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Interior with cactus, 1978 #lichtenstein #americanart

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Meta shut down the “No Kings” Instagram account during Saturday’s protest. “No Kings” was using the account to coordinate the protests. Meta later reinstated the account and said it was an error.

“Meta’s action against No Kings is the latest in a series of ’errors’ impacting the accounts of Trump critics.”

And it’s not just Meta. Meta and TikTok have shut down the accounts of Trump opponents at critical times, claiming technical glitches and errors. I’m sure this is all a series of unfortunate coincidences and has nothing to do with the fact that Meta and other social media companies are owned by Trump’s billionaire buddies.

Trump: Do you have any idea what's happening in this country? It's an explosion—positive

Trump: They're leaving oh Ca-na-da. They're leaving oh Ca-na-da!

Today’s web is a mess. Sometimes I feel like starting over.

Haymaking (June and July), 1565 #pieterbruegel #bruegel

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), 1516 #bosch #northernrenaissance

Trump: I can't leave after a little quickie

Anyway -- I figured out what I want to do. I want to go back to the point where CSS and JavaScript were added to the web. Everything is a document. It's a writer's web. The reader owns the look of the pages. The writer has no say in colors, or arrangements, it's just writing. No character limits. Simple styling. Full fidelity text. Reading and writing, and then the developers can come up with a million different ways to read, and everyone gets to use their favorite editor, always, and store all their writing where they live, and let everyone read it where ever they read. Any structure they can think of, but all the rendering code is with the reader. I think we can take what we've learned since the web got corporatized, and bring it back to the basic platform we had then. And btw, no HTML, just Markdown. :-)

Postscript: Of course the blame for the wasted time this morning goes to me. Claude tries to do what it thought I wanted. If I calm down, figure out what the confusion really means, and reconsider the path I chose and pull back, we get much further. And I think the way I was trying to go was a mistake. I think film editing is a lot like this. Anyway we got past the problem, and today was a very productive day in the end.

About XSLT -- I remembered that I thought it was a bad idea. Let XML look like XML. Trying to make it look like an HTML page, how does that make any sense. Like opening the hood of a car and seeing a big picture of the outside of the car. People aren't really that dumb, but some people like to complain a lot. The rule of the web is if you don't like what you see, that's what the freaking back button is there for. Probably just a troll anyway. Show them your JSON and RSS. If it's done nicely it can be quite illumifying.

Albanians have spent months fighting a luxury resort tied to Jared Kushner. Now that anger has grown into a much larger revolt against corruption and a government they say stopped listening.

How Bluesky is protecting open conversation and the electoral process during the 2026 US midterms, what our rules cover, and how you can help.

Trump: Promises made, promises kept. And I kept more promises than I ever said I was going to make. That's the only time that's ever happened in politics

Trump: They made it like, oh, he's some type of a shylock type guy

Trump: You find out you've elected a pervert. 'Darling, we made a slight mistake when we pulled the trigger of the beautiful voting machine.'

Trump appears visibly irritated after being interrupted by a 6th protester in Kansas

Trump, 15 days before the midterms:

Remember Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren? Remember her? Remember the ad she did when her husband walked into the house? 'Oh hi, hi darling.' It was like she hadn't seen him in 20 years. 'Oh hi. Would you like a beer?'

Trump is protested for a 5th time in Kansas