Everyone has to communicate in plain language, directly to the people. The courts, universities, every institution that the president is defaming. Go direct, go around the media. Start communicating in the language we communicate in these days. Use the tools. The campaign never stops. Then we'll know what we have to do to protect the rule of law. And the Dems are starting to do that, some of them, thankfully. Best example so far -- AOC and Bernie. Elizabeth Warren. Chris Murphy, Cory Booker, Chris Van Hollen. And lately some Repubs too. It's the same old thing the web does -- Sources Go Direct.
Open Channels FM Podcast Network
• Bob Dunn
From Page Views to Conversions: Improving Products with Analytics
In this episode of Woo ProductChat, James and Katie discuss user analytics with Derek Ashauer, emphasizing data-driven decisions for WordPress product owners, conversion tracking, and actionable insights for business growth.
I’ve switched my coding questions over to o4-mini. It’s very good and fast enough.
At this point, for me personally, not using AI for coding help would be like not using Stack Overflow or Google. I could go back to the 1990s when I had a printed reference open in front of me while coding, but why?
The Sam Altman interview at TED is worth a watch. Awkward and full of tension. But some good thoughts in it, probably the most I’ve seen Sam pressed on the big issues.
Didn’t sleep enough. Nightmare that I was arguing with the Subaru mechanics. Too close to reality. 🚙
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
P&B: Jeremy Keith
The Daily
• The New York Times
Do Trump Voters Like His Tariffs? We Went to Michigan to Find Out.
Trump’s Fury at Harvard Darkens as GOPer Openly Admits: “We’re Afraid”
"If you want to touch a nerve, you have to touch a nerve" with Anat Shenker-Osorio
Special guest Anat Shenker-Osorio joins Joe and Alex for one of our favorite shows to date. You won't want to miss the energy. What is the entire Democratic political ecosystem getting wrong? What's broken about "testing?" And how do we take the fight more directly to Trump - with what Anat calls "the only thing that truly fells an autocrat?" Plus: How do we avoid "process words" and unintentionally defending the status quo? How we can break through with the voters who really need to hear it?
Follow Anat on Bluesky at @anatosaurus.bsky.social.
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Social Warming by Charles Arthur
• Charles Arthur
How and why hackers target small groups on social media
Lower your trust settings to beat the bots
Sad to hear there were two deaths in the FSU shooting. When news broke that it was a handgun, it gave me a small bit of hope that it wouldn’t be as terrible as it could’ve been. Imagine an AR-15 instead. That is why they should be banned.
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I hope this baby finds a loving home soon 😭 If you're near Franklin, KY please consider it.
Citation Needed
• Molly White
Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators
Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it
Great post from The Fediverse Report about Bluesky complying with requests from the Turkish government and how a labeling service can be used to hide accounts:
Such a moderation layer allows Bluesky (the app) to apply moderation decisions that are only experienced by people currently geolocated in a specific country, more on that below. A few days ago, the Turkish moderation labeler became active, and the labeler started hiding accounts, making the accounts invisible for people in Turkey.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
China's plan to win Trump's trade war
Taria & Como looks like a clever, crank-friendly platformer, part of the upcoming season 2 on Playdate. There’s a trailer on YouTube.
The Internet Archive is asking for help to defend against lawsuits:
A coalition of major record labels has filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive—demanding $700 million for our work preserving and providing access to historical 78rpm records. These fragile, obsolete discs hold some of the earliest recordings of a vanishing American culture.
The Internet Archive is a unique force for good. Sad that they have to waste any time on this.
I like that Powell is telling Trump he won't go. I wish Obama had had the guts to say that to McConnell when he wouldn't hold hearings on Garland. "Well if you won't take a vote, we'll take that as consent," says the President. "And you can quote me on that." In a televised event Obama himself would walk Garland over to his office at the Supreme Court and administer the oath and let him take his seat. I don't know about you but I would have felt great about America then. We're finished being such pussycats.