Curse you, Betteridge’s Law!
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
If you followed me on Twitter, follow me on Bluesky. As far as I'm concerned Twitter is gone. Not because I'm religious about this stuff, but my account got hijacked and I can't get it back, so let's close that book. It was a great innovative product that also held back progress on the web for 20 years, and it made some people I knew a long time ago fabulously rich, and it would have been nice of them to not do this to us, but what the fuck, it is what it is. One more thing, guys -- pay your taxes.
A bit of general advice about using ChatGPT et al, never let it rush you. You do the thinking, it does the stuff you ask it to do. If you're not careful it'll quickly start giving you orders.
opmlProjectEditor format
Some time in 2013 I started editing all my JavaScript projects in the Frontier outliner, and in doing so I designed a format that could contain a whole project. And it worked, I continued building it, and to this day edit all my projects in this format. It does a lot of work...
🗓️ The Level Up
The Level Up is an indie improv showcase. Join us as we watch amazing New York indie improv talents gain XP on the Magnet stage, unlock new achievements, and reach new milestones. Or do comedy.
Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for three exciting indie teams!
- HALALRIOUS
- GOOD TOWEL
- DJ SOGGY BOTTOM
I’ll be playing with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!
Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)
Saturday Feb 28th, 2026 @ 10:30pm
Magnet Theater
254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)
New York City, NY 10001
Tickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/tickets/60380/
Strange juxtaposition with the war in Iran happening at the same time as the controversy around Anthropic, OpenAI, and the Pentagon. OpenAI has a post with the details of their agreement, which also includes red lines on mass surveillance and autonomous weapons:
We think our agreement has more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic’s.
I’m confused about how Anthropic’s proposed contract differs from the contract that OpenAI has shared. If the Pentagon offered the same agreement to Anthropic, would they accept it? Lots of questions.
Archive for Scripting News in February 2026, in OPML, as always.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
Step aside, phone: week 3
Three-quarters of the way through this “challenge”, and the findings are mostly the same. Phone usage is very easy to keep in check if you decide to put your mind to it. The past seven days have been very similar to the previous seven, and that’s good, since this type of pho...
Starting March much as I did February by trying something new. This morning I completed my first Aquathon (Tuff Fitty’s Frost Bite event in Littlehampton, a 400m swim followed by a 5km run), finishing with a time of 50:35. I’ll take that!
IndieWeb Carnival March 2026: Museum memories
Museums and galleries are places we can go to learn about the past, think about the present, and consider the future. Museums are places we can connect: with times, people, and place. We can have conversations in museums. We learn in museums. We can explore.
The topic I have...
Endless Summer / Girls Can’t Surf IndieWeb Movie Club
IndieWeb Carnival March 2026: Museum memories
Museums and galleries are places we can go to learn about the past, think about the present, and consider the future. Museums are places we can connect: with times, people, and place. We can have conversations in museums. We learn in museums. We can explore.
The topic I have...
World of Coca‑Cola. 🥤
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Winged Migration (Club de cinéma IndieWeb)
Winged Migration is a lovely film that on its surface seems like innocuous footage of birds in their habitats. But look closer and it’s a life or death adventure and dramatization of what it means to live on planet earth. I found it profoundly moving. There are scenes that made me gasp. A shot of...
🗓️ Bizzo at The PIT's March Madness!
Bizzo is among 32 improv teams battling for a spot in the Sweet 16!
Please come out and 🔥 scream for us 🔥!!
Who will take home prize money, a Mainstage residency, and March Madness glory? That’s up to our judges and, of course, the audience! Follow the tournament from the start in our Qualifier Matches.
Friday Feb 27, 2026 @ 8:30pm
The PIT Loft - 154 W. 29th St., New York, NY, 10001
Tickets $15: https://thepit-nyc.com/events/march-madness-26-qualifiers/
Aviator Coffee. ☕️
Congress needs to reclaim its rightful role in declaring war. We all know this and yet somehow we’ve let one man control far too much. 🇺🇸
Airport train in Atlanta. Here for the weekend!
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Triple feature
Triple feature of the day— Weather Underground (2002) One Battle After Another (2025) Running on Empty (1988) Previously: Running On Empty, Movies Owned Which Can Predictably Induce Crying
Podcast: Why men hate the Dems. I tell my perspective of MeToo, and how that imho created enough anti-Dem energy to push Trump over the top. Polls won't tell you how the Dems got the rep of being the party run by women to cancel men, but I'm sure if we could cure that somehow, we could do everything we need to do to get American democracy working again. I did this in response to a Frum podcast where he and his guest conclude that the young folks are making a big mistake, they don't want the same old bullshit people coming back into power. Frum and Miller thought that the young men don't want was democracy, foolishly (I would agree) but there is real anger there, I know about it because I have it too. I still vote for Dems, but I also fear what happens if we snap back to the political correctness of Kirsten Gillibrand.