Linkblog Mirror
A mirror of Dave Winer's linkblog feed

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

Last update: 7/30/25; 8:52:27 PM.