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Congrats to my friend Manton Reece, a San Antonio fan, for their victory in the Western Conference last night. The Knicks will be playing them starting on Wednesday for the NBA championship. Knicks representing the east, Spurs for the west.

Sarah Perez, reporting for TechCrunch: Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings. On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it’s now rolling out its consumer subscription plans globally for its flagship apps, Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, and beg...

Daniel Jalkut, on Mastodon (cross-posted to Bluesky and Threads):

My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it.

I concur with this take completely.

(Sidenote: The different reply threads on the three networks speak loudly to the cultural and algorithmic differences between them. Good lord has Meta steered Threads into “make people argumentative” engagement.)

Fun show, good questions I thought.

If I ran Bluesky, instead of trying to fork the web, I'd be trying to become the competitor of Twitter's that is 100% web top to bottom.

I walked through standard.site with ChatGPT. You can do it too if you want to find out what it is. I was interested in knowing how it compares to RSS 2.0 and FeedLand. I want a quick overview of standard.site with a simple example. Seems like RSS mostly. We have a firehous...

If I were the Emperor of American Christianity, I would forbid any complaints about how persecuted American Christians are unless they include the following three points: 

1. The early church, and Christians in many parts of the world right now, have it infinitely worse than we do; 
2. Jesus promised us that if we are faithful to him we will be persecuted; 
3. And Jesus also commanded us to rejoice when we are thus persecuted. 

About a week ago I got a ping. Someone wanted to know if I knew someone who wanted $10 million of Anthropic common stock as a forward contract at $1 trillion. My first reaction was that we are so deep in a bubble that when we look up, all we see are sparkling, endless orbital …

This is what I really accomplished in the years of work I did on the early web. I created something that could be built into a large successful company with millions of customers, and the web got a writing system, and because the people running it took the responsibility seriously, it has lasting value. As the say, still to this day, the systems I designed so many years ago work exactly as they did then. That's what the web was supposed to do. If my mom was still with us, I'd ask her to put this on the fridge. It's as good a review as I've ever gotten. My guess is that Matt wrote it, btw. He's really the only one in WordPress-land who can say something like this, imho.

dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, install the website’s mobile app, agree to terms of service, or anything else that the user couldn’t give two shits about.

Galicia, May 2026.

Jeff Johnson: My Safari extension StopTheMadness Pro has a feature to protect private windows. In other words, StopTheMadness Pro stops websites from detecting private windows in Safari. I won’t explain how my feature works, but in this blog post I’ll explain how websites detect private windows. Jeff Johnson: I’m sorry to say that at this […]

RetinaDesk: How many external monitors can your Mac actually drive? Pick your exact Apple Silicon Mac — we’ll show the maximum external display count, per-port resolution and refresh caps, valid configurations, and the gotchas that burn people. The site’s maintainer, Parish Khan, writes: After your March 2024 post on the M3 MacBook Pro getting two-display […]

Applause Group: Bartender Pro includes everything in Bartender 6, plus Top Shelf and future Pro tools as they’re released. […] [Top Shelf is a] powerful new way to interact with your MacBook’s notch — bringing common utilities into what used to be wasted space. The Pro features require a new $15/year subscription. Dan Moren: Top […]

Paul Krugman, describing a few striking data visualizations: YouGov’s surveys subdivide Republicans into those who do and those who don’t support MAGA — and the economic views of these two groups are very different. A remarkable 65 percent of non-MAGA Republicans say tha...

On May 29, 2024 I asked ChatGPT to: "draw a picture of a baseball game at Citifield in the style of an American master artist." Drawing from 2024. I asked the same question today. Drawing from 2026, patterned after the art of George Bellows (chosen by ChatGPT).

I have the most followers on Twitter, Bluesky has never come close. I can't get anything to happen on Bluesky, but Twitter is great. Yesterday I had an idea, put it up on twitter and within a few hours I got the connection I was hoping for. It's a network, and it's more defined by who's there than who owns it. I can use it for idea distribution, the ideas find more minds and sometimes that results in benefits for the web. It's all about interop, and weirdly the pwned Twitter is much better for idea distribution than any of the other networks. In a sane world those smaller vendors would be fighting for interop, instead they're fighting against it.

Posts on the dismantling of university libraries: one, two.