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What Musk has been saying is cover for what the oligarchs did to the Soviet Union as it was breaking apart. Only the US has vastly more wealth. And unlike Trump, Musk understands how money works, presumably Putin does too. They want the entire flow of cash that's generated by the US economy to go through them. So "richest man in the world" doesn't begin to cover Musk's ambition. He wants "all the money in the world." Forget about any benefit from government, that's over. The health care system would fall apart. The situation with abortion is just the beginning. When Musk says it'll come back better after a few years, that's a lie. Something like that never comes back. We've encountered this before, when the Repubs were threatening default.

There should be a prize for developers who create the most interop.

[Craig Silverman at ProPublica and Priyanjana Bengani at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism] "The network, which uses the name Patriot Democracy on many of its ad accounts, is one of eight deceptive Meta advertising operations identified by ProPublica and...

I did the first demo of my new editor to a couple of developers I'm working with on our ActivityPub project, something I'm ever-more-excited about. Happy to say the demo was a success. They appeared to love the product, and for the right reasons. It makes WordPress into a fa...

The Major League Baseball season is finally over. The no-philosophy mess in the Bronx was near-swept by the infidels from California, on their home field no less, so we expect Jankee Estadium to be either haunted in perpetuity or torn down (latter solution preferable) and re...

Progress on the YouTube TV front. Thanks to all the responses, I've gotten Fucks News out of the startup position, but it still appears in the upper left corner of the 2-by-2 news multiview display, and thus is the default, and when I launch it I hear them talking which is not pleasant. Further I always have to see what their freaking chyron says, and the commercials from the Hitler-fanboi pillow salesman. Basically I want to be able to see what they're doing when I want to, but never have it forced on me. Help.

Oklahoma City loves this team. Thunder are really good right now. Still excited for the Spurs this season, just a little overmatched tonight. 🏀

Spurs vs. Thunder. Wemby warming up from the 3-point line. 🏀

When we create or discover new things, we label them too. These labels act like IDs, making it easy to access these things in the databases that are our minds. Unique labels are needed otherwise different things will get conflated and confused. But using random sets of chara...

Trees and remains of the wall of the federal building, at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial.

Wednesday session

YouTube TV when it starts up, the station it automatically opens is Fox News. I posted this on various social webs and heard from people this is not their experience.

I was thinking about what I'm most proud of in my career, and one of the things is that I am not #1 for creation of interop or #2, but I might be in the top 10.

Micro.blog t-shirts! Jim Mitchell realized I was never going to get around to making t-shirts, so with my blessing he’s done it: the unofficial official Micro.blog t-shirt. Just ordered one for myself. There’s a phone case too.

This is a lovely, lovely talk from Léonie!

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Here’s a silly thing I created for Halloween, a new domain name: micro.boo! 👻 It just collects posts that mention Halloween or use emoji, from Micro.blog and other sources connected to Micro.blog. Sort of a random Halloween-themed timeline. 🎃

[John O'Nolan] This is a genuinely inspiring post from John O'Nolan about the foundation behind Ghost and how it operates. It feels like a blueprint for so many open source projects. "The business model was simple: We would make a great open source prod...

The pandemic started to hit America in earnest just as we were wrapping up IndieWebCamp Austin 2020. If the event had been scheduled for even a couple weeks later, it would’ve been cancelled, as everything moved online to Zoom meetings. Years have passed since then. It now f...

I’m aware that a lot of my linkblog posts have been about the state of America this week. That’s because — well, I’m sure you can figure out why. There is nothing bigger to talk about than this election. So much is at stake, and it really, truly matters. Once Election Day is...

[Cassandra Jaramillo and Kavitha Surana at ProPublica] The deeply tragic stories of how abortion bans lead to preventable deaths continue. "The fetus was on the verge of coming out, its head pressed against her dilated cervix; she was 17 weeks pregnant and ...