Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated. 404media.co

Appeals Court Temporarily Halts Abortion Pills by Mail. politicalwire.com

The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed. arstechnica.com

“Platner has used his campaign to organize for causes besides his own election.” #bigidea nytimes.com

Amateur armed with ChatGPT ‘vibe maths’ a 60-year-old problem. scientificamerican.com

You Can Have Democratic Self-Government or the Corrupt Court — Not Both. talkingpointsmemo.com

Gov. Janet Mills Exits Maine Senate Race as an Insurgent Democrat Rises. nytimes.com

Voting rights ruling could deliver GOP a host of House seats in 2028. wapo.st

Manifesto: Rules for standards-makers. scripting.com

Cade Cunningham rescues Pistons from a crushing upset: ‘Man, he’s built for it.’ nytimes.com

Why the Supreme Court Should Have 27 Justices, Not 9. time.com

Matt Mullenweg Says “The Wheels Have Fallen Off” in Wide-Ranging WordPress Critique. therepository.email

Manton Reece on WordPress short-form interface. manton.org

Robot dogs with Elon Musk heads roam Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit. apnews.com

The Longest-lived Shortcut Key In Personal Computing. (2013 by Jake Savin) jakesav.in

When Your Kid’s Best Friend Is a Great Big Problem. theatlantic.com

I am testing Automattic’s new twitter-like service. They should have let me help them with this. What do they think I'd do to hurt them? This is what I am doing for the rest of my freaking career. And I have stated over and over that I'm into interop. What's to be scared of? Geez Louise. wordpress.com

Why is Jimmy Kimmel being held to a higher standard than Donald Trump? theguardian.com

A New Theme for Short-Form Blogging on WordPress.com. wordpress.com

NetNewsWire Now Getting Feed Images from RSS. netnewswire.blog

Billionaires Are Dominating California Politics. nytimes.com

Jamie Ding’s ‘Jeopardy!’ Streak Comes to an End. nytimes.com

I’ve been trying to come up with a simple test that lets you know whether some software is on the web or if it just can be made to appear in the web browser. mastodon.social

The Loop: everything has happened before, and everything will happen again. joanwestenberg.com

BYD's flagship electric SUV secures over 30,000 orders in 24 hours. Not in the USA. electrek.co

‘Subtle but powerful form of self-validation’: how to start journaling. theguardian.com

Andrew Shell's updates to his rssCloud server. andrewshell.org

WordPress News via FeedLand. feedland.org

Dwarkesh Patel’s Podcast Lets You Eavesdrop on the A.I. Elite. nytimes.com

I have to remember to check in with my WordPress news site. All of a sudden they're turning to RSS. Luckily I'm spending more time on FeedLand. So we're in a position to do some work together if they're so inclined. feedland.org

Trump may be temporary. The damage he is doing isn’t. theglobeandmail.com

Kia cuts EV6 prices by $5,000 on 2026 models. electrek.co

Paolo says AI should replace patients not doctors, and he's absolutely right. Totally worth reading. demar.in

2025: The writer's web. scripting.com

What to do if you’ve been bitten by a tick. wapo.st

"I added all the features of their format to mine, which they responded to (as I thought they would) by adding all the features of my format to theirs. At that point, I had what I wanted, I put a bullet in the head of my format, and made RSS my cause." scripting.com

Why Trump wants to spend $1 billion on Great Salt Lake. npr.org

Kessler Syndrome Space Debris Threatens Satellites. ieee.org

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record. archive.org

Two college kids raise a $5.1 million pre-seed to build an AI social network in iMessage. techcrunch.com

Podcasting is the model for content on the web. We can do the same thing for text. Why is that such a hard idea for people to get? Where are all the Jeopardy champions when you need them. searls.com

Expecting driverless taxis to respect bike lanes “too high a bar” – because customers want to be dropped off in them, autonomous vehicle firm Waymo tells cyclists. road.cc

Trump’s Justice Department is bringing back firing squads for federal executions. cnn.com

BYD's off-road brand debuts first EV sedan and sports car. electrek.co

“We have all the time in the world, and we’re not anxious for a deal.” politicalwire.com

2009: RSS is dead? My ass… scripting.com

Zeldman's UX Superpower: Nothing Works! ( I have the same superpower.) zeldman.com

U.S. soldier arrested for Polymarket bets on Maduro capture. cnbc.com

A Broken Press Gathers This Weekend To Normalize Fascism Over Cocktails. karlbode.com

Apple Is Boring Now. theatlantic.com

X makes it more expensive to post links through its API. It moves further away from the web, where links are a key feature. techcrunch.com

Om Malik, one of the original old school bloggers is on the story. We're rewriting the world in software again. We're all discovering this in our own ways. om.co

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop. thatprivacyguy.com

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out. theguardian.com

Virginia approves redistricting, giving Democrats edge in midterms. bbc.com

Personal_AI_Infrastructure.  Comes highly recommended. github.com

Trump’s Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan. talkingpointsmemo.com

Timothy Snyder: Superpower Suicide. I've come to the same conclusion. Trump is out of tricks. Trying to recycle old rage. Not only is everyone tired of it, but he's always bluffing. And he sends his son-in-law to figure out what to do. It's like a way too long Vonnegut novel. substack.com

Why The Devil Wears Prada 2’s Starbucks tie-in leaves a strange taste. theguardian.com

Iran war accelerates America’s breakup with the world. politico.com

Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return. techcrunch.com

John Ternus will replace Tim Cook as Apple CEO. arstechnica.com

Five Trump Scandals You’ve Probably Missed. doomsdayscenario.co

The Trump Administration Is Coming After Birth Control Access in a Terrifying New Way. nytimes.com

Josh Marshall writes of “the broken world of social media” as if it were a fact that couldn’t change, but it can. It is the way it is because smart people don’t speak up and reporters don’t challenge the hype, so lies become accepted as fact. talkingpointsmemo.com

Jonathan Desrosiers: The fight for the open web is a lie. (Exactly right.) wordcamp.org

U.S. seizes Iranian cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz. npr.org

“The quiet truth about AI is that it doesn't replace the thing that was hard. It replaces the thing that was slow.” joostboer.com

Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners — and which are still wide open. techcrunch.com

Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears. wsj.com

Teen takeovers. wikipedia.org

2003: Prior art as a design method. scripting.com

What is the protocol for hooking RSS planets together? rubenerd.au

Jon Ossoff Calls Out ‘Mar-a-Lago Mafia.’ politicalwire.com

Obama and Mamdani meet for the first time. pbs.org

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump. theatlantic.com

Headless everything for personal AI. interconnected.org

Last week I released a new toolkit that includes docs for your AI programming partner. Ask it to read the docs, and then tell it about the editor you want. It works with WordPress sites via the wpIdentity server. Writing docs to be read by AI's is a new frontier. 😉 github.com

How WordCamp Europe Finds Its Voices. wordcamp.org

Reopening Strait of Hormuz Would Ease Oil Crisis but Only So Much. nytimes.com

A glimpse into the open source process in the WordPress community. therepository.email

“There’s a growing body of evidence suggesting that exercise later in the day may offer additional health benefits.” washingtonpost.com

You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader. lifehacker.com

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

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs. anthropic.com

Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages. techcrunch.com

Danny Sullivan in 1996: The Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines and Directories. dannysullivan.com

Seeing the Hormuz Breakthrough in Its Full Light. talkingpointsmemo.com

Trump administration again takes aim at Jan. 6, in court and beyond. wapo.st

Matt Mullenweg Says “The Wheels Have Fallen Off” in Wide-Ranging WordPress Critique. therepository.email

Europe could run out of jet fuel within weeks, IEA warns. apnews.com

These days when I read an editorial in the Washington Post, I try to imagine Jeff Bezos saying the thing and sadly very often it works. wapo.st

RSS Club for WordPress. Very cute and coooool. 😎 shkspr.mobi

Another great AI video, who can say this isn't art? x.com

BYD's Sealion 05 EV is an electric SUV that's cheaper than it looks. electrek.co

Remkus de Vries: It’s Time to Level Up in WordPress. remkusdevries.com

As Trump Rants About Birds and Wind Turbines, the World Passes the US By. talkingpointsmemo.com

Bluesky appears to be off the air. bsky.app

Anthropic's redesigned Claude Code desktop app. thenewstack.io

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service. wordandway.org

Britain preparing for food shortages as Iran war bites. thetimes.com

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought. theguardian.com

Isn't it funny how when people use AI tools to do cartoons and parodies it's called slop, but when the same people do something much more complex, like making software, it's cool — we didn't need developers anyway. thenewstack.io

.ai in 2026 is the road to richness, like .com in past lives. om.co

NBA fans cry foul as Prime Video cuts out during overtime, fails to sync audio. arstechnica.com

Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers. techcrunch.com

Magyar’s first target: Hungary’s state-controlled media. politico.eu

Trump’s Corruption Is What’s Tanking the Economy. talkingpointsmemo.com

US Postal Service union launches ad campaign promoting mail voting. apnews.com

For an easy salad dressing, look no further than lemon juice and olive oil. wapo.st

Redesigning Claude Code on desktop for parallel agents. claude.com

WordCamp Asia 2026 keynote video. youtube.com

How I made my skills update themselves. joost.blog

Brilliant ad. x.com

“Introducing OpenAI Frontier.” They took our name. I wonder if their Frontier is as good as ours. openai.com

Rock Hall of Fame 2026 Inductees: Oasis, Phil Collins, Billy Idol, More. variety.com

Why opinion on AI is so divided. technologyreview.com

“The key to success is sincerity. If you can fake that you’ve got it made.” goodreads.com

AI's Future Looks Nothing Like Stanley Kubrick Imagined. bloomberg.com

Decision to Build EmDash Came from Cloudflare CEO, Engineer Reveals. therepository.email

What John Palfrey looks for in a short essay. jpalfrey.blog

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable. theatlantic.com

Isaac Asimov Reviews George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Calls It "Not Science Fiction, But a Distorted Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was." openculture.com

History’s Most Powerful Idiot. #badcombination thedailybeast.com

What happens when you don't die on time? ottawacitizen.com

The Dollar’s Special Status: Sources and Threats. I bet most Americans have no idea of the wealth and power that the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency gives us. With Trump whether he knows it or not we seem to be trying to break it. substack.com

Trump Is Turning America Into a Psychotic State. nytimes.com

After years of controversy surrounding lethal injections, idaho looks to automate the process of shooting people sentenced to death. prisonjournalismproject.org

Trump’s Staggering Humiliation in Iran. newrepublic.com

EFF quits X eff.org

One of Texas' oldest newspapers just lost its entire newsroom. chron.com

We are all Good Germans now. scripting.com

AI Code is Hollowing Out Open Source, and Maintainers are Looking the Other Way. quippd.com

What is agentic engineering? simonwillison.net

Rethinking RSS, newsletters, and how I read every morning. sixcolors.com

Mercy Review: Guilty of Being Stupid. austinchronicle.com

Trump’s Sound and Fury. theatlantic.com

[General Kaine] also flagged the enormous difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz and the risks of Iran blocking it. Mr. Trump had dismissed that possibility on the assumption that the regime would capitulate before it came to that. nytimes.com

The Hacker News tarpit. joanwestenberg.com

Rich Tabor compares WordPress and EmDash. rich.blog

Gas prices aren't the only factor fueling used EV sales. techcrunch.com

Hyundai discounts IONIQ 5 EV by $8,750 as sales heat up. electrek.co

NY Times once again caught sanewashing Trump’s unhinged rhetoric. dailykos.com

Robot Mowers Are Actually Good Now. wired.com

NASA’s Artemis II crew readies for Monday’s lunar flyby. mprnews.org

Krugman on terrorism. substack.com

 I started a vibecoding project last night and the damn AI couldn’t even get JavaScript syntax right. I asked what would’ve happened if I wasn’t a programmer and didn’t realize that you put declarations in a place they didn’t belong. how would that have worked out? fast.ai

Why OpenAI bought TBPN. om.co

Social media is turning into a freak show by Nate Silver. natesilver.net

There’s Another Big Reason Trump Is Stuck in the Gulf. talkingpointsmemo.com

I love all the discourse about WordPress. x.com

Cursor's $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default. thenewstack.io

How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets. theguardian.com

Shield of the Americas sounds ominous. wikipedia.org

I want a new social network that doesn’t strip essential writing features from the web. x.com

Artemis II Flight Day 4: Deep-Space Flying, Lunar Flyby Prep. nasa.gov

Anthropic blocks OpenClaw from Claude subscriptions. techbuzz.ai

WordPress needs to refactor, not redecorate. joost.blog

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish. propublica.org

Matt Mullenweg on EmDash, the supposed ‘spiritual successor’ of WordPress. ma.tt

Cloudflare Launches EmDash: CMS Built Using AI Agents, Dubbed As The Spiritual Successor To WordPress. wp-content.co

EmDash: First thoughts and takeaways for WordPress – Brian Coords. briancoords.com

6 Reasons Why Cloudflare's EmDash Can't Compete With WordPress. searchenginejournal.com

Following WordPress news via FeedLand. Should be interesting to see how EmDash is received there. feedland.org

Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security. cloudflare.com

Kia’s EV3 Is Headed to the US This Year With Up to 320 Miles of Range. gizmodo.com

The Beginning of Programming as We’ll Know It. bitsplitting.org

Inside Claude Code's leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags. thenewstack.io