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