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ICE has gone haywire - why Trump has lost the plot and the American people on this one. Joe and Alex explain why we can't fall for the distractions. And what are we, the people, supposed to do about it? Joe's message for the midterms? How do we keep a cohesive message when Trump's throwing all of this at us? Remember: It's not a blue wave. It's a change wave. Listen to Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Minneapolis" here: https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w
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Friday, January 30, 2026 Notes for FediForum meetup# The FediForum home page says "the Open Social Web still has only a tiny fraction of the users of the closed social media platforms, and growing that number significantly has turned out harder than expected." This is t...

Maybe someday you’ll have a genie in your laptop working for you 24/7. Today is not that day

A WIRED analysis of nearly 1,400 Friday showtimes of Melania found only two with no tickets available. Both are before 3 pm.

Musician and tech professional, Brandon Lucas Green, uses his newsletter as an outlet to share his music journey and provide insights on how fellow creators can achieve creative independence.

Everything can be customized, if you try hard enough.

Store, share, and protect your work so as many people as possible can see it.

Subscribers can now respond to surveys from the web archive, not just email.

The core idea of the original Jottit that we built in 2007 was frictionless publishing. You could build your own site just by clicking a button. You didn't have to create an account and the UI was so simple you didn't have to think much about how it worked. Frictionless publ...

On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into the news that's held our attention this week: ICE activity as it's been unfolding in Minnesota.

As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it

Ordered my first Day One printed book. Still have some work to consolidate my hand-written journal to digital, then will be ordering a couple more.

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. It was code-named Project Panama, and internal documents filed in court described it as an “effort to destructively scan all the books in the wor...

Mike Swanson: What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks: “How are you enjoying your drive so far?” Annoyed by the int...

Brooke Nevils was a young NBC producer working the 2014 Sochi Olympics when, she says, ‘Today Show’ host Matt Lauer sexually assaulted her. Lauer has denied her account, calling their relationship consensual. Now, in her new memoir, ‘Unspeakable Things,’ Nevils doesn't just revisit what happened – she interrogates why it took years to understand it. She spoke with co-host Tonya Mosley. 

Also, book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews George Saunders’ new novel, ‘Vigil,’ and Ken Tucker reviews music from country artist Stephen Wilson Jr.


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When I wrote last week about the false narrative that iOS 26 is seeing bizarrely low adoption rates compared to previous years, I neglected one source: Apple itself. Apple’s Developer site publishes a page with iOS and iPadOS usage for devices that “transacted on the App Sto...

Trying out Aeronaut for Bluesky. Very nice. I don’t actually visit Bluesky directly that often because I post to it and follow within Micro.blog. Good to have a dedicated app for things like feeds, though.

Google has added hooks to Gemini CLI, its terminal-based competitor to Anthropic’s Claude Code. Hooks ensure that Gemini CLI runs

The post Gemini CLI gets its hooks into the agentic development loop appeared first on The New Stack.

Russell Berman, a staff writer at The Atlantic, talks about how Republicans in Congress are speaking out against the deportation operation (and the fatal shootings), in a rare intra-party rebuke to President Trump, and what this might signal ahead of this year's midterm elections.

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