Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.

Troy Jackson’s Politics Are Rooted in Maine Logger Struggles.

The reason I focus so much on the wrapping is because that’s where the interop lives. You can do anything in a theme and you can’t break the interop.

ICE’s chilling impact on a 14-year-old girl in Androscoggin County.

Scripting News: A peptalk for devs.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine.

Substack is hosting podcasts.

Trump Has Only Terrible Choices With Iran.

This is what a thread looks like in rss.chat.

Republicans Are Dreading Trump’s Speech.

ABC and NBC Will Not Air Trump’s Speech as Other TV Networks’ Plans Remain Uncertain.

The Odyssey can’t be as great as the critics say?

Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it.'

rss.chat is the start of a new social network built on existing web standards. Easy to deploy on Node.js and getting easier. New RSS features. Infinite possibilities for developers. Owned by no one.

‘Scared shitless’: Republicans brace for Trump’s primetime speech. So sad for Repubs. The rest of us are scared too. 😳

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts.

Canada Offers Lesson in the Economic Toll of Climate Change.

How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi Party members.

Elon Musk’s X turned Graham Platner’s campaign into a political mirage.

Howard Rheingold, social network pioneer, shows up on the new demo server we put up yesterday. I explain in a reply that we're mostly focused on developers to start, because we want people to copy us. We want a big fat happy network of writers and readers.

A beautiful TV ad from Claude. It addresses head-on the concerns people have about AI apps. There is a PR disaster brewing out there. And those of us who use the tools and don't want to or won't go back, need this to work out well.

All in on Platner, supporters look to what's next in Maine Senate race.

Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing 'dead power pool,' experts say.

You can now chat using RSS.

Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI read, click, and type on external websites.

Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies at 71, office says.

Jose Alvarado's father recalls what his son gave him after the Knicks won the Finals.

Toni Schneider is the new full-time CEO of Bluesky. I know him from the old days of blogging, and of course from Automattic. Best of luck Toni and I hope someday to be able to connect our products over the web. 🙂

8 Things to Know About Trump’s Effort to “Take Over” Midterm Elections.

Philadelphia 76ers Get Intriguing LeBron James Update From NBA Insider.