People talk about "regime change" as if the only regime that could change is the one in Iran.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
No time for peaceniks
Trump may not want regime change in Iran, but he definitely wants regime change in California.
He's going to war with Iran to hide his war with the United States.
We need a war-ready Democratic Party.
Governor or mayor is not a job for peaceniks.
Dave Winer will be keynoting WordCamp Canada in Ottawa:
I’m also not happy with the tech industry of the US. I’d like a fresh start, a return to our roots, with the assumption that the people control their destiny and the role of developers is to give them to the tools to try out new ideas.
There is still so much potential where the fediverse and blogging overlap.
Today's song: Peace in our time.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
The New Surveillance State: Why Data Privacy Is Now Essential to Democracy
"When the government can track where you go, whom you associate with, and what you spend your money on, it [...] chills freedom of expression, undermines your freedom to travel, and destroys the fundamental privacy right that underlies American liberty."
RSS on a timeline
WordCamp Canada in October
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Publishers facing existential threat from AI, Cloudflare CEO says
Ten years ago, Google crawled two pages for every visitor it sent to a publisher. Today, Anthropic crawls 60,000.
Kelp
A UI library for people who love HTML, powered by modern CSS and Web Components.
I really enjoyed rocking out with Salter Cane on Friday night—thanks to everyone who came along!
I really enjoyed rocking out with Salter Cane on Friday night—thanks to everyone who came along!
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Waves were licking at the bottom of the pier. Big and fun.
Some of the problems Trump has created are fixable. They are painful for many people, and clearly so morally wrong, illegal, or just plain dumb that they will have to be reversed, with time. And then there are the disastrous, long-term mistakes like bombing Iran that we’ll be stuck with for decades.
I’ve updated the Micro.blog photo challenge page with the final list of words. Thanks everyone for the suggestions! I think I’ve got at least one or two from everyone who sent ideas in.
In hindsight, June was an incredibly busy month for me to do this, but I’m so happy to see people’s photos. 📷
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
“Take Two” as in Television Production
For the June 2025 IndieWeb Carnival by Nick: “Take Two” Joe: READY CAMERA ONE. Joe: TAKE ONE. Joe: CAMERA TWO DOLLY BACK TO A TWO SHOT. Joe: READY CAMERA TWO. Joe: TAKE TWO. In 1988 I took a class at San Diego City College on Radio & TV Production. I learned to read a tv...
I’ll be updating the photoblog challenge post today with the final set of prompts for the month. If anyone has word suggestions, let me know! The special collection of everyone’s posts is also way behind, so I hope to get that caught up this weekend.
Speak plainly. Don't say sui generis, say unique. And as Brent says, lessons not learnings. Keep it simple. This is one of the foundations of blogging, btw. "Try to write correctly."
Just a guess, but the people doing the "ice" raids are not real police any more than the "doge" people are/were actually part of the US government. In this New Yorker podcast, they dug into what "doge" actually was/is. Some weren't actually Trump supporters, they just thought it would be interesting to be empowered to fix the government. They learned the government doesn't work the way they thought it did. Spending is way up over the years, but number of government employees has stayed flat. It has already been largely privatized. Tangentially they appear to have found some things actually worth fixing. Tech culture isn't just the billionaires, far from it. There's a lot of hippie ethics in there too, you just have to look past the money, which seems too much work for some/most journalists. But The New Yorker tends to do this well, btw, sometimes. 😄
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
Automattic Twenty
We’re celebrating a fun anniversary at Automattic today, our 20th, with a fun look-back. Gosh, it’s been quite a journey, and it still feels like we’re just getting started in so many areas. In 2005, being a remote-first company was anathema to investors and business leaders* at the time; it was a scarlet letter that … Continue reading Automattic Twenty →
Delivery robots gathering. It’s day 20 of the photo challenge.