Why Canadians Are Better Than Americans at Protesting Trump Right Now.
Tesla loses another top talent: its long-time head of software.
Speculations at the Outer Bounds of the Constitutional Order.
Not even the most fervent MAGA supporter will think it harmful to bargain-shop for free-trade underwear out of the back of a truck driven from Mexico or Canada.
Poll: AOC leads Schumer in head-to-head New York primary matchup by double digits.
Ted Cruz warns Trump tariffs could be ‘terrible for America.’
Nintendo delays Switch 2 pre-orders because of Trump tariffs.
“We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years.”
“The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity.”
Timothy Snyder gave a presentation at the New York Public Library on Monday.
Tesla's only growing business was just kneecapped by Trump's tariffs.
Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world.
I’ve been friends with Om for decades, but he’s wrong about Bluesky. It’s a clone of Twitter, that’s why it’s so popular, but it has the same flaw Twitter had — it could be turned against its users by an acquiring billionaire. He and his co-author fell for their hype.
Trump’s Fight Against Antisemitism Has Become Fraught for Many Jews.
Trump wanted people to inject chlorine, take ivermectin, to recover from Covid, now prescribes same for the world economy.
Inside ICE Air: What It’s Like to Be a Deportation Flight Attendant.
“Every living American was raised under the Bill of Rights.”
Central U.S. braces for powerful tornadoes and flash floods. (No FEMA.)
Adam Schiff: Putin Sees Trump as a ‘Child’ Who Can Be Easily Manipulated.
Apple leads a drop in tech stocks after Trump tariff announcement.
Dow futures tumble 1,000 points on fear Trump’s tariffs will spark trade war.
In Alien Enemies Case, Many With Open Asylum Claims Allegedly Removed.
Tesla car sales lurch as Elon Musk hits the gas for President Trump.
In Alien Enemies Case, Many With Open Asylum Claims Allegedly Removed.
‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies.
Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race as Democrats take stand against Donald Trump, Elon Musk.
Val Kilmer, star of Top Gun and The Doors, dies aged 65.
Joe Rogan: 'Horrific' that innocent people could be deported to El Salvador.
Silly Nice Seeks Hospitality Partnerships Across New York.
Is your state at risk? These 15 states face huge job losses if the IRA is repealed.
GM is beating EV rivals with more choices at lower prices.
Trump Nominee for Joint Chiefs Denies Wearing MAGA Hat.
Harvard means something. If they go down without a fight, what hope is there for our country? Even if they had all the money in the world, Harvard as an idea will be lost.
300 Alums Call on HLS to Denounce Trump’s Attacks on Law Firms.
House Republicans Blame Elon Musk for Dragging GOP Down
Federal food assistance cuts would crush 1.8M NYers, city officials say.
Substack says it’ll legally defend writers ‘targeted by the government. ’
First ever USB-C recharging electric bicycles launch sales.
Trump's tariffs are like his idea for injecting bleach to get rid of Covid.
Trump officials to review $9bn in Harvard funds over antisemitism claims.
Bird flu could be on the cusp of transmitting between humans − but there are ways to slow down viral evolution.
Software is a mathematical science, so if I write a piece that says what a company is telling you about their technology is not true, I’m not saying it because of a conflict, or because I don’t like them, I say it because it’s true.
Trump Administration Will Review Billions in Funding for Harvard.
I agree with DHH. As a user who is in awe of the power of ChatGPT et al, I agree, and add “Only steal from the best.” Great artists must decide which art to be inspired by. And great artists before they die, should share all their secrets, so the next generation can be even greater.
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado.
Trump Again Floats Running for Anti-Constitutional Third Term.
Time to get out the popcorn. This should be interesting.
Coming from Evan Osnos: Field guide to the ultra-rich.
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found the longest chain carbon molecules yet on Mars.
Prompt in alt, great graphic prompts that work in the new chatgpt.
And The NY Times sold us out to Trump, never to be trusted again.
Republican Abortion Laws Are 'Torturing Women.' Can the GOP Fix Its Own Crisis?
The Signal chat exposes the administration’s incompetence – and its pecking order.
Harvard Faculty Did the Right Thing. The University Should.
I like how the MST-PHP version imported the content of all the new feeds, I want to look at that for my version.
“This is the official rapid response page of the Democratic Party, holding Trump and MAGA extremists accountable.”
Noem's vow to eliminate FEMA raises disaster response concerns.
We need a plan for communicating after the end of democracy.
We need a plan for communication after the end of democracy.
Elon Musk’s DOGE role draws effort to force Tesla to close Missouri dealerships.
Elon you can’t speak for your customers. The car is great, but you suck.
We all try to lead a parade, with a big viral idea, if only everyone would follow me, it might just work. Instead, find a parade you can join, and add your energy, talent and experience to it.
It's Time for Zealous Advocacy To Safeguard the Rule of Law.
Who decides what the interests of the US are? Certainly not Elon Musk.
Bill Gates on AI: Humans won’t be needed ‘for most things.’
Three prominent Yale professors depart for Canadian university, citing Trump fears.
Law Firm Skadden Arps Seeks Deal to Avert Trump Executive Order. (Maybe all law firms should negotiate as one.)
Law firms divided over response to Donald Trump's orders.
Kristi Noem Records Chilling Video In Front Of Alien Enemies Act Detainees.
Elon Musk, and How Techno-Fascism Has Come to America.
21 attorneys general call on legal community to stand in 'defense of rule of law' in wake of president's actions.
Fox News’ Jessica Tarlov Says She Never Wants to Hear ‘But Her Emails’ Again After Trump’s Atlantic War Plans Fiasco.
Dan Erickson Breaks Down the Shocking ‘Severance’ Season 2 Finale.
Let’s put it in language the Signal leakers will understand: what a bunch of pathetic sleazebags.
Journalist at centre of Trump's Signal chat scandal speaks to BBC.
Corporate America’s Euphoria Over Trump’s ‘Golden Age’ Is Giving Way to Distress.
DOGE can't explain why it wants sensitive government data. Isn’t it obvious. He has his own LLM and he’s loading it up with all this info, to be used to suck all the money he can out of the country. We’re sitting ducks.
Law Firms Are Chickening Out Of Representing Trump Foes.
Breaks my heart to see foreigners excoriating my country, wanting to defend it, but knowing they’re right. This is not a way we can exist for very long.
Trump's Attack on Lawyers and Law Firms Takes a Page Out of the Southern 1950s Playbook.
I love this, they look at protocols for news (I guess) and this guy leaves out RSS. It's amazing, leaving it out is the only way they can justify the existence of their protocol.
A very tasty title for today's Daily podcast, and it lives up to the promise. I keep wishing we had done something to prevent Twitter from being bought by a billionaire, same as I think now re Bluesky. Or if it's going to be bought, let a friendly billionaire buy it.
Before I moved to the mountains I lived near Columbus Circle in Manhattan, with a walkability score of 99, a transit score of 100, and 87 for bike riding. I didn't even own a car.
I'm surprised the EPA's walkability page is still there and not obviously marked up for DEI submission.
How bad is it? USPS chief DeJoy stepping down immediately. Couldn’t wait, something truly awful must be coming.
Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe.
I want natural language text macros in ChatGPT. I would devise a macro that turned random text I wrote online into a properly formatted blog post.
Columbia Faculty Protests as Trump Officials Hail University Concessions.
The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had accidentally been added to a Signal group chat in which the Principals Committee – the heads of the top American national security agencies — debated how and whether to strike the Houthis earlier this month
The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg revealed that he had accidentally been added to a Signal group chat in which the Principals Committee – the heads of the top American national security agencies — debated how and whether to strike the Houthis earlier this month
Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy.
Tax revenue could drop by $500 billion percent amid turmoil at IRS.
JD Vance in 2021: Stop Treating Left-Wing Advocacy Groups Like Charities.
Universities Gave Us the iPhone, the Jet Engine and Gatorade. We’re Tossing That Away.
Why are other universities silent in condemning Trump’s attacks on Columbia?
Sandwiches in NYC have become enormous and too big to eat.
Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?
Has anyone verified with Howard Lutnick's mother in law? I'm not entirely sure I believe him, btw.
Recreating the "Severance Effect" with motion control.
Benjamin Franklin: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately."
His wonderful mother in law knows who to call to get her a few mill to tide her over to next month. No big deal.
Small Batch, Big Flavor: Why New Yorkers Are Choosing Silly Nice Weed.
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced.
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest.
I trust that invisible hand Darwinian ecosystem builds better networks, because they are real, not contrived.
When power went out in our Kansas home, I pondered political disaster. Our only hope is self-rescue.
Why isn’t the Democratic Party flooding the zone with rallies like this, everywhere.
Stratechery Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About Building a Consumer Tech Company.
Kitty Dukakis, former first lady of Massachusetts, has died.
Reading this fresh post from Ken Smith, I thought a good slogan for Bernie's new party (maybe they should call it that) is Build Back Better, stolen from Biden. That's going to be a popular message because everyone is quickly figuring out that we're getting the shit kicked out of us, and there's a lot of rebuilding in our future no matter what.
Trump’s firings of military leaders pose a crucial question to service members of all ranks.
In December I wrote about "listening lists" for podcasts. I believe it's coming into fruition soon, from at least one major podcast vendor. It's not only going to be nice to have imho but it's something the open web does better than the podcast silos, that in itself is important.
2009: Natural-born blogger. "NBBs go first. If there's an NBB around you don't have to wait for a volunteer."
Utah GOP Reps. Maloy and Kennedy told to “Do your job” at a town hall.
Local and State Police Are Joining Trump's 'Deportation Force.'
Seniors won't complain if they miss a Social Security check, Lutnick says.
Bird flu continues to spread as Trump’s pandemic experts are MIA.
"I don't regret the vote": Why most Trump voters stand by him, even as he ruins their lives.
Acting head threatens to shut down Social Security after court ruling.
Trump rescinds executive order after law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services.
I don't think we should use the term “social web” until there actually is such a thing,
Universities are caving to Trump with a stunning speed and scope.
Steven Miller is the perfect Batman villain from Central Casting. An American Jew playing the role of a Nazi Sturmbannführer wannabe.
Steven Miller is the perfect Batman villain from Central Casting. An AmericanJew playing the role of a Nazi Sturmbannführer wannabe.
How a Quiet Diner in the Catskills Became a Star of Severance.
‘Severance’ Finale was everything we could have hoped for. Bravo! 👏🏽
Tesla confirms it can't sell the Cybertruck even with tax credit and discounts.
Elon Musk and China: Could Tesla’s bottom line influence Trump’s foreign policy?
It's remarkable how some of the rich of Silicon Valley want to do to the world what they did to the web! If you extrapolate, we'll go from a world with great potential, to a lot of grunting and snorting and not much else.
Immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and created warrants after an arrest, lawyers say in court.
DOT must not give Tesla or other automakers a free pass, advocates say.
Sacha Chua has a list of old school bloggers in every conceivable format.
Profile of Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s Top Lieutenant Who Oversees DOGE.
JFK assassination files converted to Markdown, uploaded to GitHub.
Democrats Troll Republicans For Ghosting Their Constituents.
Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Efforts.
Menaced by Trump, Canada Prepares to Join E.U. Military Industry Efforts - The New York Times
Where is an example of a Ghost-published post on a Mastodon server?
Where is an example of a Ghost-published posts on a Mastodon server?
Trump-Musk Scandal on Ukrainian Kids Stolen by Russia Just Got Darker.
Stephen Mays wrote up a list of his early web influencers.
If you want to understand what Musk and Trump are doing, this scene from Goodfellas explains. It's worth watching, I promise.
Does the Foreign Emoluments Clause Apply to Elon Musk?
Judging by what’s in the press I’d say there’s a journalist movement to remove Schumer, as they did with Biden. They aren’t reporting his theory of why he voted as he did. Heard him last night on msnbc and it made sense. At least they let him speak.
Tesla loses ground as Chinese EVs dominate global markets.
Social Security Administration to require in-person identity checks.
Voters boo Nebraska Republican over Musk, Ukraine, Trump tariffs during raucous town hall. The pitchforks are out.
Remember when Obama said to the bankers that his “administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” These are the same people. They’re back and this time they want everything.
Remember when Obama said this to the bankers that his “administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.” These are the same people. They’re back and this time they want everything.
I’m interested in seeing what Ghost-written activitypub posts look like in other systems. If you have such a site could you reply with a link? I asked at the link below, but my comment of congratulations hasn’t appeared yet. Thanks in advance.
Previously classified files related to JFK assassination released.
John Turturro on Getting Lost in the Severance Hallways and Pitching Christopher Walken for His Role.
Trump kickstarts new House GOP effort to impeach a federal judge.
You Won’t Believe These 14 Dreamy Small Towns Hiding In The Catskills.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow. (This is brilliant. Finally someone showing leadership in journalism.)
Farewell Photoshop? Google’s new AI lets you edit images by asking.
I don’t usually listen to the NYT daily podcast but I’m going to give today’s show a try.
i am sure Ezra Klein is wrong. The reason trump won is the Dems ran the country and campaign with the same weak approach Schumer demonstrated so well last week. If there were a supportable choice, I would’ve voted against them too. Sometimes people get left behind. That’s the leadership of the Dems, and it isn’t about age, Jeffries had the disease too.
April 5, 2025 Nationwide Protests – Podcasts, please be in! (I don’t know who this is, but I like the message.)
The Department of Education is investigating more than 50 universities for using race to recruit and support some students.
Harvard will be free for students whose families make $100K or less.
Trump has a plan to remake the economy. But he’s not explaining it very well. (It involves Ivermectin and injecting bleach into the money supply.)
Democrats just need new candidates in almost every district.
Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration.
Today's Timothy Snyder piece is a must-read. This is the moment when we lose all our rights.
The dystopian "freedom cities" dream fueling Elon Musk's destruction.
John Palfrey who is president of the MacArthur foundation, and a former colleague and friend from Berkman, and a legal scholar, writes about a crisis in the rule of law. It’s puzzling to me because I try to be informed, but don’t know what the crisis is? We need better info flow.
I asked people to write a blog post about what the "writer's web" means to them. We've had some great contributions, like this one. Small pieces loosely joined, both in terms of content and software. Podcasting is a SPLJ technology. I want to do the same with blogging.
Om has a new daily blog. The band is getting back together. Lovin it. Blogs all the way. Open web for all!
Employees at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they’re struggling to protect the US while the administration dismisses their colleagues and poisons their partnerships.
Docs: A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline.
If you think Twitter/X is too conflicted to trust as a way to share news, then I don't think you've arrived at the answer with Bluesky, yet a lot of people appear to think they have. Listen to Cory Doctorow if you don't believe me.
Ralph Nader: Stay Silent and Stay Powerless Against Trump’s Tyranny. Must-read.
Trump admin makes Asheville remove ‘DEI’ language to access hurricane relief aid. Think where this could go. You want health care? Buy a Tesla first.
A man says his stepmom locked him in a room for decades. He escaped by setting a fire.
National Park Workers Ordered to Use Talking Points on Trump Cuts.
X-rated way Canada could ‘win trade war’ — ban Pornhub in US.
It’s a good thing Spielberg made Schindler’s List. This scene about “essential workers” is an eye opener.
There was a time, 1999 specifically, when writing for the web in a web browser was a strange and new idea. That era lasted until 2006 when Twitter emerged, removing almost all the features of writing and adding character limits. That had enormous impact on the political and creative worlds. The era of wood chipping people and ideas.
OK man says Social Security benefits terminated without warning or explanation.
Voters fear Social Security cuts and put heat on GOP over Musk and DOGE.
Serbia's largest-ever rally sees 325,000 protest government.
Do you really think the American military would follow an order to attack Canada?
Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website.
Matt Terenzio has a great address for his new blog, where he writes about his vision for The Writer's Web.
Sebastian Abbott: The Distracted Procrastinating Writer's Web.
Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.
Walz, Newsom and Buttigieg Are Among Democrats Stirring 2028 Presidential Chatter. Add AOC to your list.
South Milwaukee woman deported to Laos is stranded with few options.
Philippe Pétain was a French General who served as leader of Vichy France between 1940 and 1944.
I now think of this blog as my own magazine, and RSS as my paper boy.
From Public Service to Public Office: A Call for Former Federal Workers -- Run for Something. (We could use a new Senate minority leader.)
Trump demands admissions overhaul and control of academic department at Columbia University.
I asked ChatGPT to write a blog post using the available technology of 1993.
Doc Searls wrote a blog post in 1992. Very early. I didn't learn enough to post something on the web myself until 1994.
Mark Cuban: Of course Musk would let Tesla tank in return for getting to be the owner of the United States of America.
Seattle man bought a Tesla just to destroy it in protest against Elon Musk.
Columbia University says it expelled some students who seized building last year.
AOC: "American people, whether they are Republicans, independents, Democrats, are up in arms about Elon Musk and the actual gutting of federal agencies across the board." It’s the people, dummy.
AOC: "American people, whether they are Republicans, independents, Democrats, are up in arms about Elon Musk and the actual gutting of federal agencies across the board." It’s the people, dummy.
Gruber: Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino.
Early Pirate Bay Backer Carl Lundström Dies in Plane Crash.
As ICE targets a Palestinian activist, some Jews are asking if this is the fight against antisemitism they signed up for. (Being pro-Palestinian is not antisemitism.)
No response from either TechCrunch or the company, as before. Bluesky is doing great, it’s time they drop the pretense that they’re “billionaire-proof.” They obviously don’t respect this blogger, perhaps a journalist could ask about their claim.
Trump plans "law and order" speech at Justice Department Friday.
The Portland crowd enjoyed the Knicks buzzer beater overtime win over their hometown Trailblazers. Where ever you go the Knicks fans are there.
Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR.
Is Trump Taking a ‘Liquidationist’ Approach to the Economy?
Democrats to hold town halls in GOP districts amid controversy.
COVID keeps evolving and will find new ways to evade immune systems.
"Mail Pages" were a feature of my blog in 1997 and 1998. People could send email in response to a post, I read them all and published the most interesting ones, by my subjective criteria, to the current mail page. I think something like this could work in 2025 and beyond.
The Lives of Others (2006), a drama and political thriller set in East Berlin before the wall came down. How secret police kept watch on the people. It foretells what's sure to come in the US, and it's also a fantastic movie.
FTC asks to delay Amazon Prime deceptive practices case, citing staffing shortfalls. Quid pro quo?
“Social media” is almost 100% bullshit and the rest of it is a con. Discuss.
i am heavily invested in the stock market, and I totally don’t mind if it crashes. I also own a Tesla, and ditto.
Tulane University Responds to Federal Investigation Over Antisemitism Complaints.
Really enjoyed this Fresh air interview with comedian Bill Burr.
Was Mr Bill part of the SNL50 reunion? I must’ve missed him! 😀
People who believe there is magic that makes Bluesky billionaire-proof are misled. If they sold out you and I would have no place to turn. It would be a replay of the mess with Twitter.
Kansas politicians say an awful lot. But look beyond those words to catch what they actually do.
German Thru-Hiker Detained, Deported, and Banned From US.
NOAA set to fire 1,029 more employees, bringing cuts to near 15 percent.
JD Vance's cousin criticises him for 'belittling' Zelensky.
She is full of it. Who could fork it off, how long would it take. And your friends wouldn’t follow, and the longer there is no clone the more locked in they get. This is one of the biggest cons ever in tech. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but we are all totally locked in here. We can’t move.
The shit is going to hit the fan when the Repubs cancel Medicare. Look at the picture in this post by Maddow on Bluesky. Yeah they're all on Medicare. They're already going to town hall meetings. They're boomers. We're not done yet folks.
Why cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon is not on the roadmap for WordLand. They are too limited in the features they support for writers.
“Nobody voted for Elon Musk,” protestors chanted at a Tesla dealership in Manhattan yesterday in one of the many protests at the dealerships associated with Musk’s cars.
I dream of getting reviews like this for my software. This time we’re making blog writing as fluid as tweeting. When it’s done we’ll be using our Wordpress blogs the way you write in twitter, but without the limits.
Rep. Mark Pocan draws packed crowd at town hall meeting, calls out Rep. Derrick Van Orden on transparency.
Democrats are reeling. Is Stephen A Smith the way back to the White House?
Ghost is implementing ActivityPub. It seems to be taking a long time.
Evicting the elderly to make a millennial 'live near friends' utopia.
Bluesky is trapping users in the same way Twitter/X did. Bluesky is a big scam. It’s good to see some people learning, maybe.
Anger at Elon Musk hits Tesla with violence, vandalism in protest.
”Developers should build on existing standards, not try to replace them. They might be more alive than you think (or more accurately, wish).”
Rick Scott Reveals Republicans Are Absolutely Cutting Medicare.
Trumpists Fall Apart On Question: Is President Trump A Russian Asset?
Wired is enjoying a moment, with lots of new subscribers, including myself. They should do what a lot of paywalled sites do, allow a certain number of shared posts per month where people can get through the paywall aka “gift links.”
Trump’s plan to stockpile crypto complicates industry's policy push.
Firsthand account of what a firing squad execution looked like.
Bless Bernie, he gets it. It’s always a good time for a campaign rally. Something that has yet to occur to Democrats.
Musk's DOGE team reportedly includes a 24-year-old former Canadian university student.
Cuban -- Mavericks should have got 'a better deal' for Luka Doncic.
Reading this story about the deportation of Ukrainian refugees from the US, I hear in clear terms we are no longer a democratic country, no longer have a representative government. We're not just supporting Russia we are Russia, its 51st state. Very weird and unacceptable.
ActivityPub is not going to rock the world. Emulating Twitter is not how to do decentralization. Every decision made in the design of Twitter was based on being centralized. It's going to require more brain work to crack this. WTF Markoff.
How Trump's first days compares with Orban's in Hungary. Must-read.
New concept opening in May in Woodstock's Early Terrible and Mud Club.
But the Fediverse is impossible to use even for people who understand what it's trying to do, and most people have no idea. The answer: stop trying to reinvent Twitter, it wasn't a great idea! And figure out what really works in a decentralized system. It requires some serious brain work.
Did anyone see an explanation of what the strategic crypto reserve is for?
Charles Barkley takes direct shot at future ESPN coworkers over Lakers, Warriors coverage: 'Y'all are idiots.'
Worst Hudson Valley, New York Roads for Potholes. It’s been a rough winter here.
Andrew Cuomo Gets Endorsement From City Government Workers’ Union.
On Writing Severance: A Conversation with Dan Erickson.
2017: What if TWTR is bought by a Repub? The problems were foreseeable in 2017, after Trump won the election by tweeting. At that time TWTR's value was about $12B. I tried to imagine a tech entrepreneur who had just bought the United States. We're now living that nightmare.
Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US.
National Parks Contributed $55.6 Billion to U.S. economy, supported 415,000 Jobs in 2023.
FiveThirtyEight is shutting down as part of broader cuts at ABC and Disney.
You may think the Dems looked weak with their signs last night, but I think at least they were representing their voters’ interests, unlike the Repubs. If I were there I would have held a sign too. Too much Monday Morning Quarterbacking. They did something — that’s a start.
The Canada and Mexico tariffs would have devastated any manufacturers making cars in North America.
The Supreme Court Is Just One Vote Shy of Making Trump and Musk Kings.
“We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before,” Trump told Congress.
Volvo ES90 revealed: 800V beauty is midway between SUV, sedan and fastback.
My blog, scripting.com, has been a democracy blog since inception in 1994. All blogs have democracy as their foundation, imho. The idea of the “unedited voice of a person,” is revolutionary, esp for the times we live in.
Trudeau says Trump's 'dumb' trade war is designed to collapse the Canadian economy.
Fired US government workers with top security clearances were not given exit briefings, sources say.
The single most important thing about what Musk is doing is that it is Musk that is doing it.
One way is better than two, no matter how much better the new way is, you'll still have to support the old way.
Looks like the Washington Post is covering TrumpLand, not RealityLand.
Ontario will cut U.S. power 'with a smile on my face,' Ford says.
Trump's tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China could push up car prices by as much as $12,200.
Here's the latest from Hays, Kansas: Elon Musk fired my wife.
Dow tumbles more than 600 points, S&P 500 posts biggest loss since December as Trump says tariffs will proceed.
𝗬𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘄 you can get bold or italic text in your social media posts even though the software doesn't theoretically support styles in text.
Fired DOGE victims get to stare down Trump during big speech to Congress.
Ukrainian drones strike deep into Russia, hitting Ufa refinery. Interesting, now that the deal with the US is off they can go as far into Russia as they want. Ironically, Biden was protecting Putin better than The One With the Gaudy Hooker Makeup can.
Wisconsin Supreme Court race puts Trump and Musk at center stage.
Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow’s vision, Kremlin says.
Tesla store gets taken over by Musk protesters, 9 people arrested.
France has ‘trouble understanding’ US halt on cyber operations against Russia.
Chris Hardie: How far I'll go to make an RSS feed of your website.
“Democrats have been playing dead for too many years,” Sanders said.
Rubio Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4 Billion in Arms.
DOGE’s savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones.
Chris Lydon interview with Senator Angus King (I-Maine): "The most direct assault on the Constitution in our history."
“The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points.”
18F: We are dedicated to the American public and we're not done yet. Quite a message. Our kind of American. Let's fix this. Good idea.
An idea for our answer to MAGA: "One America Together."
Purple baseball caps. Ideally worn by everyone at the SOTU address, and chanted for every applause line.
Kind of the way Knicks fans say Doooooce when Deuce McBride gets a score.
If I understand correctly, this TechCrunch article is misleading the same way the Bluesky company misleads. There is no benefit to users of either app that they use the same complicated and new structure to communicate, where simpler and more established standards would work just as well.
Elon Musk’s quest for power has a new target: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court.
Anti-DEI push ends effort to plant trees in places that need them.
All or Nothing review: Michael Wolff details Trump’s bilious re-election campaign.
Loss to 76ers provides graphic proof why Warriors paid Butler.
Protestors Ambush Vance During Vermont Ski Weekend: ‘Go Ski in Russia.’
Former Gov. Cuomo announces run for New York City mayor, aiming for a political comeback.
How Knicks' Mitchell Robinson and Karl-Anthony Towns will look playing together.
VP Vance is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT.
Heather Cox Richardson: “Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.”
What to know about highly contagious measles and how to protect yourself
IRS rejected request for addresses of people believed to be in U.S. illegally.
Tears and shock in Ukraine and Europe after heated Zelensky-Trump meeting.
Advice to schools on Trump's DEI crackdown: Do nothing — yet.
Are You a Fired Federal Employee? Let Us Give You a Free Membership.
Amazon Alexa Plus Event 2025: live updates and product announcements.
The US Department of Education now has a DEI snitch form.
Republicans terrified of crossing Trump due to physical threats, Democrat says.
Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers to likely be unlawful.
Tesla is hit with a fresh class action about its self-driving claims, hardware 3 computer.
Not known for political coverage, Wired takes a leading role in tracking Elon Musk's team.
This scene from Goodfellas does a pretty good job showing of what Trump is doing with the US government. They aren't even trying to hide it.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, and corruption to American politics. (Yes, that's the big picture. They're recreating Russia, where all the functions of the state are being "sold" to oligarchs.)
“I know there’s a lot of power in that Oval Office, but I’ll take that power up against the power of 6 million pissed-off commuters in New York City,” Hochul said.
Musk was raised and educated in apartheid in South Africa and doesn't understand how our system of government works. He explains how he thinks it works.
Actor Gene Hackman and wife Betsy Arakawa found dead in Santa Fe home.
Musk is proving before our eyes, working 120 hours a week is not the same thing as doing a good job.
Unvaccinated child dies of measles in west Texas as outbreak worsens.
Heritage Foundation Presentation Details Plans To Doxx And Target Wikipeda Editors It Claims Are ‘Abusing Their Position.’
The feeds that are included in the Little Feed Reader on the Bluesky.
The Little Feed Reader account on Bluesky. Please follow it for an eclectic feed with news and various other topics.
Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning “free markets” no longer welcome at The Washington Post.
Bitcoin plunges as crypto fans didn’t get everything they wanted from Trump.
Bezos takes control at the Washington Post. I guess he has to with Musk controlling Twitter. I bet Bezos wishes he had built his own twitter.
How Much Elon Musk Pocketed in Government Funding Before DOGE.
I'm interested in knowing what browsers people who use WordLand are using, so I asked ChatGPT to write some code that makes sense of them in some human-readable way.
Musk’s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website.
This is what the would-be king of the USA hasn’t factored into His Holy Calculus.
Heather Cox Richardson’s nightly post shows that Congress is still in charge, and tells the story of what the Repubs are trying and failing to do.
Tesla Stock Falls 8% as Concerns About Elon Musk’s Political Role Grow.
Carville's 'play dead' plan: A death knell for democracy.
Polestar wants to poach Tesla customers with this trade-in promo.
What Would a Liberal Tea Party Look Like? The right question. But it shouldn't be liberal. It should just be American. This moment transcends liberal vs conservative.
Anthropic launches a new AI model that 'thinks' as long as you want.
Nazis Burned Trans Books To Usher In Fascism: Now Trump Does The Same.
Would have preferred if, when replacing Joy Reid, MSNBC had hired someone in Detroit or Miami, or St Louis or even for crying out loud Dallas. Or a different city each day. Put yourself where the people we have to convince are. We need to convince them of this: Enough is enough.
Trump somehow digs up $200 million for anti-immigrant ad campaign. There’s no limit to how stupid he thinks Americans are.
Pride of Cucamonga is my theme song for the great American revival. “Yes it’s me I’m the pride of Cucamonga.” And if you love our country you are too.
“People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power.”
Carville says you should kick back, maybe binge-watch Severance and wait for Trump to self-destruct.
Outside Tesla in the Philly suburbs, the green shoots of an American uprising.
45 minutes of Bernie Sanders on the road. Inspiring! :-)
Sanders gets it. Everyone should be out on the road like it's a campaign, because it is. It's no more or less an election season than any future election. We're in deep trouble in the US, let's start acting like it!
Republicans Face Angry Voters at Town Halls, Hinting at Broader Backlash.
Justice Department deletes federal police misconduct database.
Timothy Snyder: My favorite Europeans are nine years old.
On this day last year I had a motto for the Biden campaign: "Old enough to know better." They blew the #1 rule of marketing. Own your weakness and turn it into a positive. You can't avoid it. Might as well own it.
Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.
Kash Patel Tells FBI Employees To Ignore Elon Musk’s Justify-Your-Job Edict.
Why "move fast and break things" doesn't work for government.
Here's a good story for one of fierce courageous reporters at the NY Times. Who should be more scared of what's coming? Blacks or Jews?
Donald Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy.
2023: Watchdog calls for House committee to uninvite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after his comments are blasted as antisemitic.
“We want modern social media and public conversation online to work more like the early days of the web, where anyone could put up a blog or use RSS to subscribe to several blogs.” (Honestly this is BS. If you want to be like the web, then BE the web.)
The builders website has a blog, unfortunately no RSS feed linked to from its metadata. To help spread their advice and discoveries we need a feed.
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE.
Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Turmoil at Pentagon.
Trump to shut down all 8,000 EV charging ports at federal govt buildings.
"Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution."
Listen to this town hall. This is the prototype for every district in every state in the USA. The Tea Party of 2025 has begun.
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled.
Something you hear from Democratic politicians and MSNBC hosts. "We know why Musk is cutting so much, it's to fund a huge tax cut for billionaires." They don't actually know that and I doubt it's true.
Elon Musk’s private security detail gets deputized by US Marshals Service.
Nissan turning to Tesla as potential investor after Honda deal fell through.
As usual all you hear from journalism is how the news affects journalism.
Rand Paul Sheepishly Nods To Fact That Musk Is Not Supposed To Be In Charge Of Gov’t Funding.
Rivian will launch hands-off highway driver assist 'in a few weeks.'
AOC: “There is no act too small. Every action matters.”
Lots of good ideas from Rahm Emanuel on Kara Swisher's podcast. First, why is Musk downloading all the info from govt computers into his AI database? Now his AI will know everything about everyone. Want to find out who's not loyal to Trump? Easy. Now you know who the Stasi should arrest.
SS United States begins journey to become world's largest artificial reef.
Zach Seward's panel at Web Summit about how NY Times newsroom uses AI.
USDA says it “accidentally” fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them.
Call it the Gulf of Putin, because that’s who bought our ass.
Trump 2.0: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Good to have him back.
Pritzker invokes Nazi references, criticizing Trump, during budget speech.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Country Joe McDonald: I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die Rag.
Yelling Trump aide berates host as he loses cool live on CNN.
It sounds like Bluesky may have added a feature I was asking for — now you can limit replies to people you follow, and can set that as the default. If so that should cut down spam and abuse dramatically.
Congresswoman wants public holiday to be introduced in the US on Trump's birthday.
Bezos is, as always, 100% in the bag for Musk and Trump.
jwz: Bezos is, as always, 100% in the bag for Musk and Trump.
Protests ramp up across the country as rage builds against Trump and Musk.
I’ve been a developer for over 50 years, so my experience predates AI by a lot, and this guy is wrong. I get much more complete answers from AI than I got from StackExchange, and thus write better software. You could always be a shitty developer, but now it’s easier to be excellent.
The US government used to say things like this about slaves.
Americans have always sought debt relief after the holidays. Now their struggle is year-round.
Protesters target Tesla showrooms in US over Elon Musk’s government cost-cutting.
The three most likely ways Republicans will try to cut Medicaid.
“New York cannot be represented by someone whose loyalty to the city is compromised,” Mr. McCall wrote.
Sheryl Crow Sells Tesla, Donates Proceeds to National Public Radio.
Trump Is Gutting Efforts to Combat Foreign Election Interference.
People say our new Secy of Defense is stupid. I'm sure he's not, he just works for Putin. Don't forget what we figured out five years ago. It's still true today.
The Dems don't do positioning. The Repubs run circles around Dems. They are masters at positioning. It's not hard, you just have to decide to do it.
Trump layoffs include CDC disease outbreak investigators.
We have no leadership, no coaching, no simple ideas to bring it home. That's the main reason we continue to lose, and now we're not just losing elections, we're losing our world.
‘No Point Negotiating’ With Putin, Says Navalny’s Widow.
Musk is like The Joker, as played by Heath Ledger. “Do I look like a guy with a plan?” Heh. No.
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say.
Trump is almost 2 billion in debt and the amount is growing
Men claiming to be DOGE flee City Hall after demanding records.
Louisiana officially ends mass vaccinations as RFK Jr. comes to power.
Department of Education Told Employees to End Support for Transgender Students.
DOGE’s ‘Genius’ Coders Launch Website So Full Of Holes, Anyone Can Write To It.
Mark Cuban: Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten. #amen
Team Musk thinks U.S. should be governed by AI, not your vote.
The Overlook: Your New Voice in Community Journalism. Hey we got a new community news org. What a nice surprise! 😀
RFK Jr. sworn in as Trump's health secretary after close Senate vote. #here #we #go
What countries have the longest life expectancies in the world?
Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic.
Trump administration is set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas.
Elon Musk’s DOGE activities trigger protests, vandalism for Tesla. Vandalism is a bad idea, that's going to get the police involved. Peaceful noisy protest, hand out leaflets asking potential buyers to buy another car or get a used Tesla. It would help if $TSLA kept going down.
What would it take to create an alternative social network to Bluesky?
The Mavericks can’t undo the Luka trade, but they could try not salting the wound.
Musk’s stake in Tesla comprises the lion’s share of his wealth.
ChatGPT’s latest feature is a transformative leap for web research.
Not Hyperbole Anymore: Musk Is In Charge of the US Government.
Trump Taunted Over ‘Most Powerless Image Of A President’ Ever.
Musk Makes Broad Claims of Fraud Without Proof (or evidence even).
Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets.
It’s time to include RSS in the list of technologies the open social web is built on. To the extent that there's interop betw the two competing uber-protocols, it's coming from feeds. And it will be more so in the future.
With Trump and Musk driving U.S. policy, Kansas farmers have been played for suckers.
Paul McCartney rocks the Bowery. Inside his surprise NYC concert.
President Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes He Might Not Know How to Govern.
Cancel culture was inhumane. The question of whether it succeeded or not is just more cluelessness. It was just retribution, no more righteous than Trumpian retribution. Now we reap what you all sowed.
Retired federal judge doesn't see much that courts can do to stop Trump's actions.
CDC and FDA have until tonight to restore webpages, court rules.
The United States is governed by the people of the United States.
Something unthinkable to think about. China's social credit system. This wikipedia page appears pretty friendly to the Chinese government.
They've almost put the pieces together at the New Republic.
Paul Krugman explains why Trump wants to close the CFPB.
Focus on preventing H5N1 outbreaks, not containing them.
Trump demands $500B in rare earths from Ukraine for continued support.
Trump Administration Is Still Freezing Funds Despite Court Orders.
Rubio Floats Dark Plan to Deport U.S. Citizens to Third Country.
Trump suggests US may have less debt than thought because of fraud.
Hawks' Trae Young to replace injured Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo in NBA all-star game next weekend.
The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of DOGE.
Elon Musk’s rapid unscheduled disassembly of the US government.
Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK.
Locals protest Musk, DOGE outside of Tesla dealership.
I now have turned Bluesky into a feed reader. This is new. Pretty sure it wasn't ever done on Twitter either. Here's the first one. It might be fun if this post turned up over there. It could (that part is somewhat random).
I subscribed to Wired yesterday. Their coverage of the Musk coup is unparalleled, and I am a Wired alum, having written for them in the early days of the web. It was only $10 for a year.
Recommend listening to the segment of this week's On The Media about what's going on at the DoJ. I know you don't need more to be depressed about, but something big is changing there, and you should know. Begins at 12:51.
Do you take me for a fool? Do you think that I don't see That ditch out on Gitmo that they're digging just for me?
Trump’s Effort to End Basic Medical Research in the United States.
Ben Stiller Explains Why a Hudson Valley Diner is Worth the Trip.
Federal judge condemns Trump's attack on birthright citizenship from the bench.
How Sam Altman Sidestepped Elon Musk to Win Over Donald Trump.
In the midst of all the michegas, the Mets signed Pete Alonso for a two-year contract. We don't need any more butt-hurt these days.
To remove ourselves from the World Health Organization, and for him to refuse to let the CDC tell us how many Americans are contracting this deadly virus, the results will be the potential deaths of millions of people.
Feds putting the kibosh on national EV charging program.
Federal judge blocks Musk’s DOGE from access to Treasury Dept. material.
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified.
No funding, no future: Emory students will graduate into hopelessness.
The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games.
CDC funding delays under Trump affect rape crisis centers.
Trump attempts to fire Democratic FEC member Weintraub.
These Are Some of the Lawyers Working for Elon Musk’s DOGE.
Another thing to watch while you still can, "The Lives of Others," about life in East Germany under communist rule.
New “WikiTok” web app allows infinite TikTok-style scroll of Wikipedia.
Live bird markets in NYC, Long Island, Westchester shut down after 7 avian flu cases in poultry.
Josh Marshall on what the Dems in Congress have to do re budget and debt limit.
The Apple SuperBowl ad from 1984. It changed our culture. Gave us an ideal to hold tech companies to. Reminder that the generation before the Musks and Thiels had ideals that have been lost.
A SuperBowl ad from eight years ago. Watch it. I wonder if we'll see anything like this on Sunday? Makes me want to watch the game.
“He is trying to steal all of the working-class money, wealth and labor of this country to redistribute it back to himself.” #musk
“We started off with a network of writers, and ended up with business models of oligarchs. It's time to start building webs like we mean it and damn all the wannabe-billionaires.”
NFL will remove 'End Racism' from the end zones ahead of Super Bowl.
My neighborhood in America struggling two weeks since Trump takes office.
Warner Brothers Is Mysteriously Dumping Obscure and Wonderful Movies on YouTube for Free.
The Key Figures Working Alongside Elon Musk at DOGE and in the Trump Administration.
Elon Musk Is a National Security Risk. #understatement
Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you got 'til it's gone?
Defiant federal workers dig in as Musk’s ‘buyout’ deadline approaches.
Musk's DOGE granted access to US Medicare and Medicaid systems.
Trump White House Moves to Allow for a Musk Takeover of Government IT.
National Archives Workers Unsure If Marco Rubio Has Secretly Been Their Boss for Weeks.
NSA museum covered plaques honoring women and people of color, provoking an uproar.
NASA moves up target to return Butch and Suni, but not for political reasons.
If you’re curious about one place the mess we’re in leads, The Handmaid's Tale is recommended, either as a book or the Hulu series.
NBA trade rumors: Latest deadline news, updates on Kevin Durant, Jimmy Butler, Warriors, Lakers, Suns.
DOGE Employees Ordered to Stop Using Slack While Agency Transitions to Records System That Is Not Subject to FOIA
Strain of H5N1 bird flu that killed Louisiana resident found in Nevada dairies.
Why Is Warner Brothers Discovery Dumping Old Movies On YouTube?
The proposed bill is called the ELON MUSK Act, which stands for Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy.
The 24-Hour Reality Check: Musk’s Impossible Power Grab And America’s Crisis.
This is a very important must-read piece by Jamelle Bouie in the NYT, but I disagree with his description of Trump. He's not in charge. He's weak. He would be unable to muster the courage to shut down Musk. He's not Hitler, he's the Cowardly Lion from the Wizard of Oz.
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites.
Prisons and Bitcoin. El Salvador, and Marco Rubio's deal.
Elon Musk And His ‘Unknown Soldiers’ Have The Federal Workforce ‘On Edge.’
Why is Trump trying to ship US citizens and immigrants to El Salvador?
About 20,000 federal workers accept Trump's buyout offer.
There's finally some Tesla shareholder momentum to fire Elon Musk.
Musk Cronies Dive Into Treasury Dept Payments Code Base.
Trump admin sued over DOGE access to Treasury's sensitive data.
WW III is happening right now on the internet. Musk is aiming at money itself, not any specific country.
Trump’s moves across the federal government set up a looming legal battle.
Another in a series of experiments to bring RSS-based content into Bluesky.
RFK Jr. nomination as health secretary approved by key U.S. Senate panel.
We didn't appreciate how good we had it with our representative form of government.
The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s power grab: a coup veiled by chaos.
All the lunacy happening now is just a continuation of Jan 6. It’s what would have happened if the attempted coup in 2021 had been successful. And in that sense it was successful.
Fay Vincent’s final warning to MLB: ‘Gambling always leads to corruption.’
Rally tomorrow at the Treasury Bldg, Washington, 5PM Eastern.
Democratic senator to block Trump nominees over US aid agency shutdown.
Slate: Disruption may have become a badge of honor among tech bros. But when it comes to the nation’s food security, transit safety, market stability, access to electricity, and preservation of civil rights, disruption for the sake of disruption is dangerous.
My "Little Feed Reader" on Bluesky using ATProto is a good mix of hard news and creative writing. Only the best stuff. Fairly well randomized. Give it a try. I'm going to try out some new ideas there soon.
The Twitter Files Playbook Comes For The US Government.
With the world falling apart around us, it's nice that we can fall back to the tragedies of sports.
That Giant Sucking Sound? It’s Climate Change Devouring Your Home’s Value.
Trump Is Doing Exactly What He Said He Would. Who Could Have Predicted That?
We are lost, and now we have some unelected people who represent absolutely no one, who have taken control of our government, without our permission. And we are not happy with what our elected representatives are doing about it. This goes equally for reps from both major parties.
All the latest on the NBA trades at the Bluesky feed reader for the NBA. #atproto #ftw
All the latest on the NBA trades at the Bluesky feed reader for the NBA. #atproto #ftw
dave.feediverse.org is an interesting bluesky account to follow. it joins all my flows outside of bluesky that have rss feeds into one bluesky channel. coming up with new ways to interop. still diggin! :-)
Dow futures drop more than 450 points after Trump hits U.S. trading partners with tariffs.
Did Casino Billionaire Miriam Adelson Orchestrate Luka to Lakers?
Elon Musk’s DOGE Sowing Chaos In National Park Service.
A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deck — that’s not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work!
Breaking Down OPM’s ‘Fork in the Road’ Email to Federal Workers.
Thousands of protesters rally in downtown Los Angeles against Trump's aggressive immigration policies.
Why Write About the Illegality of What Trump and Musk are Doing?
The brutal impact of Trump’s executive order attack on trans people.
I'm 99.9% sure, as crazy as it sounds, when Musk is finished with his software project, you will have to use X for everything related to the government. To pay taxes, to receive health care, to renew your passport. And if you try to arrest him, he'll stop paying interest on the US debt, and that will be the end of the dollar as the reserve currency. He won't just control the US government, he will control the world economy
The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover.
Thanks to Heather Cox Richardson, Timothy Snyder, David Frum for fantastic pieces posted in the middle of last night. We are having a fresh awakening in this country and in the end we may come to thank Musk and Trump for facilitating this.
I whipped up a little manifesto. "The tea party of 2025." What do you think?
Timothy Snyder explains. Musk will have shorted stocks, and wants to destroy the dollar so his crypto becomes the only way to store value. And more. Must read.
The time for the Dems to arrive at a "coherent message" to combat Trump was on Inauguration Day in 2021. We slept our way through four years when we should have been dismantling the movement he started. Now they're dismantling the United States.
Heather Cox Richardson’s report about the ongoing destruction of the US government.
Simon & Schuster imprint will no longer ask authors to obtain blurbs for their books.
Musk aides gain access to sensitive Treasury Department payment system.
It seems the FAA office overseeing SpaceX’s Starship probe still has some bite.
Trump’s Guantánamo Expansion for Migrants Reopens Old Wounds.
Trump says he opened California’s water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
Matt is a platform vendor, the open sourceness of Wordpress doesn’t change that.
I did a rewrite of the oursocialweb.org home page. I hope the people doing social web work at FOSDEM will consider this point of view.
Here are the apps battling to be become the 'TikTok for Bluesky.'
For 20 years, WordPress existed without much drama—now it's at the center of a big fight that won't be over soon.
Elon Musk is reportedly taking control of the inner workings of US government agencies.
Scripting News: Advice to would-be platform vendors. Oh for more innocent times when we didn’t worry about the government killing us, just platform vendors.
Trump thinks he turned on the Central Valley Project yesterday.
Trump Officials Release Water That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use.
Treasury official retires after clash with DOGE over access to payment system.
Who Can Stop Elon’s ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Through the Federal Government?
After a week of trying to push civil servants out of jobs all over the federal government, Musk set his sights Friday on the U.S. Treasury’s payment systems.
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous.
FBI Agents Are Stunned by the Scale of the Expected Trump Purge.
‘Severance’ Features Upstate New York Restaurant Phoenicia Diner. One of my favorite places to eat in Phoenicia, NY.
Donald Trump vows retribution at first 2024 presidential rally in Waco. A lot of us didn't listen because we didn't want to believe he could win. Now it's worth another listen. Read this article first.
"If Trump wants your opinion, he’ll tell you what he wants it to be."
2016: "But there are technologies that went a different way. My favorite example is Manhattan's relationship to Central Park. The apartment buildings around the park are the money, and the creativity is in the park. The buildings are exclusive, the most expensive real estate in the world. The park is open to anyone, rich or poor, from anywhere in the world. "
The Handmaid's Tale, if you haven’t seen it you probably should, it’s been remarkably prescient.
Developers if they have had experience with platform vendors, assume that at some point the platform vendor will kill them. The question is can you find a way to get most of what you want before you are killed. ;-)
Good thread on micro.blog about archiving MP3s used in podcasting.
The Nicaraguans who keep Wisconsin’s dairy farms, restaurants and factories working are sending home their most prized possessions, bracing for potential mass deportations.
How Trump calling immigration an ‘invasion’ could help him stretch the law. (CNN is doing its job here, explaining the consequences of Trump's misleading hype.)
I think what Matt is saying is that he's been financing the development of WordPress and his competitors have been getting a free ride.
What’s happening isn’t a change in the WordPress community itself but the emergence of a parallel one.
The Severance writer and cast on corporate cults, sci-fi, and more.
He’s the same asshole who lied about Covid testing in 2020, and masks, and lockdowns, then vaccines, even though he and his family were vaccinated. We had a four year reprieve, and surprise, he’s still a huge asshole.
Mark Zuckerberg teases a 2025 return to 'OG Facebook.'
Political reporters are actively covering up Trump’s racism.
Nvidia’s latest AI trick made our mediocre webcam mic sound practically professional.
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral.
I have a better question for the author of this article about how men "seem" to him (and thus holding them responsible for how they seem). Would you so publicly ask similar questions of women for their collective seeming personality flaws and expect to get away with it?
Nikola Jokic says the surging New York Knicks are a 'top-5 candidate' to win the NBA title.
Federal workers warned not to take Trump resignation offer.
Even a fraction of the workforce accepting buyouts could send shockwaves through the economy and trigger widespread disruptions throughout society as a whole.
"Later on, we'll ask NPR why they didn't warn us that the Repubs were making abortion pills illegal, as we suspected they would."
BTW, the problem with apps like this is they have to find a common subset of functionality between the various platforms and in some important ways there is no intersection and the product can't work. We got there around 2017 and gave up. Nothing has changed here. This kind of interop has to come between the platforms themselves.
Automattic and others back Openvibe, an app that's unifying the open social web. (It's ridiculous that they call it the open social web. The fact that such an app is needed says everything you need to know about how open this supposed web is.)
Donald Trump on Mt Rushmore. Donald Trump on the $20 bill. The Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial renamed Trump. Kennedy airport in NYC renamed Trump International. In the future the US will have one founding father: Donald J. Trump.
Krugman: "For a while I tried to make up for the loss of the blog with threads on Twitter. But even before Elon Musk Nazified the site, tweet threads were an awkward, inferior substitute for blog posts."
Krugman is in his heart a blogger, and we're glad to get him back.
Highly recommend episode 6 of season 2 of the Long Shadow podcast. It's about the rise of Trump as a political figure. I had forgotten the sequence of events, and there were parts of the story I didn't know. Begins with Trayvon Martin and #BLM.
Caroline Kennedy reads her letter to Senators about her cousin's nomination to be Secretary of Health and Human Services.
IMDb Founder Col Needham Steps Down as CEO After 35 Years.
Trillion-dollar disruptor: China's DeepSeek upends AI world overnight.
Trump Administration Halts HIV Drugs in Poor Countries.
Rolling Stone: The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time.
Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness.
Why Trump won't be deporting "millions" of "criminal aliens."
Meta AI can now use your Facebook and Instagram data to personalize its responses.
‘Severance’ Features Upstate New York Restaurant Phoenicia Diner.
First outbreak of rare bird flu strain reported at California poultry farm.
“The level of anticipatory obedience we’re seeing from business, universities and the media is unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.”
Nvidia, chip stocks plummet amid market sell-off as DeepSeek prompts questions over AI spending.
Mel Gibson and Republicans call Trump a 'Daddy.' Here's why.
Immigrants — many of them undocumented — make up most of the farm labor force
About 150 NY & NJ locals were charged in the Capitol riots. Here’s where some are now.
Bill Gates: Trump, Musk and how my neurodiversity made me.
Cory Doctorow on Bluesky’s conundrum. They are in a tight spot. I don’t think accepting AT Proto as an open protocol is a good bet for users and other devs. The only good bet is still RSS. And forget about federation, only the really shitty features need it.
Trump starts fight with Colombia over nothing. Important info about world banking system.
Marc Andreessen sees: "A world in which human wages crash from AI.” He’s a Silicon Valley VC and a close adviser of the new president.
I believe this is part of the archive of the DOJ website for their Jan 6 work.
Isn't it funny how the two political forces we thought we completely defeated in the 90s are coming back for their revenge.
"In a few days, there will be no one in prison or facing any sort of criminal penalty for their actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."
"In a few days, there will be no one in prison or facing any sort of criminal penalty for their actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa.
Trump wiped January 6 convicts’ records clean. Now his DOJ is wiping evidence of rioters’ crimes from the internet.
Ex-Democratic Strategist James Carville Says Better to Let Donald Trump ‘Punch Himself Out.’
Donald Trump says he believes the US will 'get Greenland.'
This may be the actual moment when you need to change the name of The New York Times to something like The New York Junkies. Put the old grey lady out of her misery.
Respectfully, Mr President, you can’t fire the IGs so easily, says the IG.
Senator's Contraception Begins at Erection Act would criminalize masturbation.
Real estate firms pivot to energy development amid booming data center demand.
‘The reign of terror is over’: my weird weekend partying with the triumphant tech right.
Musk tells Germans to get over 'past guilt' in speech to far-right AfD rally.
Tesla refuses to do the right thing about 'Full Self-Driving' transfers.
Billy Wilder in 1945: "The optimists died in the gas chambers, the pessimists have pools in Beverly Hills."
Neil Gaiman's publisher cancels future works after sexual misconduct allegations.
As California AI data centers grow, so does dirty energy.
Through the blizzard of edicts, see Trump for what he is: an autocrat reaching for limitless power.
Trump signs anti-abortion policies after speaking to March for Life.
Before the election, Heritage Foundation staffers flooded federal agencies with records requests, looking for employees whose emails and messages contained terms like “climate change" or “DEI,” so they could be purged by a second Trump administration.
'You're Going To Be In Rough Shape': Rivian CEO To Rivals Backing Off EVs.
New Hampshire man arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6 rejects Trump’s pardon.
Before declaring democracy over, as our major news orgs and tech companies seem to have, remember there are still 50 states, most of whom still seem to accept that votes must be counted, and the winner is who gets the most, not the one who sends in a mob to trash the Capitol.
Judge bars Oath Keepers founder, freed from prison by Trump, from visiting Capitol.
California farm workers scared to work over deportation fears.
Dems Worry Sen. Whitehouse Considering Vote for RFK Jr.
Dems Worry Sen. Whitehouse Considering Vote for RFK Jr.
Cancer survivors share their stories and lives with NPR.
Team Trump Says Mark Zuckerberg Has ‘More Ass-Kissing’ to Do.
2023: Jack Smith is doing the attorney general’s job for him, 28 months after it should have been done.
Krugman on why he left the Times. If you want to understand how the NYT became so awful, read this piece. He really spells it out in a way I've never seen before. Thank you PK for leaving and for telling the tale of why. We (readers) are getting a much better deal now.
Trump officials pause health agencies’ communications, citing review.
‘It was carnage. It was chaos,’ Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards says of Jan. 6 attack.
January 31, the Democratic National Committee is meeting in National Harbor, Maryland to select a new party chair and chart their path out of last year's catastrophe.
I wish we, as an industry, had something better to offer than Substack.
The Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is a Big Test for the Constitution.
A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order by the great Elie Mystal.
Polestar sees Elon's antics as an opportunity to steal sales from Tesla.
Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp'.
Trump could say that since he got away with it, those who were acting on his behalf should as well.
Convicted US Capitol rioter Pam Hemphill turns down Trump pardon.
They assaulted cops, trashed our Capitol, and tried to overthrow the US government. (I rewrote their headline to more accurately represent what happened.)
Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy.
As a Tesla Model Y owner, I've had enough. I'm also a child of Holocaust survivors. Musk doing a Nazi salute behind the seal of the president is too much. In memory of my parents and grandparents, I have to do something.
Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute while standing behind the seal of the President of the United States summarizes the reprehensible first day of the second Trump regime.
Trump launches savage attack on bishop who asked for ‘mercy’ for minorities.
Self-contained isolated silos make progress impossible. We need an internet of ideas.
Trump gave pardons to hundreds of violent Jan. 6 rioters. Here's what they did.
A Texas photographer finds himself shoulder to shoulder with rioters on January 6, 2021.
If you owned a Tesla and could afford to write off the cost, what would be a good way to demonstrate disgust for the company? Selling it wouldn’t mean much.
Peter Thiel hosts Silicon Valley elite ahead of Trump’s inauguration.
When Trump ran for re-election he got the consideration any major party candidate would get from the press. As he is getting now as a newly sworn-in president.
Trump's TikTok Executive Order and the Limits of Executive Non-Enforcement.
Elon Musk is playing Hitler. We're not idiots. Next time he'll have a swastika armband and will complain about people saying he's Hitler. Not sure what we can do about it right now, but this is also not a controversy, it's fact.
Andreessen Horowitz co-founders explain why they're supporting Trump.
Trump’s Ugly New Post-Shooting Rant Instantly Wrecks His “Unity” Pivot.
Many Judges Don't Recuse in Cases Involving Their Families’ Interests.
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War. Highly recommended.
Outcast upgrade notes: "Playback begins after the download completes, not after a portion of it is buffered." That was the initial design of podcasting, and its justification, at a time when networks were comparatively much slower.
The Dismissal of the Trump Documents Case Is Yet More Proof: The Institutionalists Have Failed.
Backdoor sneaked into fake AWS package was downloaded hundreds of times.
Trump Allies Bully Dems, Media to Shut Up About His Fascist Plans.
Tech, Crunched: How the go-to site for startup news lost its way.
NYT -- put one of your readers on the op-ed page, so we can talk to your readers about you. It would be the bravest and smartest thing you ever did.
AOC had a simple message for an unnamed senior Democrat who reportedly said the party had “resigned ourselves” to a second Trump presidency: “Retire.”
Scripting News: Stay sane even though the news is trying to make us crazy.
MSNBC, FOX And CNN All Saw Massive Drops In Viewership Last Week.
One of the most striking things about the “should Biden drop out” saga is the extent to which it has been a completely insular affair. #amen
Attempted Trump Assassination Triggers a Flood of MAGA BS.
The shownotes for the podcast I did 20 years ago today.
20 years ago today Dan Bricklin wrote: Software That Lasts 200 Years. We're ten percent of the way there! :-)
Prosecutor says shooter and 1 attendee are dead at Trump Pennsylvania rally.
Richard Simmons, fitness personality and TV host, dead at 76.
Give people something to link to so they can talk about your features and ideas.
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, pioneering sex therapist, dies at 96.
I'm not a big fan of comments, and certainly not interested in comments on my podcasts. What a horrible thought. All the abusers living rent free in my head.
I wanted to see if my browser supports the marquee element from the ancient web. It does.