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Nothing about the bustling waterfront around me suggested 1844. The wooden sailing ships that had once relied upon wind, tide and stars were gone. Engines, radio and radar belonged to a future beyond imagination.

Also setting up demo.rss.chat was a good thing to do, but if it requires moderation, that'll be the point at which I consider asking people to run their own services. We are working dilligently to make running an instance easier and easier.  Think about RSS and podcasti...

John great to see you here. ;-)

The goal is to seed a new way of creating social networks, entirely on the web, with no business model other than I'd like to see the web grow based on the work of independent developers.

I don't think there's a way to get there by going through captive platforms. 

Anyway, happy to answer any questions, while you have been following me, I've been following you back -- always interested in what you see, and what questions you have. ;-)

"Career break" is the most interesting entry in people's LinkedIn profiles. I wonder what they did during that period. If it was "Basically nothing" or "Relaxing" I would want to ask how they achieved that. Those things are possible? How?

The one I saw just now has vague explanation, which is valid. I have my (currently dormant) sole proprietorship to activate whenever I have a "career gap" that I need to explain. "Consulting," I'll say.

I'd love a real career break, though. What's that like?

Startup founders undervalue their time. Here's why you should act like it's $1000/hr, and how it changes the decisions you make.

“President Donald Trump called the deaths of two U.S. service members in Jordan ‘a very sad thing’ after U.S. Central Command announced they were killed while defending against Iranian missile and drone attacks,” NewsNation reports. “Trump said the troops died ‘in service of our country’ and reiterated that the war’s central objective is ‘never allowing […]

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William Upham, a 35-year-old former Marine and ex-state prosecutor from Jacksonville, is running for Congress as a Republican write-in candidate in Florida's 5th District. This week, he added a new campaign platform: assassinating the President. According to a DOJ criminal ...

“The U.S. launched fresh strikes on Iran Saturday after two American service members were killed in Jordan by Iranian missiles and drone attacks,” Bloomberg reports. “U.S. Central Command said in a social media post the strikes were aimed at degrading Iran’s ability to threaten commercial shipping and ‘swiftly punish Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps forces who […]

Political Wire members can test their political knowledge with the Weekly News Quiz or see if they can put major historical events in the right order with Hindsight. They’re a fun way to challenge yourself — and maybe learn something new along the way!

Michael Acton, reporting for the Financial Times from San Francisco:

About 40 former employees now working at OpenAI have been sent letters directing them to preserve documents and communications and demanding meetings with Apple’s lawyers, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Apple and OpenAI declined to comment.

The decision to hit employees with personal legal letters highlights Apple’s aggressive tactics after it last week launched a blockbuster lawsuit accusing OpenAI and two employees of stealing secret hardware plans.