rss.social has one of the best names I've heard in a while. I have serious domain name envy. rss.social

The Difference Between Being Early and Being Wrong. substack.com

How Trump Has Used the Presidency to Make at Least $1.4 Billion. nytimes.com

Zuck stuck on Trump’s bad side: FTC appeals loss in Meta monopoly case. arstechnica.com

The Knicks are on an epic losing streak. This feels very normal. Let the trades begin. Maybe if we ask nice, Thibs will return?!?. postingandtoasting.com

A format like RSS has to be loved. scripting.com

Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World. nytimes.com

Sorry Chicago sports fans. As a Mets and Knicks fan I understand what it’s like to root for a lovable loser. Our slogan — it just “wasn’t meant to be.” And wait till next year, when we’ll do it all again. theguardian.com

“Europeans constructed a way of living that is totally dependent on technologies run by corporations that describe themselves as “global” but are all, in fact, American.” observer.co.uk

Zodiac is great, playing on Netflix. I had never seen it. nytimes.com

“ICE needs to be totally torn down… People want immigration enforcement that goes after criminals, not the goon squad that has come from Stephen Miller and Trump.” talkingpointsmemo.com

Finally CNN gets that there’s a difference between Democratic voters and leaders. The power is with the voters. Now we have to get the leaders to understand that they can be replaced. cnn.com

Trump is using ICE and health care as weapons of a war against his own country. ms.now

After 36 years in Palo Alto, Il Fornaio is closing. paloaltoonline.com

2005, by Dan Bricklin: "Instead of making you feel bad for 'only' doing 99%, a well designed system makes you feel good for doing 1%." This keeps coming up all the time in software design. danbricklin.com

It isn’t up to the Democrats to act, it’s up to the people of the United States. Do we really want our cities turned into police states? If not, make sure our reps, of all parties, understand this. Thanks for your attention to this matter. huffpost.com

My linkblog is an RSS feed, of course. But you can also subscribe to it on Bluesky. bsky.app

Eugen Rochko, the top guy on Mastodon, is turning off the bridge from his account to Bluesky. mastodon.social

Minnesota National Guard mobilized; protesters clash in downtown Minneapolis. cbsnews.com

Top 10 Greatest American Cars of All Time. motortrend.com

Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike. arstechnica.com

ICE opening huge lockup 50 miles north of New York City. ctmirror.org

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work. wired.com

Democrats grapple with 'rising clamor' for Trump impeachment ahead of midterms. go.com

Progressive effort to primary Sen. John Fetterman ramps up. nbcnews.com

White House reveals Gaza 'Board of Peace' members. thehill.com

Judge slams Trump administration over targeted deportations. politico.com

"Mastodon’s choices become de facto standards whether or not the project engages with formal standardisation processes." connectedplaces.online

The People, Not the Politicians, Are Leading. thenation.com

Bearsville Center Is Up for Sale in Woodstock. theoverlooknews.com

25 years of Drupal: what Dries has learned. dri.es

Scripting News: An EZ-Pass for news. scripting.com

Pistachio Nutrition and Health Benefits. healthline.com

Ciji Graham Died Unable to Get Heart Care or an Abortion in North Carolina. propublica.org

Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming. cjr.org

Congress Is Actually Governing. politicalwire.com

Why police are now sending some confiscated electric bikes to the crusher. electrek.co

In Secret Testimony, Republicans Derided Trump’s Stolen Election Claims. nytimes.com

There Is One Fediverse. There Are A Thousand Ways To Join It. jaz.co.uk

Trump Administration Wants ‘Lists of Jews.’ politicalwire.com

Kia takes aim at a smaller, more affordable EV beneath the EV2. electrek.co

Scott Adams, creator of 'Dilbert,' dies at 68. apnews.com

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Code-like for general computing. arstechnica.com

Why Vance Committed So Hard to the Minneapolis Shooter. theatlantic.com

Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead’s 10 best recordings. theguardian.com

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype. Amen. simonwillison.net

Check out these EVs before they're gone for good in 2026. electrek.co

We’re lucky to have Powell at the Fed. bsky.app

The Government Workers Donald Trump Discarded. theatlantic.com

European leaders rally behind Greenland as US ramps up threats. A good idea. Show some of the spine our Republican elected officials don't have. theguardian.com

Suppose the US sold some of the states, e.g. selling the Dakotas to Costco. substack.com

A Software Library with No Code. dbreunig.com

Bob Weir, Guitarist and Founding Member of The Grateful Dead, Dies at 78. nytimes.com

Trump says U.S. is ready to help Iranians get freedom, but what about freedom for Americans. axios.com

'The Life of Chuck' Movie Explained. nofilmschool.com

Feds pay $125K after Border Patrol agent pointed gun at Portland hotel worker. oregonlive.com

The cool thing about using RSS as the format for a twitter-like system is that not only can it handle every major text feature of the web, but it is also easily extended, so it can grow without the cooperation of dominant bigco siloers.

Why We Keep Falling for Narcissistic Leaders. nytimes.com

This scene won an Oscar. youtube.com

Dangers of efficiency with AI? nathanwrigley.com

After delays, the missing Jan. 6 plaque will be displayed at the Capitol. npr.org

Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good. ncronline.org

Renee Nicole Good shooting: ICE agent identified. startribune.com

Palmer Luckey thinks the future of tech is in the past. techcrunch.com

Pam Perillo’s Sisterhood of the Condemned. texasobserver.org

Trump's Mogul-First Model of Diplomacy. thenation.com

ThinkTank ad from 1984. scripting.com

Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis. nytimes.com

Ex-ICE chief calls DHS rush to judgement after Minneapolis shooting 'irresponsible.' pbs.org

Killing of Renee Good. wikipedia.org

PBS: "The Fight to Control the A-Bomb’s Story." youtube.com

Minneapolis shooting reported as federal agents conduct an immigration enforcement surge. apnews.com

The Great Unraveling Has Begun. nytimes.com

Facebook in 2010: One graph to rule them all. Look at how young Zuck is! That was 16 years ago. cnet.com

"In America you call it the alt-right, in Germany we call it 'why Grandpapa lives in Argentina now.'" facebook.com

Who decides what’s real in the age of AI? Instagram. om.co

Trump Floats Idea of Canceling Midterm Elections. thedailybeast.com

The Moment We Lost The Plot. talkingpointsmemo.com

New Yorker podcast with a reporter who has the whole story from the perspective of Latin America. Like listening to the Donald McNeil podcasts at the outset of Covid. A quick way to get up to speed on something most of us weren't thinking about too much. apple.com

Trump predicts he will be impeached if Republicans lose the midterms. nbcnews.com

Must watch — narrated bodycam video of Capitol police on Jan 6, 2021. youtube.com

Back in power 5 years later, Trump has all but erased the stain of Jan. 6. politico.com

I blame the supposedly intelligent people who gave away their internet freedom to venture capitalists, and when it became clear that had happened then gave it to another bunch of venture capitalists, and continue to ignore the warnings. leftjabs.com

This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It's nowhere to be found at the Capitol. npr.org

As Touring Booms, the Live Music Industry Looks for Its Next Workforce. bloomberg.com

In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss. nytimes.com

Which AI chatbot is best? I tested ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more. wapo.st

Facebook used Mastodon to mislead journalists. Now that Threads is established, they no longer need Mastodon. coywolf.com

Protocols for Publishers sounds like an interesting conference, in London, at the beginning of February. protocolsforpublishers.com

Standard.site is interesting. Two suggestions, explain how you hook up with non-atproto apps. Suggest using RSS and Markdown. And give Markdown a special role, so users can use any tool to edit text. And if you all want to help the web and yourselves focus on interop with wider world. standard.site

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins. joanwestenberg.com

David Frum: Trump’s Critics Are Falling Into an Obvious Trap. theatlantic.com

Trump’s Risky War in Venezuela. theatlantic.com

Can We Really Afford to Let Health Care Get Any Worse? nytimes.com

Slurry is one of my favorite internet words. scripting.com

Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here. newrepublic.com

BTW, speaking of something futuristic. This is a page rendered by WordPress of something that's in Mastodon because the two products speak ActivityPub. Interop is fantastic, because things like this "just work" once you're hooked up to the same network. daveverse.org

Homeland Security’s increasingly unhinged social media posts. joeydevilla.com

One Battle After Another Reviews – Metacritic metacritic.com

The Birth of Espresso: The Story Behind the Coffee Shots That Fuel Modern Life. openculture.com

What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo? – On my Om om.co

Jack Smith says Trump acknowledged to others that he lost 2020 election | Reuters reuters.com

Ars Technica: Our top picks for the best films of 2025. arstechnica.com

NYC Congestion Pricing Cut Pollution 22% In Just 6 Months. cleantechnica.com

Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dies At 87. slashdot.org

ICE plans $100 million recruitment push targeting gun shows, military fans. wapo.st

2021: My product is interop. scripting.com

Why Micro.blog uses Markdown. micro.blog

The nearer your destination the more you’re slip slidin away. youtube.com

Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless themarkup.org

Plaud Note Pro is an excellent AI-powered recorder that I carry everywhere. techcrunch.com

2025 was a roller coaster year for EVs. npr.org

Just Beyond the Texas Border, Chihuahua Is Launching a Burgeoning State Surveillance System. texasobserver.org

The 10 Senate races that will decide the balance of power in 2026. nbcnews.com

What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration. nytimes.com

I had ChatGPT put together a list of NBA feeds that don’t use paywalls. It’s been running a few days and the results are impressive. I’ll do a writeup of the list in next few days. feedland.com

AOC: Trump ran on a promise that ICE would go after the “worst" criminals. But the real crime is in oligarchs taking $170b from your healthcare and food assistance to form a secret police force. x.com

I'm going to try commenting on other old school blogs more here on my blog. Want to see if we can reboot the original sphere as a way of priming the new one. scripting.com

Common Side Effects  on HBO is a pretty good anime style story. metacritic.com

Elon Musk drops 'sustainable' from Tesla's mission as he completes his villain arc | Electrek electrek.co

ICE’s interest in high-tech gear raises new questions. politico.com

Kottke: Are We Still Loving Pluribus? kottke.org

New Yorkers brace for biggest snow storm in years, up to 10 inches. nydailynews.com

NYC Is Getting Hit Hard by the 'Super Flu'—and the Worst Is Yet to Come gizmodo.com

The life of an immigrant day laborer in Berkeley. berkeleyside.org

Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025. arstechnica.com

Why the sparkly star became the symbol for artificial intelligence—and why that’s a problem. slate.com

Lagniappe. worddaily.com

The ultraprocessed food makers have an answer for RFK Jr. politico.com

The ultraprocessed food makers have an answer for RFK Jr. politico.com

The ultraprocessed food makers have an answer for RFK Jr. politico.com

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

Admiral Who Ordered Bombing of Boat Strike Survivors Asked Military Lawyer First. truthout.org

'Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes.' slashdot.org

“We guarantee the death of most remaining newsrooms.” niemanlab.org

A Million More Epstein Documents Have Been Found, Justice Dept. Says. nytimes.com

Zohran Mamdani on His Family’s Experience With Immigration Court and His Plans for ICE in NYC. talkingpointsmemo.com

Riley Walz on creating viral internet pranks. sfalexandria.com

'Pluribus' Finale Explained; Vince Gilligan Details Original Ending. variety.com

Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban. ms.now

How recall of career diplomats fits into Trump's foreign policy shift. pbs.org

My favorite bingeable programs via Bingeworthy. bingeworthy.org

Supreme Court Upholds Block of Trump’s National Guard Deployment in the Chicago Area. wttw.com

Luigi Mangione Came to Our Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org

Jasmine Crockett will teach Democratic consultants that voters want  candidates with personality, not nobodies you can paint whatever picture on you want depending on the day and current events. texasobserver.org

AT Proto devs: The web should be your plan B. The web will always want to help, but it isn’t rich or famous or give good interviews or have famous VCs backing it. 💰 scripting.com

New batch of Epstein files include many references to Trump. wapo.st

Turmoil at CBS News After Bari Weiss Pulls a ‘60 Minutes’ Segment. nytimes.com

12 Shots That Define Breaking Bad. youtube.com

Drivers struggle to multitask when using dashboard touch screens, study finds. This is true. It’s even worse if you’re farsighted, as I am, you have to put on glasses to read the screen, and quickly take them off to see the road. washington.edu

The HTML Elements Time Forgot. htmhell.dev

Everybody in Milwaukee is mishandling the Giannis Antetokounmpo trade saga. cbssports.com

Bari Weiss intervenes in ’60 Minutes’ Trump segment, correspondent says. wapo.st

‘60 Minutes’ Abruptly Pulls Segment on Trump Deportees Sent to El Salvador Megaprison yahoo.com

PBS documentary on CECOT in place of the cancelled 60 Minutes segment, cancelled by CBS. youtube.com

President Obama campaign speech is reminiscent of a time when we had a government. youtube.com

Introducing CSS Grid Lanes. webkit.org

5 Essential Android Web Browsers That Can Replace Google Chrome. bgr.com

The Top Twenty-five New Yorker Stories of 2025. newyorker.com

On 5/15/2017 I decided I wanted my old blog back. I was fed up trying to write for all the inconsistent publishing platforms, twitter, facebook, google reader, medium, etc. It worked. Never looked back. Like emerging from a bad dream. Because the web is really good for writers. scripting.com

It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced. theguardian.com

Cautionary tale for Trump. We could see Venezuelan drones flying over American cities if he goes through with his planned unprovoked attack. American voters will learn in a whole new way that it definitely matters who we vote for. kyivpost.com

Yesterday I hooked up my feed system to Inoreader via dynamic OPML. The first time I ever made such a connection, now when I subscribe to a new podcast in FeedLand, I’m also automatically subscribed to it in Inoreader. Wish Pocket Casts also hooked up. daveverse.org

Firefox, look at the web as your product, and do things that make it easy for independent devs to create products for the web without locking users in. mastodon.social

Scripting News: Why humans should have an exclusive on being human. scripting.com

Everyone in Seattle Hates AI. jonready.com

The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy. thenation.com

Frustrated GOP moderates join Democrats to force Obamacare extension vote. politico.com

If a new CEO of Mozilla took an oath to restore the web to its former greatness, they would find a lot of business models open to them. Instead, they’re trying to be part of the tech industry which places no value on the web being a place for open development. kingcons.io

Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994. Now it's asking why. bbc.com

Academy Awards to leave ABC for YouTube in 2029. washingtonpost.com

The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing. nytimes.com

The Knicks can break NBA Cup curse, and accomplish so much more. sbnation.com

Please learn how to use your computer. niemanlab.org

Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Vanity Fair Interviews Describing Trump World. nytimes.com

Trump’s chief of staff says he believes ‘there’s nothing he can’t do’ as president. theguardian.com

Is it too much to hope that Meathead and Archie could be the cultural bridge we need to get Americans to pull together? scripting.com

2024: We elected Archie Bunker. scripting.com

As Michael Stivic in ‘All in the Family,’ Rob Reiner Brought Political Arguments Home. nytimes.com

Remembering Rob Reiner. talkingpointsmemo.com

America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People. thebulwark.com

Rob Reiner’s son Nick arrested in connection with deaths of his parents. theguardian.com

Daveverse has become a serious site, and I'm more reluctant to use it for a test post than I ever have been, but here I am once again doing a test post. I have high hopes for this test. And my sleeves are rolled up, I'm reasonably caffeinated, and ready to rock. Or roll. 

Maybe I'll write some stuff here that I will later post to Scripting News, when it will come right back here to daveverse. As they say — Oh the humanity.

BTW the trailer for Animal Farm was realllly offensive, as if it were a cautionary tale. It looks like a kids show, but it's not, but people will still have their kids watch it, they won't know and "A cautionary tale" kind of says the problem out loud. It's bullshit because we're living Animal Farm right now. So if you want your kid to be aware of reality, the cautionary tale part is a problem.

BTW when I first wrote this, I wrote Animal House not Animal Farm. Very different movies. 

Also the Scorcese special is full of information about how movies work, but barely skims the surface. Watching it was like watching the Peter Jackson Beatles story. All of a sudden I get a glimpse of how they do it, how people work with each other. Scorcese formed a kind of Beatles of his own. And there are a lot of his movies I haven't seen. 

NakedJen if you read this — can we find a way to get four great Scorcese movies I haven't seen into the rotation? And btw, when I typed NJ's name in just now, I wrote NakeDen. Too much ChatGPT I expect.

WordLand bug report: if you don't specify a site, when you publish it goes to the last site you posted to which is likely links.daveverse.org.

Past classic that deserves an electric update: Honda Element. electrek.co

I've still got big plans for RSS. mastodon.social

US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead. theguardian.com

Improved My Feedreader’s Writing to the Web. zylstra.org

How to make a pantry soup with whatever you have on hand. wapo.st

Without subsidies, health care will get costlier for these 3 families. apnews.com

Viktor Orbán’s Hail Mary. cjr.org

Just started watching "Mr. Scorsese Reviews" on Apple TV and it's like getting inside the head that came up with all those movies, with scenes from the movies in there too. What a gift. metacritic.com

Scripting News: The Mets' soul walks out the door. scripting.com

Why are sperm donors having hundreds of children? bbc.com

2019: What about Mastodon? (Before Musk bought Twitter.) scripting.com

It's a good idea for government agencies to communicate with voters about what they do for us. noaa.gov

Dutch political cartoons, very dark. trouw.nl

Traveling to the US with an ESTA in 2026. herve.bzh

Can the “Sistine Chapel of the New Deal” Be Saved From Trump? newrepublic.com

The media will become terminally addicted to gambling. niemanlab.org

1997: Don's Amazing Puzzle. scripting.com

What to make of Mets losing Alonso, Diaz to free agency. espn.com

Why RSS matters. werd.io

The year journalism stops outsourcing its independence. niemanlab.org

“Readers are not asking the Times to print propaganda or stump for Democrats. In my view, they simply want the Times to be more clear-eyed and honest about the depth of the crisis this country currently faces.” presswatchers.org

404 Media is making a print zine about the surveillance tactics used by ICE, and the ways people are resisting this technology. 404media.co

John Naughton: “The great thing about being a blogger, as I’ve often observed, is that you continually learn stuff from your readers.” substack.com

New US security strategy aligns with Russia's vision, Moscow says. bbc.com

Stephen Miller’s Rhetoric “Reminds Me” of “Nazis,” Says Rep. Ilhan Omar. motherjones.com

Is Netflix Trying to Buy Warner Bros. or Kill It? slashdot.org

I bought a 5-ton electric tractor from China. electrek.co

Train Dreams gets an 88 on Metacritic. metacritic.com

The small team running Trump’s foreign policy. politico.com

My web writing is 💯 percent me. Hopefully you can tell. nytimes.com

The Medical Case for Self-Driving Cars. nytimes.com

Yogi Berra: “You can observe a lot by just watching.” goodreads.com

Texas Gets a Pass for a Gerrymandering Free-For-All. Will California Be Given the Same? talkingpointsmemo.com

Europe needs to stop its magical thinking and ready for war with Russia. independent.co.uk

He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, he’s nearly home. wapo.st

Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 Billion. netflix.com

Netflix to buy Warner Bros Discovery's studios, streaming unit for $72 billion. reuters.com

Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved the city. inquirer.com

Trump news: Why Big Tech bros like David Sacks, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are crashing out. slate.com

The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west. theguardian.com

Don’t Overcomplicate the Scandal of Trump’s Lawless High Seas Attacks. #amen talkingpointsmemo.com

OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months. arstechnica.com

I'm trying to find out what happened at State of the Word which started at noon Pacific. No mention of it yet on my WordPress community timeline. feedland.org

Kia previews the EV2, its most affordable EV yet. electrek.co

Another day working on discourse, and another demo post.

Now we're going to send notification email to the author of the post being responded to, if the feature is enabled (default false) with the address of the new post. 

That worked. Now seeing if we can get data from the prefs object.

Another day working on discourse, and another demo post.

Now we're going to send notification email to the author of the post being responded to, if the feature is enabled (default false) with the address of the new post.

The wikipedia page for RSS is full of dogma. ChatGPT gets the story right. Adoption of RSS was driven by news orgs and bloggers. RSS 2.0 was developed as a result of The NY Times coming on board, followed by the rest of the news publishing world. wikipedia.org

Join Them for Office Hours: Dec 1-5 – ActivityPub for WordPress. activitypub.blog