Joe's been talking about it since at least last November - what critical cohort that decided 2016, 2024, and the 2022 midterms is very, very mad at Trump? And they're a growing percentage of the electorate, too. Plus - why did Melania drop a surprise Epstein press conference on Thursday? Is Iran going that poorly? (Yes!) And can Dems make any gains on the ridiculous trading corruption that's happening on prediction markets right now? Joe explains why we have to keep our eye on the prize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Y2K 2.0: The AI security reckoning
In just the last few weeks, we’ve seen a series of software security vulnerabilities that, until recently, would each have been the biggest exploit of the year in which they were discovered. Now, they’ve become nearly routine. There’s a new one almost every day.
The reason f...
Scripting News for email
• Dave Winer
Scripting News: Thursday, April 9, 2026
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Let's make WordPress boom#
New ways to write with WordPress as the back-end.#
Build an API that combines what wpcom does and storage.#
Recruit devs to create products for this environment.#
Gutenberg will be one of these editors.#
I will...
Westenberg.
• JA Westenberg
Why I quit "The Strive"
This newsletter is free to read, and it’ll stay that way. But if you want more - extra posts each month, no sponsored CTAs, access to the community, and a direct line to ask me things - paid subscriptions are $2.50/month. A lot of people have
WIRED
• Maxwell Zeff
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”
New t-shirts, pins and posters
We’ve just released two new t-shirts on our shop, based on slogan suggestions from the community, and featuring lovely artwork from our artist Dopatwo. One is “My friends are not for sale”, and the other is “I write ALT text”. We’ve chosen quality over quantity, as we often ...
Trunk & Tidbits, March 2026
Welcome to the 24th edition of Trunk & Tidbits 🎉 We’ve been publishing this monthly series, “behind the scenes of the code” from the Mastodon team, for a whole two years now!
We’re getting close to the release of Mastodon 4.6. In the past few weeks we published two featu...
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Joost.blog
• Joost de Valk
SEO-graph - for the machine-readable web
I've been arguing that the next open web needs machine-readable architecture. So I built a piece: seo-graph, a schema.org JSON-LD graph engine that now powers four sites and a CMS plugin. Built in a single session with Claude Code.
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to...
This tiny e-ink reader is small enough to attach to the back of your phone.
Password Manager Angst
Our family has used 1Password for many years. Most recently 1Password 7, now at least three years out of date. We didn’t want to upgrade to the latest version, went looking for alternatives, and have been exploring Bitwarden. The best choice isn’t obvious; here’s the story thus far
The Headless Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi
I’m charmed by this fragment of Artemisia Gentileschi’s painting of Mary Magdalene that’s up for auction later this month.
For many years it was in a private collection in Germany where it lay rolled up in a cellar. The head of the saint had been cut out of the canvas, un...
MacOS Seemingly Crashes After 49 Days of Uptime — a ‘Feature’ Perhaps Exclusive to Tahoe
sixcolors.com/link/2026/04/macs-crash-after-49-days-of-uptime/
Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors:
Software developer Photon, whose product requires running a bunch
of Macs to connect to iMessage, discovered a pretty major
bug:
Every Mac has a hidden expiration date. After exactly 49 days, 17
hours, 2 minutes, and 47 seconds of ...
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for...
Between the Impossible and the Inevitable: The Case for Defiance (aka Never F**king Surrender). “We make the future in the present, when we show up. Don’t surrender it to those who would destroy it.”
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you...
Hostile Volume is a simple and maddening game where you need to hold the audio volume at 25%, which gets increasingly difficult with each level.
International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece ....
International Chess Federation Adds Race Car Piece. “The race car piece gets to go twice in one turn because it’s so fast.” Smart to capitalize on F1’s popularity; they should do my fave Monopoly piece next (the iron).
Adobe Diddles With Your /etc/hosts File
old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1sb6hzk/adobe_wrote_to_my_hosts_file_ive_never_had_an_app/oe1ap9h/
“thenickdude”, on Reddit:
They’re using this to detect if you have Creative Cloud already
installed when you visit on their website.
When you visit https://www.adobe.com/home, they load this image
using JavaScript:
https://detect-ccd.creativecloud.adobe.com/cc.png
If ...
Defector
• David Roth
A Feast Of Sludge, With Ed Zitron
Some people like high-consequence periods of the sports calendar, and I respect that worldview, although I no longer really share it. Consequences are high enough in everyday life at the moment, to say the very least, which makes a period of low-stakes late- and early-season...
Defector
• Patrick Redford
The Trump Administration Is Killing The U.S. Forest Service So It Can Also Kill U.S. Forests
When you cross into National Forest land, you are greeted with a sign boasting that you are entering into a "Land of Many Uses." This proclamation hints at a mild contradiction within the U.S. Forest Service's management of the forestland covering over a third of the United ...