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Social Warming by Charles Arthur
• Charles Arthur
Hello, is this the nice peaceful charming tribe?
The trouble with humans isn't changed by going onto a different social network. Unfortunately.
It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet.
The day is already winding down, punting the release until tomorrow morning. Still have a couple housekeeping things to do. Writing release notes, blog posts, and maybe a new companion M.b plug-in. I’ve also extended the Micropub API and want to make sure that everything is properly documented.
Platformer
• Casey Newton
How Claude uses AI to identify new threats
PLUS: Exclusive data on how people are using Anthropic’s chatbot
Whenever I ship a new feature, I get the inevitable “why didn’t you add that other thing instead / fix that old problem first” question. It’s fair, but the truth is I’m constantly making minor improvements. Every day. A good product needs both bug fixes and new things to live.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Ask Governor Murphy: December Recap
Nancy Solomon, WNYC reporter and editor, and host of the “Ask Governor Murphy” monthly call-in show, recaps her conversation with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, including legislation that would prohibit book bans and more.
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WP Tavern
• Jyolsna
Barn2Plugins, Patchstack, and WP Deals Diversify Beyond WordPress
The CEOs of Barn2Plugins, Patchstack, and LayerWP have announced plans to expand their businesses beyond […]
Trying Sora. It’s extraordinary that this works at all, and it’s even faster than I was expecting. OpenAI seems to have built a whole UI system around this app too.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
The ‘FBI’ called. Then she got scammed.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Shop Listener 2024: Food and Drink
Shop Listener is back for the 2024 holiday season. Listeners call in to shout out their restaurants, wine shops, and other businesses selling food and drinks.
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Cosmic’s building was originally the Texaco Depot, built around 1911. It’s the only surviving building from the old rail yard in Austin. 🚂
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Antitrust in the Spotlight
Leah Nylen, antitrust reporter for Bloomberg News, breaks down the latest news surrounding a failed merger of two major supermarket chains, and what the future of antitrust enforcement might look like as president-elect Donald Trump considers his pick to replace Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Aging and Caregiving Support
Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez, commissioner of the NYC Department for the Aging, and Chris Durrance, documentary filmmaker, director of "Caregiving", talk about the need for more support for caregiving for older Americans and the recent BOOM Conference that sought to address the issues ageism and the need for more support.
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I'll keep my Tesla, thank you
I saw a pundit suggest people harass people who drive Teslas.
When I bought mine, it cost $70K, a large sum of money that I will not throw away just so a pundit can make a point.
Here's my rebuttal. I'd like to see you get on without buying Exxon products. We all agree they suck, but evil companies have a way of building dependence, that's how the stay in business while openly doing despicable things.
When I put down $70K for what is, btw, a fantastic car, no one knew how evil Elon Musk was going to turn out to be, how little he would care what you and I think.
And I don't believe anyone can live a pure life and extract all evil from it, and still participate in civilization.
PS: I wrote this initially as a post on Bluesky.
WP Tavern
• Jyolsna
WPExperts Acquires Advanced File Manager Plugin
WPExperts has acquired the Advanced File Manager plugin from Modal Web. WPExperts (formerly WooExperts) is […]
Wheee, just DoS-ed my own servers while working on client changes. Optimizing.
BTW, I hear that Safari now defaults to using HTTPS. Not sure exactly what that means. But if they ever actually stop showing scripting.com, which will always be plain old HTTP, I'll probably ship an Electron product that browse the web, and doesn't care if it's HTTP or whatever new fad Google is promoting these days. I'm going to hold down the fort for the original web, I can't change scripting.com to HTTPS, it would break all the images and probably a lot of other stuff. I fight linkrot, don't bring it on, and fuck Google for thinking they own the freaking web. I use their products, just like I drive a Tesla. Can't help it.
The all-new kickass Democratic Party might use this image for motivation.