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

Photos from Trump’s golf course tour reveal overhaul of East Potomac. wapo.st

Putin Faces Increased Pressure as Moscow Is Again Attacked by Drones. nytimes.com

"One side is playing constitutional hardball." talkingpointsmemo.com

NBA free agency 2026 live updates: LeBron James to leave Lakers but won't retire. nytimes.com

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5. anthropic.com

Supreme Court ruling guts government’s use of geofence warrants. arstechnica.com

BTW, this is my daveverse blog on wordpress.com. People for some reason are starting to ask about the blogroll, which has been available for two years. daveverse.org

The Micro.blog Paradox: are its mindful features creating a Fediverse island? vladcampos.com

Maine voters are mostly liberal and many are idiots. politico.com

He Asked Claude to Review WordPress. Here’s What It Found. pootlepress.com

James Dolan owner of the Knicks keeps doing unforgivable things. We didn’t want Trump at the Garden, we don’t want the team to celebrate with Trump, and we do want Mitchell Robinson back. He must want to be despised. postingandtoasting.com

In the 80s and 90s, Apple CEO John Sculley produced a set of videos outlining a vision for a Knowledge Navigator along with the idea of a Personal Digital Assistant. I just realized that that vision has been realized, it's called Claude or ChatGPT. It's almost exact. wikipedia.org

NBA rumors: The biggest offseason question for every Eastern Conference team. cbssports.com

EFF on RSS. Thanks for the push, but the NYT and Netscape deserve the credit for making RSS a hit. eff.org

Question for Biden, how much responsibility do you take for this tragedy? cnn.com

The pro-algae protest at the Reflecting Pool. wapo.st

Rather than outlawing AI, we should reimagine education. substack.com

How the Reflecting Pool Turned Green: Missing ‘Bubblers’ and a Rush Job. nytimes.com

Josh Marshall on the end of the open platform. talkingpointsmemo.com

Do Websites Need to Function Exactly the Same on Every Platform? bram.us

Fetterman is a Republican, of course he ravages Democrats. nypost.com

New York Knicks MVP Jalen Brunson Humiliates Trump With White House Visit on the Rocks. thedailybeast.com

Moneyball is coming to Netflix next week. A great movie if you like sports or business or even better the business of sports. And the story is fantastic, as are Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. One of those movies I'll watch whenever it's on. netflix.com

Chaos Came to CBS News. What’s in Store for CNN? nytimes.com

Here are the best novels to read this summer. npr.org

Utah governor orders ban on fireworks as wildfires rage across state. theguardian.com

What Brent did over the last year with NetNewsWire. inessential.com

It would be tragic if Dolan, who we were just beginning to think might not be as awful as he used to be, now is going to make the Knicks give up two big contributors to the championship because Dolan still of course has his head up his ass. cbssports.com

Podcast: My (latest) AI Aha Moment. I finally figured out how to get my back of the book index from all my web writing going back to 1994, something I wanted a machine to do for me long before ChatGPT. scripting.com

The EFF is no friend to the open internet. techdirt.com

Om Malik, One of WordPress’s Earliest Adopters and the Connector Behind Automattic, Has Died at 59. therepository.email

Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land. theguardian.com

Utah Is on Fire and the Fireworks Are in Aisle Nine. nakedjen.com

Om Malik, 1966-2026. A longtime friend, most generous kind person in Silicon Valley. It's that time of life. Much love to brother. You are already missed. om.co

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine vetoes bill requiring mail-in voters show a copy of their ID to vote. ohiocapitaljournal.com

Is Trump celebrating the country, or himself, on America’s 250th? cnn.com

The evolution of podcasts: How podcasting became media’s biggest disruptor. co.za

Will America Ever Give White-Man Rights to Everyone Else? thenation.com

Who’s Left to Build WordPress? wpmayor.com

This is where you find out if Claude is down. And this morning it is. claude.com

Nearly Half of LG Smart TV Apps Contain Residential Proxy SDKs. spur.us

How 100 Romanian hospitals switched to pen and paper to defeat a national cyber-attack. bbc.com

Alan Greenspan obituary: Architect of the modern American economy dies aged 100. bbc.com

Blogs, traffic, and Google. seths.blog

Clive Davis, music executive and champion of legendary pop artists, has died at 94. npr.org

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos. wired.com

Woman killed when Tesla driver using Autopilot crashed into her home. arstechnica.com

WordPress on the future of the web. wpvip.com

“Google Just Turned Street View Into a Video Game.” jnack.com

Doc Searls' evolving opinion of AI. searls.com

The Website Specification. Really interesting project. specification.website

Reconsidering the WordPress business model: what are plugin licenses actually paying for? caseyrb.com

Why an AI company cleaned my New York City apartment for free. bbc.com

Congress picks up the pieces after the Iran war. apnews.com

US scientist John Jumper to leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic. reuters.com

I'm somewhat skeptical that "Standard Site" couldn't be done with RSS. But then they don't actually say that in their howto doc. My philosophy is reinvent as little as possible and go for maximum interop. I think eventually they will untether it from AT Proto to get more users. leaflet.pub

Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings. theguardian.com

2026 World Cup Standings: Full list of teams. sbnation.com

Knicks Free Agents. They can't bring all these stars back next year. spotrac.com

AI Has Granted America Vast New Power. politicalwire.com

Scott Knaster: A paean to Inside Macintosh. substack.com

#682 in the mastoverse feels pretty solid. stefanhayden.com

Just came across the blog post I wrote on the 20-year anniversary of the podcasting bootstrap in 2004. scripting.com

The Knicks’ Championship Win Transforms the City. newyorker.com

Using ChatGPT as a WordPress Page Builder. pootlepress.com

Two Weeks at AI Enablement, NYC . data.blog

The AI’s read this blog. Something I got started with a few times, but never put the time into to get the results I hoped to get. smays.com

"The only reason I keep developing today is because the web is (still) here." x.com

For years, people have used social media to seed disinformation in order to swing elections. Now, the answers our search engines and expert systems produce have become more vulnerable. werd.io

Stream the Knicks parade live on YouTube. youtube.com

All the viewing areas for Knicks ticker-tape parade are already full — hours before epic celebration begins: NYPD. nypost.com

There would be a huge fan revolt if the team went to the Trump White House. nytimes.com

Jake Savin working on Frontier: An Inscrutable Tangle of State Management. jakesav.in

Nominations Open for 2026 EFF Awards. eff.org

Knicks will visit Trump, White House, a first for NBA champ. usatoday.com

What is a feed? (a.k.a. RSS). aboutfeeds.com

Ten months later, the $100 Google Home Speaker is available for preorder. arstechnica.com

Beyond traditional “Not Interested” buttons, apps like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok have begun introducing tools that let people train their own algorithms and influence what appears in their feeds. techcrunch.com

How Victor Wembanyama became the NBA’s newest villain. sbnation.com

BYD's new magnetic EV device lets you control your car on the go. electrek.co

The year of New York and the Thunder weren’t inevitable: 15 things we learned from the NBA playoffs. theguardian.com

The epic story of Markdown. theverge.com

The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak. techcrunch.com

Trump Parties While America Surrenders. theatlantic.com

Trump’s Iran Deal Is a Humiliation for Him—and Good News for the World. thenation.com

Knicks fever: Mamdani prepares NYC for massive ticker-tape parade, but says school will still be in session Thursday. amny.com

The new 20% time, minus the time. joe.dev

Rebuilding Instagram in 2026. dev.to

Super-rich’s assets cause outsized amount of climate harm, study says. theguardian.com

NBA Finals refs miss flagrant foul on Victor Wembanyama, and he’ll be suspended if it’s upgraded. sbnation.com

Universal Mentions for the Social Web. blogwarp.com

Finding Backlinks to Your Articles and Blog Posts. thenewleafjournal.com

Meta Employees Absolutely Hate Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for a Companywide AI Hackathon. wired.com

San Antonio Spurs Canceling Knicks Fans' Tickets for NBA Finals Game 5. tmz.com

Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess. wired.com

Justice Department posts more Epstein files related to accusations about Trump. npr.org

Scripting News: Using AI to sort out the noise. scripting.com

Mike Brown was a victim of the NBA's coach-firing trend, and then he became its greatest success story. Uhhh not yet. cbssports.com

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive. simonwillison.net

The White House Panic Over the Epstein Files: Six Takeaways From the New York Times Investigation. nytimes.com

Today's Bill Simmons podcast has a lot of details about last night's game that went over my head. The Spurs made a lot of mistakes, any one of which would have changed the outcome. feedland.com

OG Anunoby’s rise from NCAA afterthought to NBA starter. sportsnet.ca

Communities for Bluesky as described by their head product person. bsky.app

Solar power beats coal for electricity generation despite Trump policies. apnews.com

Jeremy Lin Opens Up About Carmelo Anthony Beef, End of Knicks Tenure and More in Video. bleacherreport.com

How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi. theatlantic.com

Simon Willison's initial impressions of Claude Fable 5. simonwillison.net

Dems should also try to win support from men, don’t cede a whole gender to Repubs. substack.com

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers. the-decoder.com

“You can’t even fall down in that place without landing on an oligarch,” he said. nytimes.com

The perks of starting medical residency when most your age are retired. statnews.com

What the Pentagon’s Snub of Mormons Was Really All About. talkingpointsmemo.com

What Congress would look like without gerrymandering. heartlandsignal.com

Why the Public Is Gravitating Toward the Hunter Biden Approach. theatlantic.com

Social Security Now Expects Shortfall Earlier, in Late 2032. wsj.com

Did Google break the web by insisting all sites had to be served by https? x.com

Ford's $30,000 EV pickup is almost here. electrek.co

Fewer Americans see country as exceptional: new poll. apnews.com

No walking near MSG tonight because of Knicks game. nbcnewyork.com

WordPress Is the Doorway, Not the Room. regionallyfamous.com

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons. tonsky.me

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

RetroPad is a ‘full-feature-parity version of Notepad from XP’ in just 2,749 bytes. tomshardware.com

Karl-Anthony Towns’ NBA Finals play impacting Knicks, Giannis. nytimes.com

Introducing Reader Chat, Powered by Jetpack Search. jetpack.com

I’d love to read a Krugman piece about the dangers of being locked into online platforms like Substack, which he is most definitely a product of. substack.com

Paramount’s Weiss Woes. status.news

When public charging stations aren't so public, and why it matters. electrek.co

Knicks now overwhelming title favorites after shocking start to NBA Finals. nypost.com

The European Social Stack. They should add a bunch of other formats and protocols to their list. The idea of bridging all those silos is a dead-end because they don't agree what text is. We have to go back to the roots, the web itself, to build an open system. european.social

Knicks overpower Spurs in Game 2, take 2-0 NBA Finals lead behind Karl-Anthony Towns, Mikal Bridges. nydailynews.com

‘Bots have now passed human traffic online,’ Cloudflare boss laments — says agentic traffic wasn’t expected to eclipse real people until next year. tomshardware.com

Jeremy Lin returning to MSG for first time as fan since free-agency split. nypost.com

Rhea Seehorn and 'Pluribus' Cast on Hive Mind, Season 2 Update. variety.com

Doc Searls expects the Knicks to win. searls.com

Why Linux creator Linus Torvalds gets angry hearing "99% of code is AI." thenewstack.io

S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic. arstechnica.com

Scott Knaster remembers Bill Atkinson who died one year ago today. substack.com

Trump plans to attend Game 3 of NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. cnn.com

The hood is coming off MAGA. inquirer.com

Albania freezes assets in Kushner resort corruption probe. msn.com

Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE. (They'll probably just review it as they would review CBS or CNN news, if it says shit about Trump, they'll make them change it.) arstechnica.com

John Bolton expected to plead guilty in classified documents case. wapo.st

What it felt like to be a lifetime Knicks fan watching Game 1 of the NBA Finals. scripting.com

A handful of Americans pay for AI. Will you have to? npr.org

Knicks open Finals with stunning Game 1 comeback win over Spurs. cbssports.com

House passes resolution to end Iran War, challenging Trump. thehill.com

The Knicks Represent the Best of New York Sports. theatlantic.com

Protests in Albania Grow in Opposition to Kushner’s $4 Billion Luxury Resort. truthout.org

What we’re hearing about Giannis Antetokounmpo’s trade market as NBA Finals begin. nytimes.com

Spike Lee: The Skies Are Blue and Orange. nytimes.com

Tim Bray: XML and JSON in 2026. My opinion — different format plumbing, same use-case. Both can be used to encode data for interop betw apps. XML has attributes, but you can simulate them in JSON. XML also has namespaces which are useful. Otherwise — isomorphic. tbray.org

How to make best use of git and GitHub for AI-assisted software development. jonudell.net

AI models are having their iPhone moment. What’s Next? om.co

Trump administration retreated on payout fund, but some in GOP want proof it’s dead. washingtonpost.com

The problem with all these social networks is they don't work with each other, they can't even agree on what text is. So it's a farce to think any of them have any chance once there's a social network built on web standards. basicthinking.de

Does AI really make workers more productive? vox.com

A week after OpenAI made headlines with an A.I.-generated proof, a new “declaration” by 16 experts raises concerns that the technology threatens math as a discipline. nytimes.com

60 Minutes is over, as is the NY Times, Washington Post, NBC, CNN, it’s all garbage, has been for a long time. Think of political news as sports coverage, but without the rules. The whole thing is hanging by a thread waiting for us all to work together. status.news

How I learned my work with WordLand was probably wasted time. Platform vendor employees do this all the time. I knew there was a good chance they wouldn’t love my product. I wanted to create a new developer ecosystem. wordpress.com