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IndieWeb Carnival: where do I wish to see the IndieWeb in 2030

This is my entry for December’s IWC hosted by V.H. Belvadi. If you have thoughts on the subject, make sure to write a blog post before the end of the month, and join the carnival. I’m not good at making predictions, so I don’t really know what the IndieWeb is gonna look lik...

WIRED
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For the First Time, AI Analyzes Language as Well as a Human Expert

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that large language models have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

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Alpine A390 Review: Price, Specs, Availability

Ahead of its entry into the US, the European brand with an ex-Ferrari boss and decades of motorsport success has a new EV to take on Porsche and Polestar. WIRED tries it on for size.

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Apple iWeb

The new X/Twitter algorithim is hard to predict, but I’ve had one go viral with over a million views now, a quote-tweet of a cool demo video of Apple’s website builder from 2009, with themes and blog support and everything. Interesting to compare its interface to Gutenberg and WordPress today. For the video to play … Continue reading Apple iWeb →

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Great to see Wemby back tonight for the NBA cup semifinals, even in very limited minutes. 🏀

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Coming 2026, in Denton.

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Journalism, Interrupted: 7 Podcast Hosts on the State of the Media

Warning: This episode contains strong language. In this special episode for subscribers of “The Daily,” the host Michael Barbaro moderates a panel from The New York Times’s DealBook Summit, speaking with journalists and personalities from across the industry about the state ...

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‘Pluribus’ Becomes Apple TV’s Most Watched Show Ever

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Marcus Mendes, 9to5Mac: Now, on the same day that F1 The Movie debuted at the top of Apple TV’s movie rankings, the company confirmed that Pluribus has reached another, even more impressive milestone: it is the most watched show in the service’s history. Busy day. [...] ...

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Growth is a Poor Man's God

We've built an entire civilization around a single metric: growth. 

GDP must grow. Startups must grow. Your follower count, your revenue, your personal brand, your meditation practice. The theology is unified and cross-functional: more is better, stasis is death, and if you're not expanding you&

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Lucas de Groot, Designer of Calibri, on the State Department’s Switch Back to Times New Roman

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From the LucasFonts account, in a comment on Hacker News: Professional typography can be achieved with both serif and sans-serif fonts. However, Times New Roman — a typeface older than the current president — presents unique challenges. Originally crafted in Great Britai...

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Media Diet

🎵 Florence + The Machine, Everybody Scream — I have no prior Florence experience but really like this album. The whole “start slow and build a song to a wild ass peak” thing works for me. “You Can Have It All” is a favorite. A little called out by “It must be nice to be a […]

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Three Core Principles for Sustainable Platform Design

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Platform as a product extends platform engineering beyond a narrow technology solution. Platforms require a shift in the way organizations

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Deep Reads: His wife was dying, his federal job crumbling. It tested his faith — in God and Trump.

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In the spring, Edward Brandon Becham was caring for his dying wife. He was also among hundreds of thousands of federal workers weighing whether to abandon public service. Donald Trump had taken office vowing to slash the federal bureaucracy, then entrusted the task to billio...

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Pondering Middle East Petrostates as American Media Owners

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Peter Kafka, writing at Business Insider: And last: It’s possible that Middle Eastern countries are investing in an American media conglomerate solely for a financial return, and would have zero interest in the content that conglomerate makes and distributes. But that’s ...

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Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong.

Once more for the folks in the back. Calibri is easier than Times New Roman for folks with certain visual disabilities to read. That’s why the Biden Administration chose Calibri for their digital communications: to include more people and make life just a wee bit easier for the disabled. And who in their right mind could […]

The post Accessibility is a human right, cruelty a human wrong. appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

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The Infinite Loop of One LLM Talking to Another

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This is very funny, but also a good indication of just how far away these things are from actual intelligence. First, a reasonable human being would never get caught in a loop like this. Second, only humans can not only recognize what’s going on here, but also see the humor in it.

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Thinking more about Australia… Our kids are adults now, and they grew up through the rise of Instagram, through Covid shutdowns… We can choose to make a better environment for the next generation, if society makes progress on social media. Less anxiety, fewer ads, more time away from screens.

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Ann Greenberg's idea

An idea I posted on Facebook in 2021 about an app I wanted. Here's an idea. I have a drone that communicates with my peloton via satellite, so it's not constrained by range. I can send the drone anywhere I like, but I have to ride there on my peloton. Obviously what I see ...

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Just wrote a post for Scripting News, then flipped over to Daveverse to see what it looks like. See for yourself. I think we've come pretty close to cloning Scripting in WordPress.