Pigeon Forge, Tennessee is extremely strange. Should’ve done more research before stopping here. Feels like Vegas but more spread out and no gambling, I guess? Also the Great Smokey Mountains are nearby.
Westenberg.
• Joan Westenberg
Look at the cereal aisle. A hundred kinds of sugar and grain and color. Look at your Netflix queue. Thousands of hours of people falling in love, falling apart, saving the galaxy. Look at your inbox, your resume, your city. More options every day. New apps. New jobs. New courses.
Platformer
• Casey Newton
Celebrities, minors, and sexually explicit chats are a dangerous combination — a lesson the company is determined to learn the hard way
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and border czar Tom Homan held a briefing Monday to tout the Trump administration’s record on immigration. There, reporters asked about the recent deportation of three U.S. citizen children.
According to recent polls, Trump is increasingly losing support for his hard-line approach to immigration enforcement. Co-host Colby Itkowitz talks to White House reporter Marianne LeVine about what the first 100 days of Trump’s immigration policies add up to – and what we could expect next.
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Listen to the contrarians. They’re sometimes wrong, but when they’re right, they’re right years before everyone else.
Chris Coyier
• Chris Coyier
Fun rant from By Albert Burneko on how we just ain’t colonizing Mars, ever. The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with […]
Cory Doctorow coined a lovely word -- enshitified. In that spirit, I'd love to see a destodgified Harvard. See below.
Another shot from Washington, D.C. — the Carnegie Library, also probably the most beautiful Apple Store I’ve ever visited. Needed to pick up a new MacBook charger since I somehow left mine in NYC.
Loved all the greenery at Maman this morning. Got there early enough that there was lots of space, but it filled up. ☕️
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
President Donald Trump recently asked U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to intervene in defense of the Massapequa school district, saying the school should be able to their use of Native American mascots, names and logos. Darwin Yanes, Newsday education reporter, explains the latest on the entrenched battle between the Long Island public school district, the New York Education Department — and now — the president.
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If Harvard could become more American and less elite, that could change things. Make a contribution directly to the well-being of Americans. Big courage would be required for that. A great university, empowered withe the latest online information distribution systems, could be the source of reliable information to the people that's missing because the major corporations who own the media outlets are playing it safe. Harvard is no longer in a position where playing it safe is an option. The Trumps will continue to cast doubt on the truth, but in a contest between Trump and Harvard, I bet a lot of people, maybe even most, would trust Harvard first.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
As our centennial series continues, Ana Raquel Minian, associate professor of history at Stanford and the author of In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention in the United States (Viking, 2024), reviews U.S. detention of immigrants over the past century.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Andy Kim, U.S. Senator (D NJ), talks about his work in the Senate and the issues in New Jersey. Topics this week include the state of Democracy in the buildup to the midterm elections, tariffs and ceasefire in Ukraine.
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I mentioned this in yesterday's podcast -- new problems popped up with websockets in WordLand. I worked through the whole tree of possibilities with ChatGPT and it came to the conclusion that the source was an out of date package, and it was confident if I replaced it with the one "everyone else" is using, the problems will go away. Now this is the moment when human judgement prevails. I'm going to experiment in a very small app first, to make sure I have the approach right, then I will cautiously make the change on my test WordLand server, and if it works there, then I will figure out how to install it on the main site. It couldn't break all that much because for some reason the WS code stopped working, completely, with no code changes anywhere.
Cool to see the POSSE photo I snapped at Fediverse House used in this blog post:
The encouraging thing about IndieWeb is that it’s presented as a series of incremental improvements. It’s not an all-or-nothing replacement and it’s possible to expand in parallel.
I’ve uploaded a copy of the photo to the IndieWeb wiki too. Public domain, CC0.
