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These days I read Timothy Snyder's essays as soon as they come in.
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Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With a Bit of the Old Ultra-Violence
wsj.com/tech/meta-apologizes-for-error-that-flooded-instagram-with-violent-content-c207d5f5
Meghan Bobrowsky and Jeff Horwitz, reporting for The Wall Street Journal:
Meta apologized Wednesday night for what it said was an âerrorâ
that led to graphic and violent videos flooding the feeds of a
vast number of Instagram users, including minors. The videos,
which we...
Microsoft to Retire Skype in May
Jeff Teper, president of collaborative apps and platforms at Microsoft:
In order to streamline our free consumer communications offerings
so we can more easily adapt to customer needs, we will be retiring
Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern
c...
Meta Fired âRoughly 20â Employees for Leaking
Alex Heath, reporting for The Verge:
Meta has fired âroughly 20â employees who leaked âconfidential
information outside the company,â according to a spokesperson.
âWe tell employees when they join the company, and we offer
periodic reminders, that it is against our poli...
Framework Introduces New Laptops and First Desktop
Founder Nirav Patel, writing this week on Frameworkâs company blog:
We went live this morning at the Framework (2nd Gen) Event with
our biggest set of announcements yet: Framework Desktop,
Framework Laptop 12, and the new Ryzen AI 300 Series
Framework Laptop 13. You can ...
Trump Claims to Have Spoken With Starmer Regarding Apple Encryption Backdoor Demand
thespectator.com/topic/spectator-interview-president-donald-trump-full-transcript/
Ben Domenech interviewed President Trump yesterday in the Oval Office, after Trumpâs meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The Spectator has published the entire transcript, and I read it so you donât have to, to get the part about Apple and the UKâs encryption backdo...
What If, Indeed
Hamilton Nolan, in a 2021 piece for The Columbia Journalism Review, under the headline âBezos Has Been Hands-Off. What if That Changes?â:
Bezos has given the paper the resources to be bigger and better,
and, by most accounts, pretty much stayed out of the newsroomâs
hair...
Jeff Bezos Takes Control of the Washington Postâs Opinion Pages; Asserts Exclusive Focus âIn Support and Defense of Two Pillars: Personal Liberties and Free Marketsâ
Jeff Bezos, in a memo he shared publicly on X:
I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning:
Iâm writing to let you know about a change coming to our
opinion pages.
We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two
pillars: personal li...
Gene Hackman Dies at 95
nytimes.com/2025/02/27/movies/gene-hackman-unforgiven-bonnie-clyde.html
Loved this remembrance by Manohla Dargis in The New York Times:
When Clint Eastwood needed a performer who could persuasively go
boot-toe to boot-toe with him in his brutal 1992 western
Unforgiven, he needed an actor who was his towering equal
onscreen. Eastwood needed a...
Nice to see Doc Searls using WordLand. He's been an early user of every writing tool I've written for the web going back to the mid-late 90s.
Like many other people I love Severance, esp this season, and esp the most recent episode. And my favorite scene in the last episode took place at a Chinese restaurant. Anyway, I was just listening to the latest episode of the Severance podcast, about this episode, which you should definitely listen to if you like me love the show. They have an interview with Christopher Walken who plays Burt. Amazing stuff. But even more amazing is that I learned in the podcast that the restaurant mentioned earlier is actually a famous Kingston restaurant that just re-opened after a long hiatus, so I've not yet had a chance to eat there, but I want to, Eng's. This, after learning that the diner that's in two scenes, one in each season, is the Phoenicia Diner, one of my favorite local eating places.
Me at 22 in Madison
Me as a grad student at UW-Madison in 1977 or so, programming on a Unix system, probably working on my first outliner.
Note that the terminal I was using had uppercase and lowercase letters. This was a big innovation!
I was using a PDP-11/45 to write in C.
See the comment thread from 2014 on Facebook.
I lived in a big house with 10 roommates. And as weird as it must seem from the point of view of 2025, I was the only one who used a computer. I would tell them all the time that we'd all use computers someday. They rolled their eyes and smiled. "There goes Dave again." The reason I was so sure was email and writing tools.
Me at 22 in Madison. My mother, Dr Eve Winer, took this picture.
I'm also interested in social networks and RSS and have written a lot about that in the context of WordLand, because it generates RSS, it can connect to any app that understands RSS, basically because WordPress does. But don't get confused that WordLand is somehow a twitter-like silo. There are already too many of those. I want something much simpler and I believe more useful and less spammy and abusive -- a social network built around RSS.
WordLand is simply an editor for writers who publish to WordPress.
â The iPhone 16e
The iPhone 16e is an iPhone for people who donât want to think much about their phone. But they *do* want an iPhone, not just any âwhateverâ phone. A just plain iPhone, with a good screen, good enough (and simple) camera, and great battery life.
Washington Post: âBiden Justice Department Downplayed U.K. Demand for Apple âBack Doorââ
Joseph Menn, reporting for The Washington Post:
The U.S. Justice Department told Congress in November there were
no major disputes with the United Kingdom over how the two allies
seek data from each otherâs communication companies.
But at that time, officials knew Briti...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard Suggests UK Broke Agreement in Secretly Demanding That Apple Build iCloud Backdoor
Zac Hall, reporting for 9to5Mac:
According to a letter seen by 9to5Mac, the Trump Administration
is investigating whether the UK may have broken a bilateral
agreement when secretly demanding that Apple build a global
backdoor into iCloud.
Trumpâs Director of National In...
Downie 4
I referenced Downie twice earlier todayâââonce in my item linking to Charlie Monroe (developer of Downie) writing about the indie app business, and earlier in my post about using Downie to download the MP3 from Jony Iveâs interview on the BBCâs Desert Island Discs.
I someho...