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How Podcasts Ruined America . This is an odd claim and...
How Podcasts Ruined America. This is an odd claim and article. No mention of the clear precursors to right-wing podcasts (talk radio, blogs, Twitter) and the general shift towards less accountability for public speech, esp. by conservatives. 🤔
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Andrew wrote a post about the fantastic FreshRSS.
https://andrewshell.org/2026/08/enhancing-freshrss-with-rsscloud-support/
Claude, must read.
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Hey Dave! I was talking to a user, and he's having issues with feedland (probably feedland.com) not subscribing to his rssCloud via https when his cloud specified port 443. I know you fixed this on feedland.social back in May, but it doesn't look like it made it to GitHub, npm, or feedland.com. I suggested he just use my rssCloud server instead, but I'm wondering if you have plans to get this update pushed out? Maybe at the same time as the support for rssCloud in OPML files?
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Pilcrow, Dagger, and Octothorp, Oh My!
So, I don’t know what kind of nerd you are, but my brand of nerdiness dovetails neatly with this video about the origins of some of the most common symbols on your keyboard: #, @, &, §, *, ¶, †, and ‡, as well as ☞.
The “and” symbol or ampersand does not look like a word, but it is one. In fact, it is a full one. It is the Latin word for “and”: “et”. The Romans themselves used this. How do we know? Because we have this: the earliest known example of it, graffitied onto a wall in the doomed Roman city of Pompeii.
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DOJ Dumps Reflecting Pool Charges, Admits It Was All The Fault Of Trump’s No-Bid Pool Guys; While Trump Sticks By His Vandalism Story
Hail to the Chief. Our country is being run by paranoid conspiracy theorist megalomaniac who openly wishes to kick-start America’s first autocracy. Nothing that goes wrong is ever the president’s fault. It’s always the fault of officials with insufficient loyalty or the criminal acts of people out to get him. Trump decided the Lincoln Reflecting […] -
Daily Deal: Rosetta Stone Sapphire 1-Year Subscription
Rosetta Stone Sapphire combines over 30 years of language-learning expertise with immersive technology designed to help you speak naturally and confidently in real-world situations. Trusted by millions of learners worldwide, Sapphire brings together structured lessons, pronunciation coaching, conversation practice, flashcards, and personalized learning tools in one complete platform. Built around Rosetta Stone’s proven Dynamic Immersion […] -
What Climate Science Can Tell Us About the Lost World...
What Climate Science Can Tell Us About the Lost World That Inspired The Odyssey. “A new climate study suggests that centuries of repeated severe drought added to the pressures on that collapsing world.”
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‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
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This is fun: BoxSquad . Limbs & borders are all draggable.
This is fun: BoxSquad. Limbs & borders are all draggable.
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Trump Spends The Weekend Fighting For The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund His Chosen Attorney General Swears Is Dead
Sometimes it helps to just write out everything that happened leading up to a situation so we don’t lose sight of just how ridiculous it is. I mean, would you believe that a President would sue his own IRS for something that happened under his own watch and did him no harm, demand $10 billion, […] -
“A Los Angeles Costco parking lot [has] become a...
“A Los Angeles Costco parking lot [has] become a hotspot for skaters over 40. Its long, low curb lets us keep doing tricks on safer, lower-risk terrain […] Curbs represent the twilight of skateboarding, the end being closer than the beginning.” Lovely.
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AI news without using X
I've mentioned a few times how the AI community is overwhelmingly still using X. This is annoying because I'm fascinated with AI, and I like to know throughout the week what big changes are happening in the industry.
I stopped posting to Twitter over a decade ago. And more recently with Elon Musk, the X API has become more unpredictable and developer-hostile. (I still think Micro.blog should probably integrate with it anyway, so that users can prioritize their own blogs and still reach social followers with POSSE, but it's a question I've tabled for now.)
I had even gotten into the habit of routinely checking X posts from folks in the AI industry. I really dislike this. There has to be a better way to keep up with news. Blogs like TechCrunch help, but only if an X post becomes important enough to bubble up to a broader audience.
Over the last few weeks, I've been testing a new solution using ChatGPT scheduled tasks. I have a task that can run at regular intervals, finding any relevant posts and summarizing them for me. The prompt looks like this:
Find the latest public posts/tweets from notable OpenAI and Anthropic employees, summarize the most important updates, and include links to the original posts. Prioritize posts from the last 8 hours and focus on AI product, research, developer, policy, and company-relevant updates.
It's working well. Here's a screenshot from ChatGPT from over the weekend:
I don't actually know how this works behind the scenes. I assume it's downloading various profile pages while navigating around the dickovers that increasingly get in the way of signed-out reading on platforms like X and Reddit. But however it's doing it, it works. It finds both X posts and company blog posts from OpenAI and Anthropic.
The larger point isn't really about X. This workflow is just a specific example of what will become more common in the future, as AI assistants proactively help us save time, just as RSS feed readers help us avoid reloading a website home page over and over.
Social media powered by ads and algorithms is too addictive. The best way to avoid it is to not check mainstream social media at all, otherwise we're inevitably going to get sucked into the infinite timeline. I think RSS feed readers and AI assistants will have an important role to play in helping us stay informed even as we're mostly unplugged from the worst aspects of it all.
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Does Christopher Nolan Consider Himself a Bard for a Civilization at Dusk?
This 17-minute interview about the Odyssey with Christopher Nolan conducted by philosophy doctoral student Zhong Shu is one of the better ones I’ve seen.
The first two questions are:
- Do you consider yourself a bard for a civilization at dusk?
- Have you Christianized The Odyssey?
And nary a comment or question about filming in IMAX.
Tags: Christopher Nolan · film school · interviews · movies · The Odyssey · video · Zhong Shu
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Album du jour: Revisiting the Songs of Jimi Hendrix par Band of Experts 🦋
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Updating the Mac app today with some improvements including a Scheduled tab and little indicator for scheduled posts.
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Why a Flock Worker Quit: ‘They Lied’
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We need a way to define lists of writers independent of the site they write on. They are represented by an RSS feed with the basic features required for RSS.chat. The list is an OPML subscription list. We're reusing formats people are already familiar with, RSS and OPML.
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Google Earth stupidly launched an AI image-gen feature...
Google Earth stupidly launched an AI image-gen feature with no guardrails then put it on pause after a huge outcry. “Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran.”
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ATOM vs RSS
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13 points | 4 commentsGenuine question for anyone that sees this: Is one of them better or does it depend on what you’re using it for?
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ATOM vs RSS - Genuine question for anyone that sees this:
Is one of them better or does it depend on what you’re using it for?
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The Listening Museum : “36 mechanical keyboards...
The Listening Museum: “36 mechanical keyboards and switches, curated and sound-mapped. From IBM Model M (1985) to Topre to thocky modern customs. Click any card, type on your real keyboard, hear it as if it were on your desk.”
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Reaping the Whirlwind | Inside the Potomac River Midair Collision
Interesting read.
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Bookmarking to read later
Bookmarking to read later
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Trump’s Sloppy, Incompetent Chinese Protectionism Expanded To Robot Vacuums, Lawnmowers
Ideally, I think it makes sense to open up the U.S. market to Chinese goods (AI, EVs, robots), but have functional and well-funded regulators that policy all labor, competition, environmental, privacy, and consumer rights abuses. But big companies don’t much like that because it would boost competition and accountability, eroding quarterly revenues. So instead we […] -
UFO-Tantric-Doomsday-Alien-Fairy-Angel-Sex Cult - Pt2: "Jump Ship"
Everyone gathered on the deck the day Yo promised the mothership was finally coming. They waited… but alas, it never came.
In PART 2, the magical fairy tale capsizes. Laurien becomes one of Yo's chosen women, and soon finds out exactly what that costs.
And when she finally tries to leave, they abandon her at a foreign train station with a stolen passport, no money, and 25 cents for a phone call.
She got out. But getting out wasn't the end. Decades later, the experience still leaves her caught somewhere between grief and longing, showing us all just how powerful belief can be. Especially when it's backlit by yachts, beautiful people and the glistening sea.
The group, by the way, is still going strong, but mostly on land now, in an apartment complex in Ibiza. Cult paella anyone??
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Former Flock Employee Speaks Out: Says He Was ‘Lied To’
Take control of your data footprint risk-free with a 30-day money-back guarantee. Go tohttps://incogni.com/404Mediaand use code 404MEDIA for 60% off an annual plan. That's code 404MEDIA athttps://incogni.com/404Media This week Joseph speaks to Jonathan Paz, a former Flock employee and now candidate for Congress in Massachusetts’ 5th District. They talk all about Paz’s work at Flock, how he was tasked with trying to convince cities to buy Flock cameras, and when he ultimately quit the company. It’s a rare peek inside a company that so many people are talking about. ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows YouTube Version: https://youtu.be/BKYYpLC9u5I 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 -
Using RSS as the handoff between local podcast processing and any compatible player
I built Feedcast around a simple idea: the app that prepares a podcast episode does not need to be the app that plays it. RSS can be the interface between the two.
Feedcast imports an existing feed or local media on the Mac, transcribes the episode, creates chapters, applies enabled sponsor-section cuts, and lets the user refine episode metadata. It then publishes the processed result as a personal RSS feed that can be added to Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Castro, and other compatible players.
Version 3.2 made the feed XML available online by default while the actual audio remains served by the Mac. That separation makes feed discovery and subscription easier without moving the media-processing workflow away from the computer.
The most interesting lesson for me was that GUID stability, enclosure URLs, chapters, and metadata compatibility are product features. If any of those details are wrong, the handoff feels broken even when the audio processing itself worked.
I built Feedcast and would be interested in how other RSS developers handle generated feeds whose media remains locally served.
Mac App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/feedcast-local-podcasts/id6773872767
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Where are they now? Gerette Buglion on Writing to Reckon (Part 1)
In our next “Where are they now?” catch-up episode, Gerette Buglion is back, and she’s still doing what she does best: helping survivors turn cult experience into something meaningful, grounded, and actually useful. In this conversation with Sarah, she shares how life has evolved since we last spoke, from personal recovery and family life to the gentle, steady growth of Living Cult Free and her writing work with survivors.
A big focus here is Writing to Reckon, her trauma-informed, cult-informed writing program for survivors who want to process coercive control through story. She talks about why writing can be so powerful, how to know when something is ready to share, and why slowing down before publishing can protect people from re-traumatization.
She also offers practical advice for memoir writers and whistleblowers, including keeping old journals and materials which can become a goldmine later, writing privately and imperfectly, and trusting the raw language that comes up. It’s a strong reminder that survivor-led spaces can help rebuild trust, sharpen your bullshit detector, and make meaning out of what happened without flattening it. Stay tuned for Part 2 on Thursday.
Follow Gerette on her website, gerettebuglion.com, or on Facebook or Instagram. Also check out her writing tips at gerettebuglion.com/writingtips and LivingCultFree.com.
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I built "Paluego" – A free app to curate content, add personal notes, and turn your "Read Later" lists into public RSS feeds
Hi everyone,
Like many of you here in r/rss, I love the decentralization of RSS, but I always felt there was a missing link: an easy way to *create* and share our own curated feeds directly from our mobile devices without complex setups or expensive subscription fees.
To solve this, I spent the last few months building **Paluego** (an Android app). It started as a personal tool but I’ve just released it publicly.
### 📡 The Main Feature: Curate & Share via RSS
Paluego works like a "Read Later" app, but with a twist. Every time you create a list (e.g., Tech, Cooking, Work), the app automatically generates a **unique, public RSS 2.0 URL**.
You can share this link with friends, students, or your audience. They just need to plug it into their favorite RSS reader (Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, etc.). Whenever you save a link to that list, it instantly updates for them. No algorithms, no corporate walls.
### 🚀 Key Features:
* **Clean Reading View:** It strips away clutter and ads so you can read your saved links comfortably.
* **Inject Notes into the Feed:** This is my favorite part. When you save a link, you can add a personal note/comment. This comment will appear at the top of the article *inside* your subscribers' RSS readers. Perfect for adding context, summaries, or opinions.
* **Share Sheet Integration:** Save items instantly from any browser or app with a single tap.
* **100% Free & Private:** No trackers, no data collection, and completely free to use.
### 🛠 Why I'm posting here:
The app is fully functional but I consider it a passion project. I’m an indie developer and I really need honest feedback from RSS power users.
* Does the feed structure work well with your preferred reader?
* What missing feature would make this a daily tool for you?
* (I'm also considering building an iOS/Web version if there's interest!).
You can check it out on Google Play here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paluegoapp
I'll be around to answer any questions and take notes on your feedback. Thanks for reading!
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# 523 – Infiltration, amende record et IA hors de contrôle
Episode 523 avec Annabelle et Sébastien S.
Sommaire
- A comme Airbus : Quand Airbus bat les records du monde (00:01:21) 22h de vol, ça vous tente ? Sources france3-regions.franceinfo.fr et airbus.com.
- E comme Europol : Les ados et le web (00:11:19) Savez-vous réellement ce que vos ados consomment sur Internet ? Sources europol.europa.eu, europol.europa.eu et paperjam.lu.
- F comme Fuite : Quand les agents IA s'évadent (00:21:51) Il était fait pour hacker, il a hacké Sources mashable.com et openai.com.
- G comme Google : Google et les amendes (00:33:20) Bruxelles inflige 890 millions d’euros d’amende à Google Sources journaldugeek.com et paperjam.lu.
- M comme Missile : Quand un nouveau risque se présente (00:42:12) Est-ce que votre plan de reprise prévoit le risque "missile" ? Source houseofsaud.com.
- O comme OTAN : Une histoire de stage et... d'espionnage (00:51:39) Quand une stagiaire est arrêtée pour espionnage Sources lesoir.be, lemonde.fr et politico.eu.
- S comme Stateless : Quand on n'a plus d'état (01:00:51) La dernière version de MCP est stateless, et ca change tout pour les dev. Sources techcrunch.com, blog.modelcontextprotocol.io et lestechnos.be.
- X comme X-Money : Un nouveau service d'Elon Musk (01:09:05) Elon Musk se lance dans le service bancaire Sources google.com, techcrunch.com.
Toutes les informations pour vous abonner au podcast et à l'infolettre : 🌐 lestechnos.be
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If You Only Listen to One Podcast This Week, Make It This One
This might be one of the greatest conversations Mel has ever had on this podcast.
Today, you’re getting an absolute masterclass in motivation from one of the greatest athletes walking this earth: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
If you’ve ever felt self-doubt, pressure, or like your best days are behind you, you’re in the right place. In this conversation, Shelly-Ann does not hold back.
Shelly-Ann is the most decorated 100-meter sprinter of all time, male or female. She has won Olympic gold 3 times. She has won 10 gold medals at the World Championships, with 2 of them coming after she gave birth to her son Zyon.
She is going to tell you: you are not supposed to be average. You are built for excellence and extraordinary things.
But this isn't a conversation about being an athlete. This conversation is about building an unstoppable mindset and being the best version of yourself, no matter where you are in life.
In this episode, you’ll learn how to:
-Build the mindset of a champion
-Use visualization to prepare for high-pressure moments
-Stop focusing on constant comparison and worrying about what everyone else is doing
-Bounce back after failure
-Believe in your dream before anyone else understands it
You’ll also hear a powerful message about the power Shelly-Ann gained after becoming a mother and not listening to people who told her she had to choose between motherhood and her career.
Get ready, because Shelly-Ann is about to speak directly to your soul and inspire you to become your greatest self.
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Time to do this in Auckland.
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Expose - Who is really funding RSS? It's time to boycott them.
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While testing search, I stumbled on this blog post I wrote in 2013 about iOS 7 design. One of my favorites. But if I were to write a post like this about iOS 26 and Liquid Glass, what would it even say? I don’t think I could come up with a cohesive narrative for it.
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New York Times Sunday crossword today.
38 down: Blog feed letters
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Watched: Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Enjoyed this one. I was always more of a Spider-Man and X-Men comics fan back in the day. 🍿
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1891 - "We Need Memes!"
No Agenda Episode 1891 - "We Need Memes!"
"We Need Memes!"
Executive Producers:
Fred Hadley
Dame Pompeu
Associate Executive Producers:
Manuka Gold
Eli the Coffee Guy
Red Knight Sir Brendan
Sir Nobody of New Jersey
Anonymous
Linda Lupatkin
Knights and Dames:
Danny Haynes > Sir Danny, Knight of Cumberland County
Title Changes:
Sir Nobody of New Jersey > Baronet Nobody of New Jersey
Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
Back Office Jae Dvorak
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Weeknote 2026-31
Talking about working too much, building stuff, and getting on the Turf for the first time this season...
I thought that I would kick off my Blaugust 2026 with my first ever week note. I'll try to get into a weekly cadence of these as a sort of retrospective.
Work
I won't ever be able to talk too much about what I'm working on - though I am working on a project that I'm hoping to launch in just over a week. That's important as it will decrease my workload significantly, selfishly I designed it for that reason. It is very needed as I've been working far too many hours, with the line between work and personal projects being increasingly blurred.
Projects
In addition, I've been working on a number of personal projects, which I'll probably talk about later in the week. One of which is a fitness tracker that has automated much of my fitness logging on this website, there is an RSS feed reader and archiver that very much mirrors what I want out of a reader, and there is also an encrypted note taking and project management application that I've built primarily to help me get my team organised around key projects. More on those later in Blaugust.
I've also downloaded the remaining wiki / digital garden from lee-perry.co.uk, which I have now cleared of content ready to use as my omg.lol profile page.
Exercise
One of the upsides, I think, of my new fitness tracking workflow is that I no longer publish individual activity links to the fediverse every time I train. As I aim to train twice a day I'm sure that can be a little overkill. Instead I plan to summarise here.
I've not climbed this week. In my frustration about something that was probably insignificant last week, I attempted to climb through to V5 for the first time. After though I felt thickening in my right index finger, and the swelling has only now started to subside - I'm pretty much ready to climb again and will likely start rebuilding midweek.
I've ridden a few times at moderate intensity, but it's my two runs this week that I'm most pleased with. On Monday I managed to hold onto the long (read fast) group at Trawden AC for the first time across a hilly Trawden Carry Lane route - a huge improvement on my best on that route. I did the same thing again today all by myself, taking 3 minutes out of my personal best on a hilly 11km Reedley route, and 10 minutes out of where I started the year.
The Great North Run is getting nearer now, but I'm in really good shape - I just need to increase the miles back nearer to half marathon over the next month.
Exploring
I did not make it over to Doncaster today to watch Rugby League, I've been moving hosting, domains and projects around ready for what I need to achieve at work next week for most of the weekend.
On the plus side, Oldham lost, as I thought they may to a strong Doncaster, but I was also able to make it down to Turf Moor for the last friendly before the season proper starts next weekend.
We lost 0-1, but I thought that there were plenty of positives to take from the performance. The play is more adventurous, the ball is moved with more urgency. If we could find some strength at the back and bite at the front, we'll be in a good place.
People
Vickie has been working busily at the allotment, and has harvested 900g and 1,300g courgettes! I'm sure she'll post about these over at her website once my indie web conversion is complete. In sad news one of our neighbours lost their lovely springer spaniel Milo on a walk this week, after a few days of searching it turned out that he had crossed the rainbow bridge in an unfortunate accident in the valley below.
I'll wrap up there, I'll try to get back to a more normal posting rhythm as things quieten down, to get going with this series regardless, and to try to be more social during Blaugust - which does not come easily!
Until next time...
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“It’s hard to explain, but, for me, just aiming a speelycaptor (video recorder) at something doesn’t collect what is meaningful to me. I need someone to gather it in with all their senses, mix it round in their head, and make it over into words.”
— ANATHEM (Neal Stephenson)
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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week, both our winners on the insightful side come in response to the protestor who is charged with destroying property for giving CBP agents the “duress mode” password to wipe his phone. In first place, it’s an anonymous comment extending our characterization of what the DOJ is doing here: While simultaneously pushing to institute […] -
Taking some time off to breathe and regain perspective. Fixed a few bugs, and wrote about the big picture on demo.rss.chat. I really want to get a project going to peer with standard.site apps running in AT Proto, both ways, from us to them, and from them to us, via RSS. We can peer with them because as far as I can tell they implement textcasting. This bridge would demonstrate something important. When something interesting shows up not based entirely on web standards, we're flexible if the attraction is strong enough. This is how the internet came to be. Our systems are prepared to create bridges. And unlike bridging between systems that have different ideas of what text is, which are basically hopeless, if we agree that the web standard for text is fine for writers and reader, better than the ridiculous limits imposed by twitter-like systems. Writing on the web has been crippled since Twitter, now let's start building it back up. That's the appeal of standard.site, they are working toward the same goal. We should work together. -
Taking my cue from Andrew Shell (of rssCloud Server fame, about which you will be hearing more soon ;-), i have added a little feature to the footer of this site, which expresses my appreciation to Dave Winer, Andrew and the wonderful RSS community, which makes syndication of all sites great and small Really Simple!
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This new app status page I created this weekend really highlights the madness of maintaining a suite of apps. 13 separate native app releases. 8 code bases.
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“Your father didn’t believe in revenge.”
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Just made a small change in the way we prepare feeds, and I have to post something to cause the feeds to rebuild.
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New poll has James Talarico up 5 points. From the Texas Tribune:
Since Paxton locked up the GOP nomination in late May, polling of the contest has found a neck-and-neck race with neither candidate able to break 50%. But TPOR’s poll found Talarico leading among voters who do not have a college degree — a group that has consistently favored Republicans in Texas and across the country — and dominating among independents, less than a quarter of whom said they planned to vote for Paxton.
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Doing a little work this morning, fixing bugs. It’s a 10-minute All Too Well kind of playlist morning. 🎶
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#557: Security of everything at PyCon 2026
Security has always been the vegetables of software. Everyone agrees it matters, and somehow it never quite makes it onto the plate. At PyCon US this year, that changed. For the first time ever, security got its own dedicated, day-long track, one of just two at the whole conference, sitting right next to AI. And the room was packed to the back wall.
On this episode, I'm joined by the three people at the center of it. Seth Larson, Security Developer in Residence at the Python Software Foundation and, very recently, a CPython core developer. Juanita Gomez, a PhD researcher at UC Santa Cruz in open source security, who co-chaired the track. And Mike Fiedler, PyPI's Safety and Security Engineer, one of the very few people paid full-time to keep the packages you install safe.
We use the arc of the track's talks to take the temperature of Python security right now: supply chain attacks, dependency cooldowns, zero trust, SBOMs, and the push to bring Rust into CPython. And why not one of us thinks security is anywhere close to solved. Turns out that's the good news. It's why the room was full.
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Guests
Juanita Gomez: linkedin.com
Mike Fiedler: miketheman.dev
Seth Michael Larson: sethmlarson.dev
Trailblazing Python Security: us.pycon.org
Everything Security at PyCon US 2026 (PSF blog): pyfound.blogspot.com
Dependency Cooldowns: cooldowns.dev
Anatomy of a Phishing Campaign (Mike Fiedler) Recording: www.youtube.com
FedRAMP: www.gsa.gov
Zero Trust in 200ms: Implementing Identity-Per-Transaction with Python & Serverless-Tristan McKinnon: www.youtube.com
Rust for CPython project: blog.python.org
pre-PEP: discuss.python.org
Rust for CPython: Making Python Safer and More Robust for Everyone - Emma Smith: www.youtube.com
SBOMit: github.com
Asleep at the Wheel: Getting your SBOMs to pay attention... - Sanchit Sahay, Abhishek Reddypalle: www.youtube.com
Volatility: volatilityfoundation.org
Post Incident Runtime SBOM Generation from Python Memory - Hala Ali: www.youtube.com
zizmor: docs.zizmor.sh
GitHub Actions security in Python packages (Andrew Nesbitt write-up): nesbitt.io
andrew/pycon: data & analysis for the GitHub Actions security talk: github.com
GitHub Actions Security in Python Packages - Andrew Nesbitt: www.youtube.com
gh-profiler: examine a GitHub user's profile to gauge their contributions: github.com
PyCon US YouTube channel: www.youtube.com
SBOMit: adding verification to SBOMs (OpenSSF): openssf.org
Ecosystems: ecosyste.ms
Watch this episode on YouTube: youtube.com
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