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Reading The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien.

The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.

Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for three exciting indie teams!

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I’ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!

Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)

Saturday November 15th, 2025 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/60023/

Magnet Theater

Good article in The New Yorker about water in Texas including the failure to build a seawater desalination plant. From a hearing in Corpus Christi with residents pushing back against it:

The hearing started around noon; by midnight, it was still under way, and three women in the audience, including a former mayoral candidate and a college professor, had been arrested for disorderly conduct.

Seems like a mistake not to be working on desalination. We’re going to need this eventually.

We had to run an errand out off 620, so stopped at the park at Mansfield Dam. Short video with a few clips.

From the Financial Times via The Verge:

According to the Financial Times, Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO as early as next year.

It’s time. Tim Cook should be proud of Apple’s success, but a few things like the App Store have gone in the wrong direction. Will be good to change things up.

Made a couple careless errors this morning. I probably need to step away from the computer. Sorry for the Micro.blog flakiness. Accidentally deployed some code before a huge db migration finished.

Interesting thought with a small Pluribus spoiler. We should all think of our AI pseudo-people with as much disdain as Carol has for the "people" who watch over her. They aren't people, in either case. In Pluribus they give you the hint in everything they say. It's not "I think this" it's "we think this." I'd like my chatbot friends to use similar language. Never behave like a person. That should be as forbidden. We'll regret not controlling this, I think.

Interesting blog post from Tim Bray comparing a recent Bluesky suspension with the Mastodon moderation UI. Mastodon has done a lot of good, but one blind spot is moderator political bias. If someone is in a bubble because of their server, they may overlook hateful posts from people they agree with.

They lost by one point, but last night’s Spurs vs. Warriors game was still so good. Both loses this week took Steph Curry having a 45+ point game. Wemby is everywhere. Great basketball. 🏀

With any luck this will be the last of the tests for this particular feature. If this continues to work, tomorrow or Monday I'll switch it over to cross-posting to daveverse instead of the throw-away test site. Below are the debugging messages I used today. Nothing really ...

At the end of the 20th century a kid who demanded to watch Disney’s The Little Mermaid could watch it. On VHS cassettes and later on DVD, eventually in the back of a car or on a tablet. Kids watched, and re-watched those films. And they still do. I have watched the sitcom 30 Rock...

How did the regression test go? Wellll, I did break a bunch of stuff. But I put the pieces back in place. And with any luck this post will show up on the other end. It did.

I have been thinking, for years now, why not reconceive the discourse system on the social web to factor out moderation. It is the web, so anyone can add a feature any time without having to rewrite the whole web. I've been trying ideas out for years, but everyone preferred the silos. Hoping now at least there are enough people to start a bootstrap. Won't be much of a discourse system if people don't course.

Today's song: Folsom Prison Blues.

Tim Bray did an analysis of how the Sarah Kendzior suspension on Bluesky would have played out in the Mastodon world. The thing I keep thinking of is this -- why not reconceive the whole discourse system on the social web to factor out moderation. Something a lot less contentious. That's what I hope to be using soon. That's, finally, what I am working on now.

This is one of those days I am pretty sure I have nothing to write about but as I get going I'll remember stuff to write about.

angry skies, glassy conditions the view from the water and this is me I went to Ocean Beach Today. A storm, and rain, coming to San Diego. I am more adept at riding a breaking wave with my body than ever. The waves were good today. And I had fun. I feel sad there will...

November 7-14, 2025 Recent Events From events.indieweb.org/archive: Front End Study Hall #040 Thursday, November 13 at 10:00am Online! Zoom! Front End Study Hall is an HTML + CSS focused group meeting, held on Zoom to experiment and learn with the basic building blocks of ...

Nikita Prokopov blogs about the neediness of apps. I can especially relate to the notifications part:

Notifications are like email: to-do items that are forced on you by another party. Hey, it’s not my job to dismiss your notifications!

Now I have the other half of the bridge working. This post is full of the testing I did on this, and yes it all worked. I'm going to post something new and see if it makes it through to the other side. And you get to see if it works or not. And now I'm going to make a change. Having made the change I want to see if it made it through. It's kind of remarkable to me that I got this much done in one day. That's what happens when you invested in good tools. And this is where the changes have been visible, on a scratch site used just for these occasions. Tomorrow, the third day of this project, I clean up the loose ends and then we should be good to go with the posts I make on scripting showing up in daveverse. Then I can get started with the next project that depends on this.