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Nina Totenberg, NPR legal affairs correspondent, offers her analysis of the arguments the Supreme Court justices heard last week on birthright citizenship, and nationwide injunctions.

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MySQL, which I'm using for Daytona, has the idea of relevance in searches. Previously I had been showing results in reverse chronologic order. So now, a search for Matt Mullenweg gets the same results but prioritized by what MySQL thinks are the most relevant results.

Read the first installment, published during Trump’s first term. - - - United States Department of Agriculture Ad salmonellam “Towards salmonella” Immigration and Customs Enforcement Perfugium profugorum “Refuge from refugees” Department of Education Omnes discipuli reliquun...

Civitai, a huge platform for sharing AI models and generating videos and images, has been cut off from its payment processor.

The Republican House spending bill seeks to cut some of the clean energy tax incentives in the former Biden administration’s 2022 climate law. Kelsey Brugger, reporter covering energy and climate politics on Capitol Hill for Politico's E&E News, breaks down her reporting and explains why some Republicans lawmakers are urging leaders to spare credits that benefit clean energy projects in red states.

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On Sunday, House Republicans released their package of proposals that would cut federal spending on Medicaid and Obamacare. Frank Pallone, U.S. Representative (D NJ 6th), ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, discusses what's in the bill, which the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says would cause 8.6 million Americans to lose their health insurance.

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Big update out for Tapestry today, adding bookmarking for Micro.blog accounts among other features.

This is a lengthy post from Ben Werdmuller, but everyone who cares about a sustainable, vibrant ecosystem of both free and commercial products for the social web should queue it up to read. He goes over different types of funding and a lot more. Really good.

Anil Dash on the growing popularity of MCP and adopting standards:

It’s cool that other platforms adopted the same spec that Anthropic made for their system. There’s a generosity of spirit to a technology platform choosing to be the second to adopt a protocol, if they do it in a faithful fashion.

This was echoed in the interview with Microsoft’s Kevin Scott this week. Some people at Microsoft would’ve designed MCP differently, but that doesn’t matter. Just roll with it, and the compatibility across platforms makes up for any shortcomings.

John Voorhees blogging about Apple’s AI predicament:

Hardware plays to Apple’s design and supply chain strengths. In contrast, the rapid iteration of AI models and apps is the antithesis of Apple’s annual OS cycle.

I agree. A year is a lifetime right now.

During PressConf 2025, hosts and guests highlighted the significance of in-person connections within the WordPress community, emphasizing candid conversations, relationship-building, emotional moments, and the event's business focus, inspiring future gatherings.

One of the things so compelling about Margaret Ross’s Saturday is her obsessive fidelity to a purity of description: “Beige clouds in a greenish sky / seen through cheap sunglasses.” To that, she adds an instability of syntax and line break that she makes into a thing of coo...

Next week some of us from @Mastodon will be at re:publica #rp25 in Berlin (that's May 26-28). Come by if you want to chat or say hi, or even just see the #Plushtodon in person. We're also organizing a separate meet-up outside re:publica: https://lu.ma/7h454kcp

I’ve lived in this city for decades, but I’m noticing more and more problems. There’s crowding, congestion, changing people, tall buildings, and the biggest problem: This city is a literal city. I love living in a city, but I hate dealing with other people. I shouldn’t be su...

I've been looking up all kinds of things now that my new Daytona search engine has access to my blogging going back to 1994. I just did a search for Mullenweg, and came up with this blog post by Matt in 2006 about the Feed Validator. The clarity is remarkable, and he's of course right. The people running the validator were actually promoting Atom over RSS, and were trying to tilt the table towards Atom. The goal was interop, not to give Google or IBM control of the syndication format of the open web. When you keep changing your mind about what to flag and what to pass you end up with a standard that's as murky as the tariff policy of the US in 2025. I think you have to assume that was the goal. They didn't like that RSS didn't fall apart when Atom came out. If there's no benefit in changing, people don't change.

Over the past few days, the health of former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been called into focus with the disclosure that he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. At the same time, Democrats are undertaking a painful re-examination of what went wrong with Joe Biden...

President Donald Trump’s feud with Walmart is intensifying. After the retail giant warned that its prices will go up due to Trump’s tariffs, he erupted on Truth Social, and even threatened Walmart to get it to “eat” the costs of his levies. Then Whit...

The challenges of declining customer feature requests while maintaining goodwill. Strategies include transparent communication, offering alternatives, and using data for prioritization, preserving product vision.

How to understand Trump talking about tariffs. Remember how he talked about Covid. Same thing.

For victims, the Take It Down Act could finally bring some relief — but the Trump Administration has already signaled plans to weaponize it