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yeah I don't think I'm going to be able to bend this back into shape.
Lots of news reports about Trump's polls. But it isn't surprising that in the transition from a democracy to autocracy the people would become increasingly unhappy with the change, until we basically give up, and the polls from some pollsters are always this way, but the polls from others tell a different story. Fox News still runs polls the old way, as does the NYT and others. But that will change, as the lawyers have, and the Washington Post and NY Times have, in their editorial functions. And they just arrested a judge in Wisconsin. Makes you think maybe it doesn't matter if the polls say what they say, if there isn't something behind them.
For Bluesky fans, we’re now cross-posting the Micro.blog news blog over to Bluesky at @micro.blog. Good way to stay up to date on new features or fixes.
For beta testers on iOS, there’s a new build of Micro.blog with a button to toggle just showing draft blog posts. This matches the functionality we’ve had on the web and Mac apps for a while. Useful if you manage lots of drafts.
If you’re not on the beta yet, feel free to sign up at this TestFlight link. We’ll release it to all customers in the coming week.
o4-mini is good at road trip planning. I fire off some parameters like roughly where I want to stop or how long to drive, let it come up with routes, hotels, things to see. It doesn’t take the joy out of travel… Still a lot of details to review and decide on.
Dan MacTough feels the same about AWS breaking Node devs.
I should be using the lh
and rlh
units more enough—they’re supported across the board!
The foreword to the O’Reilly book on creating inclusive experiences.
Today I spent way too long iterating on the design for this over-the-top bicycle trailer workstation cart contraption. I've got a lot of things in mind to use it for, so I think I'm going to do it. The only question is whether this will be too top-heavy and at risk of tipping. Most of the weight is at the bottom, and I'll usually be hauling a giant battery at the base too, so it might be fine. Worst case I can always just remove the top part later.
Crazy finish to that Nuggets / Clippers game. Not sure I’ve ever seen a dunk so close to win it like that. 🏀
Special shout-out to @vincent for troubleshooting Micro.blog servers while I’m traveling. Driving in traffic through Brooklyn is not when I hoped to get downtime notifications! Annoying hackers trying to mess with our servers.
I asked ChatGPT for an "imaginary image of Harvard Square with middle-class people from red states visiting in their trucks and country mannerisms."
What if, before we transfer human awareness into computers, we discover proof of reincarnation. What then?
I read this article about AI and cancer research last night, thinking about it more this morning. It’s really well-researched. The title is misleading. There’s a lot of promise here, even if we might not get the “compressed 21st century” of medicine that Dario Amodei hopes for.
If Bluesky really wanted to decentralize and do it quickly, they could build a layer out of RSS and OPML on top of what they have and not only would they be able interop with other Bluesky-like services but they could also interop with Mastodon and it could all be done in a matter of weeks.