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The word "blue" as written by a sky writer.This is heavy
We need a word for this, like a spoiler alert, this is heavy, and if you're not in the mood, hit the Back button.
I listened to this week's On The Media podcast, and there's a segment (at [12:51]) you should listen to as background. It says that no one in the DoJ as we go f...
BTW, being in my blogroll means that your posts have a chance of being included in my Little Feed Reader on Bluesky.
I subscribed to Wired because of their famous coverage of the Musk Coup, so I also added its feed to my blogroll so I could see what I bought, and was actually not surprised that they've been hit by the same disease all online publishing has, the need to bait the clicks, and of course not very much of it is hard-hitting.
I'm still fixing bugs in the new Bluesky feature I wrote about yesterday. If the URL of an image has search args, I wasn't getting the type correct and Bluesky rejected it. I used a post about Aaron Swartz's statue unveiled in San Francisco yesterday to test the fix. I knew Aaron of course, he was part of the group developing RSS in the early 00s. He went on to do other things, as did I, and I met up with him again in NYC in the early teens, and then a few months or a year or two (I don't have the exact date of the meetup) he commited suicide. It was a real shock. Now, many years later -- a statue. And the random snarky slogan my test script picked out was really appropriate to the event. It was a tragedy, because an older more confident Aaron would have made a big contribution. I often think about that.
Eddy and Tim’s Excellent Super Bowl Adventure
Looks like more of an Eddy scene than a Tim scene, but everyone’s having fun. There’s a reason this is the 11th Super Bowl held in New Orleans.
Should be a good football game, too. The Chiefs and Eagles are both very good teams (and both very well-run franchises). There’s a...
The Internet Archive Unveils Marble Bust of Aaron Swartz
sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/aaron-swartz-marble-statue-unveiled-internet-archive/
Zara Stone, reporting for The Standard:
“There’s a renaissance happening now in Aaron Swartz-land,” said
Lisa Rein, the co-founder of Creative Commons, a nonprofit devoted
to expanding public access to information. She founded Aaron
Swartz Day in 2013, an annual hackatho...
TikTok Is Now Distributing Its Android App for Installation via Sideloading
TikTok, on X:
We’re enhancing ways for our community to continue using TikTok by
making Android Package Kits available at
http://TikTok.com/download so that our U.S. Android users can
download our app and create, discover, and connect on TikTok.
Tens of millions of use...
Jason Snell Went There, Calls for iOS to Follow the Mac Model for Software Distribution
macworld.com/article/2525708/the-app-store-era-must-end-apples-already-got-the-solution.html
Jason Snell, in a column for Macworld back in November (same column at Six Colors, for members):
This is an important moment. Apple has built two separate models
for running software on our devices. In one, there’s a gradient of
trustworthiness that strongly encourages u...
A new Bluesky feature
My feed readers on Bluesky now use the metadata in the pages we link to to show a title, picture and description for each post that offers the metadata.
Like this page, the one you're reading right now at this moment.
And here's a screen shot of what it looks like over in Bluesky.
A fork in the road. ‘Torrenting From a Corporate Laptop Doesn’t Feel Right’
Ashley Belanger, reporting for Ars Technica on new details from an authors group lawsuit alleging Meta trained its AI models on a trove of pirated books:
Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large
dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of million...
I still haven't decided what to do about my Tesla Model Y, which still is a wonderful car, and I still love driving it after 2.5 years, which is amazing. But the other day it updated, and gave me a pause, if they let Musk hack their computers the way he's hacking ours, should I trust what it installs on the vehicle I drive every day that theoretically has the ability to take control of my car and drive it off the road? I wonder if the people at Tesla would like to reassure people who drive their cars that the updates are safe from hacking by one of his associates? How is security on the Tesla network?
It's our social web. “We started off with a network of writers, and ended up with business models of oligarchs. It's time to start building webs like we mean it and damn all the wannabe-billionaires.”
I had three questions this morning for Elie Mystal.
When we get back control of the government, ie they're following the Constitution, the Democratic leader in the Senate should be as ruthless as this bastard. Chuck Schumer is a nice guy and that sucks.
I have to say, a judge ruling that Musk has to stop, and delete all the info he has stolen, has made me feel much better. I don't know why, but I'm actually laughing out loud. The tight knot in my stomach has relaxed.
★ My 2024 Apple Report Card
While there are several areas where Apple maintained consistent excellence in 2024, I can’t think of a single area where Apple levelled up. Not one. That feels like a problem.
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Governor Newsom: Please help Franklin fire victims
I'm republishing this for a friend who doesn't have a reliable place to publish this online.It's a letter she wrote and sent to a number of newspapers. Her family was a victim of the recent Franklin wildfire, and unlike other recent fires, the Franklin fire wasn't included...
Behind the scenes in the US government I imagine it's like a Vonnegut novel, or an episode of Pinky and the Brain.
I wish Bluesky had just used the Twitter API. That's how I would've done it. Continuity matters a lot. And think of all time wasted at re-doing something we had working a long time ago.