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2024-10-22 22:23:20

Trump: ‘I Need the Kind of Generals That Hitler Had.’
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHdwJIx7KSbZHaOl2GFpF_h0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2024-10-22 19:44:55

Springsteen to headline two Harris rallies in swing states.
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4946814-springsteen-harris-concert-series-atlanta-philadelphia-obama-walz/

2024-09-24 16:29:00

James Earl Jones Reads Kurt Vonnegut's Inspiring Response to Students Who Contacted Him in 2006.
https://laughingsquid.com/james-earl-jones-reads-kurt-vonnegut-letter/

2024-09-24 15:28:18

"Social web" is not the same thing as ActivityPub. Another appropriation of the term "web." ActivityPub is not finished and it's too complicated to be ...
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

2024-09-20 22:09:41

Unite for America Rally with Vice President Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bZasBoVhuUA

2024-09-20 13:46:17

A Meticulous Accounting of How The Beatles Recorded Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.
https://laughingsquid.com/recording-the-beatles-sgt-peppers/

2024-09-19 21:03:15

Sarah Huckabee Sanders forced us to think of her as a mom. I don't think that works out very well in her favor, probably best not to go there.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/huckabee-sanders-harris-lacks-humility-raising-biological-children/story?id=113800656

2024-09-19 17:22:38

Robinson under pressure to withdraw from gubernatorial race. They don't say what the "damning news story" is.
https://www.carolinajournal.com/robinson-under-pressure-to-withdraw-from-gubernatorial-race/

2024-09-19 07:47:54

$25 Harris yard sign.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/yard-sign-contest-2024?refcode=om2024_ads_fb_240917_hvfhqyardsigncontest_dd_us_all_jrb250_graphic1&refcode2=120213187953720300

2024-09-18 23:34:25

Bluesky addresses trust and safety concerns around abuse, spam, and more, but when is the second instance coming? How can they claim to be distributed?
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/18/bluesky-addresses-trust-and-safety-concerns-around-abuse-spam-and-more/

2024-09-18 17:39:55

Let's go on a ride on Hudson River bike path. (A number of years ago when I lived in NYC.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRPeChYMV04

2024-09-18 13:48:38

Powerful Harris ad about women's freedom.
https://www.threads.net/@kamalahq/post/DAD3IZXvuYZ

2024-09-18 12:35:21

The Worst Magazine In America. I subscribed to the Atlantic a couple of weeks ago, because I found myself reading a lot of their stories for free and decided to use the money I was spending on the Washington Post to broaden my horizons.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-america

2024-09-18 12:22:47

John Grisham on death row prisoner: ‘Texas is about to execute innocent man.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/17/robert-roberson-texas-death-penalty-john-grisham-innocent

2024-09-16 22:31:20

Scripting News: How I cross-post to Threads. I move my linkblog posts to micro.blog via RSS, and it cross-posts to Threads via their API.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/16/135141.html

2024-09-16 17:18:11

Learning the basics of Fedify.
https://fedify.dev/tutorial/basics

2024-09-16 15:08:35

Has it ever been suggested that journalists take an oath, similar to the one the President takes to: "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Could be voluntary. Sports reporters might take a different oath.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C8-1/ALDE_00001126/

2024-09-16 09:02:49

House Republicans break with Trump in vow to accept 2024 election results.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/14/house-republicans-trump-2024-election

2024-09-15 12:22:36

“Our job was to make him look legitimate, to make him look like there was something behind it, even though we pretty much all knew that there wasn’t,” one producer said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/producers-of-the-apprentice-expose-donald-trumps-musty-carpet-in-new-book

2024-09-14 18:51:00

Please be kind, but wtf is block-based design? Explain it slowly as a person who loves blogging and has been making software for blogging for almost 30 years. I don't know what you all mean. Also I'm a writer too. :-)
https://wptavern.com/five-for-the-future-site-relaunched-with-a-block-based-design

2024-09-14 18:43:19

I agree we shouldn't demean Trump voters. As long as we're all Americans. We should help each other.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/31/opinion/trump-voters-liberal-civil.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

2024-09-14 14:12:53

Could we agree that ChatGPT can ingest everything that's in Wikipedia? I particularly want the images. I'd like to ask for a picture of Chuck Berry, and be able to put him in a scene with the Wordle Kitty. That seems pretty ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry

2024-09-14 13:35:50

These two friends built a simple tool to transfer playlists between Apple Music and Spotify, and it works great.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/14/these-two-friends-built-a-simple-tool-to-transfer-playlists-between-apple-music-and-spotify-and-it-works-great/

2024-09-14 13:33:33

How to avoid sanewashing Trump.
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2024/sanewashing-meaning-donald-trump-journalists/

2024-09-14 12:54:54

They should create their own AI systems the same way they should’ve made their own twitters. They keep letting tech own their distribution, and then appeal to government to save them. They could instead make the products people want.
https://www.status.news/p/news-executives-ai-capitol-hill

2024-09-14 00:08:54

Laura Loomer.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Loomer

2024-09-13 14:44:41

Harris drops powerful new ad slamming Trump’s abortion extremism.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/9/12/2269835/-Harris-drops-powerful-new-ad-slamming-Trump-s-abortion-extremism

2024-09-13 01:58:10

Scripting News: Dropbox almost reinvented the web.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/12/213354.html

2024-09-12 10:16:23

Harris was prepared.
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-debate

2024-09-11 17:49:30

The most encouraging thing about last night's debate was that the moderators were journalists. When Trump repeated his most egregious lie about murdering babies being legal in certain states, moderator Muir confidently, almost derisively, said that there is no such thing. And when Trump said he didn't admit he lost the election, and then when challenged said in a snotty way he was being sarcastic, Muir plainly that wasn't true either. ABC News was the last place you'd expect real journalism to surface, maybe the NYT et al will follow their lead.

2024-09-09 15:59:52

Archie Bunker on Democrats.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=7fqCS7Y_kME

2024-09-09 15:51:33

New Harris commercial about Trump's fitness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6oQXN2WNtU&t=60s

2024-09-08 22:16:07

WordPress Community on Mastodon.
https://wp-community-on-mastodon.wptoots.social/

2024-09-08 22:13:08

Autocracy in America podcast.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/autocracy-in-america/

2024-09-08 15:29:24

Peering is a special kind of interop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering

2024-09-07 14:30:24

Fantastic interview on the Bulwark podcast with David Frum, another Republican who will vote for Harris.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-frum-villains-and-monsters/id1447684472?i=1000668516811

2024-09-07 13:02:33

Dick Cheney Says He Will Vote for Kamala Harris. #history
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/us/politics/dick-cheney-kamala-harris.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I04.DMv5.Jp19HXzbPnR0&smid=url-share

2024-09-07 09:50:48

New Harris campaign ad.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0lKA_GeGwIo&feature=youtu.be

2024-09-07 01:14:03

They’re worse than “going easy” they’ve let him hijack their reps for doing journalism, replacing best efforts to tell truth, to openly and knowingly transmitting lies.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/articles/the-media-are-going-easy-on-trump-and-russia-is-going-all-in-on-rightwing-media

2024-09-06 22:31:15

Dick Cheney will vote for Kamala Harris, daughter says.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/09/06/dick-cheney-kamala-harris-liz-cheney-colin-allred/

2024-09-06 02:53:09

JD Vance says that school shootings are a 'fact of life.’
https://apnews.com/article/jd-vance-georgia-shooting-7d7727a1aff8491f66914a4d8a14cd8c

2024-09-04 23:13:31

Liz Cheney says she's voting for Kamala Harris.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4862534-liz-cheney-kamala-harris-election/

2024-09-03 20:47:51

Oprah’s upcoming AI television special sparks outrage among tech critics.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/oprahs-upcoming-ai-television-special-sparks-outrage-among-tech-critics/

2024-09-03 11:54:23

For some reason I love this Sprint commercial from 2014. Best line: "let's go honey those tacos ain't gonna eat themselves over there."
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7Shu/sprint-framily-plan-gordon-ft-judy-greer

2024-09-03 10:42:03

The latest shows from my favorite podcast feeds.
https://news.scripting.com/?tab=podcasts

2024-09-03 10:14:37

Young male voters are flocking to Trump – but he doesn’t have their interests at heart.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/03/young-male-voters-trump-harris

2024-09-02 22:20:05

smays notices he’s in my blogroll. 😀
https://www.smays.com/2024/09/dave-winers-blogroll/

2024-09-02 22:09:13

Molly Maguires.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires

2024-09-02 14:32:24

One of the nicest things about ChatGPT is that it's always up for working with you. The critics of AI don't begin to understand this.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/16/140810.html#a140820

2024-09-02 12:28:05

How podcasting got its name. The real story, not the bs on Wikipedia.
http://scripting.com/2013/04/07/howPodcastingGotItsName.html

2024-09-02 11:35:13

The voting rights situation in some swing states is quite alarming.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/09/2024-election-swing-states-voting-rights-alarming.html?via=rss

2024-09-01 20:36:06

Dear NY Times, before we get rid of the penny, let’s open up your op-ed page to include criticism of the NYT. You can handle a little pushback, you need it desperately.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennies-united-states-economy.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

2024-09-01 16:02:57

The networks should put Trump on time delay and when he says you can legally murder babies in some states, that should be treated as if he said f*ck or sh*t. Put up a screen that explains why he was cut off, then go to commercial.
https://mastodon.social/@bkize@hachyderm.io/113062650913634400

2024-09-01 15:57:20

Paul Graham wrote a very useful piece about "Founder Mode." As a founder myself, I think I can tell you why founders have a central role to play as a company grows.
http://scripting.com/2024/09/01.html#a155212

2024-08-31 19:10:19

Nuns in rural Kansas vex big companies with their investment activism.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/8/31/2263488/-Nuns-in-rural-Kansas-vex-big-companies-with-their-investment-activism?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=

2024-08-31 16:47:13

Kamala Harris has been dealing with trolls almost since there have been trolls.
https://www.threads.net/@davew/post/C_V0pbwpOcu

2024-08-31 16:23:22

Trump Won’t Commit to Vetoing Federal Abortion Ban.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/08/31/trump-wont-commit-to-vetoing-federal-abortion-ban/

2024-08-31 16:15:35

The press took its best shot at Kamala Harris, and it was a big puff of smoke, she just cruised right through it.
https://www.threads.net/@davew/post/C_VzCo_JSN5

2024-08-30 15:30:58

Pelosi’s Car Passed Near Pipe Bomb on Jan. 6, According to New Video.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/us/politics/pelosi-jan-6-pipe-bomb.html?unlocked_article_code=1.G04._q_A.y1pRIXKcqlso&smid=url-share

2024-08-30 00:23:48

Steve Silberman, Grateful Dead and autism writer, dies at 66.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/29/grateful-dead-autism-writer-steve-silberman-dies/

2024-08-30 00:21:02

Trump Threatens to Jail Mark Zuckerberg for Life Over Election: Book.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-threatens-jail-mark-zuckerberg-meta-election-book-1235090792/

2024-08-29 19:49:16

Arlington National Cemetery meant to be 'neutral zone,' says military chaplain.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/29/nx-s1-5092074/retired-military-chaplain-reflects-on-trump-altercation-arlington-national-cemeterys-sacred-ground

2024-08-29 16:06:10

Laughing at Trump.
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/08/how-to-mock-trump-and-win/679645/

2024-08-29 14:53:42

Mathew Ingram is leaving CJR. This is his last piece.
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/mathew_ingram_goodbye.php

2024-08-29 14:18:35

Local news covers a lot of crime, yet people can’t find the crime news they need.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2024/local-news-covers-a-lot-of-crime-yet-people-cant-find-the-crime-news-they-need-crime-trends/

2024-08-28 18:27:59

Automattic press release on the Tumblr switch to WordPress on the back end.
https://automattic.com/2024/08/27/shipping-tumblr-and-wordpress/

2024-08-28 16:08:15

Chuck Schumer outlines 2025 agenda if Democrats sweep, eying filibuster changes.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/chuck-schumer-outlines-2025-agenda-democrats-sweep-eying-filibuster-ch-rcna167433

2024-08-28 13:56:55

Note to the Harris campaign: This Google search should return a complete list of your ads. Or a pointer to a site with a complete list of your ads. I want to make sure everyone who follows me sees every one of them! Let us help you help us.
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:youtube.com+harris+ads&tbm=nws

2024-08-27 18:09:46

Imagine Harris saying "If the press says we're bad you know that means we're good." She could say that in her big interview. 😀
http://scripting.com/2024/08/27.html#a175917

2024-08-27 15:13:04

Greg Sargent interview with James Carville -- lots of insight.
https://newrepublic.com/article/185316/james-carville-trump-deep-troubleand-knows

2024-08-27 11:37:04

I learned that there were hippie programmers, who loved programming the way hippies love acid rock, weed, making love not war, patchouli oil, The Dead, getting back to the land, saying truth to power, sticking it to the man, etc etc.
http://scripting.com/2016/08/27/nerdsAndHippies.html

2024-08-26 22:24:08

People have been saying that podcasting is dead or Spotify is gonna own it or Google’s gonna own it or who knows and podcasting keeps on going just fine.
https://spyglass.org/pod-is-dead/

2024-08-26 20:20:41

More than 200 Bush, McCain, Romney alums endorse Harris, hit Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/08/26/bush-mccain-romney-trump-harris-2024/74947380007/

2024-08-26 14:02:43

The NYT et al aren't even doing a fair job of covering the election as a horserace, because they're making sure it's a virtual tie, so even if our team has overwhelming power, speed and depth, and gets on ...
http://scripting.com/2024/08/26.html#a135108

2024-08-26 13:48:37

The Twitter API still works. It is useful for cross-posting, but not easily incorporated into indie developer's products, but useful for individuals with developer accounts.
http://scripting.com/2024/08/26/133249.html

2024-08-26 12:35:11

Kamala Harris and the strategy of joy.
https://www.theframelab.org/kamala-harris-and-the-strategy-of-joy/?ref=lakoff-and-duran-framelab-newsletter

2024-08-26 12:31:46

Pro-Trump "Undecided" Panelist Says CNN Knew He Supported Trump.
https://meidasnews.com/news/pro-trump-undecided-panelist-says-cnn-knew-he-supported-trump-

2024-08-25 18:31:58

"We have no visibility into the inner workings of the NYT. We can't vote them out of office. We can't even rebut them. They rarely carry opposing opinions."
https://www.threads.net/@davew/post/C_GmCiXJVBa

2024-08-25 17:49:39

Walt Mossberg: "Journalists have one core job: to tell the truth, especially when it’s clear. The staff of the NY Times has done it in the past, even at great risk. Why don’t they do it now?"
https://www.threads.net/@mossbergwalt/post/C_CXbTyxPD3

2024-08-25 13:02:40

Stephen Wolfram thinks we need philosophers working on big questions around AI.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/25/stephen-wolfram-thinks-we-need-philosophers-working-on-big-questions-around-ai/

2024-08-25 09:24:43

I’ve watched Michelle Obama ask dozens of times who’s gonna tell Trump that the job he’s seeking might just be one of them black jobs and it makes me laugh every damn time.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6PT_zSfHZio

2024-08-24 20:19:20

What Is RSS and What Can You Do With It?
https://www.makeuseof.com/what-is-rss-and-what-can-you-do-with-it/

2024-08-24 18:51:20

Republicans rally by boat in Foster City Lagoon.
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/republicans-rally-by-boat-in-foster-city-lagoon/article_ea9a252c-618b-11ef-aa45-6f8e53be0c4c.html

2024-08-24 16:47:05

In El Paso, a Migrant Death Crisis Emerges amid Extreme Heat.
https://www.texasobserver.org/el-paso-migrant-death-heat/

2024-08-24 15:03:46

Trump is not the incumbent, but it might feel that way because the coup that started on Jan 6 is ongoing. It won't be over until there is a peaceful transfer of power from Biden to Harris and Trump is out of the picture.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kamala-jitsu-democratic-convention-harris-walz-final-night

2024-08-24 14:33:49

Beware the Pundit-Brained Version of the Democratic Convention. This is the other must-read piece, again required reading for the op-ed writers at the NYT. This is how we see you, and why 90% of the opinion pieces in the NYT are worse than worthles...
https://newrepublic.com/article/184990/pundit-brained-media-democratic-convention

2024-08-24 14:29:37

If you have some time this weekend, this is one of two pieces every informed person should read and take in. And every NYT op-ed writer should take it in too, this should be the subtext in any piece you write about the election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/21/opinion/trump-second-term-2025.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ek4.bJUh.RIM3CJfJ0U0z&smid=url-share&login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock

2024-08-24 13:21:24

Is That—Is That—Optimism We Feel?
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/is-thatis-thatoptimism-we-feel?r=iyynm&triedRedirect=true

2024-08-24 12:37:25

Harris Plans Bus Tour Through Georgia.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/08/24/harris-plans-bus-tour-through-georgia/

2024-08-24 12:18:46

Whose Freedom? Democrats claim the key moral frame.
https://www.theframelab.org/whose-freedom-democrats-claim-the-key-american-moral-frame/?ref=lakoff-and-duran-framelab-newsletter

2024-08-24 01:05:00

Kamala Harris Defines the New Normal.
https://politicalwire.com/2024/08/23/kamala-harris-defines-the-new-normal/

2024-08-20 16:42:08

DNC speakers tonight: Who is on stage Tuesday in Chicago.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/20/g-s1-18014/speakers-dnc-day-2-tuesday-obama

2024-08-17 23:05:48

Summer COVID-19 wave: Infections high across US.
https://thehill.com/homenews/4832099-covid-19-summer-surge-us/

2024-08-17 10:02:55

Time For A Break: Democrats Don't Need The Media. The Dems finally embrace Sources Go Direct.
https://www.oliverexplains.com/p/time-for-a-break-democrats-dont-need

2024-08-15 20:28:37

Trump is putting mass deportations at the heart of his campaign.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-mass-deportations-latino-voters-ec64f85e3633c9c7a8a247eaf9feb64f

2024-08-14 16:54:34

Liz Truss Fumes As Lettuce Stunt Crashes 'Pro-Trump' Event.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/liz-truss-lettuce-trump-event_n_66bc7af6e4b0768018b77a46

2024-08-14 15:45:59

For no particular reason I'm thinking of Jon Postel this morning. He held up the internet for its earliest years, and died way the fuck too young. People should know who he was and what he did for us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel

2024-08-14 12:58:13

This could be the theme song for the Harris campaign.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pYKdqD1ls

2024-08-14 12:07:51

Hey, Patreon: Don’t Let Apple Win This Round.
https://tedium.co/2024/08/13/patreon-apple-platform-risks/

2024-08-14 00:15:45

Press Must Cover Trump’s Cognitive Decline.
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/press-must-cover-trumps-cognitive?r=2xw07&triedRedirect=true