Enjoying the view
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Flyboys
Flyboys
Trump picked Vance when he had all the momentum — getting shot, the convention, Biden’s stumbles. With the election upended, I hope Kamala stays more rooted with her pick. This is not about exciting the Democratic base. We’re already excited! Strengthen the campaign in the midwest or Arizona. 🇺🇸
Prepping for takeoff — Andy’s taking me up for a flight!
Prepping for takeoff — Andy’s taking me up for a flight!
Spitfire!
Spitfire!
Checked in at Goodwood Aerodrome (QUG). Watching a spitfire getting prepped for takeoff
Checked in at Goodwood Aerodrome (QUG). Watching a spitfire getting prepped for takeoff
Idina Menzel at the Paramount.
Using personal weeknotes as a tool for attention
tracydurnell.com/2024/07/30/using-personal-weeknotes-as-a-tool-for-attention/
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation
[Molly White]
"With $45.5 million in corporate contributions, American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is the largest donor to Fairshake: a newly-minted super PAC focused solely on installing political candidates who will be friendly to the cryptocurrency ...
Friend, an AI companion
There’s an interview from David Pierce at The Verge with Friend founder Avi Schiffmann. Friend is an AI device companion that is trying to make you less lonely, not solve any productivity problems.
Here are my random initial thoughts about it.
It’s too easy to dismiss these ...
Lying on the warm rocks of Brighton beach, listening to Veedon Fleece after swimming in the cool sea on a hot day in the Summertime in England.
Lying on the warm rocks of Brighton beach, listening to Veedon Fleece after swimming in the cool sea on a hot day in the Summertime in England.
The Podcast0 project had taught me how to read the archive of my own blog. Until now I had not carefully read the story I tell on my blog more than a few days after it happened. Here's I'm learning to reconstruct the summer of 2004, maybe the most creative period of my life, at least that's viewable in such a public and preserved way. Am I the first to do this for any blog? If you know of an example of historic research done using the archive of a blog, please send me a note. I'd love to learn about what you learned! :-)
I said on Thursday that Biden's speech last Wednesday had the potential to be a Gettysburg speech, if it the United States turns back toward democracy and government of the people, by the people and for the people. Biden has the potential of being as great a president as Lincoln. Let that settle in for a moment. I get goosebumps when I think about it. If he hadn't taken that stand, he could have become known as the US equivalent of Kaiser Wilhelm.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Trump Media Made Deal Involving GOP Donor James E. Davison
[Justin Elliott, Robert Faturechi and Alex Mierjeski at ProPublica]
The majority of Donald Trump's net worth is wrapped up in Truth Social's parent company Trump Media & Technology Group. If he's elected, its deals and ownership structure will present co...
Childless vs childful
I keep a solid line between my personal life and blogging, learned the hard way. When I started blogging in 1994, I didn't have such a solid line, and found that I couldn't have a personal life if I made it public. But now I want to reveal something. I am "childless" which i...
Belatedly realizing that Reddit’s robots.txt change means that Micro.blog’s bookmark feature now can’t archive a copy of pages, because we check robots.txt. This is the kind of trickle down effect when a site withdraws from the open web, it hurts other services and incentivizes breaking conventions.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations
[Kylie Robison at The Verge]
"Perplexity’s “Publishers’ Program” has recruited its first batch of partners, including prominent names like Time, Der Spiegel, Fortune, Entrepreneur, The Texas Tribune, and Automattic (with WordPress.com participating but not T...
Like 193K others I tuned into White Dudes For Harris last night. Please, let that be the last time we do that. I felt like it might as well have been Slave Owners for Harris or Reformed Republicans for Harris. I don't have anything against people of my gender and approximate...
Just updated to iOS 17.6, hoping that the fix for this frustrating regression had been shipped, but alas, no luck: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273327 Hobbled `datalist` it is, then. 😞
Just updated to iOS 17.6, hoping that the fix for this frustrating regression had been shipped, but alas, no luck:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273327
Hobbled datalist it is, then. 😞
Enjoying watching the Olympics. Some live, some delayed. Still fun even if I’ve already heard a little about the outcome.