Identity of Banksy, Oscar-nominated graffiti artist, proven 'beyond dispute.' ew.com

Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns over Trump's Iran war. apnews.com

Phoenicia Playhouse Presents: Catskills Energy Future: Film Screening + Discussion. onthestage.tickets

My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until It Crashed. theatlantic.com

Warming Oceans and Waterways Threaten a Key Human Protein Source. motherjones.com

Don’t ‘blackmail’ us: Europe rejects Trump’s demand to help clean up Hormuz mess. politico.eu

Cuba’s national energy grid collapses, causing island-wide blackout. wapo.st

‘No Kings Day’ events on March 28 in Berkeley. berkeleyside.org

Andrew Shell is testing out WordLand. "It just works." I like to hear that. andrewshell.org

Dan Slevin has spent "about six weeks learning how to overcome all the obstacles they put in the way of leaving and would love to help." Then we should set about creating a great Substack alternative for people who want to manage a great mail list without the hassle. mastodon.social

Trump Administration Turns to Migrant Workers to Help Farm Labor Shortage. nytimes.com

The best electric bikes you can buy at every price level in Mar 2026. electrek.co

Five Takeaways From WSJ’s Reporting on Trump’s Decision to Launch a War in Iran. wsj.com

Toni is the new interim CEO of Bluesky. It's good to see him blogging, and helpful to get ideas of where they might be headed. toni.org

A fresh look at blogrolls. blogroll.social

ap, the ActivityPub API command-line client. socialwebfoundation.org

Joe Gebbia, a billionaire on Musk’s team, reveals his role. nytimes.com

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas. theguardian.com

Multiple Republicans in Congress post openly anti-Muslim statements. nbcnews.com

'We don't need Ukraine's help' — Trump rebuffs Zelensky's drone defense offer. kyivindependent.com

Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress. werd.io

Pentagon and National Security Council underestimated Iran war’s impact on Strait of Hormuz. cnn.com

I bet people complained it was unnatural for a video game to teach languages and what about all the human teachers. This is a pattern. They should try to present both sides. theglobeandmail.com

Facing heavy losses, Honda cancels its three US-made electric vehicles. arstechnica.com

Not everyone pleased about Bam Adebayo's 83-point night. npr.org

Trump and Netanyahu Are No Longer on the Same Page. nytimes.com

Trump says Democrats cheat to win. His supporters disagree. npr.org

Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work. theguardian.com

John Cornyn voices support for abolishing Senate filibuster. texastribune.org

1995: We Make Shitty Software. With bugs! 🙂 scripting.com

A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator. youtube.com

All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror. amazon.com

Simon Carstensen: Rebuilding Jottit. jottit.org

Did you love 'The Secret Agent'? Here's what to watch next. npr.org

The White House isn’t worried about oil prices. That may change in a few weeks. politico.com

“…the administration had no plan for the Strait of Hormuz and did ‘not know how to get it safely back open.’l nytimes.com

RFK Jr. is right about medical school and preventive care. He is. Shame he’s so wrong about vaccination. statnews.com

Trump was hoping for an Iranian Delcy Rodríguez. Instead he may have produced an Iranian Kim Jong Un. theatlantic.com

Shop President Donald Trump's favorite Florsheim Oxford shoes. usatoday.com

Gracenote, metadata company, sues OpenAI for copyright infringement. chatgptiseatingtheworld.com

The Guardian is the coolest news org, paywall-wise. Why don't they innovate, and create a EZ-Pass for news, and run it for other high quality, reader centric pubs. We pay $1 per article read. That's how I as a reader want to do it. I don't like subscriptions. theguardian.com

Shots fired at US consulate in Canada in what police call ‘national security incident.’ theguardian.com

Richard Gingras: Understanding and addressing a broken democracy and a shattered press. substack.com

Most Voters Are Wary of AI. politicalwire.com

My friend Manton has a new feed reader called Inkwell. The thing that's great about Manton is he tries out new ideas. This is a feed reader of experimentation. Let's see if this works, Manton asks. We'll find out. I love that creative people are using RSS in new ways! manton.org

My version of the history of RSS is different from what's reported as conventional wisdom. daveverse.org

Inside The DHS Campaign Against U.S. Citizens. talkingpointsmemo.com

Trump to Times of Israel: It'll be a 'mutual' decision with Netanyahu regarding when Iran war ends. (I miss the days when the American people had a say.) timesofisrael.com

My linkblog is an RSS feed. this.how

When the boss is AI. machinesociety.ai

I’m not afraid women will laugh at me. quoteinvestigator.com

Trump Looks Increasingly Desperate to Restrict Voting Rights. motherjones.com

Timothy Snyder: “A purpose of the war on Iran might well be to provoke a terrorist attack inside the United States. This would provide Donald Trump with a pretext to try to cancel or ‘federalize’ the coming Congressional elections.” substack.com

Jeffrey Epstein's Prison Guard Googled Him RIght Before His Body Was Found in Cell. people.com

Country Joe McDonald, Whose Antiwar Song Became an Anthem, Dies at 84. nytimes.com

Apple Just Flipped the Budget-Laptop Script. pcmag.com

Iran’s top national security official, speaking on national television as the war entered a second week, said Tehran would not surrender or let up on retaliatory strikes and vowed to hold President Trump responsible for killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. nytimes.com

Jan. 6 plaque honoring police officers is now displayed at the Capitol after a 3-year delay. npr.org

The web is bearable with RSS. That's what I've been sayin. 😉 pluralistic.net

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses." futurism.com

The Native-Born Employment Boom Was a Mirage. bloomberg.com

U.S. payrolls unexpectedly fell by 92,000 in February; unemployment rises to 4.4%. cnbc.com

Pentagon taps former DOGE official to lead its AI efforts. reuters.com

Alysa Liu on Dancing Her Way to Olympic Gold: ‘The Music Carries My Body.’ nytimes.com

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die.' people.com

These is the “river” of news from the feeds in my blogroll. feedland.social

My notes submitted  for FediForum meetup, but it wasn’t selected. If this were a real developer and user community, imho, this is what would’ve been covered. daveverse.org

Most national and international news isn't actionable by us as individuals, so do we really need to watch it?  joemoreno.com

U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus. substack.com

I asked Claude.ai to "write me a nice little spreadsheet program that runs in the browser." Here it is. Amazing. Why have I not tried this before. It made me a little spreadsheet in two minutes. this.how

I thought that Ro Khanna supporting the billionaire tax would enrage the billionaires of Silicon Valley, and so it has. It's a great referendum. If I still lived in Calif, I would vote for Khanna just on this one issue. techcrunch.com

The FBI Staffers Kash Patel Ousted Because They Worked on Mar-a-Lago Probe Had Iran Expertise. yahoo.com

AWS says drone strikes damaged 3 facilities in UAE and Bahrain. cnbc.com

I don’t understand why mastodon needs a special share button? If I can post something with a link included then post it, haven’t I just shared it? joinmastodon.org

The Colorado River’s Native Predator. flylordsmag.com

Users are ditching ChatGPT for Claude. Here’s how to make the switch. techcrunch.com

Could conflict with Iran raise security risks in the U.S.? wbur.org

The Public Opposes But Mostly Doesn’t See the Point of This War. talkingpointsmemo.com

A Mad King Who Enjoys Watching Things Go Boom. talkingpointsmemo.com

Current Launches River-Style RSS Reader App. findarticles.com

John Palfrey of MacArthur Foundation was at the AI Action Summit in India last month, wrote a blog post about his experience. We’re longtime friends and former colleagues at Harvard where we bootstrapped podcasting. It feels very right to have him blogcasting on the www again. jpalfrey.blog

Best alternatives to Discord. techcrunch.com

Mainers detained by ICE are coming home by the dozens. pressherald.com

Anthropic's Claude hits No. 1 on Apple's top free apps list. cnbc.com

 A Self-Hosted RSS Aggregator for Local LLM Analysis. reddit.com

How does Iran's theocratic system of power work? reuters.com

The trap Anthropic built for itself. techcrunch.com

"Gratuitous incompatibility is a sign of a silo-seeker." scripting.com

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders. thehandbasket.co

Why Have You Started This War, Mr. President? nytimes.com

Silicon Valley Rallies Behind Anthropic in A.I. Clash With Trump. nytimes.com

Harvard Places Math Professor Martin Nowak on Paid Administrative Leave Over Epstein Ties. thecrimson.com

Anthropic’s statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. anthropic.com

Pentagon declares Anthropic a threat to national security. wapo.st

Trump’s threats against Anthropic chill AI industry. politico.com

Neil Sedaka Dead: "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" Singer-Songwriter Was 86. hollywoodreporter.com

This community festival embraces the joys of a frozen lake — while it still has one. npr.org

The Colorado River is nearing collapse. It’s Trump’s problem now. grist.org

Wonderful Pistachios ad with Lilliputians. adage.com

Neanderthal Men and Human Women Were Most Likely to Hook Up, Study Finds. gizmodo.com

High resolution version of viral ad with older versions of tech titans. aicandy.be

Subaru Uncharted is Subaru’s new mid-size electric SUV. electrek.co

Kansas tells trans residents their licenses become invalid. kansascity.com

Conan O’Brien interviewed on New Yorker podcast. newyorker.com

When ICE buys a warehouse in your town. npr.org

OpenClaw in 30 Minutes. youtube.com

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties. thecrimson.com

"Anthropic is resisting allowing its artificial intelligence (AI) to be used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance—two red lines that the company has maintained since entering the defense market." lawfaremedia.org

AI coding works now. werd.io

Schrödinger’s color theory finally completed after 100 years. sciencedaily.com

Pentagon Gives Anthropic an Ultimatum Over the Company’s A.I. Model. nytimes.com

Feed reading in the world of Bluesky. leaflet.pub

If you know anyone at X, can you ask them to help me get my account back there, please thanks. scripting.com

When I designed podcasting, I could have invented a better way to record and play radio shows, but MP3 already existed, as did recording and playback hardware and software, so it was the no-brainer choice. No one ever asked why we are using MP3. scripting.com

Greenland prime minister says 'no thanks' to Trump's hospital ship. reuters.com

People's State of the Union. mobilize.us

Traveling This Weekend? Here’s What to Know About the Snowstorm. nytimes.com

Dave Winer's Twitter account was hijacked. scripting.com

"Hold on to your hardware, as you may not be able to replace it affordably in the future." xn--gckvb8fzb.com

Be Wary of Bluesky. kevinak.se

Why I added Markdown to my outbound RSS feeds. kottke.org

Do you have a blog? strawpoll.com

Lutnick Family Could Make Killing On Tariff Demise. talkingpointsmemo.com

Watching the Olympics in Ukraine. substack.com

RFK Jr.’s days of going wild on health may be over. politico.com

FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance. arstechnica.com

We develop systems that don’t exploit people of any political persuasion. aftermath.site

The Supreme Court Delivers Trump a Humiliating Gift. theatlantic.com

I get all emotional when a USA team wins a gold medal in the Olympics. Actually I get all emotional when they just compete at all. This is a new thing. Not sure why! 😉 bbc.com

Nashville comic’s fake ICE tip line exposes teachers reporting kids. wapo.st

When Cats Came to My California Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org

How the Golden Gate Bridge Works. youtube.com

Current is a new RSS reader that's more like a river than an inbox. techcrunch.com

Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do. npr.org

Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse. theverge.com

John Spurlock is assembling a list of shows that support HLS video in Apple Podcasts. github.com

James Cridland on video in Apple Podcasts. podnews.net

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm. werd.io

A Myth: Move Fast and Break Things. Amen. substack.com

Independent Journalism Atlas. journalismatlas.com

Today Comes to the Mac. jakespurlock.com

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say. reuters.com

Meta Has an AI Patent to Keep You Posting After You Die. businessinsider.com

I'm watching "Rise of the 49ers" on AMC and loving it. I was in the Bay Area in the heyday of the niners, and it's the only football team that gets me going. They were so intense but easy going at the same time. Their attitude was of course we win, we're the niners. reddit.com

A woman grieving her divorce found comfort from a couple on the trail. npr.org

US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson dies aged 84. bbc.com

Robert Duvall, ‘Godfather’ and ‘Apocalypse Now’ Actor, Dies at 95. nytimes.com

A new RSS feature from micro.blog, which generates a feed of the replies I've gotten to posts on micro.blog. I hooked it into my blogroll, and now I can quickly see when someone has commented. It's already useful. If you're seeing this on micro.bog please comment! 🙂 scripting.com

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet. 404media.co

Trump Risks Igniting a Nuclear Wildfire. nytimes.com

David J. Farber, ‘Grandfather of the Internet,’ Dies at 91. amazon.com

Radio host David Greene says Google’s AI podcast tool stole his voice. washingtonpost.com

This is the deepest Knicks team of the century. It should win the East. nydailynews.com

"Most of the uniformed service members refrained from reacting during Trump’s speech other than raising phones to take photos or videos." wapo.st

News must be better defended, decentralized, unownable, all parts replaceable. The current situation was preventable. Same problem the social web has. theguardian.com

Federal Agents Stopped EMT From Giving Alex Pretti First Aid. theintercept.com

Amazon's Ring ends deal with surveillance firm Flock after backlash. bbc.com

The Maine Monitor is seeking an ambitious reporter to cover elections and campaigns in Maine. themainemonitor.org

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78. arstechnica.com

Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say. arstechnica.com

Mullenweg Calls For Rethinking Product Talks At WordCamps. wp-content.co

My two cents. We have invented something that eclipses us (humans) in the one thing that makes us unique, our previously superior intelligence. om.co

Confusion reigns over Trump meeting with governors. thehill.com

If it’s a battle between bots and brains we’ve already lost. nytimes.com

2024: The web lives in WordPress and Mastodon. scripting.com

Anthropic Donates $20 Million to Super PAC Operation to Counter OpenAI. (Gift link.) nytimes.com

Incarceration often strips individuals of their right to humane health care. prisonjournalismproject.org

We can't depend on the Democrats for very much. theatlantic.com

FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine. arstechnica.com

What You Need to Know About the SAVE Act. campaignlegal.org

21% of Peer Reviews Are Now AI. gopubby.com

Just stumbled across the 'Live' Status on Bluesky. lifehacker.com

Tesla pushed EV prices lower in January, but sales kept sliding. electrek.co

Governors meeting at White House upended by Trump excluding Democrats. A norm that held. apnews.com

Taylor Lorenz asks why mastodon is better, and gets a lot of replies. mastodon.social

AMA launching its own vaccine safety, effectiveness review system. thehill.com

Bionic sneakers promise to make wearers walk and run faster. npr.org

Journalism lost its culture of sharing. Here’s how we rebuild it. niemanlab.org

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. wisc.edu

Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show had a deeper meaning. slate.com

What technology do you use daily but secretly resent? ericfoltin.com

Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September. irishtimes.com

Tim Cook Reportedly Reassures Apple Employees That He Doesn't Want His Friend Trump to Deport Them. gizmodo.com

Donald Trump slams Olympic skier Hunter Hess over remarks on representing US. thehill.com

Want to stop Trump bullying your country? Retaliate. theguardian.com

News from the most-quoted blogs on Hacker News. feedland.com

Mitchell Hashimoto: My AI Adoption Journey. mitchellh.com

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop. nytimes.com

Jeffrey Epstein files shake political careers in Europe. apnews.com

Calendars and web readers. jamesg.blog

I wrote my own Heroku when the prices for little server apps got diseconomic. simonwillison.net

An Ethnic Cleansing Averted (For Now). substack.com

DHS requests expedited deportation proceedings against family of Liam Conejo Ramos. mprnews.org

Want a trip of a lifetime? Try traveling solo. npr.org

Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no. arstechnica.com

Judge blocks Trump administration’s stripping of Haitians’ protected status. theguardian.com

ChatGPT is asked about local news 1 million times per week, OpenAI says. niemanlab.org

Inbound RSS for WordPress sites. github.com

Don’t Let ICE Freeze Voting. meidasplus.com

The toxic culture that killed Alex Pretti. inquirer.com

What if they wrote stories like this about politics, speculate on what’s really happening, not giving credence to press releases. cbssports.com

Homeland Security is trying to force tech companies to hand over data about Trump critics. techcrunch.com

They miss their sites' comments. techdirt.com

Democrats have a constitutional power they aren’t using to fight back: state resolutions. theguardian.com

Top Substack writers depart for Patreon. niemanlab.org

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