News gathered 2024-11-08
(date: 2024-11-08 07:54:01)
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Wannabe Trump attorney general threatens Letitia James with prison.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
For Texas Democrats, a Lost Decade.
https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-democrats-lost-decade-2024/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
"That [voters] were insufficiently alarmed about the damage Trump will do – and that they actually thought he has some way to make the economy better and bring inflation down – was the result of a massive information system failure."
https://presswatchers.org/2024/11/i-blame-the-media/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
New version of the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress.
https://mastodon.social/@pfefferle/113447588310569527
Why the Work Still Matters
date: 2024-11-08, from: 404 Media Group
When Donald Trump won in 2016, we weren’t sure if good journalism mattered anymore. Now, we’re more sure than ever it does.
https://www.404media.co/why-the-work-still-matters-under-trump/
The DMCA 1201 Rulemaking: Summary, Key Takeaways, and Other Items of Interest
date: 2024-11-08, from: Authors Union blogs
Last month, we blogged about the key takeaways from the 2024 TDM exemptions recently put in place by the Librarian of Congress, including how the 2024 exemptions (1) expand researchers’ access to existing corpora, (2) definitively allow the viewing and annotation of copyrighted materials for TDM research purposes, and (3) create new obligations for researchers […]
Google leaks details about its Jarvis AI tool will be able to surf the web to complete tasks for you
date: 2024-11-08, from: Liliputing
There are a growing number of AI-based tools that can answer questions (sometimes even accurately), generate text, images, and videos, or help you revise something you’ve already written or created. But it looks like Google is planning to release a new tool that takes the idea of a personal assistant even further. The company’s upcoming […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Can Trump still go to jail?
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
If Trump has any positive quality, it’s that he doesn’t apologize for being a man.
https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1854278903713366481
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Silicon Valley got what it wanted.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/silicon-valley-got-what-it-wanted
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Democrats Need To Compete In The New Media Landscape — Or Keep Paying The Price.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Israeli football fans attacked in Amsterdam.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2y33ee1klo
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Must-read Heather Cox Richardson.
@Tomosino’s Mastodon feed (date: 2024-11-08, from: Tomosino’s Mastodon feed)
Saw this spreadsheet someone is building up about emigration options for Americans. It’s still in progress but might help some of you.
https://tilde.zone/@tomasino/113446384122046338
Hope in the Dark
date: 2024-11-08, from: Ed Summers blog, Inkdroid
“Cause and effect assume history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away a stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later; sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do; sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outage or the same ideal, and the change comes upon us like a change of weather. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in hope. To hope is to gamble. It’s to bet on the future, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.”
https://inkdroid.org/2024/11/08/hope-in-the-dark/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I assumed that Trump and Netanyahu were bosom buddies.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-08, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
NewsBlur’s native macOS App offers news notifications directly on your desktop.
https://blog.newsblur.com/2024/10/22/newsblur-macos-app/
Designing DX
date: 2024-11-08, from: Chris Coyier blog
👋 Fellow Webnerds! This is a written version of my talk “Designing DX”. I just want to lollygag about with y’all about this squishy concept of DX. We’ll draw ideas and parallels from the real world (the one with grass, boozy milkshakes, and that glowing orb in the sky that makes you squint). There are […]
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https://chriscoyier.net/2024/11/07/designing-dx/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
AI search could break the web.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/31/1106504/ai-search-could-break-the-web/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
With this latest deal, Flipboard looks to build a news ecosystem beyond X.
What do we do now?
date: 2024-11-07, from: Literate Machine
YouTube Version This is not going to be a regular piece, just a quick thing mostly talking to the camera because there’s some things I want to say. Clinton, Biden, and Harris all campaigned on defending the status quo, on being “normal” while their opponents were “weird”. All of them were from the same Professionalhttps://literatemachine.com/2024/11/07/what-do-we-do-now/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trump's second administration “seems” focused on hiring loyalists.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Trump’s Win Driven by Targeted Communications.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/07/trumps-win-driven-by-targeted-communications/
South Korea’s ‘4B’ Movement Goes Viral in US After Trump Elected
date: 2024-11-07, from: 404 Media Group
No heterosexual marriage, childbirth, dating, or sex with men
https://www.404media.co/south-koreas-4b-movement-goes-viral-in-us-after-trump-elected/
First handheld gaming PC with AMD Strix Point and a 144 Hz OLED display goes up for pre-order
date: 2024-11-07, from: Liliputing
The ONEXFLY F1 Pro is a handheld gaming PC with a 7 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel OLED display featuring a 144 HZ refresh rate and up to 800 nits brightness. While that alone would be enough to make this little computer unusual, it’s also the first handheld available for pre-order to feature an AMD Strix Point […]
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Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out
date: 2024-11-07, from: 404 Media Group
Law enforcement believe the activity, which makes it harder to then unlock the phones, may be due to a potential update in iOS 18 which tells nearby iPhones to reboot if they have not been in contact with a cellular network for some time, according to a document obtained by 404 Media.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Donald Trump to face many California legal challenges.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/11/07/donald-trump-california-lawsuit-rob-bonta-attorney-general/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
7 Out of 10 Pro-Choice Amendments Passed. Trump Could Override Them All.
https://www.jezebel.com/7-out-of-10-pro-choice-amendments-passed-trump-could-override-them-all
Microsoft brings more AI features to Paint and Notepad for Windows
date: 2024-11-07, from: Liliputing
Microsoft’s Notepad and Paint applications have been part of Windows for decades, and up until recently they were both pretty barebones applications – one for creating and editing text-based documents and the other for creating simple graphics. But that’s starting to change. Earlier this year Microsoft brought a spell checker to Notepad and started adding […]
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https://liliputing.com/microsoft-brings-more-ai-features-to-paint-and-notepad-for-windows/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Secondhand EVs will flood the market in 2026, JD Power says.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/11/second-hand-evs-will-flood-the-market-in-2026-jd-power-says/
CloudKit Reference and Index Issues
date: 2024-11-07, from: Michael Tsai
Kuba Suder: CloudKit also automatically creates indexes for each field in each record type - when you’re done with development, you can delete some indexes that you won’t need so they don’t waste space in the production database. Apple: A request to fetch records performs a query on indexed fields for a particular record type. […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/07/cloudkit-reference-and-index-issues/
Problematic Swift Concurrency Patterns
date: 2024-11-07, from: Michael Tsai
Matt Massicotte: I think the vast majority of the time, a global actor should be applied to the type as a whole, not to individual properties.[…]But, while detached does prevent isolation inheritance, it also does other stuff too. Detached tasks do not inherit priority or task-local values. Instead, think about a nonisolated function.[…]I think MainActor.run […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/07/problematic-swift-concurrency-patterns/
iOS 18: Health App Medications
date: 2024-11-07, from: Michael Tsai
Joe Rosensteel: It doesn’t list interactions for things that are not in the medication app, like vitamin supplements, antacids, NSAID painkillers, etc. All of which had very clear, urgent warnings in the prescription paperwork, but because they aren’t the two medications in the app there’s no warning. […] Despite being able to OCR the prescription […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/07/ios-18-health-app-medications/
iOS 18: Screen Sharing With Remote Control
date: 2024-11-07, from: Michael Tsai
Federico Viticci: When you start observing another person’s screen in iOS 18, the system will tell you that you can now tap and draw on their screen. Taps are drawn as purple circles that disappear quickly – they’re subtle, but noticeable. […] With the ability to control another person’s device, you literally take over their […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/11/07/ios-18-screen-sharing-with-remote-control/
GIMP 3.0 RC 1 is a preview of a massive update to this open source image editor
date: 2024-11-07, from: Liliputing
GIMP is a free and open source image editing application that’s been around for more than 26 years, and which is a powerful, versatile app that’s often compared to Photoshop. This week the team launched the first release candidate for GIMP 3.0, which will be the biggest update in years, bringing significant changes to the […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Kamala is Gone-a-La.
https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq
Reddit’s ‘Interesting as Fuck’ Community Rules That AI-Generated Video Is Not Interesting
date: 2024-11-07, from: 404 Media Group
An AI-generated video of a cute parrot got thousands of upvotes before moderators removed it and locked the thread.
So what’s new with Microsoft native UX technologies
date: 2024-11-07, from: Windows Developer Blog
Client apps are often the first interaction users have with your services, whether those are cloud native intelligent apps, web-hosted backends or business data. They set the tone for user experience and can offer personalized interactions right from
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Vincent Ramos, CEO of Encrypted Phone Company That Sold to Sinaloa Cartel, Freed From Prison
date: 2024-11-07, from: 404 Media Group
Phantom Secure started legitimate before turning into a tech company for organized crime. Its owner, Vincent Ramos, is now out of prison.
Edward Allen Carter Jr., Soldier of Many Continents
date: 2024-11-07, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
November 11 is Veterans Day. Visit the National Archives website to learn more about our Veterans Day holdings. Today’s post comes from Thomas Richardson, an expert archives technician at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Missouri. The early 20th century was a time of intense upheaval and paradigm shift change across the … Continue reading Edward Allen Carter Jr., Soldier of Many Continents
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/11/07/edward-allen-carter-jr-soldier-of-many-continents/
Raspberry Pi USB 3 Hub on sale now at $12
date: 2024-11-07, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Our new Raspberry Pi USB 3 Hub provides extra connectivity for your devices by turning one USB-A port into four, and is priced at just $12.
The post Raspberry Pi USB 3 Hub on sale now at $12 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-usb-3-hub-on-sale-now-at-12/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I missed this piece by Dan Gillmor in October about the 30th anniversary of Scripting News. Dan was the first journalist we showed our Edit This Page innovation to in 1999, and in turn he was the first blogger in journalism. Thanks for the callout Dan.
https://dangillmor.com/2024/10/15/dave-winers-30-years-of-blogging-and-much-more/
Launching a new podcast on climate solutions
date: 2024-11-07, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
If you’re into solutions-focused conversations, you might like it.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/solving-for-climate
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Kamala Harris Was Dukakis-ed.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kamala-harris-michael-dukakis-lee-atwater
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-11-07, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Pluralistic: How to have cancer
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/05/carcinoma-angels/
Browsertrix 1.12: Proxies, Crawling Defaults, and Simplified Workflow Creation
date: 2024-11-07, from: Web Recorder
Proxies, crawling defaults, and simplified workflow creation!