I added another issue, about the channel-level title. It should be the user's name, not the address of the feed.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Why this Republican is challenging Trump on tariffs
Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-Colorado) speaks with host Colby Itkowitz about why he's seeking to rein in Trump's tariffs authority and restore that power to Congress.
This episode was produced by Sam Bair, with help from Peter Bresnan and Ariel Plotnick. It was edited by Maggie Penman, Reena Flores and Renita Jablonski. Thank you to Emily Anderson and Meryl Kornfield.
Bluesky has added enclosure support to their outbound RSS feeds. The great thing about it is that people can use Bluesky to create flows that go to lots of other places and now we can do that with images and videos. That a huge door that's opening. And I like it also because they're leading. This is a feature that Mastodon's outbound feeds don't have, yet.
Why we all have to be working together on creating a modern easily distributed communication system that's truly decentralized. The key is to only implement features that have super-simple implementations, so it will be easy to product new versions quickly in all environments. Which means starting with formats and protocols that are already widely supported.
Mastodon's incomplete migration
Stephen Hackett commenting on a report in The York Times about Apple not allocating much of a budget to AI servers:
For a company that says it doesn’t like looking back at its own history, very often, Apple makes decisions like it’s the late 1990s and the company is on the verge of failure. That drives it to make incredible products, but it also means Apple can be incredibly stingy. To play in the AI race, you’ve got to be willing to spend piles and piles of cash.
Old train bridge next to new light rail bridge in Tempe.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Bronx Borough President on the State of the Borough
Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson kicks off a new series of interviews with county executives as she talks about her work on maternal health disparities, her State of the Borough address, and other Bronx news, including the impact on The Bronx of Trump administration actions.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
100 Years of 100 Things: Roller Coasters
As our centennial series continues, Robert Coker, author of the book Roller Coasters: A Thrill Seeker's Guide To The Ultimate Scream Machines (Main Street, 2002) and Douglas Barnes, co-hosts of The Season Pass podcast, talk about the history of roller coasters, from the "Golden Age" of 1920's wooden coasters like Coney Island's Cyclone through modern steel "strata coasters," like the late lamented Kingda Ka, which was recently imploded to make room for a new ride.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Trump's Trade War and Wall Street
William Cohan, financial writer for Puck News and author of many books, including Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon (Penguin Random House, 2022), offers analysis of the latest twists and turns of President Trump's trade war, and how Wall Street is reacting to the chaotic rollout (and rollback) of the tariffs.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
No Degree, No Problem
Listeners share their stories of obtaining and advancing in white collar, nonmanual professions without a bachelor's degree.
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Dave Winer has written up two improvements Bluesky can make to RSS feeds: including images and including embedded posts instead of the “contains quote post” message. The images are especially important and make the feeds really impractical to use right now because the data is just missing.
When young people come out of university in a technical subject, they think they know more than people already doing the jobs. They quickly learn that in school they were doing "student projects" which are not the real thing. Ooops, maybe we didn't know as much as we thought.
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Jedda
Bonus: Goldberg on Signalgate
Anne Applebaum speaks with The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg about the consequences of the Signal breach. This conversation was recorded live from The New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University.
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The Daily
• The New York Times
The Conservative Activist Pushing Trump to Attack U.S. Colleges
Fox News Accidentally Wrecks Trump’s Tariff Spin as MAGA Panic Worsens
Trump caved. The roller coaster continues. Now what?
Joe sums up the crazy tariff roller coaster in two words: Trump caved. So now what? Where do we go from here? When are his supporters going to start feeling the pain - and moving away from Trump? Joe thinks it might already be happening - but what do we need to do to make it a long-term win for the pro-democracy side? And do Democrats still have an oxygen problem? Why Cory Booker provided a roadmap to combat it. Plus, Joe and Alex answer more of your questions.
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Finished reading: Dragonsteel Prime by Brandon Sanderson. I read the last several chapters on my flight. Fascinating to see such an early take on a few pieces that would later turn up in Way of Kings, and other draft ideas for the Cosmere. 📚