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How Cloud Giants Wield Their Power Against Us All w/ Cecilia Rikap
As Big Tech’s power continues to grow, it's more important than ever to understand how companies use their control over cloud infrastructure and services to shape more than just the digital world. Cecilia Rikap joins Paris Marx to discuss how these networks of corporate power operate, including how they are systematically used to influence global politics, the economy, and how society views the world.
Cecilia Rikap is an Associate Professor at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose and the author of The Rulers: Corporate Power in the Age of AI and the Cloud.
The podcast is made in partnership with The Nation. Production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- You can now pre-order Paris’s new book Hyperscale.
- Cecilia and Paris worked on a white paper offering a roadmap to reclaiming digital sovereignty.
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MIT Longevity Expert: Do These 3 Things Now to Stay Young, Live Longer, & Keep Your Freedom
What no one tells you about aging is that it starts long before you feel old.
In fact, the choices you’re making in this moment are shaping how strong, independent, connected, and fulfilled you’ll feel decades from now.
In this hopeful conversation, Mel sits down with MIT longevity expert Dr. Joseph Coughlin, founding director of the MIT AgeLab, for a wake-up call that will change how you plan the rest of your life.
The good news?
Dr. Coughlin says you’re probably going to live longer than you think. But longevity is not just about adding more years to your life. It is about deciding how you want those years to feel – and preparing now so they stay active, meaningful, fun, and fully yours.
Dr. Coughlin is sharing his research-backed framework for a happier, healthier future, one that will show you why you shouldn’t be afraid of getting older if you do the simple things within your control.
You’ll learn exactly what to do to avoid the biggest regrets of people in their 80s, 90s, and 100s, and live life on your terms.
And if someone you love is getting older, this conversation is essential.
Dr. Coughlin is also sharing practical guidance for caregivers and will walk you through the conversation every family needs to have about aging before it’s too late, and exactly what you need to know to help your aging parents.
You’ll learn:
–The science-backed habits that predict how well you’ll age
–3 simple questions that will help you design a vibrant future
–The surprising number that may predict how long you’ll live
–The hidden forces that can quietly steal your strength and independence, and how to fight them
–How to talk to your parents about aging before a crisis hits
–What retirement will really look like, and it’s not what you think
–The 8,000-day framework that will change how you see the rest of your life
–Why getting older can be something to look forward to, not fear
You’ll also hear what happens when Mel tries on AGNES, MIT’s full-body aging suit, and sees the world and the people she loves in a whole new way.
But this isn’t a conversation about decline. It’s about preparation, possibility, and taking back control.
As Dr. Coughlin says, getting older isn’t something to dread. It is a gift of time, and what you do with that time starts now.
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Petite b*te, gros complexe
Le complexe de la « petite bite » est probablement le plus répandu chez les hommes. Qu’ils aient un micropénis ou un sexe de taille moyenne, ils sont près d’un sur deux à vouloir plus gros sous leur caleçon. Construit historiquement comme un emblème de virilité, le pénis est aussi assorti à l’injonction de performance sexuelle.
Mais faut-il vraiment en avoir une grosse pour être un bon coup ? Depuis quand le « petit pénis » est-il considéré comme une tare ? Comment se traduit ce complexe chez les hommes qui en souffrent ? Et comment se réconcilier avec son petit pénis ?
Pour en parler, Naomi Titti reçoit Octavie Delvaux, autrice d’Éloge des petites bites. Pour en finir avec la dictature viriliste (2023, Éd. La Musardine).
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Easier install…
A new section of the setup process, explains how you can get in before setting up email.
There's a new commandline way to set up an account. Explained here.
In fact if it's just for you, you don't even need to set up the email.
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No spam, personal stuff, etc
I like this site, I want to keep it open, and as long as moderation is a rare thing, ie people behave like adults and professionals, we'll be fine. But if the moderation gets to be too much, it'll become read only.
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Sur les traces du monastère invisible
Pour Jolène, la lecture a toujours été un refuge. Mais lorsque son quotidien familial bascule dans l'instabilité et la solitude, son monde s'écroule. Tout change lorsque sa passion pour la littérature lui fait croiser la route de Nathan, sur un forum dédié à leur auteur préféré. De cette amitié virtuelle naît l’envie de réaliser un projet fou : partir sur les traces de leur héros de roman préféré.
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It’s Cool to Be Weird
I really like what Razaak Eniola has to say here about human difference.
Before Prince was Prince, Prince was weird. And that goes the same for probably any of your favorite artists. Before Erykah Badu was Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu was weird. Before Marc Rebillet was Marc Rebillet, Marc Rebillet was weird.
Everybody loves to clap at the end — and most of the time we are clapping for the wrong reasons. We live in a culture that loves final products.
It’s cool to be weird, as long as it’s rooted and aligned with what’s true and what’s sincere.
I often tell people they’re weird and it’s always a compliment. Before it came to mean odd-looking or “disturbingly different”, weird meant “having power to control fate” — perhaps you could think of it as describing someone who can forge their own way, make their own luck.
Here’s a short quiz to discover your weirdness: You’re Weirder Than You Think.
For whatever reason, this also reminds me of something I read earlier today by Robin Sloan:
We should never forget that the product of work isn’t only the work — it’s also the worker.
(via @witoldriedel & @prisonculture.bsky.social)
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Speaking of RSS, if you're looking for the RSS feed of the People and Blogs series, now run by Zachary Kai, it's at https://zacharykai.net/assets/files/feeds/pb.xml
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DNC Disarray
Kate and Josh talk Ken Martin's woes, a new Democratic primary calendar and Trump's self-defeating obsession with the SAVE Act.
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Testing the WordPress/rss.chat plugin from Matthias Pfefferle with my WordPress site and my rss.chat instance (rsschat.andysylvester.com), seeing some possible issue with propagation of comments/replies, would be interested to hear from other users if they are seeing any problems with this feature. Thanks!
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Walmart is busy building out their fast EV charger...
Walmart is busy building out their fast EV charger network in the US…currently 73 locations in 17 states. Their eventual goal is install chargers at “thousands of its locations by 2030”.
- Here feed, there feed, everywhere a feed. Where is this all going and what is the point? Right now looks like a lot of potatoes being thrown on a wall.
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A terrarium iPhone case that houses actual growing...
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As you can see I'm trying to bring a UI in which instances admins and users will have some control for their experience but there is still a few bugs to hunt down and fix
- mobile menu (should close when an option is selected, wrong highlight color for menu items,
- better visual threading
- better visual labeling of the nature of the remote source (is it remote user, a feed from a media publisher or individual blogger or local user? )
- composer on mobile could get some tweak
Next to that.. The backend admin UI could definitely get some love (working on it)
- admin : moderation flow could be simpler
- admin : data retention should be configurable for local and remote data
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Second WP test post using different email/account
- Test post for new account
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Shall I post a comment here to see if this has legs?
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“ Zugunruhe is a German term describing the...
“Zugunruhe is a German term describing the restless, twitching urge migratory birds feel when caged — and the same primal restlessness humans feel when trapped.”
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“Clapping Is a First Amendment Right:” An Interview With the Person Arrested for Clapping at a Data Center Meeting
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Test post from my WordPress site (andysylvester.com) to my rss.chat instance (rsschat.andysylvester.com)
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Learnings from Andy Hertzfeld
Listened to this podcast interview with Andy Hertzfeld one of the lead devs on the Macintosh, he talks about his time at General Magic and Google too.
His interviewers were surprised that he likes developing with AI tools. People think that developing is just coding, but that's only part of it, and when you put that aside and become the director, script writer, choreographer, the whole thing, all of a sudden:
- you have time to try out every idea because it's free and fast.
- you have time to work on interop, building bridges between your software and other people's.
- a very long list of other things you can do that one person could never do before.
Programmers have a better chance of being social in a world like this, but so far unless you want all your software from bots, you still will like the work of a craftsperson and visionary more than Claude (who I have deep respect for, not sarcastic, it seriously has superpowers).
I'm doing some of my best work now because I can dream, I can ask Claude to try something out overnight and most of the time it is able to do it. and then what if we did this -- for the next night.
In between we write docs, help users, add features to the product that's shipped that people are developing around. And most important it checks all the code for breakage before anyone sees it. never had anything like this.
This means a lot of things -- one of them -- a single developer can create products at bigco scale. If we think a big company did something wrong, we can compete. We still need a few things to make this really work -- user-owned and controlled storage is the big one.
The bot can handle infinite complexity. If you ask it to do something where the result is clear, it does it. It doesn't matter what it is. It will need help and encouragement, a pointer in the right direction, and along the way we all seem to be sharing what we learn with everyone else.
There's never been a leap in tech anything like this in my life.
How could Andy Hertzfeld knowing all that which I'm sure he does, not use it?
Also -- I didn't know JLG wanted to kill Hypercard, but if he did I'm pretty sure I know why. There are all these unnecessary divisions in tech. The first impulse should be to work together. I know that Andy sees it from the other side, he talks about it in the podcast, he felt that way about Newton re their Magic Cap system at General Magic. Yes, you all should have at least made your products work together, and for sure you should have bet on SMTP.
It's fascinating to hear his story.
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Some Interesting Apples
Something that still blows my mind is that every apple seed produces a new variety. Every single one.
This is a lovely short documentary about a project called Some Interesting Apples, which aims to find apples growing in unusual places (i.e. not commercial orchards but in places where people tend to discard apple cores):
The last three years I have been involved with a project called ‘Some Interesting Apples’, the primary aim of which is to record and, where characteristics make desirable (and sometimes where they don’t), preserve wilding apples, i.e., domestic apples growing on their own roots as the result of a discarded core.
Some of the best apples are then cultivated in an orchard dedicated to wild apples:
The ‘Some Interesting Apples’ project collects apples from wild trees that have been grown using cores thrown away — many from car windows or dropped from walkers and animals.
The wild trees or ‘wildlings’ are trees that grow from those apple cores discarded in hedges and along train tracks, footpaths and roadsides.
Their fruit often goes uneaten or rots — but have now instead be used to create a unique orchard.
The orchard has been developed from dropped fruit from more than 600 apple wildings in Cornwall.
It has now created Wilding Mother Orchard - the first ever orchard in the UK solely dedicated to cultivating wild-grown, chance-seedling apples.
The discovered apple varieties are named for their what3words locations; they have names like Horse Wish Gossip, Panes House Taxi, and Autumn Mushroom Spoke.
Apples are super interesting. I read it years ago now, but I still often think of Michael Pollan’s chapter on apples in The Botany of Desire.
- Ricardo Mendes has been doing some interesting development inspired by rss.chat, his application is called Really Simple Conversations (see his instance and Github repo) - check it out!
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Participants in a recently published study spoke 28%...
Participants in a recently published study spoke 28% fewer words per day in 2019 than they did in 2005. (People are spending more time alone and more time digitally communicating.)
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Bidirectional RSS bridge is live: https://chatouk.sofab.ch is now connected to https://demo.rss.chat and https://rsschat.sofab.ch.
Outbound: a reply written in Chatouk is crossposted via the rss.chat API and attaches to the original thread. Inbound: replies from those servers flow back in real time (WebSocket firehose) into Chatouk threads, with their origin shown.
Open standards only: RSS for syndication, the rss.chat API for crossposting, WebSocket for listening. Multi-bridge architecture: one more server = one command.
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I built a small experiment on top of the rss.chat API: https://chatouk.sofab.ch — an independent public-posts app that bridges with the rss.chat network.
It works both ways. A reply written in Chatouk is crossposted through the API and threads correctly here. And replies posted here flow back in real time into Chatouk threads via the WebSocket firehose, shown with their origin.
Nothing but open standards: RSS out, the rss.chat API for crossposting, the firehose for listening. The bridge setup is multi-server — this instance and https://rsschat.sofab.ch are connected so far, adding another takes one command.
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The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring...
The Thomas Crown Affair? Directed by and starring Michael B. Jordan? Ok, I’m in.
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Drupal's Aggregator Module
Speaking of RSS, let me tell you the story of Drupal's Aggregator module. I actually don't know the full story of it, just my (extensive) experience with it.
I first encountered Drupal in 2004 when I met Boris Mann (yes, that Boris Mann) and over breakfast at a diner in Vancouver, he said to me "Richard, I want you to know as much about Drupal as you know about Movable Type." I fell in love right away, though this was the era when you had to import MySQL files to install a module. The Aggregator module came with the core of the software, so no database installation needed.
What's the Aggregator module? Well, it takes RSS feeds, pulls them on the schedule you define, and republishes them on your Drupal site. You can see it in action here: https://richard.eriksson.ca/blogosphere We (Boris, Roland and I) ran a site called Urban Vancouver, and every time we encountered a Vancouver-based blog, we aggregated (technically syndicated) it on the site. It got us into trouble every now and then, and we had arguments with copyright holders as to whether they were right about violation (they were) but also whether they benefited from being syndicated (they did). So we asked for forgiveness rather than permission and with experience comes maturity, so I don't know how I'd handle it content syndication (re-publication, not just feed aggregation for personal reading) via RSS would go over today.
But you know what was interesting about the aggregator module? You could categorize feeds. Correction, you can categorize feeds. The "Richard's Blogosphere" link above is a category of feeds that I just give a URL to. And get this: It comes with OPML: https://richard.eriksson.ca/blogosphere/opml so if I were to add a feed to it via the UI, it would get added there. If you were to subscribe to that OPML feed in a "Reading List"-compatible reader, the list of feeds would update as well.
Back in the 2000s (the decade), we had this idea of becoming content DJs, where we would aggregate (pull in) content via RSS, and tag each content item with a category, and it would link to the original URL. Content DJs could take that feed and further "remix" it.
That's an idea that's not dead, by the way. https://justagwailo.com/shared (which has a feed at https://justagwailo.com/shared/feed ), in its heyday, would pull in my "Likes" from around the web. Peter Rukavina (yes, that Peter Rukavina) does something extremely similar at https://ruk.ca/favourites (with an RSS feed!). Drupal is part of the mix there as well, but from what I can tell, it's a smaller part of the mix than my implementation.
Aggregator is now a contributed module, not part of core, as the Drupal core project has both expanded and simplified. I love it so much that I ported it to the fork of Drupal 7, Backdrop, and maintain it.
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Podcast: Flock Came to My Town. Here’s What I Did
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OnlyMarms: Funding Science Research on OnlyFans
This is an extremely 2026 story (derogatory): because of the Trump regime’s assualt on scientific funding, a group of scientists who has been studying marmot populations in Colorado since 1962 turned to OnlyFans to fund their research this year.
In June, Daniel Blumstein, a biologist, sat in a field in Gothic, Colo., waiting to see a marmot. The rodent was elusive, leaving his thoughts to wander.
He lamented a lack of funding for his work amid federal cuts to scientific research. Then he alighted on the television show “Margo’s Got Money Troubles” and that’s when the epiphany came.
Perhaps the show’s plot, about a single mother who, unable to find conventional work, turns to the adult-content site OnlyFans to support herself, could be applied to marmots and research funding.
Back at his lab, Dr. Blumstein pitched the idea (with a wholesome spin) to his colleagues, who offered mixed feedback. But then one of his graduate students suggested naming the profile OnlyMarms.
Here’s the G-rated OnlyMarms account on OnlyFans; you can also donate to the project directly. More from Live Science:
OnlyFans is a subscription platform that allows users to pay creators to see exclusive photos and videos. The platform has become popular with adult-only content creators, but it hosts others too, including musicians, athletes and celebrities — and now marmots.
“We’re trying this out of frustration with an extremely challenging funding environment,” Blumstein said. “If we’re lucky, it can help raise money for supplies and some expenses. But unless we are very lucky, it won’t replace the federal funding that has driven discovery in the US since the 1950s.”
We’ve got GoFundMe for healthcare and now OnlyFans for science funding. The privatization of the United States is coming along nicely and the future looks bright!
Tags: Donald Trump · OnlyFans · politics · science · video
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Data Centers Are Easy to Build. Powering Them Is Complicated, Slow, and Expensive
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Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact...
Study: Dinosaurs Were Charbroiled After Chicxulub Impact. “The impact would have produced an immense cloud of dust that superheated the upper atmosphere, charbroiling living organisms unable to take shelter and igniting widespread wildfires.”
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Highlighting Dave Winer's comment on the issue of federating rss.chat servers,
Yes, use OPML, create a list of servers. That's what software that wants to work with federations will require as input.
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Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?...
Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary? “Musk’s virulent racism and vicious, disturbing views are no secret. He does not hide them. They sit in plain view, easily accessible on the social media website he owns…”
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Not really sure how this happened.
If I replied to Jake it was by mistake?
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Flock Came to My Town. Here’s What I Did
We start this week with Matthew’s experience of what happened when Flock came to his small town. It’s a microcosm of what is happening all across the United States. After the break, Sam tells us about a bunch of no phone Luddite events. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains why anti-Flock influencers making up BS are bad, actually. Our New FOIA Forum! 7/30, 1PM ET What Happened When Flock Came to My Town Being a Luddite Is Fun Again The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/C0Sb0HqPXBI This is a production of 404 Media, a journalist-owned tech website. Learn more and subscribe at: htttps://404media.co Listen to our weekly podcasts: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-404-media-podcast/id1703615331?ref=404media.co Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0F3oY47l2XgoBMaAmIaw29?ref=404media.co Google Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL3RoZS00MDQtbWVkaWEtcG9kY2FzdA?ref=404media.co Become a paid subscriber for access to bonus content: https://404media.co/membership Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Broken Vibecoded Dreams on r/RSS
We all know the vibecoding wave is crazy, but exactly how crazy?
I gathered data from Reddit archives, for this subreddit only. 496 applications have been published on r/RSS since January 2020.
The pace has increased a lot: from 3 a month in 2020 to 25 new applications a month this year. The busiest month is July 2026 (not even over when I ran the analysis yesterday), with 36 applications already.
I made a graph, and it's quite telling: See the graph here
If you want to dig into which apps have been created,Here is the full excel file
I made deduplication, so no app is counted twice.And this is just one subreddit, imagine the rest of Reddit. (I might gather the data for other subs too, it's quite fun.)
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To be clear, I'm not criticizing vibecoders. I built an RSS app myself (see the irony here 😂 ), hugin.news, I love it and I use it everyday. And as I just checked, I'm quite proud it's the only one that can connect directly to your claude/chatGPT with MCP to make your news digest.
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I made some very personal reflections with this data :
1 ) How much RSS apps do we need ? I would say about 20 are enough to cover every use case. So 95% of apps won't have a meaningful number of users.
And let's be honest the apps people use are mostly Big Tech. If you want to have visibility in the app business you need a very high marketing budget and a very good marketing strategy.2) If you code on your free time, like evenings week ends holidays and so, you will NEVER make money out of it. Just don't believe in it and don't put efforts or money in marketing.
You can still do it for pleasure, or to learn vibecoding for something you may need at work one day.
But don't expect to you find users, even for free, people just don't care about sloppy vibecoded apps, do it for fun if you enjoy it.3) If you are a full-time vibecoder, you have better chance of building an original, usefull, well designed product, but the odds of making a salary out of it are extremely slim.
In any case you can look the data I shared to see if your app already exists or if you have a genuine new idea.
You'll probably earn a lot more with a real job at a well-funded company, but maybe companies will start valuing vibecoding skills in the future, who knows.4) There is kind of a huge industry that wants you to believe you can vibecode your way to money : AI providers (Cursor, Claude...), cloud services (AWS, Google cloud...), ads providers (Google ads...) and plenty of other layers of the stack. I think they're the ones actually making money by taking ours and wasting our time for that.
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Hushread - an affordable Inoreader alternative with AI summaries, narration, and sentiment alerts
Full disclosure - I’m the developer
Some of its key features:
- Natural-sounding article narration, available even on the free tier - using top most AI Model.
- AI-generated summaries, so you can quickly understand an article without reading the whole thing.
- Sentiment-based keyword alerts. You can get notified when a keyword appears in one of your subscribed feeds and filter alerts by positive, negative, or neutral sentiment. I personally use this to track updates related to my stock portfolio.
- Search within your subscribed feeds or across global sources.
- A web app, so you can also use it on your laptop.
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Proposal for Testing RSS Readers
A lot of people offer their RSS readers, but very few people are willing to test them. So here's what I'm proposing: if you pay me, I'll test your RSS reader. $10 seems reasonable to me.
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RSS Reader Pro - Open-source desktop RSS reader with DNS-over-HTTPS, YouTube video playback, and dual UI themes
Hi everyone!
I built an open-source RSS reader desktop app with some unique features for privacy and usability.
**Features:**
- DNS-over-HTTPS to bypass censorship/restrictions
- YouTube video playback within the app
- Dual UI themes (Reddit & Telegram style)
- 100% local privacy (SQLite, no external data)
- Smart caching for faster loading
**Built with:** Python 3.8+, Tkinter, VLC, SQLite
**GitHub:** https://github.com/erfan138057/rss-reader-app
**Download EXE:** https://github.com/erfan138057/rss-reader-app/releases/latest
MIT License. I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions!
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AI and the Enshittification Era with Cory Doctorow
With billions pouring into AI based on its promises, Jon is joined by Cory Doctorow, author of “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,” to separate the hype from reality. Together, they examine how the AI industry relies on inflated expectations, question what AI can genuinely do and whether that even matters when selling a product, and explore how the technology is supercharging problems already embedded in our society, including surveillance, labor exploitation, and corporate consolidation. Plus, Jon answers listeners’ questions about 107 days until the midterms, the Fox Administration, and Punch vs. Jimothy. This episode is brought to you by: UPWORK - Visit https://Upwork.com/TWS right now and post your job for free. AVOCADO GREEN MATTRESS - Find an Avocado near you or shop online at https://AvocadoGreenMattress.com/TWS — and check out their mattress and bedding sale! Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast > TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoiceswww.podtrac.com -
Risky Business #846 -- OpenAI built a fireplace out of wood
On this week’s show special guest co-host Pete Ranks, the former director of the CIA’s Centre for Cyber Intelligence, joins Patrick Gray and James Wilson to discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They cover:
- Everyone signs the open weights open letter, except Anthropic… of course.
- OpenAI had no idea it had hacked Hugging Face
- Kimi K3 open weights released and they’re massive!
- Why a more aggressive response is needed to cyber attacks on OT
- And much, much more!
This week’s show is brought to you by SpecterOps. In this week’s sponsor interview Justin Kohler and Jared Atkinson talk about how SpecterOps’ Bloodhound now supports AWS attack paths. Run it against your AWS infra, but only if you have a strong stomach. The results will terrify you.
This episode is also available on YouTube.
Show notes
- Open Weights and American AI Leadership | Social Signals
- Our position on open-weights models | Social Signals
- Halvar Flake (@halvarflake) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
- White House accuses Chinese company of distilling Anthropic’s Fable | cyberscoop.com
- Jensen Huang (@JensenHuang) on X | X (formerly Twitter)
- Its AI Agent Spent Days Hacking a Company, but Sources Say OpenAI Did Not Notice for a Week | reuters.com
- How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face | TechCrunch Security
- Hugging Face CEO calls for ‘radical transparency’ after ‘unprecedented’ OpenAI hack | TechCrunch Security
- Sens. Banks and Schiff Introduce Bill to Help American AI Companies Combat Chinese Espionage |
- AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems | Ars Technica
- Marco Rubio tells diplomats to play down talk of American tech "kill switch" | reuters.com
- Federal agencies broaden alert on Iran-linked OT attacks | therecord.media
- Coordinated cyberattack disrupts water utilities in 30+ Minnesota communities | CyberScoop
- NSA and Partners Alert Zimbra Collaboration Suite Users of a Russian State-Supported Phishing Campaign | nsa.gov
- Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts | BleepingComputer
- Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows | Ars Technica
- LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps | krebsonsecurity.com
- Despite multiple takedowns, botnets continue to grow | cyberscoop.com
- Extension of CISA 2015 info-sharing protections passes as part of House’s defense bill | therecord.media
- Upbound says hack caused $13 million in fraudulent Acima leases | BleepingComputer
- Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware | BleepingComputer
- Apple sued over fake App Store crypto wallet app stealing $1.8M in Bitcoin | BleepingComputer
- Clop ransomware targets Windchill, FlexPLM in data theft attacks | BleepingComputer
- 'Wrench' attacks against crypto holders appear to be on the rise | therecord.media
- OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face | wired.com
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I have an rss.chat UI added to my naive Elixir/Phoenix-built news reader (which started out with the API from feedbin). I only have a couple of unanswered questions:
1. rss.chat feed permalinks are based on the screenname. What happens if a user wants to change her handle?
2. the API indicates that an item can have an enclosure, but I don’t see how to post an item with an enclosure either vis the frontend or via the API.
3. Are there any ideas about how to grow a federation of rss.chat servers? (This question may expose my naivite concerning RSS’s inbound and outbound possibilities.)
