Another ad. Donald Trump on Mt Rushmore. Donald Trump on the $20 bill. The Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial renamed Trump. Kennedy airport in NYC renamed Trump International. In the future the US will have only one founding father: Donald J. Trump.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
If our political system worked we’d have wonderful heart-grabbing ads on TV about all the people who have meaningful jobs thanks to DEI. It wouldn’t be hard to make the Repubs look like Scrooges. Get people riled up. Another ad, about the people Trump pardoned and what they’re doing now. Wait till one of them commits a major crime and run Willie Horton style ads. Make it understood who these people actually are. Trump has to own each and every one of them. This really isn’t hard. But the Dems think campaigns end. They don’t end.
This blog post about AI trying to “polish” Jenny Lawson’s email is so great. Just a snippet:
Y’all, if you get an email from me it will be signed with HUGS, LOVE, FIGHT THE PATRIARCHY, DOWN WITH POWDERED GRAVY or SORRY I SUCK SO MUCH. It will be filled with typos and rambling parentheticals and apologies for answering several months too late. This is how you know it’s me and not a robot.
I use AI a lot but I don’t want it rewriting my stuff. What works better for me is just asking AI if a particular phrase makes sense. I’ll do my own edits.
I thought this excerpt from Krugman's piece about his move back to blogging was right on. "For a while I tried to make up for the loss of the blog with threads on Twitter. But even before Elon Musk Nazified the site, tweet threads were an awkward, inferior substitute for blog posts." There's a need for a system that combines the full-featured writing of blogging and the timelines of twitter-like systems.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Boom & Deepseek
What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after Christmas, it was clear then that something big had happened and that it was truly open source and open weights (not this fake Llama stuff). It’s been fun to see the rest of the world catch … Continue reading Boom & Deepseek →
Podcast: The Repubs are trying to kill you.
The Repubs are trying to kill you
On Bluesky, I wrote a post to Oliver Willis, who writes at Daily Kos:
This podcast elaborates on that simple idea. We still have media, we don't have to wait for the leaders of the Democratic Party to tell Americans what the Repubs are doing in terms that mean something to ...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
A moment after the rain
Lovely clouds, a nice sunset, and a moment of peace after a full rainy day. I needed that.
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There are plenty of non-men in tech to speak at your conference - Stephanie Stimac’s Blog
blog.stephaniestimac.com/posts/2025/1/conference-speaker-line-ups/
I’m going to share this with the organisers of that conference I pulled out of recently.
Today we have the final episode of Core Intuition. 16 years. 626 episodes. Thanks for listening and thanks @danielpunkass for recording the show with me!
Taking a short break from support email and questions to edit the latest Core Intuition. If you have ever listened to our podcast before and liked it, you will probably want to hear this one. (How’s that for hyping it up?)
Ben Werdmuller
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On its birthday, The 19th announces a new model for funding media
The 19th celebrated its fifth birthday yesterday. CEO Emily Ramshaw’s reflective post is quite lovely, but also announces a very bold strategy:
On our fifth anniversary, we’re launching our first-ever endowment campaign, with a goal of raising $20 million over the next three...
Is Bluesky billionaire-proof?
Could what happened to Twitter, happen there?
To determine, ask yourself if you could continue to use it if it was acquired by a billionaire for their own personal political use?
What would you switch to?
Would you have to give up your history and followers?
And developers, ...
The open web as gift economy (Part 4)
tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/
Micro Social is looking really good! Upcoming app for Micro.blog from @gregmorris.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Sharing “Unplatform”
If I was on social media I’d probably post this link there but I am not and so I’m posting it here. Ajazz has put together a nice resource called “Unplatform” which is, in their words, an interactive guidebook, online library, and research journal intended to help you escape social media and join the indie web. As you know, I’m a big fan of owning your own space and so I love to see this type of projects.
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Rivers on Bluesky
This is a post for longtime Scripting News readers. As you know, I've been doing feed readers for a long time. They've been mostly organized around the river of news concept, which also happens to be the way twitter-like systems work. My rivers are built around RSS and forma...
What is a sanctuary city?
I wonder if people understand what a sanctuary city is.
In a sanctuary city the local government accepts the fact that there are people living in the city who are not there legally.
They want these people to be able to call the police without fear of being turned into the...
This post by Bear creator Herman Martinus is great. I probably could’ve written the same thing about Micro.blog but with a few twists. It’s always been about slow growth and lasting decades. Ben Werdmuller also has some good counterpoints about funding.
Really nice FAQ-style format for today’s Stratechery update on DeepSeek. Even if you don’t read the whole thing, you can tell something big is happening. I downloaded a medium-sized R1 model last week to test with Ollama on my Mac. Very impressed.