Just watched Biden’s statement on the shooting. Very good. He is the President and our Democratic nominee. To me, the debate about replacing him is over. The campaign is chaotic enough already. I still think he can win, but it’s going to be close, and it’s going to be work. 🇺🇸
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Sunday session
Sunday session
This blog 20 years ago today.
Morning coffee notes
BTW, I'm intermittently locked out of my Threads account. They say it has to do with automated stuff they don't explain. I don't have any apps that do anything with Instagram or Threads. I tried changing the password. Anyway, I was just starting to like the network, it has i...
Went for a nice walk along the cliffs yesterday.
Went for a nice walk along the cliffs yesterday.
Saying that Trump is a threat to democracy is not a call for violence. He caused January 6th. He refuses to accept the last election or the next one. He is chaos. Even after being shot, he’s shouting “fight” to the crowd. Everything he touches becomes more dangerous. Vote. 🇺🇸
Just posted a new Core Intuition: A Billion-Dollar Flop. We check in about the Vision Pro, then think about how Apple plays the long game and what we can learn about balancing marketing features vs. app polish.
The show notes for today's Podcast0 episode.
This blog 20 years ago today.
75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time - What Is The Best Science Fiction Book Ever Written?
esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39358054/best-sci-fi-books/
This is a damned fine list.
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15 books that made an impact
I really like Lou Plummer’s list of 15 books which made the most impact on him, which I discovered via Tracy Durnell’s own list:
I think you can figure out a lot about a person if you know what books have had the most impact on them. At one point or another, each of th...
I love how this timeline of Irish inventions starts with the ancient Ogham writing system and culminates in the creation of the spice bag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Irish_inventions_and_discoveries
I love how this timeline of Irish inventions starts with the ancient Ogham writing system and culminates in the creation of the spice bag:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimelineofIrishinventionsand_discoveries
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE IN THE FINAL!!!? YEEEAHHHHH!!! 🦁🦁🦁
It seems as though England have remembered they are playing the beautiful game. Promising first half! 🏴
Notes – David Bushell
David is on board. Who else?
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Introducing Plausible Community Edition
[Plausible Analytics]
"We’re real people who have rent to pay and mouths to feed. We make $300 per month from donations from our self-hosted users. It would take us more than ten years of donations to pay one month of salary for our small team. If we cannot ...
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‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through extreme heat
[Helene Smith at The Guardian]
"Barely six months into the job, the mayor of Athens’s top priority is simple: ensuring that the people of Greece’s capital – mainland Europe’s hottest metropolis – survive the summer. After a June that was the hottest on recor...
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Substack rival Ghost federates its first newsletter
[Sarah Perez at TechCrunch]
"Newsletter platform and Substack rival Ghost announced earlier this year that it would join the fediverse, the open social network of interconnected servers that includes apps like Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and, mor...
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Rural Republicans Pushing Back Against School Voucher Expansions
[Alec MacGillis at ProPublica]
"Voucher advocates, backed by a handful of billionaire funders, are on the march to bring more red and purple states into the fold for “school choice,” their preferred terminology for vouchers. And again and again, they are run...