FeedCity

Reading Yellowface by Rebecca F Kuang.

fire, water, wind, steam, electric, solar, nuclear

Of course we try to forget some of our most painful memories, but there’s always one lurking.

If all the people who love RSS and make software for it, feed readers, editors, blogging software, put our heads together, we could make a great network for people to write on, that would be so exciting, it would pull a lot of interest from the silos. If momentum builds, they will eventually add RSS as an inbound and outbound format because they will want to be on this network.

We, as writers, shouldn't have to live with the compromises that come from having to make 5 versions of everything, and still you don't have a way to share a lot of the interesting stuff people write.

If we choose to work together, even just a few of us, we could make big change.

General note: When I say RSS, I recognize that there are other feed formats, but I don't want to confuse things. The software makes all that transparent, so let's make it transparent for the users too, ok?

I read through a few of the remedy pages in the Google antitrust PDF. My expectations were extremely low for any sort of actual breakup. Sharing search index data with “qualified” competitors seems good, though. Kagi could use that, and of course all the AI companies will want it.

You might be a WordPresser if… If you identified with two or more of these statements, I am afraid to inform you might be classified as a WordPresser. What did I miss?

Even though I think AI is incredibly useful and in some cases even empowering, I’m open to the idea that kids should rarely use it, just as they should rarely use social media. When in doubt, limiting use to 18+ is okay. At the very least, I don’t think it’s a simple question.

How you know you’re reallllly old. You tell Alexa to play songs by Elton John and you find yourself singing along with Crocodile Rock with tears streaming down your face. Then they play Philadelphia Freedom. Mama mia. The thing about Crocodile Rock is that it's twice-nostalg...

I don’t really understand Tesla’s latest master plan (post on Twitter / X) and I’m not going to think too hard about it, but the included illustration bugs me, especially the couple walking next to their baby stroller while a robot pushes it. AI is fine. Humanoid robots are a mistake.

Molly White covers recent activity on betting markets:

Prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket opened betting markets on President Donald Trump being “out as president” as social media platforms erupted over the long weekend with rumors that he had died.

What a crazy world we’re living in. Trump survived a bad case of Covid before vaccines. He survived getting shot at. I wouldn’t bet on tomorrow let alone end of the year. 🇺🇸

Tuesday session

This is a good change from OpenAI:

We’ll soon begin to route some sensitive conversations—like when our system detects signs of acute distress—to a reasoning model, like GPT‑5-thinking, so it can provide more helpful and beneficial responses, regardless of which model a person first selected.

Essentially, if the model notices the user is having a mental health challenge, it should slow down and use the best reasoning model, just as it would for other hard problems. There will also be new parental controls.

It’s a shame this wasn’t in place earlier. I’m still glad it’s being prioritized now.

A few flowers left at Cherrywood. ☕️

When we added private, end-to-end encrypted notes to Micro.blog, I said that this would be a foundation for new features. The first feature was shared notes. Any private note can be published to your blog with a special, unguessable URL, convenient for sharing with other peo...

Preamble The Ojo Creativo studio is down the street from Chicano Park, which is around the corner from where I was baptized, which I talk about in my comic. It got on my radar during an art crawl a few years ago. About Ojo Creativo Rafael Rios photographs tintype images. These are not kitsch. And...

Whenever I’m about to launch a new feature, I feel slightly guilty… Why not improve all the other features first? But we are! I think the news blog history speaks for itself. There are improvements nearly every day, including fixes deployed all through Labor Day weekend.

CSS Grid where have you been all my life? Very rational, simple.

Contrary to what I had planned, I didn’t post weekly updates on my challenge throughout August. No particular reason why, I was just busy doing various other things and posting updates on the hikes was low on my list of priorities. But, I am happy to report that I have succe...

I am very, very excited about this …Web Day Out!

https://webdayout.com/

A one-day event all about what you can do in web browsers today: Brighton, 12 March 2026!