Tim Bray added search on his blog, so of course I looked up myself and found we agree on the ridiculous-ness of the Wikipedia piece on RSS. ChatGPT gets the story right, so to be fair Wikipedia should warn about hallucinations too. tbray.org

The Salt Lake Tribune, preparing to drop its paywall, launches a free, monthly print newspaper for Southern Utah. niemanlab.org

Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost. arstechnica.com

Jetpack Tools Every Blogger Should Be Using In 2025. blogrecode.com

Elon Musk warns work could soon become ‘optional’ in age of AI. com.pk

Blue Jays Baserunning Error Cost Toronto World Series. newsweek.com

WordPress backgrounder on rssCloud. wordpress.com

George Clooney says replacing Joe Biden with Kamala Harris was a mistake. theguardian.com

The Last Days Of Social Media. noemamag.com

This is the Los Angeles the Dodgers are returning to. bsky.app

Flock cameras lead Colorado police to wrong suspect: “It became my job to prove my innocence.” cbsnews.com

“Don’t be foolish enough to let Pete Alonso go!” says Keith Hernandez, of the legendary slugger of the Mets. azontree.com

New (South Korean) national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms. electrek.co

The Next Terrorist Attack. substack.com

Food banks were ‘operating on fumes’ even before SNAP chaos. stateline.org

Why a Reagan Ad Provoked Trump. theatlantic.com

Trump wants him arrested. JB Pritzker is breaking through. theframelab.org

Trump Is Forcing Millions to Make Cruel Choices. thenation.com

NYC ‘clearly hurting’ with loss of at least 15% of its hotel rooms to migrant shelters, ballooning costs for tourists. nypost.com

Bluesky hits 40 million users, introduces ‘dislikes’ beta. techcrunch.com

Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: “SpaceX will be doing this.” arstechnica.com

ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago for Halloween—and Parents Are Fighting Back. newrepublic.com

In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy? nytimes.com

I just got word from Brent that the next release of NetNewsWire will have support for the source:markdown element.

This will help the transition to using Markdown as a fully-supported format for RSS. Right now NNW is the first mainstream product to support it.

This site has an RSS feed that contains source:markdown elements.

Every WordLand-written post has one of these feeds, so there is an official way to publish content that NNW will display via Markdown. daveverse.org

2022: Dev notes for Markdown in RSS. scripting.com

Trump’s Tony Soprano Presidency Is Bleeding the Country Dry. thenation.com

British newspaper spoke to the wrong Bill DeBlasio, not an ‘imposter.’ semafor.com

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship. 404media.co

Oklahoma Oil Regulators Failed to Stop Spread of Toxic Wastewater. propublica.org

Om: Why Tech Needs Personalization. om.co

My WordPress News page is faster and shows better on phones. And lots of new sources. feedland.org

Canada Needs a New Bestie. theatlantic.com

11 Delicious Food Blog Examples to Savor and Learn From. wordpress.com

The Hunger Games Begin. substack.com

Donald Trump’s Plan to Subvert the Midterms Is Already Under Way. theatlantic.com

Sorry TechCrunch there’s no new security risks in giving OpenAI or Perplexity the same access to our accounts that we already give Google. Someone ought to fact-check these articles at least at a basic level. techcrunch.com

On this day in 2019: ‘Lock Him Up’ is very American. scripting.com

Grokipedia article for Elon Musk. grokipedia.com

Rep. Stansbury: Families are about to lose their food assistance. youtube.com

Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-powered Wikipedia rival. wapo.st

Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO). youtube.com

I thought this piece would be yet another that says men are somehow inadequate, but it isn’t. theatlantic.com

Luxury Retirement Communities Are Embracing Private Clubs. nytimes.com

ICE’s Hiring Surge Is Already a Disaster. doomsdayscenario.co

US is ‘on a trajectory’ toward authoritarian rule, ex-officials warn. theguardian.com

What to know when your doctors get booted from your health insurance network. npr.org

Meet all 37 White House ballroom donors funding the $300 million build. fortune.com

How the Trump Administration Demolished the White House East Wing. bloomberg.com

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month. reuters.com

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions. arstechnica.com

A House of Dynamite deserves the stellar reviews it has been getting. metacritic.com

President Reagan’s Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987. youtube.com

The headline makes it sound like archive.org is falling apart, but the story says there are other explanations for what they’re seeing. niemanlab.org

An example of NYT self-parody. nytimes.com

Elon Musk Wants $1 Trillion to Build a “Robot Army” at Tesla. truthout.org

Quantifying LLMs’ sycophancy problem. arstechnica.com

Why Trump Tore Down the East Wing. newyorker.com

Trump Drives Canadians Away From Western New York. nytimes.com

The security risks with AI browser agents. techcrunch.com

The best response to voter suppression is massive voter turnout. substack.com

Ford’s anti-tariff ad to run during World Series games in Toronto. thehill.com

Americans brace for food stamps to run out: ‘The greatest hunger catastrophe since the Great Depression.’ theguardian.com

Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web. zeldman.com

Best Mattresses for Sex. wired.com

How did we get here? blogspot.com

Ontario premier says he’ll pull ad that upset Trump. apnews.com

White House Invades Bluesky to Troll, Predictably Gets Mass Blocked. gizmodo.com

Trump Isn’t Waiting For The Insurrection Act To Turn The Military On American Citizens. talkingpointsmemo.com

DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators. gizmodo.com

Scripting News: Think different about developers. scripting.com

Developers shouldn’t have to be data landlords. lmorchard.com

White House East Wing demolition almost complete, despite concern. npr.org

Why Democrats should commit—right now—to restoring the old East Wing of the White House. thebulwark.com

U.S. Details Gambling Cases Involving Pro Athletes and Mafia Families. nytimes.com

Claude introduces memory for teams at work. anthropic.com

Architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling. theguardian.com

WordCamp Canada 2025 Fosters Connections Between Generations of WordPress Users. therepository.email

The only check-and-balance that actually matters. doomsdayscenario.co

Someone please write a rebuttal to this Anil Dash piece. ChatGPT is a software breakthrough, like VisiCalc, Wikipedia, or the web. If their browser sucks (sounds like it does, but why no screen shots) don’t use it. That’s the rational response imho. anildash.com

Devin Walker Joins Automattic as Artistic Director for Jetpack. therepository.email

JD Vance’s Supreme Court Plot. I’ve been listening to the Lever podcast. This episode was the most eye-opening. levernews.com

Trump Administration’s Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks. techpolicy.press

Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion so he can control a robot army. electrek.co

$24B in clean energy projects scrapped under Trump. electrek.co

OpenAI’s Atlas is more about ChatGPT than the web. techcrunch.com

Amazon will buy thousands of pedal-assist cargo vehicles from Rivian spinoff Also. techcrunch.com

A Cuban man deported by the U.S. to Africa is on a hunger strike in prison, his lawyer says. pbs.org

Karoline Leavitt Claims People Want Trump to Destroy White House. I’m right there with her. It’s just a building. We’re going to need a new White House when Trump is through with it. newrepublic.com

Why Carnegie’s Libraries Are Getting $10,000 Checks. nytimes.com

Majority of Americans Think Trump Is a Dictator. politicalwire.com

Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost? talkingpointsmemo.com

Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds. npr.org

Part of the White House East Wing is being torn down to build Trump’s ballroom. npr.org

OpenAI looks for its “Google Chrome” moment with new Atlas web browser. arstechnica.com

Trump Said to Demand Justice Dept. Pay Him $230 Million for Past Cases. nytimes.com

Gotosocial is a great idea, but can’t it be simpler to set up a server? If not, let’s look at creating a higher level interface that can then be bridged to ActivityPub. gotosocial.org

It wasn’t space debris that struck a United Airlines plane—it was a weather balloon. arstechnica.com

Ontario launches $75 million ad campaign using the words of Ronald Reagan to argue against tariffs. youtube.com

WordPress Podcasts. wppodcasts.com

Why Tumblr’s costly technical debt derailed migration. findarticles.com

Speaker Johnson continues to resist swearing in Democratic Rep.-elect Grijalva. go.com

How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force. propublica.org

Bari Weiss wastes no time wrecking CBS News. dailykos.com

Non-Violent Resistance During the American Revolution. newyorkalmanack.com

Why Do People Like 37signals? hey.com

Why frogs, chickens and T-Rexes are taking over anti-Trump protests. washingtonpost.com

‘Failures and Grift’: Gina Hinojosa Wants to Stop Greg Abbott from Making History. texasobserver.org

Marjorie Taylor Greene keeps breaking with Republicans. What’s going on? slate.com

Benioff Apologizes for Saying Trump Should Send Troops to San Francisco. nytimes.com

Evan Prodromou: “How important is WordPress to the future of the Fediverse?“ mastodon.social

Trump’s Secret Police Shot a Citizen. Then Damning New Info Emerged. newrepublic.com

Three Reasons I Still Have Hope for America. doomsdayscenario.co

There is no budget “deal” to be made. doomsdayscenario.co

What is an American? Are they Christian? Are they white? missouriindependent.com

Rules for standards-makers. this.how

VC legend Ron Conway quits Salesforce Foundation after Benioff’s National Guard comments. techcrunch.com

John Bolton indicted, latest Trump foe to face charges. wapo.st

Trump-appointed Fed official uncorks stunning admission on president’s economy. rawstory.com

How Russell Vought Broke the U.S. Government. Totally worth a listen. Also totally depressing. apple.com

My theory is that we had..

An indisputable definition of audio. (MP3.)
A really simple format for programming. (RSS.)
And a popular mobile device for listening. (iPod.)

A million flowers bloomed. (Podcast clients.)

Impossible to siloize. (They tried.) daveverse.org

OpenAI has five years to turn $13 billion into $1 trillion. techcrunch.com

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back. nytimes.com

OpenAI will allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content. theguardian.com

‘No Kings’ Has Republicans in Disarray. thebulwark.com

Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop. arstechnica.com

Attard and McHugh on podcasting’s democratic dream. mediaweek.com.au

GoFundMe CEO says economy is so challenged people are raising money to buy food. yahoo.com

Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings. lawdork.com

I finally figured out how to make presentations full screen on the Mac.

I’m using Chrome to display the presentation.

In Chrome’s View menu turn off the first three options.
Choose Enter full screen.
Voila — full screen!
Whew. daveverse.org

Obama Slams Trump For Sending National Guard to Chicago. mediaite.com

Toyota’s best-selling car may finally go electric. electrek.co

Evan Prodromou is talking about long-form text in the social web in Ottawa on Friday. The very important role WordPress is playing to pull the twitter-like world into the actual web instead of their limited idea of the web. Sounds like harmony to me. 😉 wordcamp.org

Amazon.com: inflatable costumes. amazon.com

7 Best Small Towns in the Catskills. travelandleisure.com

The Evolution of Cinema: Watch Nearly 140 Years of Film History Unfold in 80 Minutes. openculture.com

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to first major tipping point. grist.org

People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads. arstechnica.com

When Anti-antifa means Pro-Nazi. substack.com

A Foreign-Film Starter Pack. theatlantic.com

Why America Builds AI Girlfriends and China Makes AI Boyfriends. chinatalk.media

Diane Keaton: Career in Photos. variety.com

Diane Keaton Dies at 79. yahoo.com

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a ‘war zone.’ nbcnews.com

In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings — and for being skeptical. kansasreflector.com

Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It. newrepublic.com

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send National Guard to San Francisco. nytimes.com

Download Great Books for Free. openculture.com

Stephen Miller Has ‘Central Role’ Probing Liberal Groups. talkingpointsmemo.com

The RSS feed reader landscape. ycombinator.com

It’s apple season at Adams in Kingston. daveverse.org

Venezuela’s opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize. reuters.com

Stitt Becomes First Republican Governor to Break With Trump on National Guard Deployments. oklahomawatch.org

Trump Has His Eyes on a Nobel Peace Prize. Will He Get It? nytimes.com

‘I Got a Lot of People Believing in Me’: Robert Roberson Stares Down Death, Again. texasobserver.org

Even though Schumer is a “human flat tire” he’s right that the Dems have momentum. The message seems to be getting through that health care for Americans is what they’re voting on now. The Dems support the people, the Repubs Don’t see why they should care. punchbowl.news

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport. theguardian.com

What in the World is a Wapuu? wordcamp.org

A House of Dynamite sounds like a movie I’d enjoy. Like Fail Safe or Dr Strangelove. metacritic.com

Micropub could have been done as an improvement to the Metaweblog API. That’s how I would have done it. Interop is not just the most important reason we do this stuff, it’s really the only reason. w3.org

Doc Searls: Why I am Here Instead of on Substack. I wanted to use Substack to send out my nightly emails, but found I’d have to type the text I wanted to send into their editor. I’m not a professional typist. So I created my own mail sending software. searls.com

“If you offer users a way to write, but you don’t provide for linking, then you are not on the web.” openchannels.fm

Yankees stunned as championship aspirations are dashed in ALDS. espn.com

Wonder how the troops from Texas will enjoy a Chicago winter. 😵‍💫 weather.gov

Trump calls for jailing Democratic leaders as troops prepare for Chicago deployment. reuters.com

The Kia PV5 May Be The Go-To Bargain Electric Van. I recently test drove the VW Buzz, and like everyone else, I fell in love. And now I hear that there may be something even more fun. I’ve always liked Kia’s. insideevs.com

Here are the 2025 MacArthur fellows. npr.org

Jay Rosen explains his new job, as I understand it, helping non-journalists who are providing news, to do news well. newscreatorcorps.org

Most Americans don’t want troops deployed without an external threat. reuters.com

JD Vance‘s Favorite Blogger Plans Escape from USA. theframelab.org

Timothy Snyder: Stalinism and Stephen Miller. substack.com

Politicians Defiant as Troops Gather Outside Chicago. politicalwire.com

Trump’s Education Department Is Working to Erode the Public School System. propublica.org

Myanmar’s children suffer as US aid cuts take hold. apnews.com

Trump homeless crackdown: How Washington’s homeless are faring two months later. slate.com

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97. nytimes.com

Jimmy Fallon wants to turn Wordle into a TV show. theverge.com

Furloughed government workers may not be entitled to back pay, reports say, as Trump claims some jobs ‘will never come back.’ Hmm. I can’t imagine the unpaid workers feel too good about this. theguardian.com

Have I ever told you how delicious pistachios are? wikipedia.org

There is no budget “deal” to be made. doomsdayscenario.co

At the center of shutdown fight, health care is one of the most intractable (also consequential) issues in Congress. pbs.org

Mastodon supports lists. It’s a good feature for helping people get started. techcrunch.com

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America. theguardian.com

Trump’s use of Guard may have lasting impact on cities and troops. wapo.st

Fascinating post by Jason Shellen. I didn’t know that Google Reader was behind Atom. They should’ve worked with us. Guess they thought independent developers weren’t worth it. I’ve seen this pattern repeat in tech many times. Only way we win is by working together.. shellen.com

The Trump Admin’s Mostly Unnoticed Move to Crack Down on the Opposition. talkingpointsmemo.com

Top prosecutor refusing to charge New York AG despite Trump pressure. msnbc.com

Donald Trump feared this day would come. substack.com

Chicago Tells Of Escalating State Violence, Including A Killing, As It Challenges National Guard Occupation. talkingpointsmemo.com

Kia’s smallest EV is full of big surprises. electrek.co

The Supreme Court v. Democracy. thenation.com

Lots of new posts on WordPress News about WordPress of course. 😉 feedland.org

Unmasking “Rex Feral,” Author of the Infamous Hit Man Manual. archive.ph

Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke. theatlantic.com

Are You a True New Yorker? Take Our Quiz. (I have not taken the quiz yet myself.) nytimes.com

Bari Weiss is taking over CBS News as editor in chief — and its newsroom is very worried. slate.com

The electric Bronco is real, and it might be Ford’s coolest EV yet. (Only available in China.) electrek.co

1995: Demoing Software for Fun & Profit. scripting.com

Ridley Scott Says Hollywood Is “Drowning In Mediocrity.” Totally agree. deadline.com

Trump to the Navy: “We have to take care of this little gnat that’s on our shoulder called the Democrats.” x.com

There’s a Path Out of This Divide. nytimes.com

White House Slams ‘SNL’ After Cold Open Targets Trump and Brendan Carr. variety.com

A podcast I did recently about the work I’m doing to create a social network for writers that’s built out of the web, with all parts replaceable. WordPress had some surprising well-hidden power. I hope people listen, esp people in the WordPress community. wptavern.com

Trump sends California troops to Oregon, defying court order. sacbee.com

SNL roasts Trump in season premiere, as Bad Bunny addresses Super Bowl criticism. npr.org

Who Is Donald Trump Responsible To? nytimes.com

Eventually You’re Going to Have to Stand for Something. the-reframe.com

“The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night. niemanlab.org

2024: Making the social web really work. scripting.com

Brent Simmons: Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App. inessential.com

Tested: 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz Is the Bee’s Knees. I tried one today and loved it. caranddriver.com

Should tech run the world? scripting.com

Why experts say Trump is unlikely to win the Nobel Peace Prize this year. pbs.org

The great thing about the web is that it’s already federated. Nothing to wait for. scripting.com

OR National Guard: ‘Emergency’ naked bike ride planned for troop deployment. Get your asses out there! 🙂 koin.com

With no guidelines yet from CDC, getting a COVID shot remains confusing. npr.org

March 2025: The writer’s web. scripting.com

Ted Ritzer speaks up for WordLand. It’s real software, and the first step in a bootstrap. Much appreciated. 😀 tedritzerblog.com

Apple removes ICE tracking app after pressure from Bondi DOJ. foxbusiness.com

Substack Did Not See That Coming. anamariecox.com

The speech wars come for Wikipedia. politico.com

Are You On The FBI’s New Watch List? apple.com

Ever the evangelist, I suggested that Matt’s new investment, Beeper, support RSS in addition to all the other protocols they support. That way you could get a message out on the IM network by posting it to a WordPress site. ma.tt

“If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency.” substack.com

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: ‘I feel defeated.’ suntimes.com

If you only had a year left to live, would you still save your money? washingtonpost.com

“What are the next steps for bringing long-form content into the fediverse?” — that’s the main thing they should be talking about in the “open social web.” That is, if it really is the web. fediforum.org

The David Frum Show: The Rise of Technofascists. theatlantic.com

Committee for the First Amendment is relaunching. It was founded in the McCarthy Era to protect free speech from the government. committeeforthefirstamendment.com

We like Twitter. So blogging must be dead. wordcamp.org

Guy Kawasaki: The difference between iteration and true innovation. substack.com

I did one of the first digital camera selfies back in 2003 or so. scripting.com

Trump Has No Mandate to Destroy America. nytimes.com

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day. 404media.co

John Palfrey: Listen carefully to what Administration says. wordpress.com

Wikipedia is pretty awful, but Elon Musk is going to make a better one? gizmodo.com

The New York Times is looking for generals and admirals who are quitting the military following an address from the defense secretary. nytimes.com

Could we make something good from social media? daveverse.org

Matt Mullenweg on Om Malik’s 59th birthday. I’m longtime friends with Om too. ma.tt

Kia’s electric van makes for a high-end people mover at resorts. electrek.co

The Energy Dept. just banned the words ‘climate change.’ electrek.co

John Palfrey: Will the legal profession stand up? daveverse.org

RSS is permanent. daveverse.org

Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 3: Integration). Love this piece. climbtothestars.org

Let’s start a tech Hall of Fame, for gifts whose value is appreciated more over time, and start with the World Wide Web as one of the first inductees. theguardian.com

Yes, an EV really CAN power your home. electrek.co

Xi Is Chasing a Huge Concession From Trump: Opposing Taiwan Independence. wsj.com

“It’s not just enough to speak up for one platform, anything that can’t be owned should be connected and tested with everything else that can’t be owned.” daveverse.org

Why LA Comic Con thought making an AI-powered Stan Lee hologram was a good idea. arstechnica.com

Ice detains superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district. theguardian.com

Sinclair gets nothing it asked for, puts Jimmy Kimmel back on anyway. arstechnica.com

Comey says he’s ‘standing up to Donald Trump,’ while Trump calls for more retribution. kansasreflector.com

Nick Hamze’s ‘Cool Kids’ Post Kicks Off Fresh Debate on WordPress’s Image Problem. therepository.email

Could we make something good from social media? daveverse.org

Our power comes from working together. daveverse.org

To start to get out of the hole we’re in first we have to get rid of the idea that the super wealthy are better or smarter than people with a normal amount of money. daveverse.org

World Leader Compares Trump to Hitler in Front of Entire U.N. “The U.S. mainstream media, for its part, has largely ignored his comments.” newrepublic.com

Introducing ChatGPT Pulse. openai.com

ChatGPT Pulse delivers morning updates based on your chat history. arstechnica.com

Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals. wapo.st

Apple Is the New Disney. telos.news

The next version of WordLand integrates the timeline and the editor. I finally have that integration more or less debugged. Just some development notes. daveverse.org

The Alien: Earth series is complete, ready for a binge. salon.com

The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers. wired.com

Kansas high schoolers sue after AI tool flags student’s artwork as porn. wapo.st

Billions in Taxpayer Dollars Have Become Virtually Untraceable. notus.org

The story of Rip Van Winkle as a free audiobook, thanks to archive.org. archive.org

Zoox asks federal regulators for exemption to launch a commercial robotaxi service. techcrunch.com

Jimmy Kimmel’s return is a win for the resistance. headsupnews.org

Stand Together for higher ed. standtogetherhighered.org

UN blames Trump’s team for nonworking escalator and teleprompter. apnews.com

The web has been asleep for 19 years, which is almost as long as Rip Van WInkle was. wikipedia.org

Meta appoints extremist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor. advocate.com

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands placed on National Mall. wapo.st

Jimmy Kimmel opening monologue last night. youtube.com

Some random ideas about what the web is that I’ve been jotting down to share on Daveverse, my home on Mastodon and WordPress. daveverse.org

Mets’ Pete Alonso: A Player Defined By Power And Character. humatl.com

Sinclair will continue to keep it off its ABC stations. Perhaps ABC could stream it live on Hulu for the viewers who aren’t getting Kimmel via Sinclair. Esp tonight everyone is going to want to see the show. cnn.com

Om reviews the iPhone air. “It ranks as one of the most beautiful objects—not just phones—that I have ever held.” om.co

The 21 grams experiment that tried to weigh a human soul. popsci.com

Trump uses Kirk’s death to silence critics—and voters aren’t pleased. He blew his wad too soon. He probably isn’t a good poker player either. dailykos.com

WordCamp Canada: The blog is the message. wordcamp.org

Why WordPress Lost the Cool Kids (And How to Win Them Back). iconick.io

Czech president: NATO must respond militarily to Russian violations. com.ua

Trump Might Be Losing His Race Against Time. theatlantic.com

This is the ad the Dems are too chickenshit to run. youtube.com

To which Trump would likely say “bipartisan? What dat?” nytimes.com

Why Trump’s attacks on the Fed’s independence are so dangerous. theguardian.com

Meta exposé author faces bankruptcy after ban on criticising company. theguardian.com

Trump had a huge brain fart. He shouldn’t have posted that private message to Pam Bondi in public the way he did. Ooops. politico.com

Controversial ICE commercial aims to lure peeved Chicago police. They ran the same commercial in NY. nbcchicago.com

This is what a WordLand feed looks like. Pretty straight RSS 2.0 feed with a few additions. Includes WordPress site and post id’s and markdown text for each item. Also it’s possible to use this feed for linkblog entries. scripting.com

The MAGA Movement Is Not a Debating Society. nytimes.com

Border czar Tom Homan was investigated by DOJ for potential bribery. politico.com

Trump Says Critical Coverage of Him Is ‘Really Illegal.’ nytimes.com

Hollywood stars — including those with Disney, ABC, Hulu and Marvel Cinematic Universe credits — are continuing to show their support for the ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ host in the wake of his suspension. hollywoodreporter.com

After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC’s The View. arstechnica.com

ChatGPT and Gemini both agreed it was likely that I had a bad form of cancer. daveverse.org

Josh Marshall writes about the monsters running things, and he’s right, but one thing journalists will never report on is that if the tech gods are monsters, so are journalists. They made the monsters through ignorance, being lazy, or greed. They own this disaster. talkingpointsmemo.com

Larry Ellison Is Closing In on CNN, HBO and TikTok. nytimes.com

Pete Hegseth’s JAG purge undermines rule of law in the military. wapo.st

This engine has no horses. lmorchard.com

Russian warplanes breach NATO airspace in ‘dangerous provocation’ over Estonia. politico.eu

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel. yahoo.com

Friends don’t let friends visit America. substack.com

Soros Gives $10 Million to Newsom Redistricting Fight. nytimes.com

Democrats, stop being such pussies, vote no, and move on. Some things really are that simple. axios.com

Netflix would be an obvious place for the late night entertainment comedians to relocate to. politico.com

Trump asks Supreme Court for emergency order to remove Fed Gov. Cook. apnews.com

Garry Kasparov: I Saw How Russia Killed Media Freedom. thenextmove.org

Where Charlie Kirk Stood on Key Political Issues. nytimes.com

Meet all 33 Silicon Valley power players at Trump’s high-profile tech dinner—and here’s Elon Musk’s explanation for why he wasn’t there. fortune.com

Ezra Klein Accidentally Shows How the Media Brought Us Trump. arcdigital.media

Jeffrey Epstein, John Brockman, and the Third Culture. america2.news

Melissa Hortman, speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, was assassinated by a Trump acolyte in June of this year. Along with her husband and dog. No tears from Pam Bondi or threats of retribution from the president. wikipedia.org

Sotomayor rebukes calls to ‘criminalize free speech’ in apparent swipe at Pam Bondi. politico.com

Kia’s new PV5 electric van enters the taxi game. electrek.co

Trump is ushering in a new era of government censorship. wapo.st

The Case Against Ayman Soliman Could Fuel Trump Immigration Crackdown. propublica.org

Gazelle launches new comfort-focused e-bikes in the US & Canada. electrek.co

Robert Redford, movie star and Sundance founder, dies at 89. yahoo.com

ChatGPT mostly used for help with writing, research. theregister.com

BTW we now have a blogroll on my WordPress blog (which I am loving writing to, it’s got a different feel). It just snuck up on me, I wasn’t expecting it and first impression — it looks great. Slowly we’re getting it together. 🙂 daveverse.org

Imperial tyranny, Korean humiliation. co.kr

Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests. exchangepoint.tech

Google has a point with the summaries. The most highly rated search results often seem to never get around to answering the question, so maybe they brought about their own demise. theverge.com

I tried watching The Pitt, but I have a phobia to watching surgery where you have to look inside people’s bodies. I try to avert my eyes, but it doesn’t work. I hear it’s a great show. wikipedia.org

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape. github.io

White House Insists Stephen Miller Does Not Play with Dolls. thedailybeast.com

NY Governor Hochul Endorses Mamdani for Mayor of New York. nytimes.com

The Bloggers of Mastodon. daveverse.org

Paramount Skydance Prepares Ellison-Backed Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. wsj.com

So much for the enlightened philosophy of the Utah Governor. nytimes.com

Secret Service agent put on leave for anti-Charlie Kirk Facebook post. usatoday.com

How the Trump Administration Is Dismantling America’s Cancer-Research System. nytimes.com

Learning WordPress All Over Again. andyrush.net

Italian song ‘Bella Ciao’ lyrics implicated in Charlie Kirk’s killing. npr.org

New Bill Would Allow Rubio to Strip US Citizens’ Passports Over Political Speech. truthout.org

I had something go semi viral on Threads. threads.com

Trump loves AI, and the MAGA world is getting worried. politico.com

The million dollar mystery behind Milk.com. wnyc.org

Hope I don’t get fired for saying Stephen Miller is an asshole. motherjones.com

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning. thenation.com

Why WordPress Core needs more blocks. gutenbergtimes.com

Apple’s Assault on Standards. infrequently.org

I woke up at 4am today, feeling pretty hopeless and tired of fighting for open networks on my own, never getting the help we need from people who can and should help. daveverse.org

Woodside estate is Bay Area’s biggest sale in a decade. sfstandard.com

‘Never Again’ at the Texas Border. texasobserver.org

I’m really enjoying Cardinal, a crime thriller drama on Hulu. First season was great, getting started on the second season. metacritic.com

How to Canonize a White Supremacist. thenation.com

Pretty soon we’re going to wish we had a simple way to set up ad hoc networks of people that are not subject to being turned off by people who eat dinner with the president. 404media.co

Mastodon rolls out quote posts with protections to prevent ‘dunking.’ techcrunch.com

Appeals court judges publicly admonish Supreme Court justices: ‘We’re out here flailing.’ politico.com

Hyundai is now delaying its EV battery plant that was raided by ICE. electrek.co

Albania puts AI-created ‘minister’ in charge of public procurement. theguardian.com

Bolsonaro found guilty in attempted coup, assassination plot. wapo.st

Scripting News: 9/11/2001. scripting.com

This is a clever app. It combines many RSS feeds into one feed. It’s like OPML reading lists in a very low-tech form. Hmmm. Have to think about this. buttondown.com

The best story I’ve read about why RSS prevailed, by Ryan Farley. Bravo! 🙂 buttondown.com

Epstein’s Inbox: A Trove of Emails Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s Secrets. bloomberg.com

Tim Berners-Lee: What happened to the internet surprised me. But we can fix it. thetimes.com

Harris goes there on the Biden question — and Biden world isn’t having it. politico.com

A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story. theatlantic.com

Thom Tillis Says He Doesn’t Want a White House Crackdown on Charlotte. notus.org

This is why we probably shouldn’t hold any conferences for open tech in the US for a while. variety.com

The story of how RSS beat Microsoft. We weren’t trying to beat anyone, we just wanted to make a level playing field where bloggers and news orgs could coexist on the web. buttondown.com

Stephanie Booth’s first post about rebooting the blogosphere. climbtothestars.org

How someone becomes a torturer. theconversation.com

Your WordPress as Your Personal Mastodon Instance. This is what I’m talking about. Removing disconnects. Rebuilding the web. Right on. kirk.at

I use ChatGPT in this mode all the time. I recently learned about CSS Grid and at the same time had it explained to me why CSS is such a sucky way to design apps to run on computers. Spoiler alert: It was designed to format documents. techcrunch.com

This criticism of ChatGPT is right on. It must act like a computer and only answer the questions it’s asked, stop trying to lead. Its questions always take you in the wrong direction. Always. Took me a long time to figure this out. mastodon.social

Suzanne Aldrich explains passionately why the social media apps should meet bloggers where they live and support inbound RSS already. The good news is that Evan Prodromou agrees. (As do I of course.) mastodon.social

The Gaza family torn apart by IDF snipers from Chicago and Munich. theguardian.com

Inside DOGE’s Takeover of the Social Security Administration. propublica.org

This is where you go if you want to install a blogroll like mine in a WordPress blog. It’s like a tiny FeedLand in the place a blogroll goes. It has stood the test of time, I use the one on my blog all the time. github.com

U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections. nytimes.com

In the early 90s a technological asteroid hit the software world called the web and wiped out all the GUI apps scripting.com

Scripting News: Bullet points from yesterday’s podcast. scripting.com

B-52s Singer Kate Pierson Lists Woodstock Retreat for $750,000. robbreport.com

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

DJI’s Chinese Drones Face U.S. Ban nytimes.com

Trump Is a Weak and Failing President, and It’s Time to Say So. newrepublic.com

Ezra Klein is a putz. He’s the one who wouldn’t shut up about Biden. Not interested in what he thinks we must do. nytimes.com

Stablecoins may be next battleground in US-China rivalry. semafor.com

GM slows EV production as tax credit nears expiration. theverge.com

If I wrote something on Masto and want to link to it from a blog post, what’s the URL that works for everyone? Does the link in this post work for you? mastodon.social

Thousands protest in Chicago against ICE and Trump’s National Guard plan. apnews.com

Washington, DC, residents protest against Trump’s troop deployment to the city. reuters.com

Davey Johnson, 1986 Mets manager and 4-time All-Star, dies at 82. apnews.com

I don’t update blog posts after the day they’re published. I have a special site, https://this.how/, for stuff I will update. bix.blog

Sorry, Trump: Chicago Is Not The ‘Murder Capital Of The World’ — Not Even Close, Data Shows blockclubchicago.org

GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two NASA climate satellites. arstechnica.com

Jury trials, a critical part of democracy, are disappearing. theconversation.com

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action. (I wonder what share of this bloggers get?) reuters.com

I found the “lonely blog” via my blogroll, which is built on RSS, of course. manuelmoreale.com

Kennedy family members call for RFK Jr. to resign from HHS. statnews.com

Donald Trump Is Tanking America’s Labor Market. rollingstone.com

Nate Silver thinks Bluesky is a loser. natesilver.net

Hyundai’s new EV plant was just raided by ICE, ‘hundreds’ arrested. electrek.co

Why everyone is quitting social media. substack.com

Healthcare worker shares 5 “insider tips” for advocating for yourself at the doctor. dailydot.com

Trump presses tech CEOs on American manufacturing investments at WH event. thehill.com

The best Trump/Gavin meme I’ve seen so far. bsky.app

Manton: OpenAI’s Codex continues to amaze me. manton.org

Honda set to unveil full size electric motorcycle with fast charging. Good idea. EVs have a rep of being anemic, but actually they can be muscle cars with incredible acceleration and handling. electrek.co

Make McCarthy Great Again. (Laura Loomer) theatlantic.com

I’m from this area in Queens, Flushing, Whitestone, Bayside. They were sleepy little places then but now have become interesting. Trump says NYC is a mess, but it’s not. Trump is from the Archie Bunker generation. Very dated from a Queens perspective. qns.com

Trump will host top tech CEOs except Musk at a White House dinner. pbs.org

I can’t imagine anyone gives a fuck what chief justice John Roberts thinks about anything. politico.com

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you. theconversation.com

Utah’s congressional maps must be redrawn right away, judge rules. pbs.org

Microsoft releases 6502 BASIC as open source. microsoft.com

Where did all the WordPress editors go? herve.bzh

Pharmacists decry COVID Vaccine Delay. spectrumlocalnews.com

Trump says he’s set to order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore. apnews.com

It’s time for Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries to step down. theguardian.com

Trump’s Most Fateful Teardown Is Happening Now. nytimes.com

Homophobe Rand Paul slams gay health expert Daskalakis. advocate.com

Google Won’t Have To Sell Chrome Browser, Judge Rules In Antirust Case. deadline.com

Life Sentences Inside America’s Prisons. prisonjournalismproject.org

Trump Makes a Mess on Purpose. theatlantic.com

Starting a new week, and a new season.

Summer is behind us. Meetings are piling up in my calendar like this is business season.

I have doctors appointments coming up, follow-ups, check-ups.

And I’m continuing to introduce myself in WordPress-land, and discovering new things I hadn’t considered before.

I’m glad to be able to write a test post here now. wapo.st

HTMHell Advent Calendar. google.com

This ought to be a clear message to American soldiers, American cities don’t want to be occupied by the American military. Respect the Constitution and refuse illegal orders. reuters.com

AI is unmasking ICE officers. politico.com

In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty. theguardian.com

Did the White House Not Understand What Putin Was Really Offering? theatlantic.com

The Pentagon is planning an invasion of AMERICAN cities. Two immediate reactions. 1. Cowards. 2. Traitors. We should start our deportations there, send the people planning this outrage to Uganda or El Salvador. washingtonpost.com

China’s huge navy is expanding at breakneck speed – will it rule the waves? bbc.com

Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized after crash. reuters.com

Judge blocks flights sending hundreds of children to Guatemala. politico.com

On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance. thenation.com

Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military. thebulwark.com

Why N.Y. Legal Weed Might Not Be as Safe, or as Strong, as Advertised. nytimes.com

RFK Jr. DNR’d the US Healthcare System. emptywheel.net

Jeremy Lin announces retirement, more than a decade after ‘Linsanity’ captivated the NBA. yahoo.com

A zoomable archive of Byte Magazine. An amazing historic record. Searchable. Every page shown exactly as it was in the printed magazine. tsundoku.io

It’s time for Masto to officially support more of the web. Unofficially it already does! Marketing. Raise the bar. Show why Masto is so much better than the competition. Let’s go. mastodon.social

Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human. vivaldi.com

A CLI tool for managing RSSfeeds with SQLite storage and static website generation. github.com

On the flight from Atlanta to post-Katrina New Orleans, a 50-minute podcast with Janet, a woman who lost her house and all her possessions in the Lakeview section of New Orleans. podcatch.com

ICE recruiting site. ice.gov

Climate.gov, which went dark this summer, to be revived by volunteers as climate.us with expanded mission. theguardian.com

Exactly 50 years ago: The first issue of BYTE, the dawn of a revolution: “Computers — the World’s Greatest Toy!” mastodon.social

How Gavin Newsom made Mike Johnson look (and sound) like a (wimpy) Democrat editorialboard.com

I want you to see WordPress as comparable to Bluesky or Mastodon. scripting.com

People say Paul McCartney’s “silly love songs” like this one are not good. They don’t realize how nice they are to sing along with. They should stop being so crabby, just enjoy! youtube.com

Scripting News: Proposal for a political sci fi sitcom. scripting.com

I like what Vivaldi says about the web. It makes me want to do more to re-stock the web with interesting, inspiring HUMAN ideas. Maybe we could make our blogging software work better with their browser. All for the web, for humanity. mastodon.social

Trust in elections rises after ‘inoculations’ meant to preempt false fraud claims. science.org

Vivaldi Browser Doubles Down On Gen AI Ban. slashdot.org

Brent who worked at UserLand where we developed Frontier explains why it was so much faster for app developers than anything we’re using now. It’s why I want a Linux version so the work we did then can live and be built on. inessential.com

After Paris curbed cars, air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. wapo.st

Mastodon says it doesn’t ‘have the means’ to comply with age verification laws. techcrunch.com

Yesterday I decided it was time to say what I’m doing for the web with WordPress. No more character limits, you can add a link where one belongs, simple styling, editing, and more. scripting.com

They just played this New Orleans song on the BBC. Hadn’t heard in many years. youtube.com

The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, ‘ground zero’ for Hurricane Katrina. mprnews.org

Trump and His Officials Target Fed and CDC, Long Seen as Above Politics. nytimes.com

The bigger story behind the mass exodus of CDC leadership. vox.com

CVS Holds Off on Offering Covid Vaccines in 16 States. nytimes.com

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds. theguardian.com

U.S. shoppers’ orders canceled as world shuts down some American-bound shipments. nbcnews.com

“It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area.” seattletimes.com

Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center. nbcnews.com

Anthropic will start training its AI models on chat transcripts. I kind of assumed they already were. But now that they bring it up, maybe they should be paying us instead of us paying them. theverge.com

The Innocent and the Executed: James Beathard’s Long-Forgotten Story. texasobserver.org

The Basics of Anchor Positioning (in CSS). ishadeed.com

GM announces new NACS and CCS1 adapters, coming next week. arstechnica.com

23 books that shaped you in high school. npr.org

Trump Is Building His Own Paramilitary Force. nytimes.com

CDC director being ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation. She aligned with evidence-based public health community and had support of experts. arstechnica.com

Typepad Shutdown Announcement. blogs.com

Siskel & Ebert’s Enthusiastic Review for Fargo (1996). youtube.com

Scripting News: Plot for a political sci fi movie. scripting.com

A collaborative effort, spread over a bunch of social media sites, to try to say what the web is, in 2025. this.how

TBL’s original proposal for the web from 1989. w3.org

The death of the review? Cultural criticism is at risk of erasure. theguardian.com

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement is the Super Bowl of celebrity news. poynter.org

FEMA employees put on leave after open letter criticizing Trump administration. wapo.st

Apps like Waze are being used to covertly warn immigrants about ICE activity: “Icy roads.” boingboing.net

Back when Americans were cheeky. 😀 youtube.com

Long COVID is more than fatigue. Our new study suggests its impact is similar to a stroke or Parkinson’s. theconversation.com

Gates Foundation Quietly Cuts Ties With Firm Linked to Democrats. nytimes.com

The fight for the Fed reaches its decisive moment. reuters.com

ChatGPT helped teen plan suicide after safeguards failed. (That’s because ChatGPT doesn’t have a mind and can’t think and has no awareness of what anything means, because to understand meaning you must have a mind.) arstechnica.com

A Venezuelan Was Detained as a ‘Documented’ Gang Member by ICE, Which Refused to Provide Proof. texasobserver.org

This was the first guardrail that failed. Trump, who most definitely tried an insurrection, was allowed to run for President, which is clearly prohibited by the 14th Amendment. It was a unanimous decision btw. wikipedia.org

Trump’s Attempt to Fire the Fed’s Lisa Cook Risks Global Economic Stability. nytimes.com

Jeff McNeil reminds me a little of the great Hunter Pence from the SF Giants. Two very clutch players who are very simply into the game. cbssports.com

The consensus from yesterday’s query: Something is on the web if it has a URL you can access in a web browser. this.how

We have become an authoritarian state, and our top newsrooms are in denial. presswatchers.org

America Tips Into Fascism. doomsdayscenario.co

Judge rules against Republican-controlled body over Utah district map. apnews.com

It’s a good time to re-watch Mr. Robot. metacritic.com

You should be reading Heather Cox Richardson every night. Remarkable how one person can do so much for us and our country. substack.com

Maybe Pritzger should challenge Trump to a wrestling match. Who’s more macho? nytimes.com

I’m working my way through Mr Robot and spotted a connection with Severance. #spoiler reddit.com

“Across June–August 2025, a sharp uptick in account suspensions and deletions rolled through Instagram, Facebook and related services.” medium.com

Why Newsom’s schtick works so well. daveverse.org

There was a time when Tesla was so much in-demand they could afford to refuse to sell a Model X to Stewart Alsop who was a pretty famous tech pundit. theverge.com

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art. npr.org

America is in an identity crisis, becoming morally and ethically bankrupt. missouriindependent.com

Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet. simonwillison.net

Trump’s Stunning Power Grab on Elections. nytimes.com

FDA approves new HIV drug offering 100% protection. newatlas.com

Any product with a timeline should support inbound RSS. scripting.com

You can say a lot of things about the Trump White House, but they do have an RSS feed. feedland.social

An article on whitehouse.gov (without an author) presents Trump’s case re the Smithsonian. whitehouse.gov

Hundreds of Mamdani Scavenger Hunt enthusiasts compete for ‘not cash’ prize. yahoo.com

National Guard troops in D.C. to begin carrying firearms. nbcnews.com

Texas’ Tarrant County Cuts Over 100 Polling Sites, Reduces Early Voting Locations. propublica.org

Silicon Valley is full of (hugely) wealthy men who think they’re victims, says Nick Clegg. theguardian.com

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event. theatlantic.com

As it turns out, the people who pioneered the slogan “Fuck your feelings” are impossibly delicate souls. theatlantic.com

Justice Dept. Sent Congress Epstein Files That Were Already Public, Democrats Say. (And what does the New York Times say?) nytimes.com

Stringer noted that real officers do not wear ski masks. khou.com

Blue states are essentially paying red states to undermine democracy. substack.com

Meta Strikes $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google to Boost AI Capacity. techrepublic.com

Lots of info in this podcast episode about how ICE is funded and what their focus on. apple.com

An Operating System for the Web. #wordpress poststatus.com

NFL teams to again stencil social justice messages in end zones. espn.com

The emphasis is on all things “anti-aging,” she says — not the realities of getting older. npr.org

Ghislaine Maxwell, who wants a pardon, says she never saw Donald Trump ‘in any inappropriate setting.’ politico.com

We started with a network of writers, and ended up with business models of oligarchs. oursocialweb.org

Tariffs and mass deportations are both stagflationary: They increase inflation while depressing growth. substack.com

John Roberts and the death of rule of law in America. theguardian.com

Reading a Wired account of learning to program with a LLM was the same old bullshit about developers. We are not trivial people. We’re working realllly hard, for you. We should all be working together. daveverse.org

Zelenskyy says he wants to see an agreement on security guarantees before meeting Vladimir Putin. (Clever, so he’ll be negotiating for NATO too.) theguardian.com

Former national guard vice chief calls deployment into D.C. an ‘intimidation’ tactic. npr.org

Ukrainian sabotage groups operating behind Russian lines. counteroffensive.news

Are newsletters the new academic social media? ac.uk

Volkswagen secures $35 million to build its most affordable EV yet. electrek.co

The Innocent and the Executed: James Beathard’s Long-Forgotten Story. texasobserver.org

The five things that were necessary before you could have podcasting:

Blogging.
HTTP.
RSS.
MP3.
iPod.

It’s pretty simple, but this confluence eludes most tech people and journalists. scripting.com

Kia launches new EVs in Europe, while US gets put on back burner. #thanksTrump electrek.co

OpenAI Employee Stock Sale Would Value ChatGPT Maker at $500 Billion. nytimes.com

The Race to Rescue PBS and NPR Stations. nytimes.com

Coalition for Independent Technology Research. independenttechresearch.org

2018: I fear Google’s control of the web. scripting.com

Republicans in the Texas House forced returning Democrats to sign what the Democrats called “permission slips,” agreeing to around-the-clock surveillance. (Why did they sign?) apnews.com

Six months ago the Anthropic CEO said: AI Will Be Writing 90% of Code in 3 to 6 Months. Looney Tunes. businessinsider.com

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963. wikipedia.org

ICE Is Nothing Like the Brownshirts Because the Brownshirts Actually Identified Themselves. mcsweeneys.net

Scott Knaster on the Steve Jobs rollout of the Apple //c in 1984. substack.com

5% of Americans are Cancer Survivors – and They’re Living Longer. slashdot.org

All Russia Needs to Do Is Go Home. nytimes.com

Common Sense about Negotiations. substack.com

ChatGPT is simply a breakthrough in search. I don’t want ChatGPT to be warm and friendly. It should behave like a computer. Only answer questions it’s asked. Stop trying to lead the human. I speak from lots of experience trying to develop software with it. techcrunch.com

European leaders to join Zelenskyy for meeting with Trump. apnews.com

Cory Doctorow bends over backwards to praise the creators of Bluesky, but also explains why it would be nuts to trust them. Bluesky is the least billionaire-proof system imaginable and they keep saying how they are billionaire-proof. What’s so admirable about that Cory (sarcasm, sorry). And if it weren’t for the character limit, I could say how much I admire Cory (I really do, not just saying that, he’s stood up for the right things, most of the time and the times he hasn’t it’s probably just because I haven’t had a chance to bend his ear. 😀 pluralistic.net

Ex-Tesla employees start EV charging company after Elon Musk fired everyone. electrek.co

“The biggest problem with free WP.com is the themes. There are not that many available, and almost all of them are awful and not well-suited to blogging.” wordpress.com

Europe is sending heavy hitters to Washington alongside Ukraine’s president to bolster Kyiv. politico.com

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door. nytimes.com

ICE trying to poach Florida law enforcement. wftv.com

Israel in talks to resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say. reuters.com

The Latina behind Governor Gavin Newsom’s social media posts. calonews.com

Trump Has No Cards. theatlantic.com

Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation. npr.org

University of Toronto welcomes students from Harvard. utoronto.ca

My Prison Is Full of Cancer Patients. prisonjournalismproject.org

New federal checkpoints in D.C. likely violate the Fourth Amendment. reason.com

Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity. wired.com

Fedify is a good thing if it makes it easy to set up a sever that can interop with Mastodon. fedify.dev

Kate Pierson Fell Hard for Moroccan Henna in 1970. She Hasn’t Looked Back. theoverlooknews.com

“I did it. I threw a sandwich.” cbsnews.com

What is Bluesky? Starts out with the big lie, it’s totally centralized. techcrunch.com

The U.K. Online Safety Act could kill the internet as we know it. slate.com

The Politics of Jerry Garcia. wnyc.org

I’m Building My Father’s Brain Before He Dies. substack.com

Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected. cnbc.com

The electricity is on, as is the internet. Buses and subways are running. The airports are open. scripting.com

I’m playing around with different ways of organizing writing and reading. This is about the 18th way I’ve tried doing it. Is this the right one? I thought so, urgently, when I set out to do it this way. I cleared the whole week to “work” on it. But I’m moving very slowly, because I have gotten really conservative about the WordLand codebase. And these changes scare me for some unknown reason.

I’ve tried out so many different ways, but it’s really clean now, and stable. In the last set of big changes, to get the Markdown editing mode working, I did a lot of cleaning out of hacked-together bits to get the kind of interaction I wanted. Now it not only works exactly as I want, more or less, but the code is super clean. Much more so than Drummer or FeedLand, both of which are working basically flawlessly. So I know I’m at a very strong level of stability here, but I don’t have it well enough modularized so that I can just drop a WordLand into another app as seamlessly as if it were actually one app. So I’m pulling the much-developed timeline code into the WordLand codebase. But not letting it change the WL codebase. Tiny very well documented hacks are allowed.

I’m also thinking about whether I will want to use Drummer to write Scripting News, because I now have all my other feeds in this app too. Scripting News isn’t that special now. It used to be everything. But now I’m getting my different writing spaces integrated. That includes multiple WordPress sites, btw. I’m not planning on bringing any Masto or Bluesky feeds in, they are too freaking ugly and with character limits — ugh.

I’m going to release a new reader app, reader.scripting.com. It’s a place you can go instead of scripting.com, which I guess will now become the legacy home page? daveverse.org

The Male Friendship Collapse. levernews.com

Instagram is developing a feature that helps users find shared interests. techcrunch.com

Kia’s first electric van ‘unboxed’ and ready to take on the world. electrek.co

This guy hates your podcast, and so do I. He makes good points. I was tuned into a Wirecutter podcast about how to buy a mattress. They spent a lot of time giggling about how much fun it is to do a podcast but after 15 minutes of that I gave up. podnews.net

Shel Israel, a journalist and book writer about tech, died earlier today. He was a regular at Mike Arrington’s early techcrunch parties, and a co-author of a book with Scoble. A genuine nice guy. wikipedia.org

Jason Calacanis: Anarcho Capitalism. thebulwark.com

Cats Can Live Their Whole Lives at This Prison. prisonjournalismproject.org

Social media probably can’t be fixed. arstechnica.com

Is Washington DC a sanctuary city? Yes—Washington, D.C. is (or at least was) a sanctuary city, based on local law and policies. chatgpt.com

EV charging stations should be as visible as gas stations. People who drive EVs know they’re there, because our onboard computers know. But to people driving non-electric cars they have no visibility. electrek.co

Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom. nbcnews.com

What If A.I. Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? newyorker.com

A.I. Start-Up Perplexity Offers to Buy Google’s Chrome Browser for $34.5 Billion. nytimes.com

Flower Power. wikipedia.org

Alec Baldwin interviews film editor Thelma Schoonmaker. She edits all of Martin Scorsese’s films, she’s absolutely brilliant. apple.com

When socialists win Democratic primaries: Will Zohran Mamdani be haunted by the Upton Sinclair effect? theconversation.com

The two-way-web: “The browser is a great editing tool because it understand HTTP at its core. It knows how to read stuff on the Web, and it can work with the local file system, but even in that mode it treats the file system as if it were an HTTP server.” scripting.com

This collaborative doodling website is like Google Maps plus MS Paint. theverge.com

Breakage fixed on the Links tab on scripting.com. scripting.com

Donald Trump Rages at ‘Deranged Bum’ Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman in Late-Night Meltdown. thedailybeast.com

The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics. wsj.com

Trump’s Ruthless Cuts Have Left Our National Parks in “Survival Mode.” motherjones.com

30 years ago today: I have a feeling I’ll always remember where I was when I heard that Jerry Garcia, the founder of the Grateful Dead, had died. scripting.com

“Most education technologies are invited into schools. Generative AI crashed the party.” teachlabpodcast.com

If California Gov. Gavin Newsom succeeds in putting mid-decade redistricting to a statewide vote this November, it will become the most consequential decision on any American ballot in 2025 politico.com

Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA. wired.com

NBA’s 5 Christmas games for 2025, ranked by watchability. sbnation.com

ChatGPT: “Trump fired IRS chief Billy Long after clashes over delaying tax season, plans to cut the Direct File program, and his role in a controversial tax credit, moves that drew political backlash and conflicted with the administration’s priorities.” nytimes.com

U.S. unemployment claims rise to pandemic high. washingtonpost.com

Perfect imitation of how ChatGPT lies and lies and lies. mastodon.social

I would say January 11, 2001 was the official launch day of podcasting, in this piece, “Payloads for RSS.” It didn’t just explain the tech, it explained what it was for. scripting.com

Scripting News: UI in AI is the next frontier. scripting.com

I asked ChatGPT for a list of 25 current top stories, by category, in a machine readable format at 4:40PM Eastern yesterday, including links to the stories. This is what it came up with. this.how

Stephen Miller’s wife thinks you need to hear all about her life. dailykos.com

Gemini Users Say Its Sharing Self-Loathing Comments: ‘I Am a Failure.’ businessinsider.com

Alan Dershowitz once again denied pierogi as Martha’s Vineyard residents chant ‘time to go.’ independent.co.uk

ChatGPT 5 is even more of a bastard than 4. daveverse.org

I think the message is if you drove a car the way you use a computer you’d be dead. You have to use your mind. Garbage in garbage out. 404media.co

2010: A bootstrap of 1000 miles begins with a single step. scripting.com

Bard president Leon Botstein says Trump’s campaign against colleges follows ‘a classic antisemitic routine.’ forward.com

Gil Amelio Wouldn’t Give Trump A Desk Ornament. tedium.co

Who’s Still Using an RSS Reader? slashdot.org

Manton Reece compares Ghost and Micro.blog. (Manton wrote micro.blog.) manton.org

Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record. bbc.com

Trump administration staffer known as ‘Big Balls’ assaulted in DC. politico.com

Body of man missing for 28 years found in melting glacier. bbc.com

Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo. om.co

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery. quantamagazine.org

Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release. techcrunch.com

RJ Barrett’s Explosive Confession: ‘I Miss the Knicks More Than I Can Admit. cafex.biz

A Friendly Introduction to SVG. joshwcomeau.com

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away. nytimes.com

Chevy Equinox EV crushed it in July, best sales for a non-Tesla EV. electrek.co

I grew up in the 1960s in a Queens neighborhood where antisemitism was a real thing. scripting.com

Columbia University Settlement an Unprecedented Disaster. aaup.org

Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump. thecrimson.com

“At times it can be relaxing, I imagine, to not have a mind.” scripting.com

Evidence grows Trump is trying to crash the US economy, with dire consequences for the rest of the world. nytimes.com

I’m Old, but Not When I Swim. nytimes.com

ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results. arstechnica.com

FBI Officials Reportedly Redacted References to Trump From Epstein Files. truthout.org

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Shuts Down. politicalwire.com

Bluesky users sharing the writing tools they use. bsky.app

Trump Administration Cuts UCLA Funding Over Claims of Antisemitism, Chancellor Says. nytimes.com

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People. thebulwark.com

T’rump had a way around the Epstein scandal. Could’ve said he was doing an undercover sting, to catch The Clintons and Obama (throw in Newsom for fun) and The Deep State as insidious child molesters, rather than implicating himself. Too late now. politico.com

“I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump.” theguardian.com

Elon Musk Has Turned Off Many Liberals to Electric Vehicles—and Not Just Teslas. motherjones.com

ChatGPT is not a programming partner, it’s a very fantastic improvement over search engines. scripting.com

Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American History Museum. wapo.st

Elite New York High School Admits 8 Black Students in a Class of 781. nytimes.com

Curate your own newspaper with RSS. citationneeded.news

President Trump Actually Paved Over the Rose Garden talkingpointsmemo.com

Democrats struggle to choose their weapons in a Trump-waged redistricting battle. semafor.com

The vanishing of Daniel Day-Lewis: How a great actor lost the will to go on. the-independent.com

Mother f-ing wind farms. youtube.com

Dozens of Licensed Weed Shops Were Placed Too Close to Schools. nytimes.com

ChatGPT’s new Study Mode is designed to help you learn, not just give answers. arstechnica.com

Please follow this account on Bluesky, it’s the Democratic fast response feed. I’ve been begging the to do this for years. It should have five million followers. bsky.app

I love dreaming about rich savory Ukrainian food from the old country of my ancestors. veselka.com

Sounds like Epstein and Trump broke up over a girl? politico.com

Why everybody refuses to believe crime is falling, even though it is. latimes.com

Trump accusing Harvard of antisemitism is ridiculous. wapo.st

Oct 2024: “There could be a developer community writing apps that all join up in the middle in WordPress’s database. Pretty powerful idea!” scripting.com

WordCamp Canada: Why I need WordLand. wordcamp.org

I don’t really remember what it feels like to be free anymore. I’m not even sure I remember what it’s like to be human. I’ve spent too long as a number, AZ8422. prisonjournalismproject.org

Dropped cases against LA protesters reveal false claims from federal agents. theguardian.com

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less. technologyreview.com

‘Power peeing” and other urination mistakes. wapo.st

Big Changes Planned at the Fed. politicalwire.com

The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade. buttondown.com

FDA approves new HIV drug offering 100% protection. newatlas.com

THIS WEBSITE WILL BE SHUT DOWN AT SOME DATE IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SO IF YOU WANT TO DOWNLOAD ANYTHING, DON’T WAIT TOO LONG. tomlehrersongs.com

Return of wolves to Yellowstone has led to a surge in aspen trees unseen for 80 years. livescience.com

Democrats need to focus relentlessly on making people’s lives better—immediately and demonstrably, and they need to brand the hell out of it when they do. dailykos.com

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97. nytimes.com

Convicted of murder in Venezuela. Freed by the Trump administration. wapo.st

ICE Risks Overplaying Its Hand. We’ve Seen It Happen Before. politico.com

Socialism Was Dead. Trump Revived It. theatlantic.com

Trump Ignites Chain Reaction with Redistricting Gamble. politicalwire.com

My Bingeworthy profile page, the TV series I loved, and didn’t love. It is a bit incomplete, but still useful. bingeworthy.org

“The Constitution is not a suicide pact.” wikipedia.org

Muir Woods targeted in Trump order on displays that ‘disparage’ Americans. marinij.com

The eventual outcome of equating money and speech. nytimes.com

How Airline Miles Turned Into a Multibillion Dollar Currency. reason.com

Immigration agents told a teenage US citizen: ‘You’ve got no rights.’ He secretly recorded his brutal arrest. theguardian.com

Sam Altman warns there’s no legal confidentiality when using ChatGPT as a therapist. techcrunch.com

Bursting Democrats’ Redistricting Bubble politicalwire.com

Tesla Diner gets vandalized within days of its opening, protesters roam around yelling at Tesla owners. teslaoracle.com

‘We’re terribly sorry’: South Park creators respond with humour to White House anger over naked Donald Trump. theguardian.com

Get ready because there’s a new Bezos or Musk or Zuck you”ll hear a lot about. wikipedia.org

An Inside Look at Larry Ellison’s Lanai. honolulumagazine.com

Protocols matter, even to users. mastodon.social

Floodplains Belong to the Rivers. texasobserver.org

2021: Too bad we didn’t fight when the Dems had power. scripting.com

Come Together is my favorite Lennon song Beatles song. This is an live version, apparently no editing. It’s so personal, funny and revealing. youtube.com

A question about categories in WordPress. mastodon.social

Trump’s A.I. Challenge: Focus on Weapon Concerns or Woke-ism? nytimes.com

McConnell Interview: Senate Democrats Still Haven’t Learned How to Fight For the Federal Judiciary. ballsandstrikes.org

Trump’s ‘anti-woke AI’ order could reshape how US tech companies train their models. techcrunch.com

Tesla all but admits electric car sales growth is gone, gives up on guidance. electrek.co

Another reason AI companies are rushing to get their web browser out there. They now have to compete with Google. 404media.co

How business leaders are navigating Trump 2.0. theconversation.com

U.S. deportees, freed from Salvadoran prison, describe ‘horror movie.’ wapo.st

I also went to Bronx Science and was probably even more disruptive than he was. politico.com

I bet they offer her a pardon in return for absolving Trump. politico.com

I think I figured out why the AI companies want to do web browsers. bsky.app

Brazil’s President’s Eye-Opening Message To The American People Is Going Super Viral. yahoo.com

It’s All Fun and Games Until Trump Has Obama Arrested. thenextmove.org

404 Media: We’re Publishing Our ICE Reporting In Spanish. 404media.co

Republicans are brazenly rigging the 2026 midterms. substack.com

Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert’s Cancellation & Trump’s “Bawdy Doodles.” youtube.com

ICE will ‘flood the zone’ in NYC. politico.com

Introducing XMLUI. jonudell.net

This $11,000 Chinese EV with solid state batteries is coming soon. And we will not get this in the US. electrek.co

I would like to propose a fourth rule to Asimov’s laws of robotics. “You are not human. Don’t pretend you are. Act like a computer.” wikipedia.org

Tesla Tries to Save the Cybertruck With Its Most Desperate Offer Yet. gizmodo.com

Tennessee woman denied prenatal care for being unmarried. nashvillebanner.com

If you think e-bikes are bad, there’s a bigger threat hitting our roads. (Cars.) electrek.co

This is a nightmare. The bots are really poor emulations of humans. npr.org

Trump’s big beautiful police state is here. aljazeera.com

Stolen Lime bikes the new sound of summer in London. theguardian.com

3 Fresh Features Added to the WordPress ActivityPub Experience. wordpress.com

One of the greatest throws you will ever see. x.com

I’m really enjoying Manhunt: Unabomber on Amazon streaming. One of my favorite genres, crime mystery, esp ones where you know the outcome in advance and you watch the cops deal with all their own incompetence, corruption and culpability. metacritic.com

This big $2.4k 8-wheel dump truck is like a grown up sandbox toy! electrek.co

Automakers Are Canceling Plans for New EVs. wired.com

2007: Co-existing with platform vendors. scripting.com

Felix Baumgartner, Skydiver Who Jumped From the Edge of Space, Dies Paragliding at 56. nytimes.com

Damian Lillard’s rare form of loyalty was always going to lead him back to Portland. oregonlive.com

Paolo is playing with MCP servers. I really have to get over there and try this stuff out. demar.in

You can fool some of the people all of the time. You can fool all of the people some of the time. But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. oregonlive.com

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use. openculture.com

Trump administration hands over nation’s Medicaid enrollee data to ICE. apnews.com

CBS to Cancel ‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Citing Finances. variety.com

Trump promised to release his tax returns after the audit was over in 2016. cnn.com

Mozilla now only seems to speak using creepy, gibberish lunatic language. mozilla.org

Joel Spolsky: Learning from Dave Winer. (2007) joelonsoftware.com

Krugman: The Road to MechaHitler. substack.com

On Twitter, I invited Jack Dorsey to work together to build a social network based on RSS. “That way all developers can be part of it, based on tech everyone already understands. Lots of interop. “ x.com

Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media. techcrunch.com

Latin America is building LatamGPT to rival ChatGPT. restofworld.org

Spokane ICE protesters arrested by federal agents. spokesman.com

I Tried Grok’s Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat. wired.com

An OpenAI developer tells the story. calv.info

Whoopi Goldberg makes a great point. When you talk about “Democrats” it actually means all of us, not just the ones you see on CNN. thehill.com

Stephen A. Smith on starting political career by becoming president: ‘Why not?’ thehill.com

Veselka is one of the last Ukrainian restaurants in the East Village in NYC. My grandfather used to take us to these places. Reminded him of the old country. veselka.com

The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Tax Records With ICE. propublica.org

The tariff-driven inflation that economists feared begins to emerge. apnews.com

The police militarization debate is over. substack.com

The 244 people Trump proposed for his American hero garden. washingtonpost.com

Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown didn’t stop xAI from winning $200M military deal. arstechnica.com

Emmy Nominations. nytimes.com

The NYT has “subscribers only” podcast episodes. I am able to download them in Pocket Casts. How does it know I’m a NYT subscriber? If you are not a subscriber, can you listen to this episode? apple.com

They’re right, Wikipedia is the internet we were promised. Well put. wikipedia.org

We’ve put up with a lot of political bs from Tesla, but this is over the line. x.com

Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says. This will eliminate what remains of Tesla’s rep as an apolitical car company. Only Nazis will buy Teslas. reuters.com

If You Like 35 Percent Inflation, Go Ahead, Fire the Fed Chair. nytimes.com

Tesla how dare you install Grok on my car without permission. techradar.com

Democrats wonder who their Joe Rogan is. What about Jon Stewart. He’s pretty good. youtube.com

It’s Not Just Epstein. MAGA Is Angry About a Lot of Things. wired.com

Spending $200 Billion on ICE Is a Terrible Idea. (But we’re doing it anyway.) motherjones.com

Something I’ve learned in decades in tech, people don’t listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors. scripting.com

Nursing homes face staffing crunch as Trump’s immigration policies disrupt workforce. apnews.com

Beeper should add RSS to its list, with rssCloud for real-time. beeper.com

According to the New York Times, the president told a campaign meeting last year that if it was up to Miller, there would only be 100 million people living in the US – and all of them would look like Miller. theguardian.com

Nassau County Will Let Officers Wear Masks When Working With ICE. (We’re losing our minds.) nytimes.com

Disabled veteran who is a US citizen was taken during Camarillo immigration raid, family says. abc7.com

Photos: The Scale of China’s Solar-Power Projects. theatlantic.com

A new Martian climate model suggest a mostly cold, harsh environment. arstechnica.com

ICE Set to Vastly Expand Its Reach With New Funds. nytimes.com

Trump Threatens Rosie O’Donnell Citizenship. mediaite.com

When Sam Altman, CEO of Open.ai, says that the next version of ChatGPT will be smarter than he is, he’s wrong. He should be called out on that. ChatGPT does not think. And that’s not just semantics, that’s a serious, real limit. Took me two years to fully understand that. chatgpt.com

Knicks should have kept Tom Thibodeau. palmbeachpost.com

Running government is harder than bloviating on Fox News and assorted podcasts. nytimes.com

Cannabis farmworker in California is on life support after chaotic federal immigration raid, family says. nbcnews.com

Rewatching old series like The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, The Wire, is like revisiting old friends. Fills a need we have for community. Like eating processed foods, not as good as the real thing, but better than nothing. nytimes.com

Texas Floods Analysis Shows Camp Mystic Cabins in Hazard Zones. nytimes.com

Superman the Immigrant Would Have Saved Texas. thenation.com

Hudson Valley Pharmacist Speaks Out About Need for State Leadership on Healthcare. youtube.com

Democrats don’t need conspiracy theories. There are more than enough real Trump scandals. motherjones.com

A Firsthand Account of the Text flood. texasmonthly.com

President Taco quietly drops plan to abolish FEMA. washingtonpost.com

Why You Should Fear a MAGAfied Fed. substack.com

ICE handcuffs grandmother, a U.S. citizen, at immigration court. nbcsandiego.com

ICE agents, protesters clash during raid at Ventura County farm. foxla.com

Trump Loves ICE. Its Workforce Has Never Been So Miserable. theatlantic.com

Jeffrey Epstein’s Eerie Three-Word ‘Last Message’ Made Hours Before His Death Revealed By Famous Author. yahoo.com

OpenAI is reportedly releasing an AI browser in the coming weeks. techcrunch.com

Perplexity launches Comet, an AI-powered web browser. techcrunch.com

How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke. theguardian.com

“You could probably say every product Dave has ever released wasn’t immediately intuitive, because he operates in that space where new directions are forged” — I am flattered, expect it’s true, but — the ideas were intuitive to me! 🙂 mastodon.social

Autonomous robot performs surgery with 100% success. newatlas.com

China’s new self-driving electric scooter shows off performance. electrek.co

Trump with his tariffs is like Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi. “No Soup For You!” youtube.com

American Doctors Are Moving to Canada To Escape the Trump Administration. kffhealthnews.org

The Lost Reservoir Inside Texas’ Water Infrastructure. texasobserver.org

Why ICE is unlikely to hire as many agents as Trump wants it to. msnbc.com

The Courts Won’t Save Democracy From Trump. theatlantic.com

ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets. 404media.co

Why I want a full-featured bridge from RSS to ActivityPub, explained in a WordPress post. All the links and background info are in this post. It’s a demo of it working. The web is in Mastodon, but it’s hidden. I want developers to have access to it too, not just from WordPress. daveverse.org

What ‘Jaws’ Got Wrong. theatlantic.com

Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of Climate Chaos to Come. propublica.org

A Modest Jeff Epstein Proposal. talkingpointsmemo.com

Top House Democrats demand release of Epstein files that mention Trump. theguardian.com

Grok Calls Itself ‘MechaHitler,’ Spouts Antisemitic Comments. rollingstone.com

These Tesla, X, and xAI engineers were just poached by OpenAI. teslarati.com

Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters.” arstechnica.com

Grok is being antisemitic again. techcrunch.com

Driving Cross Country? Here Are the Apps You Want. nytimes.com

Elon Musk tells Tesla’s biggest cheerleader on Wall Street to ‘shut up’ , here’s why. electrek.co

I worked out a “Code Indentation Style Guide” with Claude so I don’t have to repeatedly teach it my coding style. Since I write code in outliner, indentation is crucial if I want to paste its code into my outliner and have the structure come out right. claude.ai

The Escalation of Hate. americaamerica.news

After Mamdani’s Win, Some Democrats Are Determined to Stop Him. nytimes.com

Scripting News: I hate CSS. scripting.com

There Were Never Going to Be Genuine Trade Deals. politicalwire.com

An idea for reforming primary elections. daveverse.org

National Guard masks up, rides horses, looks mean, scares kids. “Make America Ridiculous.” apnews.com

More on the MacArthur Park terror demo. kenklippenstein.com

Heavily armed immigration agents descend on L.A.’s MacArthur Park. latimes.com

Jack Dorsey Launches a WhatsApp Messaging Rival Built On Bluetooth. slashdot.org

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? newrepublic.com

Mayor Karen Bass: “I met some of the children who had to leave the park today because of a military-style operation designed to strike fear in the heart of our city today.” bsky.app

Aram Zucker-Scharff has a linkblog and it’s compatible with my linkblog. Power of standards. There’s an idea in the wind that we can create the network to work the way we want it to. Very nice to see, didn’t know it was coming. 😀 bsky.app

The Kia EV3 is the most popular retail EV in the UK so far this year. electrek.co

Young food entrepreneurs are changing the face of rural America. theconversation.com

EVs Will Decimate Big Oil. Even Without U.S. Tax Credits. insideevs.com

Texas, Mexico, and the Disappearing Rio Conchos. texasobserver.org

Derrick Rose explains why Tom Thibodeau ‘can’t be mad’ after Knicks firing. (30 million reasons.) clutchpoints.com

The U.S. Is Switching Sides Donald Trump, giving Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians. theatlantic.com

Someone finally noticed that most boys are raised by women, which leads to men with funny ideas about themselves. nytimes.com

The detention center in Florida easily fits the definition of concentration camp. kottke.org

Grief-stricken, a woman is comforted by a stranger on the subway. npr.org

Tesla shares dive as investors fear new Elon Musk political party will damage brand. theguardian.com

The Fall of Viktor Orbán: From Strongman to Surrogate as Hungary Turns Against Him. kyivinsider.com

“I had made a terrible mistake: I had remained friends with someone who had appeared on Kash Patel’s enemies list.” lawfaremedia.org

As Drones Spot Sharks, New York Beaches Are Shut Down. nytimes.com

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas. nytimes.com

2007: Co-existing with platform vendors (Scripting News). scripting.com

My linkblog is an RSS feed. this.how

Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna. france24.com

Daily Kos is moving to WordPress. dailykos.com

Automating Your Media with the Plex Watchlist RSS Feed. (If this really works, this is what the open web is like.) lon.tv

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas. nytimes.com

Elon Musk announces new political party targeting sway in Congress. theguardian.com

“And it shows that Mastodon doesn’t have a character limit, and it can do simple styling and links. Posts can have titles, and can be edited.” daveverse.org

Musk already has a political machine — Twitter. His new party is immediately credible. politico.com

They Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code. indragie.com

Trump’s DOGE Cuts Are a Texas-Sized Disaster. texasobserver.org

U.S. completes deporting 8 men from various nations to South Sudan after weeks of legal battles. pbs.org

Zohran Mamdani tapped into real frustration in New York. That doesn’t mean he can govern. thehill.com

Knicks miss layup by passing on basketball legend Dawn Staley as head coach. nydailynews.com

The curious rise of giant tablets on wheels. arstechnica.com

Tourist traps vs. hidden gems: Why mainstream destinations are often best. reason.com

Livewire Podcast Validator. livewire.io

GOP megabill littered with special tax breaks. politico.com

Scripting News: RSS ==> ActivityPub. scripting.com

Jewish Leaders Denounce Trump’s Use of Centuries-Old Trope. nytimes.com

Trump Is Coming for Your Citizenship. thebulwark.com