FeedCity

I want to start reading a bunch of WordPress community blogs.

Epilogue 2.0 for iOS out now. I’ve also submitted the Android version to Google for review, so that won’t be far behind. It seemed right to bump the version to 2.0 because of the new private notes support. The app won’t look very different if you don’t enable notes. With notes enabled on the profile screen, you’ll see a new “Add Note…” button when viewing a book you’re reading. Here you can add a note about your reading progress, and it will be saved to the Micro.blog backend, encrypted along with other Micro.blog notes. I blogged more about book notes in Micro.blog yesterday. Notes are available for all Micro.blog or Micro.blog Premium subscribers, but not Micro.one. If you need to upgrade from Micro.one, click on the Plans page on the web.

Stratechery covers the Google antitrust remedies, largely arguing that the judge did not go far enough. (“This is a waste of time.") I think sharing the search index is a big deal. When OpenAI builds their own search engine and Google drops to second place, we might view this decision differently.

Jeremy Cherfas blogging about the linkrot that will hit when Typepad shuts down:

Links are the foundation that supports the world wide web, and I take them seriously. I correct broken links when I come across them, archive my own stuff (and support archive.org), and generally try to get to the original behind anything I choose to link to.

This is why Micro.blog has a feature to automatically archive everything you link to. (Seriously! Here’s a video explaining it.) But I think Micro.blog is probably too new to contain a large number of Typepad links.

Good morning! Sunrise over MLK Boulevard. Too many trees and power lines in the way, but still was nice to see coming up over the horizon, on the way to coffee. ☕️

Walking the walk with https://webdayout.com/

Useful tips on creating an unlimited PTO policy. I used to think these were more accounting hacks than real benefits - but I've changed my mind over time.

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.