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From a Bloomberg story about Tim Cook in Washington:

…Cook urged lawmakers not to require app store operators to check documentation of users’ ages and instead rely on parents to provide the age of their child when creating a child’s account…

While requiring Apple to check ages seems like an overreach, it’s better than requiring every app and website to do the same. I’ve lost faith in Tim’s leadership of the App Store, going back a few years to when he suggested in court that developers would have to pay Apple for sales outside the store, and continuing through his meetings with Trump.

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The paramedic thinks I’m clever ’cause I play guitar– I think she’s clever ’cause she stops people dying One of my favorite songs. That’s Avant Gardener by Courtney Barnett, which is on my mixtape 2021 faux pho foe. I first heard on Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (1976). Anaphylactictin’ and super hypochondriac– Should’ve stayed in...

I added a help page with an intro to using Pagefind in Micro.blog. Leon Mika also has a good post about it.

Andreas Deja has been sharing some drawings from the cancelled Disney feature My Peoples. Beautiful work. I would’ve loved to see this get made. There is more artwork over on this Disney wiki.

Submitted an iOS update to Apple for Micro.blog, hopefully will be approved in the next day. I think this is the best version of our app yet. Lots of little tweaks. Android will be submitted this week too.

Feed discovery 23 years later. "You can see how these things got ratified in the early 00s -- in the most web way imaginable, by individual users seeing the benefit, adding it to their sites, and quickly the entire feed world got an upgrade."

Sultans!

Every time I go to the supermarket I'm reminded of how scary the times are. People want to just live their lives, never has that been more understandable, but food prices are a constant reminder for everyone there's good reason to be scared. And if you want to really feel it, imagine what happens if we somehow let Trump flood the economy with dollars. Talk about a recipe for disruption, this time, of our lives, not just some kind of PC or network or game software.

Feed discovery tips. How to help readers find your feed.

Cory Doctorow has posted the text of a speech he gave about AI. It is very long, but absolutely worth setting aside some time to read, whether you’re an AI skeptic or enthusiast or somewhere in between. I was actually a little nervous to read it. Cory is an incredible writer...

Here we show website devs how to help readers find their feeds.

"All tourists will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force."

Going to Cobh. brb

A more accurate framing would be that Fizzy is source available. You can read it, run it, and modify it. But DHH’s company is keeping the SaaS rights because they want to be able to build a sustainable business. That is defensible and generous, but it is not open source. Dries Buytaert follows up on my response to … Continue reading Dries OSS →

Let's Encrypt is ten years old. It's changed the web for the better.

Ben Werdmuller wrote a new perspective on RSS. It's great, just what we need. RSS is of the web, and is the simplest most obvious way to get all the twitter-like systems connected.

Reading Rose/House by Arkady Martine.