Don't discount American democracy's resilience. natesilver.net

Melania at the Multiplex. thenation.com

Nick Arnett: Cruelty Requires Instruments. substack.com

ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections. cbsnews.com

We have a tremendous oversupply of would-be parade leaders, we need to build momentum, and it doesn’t really matter what it is or who leads it. As long as it’s something the press can cover. A movement that begets more motion. A huge march in DC. Demonstrations at Tesla dealers. daveverse.org

Haitian-owned business faces closure as immigrants flee Springfield. springfieldnewssun.com

2025: "I didn't invent RSS and honestly I think it would be better if other people stood up for it." daveverse.org

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio. substack.com

Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms. jta.org

Catherine O’Hara obituary. theguardian.com

Federal Reserve 101. substack.com

If the Knicks want Giannis Antetokounmpo, they're going to have to make some uncomfortable sacrifices. cbssports.com

Democrat wins special election for red Texas Senate seat. texastribune.org

Minneapolis Mayor Warns of “Invasion” as More ICE Horror Stories Emerge. truthout.org

Amazon’s ‘Melania’ Movie Is A Corrupt, Fascistic Cinema Fest. talkingpointsmemo.com

Trump favors 250-foot arch that would tower over other monuments. wapo.st

Placebo outperforms LSD microdosing for depression. arstechnica.com

Melania Trump documentary opens to underwhelming reception: ‘It’s not a gripping film.’ theguardian.com

Metacritic: Melania Reviews. metacritic.com

Where to Watch Catherine O’Hara’s Best Performances, From ‘Beetlejuice’ to ‘Best in Show.’ nytimes.com

'Respect Canadian sovereignty', Carney tells US officials after they meet Alberta separatists. bbc.com

Highly recommend this podcast interview with Tim Walz. A rational and clear thinking governor of Minnesota, who we got to know during the 2024 election. I love that the MN national guard is giving out coffee, donuts and hot chocolate. How can you not love that. apple.com

Don Lemon taken into custody. cnn.com

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler. motherjones.com

Jay Rosen in 2008: “When the people formerly known as the audience employ the press tools they have in their possession to inform one another, that’s citizen journalism.” pressthink.org

‘What happened in Minnesota can happen here’: Bay Area readies for Friday strike. sfstandard.com

In Texas Cities, Let a Hundred Mamdanis Bloom. texasobserver.org

Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides to and from San Francisco International Airport. techcrunch.com

They vibed an app for work… and it was good. westkarana.blog

The Staircase of Oppression. hamiltonnolan.com

Trump Pitches a Kinder, Gentler ICE Wilding Sprees As His Top Fluffers Fight Amongst Themselves. talkingpointsmemo.com

Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura suggests his state join Canada. nydailynews.com

Google begins rolling out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent today. arstechnica.com

Five Constitutional Amendments Trump is Ignoring in Minnesota. motherjones.com

NBA Power Rankings: Can the Pistons or Spurs catch the Thunder for top spot? espn.com

A Complete Visual Tour of the First WordPress Release. iterativewonders.com

Plan for ICE agents at 2026 Olympics causes outrage in Italy. npr.org

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown. theguardian.com

Moments of bravery and cowardice in the news coverage of Alex Pretti’s assassination.. substack.com

Donald Trump Can Be Stopped. (Not sure about that, but here's the rationale.) theatlantic.com

Trump Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging. nytimes.com

Raskin Says Nationwide General Strike May Be Needed to Stop Trump. truthout.org

Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969. caimito.net

Constructing an Outdoor Patio Changed People’s Lives in a Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype. antirez.com

Watch as the Internet Archive scans microfiche from history for the future. archive.org

When a domestic agency dresses for war, it risks acting as if it is at war, even with the public. politico.com

Toby Ziegler: "I don't remember having to explain to Italians that our problem wasn't with them, but with Mussolini! Why does the U.S. have to take every Arab country out for an ice cream cone? They'll like us when we win!" imdb.com

Scripting News: Where is our Churchill? scripting.com

As Tech Chiefs Woo Trump, Silicon Valley Seethes Over Minneapolis Shooting. nytimes.com

Kia Is Coming Out With Its Cheapest EV Yet – But Not To USA. bgr.com

ICE targeted off-duty officers in Twin Cities, local police say. wapo.st

Is There a WordPress Replacement in 2026? jeangalea.com

12 Top WordPress Themes People Actually Use in 2026 (Tested & Ranked). wordpress.com

Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened. theatlantic.com

“Clashes Escalate.” nytimes.com

The Minneapolis Uprising. theatlantic.com

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt: 'Americans don't like what they're seeing right now.' thehill.com

Getting to know our planet. The Permian–Triassic extinction event. wikipedia.org

Guess who the US military just recruited? Private AI. observer.co.uk

Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM. slashdot.org

Best picture nominees, ranked by Metacritic score. daveverse.org

It doesn't matter that Bluesky verified a dormant ICE account. People should pick battles that matter. Like making sure "web" doesn't completely lose its meaning. Bluesky is not part of the web and it's ridiculous to say something is the "open web" — it's like saying water is wet. werd.io

Why Wouldn’t They Shoot Somebody? thenextmove.org

Paul Krugman has seen enough. substack.com

Schumer: Democrats will block funding package if it includes homeland security money. theguardian.com

Watch video showing federal agents shoot and kill Minneapolis man. (News orgs why not sell one-month not automatically renewed subscriptions.) startribune.com

Detained MN women help ICE agent having a seizure. startribune.com

Hundreds of clergy descend on Minneapolis and go on lookout for ICE. religionnews.com

Republicans move forward with plans for a midterm convention featuring Trump. cnn.com

Trump dominated Davos, but Carney emerged as its star. wapo.st

How XML-RPC started up. scripting.com

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI. (This is unfair and not sustainable. Google is so rich, they should avoid defunding journalism.) archive.ph

Cityside, a ‘champion of local journalism,’ honored with 2026 Cody Award. berkeleyside.org

Jeff Bezos’ Underlings Are Ordered to Prop Up Melania’s Struggling ‘Doc’. thedailybeast.com

Google begins offering free SAT practice tests powered by Gemini. arstechnica.com

Memo tells ICE officers they can enter homes without a warrant. apnews.com

Mozilla has started an incubator for new products from independent developers. mozilla.org

Meet the Minneapolis Neighbors Standing Up to ICE by the Thousands. motherjones.com

Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald. substack.com

Jack Smith to testify in House over Trump investigations. npr.org

One year later, the second Trump coalition has come apart, a Times/Siena poll finds. nytimes.com

Memo tells ICE officers they can enter homes without a warrant. apnews.com

Velocity Is the New Authority. om.co

Public domain contest looks to create new art from 1930 content. npr.org

Newsom Says He Is Blocked From Entering U.S. Pavilion at Davos. nytimes.com

A mysterious death inside ICE's largest detention center. washingtonpost.com

Elvis Costello: Peace in our time. google.com

rss.social has one of the best names I've heard in a while. I have serious domain name envy. rss.social

The Difference Between Being Early and Being Wrong. substack.com

How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion. nytimes.com

Zuck stuck on Trump’s bad side: FTC appeals loss in Meta monopoly case. arstechnica.com

The Knicks are on an epic losing streak. This feels very normal. Let the trades begin. Maybe if we ask nice, Thibs will return?!?. postingandtoasting.com

A format like RSS has to be loved. scripting.com

Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World. nytimes.com

Sorry Chicago sports fans. As a Mets and Knicks fan I understand what it’s like to root for a lovable loser. Our slogan — it just “wasn’t meant to be.” And wait till next year, when we’ll do it all again. theguardian.com

“Europeans constructed a way of living that is totally dependent on technologies run by corporations that describe themselves as “global” but are all, in fact, American.” observer.co.uk

Zodiac is great, playing on Netflix. I had never seen it. nytimes.com

“ICE needs to be totally torn down… People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Trump.” talkingpointsmemo.com

Finally CNN gets that there’s a difference between Democratic voters and leaders. The power is with the voters. Now we have to get the leaders to understand that they can be replaced. cnn.com

Trump is using ICE and health care as weapons of a war against his own country. ms.now

After 36 years in Palo Alto, Il Fornaio is closing. paloaltoonline.com

2005, by Dan Bricklin: "Instead of making you feel bad for 'only' doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%." This keeps coming up all the time in software design. danbricklin.com

It isn’t up to the Democrats to act, it’s up to the people of the United States. Do we really want our cities turned into police states? If not, make sure our reps, of all parties, understand this. Thanks for your attention to this matter. huffpost.com

My linkblog is an RSS feed, of course. But you can also subscribe to it on Bluesky. bsky.app

Eugen Rochko, the top guy on Mastodon, is turning off the bridge from his account to Bluesky. mastodon.social

Minnesota National Guard mobilized; protesters clash in downtown Minneapolis. cbsnews.com

Top 10 Greatest American Cars of All Time. motortrend.com

Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike. arstechnica.com

ICE opening huge lockup 50 miles north of New York City. ctmirror.org

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work. wired.com

Democrats grapple with 'rising clamor' for Trump impeachment ahead of midterms. go.com

Progressive effort to primary Sen. John Fetterman ramps up. nbcnews.com

White House reveals Gaza 'Board of Peace' members. thehill.com

Judge slams Trump administration over targeted deportations. politico.com

"Mastodon’s choices become de facto standards whether or not the project engages with formal standardisation processes." connectedplaces.online

The People, Not the Politicians, Are Leading. thenation.com

Bearsville Center Is Up for Sale in Woodstock. theoverlooknews.com

25 years of Drupal: what Dries has learned. dri.es

Scripting News: An EZ-Pass for news. scripting.com

Pistachio Nutrition and Health Benefits. healthline.com

Ciji Graham Died Unable to Get Heart Care or an Abortion in North Carolina. propublica.org

Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming. cjr.org

Congress Is Actually Governing. politicalwire.com

Why police are now sending some confiscated electric bikes to the crusher. electrek.co

In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims. nytimes.com

There Is One Fediverse. There Are A Thousand Ways To Join It. jaz.co.uk

Trump Administration Wants ‘Lists of Jews.’ politicalwire.com

Kia takes aim at a smaller, more affordable EV beneath the EV2. electrek.co

Scott Adams, creator of 'Dilbert,' dies at 68. apnews.com

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing. arstechnica.com

Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter. theatlantic.com

Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead’s 10 best recordings. theguardian.com

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype. Amen. simonwillison.net

Check out these EVs before they're gone for good in 2026. electrek.co

We’re lucky to have Powell at the Fed. bsky.app

The Government Workers Donald Trump Discarded. theatlantic.com

European leaders rally behind Greenland as US ramps up threats. A good idea. Show some of the spine our Republican elected officials don't have. theguardian.com

Suppose the US sold some of the states, e.g. selling the Dakotas to Costco. substack.com

A Software Library with No Code. dbreunig.com

Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of The Grateful Dead, Dies at 78. nytimes.com

Trump says U.S. is ready to help Iranians get freedom, but what about freedom for Americans. axios.com

'The Life of Chuck' Movie Explained. nofilmschool.com

Feds pay $125K after Border Patrol agent pointed gun at Portland hotel worker. oregonlive.com

Why We Keep Falling for Narcissistic Leaders. nytimes.com

This scene won an Oscar. youtube.com

Dangers of efficiency with AI? nathanwrigley.com

After delays, the missing Jan. 6 plaque will be displayed at the Capitol. npr.org

Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good. ncronline.org

Renee Nicole Good shooting: ICE agent identified. startribune.com

Palmer Luckey thinks the future of tech is in the past. techcrunch.com

Pam Perillo’s Sisterhood of the Condemned. texasobserver.org

Trump's Mogul-First Model of Diplomacy. thenation.com

ThinkTank ad from 1984. scripting.com

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis. nytimes.com

Ex-ICE chief calls DHS rush to judgement after Minneapolis shooting 'irresponsible.' pbs.org

Killing of Renee Good. wikipedia.org

PBS: "The Fight to Control the A-Bomb’s Story." youtube.com

Minneapolis shooting reported as federal agents conduct an immigration enforcement surge. apnews.com

The Great Unraveling Has Begun. nytimes.com

Facebook in 2010: One graph to rule them all. Look at how young Zuck is! That was 16 years ago. cnet.com

"In America you call it the alt-right, in Germany we call it 'why Grandpapa lives in Argentina now.'" facebook.com

Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram. om.co

Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections. thedailybeast.com

The Moment We Lost The Plot. talkingpointsmemo.com

New Yorker podcast with a reporter who has the whole story from the perspective of Latin America. Like listening to the Donald McNeil podcasts at the outset of Covid. A quick way to get up to speed on something most of us weren't thinking about too much. apple.com

Trump predicts he will be impeached if Republicans lose the midterms. nbcnews.com

Must watch — narrated bodycam video of Capitol police on Jan 6, 2021. youtube.com

Back in power 5 years later, Trump has all but erased the stain of Jan. 6. politico.com

I blame the supposedly intelligent people who gave away their internet freedom to venture capitalists, and when it became clear that had happened then gave it to another bunch of venture capitalists, and continue to ignore the warnings. leftjabs.com

This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the Capitol. npr.org

As Touring Booms, the Live Music Industry Looks for Its Next Workforce. bloomberg.com

In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss. nytimes.com

Which AI chatbot is best? I tested ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more. wapo.st

Facebook used Mastodon to mislead journalists. Now that Threads is established, they no longer need Mastodon. coywolf.com

Protocols for Publishers sounds like an interesting conference, in London, at the beginning of February. protocolsforpublishers.com

Standard.site is interesting. Two suggestions, explain how you hook up with non-atproto apps. Suggest using RSS and Markdown. And give Markdown a special role, so users can use any tool to edit text. And if you all want to help the web and yourselves focus on interop with wider world. standard.site

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins. joanwestenberg.com

David Frum: Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap. theatlantic.com

Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela. theatlantic.com

Can We Really Afford to Let Health Care Get Any Worse? nytimes.com

Slurry is one of my favorite internet words. scripting.com

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here. newrepublic.com

BTW, speaking of something futuristic. This is a page rendered by WordPress of something that's in Mastodon because the two products speak ActivityPub. Interop is fantastic, because things like this "just work" once you're hooked up to the same network. daveverse.org

Homeland Security’s increasingly unhinged social media posts. joeydevilla.com

One Battle After Another Reviews – Metacritic metacritic.com

The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life. openculture.com

What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo? – On my Om om.co

Jack Smith says Trump acknowledged to others that he lost 2020 election | Reuters reuters.com

Ars Technica: Our top picks for the best films of 2025. arstechnica.com

NYC Congestion Pricing Cut Pollution 22% In Just 6 Months. cleantechnica.com

Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dies At 87. slashdot.org

ICE plans $100 million recruitment push targeting gun shows, military fans. wapo.st

2021: My product is interop. scripting.com

Why Micro.blog uses Markdown. micro.blog

The nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin away. youtube.com

Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless themarkup.org

Plaud Note Pro is an excellent AI-powered recorder that I carry everywhere. techcrunch.com

2025 was a roller coaster year for EVs. npr.org

Just Beyond the Texas Border, Chihuahua Is Launching a Burgeoning State Surveillance System. texasobserver.org

The 10 Senate races that will decide the balance of power in 2026. nbcnews.com

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration. nytimes.com

I had ChatGPT put together a list of NBA feeds that don’t use paywalls. It’s been running a few days and the results are impressive. I’ll do a writeup of the list in next few days. feedland.com

AOC: Trump ran on a promise that ICE would go after the “worst" criminals. But the real crime is in oligarchs taking $170b from your healthcare and food assistance to form a secret police force. x.com

I'm going to try commenting on other old school blogs more here on my blog. Want to see if we can reboot the original sphere as a way of priming the new one. scripting.com

Common Side Effects  on HBO is a pretty good anime style story. metacritic.com

Elon Musk drops 'sustainable' from Tesla's mission as he completes his villain arc | Electrek electrek.co

ICE’s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions. politico.com

Kottke: Are We Still Loving Pluribus? kottke.org

New Yorkers brace for biggest snow storm in years, up to 10 inches. nydailynews.com

NYC Is Getting Hit Hard by the 'Super Flu'—and the Worst Is Yet to Come gizmodo.com

The life of an immigrant day laborer in Berkeley. berkeleyside.org

Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025. arstechnica.com

Why the sparkly star became the symbol for artificial intelligence—and why that’s a problem. slate.com

Lagniappe. worddaily.com

The ultraprocessed food makers have an answer for RFK Jr. politico.com

The ultraprocessed food makers have an answer for RFK Jr. politico.com

The ultraprocessed food makers have an answer for RFK Jr. politico.com

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

'Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes.' slashdot.org

“We guarantee the death of most remaining newsrooms.” niemanlab.org

A Million More Epstein Documents Have Been Found, Justice Dept. Says. nytimes.com

Zohran Mamdani on His Family’s Experience With Immigration Court and His Plans for ICE in NYC. talkingpointsmemo.com

Riley Walz on creating viral internet pranks. sfalexandria.com

'Pluribus' Finale Explained; Vince Gilligan Details Original Ending. variety.com

Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban. ms.now

How recall of career diplomats fits into Trump's foreign policy shift. pbs.org

My favorite bingeable programs via Bingeworthy. bingeworthy.org

Supreme Court Upholds Block of Trump’s National Guard Deployment in the Chicago Area. wttw.com

Luigi Mangione Came to Our Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org

Jasmine Crockett will teach Democratic consultants that voters want  candidates with personality, not nobodies you can paint whatever picture on you want depending on the day and current events. texasobserver.org

AT Proto devs: The web should be your plan B. The web will always want to help, but it isn’t rich or famous or give good interviews or have famous VCs backing it. 💰 scripting.com

New batch of Epstein files include many references to Trump. wapo.st

Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment. nytimes.com

12 Shots That Define Breaking Bad. youtube.com

Drivers struggle to multitask when using dashboard touch screens, study finds. This is true. It’s even worse if you’re farsighted, as I am, you have to put on glasses to read the screen, and quickly take them off to see the road. washington.edu

The HTML Elements Time Forgot. htmhell.dev

Everybody in Milwaukee is mishandling the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade saga. cbssports.com

Bari Weiss intervenes in ’60 Minutes’ Trump segment, correspondent says. wapo.st

‘60 Minutes’ Abruptly Pulls Segment on Trump Deportees Sent to El Salvador Megaprison yahoo.com

PBS documentary on CECOT in place of the cancelled 60 Minutes segment, cancelled by CBS. youtube.com

President Obama campaign speech is reminiscent of a time when we had a government. youtube.com

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes. webkit.org

5 Essential Android Web Browsers That Can Replace Google Chrome. bgr.com

The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025. newyorker.com

On 5/15/2017 I decided I wanted my old blog back. I was fed up trying to write for all the inconsistent publishing platforms, twitter, facebook, google reader, medium, etc. It worked. Never looked back. Like emerging from a bad dream. Because the web is really good for writers. scripting.com

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced. theguardian.com

Cautionary tale for Trump. We could see Venezuelan drones flying over American cities if he goes through with his planned unprovoked attack. American voters will learn in a whole new way that it definitely matters who we vote for. kyivpost.com

Yesterday I hooked up my feed system to Inoreader via dynamic OPML. The first time I ever made such a connection, now when I subscribe to a new podcast in FeedLand, I’m also automatically subscribed to it in Inoreader. Wish Pocket Casts also hooked up. daveverse.org

Firefox, look at the web as your product, and do things that make it easy for independent devs to create products for the web without locking users in. mastodon.social

Scripting News: Why humans should have an exclusive on being human. scripting.com

Everyone in Seattle Hates AI. jonready.com

The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy. thenation.com

Frustrated GOP moderates join Democrats to force Obamacare extension vote. politico.com

If a new CEO of Mozilla took an oath to restore the web to its former greatness, they would find a lot of business models open to them. Instead, they’re trying to be part of the tech industry which places no value on the web being a place for open development. kingcons.io

Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994. Now it's asking why. bbc.com

Academy Awards to leave ABC for YouTube in 2029. washingtonpost.com

The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing. nytimes.com

The Knicks can break NBA Cup curse, and accomplish so much more. sbnation.com

Please learn how to use your computer. niemanlab.org

Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Vanity Fair Interviews Describing Trump World. nytimes.com

Trump’s chief of staff says he believes ‘there’s nothing he can’t do’ as president. theguardian.com

Is it too much to hope that Meathead and Archie could be the cultural bridge we need to get Americans to pull together? scripting.com

2024: We elected Archie Bunker. scripting.com

As Michael Stivic in ‘All in the Family,’ Rob Reiner Brought Political Arguments Home. nytimes.com

Remembering Rob Reiner. talkingpointsmemo.com

America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. thebulwark.com

Rob Reiner’s son Nick arrested in connection with deaths of his parents. theguardian.com

Past classic that deserves an electric update: Honda Element. electrek.co

I've still got big plans for RSS. mastodon.social

US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead. theguardian.com

Improved My Feedreader’s Writing to the Web. zylstra.org

How to make a pantry soup with whatever you have on hand. wapo.st

Without subsidies, health care will get costlier for these 3 families. apnews.com

Viktor Orbán’s Hail Mary. cjr.org

Just started watching "Mr. Scorsese Reviews" on Apple TV and it's like getting inside the head that came up with all those movies, with scenes from the movies in there too. What a gift. metacritic.com

Scripting News: The Mets' soul walks out the door. scripting.com

Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children? bbc.com

2019: What about Mastodon? (Before Musk bought Twitter.) scripting.com

It's a good idea for government agencies to communicate with voters about what they do for us. noaa.gov

Dutch political cartoons, very dark. trouw.nl

Traveling to the US with an ESTA in 2026. herve.bzh

Can the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” Be Saved From Trump? newrepublic.com

The media will become terminally addicted to gambling. niemanlab.org

1997: Don's Amazing Puzzle. scripting.com

What to make of Mets losing Alonso, Diaz to free agency. espn.com

Why RSS matters. werd.io

The year journalism stops outsourcing its independence. niemanlab.org

“Readers are not asking the Times to print propaganda or stump for Democrats. In my view, they simply want the Times to be more clear-eyed and honest about the depth of the crisis this country currently faces.” presswatchers.org

404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. 404media.co

John Naughton: “The great thing about being a blogger, as I’ve often observed, is that you continually learn stuff from your readers.” substack.com

New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says. bbc.com

Stephen Miller’s Rhetoric “Reminds Me” of “Nazis,” Says Rep. Ilhan Omar. motherjones.com

Is Netflix Trying to Buy Warner Bros. or Kill It? slashdot.org

I bought a 5-ton electric tractor from China. electrek.co

Train Dreams gets an 88 on Metacritic. metacritic.com

The small team running Trump’s foreign policy. politico.com

My web writing is 💯 percent me. Hopefully you can tell. nytimes.com

The Medical Case for Self-Driving Cars. nytimes.com

Yogi Berra: “You can observe a lot by just watching.” goodreads.com

Texas Gets a Pass for a Gerrymandering Free-For-All. Will California Be Given the Same? talkingpointsmemo.com

Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia. independent.co.uk

He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, he’s nearly home. wapo.st

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 Billion. netflix.com

Netflix to buy Warner Bros Discovery's studios, streaming unit for $72 billion. reuters.com

Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved the city. inquirer.com

Trump news: Why Big Tech bros like David Sacks, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are crashing out. slate.com

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west. theguardian.com

Don’t Overcomplicate the Scandal of Trump’s Lawless High Seas Attacks. #amen talkingpointsmemo.com

OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months. arstechnica.com

I'm trying to find out what happened at State of the Word which started at noon Pacific. No mention of it yet on my WordPress community timeline. feedland.org

Kia previews the EV2, its most affordable EV yet. electrek.co

The wikipedia page for RSS is full of dogma. ChatGPT gets the story right. Adoption of RSS was driven by news orgs and bloggers. RSS 2.0 was developed as a result of The NY Times coming on board, followed by the rest of the news publishing world. wikipedia.org

Join Them for Office Hours: Dec 1-5 – ActivityPub for WordPress. activitypub.blog

President Taco. bloomberg.com

How The Salt Lake Tribune spent 2025 preparing for a 2026 without subscription revenue niemanlab.org

Colorado Finally Got Its Wolves Back. Why Are So Many Dying? motherjones.com

The ChatGPT effect: In 3 years the AI chatbot has changed the way people look things up theconversation.com

It's up to the writer to decide if an item has a title. If it doesn't have a title, it would be incorrect for a feed reader to invent a title for the item. github.com

Kia slashes EV prices with a new $10,000 discount. electrek.co

Connecting apples and oranges on the web. daveverse.org

"Pluribus" is a fascinating Rorschach test. salon.com

Retired judges warn that the rule of law is unraveling. wapo.st

We can see what they’re doing, the Republicans are the real terrorists. thehill.com

This WIRED piece in 2009 captures the idea I'm working on. Imagine if Twitter had supported rssCloud in 2009. That would have made Twitter "of the web" instead of being a silo. The world would be different, not saying better. But further ahead. wired.com

I was researching a blog post and saw that Wikipedia says rssCloud was superseded by WebSub. I knew this wasn't true because we use rssCloud in all our work. It's been supported by WordPress since 2009. So I asked ChatGPT for its opinion, and I learned a lot. github.com

Housing, Coworking Plan for Former Woodstock Library Site Gets Planning Board Zoning Endorsement. theoverlooknews.com

The Real Meaning of MAHA Is ‘You’re On Your Own.’ nytimes.com

Dave Winer is right: Mastodon is harder to host than WordPress. wordpress.com

If this were a TV series, we would’ve figured out what was going on here a long time ago. They all work for Putin. What’s next? nytimes.com

Pete Davidson talks with the all-new Alexa+ as it were his human live-in girlfriend. But “her” is a vast computer network owned by a huge conglomerate. I tried it for a minute and turned it off. Felt guilty. See the problem? youtube.com

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has work crew in Nashville walk off job over unpaid bills and safety. electrek.co

Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting. reuters.com

Advertising is Coming to AI. It’s Going to Be a Disaster. techpolicy.press

Donors to Trump’s Transition Revealed a Year Later. nytimes.com

A new RSS Reader for iOS by Jake Spurlock, who I know from Wired and O'Reilly. He works at Automattic now. jakespurlock.com

How ICE is watching your Thanksgiving drive. reason.com

Why 'hold forever' investors are snapping up venture capital 'zombies.' techcrunch.com

The best way to read blogs hasn’t changed in twenty years. RSS. seths.blog

Kash Patel Helps Trump Take Revenge on Democrats for Message to Troops. newrepublic.com

Data centers aren't just guzzling water. They're poisoning it. heated.world

Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors. theatlantic.com

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81. theguardian.com

The surprising food that makes us happier in the long run. npr.org

Why Life Actually Begins At 40. youtube.com

Why Life Actually Begins At 40. youtube.com

If it’s a jet set, it’s a carbon-offset-private-jet set. After all, flying commercial won’t get you from your Davos breakfast on empowering African girls with credit cards to your crypto-for-good dinner in Aspen. nytimes.com

People in Monrovia, CA are buying and returning inexpensive ice scrapers at Home Depot as an ICE protest. Very civil. aol.com

What concerns are there about an AI bubble? npr.org

Scott Hanson put together an rssCloud plugin for WordPress sites. github.com

Trump and Mamdani, Just 2 Guys From Queens. nytimes.com

Trump gives Mamdani warm reception. theguardian.com

I beg to differ. The reason Mozilla replaced MSIE to the extent that it did is that Microsoft wasn’t doing anything about the malware that came in through their browser. mozilla.org

I beg to differ. The reason Mozilla replaced MSIE to the extent that it did is that Microsoft wasn’t doing anything about the malware that came in through their browser. mozilla.org

rssCloud pings emanating from self-hosted WordPress site. github.com

Harvard Law School Library releases first complete set of digitized Nuremberg Trials records. harvard.edu

How billionaires took over American politics. wapo.st

The earliest days of The Atlantic Online. theatlantic.com

Slotkin Gets Security Detail After Trump’s Remarks. politicalwire.com

Democrats to Troops: Don’t Follow Unlawful Orders. youtube.com

My linkblog is an RSS feed. this.how

Colorado-style pizza. wikipedia.org

Olivia Nuzzi’s Comeback Exposes a Broken Media System. mediaite.com

Americans Show Consensus on Many Democracy-Related Matters. gallup.com

Why Older People Worry About Leaving Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org

The news gets everything wrong about the nouns of our political system. They talk about Repubs and Dems, but the real power is with the people. scripting.com

In Major Rebuke to Trump, House Passes Epstein Files Resolution. thebulwark.com

A Month of Chat-Oriented Programming. checkeagle.com

The danger of misplaced certainty. nathanwrigley.com

Tesla pushing suppliers to cut all China-made parts for US cars. electrek.co

We Came Here Legally. ICE Locked Us Up Anyway. nytimes.com

'60 Minutes,' owned by the Ellison family, Asks If Trump Is 'Compromised' By Crypto Pardon. mediaite.com

Ken Burns' 'The American Revolution' revisits the country's founding. npr.org

The Grift Bubble. substack.com

Homeland Security Department Shifts Its Focus to Immigration Crackdown. nytimes.com

The evolution of rationality: How chimps process conflicting evidence. arstechnica.com

Making progress is more than making policy – what Mamdani can learn from de Blasio about the politics of urban progress. theconversation.com

The domain for the new MSNOW is ms.now. ms.now

More liberals, people of color and LGBTQ Americans say they're buying guns out of fear. npr.org

Search the recently released Epstein emails. google.com

These Reagan-appointed judges have had it with Trump. politico.com

Morgan Freeman taking legal action over AI replicas of his voice. nydailynews.com

They love kicking Michael Wolff in the butt, probably because he's an independent, but they all do this. theatlantic.com

GOP splintering over the Epstein files highlights a bigger problem for Trump. msnbc.com

WordPress-maker Automattic lays off 16 per cent of workforce amid restructuring efforts. msn.com

How people use AI chatbots. It’s a lot like the way Carol converses with her helpers in Pluribus. smays.com

Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’ Illuminates the Hudson Valley’s Role in the War that Defined a Nation. theoverlooknews.com

This is what I learned in massage school in the 90s. To love how fear protects me, but to use my senses to compare reality to what my subconscious is scared of, and choose how I’ll respond, if I respond at all. washingtonpost.com

URLS for text fragments. github.io

Is Elon Musk delusional or lying about Tesla 'Full Self-Driving'? electrek.co

Pluribus review – the audacity of the Breaking Bad creator’s new TV show is incredible. theguardian.com

It Was the Epstein Shutdown All Along. democracydocket.com

Quick podcast on what we can learn from Sarah Kendzior being banned by Bluesky. scripting.com

Michael Wolff, Chronicler of Elites, Advised Epstein About Trump nytimes.com

A short podcast about Sarah Kendzior, Johnny Cash, Folsom Prison, and Bluesky. scripting.com

Sarah Kendzior's termination from Bluesky was apparently intentional, relating to her quoting the Johnny Cash "Folsom Prison Blues." What a great song. So there was some actual literature on Bluesky. Isn't that what we want? substack.com

Dems should go all-in on everything. slate.com

Read the Jeffrey Epstein Emails That Mention Trump. nytimes.com

ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants. 404media.co

NakedJen has a WordPress blog. nakedjen.com

Manton Reece: Markdown in RSS. manton.org

2011: The world is socialist. scripting.com

Bronx Science students, rejoicing at alum Mamdani’s victory, sound note of caution. gothamist.com

Funding cuts may make public radio more reliant on old, rich, white donors. niemanlab.org

Mastodon.social is not a good way to join Mastodon. fedi.tips

These Dan Dan Noodles Are the Weeknight Meal of Your Dreams. nytimes.com

For a brief while the Dems in the Senate resisted. It worked. Put up a wall and dare Trump to show who his hostages are. Reveal his terrorism. Force reporters to cover it. And pollsters, add "Police state" to one of the reasons people vote against Trumpsters. talkingpointsmemo.com

No doubt this will comfort people flying re the safety of air travel in the US. politico.com

Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves. wsj.com

How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider. talkingpointsmemo.com

Eight Senate Dems Caved, and Caved Too Early. emptywheel.net

But AI is not intelligent, it simulates intelligence. If you actually try to work wit it, you learn this eventually. nytimes.com

This is the new frontier — AI impersonating users, without permission, by Google. Amazing this story isn’t in all the big news orgs. scripting.com

Most people detained by ICE are being housed in sprawling complexes in rural areas, where the land is cheap and the protests are few. theatlantic.com

Why I Am Leaving the Federal Bench. theatlantic.com

First thoughts on Pluribus. daveverse.org

Hollywood’s Freelance Revolution Is Coming for Everyone. substack.com

I’ll wait till all the episodes are out. Or let the reviewers have access to just as much of a series as the regular folk get. daveverse.org

US employment report will not be published again as government shutdown drags on. reuters.com

I don't see why anyone would mourn the demise of CBS or really any other network that profited from all the interest (ie ad revenue) generated by Trump. They haven't had integrity in a very long time. washingtonpost.com

Steve Wozniak on the Impressive ChatGPT Technology. tiktok.com

Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders. bbc.com

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity. electrek.co

Pennsylvania Attorney General joins push to prevent sales of synthetic cannabinoids. newsbreak.com

Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection. npr.org

Mullenweg and Borthwick. Live-blogging to the extent I can. Wifi is good here, but the audio is not great. daveverse.org

How to recommend a blog to your readers in WordPress Reader. wordpress.com

Singles’ Day is a $150B holiday in China. Here’s why they think ‘11/11’ will catch on in the US. theconversation.com

Heather Cox Richardson: “Today voters resoundingly rejected Trump and Trumpism, and tomorrow, politics will be a whole different game.” substack.com

Where is Steve Kornacki? NBC. yahoo.com

Now the big question is which WordCamp should I go to next? 😀 wordcamp.org

Amazon has told Perplexity to get its agentic browser out of its online store. techcrunch.com

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies. thenation.com

Ford's $30,000 EVs are right around the corner. electrek.co

Common Crawl Is Doing the AI Industry’s Dirty Work. theatlantic.com

David Frum: There Was Only One Dick Cheney. theatlantic.com

Inside the Data Centers That Train A.I. and Drain the Electrical Grid. newyorker.com

Dick Cheney, Powerful Vice President and Washington Insider, Dies at 84. nytimes.com

You’d think Repubs know where this is leading. They’ve got their SS and Gestapo, they’re building the death camps with tax dollars, practicing on immigrants first. Ultimately they’re doing the Final Solution, but this time they’re determined to get it right. nytimes.com

We need more silliness on the web. nathanwrigley.com

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

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

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day. 404media.co

John Palfrey: Listen carefully to what Administration says. wordpress.com

Wikipedia is pretty awful, but Elon Musk is going to make a better one? gizmodo.com

The New York Times is looking for generals and admirals who are quitting the military following an address from the defense secretary. nytimes.com

Could we make something good from social media? daveverse.org

Matt Mullenweg on Om Malik's 59th birthday. I'm longtime friends with Om too. ma.tt

Kia's electric van makes for a high-end people mover at resorts. electrek.co

The Energy Dept. just banned the words 'climate change.' electrek.co

John Palfrey: Will the legal profession stand  up? daveverse.org

RSS is permanent. daveverse.org

Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 3: Integration). Love this piece. climbtothestars.org

Let’s start a tech Hall of Fame, for gifts whose value is appreciated more over time, and start with the World Wide Web as one of the first inductees. theguardian.com

Yes, an EV really CAN power your home. electrek.co

Xi Is Chasing a Huge Concession From Trump: Opposing Taiwan Independence. wsj.com

"It's not just enough to speak up for one platform, anything that can't be owned should be connected and tested with everything else that can't be owned." daveverse.org

Why LA Comic Con thought making an AI-powered Stan Lee hologram was a good idea. arstechnica.com

Ice detains superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district. theguardian.com

Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway. arstechnica.com

Comey says he’s 'standing up to Donald Trump,' while Trump calls for more retribution. kansasreflector.com

Nick Hamze’s ‘Cool Kids’ Post Kicks Off Fresh Debate on WordPress’s Image Problem. therepository.email

Could we make something good from social media? daveverse.org

Our power comes from working together. daveverse.org

To start to get out of the hole we’re in first we have to get rid of the idea that the super wealthy are better or smarter than people with a normal amount of money. daveverse.org

World Leader Compares Trump to Hitler in Front of Entire U.N. “The U.S. mainstream media, for its part, has largely ignored his comments.” newrepublic.com

Introducing ChatGPT Pulse. openai.com

ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history. arstechnica.com

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals. wapo.st

Apple Is the New Disney. telos.news

The next version of WordLand integrates the timeline and the editor. I finally have that integration more or less debugged. Just some development notes. daveverse.org

The Alien: Earth series is complete, ready for a binge. salon.com

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers. wired.com

Kansas high schoolers sue after AI tool flags student’s artwork as porn. wapo.st

Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable. notus.org

The story of Rip Van Winkle as a free audiobook, thanks to archive.org. archive.org

Zoox asks federal regulators for exemption to launch a commercial robotaxi service. techcrunch.com

Jimmy Kimmel’s return is a win for the resistance. headsupnews.org

Stand Together for higher ed. standtogetherhighered.org

UN blames Trump's team for nonworking escalator and teleprompter. apnews.com

The web has been asleep for 19 years, which is almost as long as Rip Van WInkle was. wikipedia.org

Meta appoints extremist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor. advocate.com

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands placed on National Mall. wapo.st

Jimmy Kimmel opening monologue last night. youtube.com

Some random ideas about what the web is that I've been jotting down to share on Daveverse, my home on Mastodon and WordPress. daveverse.org

Mets’ Pete Alonso: A Player Defined By Power And Character. humatl.com

Sinclair will continue to keep it off its ABC stations. Perhaps ABC could stream it live on Hulu for the viewers who aren’t getting Kimmel via Sinclair. Esp tonight everyone is going to want to see the show. cnn.com

Om reviews the iPhone air. "It ranks as one of the most beautiful objects—not just phones—that I have ever held." om.co

The 21 grams experiment that tried to weigh a human soul. popsci.com

Trump uses Kirk's death to silence critics—and voters aren't pleased. He blew his wad too soon. He probably isn't a good poker player either. dailykos.com

WordCamp Canada: The blog is the message. wordcamp.org

Why WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back). iconick.io

Czech president: NATO must respond militarily to Russian violations. com.ua

Trump Might Be Losing His Race Against Time. theatlantic.com

This is the ad the Dems are too chickenshit to run. youtube.com

To which Trump would likely say “bipartisan? What dat?” nytimes.com

Why Trump’s attacks on the Fed’s independence are so dangerous. theguardian.com

Why Trump’s attacks on the Fed’s independence are so dangerous. theguardian.com

Why Trump’s attacks on the Fed’s independence are so dangerous. theguardian.com

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company. theguardian.com

Trump had a huge brain fart. He shouldn’t have posted that private message to Pam Bondi in public the way he did. Ooops. politico.com

Controversial ICE commercial aims to lure peeved Chicago police. They ran the same commercial in NY. nbcchicago.com

This is what a WordLand feed looks like. Pretty straight RSS 2.0 feed with a few additions. Includes WordPress site and post id’s and markdown text for each item. Also it’s possible to use this feed for linkblog entries. scripting.com

The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society. nytimes.com

Border czar Tom Homan was investigated by DOJ for potential bribery. politico.com

Trump Says Critical Coverage of Him Is ‘Really Illegal.’ nytimes.com

Hollywood stars — including those with Disney, ABC, Hulu and Marvel Cinematic Universe credits — are continuing to show their support for the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ host in the wake of his suspension. hollywoodreporter.com

After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View. arstechnica.com

ChatGPT and Gemini both agreed it was likely that I had a bad form of cancer. daveverse.org

Josh Marshall writes about the monsters running things, and he’s right, but one thing journalists will never report on is that if the tech gods are monsters, so are journalists. They made the monsters through ignorance, being lazy, or greed. They own this disaster. talkingpointsmemo.com

Larry Ellison Is Closing In on CNN, HBO and TikTok. nytimes.com

Pete Hegseth’s JAG purge undermines rule of law in the military. wapo.st

This engine has no horses. lmorchard.com

Russian warplanes breach NATO airspace in ‘dangerous provocation’ over Estonia. politico.eu

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. yahoo.com

Friends don’t let friends visit America. substack.com

Soros Gives $10 Million to Newsom Redistricting Fight. nytimes.com

Democrats, stop being such pussies, vote no, and move on. Some things really are that simple. axios.com

Netflix would be an obvious place for the late night entertainment comedians to relocate to. politico.com

Trump asks Supreme Court for emergency order to remove Fed Gov. Cook. apnews.com

Garry Kasparov: I Saw How Russia Killed Media Freedom. thenextmove.org

Where Charlie Kirk Stood on Key Political Issues. nytimes.com

Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner—and here’s Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there. fortune.com

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump. arcdigital.media

Jeffrey Epstein, John Brockman, and the Third Culture. america2.news

Melissa Hortman, speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, was assassinated by a Trump acolyte in June of this year. Along with her husband and dog. No tears from Pam Bondi or threats of retribution from the president. wikipedia.org

Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi. politico.com

Kia's new PV5 electric van enters the taxi game. electrek.co

Trump is ushering in a new era of government censorship. wapo.st

The Case Against Ayman Soliman Could Fuel Trump Immigration Crackdown. propublica.org

Gazelle launches new comfort-focused e-bikes in the US & Canada. electrek.co

Robert Redford, movie star and Sundance founder, dies at 89. yahoo.com

ChatGPT mostly used for help with writing, research. theregister.com

BTW we now have a blogroll on my WordPress blog (which I am loving writing to, it's got a different feel). It just snuck up on me, I wasn't expecting it and first impression — it looks great. Slowly we're getting it together. 🙂 daveverse.org

Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliation. co.kr

Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests. exchangepoint.tech

Google has a point with the summaries. The most highly rated search results often seem to never get around to answering the question, so maybe they brought about their own demise. theverge.com

I tried watching The Pitt,  but I have a phobia to watching surgery where you have to look inside people’s bodies. I try to avert my eyes, but it doesn’t work. I hear it’s a great show. wikipedia.org

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape. github.io

White House Insists Stephen Miller Does Not Play with Dolls. thedailybeast.com

NY Governor Hochul Endorses Mamdani for Mayor of New York. nytimes.com

The Bloggers of Mastodon. daveverse.org

Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. wsj.com

So much for the enlightened philosophy of the Utah Governor. nytimes.com

Secret Service agent put on leave for anti-Charlie Kirk Facebook post. usatoday.com

How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System. nytimes.com

Learning WordPress All Over Again. andyrush.net

Italian song 'Bella Ciao' lyrics implicated in Charlie Kirk’s killing. npr.org

New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens’ Passports Over Political Speech. truthout.org

I had something go semi viral on Threads. threads.com

Trump loves AI, and the MAGA world is getting worried. politico.com

I've been taking Ozempic for the last couple of years with dramatic effects. 

But now for the last year my weight is stable at a reasonably healthy level for the first time in a long time. Getting prepared for the big decade, I just turned 70 this year. It's a daunting moment. I remember when my grandfather was 70. It seemed like an impossibly age. I was 15. 

Anyway I haven't said anything about it on my main blog. Not sure how people would react.

But this blog, daveverse, is finding another audience. I haven't made sense of it, people are liking it somewhere, but we don't have a Like button on the site. I'm thinking they must be doing it on Mastodon, but where? This is something we have to work on for Mastodon. There need to be places, and I always assumed they were there but now I think they aren't. This is not a good thing to be confused about. 

Anyway back to Ozempic. I realize now how it works. After two years, I don't get an emotional rush out of eating. It isn't about satisfying a need for love any more. It's just eating. And I swear I taste so much more of the food now than I ever did. Eating for nutrition and eating for sensation.

My old grandfather used to call this the Art of Living. Maybe this attitude toward food isn't only coming from the drug, maybe time does that too.

My message btw to people who feel 70 is impossibly old, you won't feel that way so much when you are 70 because you keep learning and seeing things you didn't see before. It's part of the trip. I almost died a few times earlier in life, glad I didn't so I get to do this. wnyc.org

Hope I don’t get fired for saying Stephen Miller is an asshole. motherjones.com

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning. thenation.com

Why WordPress Core needs more blocks. gutenbergtimes.com

Apple's Assault on Standards. infrequently.org

I woke up at 4am today, feeling pretty hopeless and tired of fighting for open networks on my own, never getting the help we need from people who can and should help. daveverse.org

Woodside estate is Bay Area’s biggest sale in a decade. sfstandard.com

‘Never Again’ at the Texas Border. texasobserver.org

I'm really enjoying Cardinal, a crime thriller drama on Hulu. First season was great, getting started on the second season. metacritic.com

How to Canonize a White Supremacist. thenation.com

Pretty soon we're going to wish we had a simple way to set up ad hoc networks of people that are not subject to being turned off by people who eat dinner with the president. 404media.co

Mastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent 'dunking.' techcrunch.com

Appeals court judges publicly admonish Supreme Court justices: ‘We’re out here flailing.’ politico.com

Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE. electrek.co

Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement. theguardian.com

Bolsonaro found guilty in attempted coup, assassination plot. wapo.st

Scripting News: 9/11/2001. scripting.com

This is a clever app. It combines many RSS feeds into one feed. It's like OPML reading lists in a very low-tech form. Hmmm. Have to think about this. buttondown.com

The best story I've read about why RSS prevailed, by Ryan Farley. Bravo! 🙂 buttondown.com

Epstein’s Inbox: A Trove of Emails Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets. bloomberg.com

Tim Berners-Lee: What happened to the internet surprised me. But we can fix it. thetimes.com

Harris goes there on the Biden question — and Biden world isn’t having it. politico.com

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story. theatlantic.com

Thom Tillis Says He Doesn't Want a White House Crackdown on Charlotte. notus.org

This is why we probably shouldn’t hold any conferences for open tech in the US for a while. variety.com

The story of how RSS beat Microsoft. We weren’t trying to beat anyone, we just wanted to make a level playing field where bloggers and news orgs could coexist on the web. buttondown.com

Stephanie Booth’s first post about rebooting the blogosphere. climbtothestars.org

How someone becomes a torturer. theconversation.com

Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance. This is what I'm talking about. Removing disconnects. Rebuilding the web. Right on. kirk.at

I use ChatGPT in this mode all the time. I recently learned about CSS Grid and at the same time had it explained to me why CSS is such a sucky way to design apps to run on computers. Spoiler alert: It was designed to format documents. techcrunch.com

This criticism of ChatGPT is right on. It must act like a computer and only answer the questions it’s asked, stop trying to lead. Its questions always take you in the wrong direction. Always. Took me a long time to figure this out. mastodon.social

Suzanne Aldrich explains passionately why the social media apps should meet bloggers where they live and support inbound RSS already. The good news is that Evan Prodromou agrees. (As do I of course.) mastodon.social

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich. theguardian.com

Inside DOGE’s Takeover of the Social Security Administration. propublica.org

This is where you go if you want to install a blogroll like mine in a WordPress blog. It's like a tiny FeedLand in the place a blogroll goes. It has stood the test of time, I use the one on my blog all the time. github.com

U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections. nytimes.com

In the early 90s a technological asteroid hit the software world called the web and wiped out all the GUI apps scripting.com

Scripting News: Bullet points from yesterday's podcast. scripting.com

B-52s Singer Kate Pierson Lists Woodstock Retreat for $750,000. robbreport.com

Just Beyond the Texas Border, Chihuahua Is Launching a Burgeoning State Surveillance System. texasobserver.org

DJI’s Chinese Drones Face U.S. Ban nytimes.com

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So. newrepublic.com

Ezra Klein is a putz. He’s the one who wouldn’t shut up about Biden. Not interested in what he thinks we must do. nytimes.com

Stablecoins may be next battleground in US-China rivalry. semafor.com

GM slows EV production as tax credit nears expiration. theverge.com

If I wrote something on Masto and want to link to it from a blog post, what's the URL that works for everyone? Does the link in this post work for you? mastodon.social

Thousands protest in Chicago against ICE and Trump's National Guard plan. apnews.com

Washington, DC, residents protest against Trump's troop deployment to the city. reuters.com

Davey Johnson, 1986 Mets manager and 4-time All-Star, dies at 82. apnews.com

I don’t update blog posts after the day they’re published. I have a special site, https://this.how/, for stuff I will update. bix.blog

Sorry, Trump: Chicago Is Not The 'Murder Capital Of The World' — Not Even Close, Data Shows blockclubchicago.org

GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites. arstechnica.com

Jury trials, a critical part of democracy, are disappearing. theconversation.com

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action. (I wonder what share of this bloggers get?) reuters.com

I found the “lonely blog” via my blogroll, which is built on RSS, of course. manuelmoreale.com

Kennedy family members call for RFK Jr. to resign from HHS. statnews.com

Donald Trump Is Tanking America’s Labor Market. rollingstone.com

Nate Silver thinks Bluesky is a loser. natesilver.net

Hyundai's new EV plant was just raided by ICE, 'hundreds' arrested. electrek.co

Why everyone is quitting social media. substack.com

Healthcare worker shares 5 "insider tips" for advocating for yourself at the doctor. dailydot.com

Trump presses tech CEOs on American manufacturing investments at WH event. thehill.com

The best Trump/Gavin meme I've seen so far. bsky.app

Manton: OpenAI’s Codex continues to amaze me. manton.org

Honda set to unveil full size electric motorcycle with fast charging. Good idea. EVs have a rep of being anemic, but actually they can be muscle cars with incredible acceleration and handling. electrek.co

Make McCarthy Great Again. (Laura Loomer) theatlantic.com

I'm from this area in Queens, Flushing, Whitestone, Bayside. They were sleepy little places then but now have become interesting. Trump says NYC is a mess, but it's not. Trump is from the Archie Bunker generation. Very dated from a Queens perspective. qns.com

Trump will host top tech CEOs except Musk at a White House dinner. pbs.org

I can’t imagine anyone gives a fuck what chief justice John Roberts thinks about anything. politico.com

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you. theconversation.com

Utah’s congressional maps must be redrawn right away, judge rules. pbs.org

Microsoft releases 6502 BASIC as open source. microsoft.com

Where did all the WordPress editors go? herve.bzh

Pharmacists decry COVID Vaccine Delay. spectrumlocalnews.com

Trump says he's set to order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore. apnews.com

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down. theguardian.com

Trump’s Most Fateful Teardown Is Happening Now. nytimes.com

Homophobe Rand Paul slams gay health expert Daskalakis. advocate.com

Google Won't Have To Sell Chrome Browser, Judge Rules In Antirust Case. deadline.com

Life Sentences Inside America’s Prisons. prisonjournalismproject.org

Trump Makes a Mess on Purpose. theatlantic.com

At a Texas career expo, thousands line up to help ICE ‘defend the homeland.’ wapo.st

HTMHell Advent Calendar. google.com

This ought to be a clear message to American soldiers, American cities don’t want to be occupied by the American military. Respect the Constitution and refuse illegal orders. reuters.com

AI is unmasking ICE officers. politico.com

In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty. theguardian.com

Did the White House Not Understand What Putin Was Really Offering? theatlantic.com

The Pentagon is planning an invasion of AMERICAN cities. Two immediate reactions. 1. Cowards. 2. Traitors. We should start our deportations there, send the people planning this outrage to Uganda or El Salvador. washingtonpost.com

China's huge navy is expanding at breakneck speed – will it rule the waves? bbc.com

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized after crash. reuters.com

Judge blocks flights sending hundreds of children to Guatemala. politico.com

On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance. thenation.com

Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military. thebulwark.com

Why N.Y. Legal Weed Might Not Be as Safe, or as Strong, as Advertised. nytimes.com

RFK Jr. DNR'd the US Healthcare System. emptywheel.net

Jeremy Lin announces retirement, more than a decade after 'Linsanity' captivated the NBA. yahoo.com

A zoomable archive of Byte Magazine. An amazing historic record. Searchable. Every page shown exactly as it was in the printed magazine. tsundoku.io

It's time for Masto to officially support more of the web. Unofficially it already does! Marketing. Raise the bar. Show why Masto is so much better than the competition. Let's go. mastodon.social

Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human. vivaldi.com

A CLI tool for managing RSSfeeds with SQLite storage and static website generation. github.com

On the flight from Atlanta to post-Katrina New Orleans, a 50-minute podcast with Janet, a woman who lost her house and all her possessions in the Lakeview section of New Orleans. podcatch.com

ICE recruiting site. ice.gov

Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission. theguardian.com

Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: "Computers — the World's Greatest Toy!" mastodon.social

How Gavin Newsom made Mike Johnson look (and sound) like a (wimpy) Democrat editorialboard.com

I want you to see WordPress as comparable to Bluesky or Mastodon. scripting.com

People say Paul McCartney's "silly love songs" like this one are not good. They don't realize how nice they are to sing along with. They should stop being so crabby, just enjoy! youtube.com

Scripting News: Proposal for a political sci fi sitcom. scripting.com

I like what Vivaldi says about the web. It makes me want to do more to re-stock the web with interesting, inspiring HUMAN ideas. Maybe we could make our blogging software work better with their browser. All for the web, for humanity. mastodon.social

Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims. science.org

Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban. slashdot.org

Brent who worked at UserLand where we developed Frontier explains why it was so much faster for app developers than anything we’re using now. It’s why I want a Linux version so the work we did then can live and be built on. inessential.com

After Paris curbed cars, air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. wapo.st

“we’re just focused on doing the work to deliver personal superintelligence” — the hype thickens. arstechnica.com

Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws. techcrunch.com

Yesterday I decided it was time to say what I'm doing for the web with WordPress. No more character limits, you can add a link where one belongs, simple styling, editing, and more. scripting.com

They just played this New Orleans song on the BBC. Hadn't heard in many years. youtube.com

The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ‘ground zero’ for Hurricane Katrina. mprnews.org

Trump and His Officials Target Fed and CDC, Long Seen as Above Politics. nytimes.com

The bigger story behind the mass exodus of CDC leadership. vox.com

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States. nytimes.com

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds. theguardian.com

U.S. shoppers' orders canceled as world shuts down some American-bound shipments. nbcnews.com

"It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." seattletimes.com

Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center. nbcnews.com

Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts. I kind of assumed they already were. But now that they bring it up, maybe they should be paying us instead of us paying them. theverge.com

The Innocent and the Executed: James Beathard’s Long-Forgotten Story. texasobserver.org

The Basics of Anchor Positioning (in CSS). ishadeed.com

GM announces new NACS and CCS1 adapters, coming next week. arstechnica.com

23 books that shaped you in high school. npr.org

Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force. nytimes.com

CDC director being ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation. She aligned with evidence-based public health community and had support of experts. arstechnica.com

Typepad Shutdown Announcement. blogs.com

Siskel & Ebert's Enthusiastic Review for Fargo (1996). youtube.com

Scripting News: Plot for a political sci fi movie. scripting.com

A collaborative effort, spread over a bunch of social media sites, to try to say what the web is, in 2025. this.how

TBL's original proposal for the web from 1989. w3.org

The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure. theguardian.com

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement is the Super Bowl of celebrity news. poynter.org

FEMA employees put on leave after open letter criticizing Trump administration. wapo.st

Apps like Waze are being used to covertly warn immigrants about ICE activity: "Icy roads." boingboing.net

Back when Americans were cheeky. 😀 youtube.com

Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s. theconversation.com

Gates Foundation Quietly Cuts Ties With Firm Linked to Democrats. nytimes.com

The fight for the Fed reaches its decisive moment. reuters.com

ChatGPT helped teen plan suicide after safeguards failed. (That’s because ChatGPT doesn’t have a mind and can’t think and has no awareness of what anything means, because to understand meaning you must have a mind.) arstechnica.com

A Venezuelan Was Detained as a 'Documented' Gang Member by ICE, Which Refused to Provide Proof. texasobserver.org

This was the first guardrail that failed. Trump, who most definitely tried an insurrection, was allowed to run for President, which is clearly prohibited by the 14th Amendment. It was a unanimous decision btw. wikipedia.org

Trump’s Attempt to Fire the Fed’s Lisa Cook Risks Global Economic Stability. nytimes.com

Jeff McNeil reminds me a little of the great Hunter Pence from the SF Giants. Two very clutch players who are very simply into the game. cbssports.com

The consensus from yesterday's query: Something is on the web if it has a URL you can access in a web browser. this.how

We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial. presswatchers.org

America Tips Into Fascism. doomsdayscenario.co

Judge rules against Republican-controlled body over Utah district map. apnews.com

It’s a good time to re-watch Mr. Robot. metacritic.com

You should be reading Heather Cox Richardson every night. Remarkable how one person can do so much for us and our country. substack.com

Maybe Pritzger should challenge Trump to a wrestling match. Who’s more macho? nytimes.com

I’m working my way through Mr Robot and spotted a connection with Severance. #spoiler reddit.com

"Across June–August 2025, a sharp uptick in account suspensions and deletions rolled through Instagram, Facebook and related services." medium.com

Why Newsom’s schtick works so well. daveverse.org

There was a time when Tesla was so much in-demand they could afford to refuse to sell a Model X to Stewart Alsop who was a pretty famous tech pundit. theverge.com

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art. npr.org

America is in an identity crisis, becoming morally and ethically bankrupt. missouriindependent.com

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet. simonwillison.net

Trump’s Stunning Power Grab on Elections. nytimes.com

FDA approves new HIV drug offering 100% protection. newatlas.com

Any product with a timeline should support inbound RSS. scripting.com

You can say a lot of things about the Trump White House, but they do have an RSS feed. feedland.social

An article on whitehouse.gov (without an author) presents Trump's case re the Smithsonian. whitehouse.gov

Hundreds of Mamdani Scavenger Hunt enthusiasts compete for ‘not cash’ prize. yahoo.com

National Guard troops in D.C. to begin carrying firearms. nbcnews.com

Texas’ Tarrant County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites, Reduces Early Voting Locations. propublica.org

Silicon Valley is full of (hugely) wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg. theguardian.com

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event. theatlantic.com

As it turns out, the people who pioneered the slogan “Fuck your feelings” are impossibly delicate souls. theatlantic.com

Justice Dept. Sent Congress Epstein Files That Were Already Public, Democrats Say. (And what does the New York Times say?) nytimes.com

Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks. khou.com

Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy. substack.com

Meta Strikes $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google to Boost AI Capacity. techrepublic.com

Lots of info in this podcast episode about how ICE is funded and what their focus on. apple.com

An Operating System for the Web. #wordpress poststatus.com

NFL teams to again stencil social justice messages in end zones. espn.com

The emphasis is on all things "anti-aging," she says — not the realities of getting older. npr.org

Ghislaine Maxwell, who wants a pardon, says she never saw Donald Trump ‘in any inappropriate setting.’ politico.com

We started with a network of writers, and ended up with business models of oligarchs. oursocialweb.org

Tariffs and mass deportations are both stagflationary: They increase inflation while depressing growth. substack.com

John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America. theguardian.com

Reading a Wired account of learning to program with a LLM was the same old bullshit about developers. We are not trivial people. We're working realllly hard, for you. We should all be working together. daveverse.org

Zelenskyy says he wants to see an agreement on security guarantees before meeting Vladimir Putin. (Clever, so he’ll be negotiating for NATO too.) theguardian.com

Former national guard vice chief calls deployment into D.C. an 'intimidation' tactic. npr.org

Ukrainian sabotage groups operating behind Russian lines. counteroffensive.news

Are newsletters the new academic social media? ac.uk

Volkswagen secures $35 million to build its most affordable EV yet. electrek.co

The Innocent and the Executed: James Beathard’s Long-Forgotten Story. texasobserver.org

The five things that were necessary before you could have podcasting: 

1. Blogging. 
2. HTTP. 
3. RSS. 
4. MP3. 
5. iPod.

It's pretty simple, but this confluence eludes most tech people and journalists. scripting.com

Kia launches new EVs in Europe, while US gets put on back burner. #thanksTrump electrek.co

OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500 Billion. nytimes.com

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations. nytimes.com

Coalition for Independent Technology Research. independenttechresearch.org

2018: I fear Google's control of the web. scripting.com

Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance. (Why did they sign?) apnews.com

Six months ago the Anthropic CEO said: AI Will Be Writing 90% of Code in 3 to 6 Months. Looney Tunes. businessinsider.com

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom  was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. wikipedia.org

ICE Is Nothing Like the Brownshirts Because the Brownshirts Actually Identified Themselves. mcsweeneys.net

Scott Knaster on the Steve Jobs rollout of the Apple //c in 1984. substack.com

5% of Americans are Cancer Survivors – and They're Living Longer. slashdot.org

All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home. nytimes.com

Common Sense about Negotiations. substack.com

ChatGPT is simply a breakthrough in search. I don't want ChatGPT to be warm and friendly. It should behave like a computer. Only answer questions it's asked. Stop trying to lead the human. I speak from lots of experience trying to develop software with it. techcrunch.com

European leaders to join Zelenskyy for meeting with Trump. apnews.com

Cory Doctorow bends over backwards to praise the creators of Bluesky, but also explains why it would be nuts to trust them. Bluesky is the least billionaire-proof system imaginable and they keep saying how they are billionaire-proof. What's so admirable about that Cory (sarcasm, sorry).  And if it weren't for the character limit, I could say how much I admire Cory (I really do, not just saying that, he's stood up for the right things, most of the time and the times he hasn't it's probably just because I haven't had a chance to bend his ear. 😀 pluralistic.net

Ex-Tesla employees start EV charging company after Elon Musk fired everyone. electrek.co

"The biggest problem with free WP.com is the themes. There are not that many available, and almost all of them are awful and not well-suited to blogging." wordpress.com

Europe is sending heavy hitters to Washington alongside Ukraine’s president to bolster Kyiv. politico.com

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door. nytimes.com

ICE trying to poach Florida law enforcement. wftv.com

Israel in talks to resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say. reuters.com

The Latina behind Governor Gavin Newsom’s social media posts. calonews.com

Trump Has No Cards. theatlantic.com

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation. npr.org

University of Toronto welcomes students from Harvard. utoronto.ca

My Prison Is Full of Cancer Patients. prisonjournalismproject.org

New federal checkpoints in D.C. likely violate the Fourth Amendment. reason.com

Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity. wired.com

Fedify is a good thing if it makes it easy to set up a sever that can interop with Mastodon. fedify.dev

Kate Pierson Fell Hard for Moroccan Henna in 1970. She Hasn’t Looked Back. theoverlooknews.com

"I did it. I threw a sandwich." cbsnews.com

What is Bluesky? Starts out with the big lie, it’s totally centralized. techcrunch.com

The U.K. Online Safety Act could kill the internet as we know it. slate.com

The Politics of Jerry Garcia. wnyc.org

I'm Building My Father's Brain Before He Dies. substack.com

Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected. cnbc.com

The electricity is on, as is the internet. Buses and subways are running. The airports are open. scripting.com

The Male Friendship Collapse. levernews.com

Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests. techcrunch.com

Kia's first electric van 'unboxed' and ready to take on the world. electrek.co

This guy hates your podcast, and so do I. He makes good points. I was tuned into a Wirecutter podcast about how to buy a mattress. They spent a lot of time giggling about how much fun it is to do a podcast but after 15 minutes of that I gave up. podnews.net

Shel Israel, a journalist and book writer about tech, died earlier today. He was a regular at Mike Arrington's early techcrunch parties, and a co-author of a book with Scoble. A genuine nice guy. wikipedia.org

Jason Calacanis: Anarcho Capitalism. thebulwark.com

Cats Can Live Their Whole Lives at This Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org

Social media probably can’t be fixed. arstechnica.com

Is Washington DC a sanctuary city? Yes—Washington, D.C. is (or at least was) a sanctuary city, based on local law and policies. chatgpt.com

EV charging stations should be as visible as gas stations. People who drive EVs know they're there, because our onboard computers know. But to people driving non-electric cars they have no visibility. electrek.co

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom. nbcnews.com

What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? newyorker.com

A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Offers to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion. nytimes.com

Flower Power. wikipedia.org

Alec Baldwin interviews film editor Thelma Schoonmaker. She edits all of Martin Scorsese's films, she's absolutely brilliant. apple.com

When socialists win Democratic primaries: Will Zohran Mamdani be haunted by the Upton Sinclair effect? theconversation.com

The two-way-web: "The browser is a great editing tool because it understand HTTP at its core. It knows how to read stuff on the Web, and it can work with the local file system, but even in that mode it treats the file system as if it were an HTTP server." scripting.com

This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint. theverge.com

Breakage fixed on the Links tab on scripting.com. scripting.com

Donald Trump Rages at ‘Deranged Bum’ Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman in Late-Night Meltdown. thedailybeast.com

The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics. wsj.com

Trump’s Ruthless Cuts Have Left Our National Parks in “Survival Mode.” motherjones.com

30 years ago today: I have a feeling I'll always remember where I was when I heard that Jerry Garcia, the founder of the Grateful Dead, had died. scripting.com

"Most education technologies are invited into schools. Generative AI crashed the party." teachlabpodcast.com

If California Gov. Gavin Newsom succeeds in putting mid-decade redistricting to a statewide vote this November, it will become the most consequential decision on any American ballot in 2025 politico.com

Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA. wired.com

NBA’s 5 Christmas games for 2025, ranked by watchability. sbnation.com

ChatGPT: “Trump fired IRS chief Billy Long after clashes over delaying tax season, plans to cut the Direct File program, and his role in a controversial tax credit, moves that drew political backlash and conflicted with the administration’s priorities.” nytimes.com

U.S. unemployment claims rise to pandemic high. washingtonpost.com

Perfect imitation of how ChatGPT lies and lies and lies. mastodon.social

I would say January 11, 2001 was the official launch day of podcasting, in this piece, "Payloads for RSS." It didn't just explain the tech, it explained what it was for. scripting.com

Scripting News: UI in AI is the next frontier. scripting.com

I asked ChatGPT for a list of 25 current top stories, by category, in a machine readable format at 4:40PM Eastern yesterday, including links to the stories. This is what it came up with. this.how

Stephen Miller's wife thinks you need to hear all about her life. dailykos.com

Gemini Users Say Its Sharing Self-Loathing Comments: 'I Am a Failure.' businessinsider.com

Alan Dershowitz once again denied pierogi as Martha’s Vineyard residents chant ‘time to go.’ independent.co.uk

ChatGPT 5 is even more of a bastard than 4. daveverse.org

I think the message is if you drove a car the way you use a computer you'd be dead. You have to use your mind. Garbage in garbage out. 404media.co

2010: A bootstrap of 1000 miles begins with a single step. scripting.com

Bard president Leon Botstein says Trump’s campaign against colleges follows ‘a classic antisemitic routine.’ forward.com

Gil Amelio Wouldn’t Give Trump A Desk Ornament. tedium.co

Who's Still Using an RSS Reader? slashdot.org

Manton Reece compares Ghost and Micro.blog. (Manton wrote micro.blog.) manton.org

Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record. bbc.com

Trump administration staffer known as ‘Big Balls’ assaulted in DC. politico.com

Body of man missing for 28 years found in melting glacier. bbc.com

Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo. om.co

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. quantamagazine.org

Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release. techcrunch.com

RJ Barrett’s Explosive Confession: ‘I Miss the Knicks More Than I Can Admit. cafex.biz

A Friendly Introduction to SVG. joshwcomeau.com

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away. nytimes.com

Chevy Equinox EV crushed it in July, best sales for a non-Tesla EV. electrek.co

I grew up in the 1960s in a Queens neighborhood where antisemitism was a real thing. scripting.com

Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster. aaup.org

Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump. thecrimson.com

“At times it can be relaxing, I imagine, to not have a mind.” scripting.com

Evidence grows Trump is trying to crash the US economy, with dire consequences for the rest of the world. nytimes.com

I’m Old, but Not When I Swim. nytimes.com

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results. arstechnica.com

FBI Officials Reportedly Redacted References to Trump From Epstein Files. truthout.org

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Shuts Down. politicalwire.com

Bluesky users sharing the writing tools they use. bsky.app

Trump Administration Cuts UCLA Funding Over Claims of Antisemitism, Chancellor Says. nytimes.com

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People. thebulwark.com

T’rump had a way around the Epstein scandal. Could’ve said he was doing an undercover sting, to catch The Clintons and Obama (throw in Newsom for fun) and The Deep State as insidious child molesters, rather than implicating himself. Too late now. politico.com

“I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump.” theguardian.com

Elon Musk Has Turned Off Many Liberals to Electric Vehicles—and Not Just Teslas. motherjones.com

ChatGPT is not a programming partner, it's a very fantastic improvement over search engines. scripting.com

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum. wapo.st

Elite New York High School Admits 8 Black Students in a Class of 781. nytimes.com

Curate your own newspaper with RSS. citationneeded.news

President Trump Actually Paved Over the Rose Garden talkingpointsmemo.com

Democrats struggle to choose their weapons in a Trump-waged redistricting battle. semafor.com

The vanishing of Daniel Day-Lewis: How a great actor lost the will to go on. the-independent.com

Mother f-ing wind farms. youtube.com

Dozens of Licensed Weed Shops Were Placed Too Close to Schools. nytimes.com

ChatGPT’s new Study Mode is designed to help you learn, not just give answers. arstechnica.com

Please follow this account on Bluesky, it’s the Democratic fast response feed. I’ve been begging the to do this for years. It should have five million followers. bsky.app

I love dreaming about rich savory Ukrainian food from the old country of my ancestors. veselka.com

Sounds like Epstein and Trump broke up over a girl? politico.com

Why everybody refuses to believe crime is falling, even though it is. latimes.com

Trump accusing Harvard of antisemitism is ridiculous. wapo.st

Oct 2024: "There could be a developer community writing apps that all join up in the middle in WordPress's database. Pretty powerful idea!" scripting.com

WordCamp Canada: Why I need WordLand. wordcamp.org

I don’t really remember what it feels like to be free anymore. I’m not even sure I remember what it’s like to be human. I’ve spent too long as a number, AZ8422. prisonjournalismproject.org

Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents. theguardian.com

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less. technologyreview.com

‘Power peeing” and other urination mistakes. wapo.st

THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG. tomlehrersongs.com

FDA approves new HIV drug offering 100% protection. newatlas.com

The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade. buttondown.com

Big Changes Planned at the Fed. politicalwire.com

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years. livescience.com

Democrats need to focus relentlessly on making people’s lives better—immediately and demonstrably, and they need to brand the hell out of it when they do. dailykos.com

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97. nytimes.com

Convicted of murder in Venezuela. Freed by the Trump administration. wapo.st

ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before. politico.com

Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It. theatlantic.com

Trump Ignites Chain Reaction with Redistricting Gamble. politicalwire.com

My Bingeworthy profile page, the TV series I loved, and didn't love. It is a bit incomplete, but still useful. bingeworthy.org

“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” wikipedia.org

Muir Woods targeted in Trump order on displays that ‘disparage’ Americans. marinij.com

The eventual outcome of equating money and speech. nytimes.com

How Airline Miles Turned Into a Multibillion Dollar Currency. reason.com

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest. theguardian.com

Sam Altman warns there's no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist. techcrunch.com

Bursting Democrats’ Redistricting Bubble politicalwire.com

Tesla Diner gets vandalized within days of its opening, protesters roam around yelling at Tesla owners. teslaoracle.com

‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump. theguardian.com

Get ready because there’s a new Bezos or Musk or Zuck you”ll hear a lot about. wikipedia.org

An Inside Look at Larry Ellison's Lanai. honolulumagazine.com

Protocols matter, even to users. mastodon.social

Floodplains Belong to the Rivers. texasobserver.org

2021: Too bad we didn't fight when the Dems had power. scripting.com

Come Together is my favorite Lennon song Beatles SONG. This is an live version, apparently no editing. It's so personal, funny and revealing. youtube.com

A question about categories in WordPress. mastodon.social

Trump’s A.I. Challenge: Focus on Weapon Concerns or Woke-ism? nytimes.com

McConnell Interview: Senate Democrats Still Haven’t Learned How to Fight For the Federal Judiciary. ballsandstrikes.org

Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models. techcrunch.com

Tesla all but admits electric car sales growth is gone, gives up on guidance. electrek.co

Another reason AI companies are rushing to get their web browser out there. They now have to compete with Google. 404media.co

How business leaders are navigating Trump 2.0. theconversation.com

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie.’ wapo.st

I also went to Bronx Science and was probably even more disruptive than he was. politico.com

I bet they offer her a pardon in return for absolving Trump. politico.com

I think I figured out why the AI companies want to do web browsers. bsky.app

Brazil's President's Eye-Opening Message To The American People Is Going Super Viral. yahoo.com

It’s All Fun and Games Until Trump Has Obama Arrested. thenextmove.org

404 Media: We're Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish. 404media.co

Republicans are brazenly rigging the 2026 midterms. substack.com

Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's "Bawdy Doodles.” youtube.com

ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC. politico.com

Introducing XMLUI. jonudell.net

This $11,000 Chinese EV with solid state batteries is coming soon. And we will not get this in the US. electrek.co

I would like to propose a fourth rule to Asimov's laws of robotics. "You are not human. Don't pretend you are. Act like a computer." wikipedia.org

Tesla Tries to Save the Cybertruck With Its Most Desperate Offer Yet. gizmodo.com

Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried. nashvillebanner.com

If you think e-bikes are bad, there's a bigger threat hitting our roads. (Cars.) electrek.co

This is a nightmare. The bots are really poor emulations of humans. npr.org

Trump’s big beautiful police state is here. aljazeera.com

Stolen Lime bikes the new sound of summer in London. theguardian.com

3 Fresh Features Added to the WordPress ActivityPub Experience. wordpress.com

One of the greatest throws you will ever see. x.com

I'm really enjoying Manhunt: Unabomber on Amazon streaming. One of my favorite genres, crime mystery, esp ones where you know the outcome in advance and you watch the cops deal with all their own incompetence, corruption and culpability. metacritic.com

This big $2.4k 8-wheel dump truck is like a grown up sandbox toy! electrek.co

Automakers Are Canceling Plans for New EVs. wired.com

2007: Co-existing with platform vendors. scripting.com

Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver Who Jumped From the Edge of Space, Dies Paragliding at 56. nytimes.com

Damian Lillard’s rare form of loyalty was always going to lead him back to Portland. oregonlive.com

Paolo is playing with MCP servers. I really have to get over there and try this stuff out. demar.in

You can fool some of the people all of the time. You can fool all of the people some of the time. But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. oregonlive.com

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use. openculture.com

Trump administration hands over nation's Medicaid enrollee data to ICE. apnews.com

CBS to Cancel 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' Citing Finances. variety.com

Trump promised to release his tax returns after the audit was over in 2016. cnn.com

Mozilla now only seems to speak using creepy, gibberish lunatic language. mozilla.org

Joel Spolsky: Learning from Dave Winer. (2007) joelonsoftware.com

Krugman: The Road to MechaHitler. substack.com

On Twitter, I invited Jack Dorsey to work together to build a social network based on RSS. "That way all developers can be part of it, based on tech everyone already understands. Lots of interop. " x.com

Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media. techcrunch.com