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We need a new fresh start for the web, and at the same time for a new democracy. It seems one has a lot to do with the other.

A Lever investigation traces how the Israel lobby is routing millions through groups promoting women, reproductive rights, and Latino candidates — and how AI interests and other power brokers are adopting the strategy.

Self Portrait with Monkeys, 1943 #fridakahlo #frida

Attn: The Trump administration is attempting to violate a judge’s order again. A judge blocked the reorganization of the Forest Service. Now Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says the Trump administration is “full-bore ahead” with its sweeping Forest Service reorganization.

Henri Matisse, Sleeping Nude, Her Knees Covered by a Shawl, 1929 #artinstituteofchicago #museumarchive

In his correspondence with DOJ Inspector General Don Berthiaume, Davey Hearn attorney (and former Inspector General himself) Michael Bromwich lays out a series of crimes Jeanine Pirro and her team may have committed.

The post The Crimes Davey Hearn Claims Jeanine Pirro May Have Committed appeared first on emptywheel.

Of all the possible entries on my Trump bingo card, homoeroticism, especially at Trump rallies, was probably in last place. Maybe even after kindness and generosity. But here we are. The guy who kept thirsting for Republican Sen. Jon Husted’s ass and marveling over the bodi...

We are so used to the App Store model that I don’t think we pause enough to note that app distribution is actually clunky and slow now. In 1996 it was faster for me to do a Mac app build, copy it to a floppy disk, and drive to a friend’s house with it than it is to ship an iOS app in 2026.

Howdy, Before anything else: check which version of PHP your sites run. On October 21, the PHP project released fixes for two critical vulnerabilities, and they affect any server running a PHP application, not only WordPress. You’ll find your version under Tools → Site Health → Info → Server in your WordPress admin. If you […]

Updated Pagefind to version 1.5.2, which should make search indexing twice as fast.

Looking over Block’s voice model Dessa, this aside in the announcement post made me laugh:

LLMs need an insane amount of text. Dessa learned language from hundreds of times fewer words (in fairness, LLMs also have to learn C++ and whatever the hell Angular is).

Marco Arment blogs about community and his break from Mastodon:

My break from Mastodon has been a relief in some ways, as I’ve felt increasing divergence between what I wanted and what I was getting from it, but I didn’t know where else to go.

The social web is fragmented now. There’s no longer an obvious “quit Twitter and go to Mastodon” answer like there used to be. The solution is more blogs, of course!

Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It's a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren't ready to move on yet. They're still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the feeling was in the moment, and man they did give us some moment. We will relish the video for the rest of time. But for now, every game they play will feel significant because of who they were not who they are now.

Why did the Knicks lose the first two games of the season? It’s a veteran team, they know how to start an NBA season, but the fans and the press aren’t ready to move on yet. They’re still reveling in the feeling of the Knicks winning. But imho there is no feeling with that, the […]

Andrew Shell, who created and runs the rssCloud server we use here, is creating a connection from rssCloud and webSub to WebSockets. I’ve wanted this for a long time, but now I’m planning on a desktop version of FeedLand, we will need it, pretty soon for instant updates of feeds we are subscribed to.

One of the reasons I’m working on the Web of Markdown is that my main blog of 32+ years is being kicked off the Google Web. I need a new home where the web religion is still practiced, and one of the commandments of our religion is “Google is a guest on the web, as […]

Republican Minnesota Senate candidate Michelle Tafoya is either stupid or lying when she blamed Lieut. Gov. Peggy Flanagan for allowing Medicaid and school meals to slip away from the state. Peggy Flanagan and Tim Walz did not gut these vital programs. Your lord and savior,...

Talking to brand new immigrants to New York City, it reminds you of what an amazing place this is. They want to come here because of what it stands for. Having been a local reporter in this town for as long as I have, I know how grinding the bureaucracy is and how difficult it […]

The post LISTEN: Immigration Is the Backdrop to This Election appeared first on The City Reporter.

Heads up. A Senate bill being sold as “permitting reform” could seriously weaken protections for our public lands, clean water, historic places, and sacred Tribal sites.

S. 5653, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act, would narrow environmental reviews and

Next Thursday, I'm going to be chatting with linkarzu about Emacs and life. He's more of a Vim person than an Emacs person, so I'll try to share things that are generally useful. He's called it: "Why Sacha Chua Still Lives in Emacs After 20+ Years." Watch on YouTube ...