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Interesting episode of the Daily podcast about AI in Hollywood. They specifically mention a new movie starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, with bodies and faces edited by AI to be various ages other than what they are (mid-late 60s). The movie Here, was rated not too great by various critics including the NYT.

Hundreds of thousands of protestors celebrated in Seoul over the weekend as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached by the National Parliament.  Yoon, who was elected by a narrow margin in 2022, oversaw deepening political divisions and a population increasi...

For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted, songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a multi-episode look at the song “Never Learn Not to Love” by the Beach Boys, and the links between Charles Manson and the LA music scene. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

This one is later than normal, for reasons explained in the episode. The next one should be up much sooner.

Patreon backers also have a twenty-five-minute bonus episode available, on “Israelites” by Desmond Dekker.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

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I usually post one photo at a time, so my last post was mostly an excuse to test the new layout for photo collections in the Micro.blog mobile app. Here’s a screenshot. Photos scroll horizontally, tap to go full-screen. This currently only works for collections, not any set of photos… yet.

A couple photos today as I was walking along Riverside.

After the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare’s chief executive caused public outcry against the health care industry, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, chief Washington correspondent for STAT News, examines what Congress is trying to do to fix a system that many Americans think is broken.

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As our centennial series continues, Micah Rasmussen, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University and former press secretary for Governor McGreevey, looks back at a century of the Star-Ledger, once the Newark Star-Ledger, which ends its print edition in February.

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It’s amazing how many things we worry about that don’t actually matter.

Listeners call in to share any news they learned at holiday parties over the weekend...and which topics in the news were the most discussed. 

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Does pineapple belong on pizza? The answer may vary from person to person. But WordPress […]

NetNewsWire 6.1.7 for Mac is available through the standard ways — check for updates or download it directly.

Changes:

• Fix bug clearing refresh progress
• Fix bandwidth bugs with downloading web pages to find feed icons and favicons
• Update default theme with enhancements by John Gruber
• Space out requests made to openrss.org
• Send user-agent with platform, version, and build to openrss.org (and only to that site)

Note — we are working on an iOS release with the same changes that have been going into the Mac releases. If you’re willing to help test, you can sign up for the TestFlight program.

After a contentious City Council hearing on a proposal to license all e-bikes and scooters, Gale Brewer,  NYC Council Member (District 6, Central Park, Lincoln Square, Upper West Side, Clinton), talks about the issue and an alternative plan that would focus on commercial e-bikes.

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I recorded a new demo of Micro.blog photo collections on YouTube here. This video shows the Mac app’s interface for photo search and collections.

Worked on a few things over the weekend, including Mastodon posts and photos import. Micro.blog and Mastodon have had moving followers for a while, but you couldn’t actually move your Mastodon posts. Now you can import a Mastodon archive and Micro.blog will copy the posts and photos to your blog.

Warning: this episode contains strong language. Over the past few weeks, the resistance of a single Republican senator, Joni Ernst of Iowa, had threatened to derail Donald J. Trump’s choice of Pete Hegseth to run the Department of Defense. Karoun Demirjian, who covers Congre...

ABC News has abruptly agreed to a $15 million settlement with Donald Trump in his lawsuit against the network. Coming after Trump raged at ABC throughout the campaign, some observers see this as a sign of broader capitulation to him. Indeed, it comes as Trump openly boasted that he’s “tamed” the media. We talked to The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum, author of Autocracy, Inc., who explains why this outcome has “really disturbing” implications, how Trump is conditioning Americans to accept authoritarian rule, and what the prognosis is going forward. It’s not great. 
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It’s a dream come true being here in Tokyo for State of the Word 2024. We’re going to be in an amazing venue that looks over the city. Most of WordPress and Automattic’s senior leadership is here, and we’ll also have several hundred folks from the local community and press. We’ve gotten so much inspiration … Continue reading State of the Word Tokyo →

SERIES 3 EPISODE 79: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: It is now revealed that at a Thanksgiving-eve dinner on a patio at the Mar-a-Lago Crapshack, Trump had his minions play a recording of the national anthem sung by the January 6th Terrorists. ...

On the highway, passing small towns, I sometimes question why we pay so much to be in the city when there is nearly unlimited affordable property everywhere else. Of course the more central, the closer to things, the less time getting anywhere. We aren’t really buying a location. We are buying time.