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For the Democratic convention this week, I’m looking forward to Hillary’s speech tonight. Her campaign in 2016 didn’t pan out, but it did matter. Totally normal now to have a woman as the nominee. This year we take the next step. 🇺🇸

Mayoral candidate in Cheyenne, Wyoming running with an AI bot that will make decisions for the city:

Standing behind a lectern with a sign that read “AI FOR MAYOR,” he gave a brief PowerPoint presentation on the history of AI. Then he stepped aside to give the floor to his Mac mini and iPad — which were propped on a table and connected to a hanging speaker at the front of the room — and told attendees to direct questions toward the screen.​

No doubt AI can be a helpful tool for local government, but not like this.

BTW, it's nice to see the DNC including influencers this year. I hear them say this is the first time, but I beg to disagree. A few dozen bloggers were at the DNC in 2004, and were treated well, in many ways. I think the word influencer and blogger have fairly similar meanings. Blogger is a broader term, because it's possible to have a very small readership for a blog, thus not be influencing very much, but still have a lot of value. And you always can influence your mom and little sister, right? 😄

Rolling out the new web-based Micro.blog editor now… Let us know if you have any feedback or run into bugs. There was a brief issue with the reply text box not loading, now fixed. (Caching the wrong minimized JS, argh!)

Respect the reader. This isn't exactly a new rule for journalism, but it's worth mentioning anyway. If you wouldn't want to read the piece yourself, don't let them put your name on it. Example. A story promises to tell you about 47 seconds that saved Kamala Harris's career. ...

We no longer need companies, institutions, or government to organize us. We now have the tools to organize ourselves. We can find each other and coalesce around political causes or bad companies or talent or business or ideas. We can share and sort our knowledge and behavior. We can communicate and come together in an … Continue reading Jeff Jarvis →

I'm working on a project which may or may not ship publicly, but it presents an interesting design challenge anyway. The idea is I want to write lots of little bits, less than 1000 words each, they have titles, use styling, links, include images, etc. But it could also be a...

This line from Leon Mika’s post about naming computers rings true. It’s pragmatic but also a little sad:

…when AWS came onto the scene, the prevailing train of thought was to treat your servers like cattle rather than pets.

His blog post also uses the audio narration feature in Micro.blog so you can listen to it in his own voice. Love it.

I was kvelling the other day about rss.app and how they have feeds for Threads accounts. They do. But there are two caveats.

1. It costs $9.99 per month for 15 feeds. Could be a bit expensive for some people's budgets.
2. The second concern is more serious. It doesn't handle titleless items properly. It repeats the contents of the tweet in the title and description of the feeds it generates. An example. This is not right, and it's not the way Mastodon and Bluesky do it. There's nothing wrong with items that have no titles. When an item has no title you do the common sense thing -- omit the title. I'm happy to help with this. I wrote the RSS 2.0 spec, and am something of an authority on this. It's important to get this right.

It was a sunny day (in the Southern Hemisphere, possibly?) in October 2014 when HTML5 was officially released. I remember it like it was yesterday. The crowds, the bunting, the endless fireworks and firework-related maimings. And who could forget “Hypertext Chicken”: the spi...

I wasn’t even supposed to play on this song but Brad said “do it!”

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-08m0jvu4e/

BTW, Olliver Willis is right, the Dems don't need the journos.

I was surprised that Donald Trump was so famous because I didn't watch reality TV. I come from NY and he was a pretty small thing in NY, even though I guess the rest of the world thinks he's big in NY.

• I come from Queens, actually, so I know the Trump character pretty well too. Self-important narcissists who inside feel worthless, lashing out at everything they come in contact with. Not the ordinary Scotch/German in Queens, but not that rare either.

The same thing is probably happening now with Elon Musk, because attention of people like me has wandered away from Twitter, but the audience is huge, and probably every bit as movable as it was for Trump in 2016, and Musk owns it? Seems so.

People who think this is over are fooled, imho.

Read this piece in today's Guardian for another perspective.

Still some selection quirks in the new editor, but overall it’s so much better, don’t see a reason to hold on the release tomorrow. For longer blog posts with HTML, sometimes the cursor can jump annoyingly, but it’s easy enough to work around.

Going to Saint Augustine. brb

Micro.blog users who check the logs page will notice that the platform routes publishing requests to one of our servers and includes the server name in the log. The names were originally added to help me debug, but as an easter egg I also linked to the Disneyland Railroad wi...

Just registered for FediForum, a 3-day event for the fediverse coming up in September. I’ve attended the last two events and got a lot out of it. Good for both developers and anyone interested in learning more beyond Mastodon.

Cool walls at Spokesman Coffee. ☕️

Right before #Frostapalooza kicked off, the team got a pep talk from coach Brad.