Congrats to @RogueAmoeba on the release of Audio Hijack 4! Really big update. Their blog post has details on the new features, design, and scripting.
I think it was @amit who suggested something like this change at Micro Camp earlier this month, on the panel with @pimoore. Thankful for all the Hugo experts who actually know more than I do about it. 🙂
Deployed a bunch of server changes today. Some behind-the-scenes stuff that @vincent has been working on, plus fixes to managing themes and pages. Micro.blog now respects min_version in Hugo’s theme.toml file and will show this notice to make it easy to update:
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How Democrats Evened the Congressional Map
In the past, Republicans have been able to secure what some see as an unfair political advantage by gerrymandering political districts.
But after the recent redrawing of zones, the congressional map across the U.S. is perhaps more evenly split than at any time in the past 50...
Bluesky
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The Initial Bluesky Team
Announcing the initial members of the Bluesky team.
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The rise and fall of Peloton
How Peloton became a victim of its own success, and what the parasocial relationship with its instructors tells us about our relationships to ourselves. Plus, what happens when two cosmonauts and an astronaut return to earth.
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Peloton saw a meteoric rise at the s...
John Lee Dumas: Host of the Entrepreneurs on Fire Podcast
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The Political Lives of Clarence and Ginni Thomas
A series of text messages released in the past week show how Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas of the Supreme Court, urged White House officials to push to overturn the result of the 2020 election.
There has never been a spouse of a sitting justice who has been a...
Mastodon 3.5
Work on multiple features in this release has been kindly sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research through the Prototype Fund.
We’ve added one of the most requested functions among our competitors, the ability to edit posts. Since older Mastodon ver...
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How the war in Ukraine could end
On today’s episode of Post Reports, we bring you the latest news from Istanbul, where Russian and Ukrainian delegates are negotiating a de-escalation of the war.
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After a day of talks in Istanbul, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators have laid out their terms ...
I’ve been reading a lot of e-books and audiobooks, so wanted to pick up something new in print. Just arrived: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh. 📚
Improved several things in the Bookshelves section of Micro.blog on the web. More consistent navigation and book sorting fixes.
Austin has come alive in the last week with blooming red buds, mountain laurel, and bluebonnets.
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Senator Joe Manchin’s Conflict of Interest
At every step of his political career, Senator Joe Manchin III has helped a West Virginia power plant that is the sole customer of his private coal business, including by blocking ambitious climate action.
A Times investigation has revealed the strands of the unusual relatio...
Finished reading: Magician’s Gambit by David Eddings 📚
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Preparing for a post-Roe America
As more and more states move to restrict abortion rights, and the Supreme Court weighs whether to overturn Roe v. Wade, we look at how clinics in blue states are preparing for an influx of patients from across state lines.
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On today’s episode of Post Report...
Realized last week that I need to actually use the email newsletter feature of Micro.blog myself so that I notice more of the quirks that we can smooth over. You can now subscribe to weekly emails on manton.org. Got the first one today and it looks pretty good!
We watched the Oscars live last night and were confused and then stunned by what happened with Will Smith and Chris Rock, and I hoped by this morning I could focus on other things. Still can’t stop thinking of what Denzel Washington told Will Smith: “At your highest moment, be careful, that’s when the devil comes for you.”
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Four Million Ukrainians in Limbo
Since the beginning of Russia’s war in Ukraine, 10 million Ukrainians — about a quarter of the population — have been displaced, and about four million have fled the country.
Iryna Baramidze is one of them. From a middle-class neighborhood of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, she...
Working on Epilogue this morning, and Android + iOS builds have my Intel MacBook fans going at full speed. Not ready to jump to M1 yet, though. When I bought this 16-inch MacBook Pro, I said I’d keep it for at least a few years and trying to stick to that.