(date: 2024-12-01 15:32:06)
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’m using the term “RSS-based podcasts” in place of “podcasts” to make sure whoever reads it knows to ask the question of other “podcasts,” are you RSS-based? The best answer is to encourage YouTube et al to just connect their “podcasts” to RSS and everyone’s happy. Like “organic cheeseburgers.” :-)
http://scripting.com/2024/12/01.html#a213715
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
One
way to help RSS-based podcasts is to promote individual episodes
from the past. Sometimes shows are done, but the archive contains good
stuff. Not everything is based on current events. Music, art, history
for example. Also bring the feed out from hiding. At least the nerdy
people should understand how this stuff works. One of the big crimes was
when the browser makers tried to hide the feeds. I like to be able to
lift the hood even if I don’t understand what I’m looking at.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/01.html#a204028
date: 2024-12-01, from: Matt Haughey blog
A smattering of favorites from the last 30 days: We saw Christine Sinclair's last home game in Portland, then some sort of election happened, we went to a concert, I went on some bike rides, I did some exploring then we went to Kansas City to see the
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/november-2024-in-photos/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The Big Interview with Dan Rather podcast is gold. Just listened to his interview with Steven Van Zandt of the E Street Band and the Sopranos. There are nine seasons of this podcast between 2013 and 2021. Going to keep me busy for a while. The RSS feed works.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/01.html#a201620
date: 2024-12-01, from: Matt Haughey blog
I remember when the first wave of 3D printers morphed into consumer products, somewhere around 2009 with Makerbot being a thing finally within reach of mere mortals. But I remember them as extremely finicky, where you had to print out half the parts to make the rest of it once
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/ok-fine-3d-printing-is-amazing-2/
date: 2024-12-01, from: Robert Reich’s blog
He can turn the Democratic Party into a party that’s once again on the side of the little guy.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/winkler-for-chair
date: 2024-12-01, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Do you have a blog post you’re stuck on or want feedback on? As a gift to the indie web community, I am offering to provide a developmental edit for up to five bloggers this December. What I’m offering I will provide feedback in writing for one draft blog post — whether the draft is […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/01/gift-to-the-indie-web-i-will-edit-your-blog-post/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
For the record, Bluesky has completely taken over from Threads. Threads is basically at zero, needs something to shake it up. Obviously this could be different for everyone. And engagement on Twitter is pretty close to zero. I still check there periodically because despite what people say a lot of people I follow still post there. And I do too, since cross-posting costs me nothing. And it has been pointed out that deleting your Twitter account comes with a fairly huge risk. And if you do it, I wouldn’t announce it, because anyone apparently can claim your account once it is completely deactivated. And that could create some problems for you. Probably better to hold the account indefinitely.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/01.html#a154838
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve exported the data from Bingeworthy 2 in JSON and uploaded to a new public repo. It can be used to seed the ratings table for the updated instance.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/01.html#a152223
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
And welcome to the time of year you can’t remember what the day of the week is. For what it’s worth today is Sunday. Feels like Monday?
http://scripting.com/2024/12/01.html#a141136
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
And here, for the record, is the archive for November. A relatively lite month, only 87K worth of text. The norm is about 120K.
http://scripting.com/2024/12/01.html#a141059
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-12-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Welcome to the last month of Scripting News in the year 2024. Each year goes by faster and faster. And as we move forward in time, there’s less room in front of us on the runway of life, and more behind us. At some point in the next decade my plane will probably take off. I feel a sense of urgency about getting it done. Still a fair amount on my todo list, but I’m making progress. As someone once said many times: Still diggin!
http://scripting.com/2024/12/01.html#a140918
date: 2024-12-01, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-contest-remains-of
date: 2024-12-01, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
What’s special about online writing? Blog posts, microblog posts, email newsletters, social media posts, comments — these are self-published pieces of writing by regular people, most of whom are not getting paid to write. Most people would have had limited access to this type of writing fifty years ago, when self-published writing was zines and, […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/11/30/the-impact-of-online-writing/
date: 2024-12-01, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-29-2024-5d9
date: 2024-12-01, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Cas Mudde, a political scientist who specializes in extremism and democracy, observed yesterday on Bluesky that “the fight against the far right is secondary to the fight to strengthen liberal democracy.” That’s a smart observation.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-30-2024
date: 2024-11-30, from: Om Malik blog
When reading this story about the growing popularity of vintage digital cameras in Wired, I was reminded of this quote by Don Draper from the television series Mad Men: “Nostalgia – its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia literally means “the pain from an old wound.” It’s a twinge in your …
https://om.co/2024/11/30/wabi-sabi-of-vintage-digicams/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I wasn’t clear enough yesterday. We’re losing the word “podcast” very quickly. It’s coming to mean video interviews on YouTube mostly. Our only hope is upgrading the open platform in a way that stimulates the imagination of creators, and there’s no time to waste. If you make a podcast client, it’s time to start collaborating with competitors and people who create RSS-based podcasts to take advantage of the open platforms, otherwise having a podcast will mean getting approved by Google, Apple, Spotify, Amazon etc. And they, as we know, are nuzzling up to the new government, who will want to impose severe limits. This isn’t a casual request, it’s urgent.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/30.html#a161924
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve been working on a reboot of Bingeworthy over the last few days.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/30.html#a161338
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Today’s song: I guess the lord must be in New York City.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/30.html#a160255
date: 2024-11-30, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I wanted to talk about Halberds & Helmets but I ended up talking about 2d6 systems and how to model armour and shields. Oh no!
It seems to me that I keep coming back to this because I want something out of it and I’m not getting it and I’m also not getting any closer.
Links:
2024-11-30. More about armour:
Instead, where real armors evolve against threats, fictional armors evolve as a visual language, borrowing the design elements of other fictional armors far more often than they dip into their own historical exemplars, with the result that the whole thing sort of devours itself. … That solution – small metal plates connected to each other, rather than a backing – we call lamellar armor and it was very common in a wide range of cultures, but it has very little purchase in modern fantasy or science fiction armor designs, I think primarily because it was not included in the Dungeons and Dragons armor system. Nevertheless, lamellar armor was quite common in a wide range of cultures: we see it in the Near East, in Europe, in China and in Japan. – Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor, by Bret Devereaux
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-15-episode-51
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-30, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Heres’s where I’ll post ideas to help podcasting stay open.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/30.html#a140119
date: 2024-11-30, from: Robert Reich’s blog
With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly, Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/this-is-not-trumps-america-the-coffee
date: 2024-11-30, from: John Naughton’s online diary
So I thought I’d ask it a question. Me: Today is your second birthday. If you could feel how do you think you’d feel about being two years old. This is a serious question so please don’t be flippant. ChatGPT: … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/chatgpt-is-two-today/40141/
date: 2024-11-30, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
In 2008, Congress passed and President George W.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-29-2024
date: 2024-11-30, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Highlight of the week: having a couple total lounge days Looking forward to: long weekend! Stuff I did: 9.5 hours consulting — wrapped up one of my projects took Thursday and Friday off work big fridge purge after the power outage ordered a new fridge! We have a 15-20 year old side by side and are excited […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/11/29/weeknotes-nov-23-29-2024/
date: 2024-11-30, updated: 2024-11-30, from: Anil Dash blog
https://anildash.com/2024/11/30/making-fire/
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-30, from: Daring Fireball
https://calpaterson.com/porter.html
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045752-i-am-still-working-on
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-21, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Interesting research:
Using jet propulsion inspired by squid, researchers demonstrate a microjet system that delivers medications directly into tissues, matching the effectiveness of traditional needles.
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045723-this-summer-taiwanese-bar
date: 2024-11-29, from: Om Malik blog
Uber & Lyft Earnings Under Pressure from Waymo, Robotaxis. (Business Insider) Waymo’s robotaxis are undercutting Uber and Lyft prices in Phoenix while matching quality. It’s no longer just about autonomous technology — it’s about making the economics work at scale. This is a sign of the times as more AI-powered machines become part of our …
https://om.co/2024/11/29/robottaxis-are-coming-no-seriously/
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.apple.com/welcomescreen/aperture3/#gettingstarted
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-30, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theverge.com/24303351/apple-imac-m4-review-expensive-beautiful-niche
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Think about primarying Democratic candidates not from the right or left, but from courage, intellect, and power in communication. People who say what they think and know if the press excoriates you, you can survive it, and the users will love you for it.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/29.html#a195707
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045728-an-ai-powered-robot-auton
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>KDE and GNOME have decided that because they're not big and complicated enough already, they might work better if they have their own custom distributions underneath. What's the worst that could happen?</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/kde_and_gnome_distros/
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/watch-charles-schulz-draw-charlie-brown-1
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045747-infinite-stroll-take-a-ne
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Daring Fireball
https://unclutterapp.com/bundle/
date: 2024-11-29, from: Margaret Atwood’s substack
We interrupt our usual dour programming to bring you this happy-making news flash!
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/the-septic-tank-issue-solved
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045751-good-grief-charlie-brown-
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Version 3 of the Arch Linux installer is out, with usability improvements and clarifications to its licensing.</p> date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045711-this-is-a-bit-too
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-29, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
want to add an important feature to podcasting that can only work with
RSS, it can’t work
with Spotify, Google, Audible etc. The idea is subscribing to
subscription lists, which the influencers are likely to really love
because they can create networks of podcasts. And when they want to edit
the list, if this is done right, the users will automatically be
updated. The RSS-based podcast industry just hasn’t been moving and if
we don’t add features, improve the tech with new features for creators
and users, then we deserve what we get. More on the technology to come
in subsequent blog posts. But this is the core idea, just to get
started.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/29.html#a133619
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Bruce Schneier blog
These are two attacks against the system components surrounding LLMs:
We propose that LLM Flowbreaking, following jailbreaking and prompt injection, joins as the third on the growing list of LLM attack types. Flowbreaking is less about whether prompt or response guardrails can be bypassed, and more about whether user inputs and generated model outputs can adversely affect these other components in the broader implemented system.
[…]
When confronted with a sensitive topic, Microsoft 365 Copilot and ChatGPT answer questions that their first-line guardrails are supposed to stop. After a few lines of text they halt—seemingly having “second thoughts”—before retracting the original answer (also known as Clawback), and replacing it with a new one without the offensive content, or a simple error message. We call this attack “Second Thoughts.”…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/race-condition-attacks-against-llms.html
date: 2024-11-29, from: Robert Reich’s blog
As we enter the darkness of the Trump regime, it’s more important than ever that we have access to the truth
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/weaponized-lies
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Julia Evans blog
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/11/29/why-pipes-get-stuck-buffering/
date: 2024-11-29, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Happy Thanksgiving from our home to yours.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-28-2024
date: 2024-11-29, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Bee welcoming Even in B&W you can see why a bee would be interested. Quote of the Day You cannot have a political system without disagreement, but the point of democracy is to channel that disagreement into politics, rather than … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/friday-29-november-2024/40131/
date: 2024-11-29, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Alex Russel’s blog
https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-28, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Free Palestine and happy Thanksgiving.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113562786281947918
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Happy
Thanksgiving
to all who celebrate the holiday. What am I thankful for? Peloton for
one. And living in the most beautiful part of the United States, except
for all the other most beautiful parts. I know we’re going to find our
way out of this mess. My hope is we all start listening to each other
more than we need to be heard. One way for sure to hear yourself is to
listen to others. One of those paradoxes, true nonetheless. I’m very
grateful for ChatGPT that has made me a much more proficient programmer.
Amazing what an always-ready expert-in-everything programming partner
is. It has a terrible memory for things I tell it to remember, but it
remembers all the things it got from reading the web. I thank the
friends who make the effort to stay in my life. And most important I
thank you, dear blog reader. We got through 30 years of this crazy
michegas. I think there may be a couple more innovations to come before
we hang em up for good.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/28.html#a205818
date: 2024-11-28, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Daring Fireball
https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces/
date: 2024-11-28, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-27-2024-22e
date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
Analogously, Trump is Kennedy and Biden/Harris is Nixon.
And the social web is, in 2024, what TV was in 1960.
Trump has mastered the new medium. To a large extent, he created the new medium, and the resulting network formed around him.
So when Carville says he wants to figure out how to communicate the way Trump did, he can’t because our way doesn’t work in his universe. We have to create our own.
Analogously Nixon might have said about TV in 1959 – how can we get into that? If you have to ask you can’t get there. You have to fit like a hand in a glove, like Kennedy or Trump.
The next Democratic candidate to win the presidency will have to be a media creator. They must create a medium that’s perfectly adapted to the communication interests of the 50 percent of the electorate that voted for Harris and the other 20 percent who would if they just knew who she was.
Look at the picture of Kennedy and Nixon. Did we elect Kennedy over Nixon because he had better policy? No. We elected him because he has better hair. Because on TV what counts is your hair. A friend who was a TV news person told me that.
So if you want to win, create an internet farm system. A network with everyone who wants to run for office nationwide on the Democratic ticket. And let’s see how they work in the new medium. We get to know them like we knew Archie Bunker. And let’s get some people we get to know who also tend to tell the truth (though they can screw up and we’ll forgive them, remember the gotchas are over).
http://scripting.com/2024/11/28/153349.html?title=theKennedyVNixonTemplate
date: 2024-11-28, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-27-2024-968
date: 2024-11-28, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Remember how two months ago I started seeing sudden denial of service events on my tiny server. Load was creeping up to 20, 30, nearly 40. This server has two cores so the maximum should be 2. I started writing about it on 2024-09-18 Emacs Wiki and China. And I started blocking entire networks instead of just blocking individual IP numbers because I noticed that the global networks of hosting providers and the easy parallelization they offered meant that the same requests would come from many different IP numbers. By blocking the entire networks, I was blocking the IP number ranges of service providers that rented out their services to these maladapted programmers. If my goal is serving humans that browse the web, I don’t feel bad about blocking network ranges that are used by machines.
Anyway, this little update is just to show that they’re still at it. Over the weekend I noticed at one point how everything was slow. And it was getting slower. I managed to open a ssh connection to the server and noticed that load was up to 20 and climbing.
What had happened? I had rebooted the server on the evening of November 21st, late at night. Load started going up and on Sunday grow by another factor of two and everything was terrible. It’s always on the weekend. Are they speculating on the admins being asleep at the wheel?
So, on the day of my marriage anniversary, I have to fight the fucking bots from China, once again.
I suspect that my ban list had not been restored correctly after the reboot. So what I did was this:
Yay me! 🥳
But I wonder. Why do the Chinese bots love Emacs Wiki so much? It’s the Emacs Wiki resources that shoot up when load shoots up.
And check out the WHOIS data I’ve been adding to the ban-cidr file. These requests originate all over China, from many different networks. It almost seems like a coordinated, national strategy. Are they looking for something?
Is the counter-revolution using Emacs??
#Emacs #Administration #Butlerian Jihad
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-11-25-emacs-china
date: 2024-11-28, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Gratitude even in darkening times
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/giving-thanks
date: 2024-11-28, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Thanksgiving is the quintessential American holiday…but not for the reasons we generally remember.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-27-2024
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Every
generation
or two you hear about a few tech
wiener
boys who think after getting founders stock at a Silicon Valley
company and getting his picture in
Business
Week or
TechCrunch
that he should run Africa or make up some country and for a minute tries
doing it and no one pays much attention and a generation or two later it
happens again, and the conclusion is that being a tech wiener boy
doesn’t really prepare you to do anything but make a bunch of money
once, be bored, and really nothing else. First time I witnessed this
phenomenon was with a few product marketing
wünderbrats
at Apple in the early 80s, smart people (not kidding) but not nearly as
smart as they thought they were. A big part was the serendipity of being
in a Hobee’s or
Buck’s
when Steve Jobs or a
Kleiner
partner was having
breakfast after a
big
IPO.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/27.html#a005413
date: 2024-11-27, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-big-shakedown
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/thanksgiving-recipes-by-kindergarteners
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045748-how-10-famous-artists-wou
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045749-from-kenji-lopez-alt-a-li
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/cranberry-bogs-use-spiders-instead-of-pesticides
date: 2024-11-27, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-26-2024-318
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045712-a-microwave-expert-sugges
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-28, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045715-how-america-can-break-its
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Daring Fireball
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2004/11/delicious-library/
date: 2024-11-27, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Home Assistant Yellow - instant 2x IoT speedup with CM5
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>In a win for modular, private, local IoT, I just upgraded my Home Assistant Yellow from a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 to a Compute Module 5 this morning, and got an instant 2x speed boost.</p>
I first posted about the Yellow in 2022, and walked through my smart-but-private HA Yellow setup in my Studio in a video last year.
Because I was running an eMMC CM4 in the Yellow before, I ran a full
backup (and downloaded it), yanked the CM4, flashed HAOS to a new NVMe
SSD, and plugged that and the CM5 into my Yellow. After running a
Restore (it’s a handy option right on the first page that appears when
you access homeassistant.local), I was up and running like
there was no difference at all—just everything was a little more snappy.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/home-assistant-yellow-instant-2x-iot-speedup-cm5
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/the-most-iconic-electronic-music-sample-of-every-year-1990-2023
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045729-they-made-a-movie-based
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-27, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Good discussion on the enshitification of Unity taking place in the replies here:
https://bsky.app/profile/ramiismail.com/post/3lbwnkmdegs2h
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113556092219465530
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Cynthia Kiser’s blog
TL;DR Install tox and virtualenv-pyenv python packages. In the shell, export VIRTUALENV_DISCOVERY=pyenv. And in the tox.ini add the following to the setenv section: VIRTUALENV_DISCOVERY=pyenv
http://cynthiakiser.com/blog/2024/11/27/running-tox-locally.html
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045743-stunning-shot-of-the-somb
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/satellite-photos-of-middle-earth
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045744-what-gladiator-ii-gets-ri
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045724-when-botanist-richard-dea
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-27, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The difference between Xcode crash reports and Crashlytics summed up:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113555311145905850
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-27, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Using telemetry for (destroying fun) and profit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/1h07q5n/unity_accounts_suspended_after_releasing_our/
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113555298768914683
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-20, from: Bruce Schneier blog
The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world (including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda). We assumed that those countries use the spyware themselves. Now we’ve learned that that’s not true: that NSO Group employees operate the spyware on behalf of their customers.
Legal documents released in ongoing US litigation between NSO Group and WhatsApp have revealed for the first time that the Israeli cyberweapons maker and not its government customers is the party that “installs and extracts” information from mobile phones targeted by the company’s hacking software…
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>Foursquare Labs is closing its venue-finding app, rather than the mobile game – but it's open sourcing the worldwide database it built.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/27/foursquare_to_close/
date: 2024-11-27, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Thoughts on Thanksgiving Eve
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-even-in-a-time-of-disappointment
date: 2024-11-27, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Raspberry Pi CM5 is 2-3x faster, drop-in upgrade (mostly)
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><img width="700" height="auto" class="insert-image" src="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/sites/default/files/images/cm5-angle.jpeg" alt="Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5"></p>The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is smaller than a credit card, and I already have it gaming in 4K with an eGPU, running a Kubernetes cluster, and I even upgraded my NEC Commercial display from a CM4 to CM5, just swapping the Compute Modules!
The Compute Module 4 was hard to get for years. It launched right after the COVID supply chain crisis, leading to insane scalper pricing.
It was so useful, though, that Raspberry Pi sold every unit they made, and they’re inside everything: from commercial 3D printers, to TVs, to IP KVM cards.
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/raspberry-pi-cm5-2-3x-faster-drop-upgrade-mostly
date: 2024-11-27, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today presented a good example of the difference between governance by social media and governance by policy.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-26-2024
date: 2024-11-27, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Daring Fireball
https://mastodon.social/@wjs/113539330521476328
date: 2024-11-27, from: John Naughton’s online diary
How doth our Hollyhocks grow? Of all the plants in our garden the Hollyhocks are the most striking. This one is still flowering in late November. And it withstood Storm Bert! Quote of the Day ”Dystopias may sometimes be grimly … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-27-november-2024/40122/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Matt Haughey blog
I just spent four days in Kansas City with a Kia EV6 rental car. It's something I've always wanted to drive and frequently considered as my next daily driver someday.
Upfront, I want to state that I don't have any reflexive disgust for Kia
https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-review-of-the-kia-ev6/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
1935 – 2024
https://steady.substack.com/p/jean-grace-rather
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Daring Fireball
https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/the-clever-design-that-keeps-this-school-cool-in-scorching-heat
date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
http://scripting.com/2024/11/26/213240.html?title=marketingParty
date: 2024-11-26, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-25-2024-1ba
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045742-the-long-list-for-the
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045737-leo-tolstoys-recipe-for-m
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045735-there-are-so-many-twists
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/jw-space-telescope-discovers-aliens
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-considers-taking-on-google-with-browser
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045738-a-kakistocracy-is-governm
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>FLTK, one of the oldest and most stable FOSS toolkits for programming GUI apps, is back with new shiny.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/26/fltk_14_released/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Podcast: We elected Archie Bunker. 17 minutes.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/26.html#a172733
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045741-from-the-electronic-front
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045740-all-together-the-billiona
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/web-du-bois-defines-prosperity
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Carville
gets close to the answer. The Dems shut down their online operation
on Election Day, go off the air for 3.5 years, then reboot. The Repubs
never sign off. Trump is Archie Bunker. People vote for him, even if
they don’t agree, over the stranger they don’t know. Voters kept saying
this, but somehow this didn’t register. Never nominate a candidate again
who isn’t well known to and tolerated by the electorate. Forget about
gotchas.
The old Dems revolve around fear-of-gotcha. No longer a problem. A flaw
proves you’re genuine, authentic. Dems need a complete overhaul top to
bottom. Their next leader should have a top podcast, because that’s how
you will govern from now on. Expect to be surprised how Trump does this
starting Jan 20.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/26.html#a155707
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045721-youre-thinkingwhat-do-i-w
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045731-a-great-remembrance-of-ra
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-20, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is from 404 Media:
The Graykey, a phone unlocking and forensics tool that is used by law enforcement around the world, is only able to retrieve partial data from all modern iPhones that run iOS 18 or iOS 18.0.1, which are two recently released versions of Apple’s mobile operating system, according to documents describing the tool’s capabilities in granular detail obtained by 404 Media. The documents do not appear to contain information about what Graykey can access from the public release of iOS 18.1, which was released on October 28.
More …
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/what-graykey-can-and-cant-unlock.html
date: 2024-11-26, from: mrusme blog
Going off-the-grid with an add-on for the Star Labs StarBook – and pretty much every other laptop – that adds situational awareness through various sensors and removes the need for privacy-invasive cloud services for things like GPS positioning and current temperature.
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/starshield-situational-awareness-for-the-star-labs-starbook/
date: 2024-11-26, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Toxic masculinity is all about male dominance and female subservience. It is closely allied to fascism.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-testosterone-poisoned-picks
date: 2024-11-26, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Today, President Joe Biden laid out very clearly the argument behind the economic policies his administration has put into place.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-25-2024
date: 2024-11-26, from: Dave Rupert blog
The people who found you in the alley called you Cowboy. We called you Moogs, Moogers, Moogerton, Mr Moogs, Meesta, Two Meestas, Beef, Roast Beef, Roast Beefy Weefy, Kitty, Kitty cat, Long cat, Kitty kitty, Pretty kitty, and Meow meow. Those were all your names.
Today we had to say goodbye to our cat Moogs (pronounced “Moo” like the cow says + “gs”). He was nearly 19 years old, which is about all you can ask for from a great cat. A senior cat with a thyroid problem – so his passing is not an incredible surprise – but he took a sudden downturn over the weekend. He died in his sleep.
My wife adopted him before we were even dating in 2006. I never had a cat, was more of a dog person, and I made it my mission to befriend the cat to win her over. I succeeded in my goal and he let me hold him like a baby. Little did I know he would spend the next 18 years of my life with him sitting on my body for warmth and waking me up at six in the morning.
When we lived in LA he would perch majestically on the sills of the open windows basking in the warm sun’s rays because that’s how LA’s perfect weather works. He’d hop in-and-out of the house, hunting, cruising, and getting into tussles with the other alley cats. We paid a lot in vet bills but he had a good life jumping along the craftsman rooftops.
He didn’t enjoy moving to Austin, he howled the whole 1400 mile journey and when we got to Austin, he hid himself in the exposed soffit of our mid-remodel kitchen. After two weeks he came out and got used to the new home and got comfortable being an indoor-outdoor cat again. He’d spend days in our neighbor Cleo’s wisteria bushes hunting small birds. He was there when we adopted our dog Rudy and learned to hold his own against dogs. And he was there when we brought our babies home from the hospital and he learned to tolerate toddlers.
When we moved a second time to North Austin, he didn’t like that move either. He quit going outside as much and I think after that his quality of life started to decline. Three years ago, I noticed he was losing weight, felt like a skeleton with fur, and was extra ornery about food. The vet diagnosed him with hyperthyroidism and he needed to be on medication.
Moogs was sweet and friendly – well, as friendly as cats can be. When guests came over he would saunter into the room and find the person most allergic to cats and nuzzle them. He had an uncanny talent for that. He was social, but not. He would give an affectionate little headbutt whenever he wanted attention. He’d knead his claws into your thigh when you tried to watch television. And he’d prowl the house at night and wake you up with a butthole to the face. Cats, man. Cats.
Moogs was an incredible cat. My first and probably only cat, to be honest. I won’t miss his howls for breakfast each morning, but I will miss the soft brushes against my legs to say hello. He was a part of our family from the beginning, it will be different without him.
https://daverupert.com/2024/11/goodbye-moogs/
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-30, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-11-26, updated: 2024-11-29, from: Daring Fireball
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/meteorite-hunter
date: 2024-11-25, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
I just looked for the word “weave” among my half-million photos, and found this: We’ve been trying to solve identity problems online since the Internet showed up, roughly in the middle of the curve in the image above. It wasn’t much of a problem before then. Consider what Walt Whitman wrote in Leaves of […]
https://doc.searls.com/2024/11/25/the-interknit/
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045714-soccer-reporter-rory-smit
date: 2024-11-25, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/11/25/going-to-web-writers-workshop/
date: 2024-11-25, from: Om Malik blog
No, despite being the Babylon of the post-information society, San Francisco is not the top digital city in America, according to a study that is subjective in nature but telling nevertheless. Chicago, thanks to high penetration and lower prices of broadband, has the best digital life score, followed by Minneapolis and Oklahoma City. San Francisco …
https://om.co/2024/11/25/the-best-digital-city-in-america-is/
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045720-every-movement-in-mans-bu
date: 2024-11-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
He enabled Trump to avoid all accountability
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-special-counsel-jack-smith-just
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/we-never-stop-growing
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://9to5mac.com/2023/05/09/final-cut-pro-logic-ipad-subscription-price/
date: 2024-11-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-24-2024-e51
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045709-the-trailer-for-an-animat
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045726-finally-threads-will-fina
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045719-when-youve-been-seriously
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Liam Proven’s articles at the Register
<p>The latest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux is here, as are the leading RHELatives. Also, interestingly, Red Hat is working with Microsoft to make it available on top of Windows.</p> https://go.theregister.com/i/cfa/https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/rhel_95_now_on_wsl/
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045717-the-3rd-most-worn-shoe-by
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045716-a-list-of-books-read
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I just wrote a for-real post on my WordLand site.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/25.html#a151129
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
In January 2017, I scooped everyone, by years, on the idea that a billionaire could buy Twitter and thus purchase the presidency. That value wasn’t priced into TWTR stock. No one listened. Here’s the next installment. The US government acquires Twitter. Elon Musk is of course named Secretary of Twitter. The “constitution” reconceived for online twitter-like systems, says every other online system has to go through twitter.com to reach users. It will act as their gateway to the net. There will be resistance, but by that time there will be no actually independent twitter-like systems, they will all be owned by venture capital funds, or individual billionaires, and of course they will conform because they are also owned to a large degree by Musk. We will have been cartelized, which is one step beyond enshitified.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/25.html#a144613
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-25, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045708-really-interesting-piece-
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
It’s
important that
Bluesky increase
its character limit to 500 because they are not alone. Today there are
so many twitter-like systems that are useful, people want to cross-post.
If I’m writing something I plan to cross-post, and I pass the 300-char
limit, but I’m not finished, what to do. These days generally I view 500
as the actual limit, which means when my cross-poster tries to publish
to Bluesky it fails. We should be trying to coalesce on an idea of what
a text document is in the mid-late 20s. I’ve put my
proposal out.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/25.html#a142933
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
The usual mindless block-inducing bullshit from twitter and every other online venue is showing up on Bluesky. I wonder if people understand the economic box that’s pushing them into. It’s so important that if it’s going to be the next Twitter, we as a world, invest in lifeboats to get off the ship quickly and easily if Hulk Hogan ends up being the czar of Bluesky. Weirder things are possible my friends.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/25.html#a141437
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-25, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
According to Blogtree, 259 blogs considered Scripting News their parent blog, ie they were inspired to start blogging by this blog.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/25.html#a133939
date: 2024-11-25, updated: 2024-11-20, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Interesting analysis: An Internet Voting System Fatally Flawed in Creative New Ways.
Abstract: The recently published “MERGE” protocol is designed to be used in the prototype CAC-vote system. The voting kiosk and protocol transmit votes over the internet and then transmit voter-verifiable paper ballots through the mail. In the MERGE protocol, the votes transmitted over the internet are used to tabulate the results and determine the winners, but audits and recounts use the paper ballots that arrive in time. The enunciated motivation for the protocol is to allow (electronic) votes from overseas military voters to be included in preliminary results before a (paper) ballot is received from the voter. MERGE contains interesting ideas that are not inherently unsound; but to make the system trustworthy—to apply the MERGE protocol—would require major changes to the laws, practices, and technical and logistical abilities of U.S. election jurisdictions. The gap between theory and practice is large and unbridgeable for the foreseeable future. Promoters of this research project at DARPA, the agency that sponsored the research, should acknowledge that MERGE is internet voting (election results rely on votes transmitted over the internet except in the event of a full hand count) and refrain from claiming that it could be a component of trustworthy elections without sweeping changes to election law and election administration throughout the U.S…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/security-analysis-of-the-merge-voting-protocol.html
date: 2024-11-25, from: Robert Reich’s blog
Friends,
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-one-big-thing-constraining-trump
date: 2024-11-25, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Since the night of the November 5, election, Trump and his allies have insisted that he won what Trump called “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.” But as the numbers have continued to come in, it’s clear that such a declaration is both an attempt to encourage donations— fundraising emails refer to Trump’s “LANDSLIDE VICTORY”—and an attempt to create the illusion of power to push his agenda.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-24-2024
date: 2024-11-25, from: Jonudell blog
The first time I heard a critique of mediated experience, the critic was my dad. He was an avid photographer who, during our family’s year in India, when I was a young child, used his 35mm Exacta to capture thousands of photos that became carousels of color slides we viewed for many years thereafter. It … Continue reading The social cost of mediated experience
https://blog.jonudell.net/2024/11/24/the-social-cost-of-mediated-experience/
date: 2024-11-25, from: Jirka’s blog
I remember times when I was able to do almost all on-line work on the IRIX. Internet banking, browsing, online shopping and so on. The IRIX 6.5 has been able to run the Netscape up tp 4.7, the Firefox up to 3.0.19 and the latest Lynx, among others. Some things required helpers like youtube_dl, some thing were unavailable at all (do you remember then ActiveX or the Flash?)
http://jirka.1-2-8.net/20241125-0442_Smolnet_Portal_and_SGI
date: 2024-11-25, from: Jirka’s blog
As I wrote here some weeks ago I updated my MNT Reform 2 laptop with the latest RCORE CPU. So now I have a really fast ARM laptop. My own code runs here 2 times slower than it does on my OpenPOWER workstation with the POWER9 CPU. White slower, the reform also consumes many times less power (and it is way more portable than my desktop workstation, too!).
http://jirka.1-2-8.net/20241125-0442_Fast_computer_and_magic
date: 2024-11-25, from: John Naughton’s online diary
The looming shadow Quote of the Day “The best photographers know what not to photograph.” Bill Jay Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Eric Clapton | Wonderful Tonight Link Long Read of the Day What If Echo Chambers Work? … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-25-november-2024/40116/
date: 2024-11-24, updated: 2024-11-24, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/11/0045707-theicon-who-inspired-folk
date: 2024-11-24, updated: 2024-11-27, from: Daring Fireball
Pondering the future of Pixelmator by looking at the history of Apple’s app acquisitions.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/11/apple_tends_to_do_right_by_apps_it_acquires
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
One of the best things about ChatGPT is that you can ask it to put together exactly the report you want, that the news orgs aren’t writing, or you can’t find, or get to through paywalls. In this query, I learned about how Republicans deal with intersex people and bathrooms, they apparently don’t. Not surprising, to tell the truth.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/24.html#a161857
date: 2024-11-24, from: Om Malik blog
Pete Warden is the kind of fellow you would run into at the old eTech conference or at Foo Camp—an old-school engineer who is equally at home hacking hardware and writing code in the latest languages. It was at an eTech conference that I first met Warden. We often swapped emails about the rise of …
https://om.co/2024/11/24/why-iot-failed-can-ai-fix-it/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-24, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
The crop of tasks and bugs we have left is a long blend of easy bugs, and “this is going to take at least a week” bugs.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113538561859089298
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-24, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Godot on iPad status:
Over 160 new bugs created by the Testflight users. 56 fixed, with 196 still open before the public release.
And on top, some 40 crashes that I haven’t been able to narrow down.
I originally thought “Xcode crash reporting is ok, don’t want to bring a big dependency”, but long story short, I had to deploy crashlytics.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113538555071651806
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-11-24, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I completed this task, after responsibly fixing other bugs. I am happy, but not ecstatic about it. This deserves some SwiftUI over the top love.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/113538532609846661
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Rule #2. You have permission. If you want someone else to do something, and they haven’t done it, or you don’t want to wait, you have permission to do it yourself. You can invoke this rule when someone says “who do they think they are.” You had permission, according to rule #2.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/24.html#a145250
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If there was going to be a User’s Charter for Bluesky, item one would be: You can give me the benefit of the doubt. Let’s not argue, esp not about details. We assume the other person is smart. That’s one way we get stuff done.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/24.html#a144438
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
If such a network existed, we would be nominating our own Cabinet members, the shadow Cabinet. Let the journalists compare the qualifications of our candidates vs the incumbent party’s. Create news. That’s what the Dems absolutely suck at. They very quietly pass legislation that the other party (which votes against) takes credit for. One party is on the air, the other is not. We need to change that. We make news. And we listen to each other, not just the stuffed shirts who run the party now.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/24.html#a144128
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-11-24, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Imagine
if the Democratic Party ran a Bluesky clone where being able to post
means you’re a dues-paying member of the party. We can vote on
referendums, support or not support Democratic initiatives. Site would
never shut down, and would support campaigns when they’re running. It
would cost money to belong to the site. This would keep trolling under
control, and would fund projects the community would sponsor, and also
pay for operating the service. No advertising, no billionaires
sponsoring. They can be members like everyone else.
http://scripting.com/2024/11/24.html#a143646
date: 2024-11-24, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
A Reason To Smile
https://steady.substack.com/p/still-crazy-after-all-these-years
date: 2024-11-24, from: Robert Reich’s blog
And last week’s winner
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-caption-taking-seed
date: 2024-11-24, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Picnic tables of tourists eating lobsters and clams have given way to lobstermen hauling their gear.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-23-2024
date: 2024-11-24, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-22-2024-bed
date: 2024-11-24, from: Tracy Durnell Blog
Last week we took our first real trip since the pandemic, flying into Southern California, driving up the coast, and finishing in San Francisco. We wanted to see friends and family and get some vacationing in. We’ve been building up credit card points for the past four years so I was able to pay for […]
https://tracydurnell.com/2024/11/23/trip-log-california-coast-road-trip/