Linkblog Mirror
A mirror of Dave Winer's linkblog feed

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 Reece
September 4, 2025 by

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

Yet another test post
September 2, 2025 by

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. 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. 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. 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

Random thoughts in transition
August 14, 2025 by

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 OrbĂĄn: 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

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