2 hours foggy and drizzly. Not good, but not really bad either. My hobby is weird.
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• Joe Crawford
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Enjoyed this illustrated story by Jackie Lay about the life of Victoria Woodhull, who ran for president in 1872.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
ProPublica wanted to find more sources in the federal government. So it brought a truck.
[Nell Dhanesha at Nieman Journalism Lab]
This was fun to watch unfold in real time:
"The truck’s journey to that spot had begun a few days earlier, as an email with the subject line “guerilla marketing for sources” in the inbox of Ariana Tobin, editor of Pro...
Just great defense from the Longhorns. Love their midrange shooting too. I picked UConn vs. Texas for the women’s championship game, so could still happen. 🏀
I changed the domain for Radio Free America and the Bluesky channel. It's not a Canadian site. Maybe at some time we can have a version of the news flow from Canada. We may need it!
Monday session
Monday session
March 31st, 2025
The 2025 WebAIM Million report has been published. Some decreases in accessibility issues, but much still hasn't improved, sadly. https://webaim.org/projects/million/
Went for a ramble in the countryside and felt Persephone’s return.
Went for a ramble in the countryside and felt Persephone’s return.
Indieweb Secret Santa Gift For Sara
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• Joe Crawford
“I’m expressing with my full capabilities”
This post is part of the IndieWeb Carnival for March, 2024 hosted by Pablo. The theme? “self-expression.” Preamble: Mom My mother encouraged me to express myself all the time. I believe she did this because her own expression was mostly suppressed by her parents. Mostly her mother. But parents are a system and both are...
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• Joe Crawford
At WonderCon this weekend I inquired from a vendor about aVoltes V robot (a great deal at $1600. Not today), wearing my Voltes V t-shirt. Americans see my shirts (I think I have 6 different ones now) and think Voltron. But Pinoy men of the right age know who it is. The vendor inquired as to how I knew the bot. “I lived in Manila in 78/79.” He asked if I spoke Tagalog and I said “no” but mustered a “magandang gabi.” His partner gifted me with this “Ay Naku!” (My Goodness!) hanger to my badge. 40 years after living overseas I’m still learning how kind and wonderful Filipino culture and people are. Let’s Volt In.
When Apple bought NeXT, it wasn't long before we understood that it was the other way around.
Bluesky is today brimming with irreverance.
Great artists, before they die, should share their secrets, so the next generation can be even greater.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
China Miéville says we shouldn't blame science fiction for its bad readers
[Anthony Ha at TechCrunch]
China Miéville, who is one of the great contemporary science fiction and fantasy authors, is right on the money about Silicon Valley's tendency to create the Torment Nexus.
This is exactly why I think science fiction is so importan...
More ChatGPT fun
Yesterday I uploaded an image of a pizza pie, in a New York pizzeria, with a couple dressed in evening clothes with a NYC cop and off-duty sanitation worker lurking in the background.
Paolo Valdemarin writes from London, "Have you tried adding more images to a prompt? From my experiments it can easily keep 'in mind' five different images and mix them. You can get a bunch of people sitting in the same room, with a very detailed version of the room." He sent two examples which are somewhat embarrassing, but you'll probably enjoy them. :-)
First, he uploaded my profile picture from Facebook. And asked ChatGPT to add me to the picture and then to "sit him next to the couple, with both of them kissing him on the cheek, and as you can see ChatGPT complied!
Facebook profile picture.
Original pizzeria.
Dave inserted.
Kissing Dave.
There's now a home page for Radio Free America. Once we have more feeds, the home page will be a timeline of news that can be acessed outside of Bluesky. Please subscribe now, and help spread the word. Via the dynamic OPML file that's publicly available there can be many such pages on the open web.
Finished reading: The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden. Beautiful and haunting. 📚
Spurs / Warriors tonight. Not a close game but still fun. It has been too long since I was last in San Antonio. 🏀
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• Ben Werdmuller
How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack
[Brian Krebs]
Sobering roundup from Brian Krebs about how each of the five pillars of the First Amendment - speech, religion, the media, the right to assembly, and the right to petition the government and seek redress for wrongs - has been attacked during th...