia article for Elon Musk. grokipedia.com
Rep. Stansbury: Families are about to lose their food assistance. youtube.com
Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-powered Wikipedia rival. wapo.st
Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO). youtube.com
I thought this piece would be yet another that says men are somehow inadequate, but it isn't. theatlantic.com
Luxury Retirement Communities Are Embracing Private Clubs. nytimes.com
ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Already a Disaster. doomsdayscenario.co
US is ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn. theguardian.com
What to know when your doctors get booted from your health insurance network. npr.org
Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build. fortune.com
How the Trump Administration Demolished the White House East Wing. bloomberg.com
US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month. reuters.com
A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions. arstechnica.com
A House of Dynamite deserves the stellar reviews it has been getting. metacritic.com
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987. youtube.com
The headline makes it sound like archive.org is falling apart, but the story says there are other explanations for what they're seeing. niemanlab.org
An example of NYT self-parody. nytimes.com
Elon Musk Wants $1 Trillion to Build a “Robot Army” at Tesla. truthout.org
Quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem. arstechnica.com
Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing. newyorker.com
Trump Drives Canadians Away From Western New York. nytimes.com
The security risks with AI browser agents. techcrunch.com
The best response to voter suppression is massive voter turnout. substack.com
Ford's anti-tariff ad to run during World Series games in Toronto. thehill.com
Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression.’ theguardian.com
Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web. zeldman.com
Best Mattresses for Sex. wired.com
How did we get here? blogspot.com
Ontario premier says he'll pull ad that upset Trump. apnews.com
White House Invades Bluesky to Troll, Predictably Gets Mass Blocked. gizmodo.com
Trump Isn’t Waiting For The Insurrection Act To Turn The Military On American Citizens. talkingpointsmemo.com
DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators. gizmodo.com
Scripting News: Think different about developers. scripting.com
Developers shouldn't have to be data landlords. lmorchard.com
White House East Wing demolition almost complete, despite concern. npr.org
Why Democrats should commit—right now—to restoring the old East Wing of the White House. thebulwark.com
U.S. Details Gambling Cases Involving Pro Athletes and Mafia Families. nytimes.com
Claude introduces memory for teams at work. anthropic.com
Architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling. theguardian.com
WordCamp Canada 2025 Fosters Connections Between Generations of WordPress Users. therepository.email
The only check-and-balance that actually matters. doomsdayscenario.co
Someone please write a rebuttal to this Anil Dash piece. ChatGPT is a software breakthrough, like VisiCalc, Wikipedia, or the web. If their browser sucks (sounds like it does, but why no screen shots) don’t use it. That’s the rational response imho. anildash.com
Devin Walker Joins Automattic as Artistic Director for Jetpack. therepository.email
JD Vance’s Supreme Court Plot. I’ve been listening to the Lever podcast. This episode was the most eye-opening. levernews.com
Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks. techpolicy.press
Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion so he can control a robot army. electrek.co
$24B in clean energy projects scrapped under Trump. electrek.co
OpenAI's Atlas is more about ChatGPT than the web. techcrunch.com
Amazon will buy thousands of pedal-assist cargo vehicles from Rivian spinoff Also. techcrunch.com
A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says. pbs.org
Karoline Leavitt Claims People Want Trump to Destroy White House. I'm right there with her. It's just a building. We're going to need a new White House when Trump is through with it. newrepublic.com
Why Carnegie’s Libraries Are Getting $10,000 Checks. nytimes.com
Majority of Americans Think Trump Is a Dictator. politicalwire.com
Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost? talkingpointsmemo.com
Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds. npr.org
Part of the White House East Wing is being torn down to build Trump's ballroom. npr.org
OpenAI looks for its “Google Chrome” moment with new Atlas web browser. arstechnica.com
Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases. nytimes.com
Gotosocial is a great idea, but can't it be simpler to set up a server? If not, let's look at creating a higher level interface that can then be bridged to ActivityPub. gotosocial.org
It wasn’t space debris that struck a United Airlines plane—it was a weather balloon. arstechnica.com
Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs. youtube.com
WordPress Podcasts. wppodcasts.com
Why Tumblr’s costly technical debt derailed migration. findarticles.com
Speaker Johnson continues to resist swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Grijalva. go.com
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force. propublica.org
Bari Weiss wastes no time wrecking CBS News. dailykos.com
Non-Violent Resistance During the American Revolution. newyorkalmanack.com
Why Do People Like 37signals? hey.com
Why frogs, chickens and T-Rexes are taking over anti-Trump protests. washingtonpost.com
'Failures and Grift’: Gina Hinojosa Wants to Stop Greg Abbott from Making History. texasobserver.org
Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps breaking with Republicans. What's going on? slate.com
Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco. nytimes.com
Evan Prodromou: "How important is WordPress to the future of the Fediverse?“ mastodon.social
Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged. newrepublic.com
Three Reasons I Still Have Hope for America. doomsdayscenario.co
There is no budget "deal" to be made. doomsdayscenario.co
What is an American? Are they Christian? Are they white? missouriindependent.com
Rules for standards-makers. this.how
VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation after Benioff's National Guard comments. techcrunch.com
John Bolton indicted, latest Trump foe to face charges. wapo.st
Trump-appointed Fed official uncorks stunning admission on president’s economy. rawstory.com
How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government. Totally worth a listen. Also totally depressing. apple.com
My theory is that we had..
An indisputable definition of audio. (MP3.)
A really simple format for programming. (RSS.)
And a popular mobile device for listening. (iPod.)
A million flowers bloomed. (Podcast clients.)
Impossible to siloize. (They tried.)
OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion. techcrunch.com
ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back. nytimes.com
OpenAI will allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content. theguardian.com
‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray. thebulwark.com
Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop. arstechnica.com
Attard and McHugh on podcasting's democratic dream. mediaweek.com.au
GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food. yahoo.com
Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings. lawdork.com
Obama Slams Trump For Sending National Guard to Chicago. mediaite.com
Toyota's best-selling car may finally go electric. electrek.co
Evan Prodromou is talking about long-form text in the social web in Ottawa on Friday. The very important role WordPress is playing to pull the twitter-like world into the actual web instead of their limited idea of the web. Sounds like harmony to me. 😉 wordcamp.org
Amazon.com: inflatable costumes. amazon.com
7 Best Small Towns in the Catskills. travelandleisure.com
The Evolution of Cinema: Watch Nearly 140 Years of Film History Unfold in 80 Minutes. openculture.com
Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to first major tipping point. grist.org
People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads. arstechnica.com
When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi. substack.com
A Foreign-Film Starter Pack. theatlantic.com
Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends. chinatalk.media
Diane Keaton: Career in Photos. variety.com
Diane Keaton Dies at 79. yahoo.com
Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone.' nbcnews.com
In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings — and for being skeptical. kansasreflector.com
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It. newrepublic.com
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send National Guard to San Francisco. nytimes.com
Download Great Books for Free. openculture.com
Stephen Miller Has ‘Central Role’ Probing Liberal Groups. talkingpointsmemo.com
The RSS feed reader landscape. ycombinator.com
It's apple season at Adams in Kingston. daveverse.org
Venezuela's opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize. reuters.com
Stitt Becomes First Republican Governor to Break With Trump on National Guard Deployments. oklahomawatch.org
Trump Has His Eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize. Will He Get It? nytimes.com
‘I Got a Lot of People Believing in Me’: Robert Roberson Stares Down Death, Again. texasobserver.org
Even though Schumer is a “human flat tire” he’s right that the Dems have momentum. The message seems to be getting through that health care for Americans is what they’re voting on now. The Dems support the people, the Repubs Don’t see why they should care. punchbowl.news
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport. theguardian.com
What in the World is a Wapuu? wordcamp.org
A House of Dynamite sounds like a movie I'd enjoy. Like Fail Safe or Dr Strangelove. metacritic.com
Micropub could have been done as an improvement to the Metaweblog API. That's how I would have done it. Interop is not just the most important reason we do this stuff, it's really the only reason. w3.org
Doc Searls: Why I am Here Instead of on Substack. I wanted to use Substack to send out my nightly emails, but found I’d have to type the text I wanted to send into their editor. I’m not a professional typist. So I created my own mail sending software. searls.com
“If you offer users a way to write, but you don’t provide for linking, then you are not on the web.” openchannels.fm
Yankees stunned as championship aspirations are dashed in ALDS. espn.com
Wonder how the troops from Texas will enjoy a Chicago winter. 😵💫 weather.gov
Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment. reuters.com
The Kia PV5 May Be The Go-To Bargain Electric Van. I recently test drove the VW Buzz, and like everyone else, I fell in love. And now I hear that there may be something even more fun. I've always liked Kia's. insideevs.com
Here are the 2025 MacArthur fellows. npr.org
Jay Rosen explains his new job, as I understand it, helping non-journalists who are providing news, to do news well. newscreatorcorps.org
Most Americans don't want troops deployed without an external threat. reuters.com
JD Vance‘s Favorite Blogger Plans Escape from USA. theframelab.org
Timothy Snyder: Stalinism and Stephen Miller. substack.com
Politicians Defiant as Troops Gather Outside Chicago. politicalwire.com
Trump’s Education Department Is Working to Erode the Public School System. propublica.org
Myanmar's children suffer as US aid cuts take hold. apnews.com
Trump homeless crackdown: How Washington's homeless are faring two months later. slate.com
Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97. nytimes.com
Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show. theverge.com
Furloughed government workers may not be entitled to back pay, reports say, as Trump claims some jobs ‘will never come back.’ Hmm. I can't imagine the unpaid workers feel too good about this. theguardian.com
Have I ever told you how delicious pistachios are? wikipedia.org
There is no budget "deal" to be made. doomsdayscenario.co
At the center of shutdown fight, health care is one of the most intractable (also consequential) issues in Congress. pbs.org
Mastodon supports lists. It's a good feature for helping people get started. techcrunch.com
Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America. theguardian.com
Trump’s use of Guard may have lasting impact on cities and troops. wapo.st
Fascinating post by Jason Shellen. I didn’t know that Google Reader was behind Atom. They should’ve worked with us. Guess they thought independent developers weren’t worth it. I’ve seen this pattern repeat in tech many times. Only way we win is by working together.. shellen.com
The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition. talkingpointsmemo.com
Top prosecutor refusing to charge New York AG despite Trump pressure. msnbc.com
Donald Trump feared this day would come. substack.com
Chicago Tells Of Escalating State Violence, Including A Killing, As It Challenges National Guard Occupation. talkingpointsmemo.com
Kia's smallest EV is full of big surprises. electrek.co
The Supreme Court v. Democracy. thenation.com
Lots of new posts on WordPress News about WordPress of course. 😉 feedland.org
Unmasking “Rex Feral,” Author of the Infamous Hit Man Manual. archive.ph
Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke. theatlantic.com
Are You a True New Yorker? Take Our Quiz. (I have not taken the quiz yet myself.) nytimes.com
Bari Weiss is taking over CBS News as editor in chief — and its newsroom is very worried. slate.com
The electric Bronco is real, and it might be Ford’s coolest EV yet. (Only available in China.) electrek.co
1995: Demoing Software for Fun & Profit. scripting.com
Ridley Scott Says Hollywood Is "Drowning In Mediocrity." Totally agree. deadline.com
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats." x.com
There’s a Path Out of This Divide. nytimes.com
White House Slams 'SNL' After Cold Open Targets Trump and Brendan Carr. variety.com
A podcast I did recently about the work I'm doing to create a social network for writers that's built out of the web, with all parts replaceable. WordPress had some surprising well-hidden power. I hope people listen, esp people in the WordPress community. wptavern.com
Trump sends California troops to Oregon, defying court order. sacbee.com
SNL roasts Trump in season premiere, as Bad Bunny addresses Super Bowl criticism. npr.org
Who Is Donald Trump Responsible To? nytimes.com
Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something. the-reframe.com
“The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night. niemanlab.org
2024: Making the social web really work. scripting.com
Brent Simmons: Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App. inessential.com
Tested: 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz Is the Bee's Knees. I tried one today and loved it. caranddriver.com
Should tech run the world? scripting.com
Why experts say Trump is unlikely to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year. pbs.org
The great thing about the web is that it's already federated. Nothing to wait for. scripting.com
OR National Guard: 'Emergency' naked bike ride planned for troop deployment. Get your asses out there! 🙂 koin.com
With no guidelines yet from CDC, getting a COVID shot remains confusing. npr.org
March 2025: The writer's web. scripting.com
Ted Ritzer speaks up for WordLand. It’s real software, and the first step in a bootstrap. Much appreciated. 😀 tedritzerblog.com
Apple removes ICE tracking app after pressure from Bondi DOJ. foxbusiness.com
Substack Did Not See That Coming. anamariecox.com
The speech wars come for Wikipedia. politico.com
Are You On The FBI’s New Watch List? apple.com
Ever the evangelist, I suggested that Matt's new investment, Beeper, support RSS in addition to all the other protocols they support. That way you could get a message out on the IM network by posting it to a WordPress site. ma.tt
“If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency.” substack.com
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated.' suntimes.com
If you only had a year left to live, would you still save your money? washingtonpost.com
"What are the next steps for bringing long-form content into the fediverse?" — that's the main thing they should be talking about in the "open social web." That is, if it really is the web. fediforum.org
The David Frum Show: The Rise of Technofascists. theatlantic.com
Committee for the First Amendment is relaunching. It was founded in the McCarthy Era to protect free speech from the government. committeeforthefirstamendment.com
We like Twitter. So blogging must be dead. wordcamp.org
Guy Kawasaki: The difference between iteration and true innovation. substack.com
I did one of the first digital camera selfies back in 2003 or so. scripting.com
Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America. nytimes.com