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🐊 NewsGator — a self-hosted news aggregator that summarizes, translates, and groups your articles by event (FastAPI + SvelteKit + SQLite, Docker, local LLM recommended)
Hey everyone,
I've been working on NewsGator, an open-source project I'd like to share with you.
The problem
You follow 50 RSS feeds in 5 different languages, get 12 newsletters a day, and end up reading nothing because sorting through it all takes too much time. Traditional aggregators give you 3-line teasers, you click through, find 10 articles about the same thing, and you've wasted 20 minutes.
What NewsGator does
- Ingests your RSS/ATOM feeds and keeps everything, even after restart;
- Fetches full article content — not just the teaser, the actual text with images;
- Summarizes and generates an honest title in your language, regardless of the source language;
- Groups articles by event: 10 articles about the same story = 1 "Story" with a summary that evolves as new facts come in;
- Swipe interface on mobile (installable PWA);
- Transparency dashboard: token cost and LLM latency visible in real time.
Stack: FastAPI + SQLite (+ sqlite-vec or Qdrant) + SvelteKit, single
docker compose.> 🔗 Demo & docs: https://tekka90.github.io/NewsGator/
> 🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/Tekka90/NewsGator⚠️ Warning: this project uses AI
I want to be upfront about this:
- Summaries can be wrong or biased. An LLM is not a source of truth. NewsGator is a triage tool, not an information source. You trust the summary to decide whether it's worth digging into, then you verify at the source.
- I strongly recommend running the LLM locally. NewsGator is provider-agnostic: any OpenAI-compatible LLM works — Ollama, llama.cpp, LM Studio, MLX, or a paid API if you prefer. But ideally, run a model locally. No leaking your reading habits, no recurring costs, no dependency on an external service.
- A small local model is enough for summarizing articles — you don't need a giant model.
- If you do go with a paid API, everything is measured (tokens + latency per call) with a "price playground" to estimate costs.
The project is open source — feel free to ask questions, share feedback, or contribute.
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Behind the Blog: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Flamin' Hot Slop
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Anyone aware of a Server/Feed supporting "A-IM" (RFC 3229 Delta Encoding)?
Does anyone knows a in-the-wild server shipping newsfeeds and supporting "A-IM" ("IM: feed")?
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RSS Chat explained
Article URL: https://twowavesandadot.blog/what-is-rss-chat-and-what-not.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49478806
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ICE Plans to Spend Millions on Boston Dynamics Dog Robots
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Manton wants to know why Marc Benioff chose the name Claudeforce for his brand-merge of Salesforce and Claude. My two cents. Claude is a great name. I think that’s ultimately what he bought. His customers just want to be able to check the box – we’re using AI. Boss is happy. When I was coming up as a young dude in tech, the old saying was “No one ever got fired for buying IBM.” Today, in 2026, it’s Claude in place of IBM. My father worked in marketing at IBM in Armonk, so I heard a lot about their strategies that meant the IBM brand would be kicking ass forever. All things must pass. But in the early days of the PC industry, IBM sure had the power. Kind of like the US going to war with Iran in 2026. In the end IBM wanted to get rid of Microsoft, but Billg had the last laugh. -
I thought it was a dead pixel, but there's actually a tiny chip in the glass of my MacBook Pro screen. Annoying in the nitpicky, small life problems kind of way. Really want to keep this machine another couple years.
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Got notice from Linode that 8 of my servers need to rebooted in the next month. A couple of them have 2-year uptime! There won't be downtime except for one of the servers, might be a short blip, which I'll schedule ahead of time.
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I've been randomly reading and listening to physics topics, not sure why, including lectures by Richard Feynman. Something finally clicked with understanding relativity and spacetime. I sort of got it before, but not really. 🤯
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Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads
Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment. Which is every bit as stupid and corrupt as it sounds. Previously, under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), political parties were subjected to strict […] -
Dreaming about a Chromium/Firefox extension that auto open any article on the we...
Dreaming about a Chromium/Firefox extension that auto open any article on the web in reading mode.
Wanting to see the original site would be a manual action.
No ads, no pop-ups, no cookies walls, just plain text,titles and basic images.
Reading on mobile without reading mode On for most news sites is such a pain in the A’s, it’s horrible what they have done with the Web.
Thank God the blog ecosystem is clean, fast and un tarnished by these shenanigans.
What bothers me even more is Google actively pushing scammy, dirty sites on its News pan on every Android devices shipped, Google is curating “News” sites filled with Ads, Scams and deep redirect that actively drive the user to even more scammy site is literally automated enshitification.
It’s horrible to browse the web on mobile in 2026, we gotta to do something!
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Lake America Great Again
With his approval rating 20 points underwater, Donald Trump previews his new midterm strategy: telling voters to pretend he’s on the ballot. Jon and Dan break down how that will play, react to the president renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” and preview the Republican Party’s midterm convention.
They also discuss Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s handling of a measles outbreak in Pennsylvania, new polling that has James Talarico up on Ken Paxton in Texas, and the unnerving number of Nazi-related scandals surrounding Mike Collins’s Senate campaign in Georgia.
Then, Annie Andrews, the Democratic nominee for Senate in South Carolina, talks to Dan about the momentum building for her campaign now that Darline Graham has won the Republican nomination.
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RSS Bulucu - A modern Chrome extension to quickly find hidden or open RSS/Atom feeds on any website
Hi everyone,
I wanted to share a Chrome extension I recently developed called RSS Bulucu (RSS Finder).
It is designed to be a lightweight, modern, and powerful tool that automatically scans the website you are visiting to discover any open or hidden RSS and Atom feeds within seconds.
Key Features:
- Smart Scanning: Instantly detects all available feeds on the current page.
- Lightweight: Only 61.3 KiB in size, so it won't bloat your browser.
- Privacy-focused: No data is sold to third parties or used for unrelated purposes.
The extension currently supports Turkish, but the UI is highly intuitive and easy to use for anyone looking to hunt down feed URLs.
You can check it out here on the Chrome Web Store:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/rss-bulucu/icjlhipjnfkdngpinmakhkcnfjnjdhbi?hl=trI would love to get your feedback, feature suggestions, or any bug reports! Thank you for checking it out.
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Twin Flames Universe: Saving a Loved One
In this week's episode, host Kacey interviews cybersecurity professional Cheryl (Cyber Chick Boston) about her family’s experience when her niece became involved in the Twin Flames Universe.
Cheryl explains the group’s origins under Jeff (Jeff Allen/Jeff Devine) and Shaleia (Megan), its online course-and-coaching business model likened to an MLM, escalating paid tiers, free labour, a “church” for tax advantages, and coercive tactics including forced pairings and gender transition.
Cheryl’s family hired a cult consultant, contacted ex-members, police, FBI, and journalist Alice Hynes, and used supportive contact to keep ties. Cheryl's niece suffered severe mental and physical decline, before returning home in 2022–2023, stayed partly involved until stopping completely in 2025; Cheryl now runs a YouTube channel to raise awareness and advise families to stay connected and nonjudgmental.
Cheryl's Channel - http://www.youtube.com/@CyberchickBoston
Amazon Series - Watch Desperately Seeking Soulmate: Escaping Twin Flames Universe - Season 1 | Prime Video
Crimecon UK - www.crimecon.co.uk (use code CULT for a 10% discount!)dts.podtrac.com -
Going to try this on my DGX Spark GB10
Going to try this on my DGX Spark GB10
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I hope to return to RSC dev soon https://rmdes.be
I hope to return to RSC dev soon https://rmdes.be
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Not surprised…
Not surprised…
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I like this, might have to rework my Eleventy theme to increase my score :)
I like this, might have to rework my Eleventy theme to increase my score :)
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it’s working nicely now !
it’s working nicely now !
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it’s working great now !
it’s working great now !
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Irony: Catholic Bishops Tell FL Officials To Respect Its Religious Liberty To Not Accept Religious Exemptions For Vaccines
The country is continuing to reel from multiple infectious disease outbreaks in America, even as childhood vaccination rates continue to fall. Measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough: you don’t actually need me to go on. With RFK Jr. using his position as Secretary of HHS to further muddy the waters on vaccines and their safety, some states […] -
Could Orbán lead Hungary again?
For 16 years, Viktor Orbán exerted an iron grip on Hungarian politics and society. Now it’s being dismantled. Has Hungary finally turned a page on the Orbán era, or could he make one final return? It’s only a few days before Péter Magyar’s government, which succeeded Orbán, learns whether his anti-corruption reforms have done enough to persuade the European Commission to release €10.4 billion of frozen funds to help the country recover after the Covid pandemic. The money was withheld over breaches of EU law under Orbán, who suffered a landslide defeat at the polls in April. Host Anne McElvoy talks to János Bóka, who now leads Orbán’s Fidesz party from the opposition benches in the Hungarian Parliament. He was minister for European affairs in the previous government and is seen as a relatively moderate voice tasked with rebuilding a party reeling from defeat. Does he want to cast off an ousted strongman’s shadow – might Orban still be seeking to find a way back? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicestraffic.megaphone.fm -
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job
Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it -
I read Bill Gates' memo, and there's one thing almost no one has mentioned about AI systems, is how dependent we're getting on them. What if one day they stop working. What's the backup plan?
When we started up with PCs and then the web, it took a long time for us to build mission-critical systems around them. But this is happening very quickly.
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Comparing Nixon’s Attacks On The Press To Trump’s
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In his White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech on July 24, 2026, President Donald Trump made his usual diatribes against the news media. He derided the “failing” New York Times and reiterated his complaint that CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins doesn’t smile enough. He […] -
1898 - "Goofy Foot"
No Agenda Episode 1898 - "Goofy Foot"
Goofy Foot
Executive Producers:
Sir Wild Bill, Sacred Red Knight of the Heart, Liberator of California
Sir Jaymo, Black Baron of North Idaho
Haakon Andresen
Sir Mike Keeler, Slayer of Taxes
Nathan Rottier
Jesse Chapotelle
Sir David Fugazzotto
Salvatore Tringali
Rajinderpal "Raj" Dosanjh
Ryan Jacobs
Sir Becoming Heroic
Sir Castic the Nomad
Paul Field — Field Work Telecom
Edward Noon
Associate Executive Producers:
Wes Stewart
Joe — Watkinsville, Georgia
Nicholas C Ficklin — Sclazin.com/jcd
Matthew Martell — Martell Hardware (code NOPOTATO)
Linda Lupatkin — Imagemakers Ink, Duchess of Jobs
Knights and Dames:
Haakon Andresen > Sir Tinfoil Viking
Rajinderpal "Raj" Dosanjh > Sir Jagni of the Millerton Lake Area
Wes Stewart > Sir Name Stewart of the Basin of the Sun
Title Changes:
Sir Castic the Nomad > Viscount of Chester County
Sir Wild Bill > Baronet
Order of the Ant:
Sir Jaymo, Black Baron of North Idaho
Sir Mike Keeler, Slayer of Taxes
Rajinderpal "Raj" Dosanjh
Ryan Jacobs
Sir Becoming Heroic
End of Show Mixes:
Jus Baker (inthemorning)
Jus Baker (Shhh)
Jus Baker (face plant in the foam -1-)
Jus Baker (face plant in the foam -2-)
Art By: Parker Paulie, a Black Knight
Mark van Dijk - Systems Master
Ryan Bemrose - Program Director
Back Office Jae Dvorak
Chapters: Dreb Scott
Clip Custodian: Neal Jones
Clip Collectors: Steve Jones & Dave Ackerman
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I don't get the Claudeforce name. Why tie your product to a single model? That's someone else's brand. And whenever a competitor like OpenAI does something good, your own product will feel out of step too.
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LA Mayor Karen Bass The Latest Democrat To Wimp Out On Paramount Merger
The unpopular Paramount Warner Brothers merger should have been a perfect opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate they are finally serious about stuff like media consolidation, right wing propaganda, media reform, and antitrust after decades of policy incoherence. Instead, numerous prominent California Democrats have been buckling to Paramount demands aimed at settling a 12-state antitrust lawsuit […] -
I wonder if Apple will ever merge App Store Connect into developer.apple.com. Pretty weird that things are still fragmented. ("Oh, you want to update an app ID? Better go somewhere else.")
It's a minor nitpick. Just the whole backend feels stagnant because they have a monopoly on app distribution.
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Myke Hurley blogging about the upcoming campaign for St. Jude:
We are now within reaching distance of $5 million raised. What an incredible achievement in less than 10 years. I don’t think I could have imagined what we would all achieve together. But time and time again, the Relay community has stood by us and believed in this cause.
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Dear Apple and Google if you do this:
To this:
It won’t just be me that’s pissed.
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The AI ‘Ghosts’ Contaminating Academic Publishing
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Oracle Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It.
Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to change its tune on Section 230. While not as widely known outside of Silicon Valley, Oracle has been a driving force behind the […] -
Daily Deal: The 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Bundle
Take your design skills to the next level with the 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Bundle, a powerful all-in-one course for modern creators and business owners. This program teaches you how to use Canva effectively to produce professional-quality visuals for any purpose. You’ll explore practical design techniques, creative workflows and branding strategies that make your content […] -
Great story at Cartoon Brew about Peter Cullen's voice acting work. I had never really thought why he was so good as Optimus Prime:
His brother’s idea of heroism became central to Cullen’s interpretation of the character and arguably had a tremendous impact on generations of children who could look up to a strong leader who didn’t rely on bravado or overt displays of aggression.
Rest in peace.
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Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech
Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didn’t need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it realized there was far more money to be made by courting governments, rather than the richest parts of the private sector. A few years later […] -
Emptying the Tabs…
Ok, we’re gonna go a little old school today. I’m talking the late 1990s and early 2000s, back before permalinks (sorry), RSS, and social media turned blog posts & tweets into their own little discrete units packaged to be easily passed around and things were less homogeneous. Back then, blogs — at least the ones I loved — tended to be more of a stream of consciousness thing, just an unordered and uncurated list of whatever happened to pop into people’s heads or cross their screens.
So, I’ve currently got at least 120 tabs across 20+ windows open in Chrome. I know, I know, I’ve gotta get a tab manager, but this is where I am right now. Each of these tabs contains something interesting and potentially bloggable, but some of them have been sitting there for months and with moving stuff consuming most of my days right now, I don’t have time to sit down and give them each even a Quick Links treatment. So I’m gonna do them rapid-fire in the hopes that you might find some of it interesting. Here we go, let’s empty some tabs!!
The winners of the 2026 iPhone Photography Awards. Via my pal Jodi, I think. I love this one, which rhymes with this famous photo (Behind the Gare St. Lazare) by Henri Cartier-Bresson:
Ways of Treeing, “Meditations on time and rebellion against the straight line”.
The quiet grief of adult friendship. “Adult friendship became one of the most emotionally significant and least discussed losses of modern life.” (Via swissmiss; have I linked to this one before?)
Hugh Howey (author of the Silo books) on how the self-publishing window has closed (or at least narrowed). “We had less than 20 years of writing being hard and publishing being easy, and we will never get that window back.”
I haven’t done a media diet post since November (and may not again?) but I’ve been eagerly watching s03 of Silo, listening to Toni Morrison read Beloved (great book but what a fucking gift to hear Morrison read it), and enjoyed the new Spider-Man, a series that is at its best when the three leads just chill and talk.
“Artist and researcher Maggie Coblentz fermented miso in orbit, chasing a deeper question: What makes a miso a miso—or a person a person—away from Earth?”
I Eat the Stars: How to Live Fully and Beautifully in a Collapsing World by Sarah Wilson.
Messy Nessy’s Cabinet (always a good source of interesting links) redesigned recently.
These Dutch strip islands are cool.
How art invented humanity (instead of the other way around).
I don’t watch enough videos by Phil Edwards these days: “Why are bowling alleys across America replacing 2,000-pound mechanical pinsetters with nylon strings?”
Is democracy without elections possible? Could a lottery be better? I actually watched this a couple of months ago but never got around to writing it up. More on this from Alex Guerrero.
I really wanted to get to this one but just never could find the time: Historia Civilis on The History of the City.
This might be a minority view, but my YouTube algorithm is actually pretty good at showing me stuff I’m interested in. Case in point: when I was getting the link for the city video above, I noticed a newish video from Tom Scott about Bletchley Park and the secrecy of the Intelligence Factory.
The Spectacle: Has Taking the Perfect Photo Ruined Tourism?
Fordite is an artificial gemstone made up of dozens of layers of automotive paint that built up and hardered over time.
This material is typically found in the paint booths of auto factories, where cars were spray-painted by hand. As the paint sprayed over vehicles, excess paint would build up on the equipment and surfaces around the painting area. Over the years, these layers of paint would harden, creating colorful, agate-like structures.
Fordite is no longer being produced: “The switch from solvent-based paints to more environmentally friendly, quicker-drying paints in modern automotive plants has virtually ended the creation of new fordite, making it a finite material.”
Infinite Digest: a collection of infographics about DFW’s Infinite Jest.
Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See, “a 40-minute crash course in design thinking”. Found this via Edward Tufte.
Debbie Millman on the fleeting euphoria of success (YouTube).
March Forth is a feature-length documentary about Reginald Dwayne Betts, who was incarcerated at 16; “after his release, Betts went on to become an acclaimed poet, author, lawyer, activist and MacArthur Genius Award winner”. Trailer.
The Professor Who Taught People How To Think (1962). This looks great; shades of Feynman.
Screenshots of various operating systems (1983-2005). See also The Virtual OS Museum (“1,700+ pre-installed operating systems, ready to run”).
The Unsolved Mystery of Lorem Ipsum. Got this from Andy so you know it’s good.
Speaking of Andy, he recently posted about Amazon’s decision to shutter Mechanical Turk. Kinda shocked it was still going tbh.
2018 PBS special hosted by Michael Keaton: Why Mister Rogers Still Matters Today. I’m gonna make some time to watch this one after my move is done.
Love the premise of this: Mediocre Movies That Changed My Life. Eddie the Eagle!
Visual Instruments: An Exploration of Making Music Out of Images. This is a fun little web toy to play with.
I wanted to do a whole post on the artist’s palettes they have in the collection at the Met.
A Living Museum of the Comic. “A living museum of where the comic came from — its Western and Eastern roots, the women who drew the early funnies, the Europeans who invented its grammar, and the golden age of the American color cartoon. Every artifact is public domain, restored by us, and free to explore.”
From Kurzgesagt: The Impenetrable Barrier Trapping Us in the Solar System. “From the vast empty space to the laws of physics themselves, there are many reasons why the dream of space travel might stay just a dream.” Alt title: Why Humanity Will Never Leave The Solar System.
The Dingo Fence | The Longest Fence in the World. “In the heart of Australia, the continent has been cut in two by the longest fence in the world in a bid to protect livestock from dingoes. Dingoes have divided the nation for the past 150 years, but with new research coming to light, is it time for this to change?”
“I rebuilt 1901 by Phoenix from scratch to figure out what makes it so good.” I love this song and will make time to watch this soon.
The Deadly Legacy of HIV Truthers (2015). “Even as the medical community reached a consensus that HIV caused AIDS, a counter-movement was emerging, claiming that HIV didn’t exist, or that the virus existed but was harmless. The symptoms of AIDS, according to some of these people, were actually caused by HIV therapies themselves.”
Recent Howtown: So… did NASA find life on Mars? “Awkwardly, we’ve now collected the most promising extra-terrestrial biosignature in a tube that might spend the rest of eternity sealed inside a dead rover.”
I love these little icon collages and creations from Font Awesome (FA serves the icons I use on KDO). Starry Night! Sudoku! Chef Vader! Business Fett!
More than 200 Ansel Adams photos, mostly of National Parks, that are free to view & download. Via Open Culture, one of the gems of the open web.
The Crazy History of the Shower. I think that’s self-recommending.
Jamelle Bouie saw The Odyssey and shared his thoughts about it on YouTube. From his Letterboxd review:
The Odyssey or, what if you did THE DARK KNIGHT in ancient Greece?
This, to be clear, is not a bad thing. Nolan is covering the same thematic territory he did nearly 20 years ago and more recently with OPPENHEIMER. And it is compelling! A kind of Burkean liberalism that sees the heroism of “great men” as a necessary bulwark against disorder and chaos but understands the great men as merely men — who themselves bear some responsibility for the chaos — and sees heroism as a terrible burden to bear, more akin to a curse than a crown. There are no parades or honors. In the end you bear the scars and fade away, an exile remembered in legend.
Anyway, I am glad Hollywood keeps giving the man hundreds of millions of dollars to make his didactic and idiosyncratic blockbusters. Keep ‘em coming!
Yeah, exactly. I feel like most pans of The Odyssey fell into two main buckets: 1) it wasn’t long enough — pacing off, didn’t include my favorite scene, etc. — which was entirely due to 3-hour runtime constraints of IMAX projectors, and 2) I wish Christopher Nolan hadn’t made a Christopher Nolan movie.
Debbie Millman again: Is the World Getting Uglier? First brand she mentions is a Tesla Cybertruck, a completely tasteless monstrosity designed by Elon Simpson that I still laugh at every time I see one on the road.
Due to drought in Britain, you can see “gardens that disappeared hundreds of years ago starting to show themselves again through the grass”.
Artisans make punchcards by hand for the looms that weave beautiful banarasi sarees.
Ok, that’s all for now. I didn’t close all of the open tabs though…maybe I’ll do some more in a few days. How about you? Do you have anything interesting to share with the rest of the class that’s been languishing for a few weeks in a browser tab?
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I shaved off about half a second while loading the Micro.blog home page timeline. It helps, but also doesn't have as dramatic a perceived effect as I was hoping. Performance is so many small things.
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The Tragedy and Ecstasy of AI Companions (with Bridget Todd)
In her new audiobook, Love at First Prompt: AI and the Future of Intimacy, Bridget Jones and Michael Amato unpack how real people are using chatbots to seek connection, in an era when tech companies are constantly trying to exploit our innermost worlds. -
The tariffs were largely a waste of time and money, but still nice to see this part of it resolving well: Panic is refunding tariff fees for Playdate purchases, via Lex Friedman's new blog.
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Cocomelon's Studio Tells Its Artists to Start Experimenting With AI
Moonbug Entertainment, which makes Cocomelon, Blippi, and other popular content for children, says it will begin using AI but will always have a 'human in the loop.' -
Businesses Go Viral for Making Signs Without AI
In the wake of the ChatGPT flyer pandemic, some businesses are differentiating themselves by making signs the old school way. -
Micro.blog book readers who like libraries: Libby integration seems to be working pretty well again. You'll need to reconnect it on the web, Bookshelves → "..." → Import. 📚
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Florida ‘Deputy of the Year’ Used Flock to Stalk Ex, Held Gun in Her Mouth, Did a Nazi Salute
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Paradoxically I'm increasingly believing in two things at the same time:
- Not a bubble. Not overhyped. We're still near the beginning of the growth and what will be possible.
- Nvidia could crash and bring down much of the stock market with it. We're all going to be hit hard if this happens.
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Twitter.now is going to make a lot of money for 48 hours and then disappear. I'm sure they are well-intentioned, but creating new silos (even with nostalgic brands) is not what we need. If you want blue in your online social life, Bluesky is the way to go.
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My WordPress mirror site stopped updating on August 12. It's now updating once again. I'll try to watch it more carefully.
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Iowa AG Brenna Bird Makes Silly, Empty Legal Threats To Try And Save Larry Ellison’s Paramount Merger
As we’ve been noting, billionaire Larry Ellison’s effort to dominate what’s left of corporate media is facing some headwinds after 12 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against his planned $111 billion merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers. As we’ve also noted, this is a giant turd of a deal, the debt from which will indisputably […] -
FeedLand Rivers for WordPress
I've released a WordPress plugin that shows a FeedLand river on a page or post: feedland-rivers.
Drop the shortcode `[feedland-rivers]' onto a page, point it at your FeedLand username in the settings, and it fetches the river JSON server-side and renders it in an isolated iframe. No FeedLand front-end scripts, no third-party fonts or stylesheets beyond an optional favicon lookup. Here is an example.
You can also show more than one river on a site by overriding the username, category or server per shortcode instance, e.g. '[feedland-rivers username="alice" category="tech"]'.