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‘Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Sprint to Remake Meta for the Trump Era’

nytimes.com/2025/01/10/technology/meta-mark-zuckerberg-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oU4.1YiC.LBBOij0yKLtb&smid=url-share

Mike Isaac, Sheera Frenkel, and Kate Conger, reporting for the NYT in the best-sourced piece I’ve seen on Meta’s big policy changes this week (gift link): The entire process was highly unusual. Meta typically alters policies that govern its apps — which include Facebook,...

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‘We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This’

theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/mark-zuckerberg-free-expression/681238/

Good piece and great headline by Charlie Warzel at The Atlantic: The social-media hall monitors have been so restrictive on “topics of immigration and gender that they’re out of touch with mainstream discourse,” Zuckerberg said with the zeal of an activist. He spoke abou...

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Notes on Little Feed Reader, running on Bluesky since Jan 2.

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★ Nvidia, the New King of Keynotes

The answer to the question of which company held the keynotes which attracted the most enthusiastic large live audiences was always Apple. And they just walked away from that.

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This is what my YouTube channel looks like in my blogroll.

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YouTube channels have feeds. Here's the feed for my YouTube channel. And a canonical JSONification of the feed (this is how FeedLand gets the data from any type of feed, RSS, Atom or RDF, the YouTube feed is Atom). I did not know they had feeds, in fact I thought I heard they specifically did not have feeds. I've subscribed to the feed in FeedLand and it seems to work, and also included it in my blogroll category, so it should show up in my blogroll, and possibly in the Little Feed Reader on Bluesky. Oh the power of interop. All of this, and more, was discovered by Andrew Shell. Two suggestions. 1. Include descriptions with the items. 2. Use enclosures for the videos. Atom does enclosures differently from RSS, but it can be made to work, imho. No matter what, thank you YouTube, and it's a great start.

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Zuckerberg Disses Apple With Joe Rogan: ‘They Haven’t Invented Anything Great in a While’

9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/mark-zuckerberg-joe-rogan-apple-innovation/

Chance Miller listened so we don’t have to: Zuckerberg also took issue with AirPods and the fact that Apple wouldn’t give Meta the same access to the iPhone for its Meta Ray-Ban glasses: They build stuff like AirPods, which are cool, but they’ve just thoroughly hamst...

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James Thomson on the Origins of the MacOS Dock

tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/

James Thomson: So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X to the world at Macworld Expo. Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all k...

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Los Angeles Fires: The Damage in Maps, Video, and Images

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/los-angeles-fires-the-damage-in-maps-video-and-images

Just heartbreaking, and a scale of destruction that’s hard to comprehend.

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Good questions from Phil Jones re Wednesday's podcast. I'm glad to get to answer these questions. There's more to wpIdentity than is obvious at first glance, for example it has a relatively complete storage system built in for developers to use. I used one of its features yesterday in the connection between Bingeworthy and the profile display app.

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The personal profile pages for Bingeworthy are working again. Here's my profile page. This is how you share recommendations. More info here.

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I'm going to fill in the next bit of Bingeworthy here in a few minutes.

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BTW, I'm going through all the episodes of Deadwood, and find it's influencing how I write. A good bingewatch is like that. You become one of the characters, or in a way, all of them. Sometimes I'm Swearingen and other times I'm Wu. Etc.

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GitHub and chatbots

We need an AI chatbot that can work with GitHub repos. That is, in my prompt I say, the following questions are about this GitHub repo. At that point it is ready to answer any question about the project. This an incredibly important intersection of capabilities. As far as I ...

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Understanding the Various Inscrutable Beeps, Bops, and Bloops AirPods Make

macrumors.com/2025/01/09/airpods-pro-chime-sound/

Juli Clover, MacRumors: In a support guide, Apple says that the AirPods Pro may play a sound every so often while in the case to ensure the microphones and speakers are working as intended. From Apple: To help ensure that your AirPods microphones and speakers are ope...

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Breathable, Garrett Murray’s AQI Widget for iOS and MacOS, Is Now Free of Charge

breathable.app/

I first linked to Breathable back in 2021 when Murray released the first version, writing then: The entire point of Breathable is to offer widgets — the app itself just lets you configure how the widgets look. Brilliantly simple, and in a way, fun, with its clever “emoj...

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Microsoft’s Recent History of Dirty Tricks With Edge

theverge.com/2023/4/28/23702274/microsoft-edge-developer-bing-ai-chatbot-advertisement-google-bard

Following up on yesterday’s item regarding Bing masquerading as Google to trick Edge users into searching with it, this Mastodon post from Timo Tijhof lists a few other such subterfuge tactics they’ve pulled recently. My favorite was this one from last year: when users opene...

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I started a thread for questions and comments re the podcast.

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If you read this blog, I hope you'll take the time to listen to yesterday's podcast. It's all about WordPress, a product that you won't read much about on this blog, going back through the archive. I wasn't paying attention until 2023 when I began to see what an amazing prod...

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Dear president Biden

We demand that the Department of Justice to release all the special counsel reports behind the indictments of former president Trump.

Now, before the next government gets to do what Barr did to the Mueller Report, or worse?

We have a right to see what led to the indictments.

Now is the time to speak up, for once, it really matters.

Let's make the earth shake for the Biden and Garland.

It's time for one last chance to not be a scared Democrat.

Speaking up is often a pointless exercise on the net, but this is one of those times when it could really make a difference.