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I meant blogging via AppleScript was niche.

What is nice about the rss.chat set up is if I post a link from one tab rss.chat updates the page in another tab without refresh.

Donald Trump Is Dismantling U.S. Guardrails.

ESPN reporter Lindsey Thiry found herself accosted by an alarmingly big bug at Los Angeles Rams camp Thursday. She was preparing for a live report when the flying creature suddenly dive-bombed in. The bug hovered around Thiry for several seconds until the NFL reporter gave it a good and audible thwack with her mic.

ESPN broadcaster Molly McGrath later interviewed Thiry about the identity of the bug. "What is that, a wasp? What was that, Lindsey?" McGrath asked.

"It was the biggest bug I've ever seen," Thiry answered, having recovered from the ordeal.

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment about Capital One’s stated reasons for shutting down Trump accounts: Would be nice to have some disclosure laws so that if a presidential candidate’s had his bank accounts closed for money laundering, we don’t learn about it years later in […]

Landscape near Hammamet, 1914 #macke #augustmacke

It's linkblogging. Not niche, imho.

A few years back we experienced the infamous vibecession. Kudos to Kyla Scanlon for this terrific term which captures a moment where the public feels bad about the economy at a moment where traditional economic indicators are not showing a recession. At the time there was a huge amount of commentary on where the “bad vibes” might be coming from. Lots of theories were advanced, but then, as is always the case, the news cycle moved on. Therefore an important paper published in early 2024 about ...

Chinese autonomy experts Pony.ai are planning to put 1,000 autonomous electric commercial trucks to work by 2027, but it’s the company’s plans to put 100,000 self-driving trucks on the road by 2030 that’s making headlines.