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Court Tells HHS To Stop Using AI To Cite Fake Studies, Or Willfully Misinterpret Others In Grant Solicitations
To quote the opening line from the court opinion that this post is based upon, “Millions of American teenagers have sex.” This post is has nothing to do with whether that sort of thing is good or bad, natural or otherwise, nor the moral implications of it all. Whatever you think about that opening line, […] -
What do Spain's migrant crisis and Germany's knife-edge election mean for Europe?
The Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the North African coast is struggling to deal with a surge of unauthorized migrants. Over 70,000 arrived in a mass crossing from Morocco at the end of July, and although the numbers have fallen since then, police and the authorities are struggling with outbreaks of violence and criminality. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has faced protests in cities across the country, and the crisis poses a challenge for the European Union’s borders. Host Anne McElvoy talks to Tim Röhn, Senior Editor of the Axel Springer Global Reporters Network, who has reported extensively from Ceuta for POLITICO. Also on the podcast, could the far-right be on the verge of an electoral breakthrough in Germany? This weekend’s election in the Eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt could result in the Alternative for Germany forming a government, the first time a far-right party has tasted power since the Second World War. Anne has been on the road in the state, writing about how two chancellors, Merz and Merkel, have lost the old East. She's joined by Josef Forster, BILD’s politics editor, on what might follow for Germany's leadership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicestraffic.megaphone.fm -
Why I love programming
1. I love puzzles.
2. I love Rube Goldberg contraptions.
3. I love solving problems (I have an inner-Columbo).
4. People are the biggest piece of the puzzle (again Columbo).
5. It teaches me about myself and my limited vision and imagination (if I had unlimited vision and imagination, I would never program a bug, and if I did it would take me 0 seconds to find it).
6. I yearn to work together with great minds. Programming gives me that, when I use someone's API. And when the API anticipates my needs, and is instantly understandable, I feel the soul of another artist is present. I imagine this is how musicians feel when they play another musician's song or symphony.
I'm sure there's more to it. But today I'm working on a "lite" problem, and I'll figure it out, but right now I'm enjoying the fact that I don't get it.
Back to work Dave!
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James Talarico is a special candidate. Just watched this video of his rally in Plano. Feeling optimistic seeing that crowd in the Dallas suburbs. 🇺🇸
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Google gets away with it
A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era' -
People and Blogs: Juhis
People and Blogs is a series by Manuel Moreale featuring the people behind personal blogs and the stories of their corners of the web. This conversation is with Juhis. Do go visit their blog and say hel... -
Colorado Sees First Lawsuit Under ‘Right To Repair’ Law
At this point all fifty states have considered passing “right to repair” law aimed at making it easier and cheaper for consumers (and independent repair shops) to repair their tech. That said, only Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, California, Oregon, and Washington have actually passed laws. And of those states, none have seen any enforcement […] -
I don't usually repeat all the little deploy notes from news.micro.blog, but I'm especially happy about fixing video playback in the timeline. It has bugged me for a while that the aspect ratio or dimensions get wonky briefly when clicking play. Much better now!
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Built a tool that shows you the most important world news
I've long wanted to have a tool where I see only the news I'm interested in but also don't miss anything important happening in the world. So I built a platform that aggregates news from several sources, analyzes and ranks them by importance, and sends them in a once-a-day digest.
There is an RSS feed that has just the most important news globally, and also customizable Telegram bots.
Website with the links to RSS feeds and others: https://basicnews.world
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Catching up on the foldable iPhone rumors ahead of next week's announcement... Kind of bummed it's called Ultra. Fold or Duo could've been great. Maybe at $2k, they needed a more serious name.
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1900 - "Trust The Plan"
No Agenda Episode 1900 - "Trust The Plan"
Trust The Plan
Executive Producers:
Sir Onymous
Jason Calacanis
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles
La Jolla Salt
Martin Marshall
arthur sundry
Sean Ryan
Sir Fay of the Red Brook
Sir Kirk of Siouxland, Protector of Things with Power Cords
Christopher Pepper
Timothy Woody
Dame astrid, ArchDuchess of Japan and all the disputed Islands in the Japan Sea
Sir Dan The Man, Earl of SW Florida, Protector of the Islands of Sanibel and Captiva
Rusty Vervynck
Sir Brian With an I
Sir Facetension
Danielle Carothers
douglas murray
Darius
Tom Player
Sir Moses
SDG
Ian Sloan
Associate Executive Producers:
Justin Robinson
Eli The Coffee Guy
Scottie K
Knights and Dames:
Sean Ryan > Sir Sean Juan of the Bohemian Grove
Justin Robinson > Sir J Rob, Protector of the Branch Circuits
Title Changes:
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles > Arch-Duke
SirFacetension > Red-Knight Sir Facetension, Baronet of the Orders of Heart and Ant
Sir Lead > Baronet Lead
Order of the Ant:
Sir Onymous
Jason Calacanis
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles
La Jolla Salt
Martin Marshall
arthur sundry
Sean Ryan
Sir Fay of the Red Brook
Sir Kirk of Siouxland
Christopher Pepper
Timothy Woody
Sir Mark
Sir Dan The Man
Rusty Vervynck
Sir Brian With an I
Sir Facetension
Danielle Carothers
douglas murray
Darius
Tom Player
Sir Moses
Ian Sloan
End of Show Mixes:
Jus Baker (Just Dew It)
Jus Baker (Don't call it a pod)
Art By: Francisco_Scaramanga — "Penetration Tester"
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 didn't see Apple's Knowledge Navigator video until the early 1990s, a few years after it was produced. I was pretty struck by it. It has taken a few decades, but we're basically there now: OpenAI's Astra intro video.
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Bernie Sanders is pretty freaked out about the Hugging Face hack. From a quote on Politico:
Nearly every day, there is a frightening new story about how Big Tech companies are losing control of the technology they are developing, with potentially cataclysmic results.
Uh, cataclysmic? An earthquake is cataclysmic. The hack on Hugging Face, while quite bad, didn't hurt anyone. Working on stronger safety measures is the right response and that appears to be what OpenAI has done.
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Working With ICE Is So Toxic, ICE Is Now Offering Liability Insurance To Local Police Officers
If you’re worried about the bad optics of working with ICE, the federal government is here to help subsidize your recovery from mass deportation conjunctivitis. If you’re worried about the personal negative side effects of buddying up to ICE’s masked kidnapping squads, the administration is here to assure cops that it might cover some of […] -
Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it “age” verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we’ve been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn’t waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a […] -
Daily Deal: Babbel Language Learning (All Languages)
Become a language expert with a Babbel Language Learning subscription. With the app, you can use Babbel on desktop and mobile, and your progress is synchronized across devices. Want to practice where you won’t have Wi-Fi? Download lessons before you head out, and you’ll be good to go. However you choose to access your 10K+ […] -
Autumnal Open Thread
My move is coming down to the wire (omg so many things to juggle!), kids are heading back to school, I’m going to be traveling, and it’s a holiday weekend here in the States, so there’s probably not going to be too much going on here until next week. Thanks for your patience…I can’t wait to get back to work here.
In the meantime, I thought I’d open up this thread for folks to share what they feel like sharing. I’ll go first below…
Tags: kottke.org · open threads
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DOJ Issues Memo Saying There’s Nothing Illegal About The Military Arresting Migrants
A little more than a year ago, the Trump administration pushed a novel legal theory in order to juice its migrant arrest stats. It was a two-part process. First, the administration unilaterally declared expansive areas near US military bases to be “national defense areas.” This meant that areas surrounding bases — like (especially) Fort Bliss […] -
Fun teaser from OpenAI on X (sigh) about Astra's presumably imminent release. I guess it's going to be called GPT-6. I'm working on Micro.blog improvements today, like always, but have my eyes on the wider social web for this release, so my posts will probably be a bit AI-heavy today. Apologies. 🤖
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Flock Taught Cops How to Surveil No Kings Protesters
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New little tool: "Pintxøs". RSS without the clickbait.
What it does: grab RSS feeds, get them back without the clickbait headlines and blurbs.
https://github.com/janw76/pintxos
Example:
- Original title: "Netflix's Renewed Sci-Fi Thriller With Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score Officially Hits A Filming Milestone". But which show? What milestone? Argh 🤯!
- Pintxøs output: "Netflix's Supacell completes season 2 filming"
Garbage in, sanity out.
Pintxøs adds a ≤100 word summary and republishes a new RSS feed you can subscribe to in your aggregator of choice, with the new title, the summary, and a link to the original article.
Self-hosted in Docker, MIT licensed, bring your own Anthropic API key. Vibe-coded with Claude.
Maybe some of you find it useful too. I know there are a lot of amazing AI-driven RSS tools already. I just have a soft spot for tools that do one or two things only.
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I built a Chrome extension that shows you the angle in whatever you're reading, then argues the other side
I read too much news, and I noticed I was doing the same two things over and over: nodding along at stuff I already agreed with, and getting irritated by stuff I didn't. At no point was I actually clocking *how* either one was written.
So here I am with this thing called Veritype. It's a Chrome extension. You right-click an article — or highlight just the paragraph you're suspicious about — and a panel opens beside the page.
It'll tell you roughly where the piece sits left-to-right, but honestly the score is the least interesting part. The useful bit is underneath: which specific words are doing the persuading, who got quoted and who conspicuously didn't, what's been left out. Then it writes you the strongest version of the argument on the other side. Not a strawman it can knock over. The actual best case. I've also tried to add some more and more interesting features over the past couple of releases (1.2.0 is currently submitted for review).
There's also a Similar Sources panel that finds the same story covered elsewhere and shows you where those outlets sit, in case you fancy reading the version that will annoy you.
There's things it's bad at, which you'd find out anyway, so I may as well go first:
\- It is not a fact-checker. It has no idea whether anything in the article is true. Framing and accuracy are two different problems and I have gestured at one of them.
\- Bias by omission — the story nobody ran, the expert nobody phoned — is the most important kind, and it's the kind it's worst at. Turns out it's pretty dang hard to spot what isn't there.
\- Paywalls and PDFs stump it. It just sits there looking useless.
\- Run the same article twice and you get slightly different wording and a slightly different number. It's a language model, not a set of scales.
\- One article is not a verdict on an outlet. Someone is going to screenshot a single result as proof that their least favourite newspaper is Officially Biased, and I'm going to have to live with that.
Free tier is 10 a day, no card, no trial that quietly becomes a subscription. Pro's $5.99/mo if you go past that. You can also paste in your own Anthropic API key and pay them directly instead of me, which is admittedly a strange thing to build a button for, but it felt wrong not to.
[www.veritype.app\](http://www.veritype.app)
I'd genuinely rather have the criticism than the upvotes — especially if you hit an article where the read is just flatly wrong. Those are the ones I can actually do something with. SERIOUSLY, this is my first real release so go ahead and give me some feedback. Ideas for features are welcome as well. This is pretty niche, and I know it. If you read this far, thanks!!
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Part of Kawhi's statement after the NBA investigation into the Clippers. Sort of a non-apology apology:
Integrity and respect for this game are fundamental to who I am. I accept full responsibility for lapses in judgment by people within my inner circle...
I feel like the punishment is very lopsided against the Clippers. No first-round picks for 5 years. 🏀
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Firefox adds a global AI opt-out checkbox:
Opting out of upcoming and current AI features on your browser should not require endless navigation through multiple Settings pages. That’s why Firefox offers an AI controls section within its General Settings panel. A single, easily located place where you can block current and future AI features and related pop-ups with the swipe of a toggle.
Kind of similar to Micro.blog's AI checkbox, but the Firefox version is more complicated, allowing control of various AI-related features.
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2026-09-03 14:47: Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week?...
Why do so many calendar apps offer Sunday as the first day of the week? It's not the first day of the week, it's the last.
Why is that even an option FFS?
Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️
You can reply to this post by email, or leave a comment.
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Writer, journalist, and feminist activist Gloria Steinem...
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Apple, Google Pathetically Buckle To Trump’s Dim And Lazy Effort To Rename Lake Ontario
When we look back at this time and history words like “courage,” “integrity,” and “ethics” aren’t words you’re going to be associating with U.S. tech industry leadership. Everywhere you look you have tech sector executives either openly embracing fascism and the frontal assault on representative democracy, or too feckless and timid to take any sort […] -
I built a native Mac RSS reader that lives inside a desktop companion
Hi — I’m the developer of AI Coach.
AI Coach started as a native macOS desktop companion, but its RSS reader has become one of the most practical parts of the app.
It supports RSS 2.0 and Atom, feed discovery from regular website URLs, OPML import/export, unread and starred smart feeds, search, a local article cache, and Vim-style j/k navigation. The default view is a visual “latest picks” layout rather than a traditional inbox-only list.
The unusual part is how it connects to the desktop character: you can drag a website URL onto the character to subscribe, and it can present new articles in a speech bubble, summarize them, or add a short reaction. Article speech, summaries, and reactions can all be disabled independently, so it also works as a quiet conventional reader.
The app itself is free and includes one egg. There is no subscription; only additional eggs are optional one-time purchases.
One important detail: the app begins with an egg, and the RSS reader is unlocked as the character grows. The current Mac release requires macOS 26 or later and Apple Silicon.
Screenshots and details:
I’d especially appreciate feedback from people who already use OPML and keyboard-driven RSS workflows.
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Why the US Lost in Afghanistan (w/Jon Lee Anderson, the Journalist Who Saw the Taliban Rise Twice)
It has been five years since the US withdrew its forces from Afghanistan in August 2021, accepting defeat after a 20-year presence in the country. Was this ever a winnable war? War correspondent Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker walks former head of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove and co-host John Raine through the Taliban resurgence. Anderson discusses why it was a strategic error to not allow Hamid Karzai to actually govern, and how that blunder facilitated both the return of opium production and the Taliban comeback. He also talks about what happened to the Northern Alliance, the complexities of Afghan allegiances and loyalties, lessons in counterinsurgency, the importance of winning the hearts and minds of a people, and what diplomatic relations with a Taliban-led Afghanistan could look like. In this episode: (00:00) Ceding an Aura of Invincibility (03:15) Was Afghanistan Ever a Winnable War? (07:26) Karzai and State Building (11:12) Opium Production and Taliban (18:43) Shadow Taliban Government (27:09) What Happened to the Northern Alliance? (33:39) Navigating US-Afghani Cultural Differences (39:14) Afghanistan’s Geography (42:45) Lessons in Counterinsurgency (48:26) Legacy of Afghanistan War (50:09) Persistence of Taliban Government (51:58) Diplomatic Relations with Taliban (55:28) One Decision: The West Must Engage Afghanistan (56:41) Takeaways and Wrap Up Hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove (former MI6 Chief) and guest co-host John Raine (International Institute for Strategic Studies) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdrl.fm -
Season 9 Opener: A Little Bit Culty Vancouver book launch & live Q&A (Part 2)
In Part 2 of our Vancouver book launch, we do a full-on audience Q&A, covering everything from cult susceptibility and the “cult-shaped hole in your heart” to how groups can start with good intentions and slowly slide into coercion, control, and abuse of power. We talk recognizing your own hooks, spotting personality changes and loaded language, rebuilding trust after leaving, and why “What to Do When It’s Time to GTFO” is a chapter in A Little Bit Culty: Navigating Cults, Control and Coercion—because sometimes you need a roadmap, not a motivational quote.
We also answered questions about us meeting in NXIVM, leaving safely, the metaphorical shelf breaking, survivor shame, and the importance of sunlight, support, and keeping the conversation going.
Special thanks to:
Megan Williams at The Self-Publishing Agency for emceeing
Eric Lee at CoFunction Events & Workspaces for generously hosting us: cofunctioneventspaces.com
Jennifer-Lee Gunson for recording: podcastconsulting.ca
Trigger warning: This episode contains frank discussion of cultic and sexual abuse, coercive control, indoctrination, trauma, family separation, death, suspected poisoning, cancer, suicide, and leaving high-control groups.
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Data Vampires Redux: Going Hyperscale (Episode 1)
Paris’ new book Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires is coming out on October 20. To celebrate, we’re revisiting the series that planted the seeds for his deep dive into hyperscale data centers, the communities they’re affecting, and the future Silicon Valley is trying to build. This is episode 1 of Data Vampires, a special four-part series from Tech Won’t Save Us.
The show is hosted by Paris Marx. Original production on Data Vampires was by Eric Wickham. Current production is by Kyla Hewson. Support the show on Patreon.
Also mentioned in this episode:
- Preorder Hyperscale to support Paris at hyperscalebook.com.
- Senior cloud consultant Dwayne Monroe and Associate Professor in Economics Cecilia Rikap were interviewed for this episode.
- If you missed it, check out Cecilia Rikap’s latest chat with Paris here and grab her book The Rulers.
- Interviews with Jeff Bezos and The Oregonian journalist Mike Rogoway were cited.
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Give Me 60 Minutes and I'll Eliminate Your Self-Doubt Forever with Benny Blanco
In this episode, you’ll learn how to stop doubting yourself and get anything you want in life.
Mel is thrilled to introduce you to her incredible guest today – someone she’s admired and followed for years, and who is here today for YOU.
Benny Blanco is one of the most successful and sought-after music producers and songwriters in the world and one of the defining hitmakers of the 21st century.
Benny is a 12-time Grammy-nominated songwriter and producer with 29 #1 hits and 19 songs that have over a billion streams on Spotify.
But, Benny didn’t start his impressive career with everything figured out. He didn’t grow up with money, some magical level of confidence, or everything figured out.
He built his career by showing up, failing, getting rejected, trying again, and learning through experience.
Today, Benny reveals what most people never see: the rejection, the fear, the self-doubt, and the countless moments when everything could have fallen apart.
And he will show you the life-changing tools and strategies that have helped him push through nonstop rejection and setbacks.
Benny has also written a fantastic brand-new book called “F*ck Failure” – which happens to be exactly the message he’s here to share with you today:
Every single failure is leading you somewhere, even if you can’t see it right now.
Your life can look entirely different a year from now. If you want the dream job, true love, unshakeable confidence, better friendships, or more happiness, Benny wants you to know there’s one rule:
Keep showing up.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
-The simple mindset shift Benny uses to erase failure and keep moving
-Why you’re only one small move away from changing your life for the better
-Why waiting to feel ready is a losing game
-The wild story behind a #1 hit that almost never happened, and why it proves you can’t give up
-How to stop letting self-doubt make your decisions
-How to keep showing up when you’re exhausted, embarrassed, or convinced you have no idea what you’re doing
-How to face the fears you’ve been avoiding for years
-How a list Benny made before he started dating his wife, Selena Gomez, can help you stop settling in your own life
This conversation will make you rethink every failure, every rejection, and every excuse you have been using to stay stuck.
As Benny will show you, failure doesn’t have to break you. It’s the very thing that can make you unstoppable.
If he can turn his failures into hits, you can turn yours into the life you’ve been wanting to live.
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Sony Tells Courts Any ‘Reasonable Customer’ Knows Digital Purchases Are Actually Licenses
Sony’s ability to generate anger lately is pretty impressive. After the company announced that there would be no more physical media versions of games made starting in 2027, to the resounding anger of many people, Sony also demonstrated yet again that it’s capable of ripping away the digital “purchases” people had made once its own […] -
Drag Kings : les hommes en mieux
Moustaches acérées, costumes de dandy, dégaines de mâles Alpha : c’est souvent chez les Drag Kings que l’on trouve les caricatures les plus fines des masculinités. Si les Drag Queens sont de plus en plus visibles dans les médias mainstream, les Kings restent pratiquement méconnus du grand public. Issus d’une culture queer commune, iels bousculent autant la scène drag dominante que les codes de la masculinité hégémonique.
Qui sont les Drag Kings ? Pourquoi sont-iels moins représentés dans l’espace médiatique et culturel que leurs consœurs Queen ? Quelle est la portée politique de leur pratique ? Et que disent les performances Drag King des représentations sociales de la masculinité ?
Pour en parler, Tal Madesta reçoit Man Noé Théry, chercheureuse en histoire du drag et Drag King sous le nom de Pétrole Désamour (@petrole_desamour sur Instagram).
Toutes les références citées dans l'émission sont disponibles sur le site : https://www.binge.audio/podcast/les-couilles-sur-la-table/drag-kings-les-hommes-en-mieux
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I wonder why posts that I know have images at source and are being routed here are not revealing the image? The images are appearing in NetNewsWire.
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This is a post .. where will it route to?
Time will tell .. I am expecting it to not appear where I want it to.
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This is a post .. where will it route to? Time will tell .. I am expecting it to not appear where I want it to.
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Weird AI ordering system at the Panda Express drive-thru. I’d love to know what model they use. It was a little flaky (“please review the order on this screen…” but the screen showed an ad).
People always say they don’t want AI shoved everywhere. I think that’s partly because it’s used so poorly.
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Storms splitting around us
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Meta’s $17 Billion Settlement Is A Bad Deal For Teens And All Social Media Users
Meta’s settlement with 52 state attorneys general is a bad deal for all internet users, and especially for teens. That’s what we said the day the settlement was announced. In this post, we go through the Settlement’s provisions in detail and explain why that is so, including how: Note: A chunk of the settlement addresses unauthorized users […] -
My year with Claude Code
Everyone is introducing themselves on the Berkman community mail list, at the beginning of the fall semester, and here's the story I am telling.Good morning. My name is Dave Winer. I was at Berkman in 2003-04, worked on blogging, podcasting, RSS, political blogging and the connection to journalism. We had a couple of Bloggercons at Harvard, had a wonderful time, miss it terribly, wish we could have it back.
I've spent the whole of this year working in Claude Code on a couple of programming projects, one which which I had been struggling with for a couple of years, coming up with a user interface for a Twitter-like system that runs on the web for real, without any of the limits that the silos have (that help them enforce the boundaries of the silo). Just using HTML, Markdown, RSS, WebSockets. Turns out you can make a pretty nice system, but the going is slow because it's just me and Claude, on the other hand, what a huge difference in territory we can cover. This is the kind of stuff that's never covered in the reporting, even when there are massive changes happening in how software is developed, people don't seem to be studying it. I'm sharing all I learn as I learn it on my blog -- at scripting.com.
Also attempting a massive coding job at the same time, getting UserLand Frontier to run on current OSes. It's my life's work, but it was very much in danger of being lost, along with all the software I did before the web. Now we're close to getting it to run in a stable mode, here the challenge has been to teach Claude how a new type of software works, it keeps trying to snap back to systems that are already out there and widely deployed. It doesn't do "pioneering" at all, it needs a human to guide it. And the human guide has to be a developer with a lot of experience.
What I desperately want to do is bootstrap a network of people who work at the level I'm working, and write about it. Taking ideas that are well-explored in software in the pre-AI period, and seeing what we can do that we couldn't before.
The models have been getting increasingly better, you can really feel the difference.
Next year promises to be better, if only via the improvements that will be made by the platform vendors, but it's likely that good app developers will be able to move the leading edge forward much more quickly and users should feel this, if all goes well, real soon now.
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ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants
This was inevitable. ICE has billions of new money to spend, zero shame, and not a single adult in a leadership position capable (or willing!) to talk the agency off the ledge. ICE decided the neat new tool of cruelty it absolutely had to have were gloves that behave like stun guns or low-powered Tasers. […] -
From an article about George W. Bush in The New Yorker:
For Bush, painting is a way to say what he can’t say, to express feelings that include rejection, frustration, and anger, even as he abides by his official discipline of silence.
I couldn’t have been more against George W. Bush in the late 1990s and 2000s. In the Trump world, I’ve become more sympathetic to him — as a human being, at least, if not on policy. He has also become quite a good painter.
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How the Hell Did an Island Suddenly Appear, Then Vanish?
A floating mass of trees and vegetation in British Columbia’s Williston Lake attracted international attention after it was filmed this summer by boaters—and then seemed to disappear. -
Autistici/Inventati (A/I), is an Italian collective that has been providing digi...
Autistici/Inventati (A/I), is an Italian collective that has been providing digital infrastructure – email, hosting, mailing lists, chat, videoconferencing, streaming, and services related to privacy and anonymity – to movements and activists since 2001.
On August 26, Washington designated it as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), alleging that it has provided financial, material or technological support to terrorism and to organizations already subjected to sanctions.
Meanwhile the global far-right/neofascist militias are freely organizing and building the digital infrastructure to be the armed wing of democratically elected authoritarian regimes sponsored by nihilistic billionaires.
- I’m pretty sure that lineup came out of a tombola. This could be…
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Whistleblower: USPS Defied A Court Injunction To Build An Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System. Its Own Staff Call The Process “A Shit Show.”
Even as Donald Trump regularly uses mail-in ballots himself, he has decided that mail-in ballots are a system by which voting fraud occurs. To be quite clear, this is bullshit. There is astoundingly little evidence of significant voter fraud, and that’s equally true between in-person and voting-by-mail. And there’s zero evidence that mail-in voter fraud […] -
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The Adobe Graphic Design Bundle has 3 courses designed to help you learn the essentials of graphic design and how to apply those skills to your projects. Courses cover Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. You’ll learn all aspects of the design process. It’s on sale for $50. Note: The Techdirt Deals Store is powered and curated […] -
How Many Nazis Is Too Many?
Kate and Josh discuss of Mike Collins' white nationalist woes, Pete Hegseth's presidential ambitions and Jim Clyburn's support for Supreme Court reform.
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