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For the first joint event with Joe and Kamala together, really smart to focus on healthcare and prescription drug costs. There has been real progress on this that Joe can talk about. It lets the crowd show their appreciation for the president, the press will cover it, and it highlights policy. 🇺🇸

Now that I’ve cancelled my NYT subscription, going to wind down my daily use of Wordle too. So many ads now, and the fun has run its course. Planning to stop playing after puzzle 1200.

This new Rivian travel kitchen looks so good. I’d be tempted to get it if I hadn’t already spent a small fortune on my Snow Peak camping things.

August 15, 2004: My audio blog post from NYC, from my Podcast0 feed. Had just listened to an Adam Curry podcast and one from the Gillmor Gang. Played a bit of music, described how a podcatcher would work, pretty close to the way they work today. Shortly after the feature would be in Radio UserLand. It was the only episode I did in August 2004. The next one is on September 1 and there are a total of nine shows in September, including the first Trade Secrets which is a podcast Adam and I did together. Here's the archive for this blog in August 2004.

Happy NBA schedule release day! It drops this afternoon and I’m excited enough that I will probably watch it live on ESPN2. @cheesemaker and I are still trying to visit all the arenas in the country and it’s taking forever, need to hit a couple more this season.

Wow, this post diving into Micro.blog bookmarks and highlights is amazing. Thanks Loura! I’ve bookmarked it in Micro.blog (of course) so I can sift through it later to see what we can improve in Micro.blog’s API.

Going to Pittsburg. brb

Must-read blog post by Cory Doctorow, connecting enshittification to Apple and the legal agreements that give corporations power:

Apple doesn’t oppose regulation; Apple loves regulation, so long as they’re the ones doing the regulating. They want to be able to shape and define the digital market, backed by the power of the state, but without any input from the state. In modern corporate orthodoxy, the state is an enforcer for corporate will.

Let's stay organized after the election.

In today's installment of the Adventures of Wordle Kitty, the world's cutest and most adorable kitten was sentenced to life at Attica.

The stupidest thing about all the pundits remarking on Kamala's rise in the polls is they are completely missing the story.

Here's the headline.

• "Thank god the Trump nightmare is almost over."

If you want an illustration, it's the flip side of this New Yorker cover.

I am addicted to buying domains. Latest example. Ideally it would be a news site with all the latest videos from the Land of Kamala aka the United States of America.

So what are we doing on Threads and why does Facebook (aka Meta) want to get the best minds of Twitter using their software. I am not a lawyer and I haven't read the user agreement, but that said, I bet it has something to do with building out their AI model so they can compete with OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.

The best journalism is coming from the candidate.

Wednesday session in Boston

If you’ve never killed a Tamagotchi, you’ve probably never used an <area> element. Like Tamagotchis, <area> elements used to be all the rage, fell out of favor, and obstinately continue to exist. The last time I wielded an <area> element, four things were v...

Sounds like we may be in for a substantial remedy in Epic vs. Google, potentially going even further than the EU’s DMA. From The Verge:

Judge Donato made it clear he plans to ban any nondiscriminatory behavior when it comes to how Google treats rival app stores, up to and including human review.

I asked ChatGPT to put the Statue of Liberty on a $100 bill.

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