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ChatGPT gets projects. Haven't had a chance to explore, but I desperately need this. I organize all my work as projects, and need to have my ChatGPT work be part of that.

Katie Robinson, reporting for The New York Times: After President-elect Donald J. Trump announced a cascade of cabinet picks last month, the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times decided it would weigh in. One writer prepared an editorial arguing that the Senate shoul...

There was a moment a couple of years ago when Mastodon was gaining traction in a serious way when I thought that Automattic should do something publicly to demonstrate support for it because I felt that WordPress and Mastodon were two sides of the same important coin. As yo...

Ev Williams, writing the backstory of, and raison d’être for, Mozi: And here we are, 20+ years later, with address books full of partial, duplicate, and outdated information. Perhaps the reason for this is that social networks (or the social network) solved this problem ...

New app, spearheaded by Ev Williams: Mozi is a private social network for seeing your people more, IRL. Add your plans, check who’s in town, and know when you overlap. iOS only at the moment, with “Sign in with Apple” as the only supported authentication method. One cl...

It's a big enough umbrella but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

One last Letterman link: a new half-hour interview about interviewing with Zach Baron for GQ. I watched the first minute and I’m saving the rest for tonight:

Baron: If you read pieces about you — pieces of press, profile stuff like that — from the ’80s and ’90s, even a little bit in the 2000s, you were often portrayed as miserable.

Letterman: (laughs uproariously) Yeah, that’s great. I love that.

The New York Times: George J. Kresge, who as the entertainer the Amazing Kreskin used mentalist tricks to dazzle audiences as he rose to fame on late-night television in the 1970s, died on Tuesday in Wayne, N.J. He was 89. A close friend, Meir Yedid, said the death, at a...

Possibly the last moment when the Dems really kicked ass.

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.

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.

In addition to two choices for t-shirts, the new DF Paraphernalia store also has the above hoodies, which are pretty nice, I have to say. I particularly like the drawstrings, which are much more substantial, almost rope-like, than the shoelace-like strings on most hoodies. I wear mine a lot, especially in the winter, as an extra layer. You’d look good in one.

Here’s the thing. The store will not be open year-round. We’re taking orders now, printing to meet demand, and then we’re going to close it down. Order tonight or tomorrow, and if you’re in the U.S., yours should arrive before Christmas. International orders — even those ordered by our good neighbors in Canada — most likely will not.

Reporting from The Information suggests that an M-series tier above Ultra might remain years away.

Erik Hayden, reporting for The Hollywood Reporter: For his next move, David Letterman is jumping in to the increasingly crowded free, ad-supported TV channel (FAST) space. The late-night great’s production company Worldwide Pants has inked a deal with Samsung TV Plus to...

A valued tester of WordLand asked a series of questions, which I answered in some detail, and felt it was a good idea to post the answers here on my blog. Any kind of feedback you want to give is totally welcome. I'd prefer it be in the GitHub issues section so it might ins...

Juli Clover at MacRumors: Apple today made a mistake with its macOS Sequoia 15.2 update, releasing the software for two Macs that have yet to be launched. There is a software file for “Mac16,12” and “Mac16,13,” which are upcoming MacBook Air models. The leaked software ...

I have United Healthcare insurance. I got it as part of my Medicare package when I turned 65. I've had good experience with them. I had major surgery in 2002, cost hundreds of thousands, included a one-week hospital stay and lots of followup treatments. I know the hospital did all the work with them, I was shielded from any complications, but as far as I know there were none. Never had a treatment questioned or denied. I had another insurance provider for many years after that, but when given a chance I went back to United. Just want to say, so far -- knock wood -- I am a happy customer.

Bingeworthy has RSS, and new ratings show up in my blogroll.

No more elections where Hope is the main theme. Better: Kicking ass. Kicking ass is for ass-kicking Americans. I personally like Hope, but I'm also a sports fan and understand the value of kicking ass.