Sitting in the front row at the Duke Of York’s to see Danny Boyle’s Sunshine projected on the big screen.
It’s daylight saving time!
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Excellent piece on how Bluesky leaves users with the impression that it's open and decentralized in ways it is not. If it's bought by someone who wants to use it the way Musk has, they can, without any recourse by the users. As they said in the old days, if you're getting something for free, you're the product, not the customer. We helped Musk build a way to excercise political power against our interests. You may think Bluesky is a way of fixing that, but it probably isn't. They're digging a deep hole, probably too deep to climb out of at this point. They did some innovative stuff, perhaps. But they ended up at the same place, it appears, as Twitter did.
I like to put something here every day whether I have something to say or not because I'm not sure how my software would handle a post-less. Someday we may find out, but not today. "smile:
I’m so thankful for the young people who will take up the political fight from here. I’ll be 50 next year, have been obsessed with politics and progressive causes since high school. 2024 has burned me. I hardly care what happens. All I can focus on now is family and making a nice space on the web. 🇺🇸
Good feeling this morning, walking to get coffee and then fixing a couple bugs. Micro.blog does so much behind the scenes that is not obvious unless you have years of using the platform… Always something to smooth over, or expose more bits of info about what it’s doing.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Escape from Twitter: The Future of Social Media Is Decentralized
This is a pretty great article about the decentralized social web, which quotes Christine Lemmer-Webber, Blaine Cook, and me.
It’s in Polish, but if you don’t speak the language, the “translate” button on your browser works pretty well.
Here are the full remarks I sent Micha...
I thought Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul would be all spectacle. After watching it, I’m not sure how to feel. As a kid I went to see a fight on closed-circuit TV, a quick knockout, over while I got popcorn. That was a lifetime ago. Now he’s 58 years old and back… Like time slows down, but not enough.
We’ve got a new Core Int out today. Daniel and I talk about Apple’s Image Playground and SwiftUI.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Biden Asked Microsoft to “Raise the Bar on Cybersecurity.” He May Have Helped Create an Illegal Monopoly.
[Renee Dudley, with research by Doris Burke, at ProPublica]
Security lapses in Microsoft's own products led to hacks that in turn pushed President Biden to ask for help from it and other tech companies to improve White House security. Microsoft saw it as an ...
I have another Bluesky-related feature ready to roll out in Micro.blog, but will wait until Monday. Bluesky is growing so fast, I’m sure they have their hands full, no sense in adding any extra hits to the API on a Friday afternoon.
Randomly drove by Terrible Love and had to stop. It’s a coffee shop in an old boiler room in Hyde Park. ☕️
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
What I want from Mozilla
Like many of you, I received a survey today with the title: “What is your dream for Mozilla?” I filled it in, but the potential for Mozilla is so expansive and critical to the future of the internet that I wanted to address my thoughts in greater depth here.
Mozilla de...
Hot Tubbing an Online Community by Caleb John Clark, 1999
Today's song: Tea for two and two for tea.
When I was a boy my mother would sometimes say if I didn't stop belching I wouldn't be able to stop.
Why Repubs won? They campaigned in a new way that the Dems apparently didn't notice (neither did I, not claiming to be better). Repubs were more creative and improvisational. They didn't worry what Jake Tapper or Ezra Klein would think, so came off as more genuine. It's a TV show, acting and suspension of disbelief are what count. It has nothing to do with anything else. Sorry it has to be that way but that's how it is. I don't think they hate women btw, they would have voted for Roseanne Barr or Melissa McCarthy. Maybe Chris Rock, they probably would have really liked Will Smith. Idiocracy was incredibly prescient. No joke.
I predict that people will come to appreciate features that Mastodon has that the other twitter-like social web apps don't.
Thanks @leo for the mention of Micro.blog on This Week in Google! Great discussion about Bluesky and other networks too.
I added a screen shot to the WordLand placeholder page.
The I-35 upper decks will be demolished soon. This view is going to look a lot different.
