People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Werd I/O
• Ben Werdmuller
[Patricia Cohen in The New York Times]
This was inevitable:
"As President Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities, restricts what can be studied and pushes out immigrants, rival nations are hoping to pick up talent that has been cast aside or become disenchanted."
Salaries are lower in Europe, but quality of life is far higher - and, as a bonus, you can live in a far more permissive society than the one being built at the moment. And for a researcher, the icing on the cake may be that you can continue to do your research, in the secure knowledge that it isn't about to be randomly pulled.
The good news for the rest of us is also that: research will continue, hopefully in safer hands than it has been. It's just that it won't continue in the United States.
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The editor in me is itching to insert the very necessary word “proposed” into the phrase “the HTML permission element” throughout this article:
https://developer.chrome.com/blog/enhancements-to-permission-element
This is an interesting proposal for a declarative way of triggering permission dialogs, although it seems to overlap with the work being done on invokers (command and commandfor).
What really disgusts me is to see Google referring to this element as though it’s a done deal. It’s not. It’s a proposal …a proposal that Apple rejects and Mozilla rejects.
Words matter. Call your proposal a proposal, Google.
The beauty ain’t in the necklace. It’s in the neck.
Maybe that’s my problem with AI-generated prose: it’s all necklace, no neck.
— Adam Mastroianni
the rhythm of writing.
Manuel Moreale
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• Manuel Moreale
Seeing someone wear an Eras Tour t-shirt (if you know you know). Writing with the glow of the sunset radiating through the window. The detail of the hand-painted illustration on the wall in a coffee shop. Saying something that makes someone laugh. A colleague leaving a sticker on my desk. Dream big., it read. Basking in the sun at lunchtime on a warm spring day. Sharing ideas with friends. Writing stories. Imagining.
Werd I/O
• Ben Werdmuller
Tracy Durnell recently posted Browsing as Thinking: I’ve been having fun lately browsing as thinking, as in, searching a broad category of terms and exploring what’s connected to that node, in service of the things I want to write about. Essentially, intentionally doing a “bad search” as a means of survey. There’s a character in...
Jeremy Cherfas inquired about sensible shoe solutions in his post Sensible Shoes. I have an answer that’s not specific, but is something I feel may be useful and worth a read for others: I don’t have quite the same level of shoe and foot troubles. But I have thoughts on shoes. I also am old...
Happy M&S cyber incident update day for those who celebrate.
Werd I/O
• Ben Werdmuller
turner.enemyterritory.org/shared/repo/user/carrvo/website/homeserver-bom-calculator.html
New WordLand feature: Edit all categories for a site.
I’m speaking at EFF Austin tonight! Getting coffee this morning and working on my slides. Last-minute panic that everything in my talk needs to change.
