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"As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s backing."

You will probably see a series of test posts here, as the day goes on.

Good morning. I like how things are going in FeedLand and WordLand today. The dots are starting to connect.

Hanging out with Coco.

On the ground floor of the Musee de l’Orangerie in Paris – a long building by the river banks of the Seine, and at the start of the Jardin des Tuileries – there is an exhibit of eight Monet paintings. The museum website introduces the paintings like so: Offered to the French ...

Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas, for The Outsiders. Great show. First time I had seen it. 🎭

Made a short video of driving up to Dallas today, with a stop in Waco.

Michael Tsai blogging about the Apple-funded study on DMA fallout:

Now Apple is acting as though it and end users are the only parties that matter, so by implication the money must have been wasted. There’s no consideration that maybe these funds helped some developers stay in business or invest more in the products, both of which would be beneficial to the platform as a whole (including Apple).

A short podcast about Sarah Kendzior being banned from Bluesky, and why this shouldn't be like any other such event.

We should learn, that systems like Bluesky depend on moderation, and they don't have a clear business model, and they've grown very large, and they can't afford to hire moderators who understand the difference between a line from a powerful song, and a threat.

If we want a literate web, and I desperately want that myself, it has to be made in a different way.

That's what this short podcast is about.

And to Sarah, if you hear this, I love your work. You've done here what you usually do so well, you've shown us the truth. Keep on truckin! Dave Winer

A short podcast about Sarah Kendzior, Johnny Cash and Bluesky.

π Happy ordinal pi day! (314th day of the year)No, it should not be the US-centric March 14th, which most of the world writes as 14/3 or 14-3.Science and mathematics are international, without borders, not specific to any one country or culture. As scientists and mathematicia...

Oh cool, Jarrod Blundy’s blog post about Micro.blog Studio made it on Hacker News.

Choose your heroes very carefully and then emulate them. You will never be perfect, but you can always be better. I’m an unabashed fan of Warren Buffett and the late Charllie Munger, I even have bronze busts of them in my office! I was very lucky to attend his last shareholder meeting, as part of … Continue reading Buffett Thanksgiving →

Two related pieces of writing are doing the loops in my head recently. The first is the editorial piece from Dense Discovery #361—thank you Mattia for sending it to me—where Kay wrote We’ve normalised giving our attention almost exclusively to people who already have obscen...

I've added the NetNewsWire blog to my blogroll.

The big news is that there are now docs for source:markdown. The goal is to have a writer-friendly standard for text on the net that's as useful as the one for audio was. We've never had that for RSS. As with everything in RSS-land, cooperation among the different vendors was never its strong point. I hope to change that, and plan to build a network for written text as open and powerful as the one that developed for podcasting.

Fixed a longstanding performance bug on the scripting.com home page. Sometimes it'd just sit there for five seconds. Really embarrassing. It might feel faster now. Still diggin!

I always enjoy reading Jay’s newsletter, but this was a particularly fun trip down memory lane.

There’s a link to an old post by Jeff Atwood who said:

A blog without comments is not a blog.

That was responding to an old post of mine where I declared:

Comments should be disabled 90% of the time.

That blog-to-blog conversation took place almost twenty years ago.

I still enjoy blog-to-blog conversations today.

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Wherever I go, I usually bring my backpack. In it, I always keep a few things. First, I try to always bring a book with me. I usually pack a book to read before I leave the house, for the book I am reading is either at my bedside or next to my chair. Right now, I am reading t...