Rep. James Clyburn (D) of South Carolina said today on Meet the Press that he supports adding 4 new Justices to the Supreme Court. talkingpointsmemo.com

2015: Why you must watch BoJack Horseman. scripting.com

How AI chatbots and AI overviews parse foreign propaganda. npr.org

The Freeway That Saved the Hills. sjl.us

Trump Steps Up Stunts as U.S. Midterms Loom. politicalwire.com

How to Claw Back Wealth From Toppled Autocrats. theatlantic.com

Jon Ossoff Gives Donald Trump a 4-Word Nickname as Fun Intensifies. yahoo.com

In skiing you can buy a pass that’s good at dozens of sites all over the place like the epic pass. The same model could work for news too. epicpass.com

The 25 Best Movies on Netflix to Watch in September 2026. vanityfair.com

Autopsy Shows Man Killed by National Guard in Memphis Was Shot in Back. nytimes.com

Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada. theguardian.com

Brent Simmons has the big bugs fixed in Net News Wire, and is thinking about new features. inessential.com

Meta Reportedly Abandoned An AI-Focused Restructuring Plan That Would Have Laid Off Thousands. engadget.com

Trump signs an executive order to vet top AI models for security risks. apnews.com

Tim Curry, Star of ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ Dies at 80. nytimes.com

Timothy Snyder: How was Mass Killing Possible? substack.com

Dolly Parton Liked to Read by the Fire in Her Pajamas. nytimes.com

My blog was most influential when Gates was in his prime as a predatory tech company leader. I begged him to use his power to help the web instead of trying to capture and lock it down. Now it’s too late, his leverage, once great is reduced to influence, not likely to change anything. nytimes.com

W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype. elenarossini.com

US set for largest mass visa revocation in history. apnews.com

This person, presumably a developer, will never use AI. First reason, you become dependent, is a true and valid concern. But other parts of their argument are not true. It’s really good at explaining things I already know about, where journalists and Wikipedia are awful in comparison. corkmac.app

90,000 told to evacuate as wildfire approaches Reno, Nevada. bbc.com

I love AI but I also love slapstick AI. ❤️ 🎉 😇 x.com

Prime minister says Canada will match the latest American levies 'dollar for dollar.' cbc.ca

The good news is that the world has stopped responding breathlessly to Donald Trump’s every empty provocation. That’s also the bad news. theatlantic.com

What happens when humans run out of things they want to do with AIs? rss.chat

Best New TV Shows of 2026 So Far. metacritic.com

2019: If Trump were a reality show. scripting.com

There’s A New Technique For Disabling Flock Cameras – and It’s Spreading Fast. yahoo.com

Secrets of a Jeopardy Champion. theatlantic.com

Mark Cuban outlines the way doctors could build custom apps for patients, instruct the bot to ask these questions at this time. This imho is the layer of the internet we're all building now. How we can all do our jobs better with the new tools. x.com

I think ultimately it's all going to shake down to a common language across all the open platforms, and if it's not RSS, it'll be something just like RSS. mastodon.social

The 100 Best Grateful Dead Songs. rollingstone.com

Ossoff tests Democrats' appetite for going low. He’s not going low, he’s going true. axios.com

Little Websites Everywhere. michellebarker.co.uk

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work. People are complaining about this, but I think it’s good. techcrunch.com

Howard Rheingold has an archive of his career as a writer and thinker. rheingold.com

Andrew Shell is the guy at WordCamp with the I ❤️ RSS shirt and stickers he's giving out. And he's a nice guy who knows a lot about RSS-based networking. He's kind of the expert on that. andrewshell.org

Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot. techcrunch.com

Some people are taking Cialis for more than sex. npr.org

This is something like every bridge in the world being blown up at the same time, and I don’t think that’s an exaggeration. scripting.com

The Trump administration is building a growing detention archipelago overseas, often in unstable or autocratic countries. And in cases like Mosquera’s, it’s turning deportation into a form of indefinite imprisonment with no legal recourse. nytimes.com

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing. daringfireball.net

Remembering San Francisco’s KKSF. sjl.us

Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try. niemanlab.org

The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century . nytimes.com

Manton loves Computer History feature in ChatGPT. manton.org

Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock. nytimes.com

Transgender athletes are a red herring. publicnotice.co

Key concept of the open web: Working Together. scripting.com

No privacy, little downtime: Life aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. npr.org

They should have worked together and controlled their own distribution, but as I was told over and over, they never will work together. It might not be too late. brianalvey.com

Corporate Power Approaches Escape Velocity. hamiltonnolan.com

Hands-On with Computer History: OpenAI's Take on Agent Memory. macstories.net

The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda. thenation.com

The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda. thenation.com

Lawmakers demand answers about USS Abraham Lincoln conditions as reports emerge of sailors attempting to jump overboard. cnn.com

The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US. politico.com

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app. techcrunch.com

Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say. militarytimes.com

ICE plans to give officers gloves that can deliver electric shocks. apnews.com

A New Draft Rule for the Census Seeks Sweeping Changes to How Political Power Is Allocated. talkingpointsmemo.com

Has ICE’s New York surge begun? Masked agents caught on camera across city stopping people, attacking protesters with pepper spray. amny.com

Dr. Phil and a Texas Oil Firm Go to Greenland With a Suspicious Agenda. Signs Point to Trump’s Imperialist Visions. talkingpointsmemo.com

2016: Fat protocols and venture capital. scripting.com

Meta/Facebook Building Search Engine, Crawling Web. seroundtable.com

Roman shipwreck with 500 amphorae found off coast of Sicily. theguardian.com

Donald Trump Is Dismantling U.S. Guardrails. politicalwire.com

Finally a story about men in the Atlantic that's written by a man. theatlantic.com

OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide. techcrunch.com

Florida police are quietly using Meta smart glasses. miaminewtimes.com

A sudden stall in the US job market: Employers cut 23,000 jobs in July. apnews.com

The Reflecting Pool story is about Trump's grip on reality, but the press corps won’t go there. presswatchers.org

They remember everything but blogs. arstechnica.com

Big Tech is spending trillions on AI. Investors now want proof it will pay off. cbsnews.com

Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI. theverge.com

Key Changes in the Model Context Protocol. MCP is the language that AI agents use to talk to apps, so users can do things inside the apps from the AI chatbot. modelcontextprotocol.io

10 RSS Feed Readers You Can Self Host. itsfoss.com

Park Service says Trump’s proposed arch could diminish Washington landmarks. scrippsnews.com

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles: report. cnbc.com

Woodstock’s Bangkok Market Pop-Up Closes 12 Days Early. theoverlooknews.com

WordPress doesn’t think in HTML.
It thinks in Gutenberg blocks. x.com

The world is walking a path toward a world war, and no one — including the president of the United States — seems to be in command of events. nytimes.com

I ♥ RSS is #1 on Hacker News. ycombinator.com

Andrew shell is testing how various feed readers handle websub. Thinking about supporting it in RSS.chat, but not if I have to put a big ad for Atom at the top of my feed. Nice try. 😀 rss.chat

I don't accept that blogging is a career. I write my blog because I want to influence people, and remember what I thought and it's nice when people read my blog, but what I really want is to work with smart people building stuff. medium.com

She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail. nytimes.com

Ms. Pirro — a longtime ally of President Trump’s — directly contradicted the president’s repeated claim that the Reflecting Pool’s peeling liner was caused by people slashing its coating with knives. Instead, she said, “the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism.” nytimes.com

Electronic Music RSS Starter Kit. disquiet.com

The doctor [Fauci] was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty. Amazing this needs to be pointed out. We all lived through it. theatlantic.com

Redacted Fauci Diary Entries Depict Him Personally Helping Katie Miller. notus.org

People Are Starting to Worry About Whether Kevin Warsh is a Credible Fed Chair. talkingpointsmemo.com

2016: Peer to peer get out the vote. scripting.com

Auto mode in Claud Code. claude.com

Donald Trump’s eternal March of Folly on Iran. telegraph.co.uk

Zelensky Asked Trump for a Favor From Elon Musk. theatlantic.com

How Anti-ICE Protesters Became Prisoners in Trump’s War on Antifa. motherjones.com

A directory of people who love RSS. iheartrss.com

Three of Summer’s Best Thrillers. nytimes.com

Has anyone asked the Russians in Congress what crimes they think Fauci committed. One thing is for sure he saved a lot of American lives. thehill.com

tinyFeedReader: A minimal feed reader in a Node package. I wrote this little app a little over a year ago and can’t remember why. github.com

A minimal feed reader in a Node package. github.com

Trump Administration Announces Another Data Center on Federal Land. notus.org

“Now, it wasn’t AI that killed all that. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter were the main culprits, especially once they started treating corporations like users and users like product, sacrificing quality for quantity. AI just danced on our grave.” ehandbook.com

The Hidden Cost of China’s Free A.I. nytimes.com

Yes, Trump Will Attempt a Coup. prospect.org

What is the Atmosphere? leaflet.pub

Despite AI hype, Google's data shows workers aren't automating themselves away. arstechnica.com

US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Nimitz Will Cost $562 Million to Inactivate. Dismantling Her Will Take Years More. 19fortyfive.com

Most Texans can’t afford to buy a home. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has 15 of them. couriertexas.com

Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters. wapo.st

Talarico leads Paxton by 5 points in new Texas Senate poll. texastribune.org

Trump Asks SCOTUS to Let Him Mess with Mail-In Voting Before Midterms. talkingpointsmemo.com

Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status. nytimes.com

Two Bestsellers: Tesla Model Y vs. Toyota bZ Comparison Test. Spoiler: Tesla. caranddriver.com

A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against St. Pete’s Flock cameras. cltampa.com

Even Trump Can’t Spin His War With  Iran. theatlantic.com

Scripting News: How the web got gunked. scripting.com

Anil Dash: Make better documents. anildash.com

As vote on Blanche for attorney general nears, ex-DOJ staffers warn against confirmation. ohiocapitaljournal.com

Karl-Anthony Towns Knows the Knicks’ Win Was Bigger Than Basketball. nytimes.com

Daring Fireball: What Is a Dickover? daringfireball.net

LeBron James is going to the Philadelphia 76ers. He made the right choice, the team will already be disrupted by a big trade, and probably an upgrade, and maybe LeBron can even have a place to start. nypost.com

Scott Knaster's second computer was an Apple II. substack.com

Maybe podcast apps would not be "dying slowly with dignity" if we could get some new features in there to make the RSS features even more awesome, but the people with the apps won't listen to friends. If I wanted them to listen I'd have to compete with them. uncommonapps.nyc

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff. oneusefulthing.org

This is what a podcast community sounded like in 2005. scripting.com

You should be using an RSS reader by Cory Doctorow. medium.com

Musical podcasts of 2005. scripting.com

10 Best Meal Delivery Services, Tested by an Ex-Restaurant Critic. wired.com

John C. Dvorak dies at 80. wikipedia.org

The Worst Part of the Cyclosporiasis Response. theatlantic.com

How far Chris Hardie will go to make an RSS feed of your website. chrishardie.com

Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins. The NYT review is technically correct, but the reason to watch is to appreciate the subject, one of those incredible flowers, like Dan Rather or Ann Richards, who somehow bloom in the muck of Texas. It’s on Netflix now. metacritic.com

How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Elder Care. nytimes.com

What formats does it support? standard-reader.app

The Winklevoss Twins Gave Trump $20 Million After Regulatory Win. levernews.com

People are transcribing your conversations without asking. werd.io

How Google’s A.I. Search Is Imperiling the Open Web. nytimes.com

United States Seizes More than 1,000 Internet Domains Used to Illegally Stream World Cup 2026 Matches. justice.gov

How America’s newspapers lost their voice. theconversation.com

Tesla puts Starlink antenna in Cybercab. electrek.co

Google *was* a crucial part of the the web in 1998 when they launched. But by the mid-late 00s, they didn't need the web anymore. The web is still there, we can build on it today as well as we did 25 years ago. We might need a new browser and definitely a new search function. But it is there. nytimes.com

In Maine Senate Race, Democrats Go From Chaos to Coronation. nytimes.com

2017: The question podcasting asks. scripting.com

How proprietary formats have become Microsoft's main tool for lock-in. documentfoundation.org

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died. nbcnews.com

Troy Jackson’s Politics Are Rooted in Maine Logger Struggles. jacobin.com

The reason I focus so much on the wrapping is because that’s where the interop lives. You can do anything in a theme and you can’t break the interop. scripting.com

ICE’s chilling impact on a 14-year-old girl in Androscoggin County. sunjournal.com

Scripting News: A peptalk for devs. scripting.com

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine. wired.com

Substack is hosting podcasts. substack.com

Trump Has Only Terrible Choices With Iran. theatlantic.com

This is what a thread looks like in rss.chat. rss.chat

Republicans Are Dreading Trump’s Speech. politicalwire.com

ABC and NBC Will Not Air Trump’s Speech as Other TV Networks’ Plans Remain Uncertain. nytimes.com

The Odyssey can’t be as great as the critics say? metacritic.com

Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it.' zdnet.com

rss.chat is the start of a new social network built on existing web standards. Easy to deploy on Node.js and getting easier. New RSS features. Infinite possibilities for developers. Owned by no one. rss.chat

‘Scared shitless’: Republicans brace for Trump’s primetime speech. So sad for Repubs. The rest of us are scared too. 😳 politico.com

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts. theguardian.com

Canada Offers Lesson in the Economic Toll of Climate Change. nytimes.com

How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi Party members. niemanlab.org

Elon Musk’s X turned Graham Platner’s campaign into a political mirage. slate.com

Howard Rheingold, social network pioneer, shows up on the new demo server we put up yesterday. I explain in a reply that we're mostly focused on developers to start, because we want people to copy us. We want a big fat happy network of writers and readers. rss.chat

A beautiful TV ad from Claude. It addresses head-on the concerns people have about AI apps. There is a PR disaster brewing out there. And those of us who use the tools and don't want to or won't go back, need this to work out well. x.com

All in on Platner, supporters look to what's next in Maine Senate race. npr.org

Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing 'dead power pool,' experts say. abcnews.com

You can now chat using RSS. coywolf.com

Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI read, click, and type on external websites. the-decoder.com

Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies at 71, office says. wapo.st

Jose Alvarado's father recalls what his son gave him after the Knicks won the Finals. nypost.com

Toni Schneider is the new full-time CEO of Bluesky. I know him from the old days of blogging, and of course from Automattic. Best of luck Toni and I hope someday to be able to connect our products over the web. 🙂 toni.org

8 Things to Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” Midterm Elections. propublica.org

Philadelphia 76ers Get Intriguing LeBron James Update From NBA Insider. yahoo.com

Inbound and outbound RSS. rmendes.net

Stewarded open source is not enough: who can cut you off? joost.blog

Bangkok Market Brings Thai Street Food to Woodstock’s Dixon Roadside. chronogram.com

Technography in the age of AI. rss.chat

A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed. techcrunch.com

Kenneth Howard Knaster. substack.com

Jay Rosen's Internet Archive: an Introduction. This is very cool! 😉 pressthink.org

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear Demands Health Update on Mitch McConnell. nytimes.com

Graham Platner Will Drop Out of Race via Video. politicalwire.com

"Ghost, WriteFreely, Micro.blog, Plume, WordPress, and Flipboard didn't all arrive at federation the same way. Some built it in from the first commit. Some bridged it onto a product that already existed. Federation decides how far the writing travels." federatedmind.com

Kerouac is "the studio for pro bloggers." It looks really nice and does cross-posting to services that support full web text, like Medium, Ghost, WordPress. kerouacapp.com

Pfizer Building. wikipedia.org

Lang Belta (Belter Creole) Phrasebook. mylittlewordland.com

Meta quietly launches vibe-coded gaming app Pocket. techcrunch.com

Islandwide blackout hits Cuba as its fuel reserve dwindles and grid crumbles. apnews.com

Claude consciousness. manton.org

I'm starting to use "Claude" the way AA people say they're a friend of Bill W. addictions.com

The Open Web's Hidden Social Graph. hypertexting.com

Trump lobbied Fifa to lift Folarin Balogun suspension for World Cup game v Belgium. theguardian.com

What the citizenship test tells us about what it means to be American. inquirer.com

Meta is Quietly Launching Pocket, an App for Vibe-coding and Scrolling Small 'Gizmos.' slashdot.org

I remember when Pixar was a yearly demo of the future at Apple’s WWDC, long before Toy Story. x.com

"Trump’s grotesque botch of the 250th anniversary of 'We hold these truths' aptly demonstrates how far his leadership has already pushed the United States away from its noblest past." theatlantic.com

A Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music. nytimes.com

A hot summer trend in the sharing economy? Rental swimming pools. npr.org

If a Lyme disease vaccine gets approved, would hunters take it? npr.org

Man claiming world’s smallest penis says he’s booked enhancement surgery after public’s help. theguardian.com

Kyle Kuzma blasts NBA salary cap, says next CBA will be ‘do or die moment’ for players. nytimes.com

What will the Warriors do if their LeBron James dream doesn't come true? cbssports.com

Sportsbooks lose millions on Knicks NBA Finals run. nypost.com

Court Blocks Firings of Intelligence Officers Who Worked on Diversity. nytimes.com

LeBron James free agency: Rich Paul breaks down 10 NBA teams under consideration. cbssports.com

The Great American State Fair’s Main Exhibit Is Trump Corruption. talkingpointsmemo.com

Did the Celtics give away Jaylen Brown? yahoo.com

Manton Reece's blog bio. manton.org

Bernie Sanders' AI tax proposal is his worst idea ever. reason.com

Majority of Americans support banning social media for kids under 16. pewresearch.org

Indian tech tycoon bets $30M of his own money to build AI alternative to Microsoft Office. techcrunch.com

“What is the terminal?” jonudell.net

Mitchell Robinson, Celtics agree to 3-year, $47.4M deal. espn.com

Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off. techcrunch.com

Death by firing squad: archaic method on the rise in US as Idaho opens new execution chamber. theguardian.com

Eight Great American Novels. newyorker.com