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Every post and feed across this instance
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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners...
How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed, and What That Says About Us. “The shifts reflect a life that moved further from its own making: less tied to tools, animals, food…; more tied to global institutions, categories, systems…”
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Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend's Dog as Nudity
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Dave Winer blogging about a new WordPress → RSS.chat integration from Matthias Pfefferle:
Matthias didn’t need to tell us about what he did until it was done. That my friends is how the web works, that’s what I’ve been trying to show you, and now it has been shown. In a way the clock has gone back to the world before Twitter when events like this happened pretty routinely.
The easiest way to tell if a platform is open or not: do you need to ask permission to integrate with it? Open: RSS, IndieWeb, Bluesky, Mastodon, Micro.blog. Closed: Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube.
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Don’t use AI until you’re 40 . “We have been so...
Don’t use AI until you’re 40. “We have been so quick to treat access to new technology as an inevitability that we have failed to question whether every powerful tool should be placed in the hands of every developing mind the moment it becomes available.”
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Steve Jobs didn't post about Gaza
Listen, none of us are Steve Jobs. He was unique and you can’t become like him just by trying. But I was thinking the other day, as I was writing some draft posts about current events and then discarding them, that I don’t really know much about Steve’s opinion on a wide range of topics.
I know what he thought about iTunes. I know what he thought about Keynote. I feel enough of a connection to him that when he died, my family and I wrote a little sticky note in his memory and put it on the glass window of the nearest Apple Store.
I love blogging about all sorts of things that I’m passionate about. And I would never suggest to someone not to write about something they care about. Part of what makes the web so incredible is the ease of publishing, giving everyone a voice.
I just think I need to remind myself more often to stay in my lane. Admitting that is a little depressing. But I don’t really need to wade into every new controversy that comes along.
Anyway, back to finishing that blog post draft about AI and geopolitics. 🤪
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I wrote a piece summarizing where we are and how we got here.
http://scripting.com/2026/07/28/115945.html
All of you have been essential to this process.
Thanks!
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The Trump FCC’s Chinese Drone Ban Continues To Be A Sloppy, Protectionist Mess
Last year the Trump administration announced it would ban Chinese-made drones from the U.S. As I noted at the time, the plan had several problems, not least of which being the Trump administration is a racist, corrupt, dysfunctional mess filled with weirdos and lazy incompetents, primarily interested in assorted personal investment grifts and protecting less […] -
When the walls came down
Yesterday's Scripting News was one of the most news-full days in a long time, maybe going back to the rollout of RSS 2.0 in September 2002. If you look at what's there, a post about re-opening the Frontier object database format would be considered the top item on any other day, but it's the last of the untitled posts for the day.
At the top of the page, a surprise that Matthias Pfefferle at Automattic had built a substantial (and unforeseen!) bridge between WordPress and RSS.chat. It builds on the new features. This may turn out to be the moment RSS started being accepted as a social web protocol by the insiders, alongside ActivityPub and AT Proto.
Look at what we've done. I stress we. Matthias didn't need to tell us about what he did until it was done. That my friends is how the web works, that's what I've been trying to show you, and now it has been shown. In a way the clock has gone back to the world before Twitter when events like this happened pretty routinely.
Small pieces loosely joined and all parts replaceable. The web in a sentence. That's what you're buying into when you put your work on the web.
Anyway, now we've got half of the big picture working. Also yesterday, before I knew what Matthias had been cooking up, I wrote a piece about how I see the network evolving. I predict, if this bootstrap works, we will come back here in a year and say things like "If he only knew." But that's how it goes, you tell your story and leave a record of it, and then later you can go back and see what it looked like as it happened, not as you remember it.
I'm proud that I have a record of September 2002 for you all to scroll through. That was when we knew that RSS was going everywhere. NYT support got us the full support of the news industry, and they worked fast in part because it is really simple. :-)
And almost unnoticed, something even I seem to forget -- this is also a new launch for RSS. We're using old reliable RSS 2.0 as specified in 2003, even using one of the elements that had never had been much used. Claude suggested it, I never would have thought of it, a perfect fit. What people may realize but don't realize the importance of, that RSS is extensible. I've accumulated all the extensions I use in my software since the early teens in the source namespace. And that's where the new stuff went. Guess what folks, RSS got an upgrade. First time in a long time. Perhaps you didn't think that was possible.
I played with a lot of names while RSS.chat was in development but decided the name had to be RSS.something. It deserves a lot more love than it has gotten from the tech world. I don't want to hide it, I want it to get a victory parade like the one the Knicks got on Broadway after winning the championship. It's an incredible gift that all that came together the way it did. People think they understand how it happened, but they only understand the BigCo version of how they buried RSS and were proud of it. Well I'm here to tell you that didn't happen. It's still here to pick up the pieces of what's left of the social web, after the VCs got through with it. We're picking up where we left off in 2006.
Because of Claude, we are able to work very fast now as long as we know what we're doing. I'm doing some projects on the side with Claude that are bearing fruit amazingly fast, because we have a very clear idea of what we hope to do. The tools keep getting better, and in this period, the art of creating software has blasted into outer space. It's as if the best transport we had was a horse and buggy and now all of a sudden we have everything we have today, bikes, cars, planes, rocket ships. The challenge is how high do you dare to set your ambition. It seems, based on experience, it doesn't matter how high it is as long as you know where you want to go.
Journalism only sees the threat. This change is on the level of curing cancer. We may have thought it might be possible someday to do what we're doing now, so amazing that as you watch Claude make it happen you get goosebumps and can't help but laugh out loud.
I thought my career was winding down, but now it feels like it's just getting started.
Reminded of a great quote in Godfather III, Michael Corleone says: "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."
Here we go!
PS: A new this.how page for RSS.chat. It has a little directory to the big spots you might want.
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Une 🐁 verte qui courrait dans l’herbe…
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Working on some improvements for the admin side of RSC but also, found some odd issue with our feed scheduler, slowish, impact is perceptible when a user change between local, federated tabs
it's not related to the SQLite database structure or missing production tuning, that part is all covered, still investigating the root cause :)
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📝 2026-07-28 09:16: Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work. Note...
Always fun when your bike runs out of electricity on the way to work.
Note to self: connect the trickle charger TONIGHT!
(Wife is on the way with my jump box to save me)
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
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I had the pleasure of meeting @NateBJones this evening at an event here in Seattle. If you're following people in the AI strategy space, he's a good one: YouTube, Substack. He's been an important influence on how I use agent harnesses like Claude Code and Codex, and is well worth a follow.
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Le serveur RSSchat est passé à la version v0.6.7 sans encombre
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Finished reading: Elsecaller / King Lopen the First by Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and Isaac Stewart. Two short stories, and so they naturally felt a little rushed by Stormlight standards. Nice to fill in a missing piece with Jasnah from Words of Radiance. 📚
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uRSS for the Mac available for testing
The first public build of uRSS for the Mac is available for testing for brave RSS aficionados.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/2x7p7ZCZ
The link will require you to download TestFlight, which will then let you download uRSS to your Mac. This is the first version of uRSS on any platform that offers integration with 3rd party services - FeedBin, Newsblur, FreshRSS (more coming) in addition to local feeds.
Also new to the app (first on any platform), is a new onboarding flow, that will give you the option of either curating feeds yourself or just choosing topics you enjoy and picking feeds for you.
All feedback can be shared thru TestFlight.
Cheers!
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AI Systems Out-Persuade Expert Humans, Including Professional Canvassers And World Championship Debaters
Persuasion plays a key role in society. Whether it is political or financial decisions, workplace or family choices, or simply reading a book or article (like this one), often someone is trying to persuade someone else to agree with them, possibly by changing their mind. This raises an interesting question: if persuasion is such an […] -
Mon catfish
Rediffusion - Non, dans cet épisode je ne vous parle pas de la fois où j’ai voulu adopter un poisson-chat mais de Julien. Un très beau garçon, qui me contacte en 2012 sur Facebook et qui pendant 2 ans va profiter de mon besoin d’être aimé pour me manipuler à distance, au point de ne presque plus voir mes amis. Durant tout ce temps, je crois aimer quelqu’un qui, en réalité, usurpe l’identité d’un autre. Seulement cet autre, je vais finir par le rencontrer…
Si vous souhaitez prendre la parole dans le PodKatz, n'hésitez pas à m'écrire à juliette@lepodkatz.com en me racontant votre histoire, sans oublier votre numéro de téléphone !
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From my vim to your feed If you can read this, my bash scripts are functional. Not pretty, but functional. The rss.chat API docs have improved substantially, saving me from going down some deep rabbit holes.
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Here to report that I fairly easily installed an RSS.chat server on my webhost at RSS.storian.org (whitelisted to me only for now). I wrote a first post and immediately subscribed to my feed in my installation of Feedland (Zuiker tab in my News Product). Will stop here for the night, satisfied.
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A big week for AI denialism
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I’ve updated my feedland account with feeds about rss
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I’ve updated my feedland account with feeds about rss
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When I post on here should it appear on
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Wikimedia Will Not Voluntarily Recognize Union a Supermajority of Its Workers Want
The Wikimedia Foundation waited until immediately after its largest annual conference to say it wouldn't voluntarily recognize its workers' union. -
I would bet at least 80% of people who say they read every line of code their AI agents write, don’t.
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Person Opposing Data Center Arrested for Clapping at City Meeting
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Trump Officials Want To Use Human Rights Aid To Advocate For White South Africans And Right-Wing Causes In Europe
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. For decades, the U.S. Department of State gave money to groups protecting free speech, human rights and persecuted minorities in poor and authoritarian countries. To decide what to fund, staffers with deep expertise typically pored over reams of information on abuses under the most repressive regimes […] -
Now posting to my new rss.chat account with the same email address as my blog admin. Just a quick late night test. Hopefully any replies there will come back here as comments. Using the new WordPress to rss.chat plugin.
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Just setting up my rss.chat
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Newsairy 1.11 adds a full-text reading mode (and Pro is on sale this week)
Quick update on Newsairy, the iCloud-native RSS reader I've been building. Version 1.11 adds a full-text reading mode: when a feed only sends the first paragraph, one tap fetches the whole article and shows it in your own theme, font and text size - no browser, no cookie banners. It all happens on your device: Newsairy fetches the page, keeps the words, and throws the rest away.
For anyone who hasn't come across it: Newsairy syncs over iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Pro adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader. One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no tracking.
Small heads-up: Newsairy is part of Indie App Sales this week, so Pro is 33% off (until 30 July) if you've been meaning to try it. Either way, I'm always open to feature suggestions.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsairy/id6760046985
Indie App Sales: https://indieappsales.com
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We Used to Be Able to Buy Things in This Country ....
We Used to Be Able to Buy Things in This Country. “Locking up toothpaste was a warning sign that our executive class was crazy.”
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Administration Admits It’s Canceling Federal Grants For Purely Political Reasons
We all know this administration is more than willing to reward “red” states and punish “blue” states. There will always be an administration official on hand to claim the incredibly transparent vindictiveness of this administration is actually just regular government business devoid of animus. No one believes these officials, of course. And the officials mouthing […] -
A Shortlist of Potential Future Euro Banknote Designs
The European Central Bank is providing a sneak peek at the next design of the Euro banknotes. From a shortlist of 10 designs created by artists and designers from across the EU, one will be selected as the basis of how Euro banknotes from €5 to €200 will look in the future. Here are a few I pulled out from all of the designs:
It’s notable (*cough*) that some of the banknotes are designed vertically vs horizontally. The influence of portrait mode on smartphones?
Tags: currency · design · European Union · money
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Don’t miss this.
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“ Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns...
“Datatype is an OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images, no rendering library — just type the syntax and Datatype’s ligature substitution does the rest.”
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The Batman Effect : people in an experiment acted more...
The Batman Effect: people in an experiment acted more altruisticly when the caped crusader was present.
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Judge Rejects Google’s Attempt To DMCA Its Way Out Of Being Scraped
Back in December we called out Google for filing a DMCA 1201 lawsuit over companies scraping Google’s results. Almost everything about the lawsuit seemed problematic, not the least of which is that Google’s entire business was built on scraping the web. To sue another company for scraping Google just felt… obnoxious. And now a judge […] -
Daily Deal: ExamsDigest for CompTIA, AWS, Microsoft & More
ExamsDigest isn’t just another study tool—it’s your ultimate certification training partner. With over 3,000 exam simulators and more than 50,000 practice questions across 70+ learning paths, this platform is designed to help you train the way you’ll be tested. Whether you’re diving into IT for the first time or leveling up in cloud, cybersecurity, networking, […] -
rss.chat for WordPress: https://github.com/pfefferle/wordpress-rss-chat
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Yet another test. Having some trouble with markdown, but it is probably my fault. I did not provide this time, only .
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let’s chat!
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Une 🕷️ sur le plancher se tricotait des 👢👢
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UFO-Tantric-Doomsday-Alien-Fairy-Angel-Sex Cult - Pt1: "Whatever Floats Your Pleasure Boat"
Laurien had already been in one cult before she was old enough to understand what a cult was.
At 22, she was invited onto a fleet of white "pleasure" yachts traveling the rivers of Europe, not knowing the warm, beautiful, angelic fairies gazing deep into her eyes would become her new family. And then she met the 60-year-old Frenchman leading this pleasure cruise who called himself "Yo." Yo claimed he channeled messages from extraterrestrials, and taught that beauty was the path to enlightenment, which was rich coming from a man with a belly, an open blouse and ridiculous facial hair. The rules? No meat, no coffee, no alcohol, and no sex.
Unless, of course... it was with him (how original).
In PART 1, Laurien takes us inside a French UFO-tantric-doomsday-alien-fairy-angel sex cult. A cult she knows was filled with abuse and coercion, and yet still sees as one of the greatest adventures of her life.
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Once Upon a Time in Space
From the filmmakers who made the excellent Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland comes a four-part series on space exploration, Once Upon a Time in Space. A short trailer is above; here’s a synopsis:
Drawing on intimate, unseen archive and powerful first-hand testimony, this landmark 4-part series tells the human stories behind our quest to explore space, offering a unique perspective on our changing world and where we are headed.
The series first aired on the BBC and the first two episodes are now available on PBS. (thx, mitch)
Tags: Once Upon a Time in Space · space · trailers · TV · video
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📝 2026-07-27 17:54: The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so...
The poor buzzard was still there when I was walking the dogs this morning, so clearly something was wrong. Luckily my wife was able to get hold of a local falconer who was able to catch him and hopefully nurse him back to health. 🦅
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Yet another test. Having some trouble with markdown, but it is probably my fault. I did not provide
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Protester Charged With Destroying Property After Giving CBP Agents His GrapheneOS ‘Duress’ Mode Passcode
Atlanta, Georgia’s attempt to erect a law enforcement officer training center in Atlanta was met by months of concerted protests. As the months stretched into years (the center was announced in 2021 but did not complete construction until 2025), opposition efforts ranged from peaceful protests to heated exchanges during public comment sessions to attacks on […] -
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An Uncomplicated Man , Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s...
An Uncomplicated Man, Emily Wilson’s review of Nolan’s The Odyssey. “I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script. Sadly, Damon’s Odysseus isn’t complicated or wily or artful.”
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Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet...
Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”.