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Introducing Beaky News, a new Android RSS reader from the developers behind Smart Launcher
Hi everyone!
We’re the developers behind Smart Launcher, and today we’re introducing Beaky News, a new RSS reader for Android.
Beaky News lets you add RSS feeds, follow your favorite sources, and keep new articles together in one place.
One of the features we wanted to explore is feed discovery. Beaky News includes a shared feed database built from RSS links contributed by users. When a feed is shared, it can be indexed so other people can find that source more easily, without needing to know or search for the exact RSS URL.
The app is still new, so we’d be very interested in feedback from people who already use RSS regularly.
You can try Beaky News on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.smartlauncher.beakynews
Thanks!
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‘We Did Not Invite You.’ Citizens Rage at Town Hall Over Proposed Nuclear AI Data Center
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Great to have Jimmy Kimmel back on the air after summer break. His interview on YouTube with James Talarico is excellent. Starting to think Talarico is actually going to win. He has the perfect message for this moment. 🇺🇸
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Remembering 9/11/2001
Scripting News on 9/11/2001.
All of us who lived through 9/11 are re-experiencing it right now. The local fire department just ran its alarm, everyone in this small mountain hamlet heard it and it took a moment to realize this was the exact time the first plane hit the tower. I was at my computer in Woodside, California -- hearing about it from friends in Manhattan, and blogging about it as it happened. I didn't have a TV, I had turned my cable subscription off after I became so obsessed with coverage of the 2000 election. So what I reported came exclusively through the web.New York-based journalists were off the air, they had the same tools as we did, but their lives were upturned by the events. Everything was outwardly calm at my workstation in Calif. But there were people in NYC with digital cameras, and first-hand stories of survival. My own father was caught up in the catastrophe, his office was across from City Hall, a few blocks from ground zero. He walked home from ground zero to Queens and for hours we had no idea if he had lived or died. All forms of transportation and communication were offline.
Cell coverage was spotty, and phone lines in NYC were unreliable. But there was a webcam in the Empire State Building that could be pointed at the World Trade Center, so we had a constant update of what was happening visually.
Links in my browser chrome: As part of this little project to re-live 9/11 through the web, I came across a snapshot of the chrome of the browser I was using on 9/11. Since I'm working on Frontier again, I'm finding the dates of various projects all over this time, in UserTalk code and in the kernel, before and after. So I wrote up a little post on GitHub with info about what was on my screen that day.
The full text of my interview with Amy Harmon of the NYT is on the 9/11/2001 page. We didn't have post-level permalinks in 2001 yet.
If you have an X account, comment here.
Mayor Mamdami's remembrance of 9/11.
New header image for this event.
NYT on 9/12/2001: "The world's changed."
Link to Scripting News for 9/11/2001.
Screen shot of webcam on the Empire State Bulding.
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Just a bit proud of the work I have done on #indiekit for my blog and how its no...
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Biiiiig Stretch
Back when I went on sabbatical in 2022, I told the story of the fiddle leaf fig tree I bought shortly after my ex-wife and I separated and I’d moved into my own apartment.
I’d recently moved into my own apartment after separating from my wife and figured a large plant in my new place would add some liveliness to a new beginning that was feeling overwhelming, lonely, and sad. For the first couple of months, I didn’t know if my tree and I were going to make it. I’d never really had a plant before and struggled getting a handle on the watering schedule and other plant care routines. It started losing leaves. Like, an alarming number of leaves.
I’d brought this glorious living thing into my house only to kill it! Not cool. With the stress of the separation, my new living situation, and not seeing my kids every day, I felt a little like I was dying too.
One day, I decided I was not going to let my fiddle leaf fig tree die…and if I could do that, I wasn’t going to fall apart either. It’s a little corny, but my mantra became “if my tree is ok, I am ok”. I learned how to water & feed it and figured out the best place to put it for the right amount of light. It stopped shedding leaves.
The fig tree was a happy plant for several years after that. And I was ok because my plant was ok — I found new routines and rhythms in my altered life, made new traditions with my kids, got divorced, met new people, moved to a new state (w/ my family and tree), rediscovered who I was as a person, and, wonderfully and unexpectedly, forged a supportive and rewarding parenting partnership and friendship with my ex. We made it through that tough time together, that plant and me.
I got a lot of feedback from that post…so many kind notes and comments. But there was one email from a reader that particularly stuck in my mind. Of course I can’t find the actual message in my disaster of an inbox, but the gist of it was something like: There may come a time when you feel like you need to let your fiddle leaf fig go and that will be ok too.
Over the next few years, I thought often of that email. About how my tree, which in some sense kept me going during one period of my life, might not be quite right for whatever the next period in my life would be.
Recently, that time arrived. I carried the fig out to my car, stopping to snap this pic on the way:
I loaded it into the car and drove it a short distance to its new home with my friend and her three young boys. Here it is in its new habitat:
Looks pretty good, right? Like it belongs there. I’m really happy it found such a good new home. I hope it thrives along with their family.
A few days ago, about two weeks after the tree departed, I left my house in Vermont for the last time too. In the preceding months, I’d sold some of my things (including my car), given a bunch of stuff away, and put the rest in storage. I drove my rental car to Boston and got on a flight to Tokyo. Right now, I’m sitting in a cafe near my rental apartment writing this post, jetlagged but happy to be here.
So what’s my plan? I’m going to travel for an indeterminate period (mostly outside of the US and dipping back in for visits), starting in Japan for a couple of months. I don’t know where I’m going next yet — probably somewhere closer to the US so I can visit my kids more easily during this transition.
Zooming out a bit, the broader plan is to attempt to answer the questions that I’ve been thinking about for the past few years, ever since I went on a Walk and Talk in Thailand:
Where do you call home? And why?
I’ve been struggling with the concept of home for the past several years. NYC very much felt like home to me shortly after I moved there in 2003 in a way that Minneapolis and (especially) San Francisco hadn’t. Since moving to Vermont in 2016, I’ve never really felt at home here. But NYC isn’t home anymore…and neither is Wisconsin, where I grew up. Where do I want to go to find a home? Do I need to feel at home somewhere? Or is home simply wherever my bed/desk/stuff happens to be? I had more questions than answers around this issue and I was interested in how other people in the group, which included folks that had lived and travelled all over the world, would answer the question.
I’m not going to lie…I’m a little terrified. Sitting on the plane to Narita, I looked out the window thinking “what have I done?” But I’m also excited. Living elsewhere in the world has been on my mind for a long while and at this point, I can’t not do it. I’ll let you know how it goes.
As for what this means for KDO: hopefully not much and only good things. I moved; I didn’t retire. As I get more settled here and my body accepts its new timezone, regular service will resume. I’m hoping the more stimulating surroundings and injection of culture shows up in interesting ways in my life and on the website. I don’t think KDO will ever become a travel blog, but I imagine I’ll write sometimes about where I am and what I’m doing. I’ve got a backlog of things I want to do for the site and now that the massive time sink of moving is done, I’ll have the opportunity to do them.
For now, I’m going to pack my computer up and walk to find something tasty for lunch — I’ve so missed being able to easily do that. Catch you on the flip side.
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Musk’s Robotaxis Under Investigation For Dodging Safety Standards
It says nothing good about America how easily Elon Musk convinced the press and public he was a supergenius engineer who could cobble together complicated rocket machinery wearing coveralls in his backyard shed. Hindsight continues to illustrate how Elon Musk’s real skill sets are opportunism, taking singular credit for the innovations of real engineers, the […] -
“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at...
“In almost every [US] county, extreme heat is at least as bad as it was 30 years ago. In most counties, it’s much worse.” It’s Not Just You. America Has Gotten Much Hotter. (Not a fan of articles like this being in the “opinion” section…)
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Loi intégrale : « Le patriarcat, on ne s’en débarrassera pas juste avec une loi »
Le gouvernement a été contraint d’inscrire une proposition de loi intégrale contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles à l’agenda parlementaire après le meurtre de Lyhanna et le fiasco judiciaire et politique qui a suivi. Issue des revendications des mouvements féministes et enfantistes, elle se veut une réponse systémique contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles.
Est-ce vraiment le cas ? Les trois milliards d’euros nécessaires seront-ils mis sur la table ? Peut-on faire confiance à un gouvernement qui privilégie les solutions répressives et a failli malgré les promesses d’Emmanuel Macron ?
Dans cette émission, députées et militantes féministes et enfantistes débattent.
Une émission présentée par Mathieu Magnaudeix et préparée avec Sarah Brethes, Mathilde Mathieu, Samia Dechir, Raphaël Gribe Marquis et Mathieu Mialaret.
Avec Mathilde Mathieu et Sarah Brethes, journalistes à Mediapart, et nos invitées :
- Agnès Aoudaï, coprésidente du Mouvement des mères isolées ;
- Iris Ané, responsable pédagogique de l’association Face à l’inceste ;
- Gabrielle Cathala, députée La France insoumise du Val-d’Oise ;
- Sarah Durocher, présidente nationale du Planning familial ;
- Aurore Koechlin, maîtresse de conférences en sociologie à l’université Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Contretemps, autrice de La Norme gynécologique (2022, éd. Amsterdam) et La Révolution féministe (2019, éd. Amsterdam) ;
- Maud Petit, députée MoDem du Val-de-Marne ;
- Céline Thiébault-Martinez, députée du Parti socialiste de la Seine-et-Marne.
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Dallas Bribers Club
At the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, Donald Trump promises that he'll give every American adult a $5,000 check if — and only if — Republicans retain control of the Senate and House, a plan so absurd that even his own defenders can't explain it.
Jon and Dan process the most ridiculous moments from the 18 hours of speeches, including JD Vance previewing his presidential campaign, Mike Rogers and Ted Cruz using the 25th anniversary of 9/11 to paint Democrats as terrorist sympathizers, and Democratic Senator John Fetterman's surprise video appearance.
Then, to cap off a Republican-filled episode, Lovett talks to Steve Hilton, the Republican nominee for California governor, about his relationship with Trump and what it'll take to tackle California's housing crisis.
Hate listening to ads? Become a Friends of the Pod subscriber for ad-free episodes of Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett or Leave It, Runaway Country, Offline with Jon Favreau, and more—plus exclusive content, including bonus episodes of Pod Save America. Subscribe now at crooked.com/friends, on Apple Podcasts, or through the Pod Save America YouTube channel.
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What a circus this administration/regime !
What a circus this administration/regime !
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My Microblog Has an RSS Mastodon Twitter Nostr and Bluesky Feed
Article URL: https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/my-microblog-has-an-rss-mastodon-twitter-nostr-and-bluesky-feed
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655132
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🔗 Daring Fireball: 'Modern Day Typographer'
.. WHAT ⬆️ HE ⬆️ 💬
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Charlie: He said "Now what sort of husband was he"? "Oh", she said "one of the best. You couldn't wish for a better one". She said, "We used to lie in bed, Sunday mornings, and hear the church bells ringing. We used to go up with the ding and come down with the dong". And she'd say "if it hadn't been for that fire engine going by, at the bloody time, he'd be alive now".
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Watched: The Librarians. Really good, covering the book bans in Texas and elsewhere. Lots of stories about what it felt like at school board meetings and in libraries. 📺
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White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained
Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human. “They aren’t people, Rick. They’re just bodies. We have to stop thinking of them as if they’re still alive.” – The Walking Dead “They’re not […] -
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VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer...
VC Isn’t VC Anymore — Understanding the Rise of Cancer Capital. “We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and social machine focused on dismantling democracy and civil society.”
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Snake Oilers: watchTowr, XBOW and CoreView
In this edition of the Snake Oilers podcast three vendors stop by to pitch the audience on their products:
- watchTowr: We’re all familiar with watchTowr’s research, but what do they actually do?
- XBOW: The AI pentesting company pitches its approach
- CoreView: Your M365 tenant is probably a security disaster. Tame it with CoreView!
This episode is also available on YouTube.
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The Simpsons Switcheroo
At the beginning of a clip from this podcast episode of Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend with Matt Groening, Conan talks about one of his favorite things they did on The Simpsons:
It’s a phenomenon that the Simpsons did so beautifully, which is — and we did this with Homer a lot — but Homer is not the smartest guy in the world, but if it’s funny for him to have a certain knowledge of something or turn a phrase, suddenly he has it.
And one of my favorites of that is he’s sitting around the table and Lisa’s despondent. Something didn’t go well for her and she doesn’t think she’s going to get to go to a good school now. And she’s sitting at the table and she said, “Oh no, now I’ll never get to go to an Ivy League school. I’ll have to go to Vasser.” Which is just this like — by the way, my wife went to Vasser, it’s a very good school. But it was just this thing where in Lisa’s little world, oh my god, I’ve been I’ve been ruined. I’ll have to go to Vasser. And Homer like slams a table and says, “There’ll be no Vasser bashing in this house.”
I loved this about the show too. And it was part of a general thing the writers did where sometimes characters would play against type. So Marge became reckless, Homer was smart/sensitive, Bart was organized, and Lisa was a giggly little girl. Those moments helped make the show and when, after the epic run in the early-to-mid 90s, the show became almost exclusively about how dumb & crass Homer was, it was much less rich and entertaining. (thx, mark)
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The AI safety vibe shift
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“ Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of...
“Gimme is a dazzling ever-growing type family of multi-chromatic and variable display typefaces…” This is bonkers…letters made from Battleship pieces, Connect Four boards, playing cards, wooden railroad tracks, etc.
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Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by...
Bring Blockbuster Video back to your town/city by setting up a little free library of VHS tapes & DVDs. “Take a movie, leave a movie.” Love this.
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How I Accidentally Made An RSS Reader
Over the past 4 years, I’ve been working on an article reader, smry.ai.
For most of the time I had only a rudimentary understanding of RSS, so I didn’t think to add an RSS reader to the product.
I had never used a traditional RSS reader myself, relying on news apps like google news (which themselves are heavily reliant on RSS)
But trying RSS readers like Feedly pushed me to expand the product, and a small subset of users really liked it—it became an agglomeration of a read-it-later app and an RSS reader, which I quite liked in theory. At this point I still didn’t really understand the depth of RSS and what it’s capable of. It wasn’t clear that it is the lifeblood of every news app on the planet, custom aggregators like daily.dev, intelligence/monitoring products like Feedly Intelligence, is the primary distribution layer for the world’s podcasts, and much more.
Still, I couldn’t find myself using the RSS features in my own product until I added an API to manage RSS feeds with my local agent. This became a major unlock for me, and suddenly I had groups of feeds for competitor monitoring, developer news, and market opportunities. Even updates in my software dependencies that my agents use to improve the product.
I still wasn’t passively scrolling the RSS feeds themselves—mostly still using the reader to read individual articles my agent recommended, but my agents loved it and pushed RSS to the absolute limit, turning things I’d never expect could be feeds into feeds.
By doing this, I discovered a couple things:
1. Feeds are massively important for agents. Not just news/blogs/podcasts, but also socials, websites monitoring—almost anything can become a feed, and agents need their own ways of keeping track of what is ‘seen’ and what is new. This became a major bet for Smry, and why I’m putting a lot of effort into the API/MCP.
2. Agents can manage far more feeds than humans. An agent can easily follow and track hundreds or thousands of feeds, while for most people that takes years to accumulate.Despite this, the product still has major issues.
1. most users still don’t know what RSS is. following feeds is weird to them, as I feel they are used to algorithmic feeds.
2. while following hundreds of feeds is fine for agents, for most consumers this is not really that useful. for consumers, it feels like they would rather follow topics (think daily.dev) or have a deeply personalized feed.My question for you guys is how do you think I can make the product more usable to the traditional RSS reader audience, and what would make it better for non-RSS folks?
There are folks here that have a much better understanding of RSS than me—is there something obvious that I’m missing that would make it substantially better?
Is there something I can build that would make you switch from your existing RSS reader, or is there something I can build that you’d use together with your existing RSS reader?
I’ve completely fallen in love with RSS over the past few months, and feel like there’s so much to be built!
My goal here is to build something people come back to every single day, and that shapes how they discover and monitor what’s going on around them.
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Gloria Steinem’s final essay , posthumously published by...
Gloria Steinem’s final essay, posthumously published by the New Yorker. “When you’re lucky enough to have lived a long life, as I have done, your role as an older person is to remind us how far we have come.”
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TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in i t (for...
TIL that my iPhone has a tiny bit of water in it (for cooling).
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Judge Demands Answers From DOJ For Refusing To Dismiss Reflecting Pool Case With Prejudice
There are multiple things this administration is incapable of doing: winning wars, curbing inflation, not acting like Nazis, wearing shoes that fit them, etc. But if there’s one thing it’s most known for, it’s the unwillingness to take a loss and move on. That’s why the DOJ is still trying to imprison/jettison into a war-torn […] -
Teaser trailer for Musk , a 3h45m-long documentary film...
Teaser trailer for Musk, a 3h45m-long documentary film on fascist businessman Elon Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. “He’s chaotic, random, capricious. He is manifestly cruel and selfish. In a science fiction novel, he would not be a hero.”
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Took a walk the long way around the block from the coffee shop. Austin skyline down the rail line near 5th.
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Maps of How Each Region Of The US Voted In Every Presidential Election From 1948 to 2024
Here are just a few fun maps showing how each US region voted in Presidential elections from 1948 to 2024. The Northeast The South The Midwest The West What do you think the most surprising change is? -
Lawmakers Ask Lutnick To Blacklist Appin, The Hack-For-Hire Firm That Threatens Almost Anyone Who Prints Its Name
Remember Appin? It’s the Indian “hack for hire” company that got so upset about Reuters’ giant investigation — which detailed how Appin grew into a “leading cyberespionage firm” that “stole secrets from executives, politicians, military officials and wealthy elites around the globe” — that it convinced an Indian court to make Reuters take the story […] -
Quatre ans après Bouddhisme, la loi du silence ce dernier continue
Il y a quatre ans, presque jour pour jour, ARTE diffusait “Bouddhisme, la loi du silence” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcbpwOzoejw le documentaire d’Élodie Emery et Wandrille Lanos.
Un véritable ovni télévisuel, qui a pourtant failli ne jamais être diffusé.
Je le sais de première main : Élodie Emery, que je connais bien, m’a raconté les pressions inadmissibles exercées par le « simple moine » Matthieu Ricard sur les journalistes, ainsi que sa tentative d’obtenir la déprogrammation du documentaire. Son avocate avait également exigé le retrait des deux heures d’entretien qu’il leur avait accordées.
Encore aujourd’hui la version de Mathieu Ricard est pleine trou, tiraillé qu’il est entre les intérêts de sa maison d’édition, sa dévotion absente de tout esprit critique quand il s’agit de Bouddhisme et le soin de son image publique qui est en elle même un produit marketing imparable.
Malgré ces pressions, le documentaire a été diffusé.
Et depuis ?
Depuis, rien — ou presque rien — n’a changé à l’échelle des institutions bouddhistes.
Les victimes d’autres « centres » qui ont osé parler publiquement se sont retrouvées ostracisées, accusées de nuire à la propagation du Dharma, parfois menacées du « Vajra Hell » et rendues responsables du risque de détourner du bouddhisme les êtres qu’il faudrait encore convertir — autrement dit, vous, les non-bouddhistes.
Quant aux autorités spirituelles, elles ont surtout répondu en privé : quelques lettres de dignitaires ou de « maîtres spirituels », jusqu’au dalaï-lama lui-même en 2023 ainsi que la lettre du Maître de Ricard qu’il a fallu coaché pendant des semaines pour arriver à accoucher d’une souris.
Rien qui ressemble à une réponse publique, collective et contraignante à la hauteur de ce qui a été révélé.
Le sujet peut donc être considéré comme clos.
Tout ce qui était connu depuis les années 1960 et 1970, puis soigneusement glissé sous le tapis, continue d’être traité comme un problème d’image plutôt que comme un problème de protection des victimes.
Pire, des “Maîtres” continuent de vendre le Vajrayana comme une panacée universelle dont il ne faut pas changer une syllabe, on est bien dans une forme de fondamentalisme religieux drapé derrière un nuage d’encens.
Des hordes de « bouddhistes », si placides et si profondément bienveillants lorsqu’il s’agit de défendre leurs bouddhismes, continuent de se prosterner devant des figures dont les violences ont pourtant été abondamment documentées.
Chögyam Trungpa et Sogyal Lakar sont morts sans avoir eu à répondre de ces faits devant la justice. Robert Spatz, alias Lama Kunzang, a quant à lui été définitivement condamné en Belgique — sans que cela empêche certains de continuer à préserver son héritage spirituel et sans que ce dernier soit même contraint d’arrêter les abus sexuels qu’il commet dans le secret de sa villa en Espagne.
D’autres ont discrètement effacé de leur biographie leurs liens avec la secte OKC afin de redevenir présentables et de pouvoir continuer à vendre du Bouddhisme ou des dérivés.
Business as usual.
Rien de très étonnant, finalement. Ce n’est pas une anomalie : c’est le cours normal d’un système qui protège mieux son image que les personnes qu’il a abusé.
Pendant que certains découvrent avec stupeur que « le bouddhisme aussi » peut produire des systèmes d’emprise et de violence, les autres font profil bas en répétant :
« Mon maître, lui, est bien. Il n’a commis aucun abus. »
Comme si c’était une médaille.
Le problème n’a jamais été de déterminer si tous les maîtres bouddhistes sont des agresseurs. Le problème est de comprendre comment la dévotion absolue, le secret, l’isolement, l’absence de contrôle extérieur et la sacralisation du maître permettent aux abus de se produire — puis de durer.
Pendant ce temps, des enfants continuent de subir des violences, notamment sexuelles, dans des institutions monastiques en Asie. Du Népal au Bhoutan, de l’Inde au Tibet, l’autorité religieuse, l’isolement et l’absence de regard extérieur peuvent rendre les abus possibles et leur dénonciation presque impossible.
Mais l’image des « petits moines » est tellement romantique.
Le public occidental a été si profondément conditionné à considérer le bouddhisme comme une simple « philosophie de vie », nécessairement pacifique et bienveillante, que toute critique paraît sacrilège. Il ne reste alors plus beaucoup de place pour la réflexion, l’esprit critique et le simple bon sens.
Quatre ans plus tard, Bouddhisme, la loi du silence n’a pas vieilli.
Ce n’est pas un compliment.
C’est la preuve que la loi du silence n’était pas seulement son titre. C’était son sujet — et elle continue.
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Loi intégrale contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles : l’espoir et les doutes
L’examen de la loi intégrale contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles a commencé à l’Assemblée nationale. Que prévoit ce texte ? Quels débats fait-il naître ? Les 3 milliards d’euros nécessaires à son application seront-ils débloqués ? On en débat avec nos invitées Agnès Aoudaï, coprésidente du Mouvement des mères isolées ; Iris Ané, responsable pédagogique de l’association Face à l’inceste ; Gabrielle Cathala, députée La France insoumise du Val-d’Oise ; Sarah Durocher, présidente nationale du Planning familial ; Aurore Koechlin, maîtresse de conférences en sociologie à l’université Paris-I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, membre du comité de rédaction de la revue Contretemps, autrice de La Norme gynécologique (2022, éd. Amsterdam) et La Révolution féministe (2019, éd. Amsterdam) ; Maud Petit, députée MoDem du Val-de-Marne ; Céline Thiébault-Martinez, députée du Parti socialiste de la Seine-et-Marne.
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Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel‘s planned Thursday interview with Texas Senatorial hopeful James Talarico didn’t air on ABC broadcast TV because network lawyers were worried about Trump FCC censorship and reprisal. Instead, the interview will air on the late-night show’s YouTube channel, Kimmel stated during his latest late night Jimmy Kimmel Live monologue: “You know, for a lot of years, […] -
Daily Deal: SunFounder GalaxyRVR Mars Rover Kit for Arduino
The SunFounder GalaxyRVR Mars Rover Kit is your gateway to hands-on learning on robotics, coding, and Mars-like adventures! Its durable aluminum frame and rocker-bogie suspension easily handle tough terrains, while smart sensors ensure smooth navigation. It’s compatible with the Arduino UNO R3, runs on solar power, and includes real-time FPV with app-based control for day […] -
DHS Feeding Citizens’ Bank Records To Predictive Policing Units To Find Drivers To Pull Over
Every government does stuff because it can, not because it needs to. But this current administration has been far more opportunistic than most, doing constitutional recon in areas of unsettled law right up until a court rules that it can’t. (In some cases, it continues to do these things despite having lost in court.) While […] -
AI in AirPods, Apple Watch
At the grocery store this week, I walked by someone who was having trouble figuring out the label of a specific item. He flagged me down. There was a language barrier, but it's kind of heartwarming how much you can communicate just by smiling, pointing, thumbs-up, and inserting a couple words in both languages.
If I had fancy AI-powered AirPods, would I have put them in and translated back and forth more accurately? Probably not in this case. It's great technology, but there is also something more human about working through a small problem together.
One of the frustrations people have with AI is that it is pushed at us all the time, in features that don’t need it. Technology this powerful should be mostly seamless, yet it's so new that it's put in places that are awkward or that increase friction.
Apple had one job for Siri in iOS 27: ship what they promised at WWDC 2024. They've done that, but they've also gone further, experimenting. That's okay, but Apple is so far behind the frontier now, I think it would be a better strategy to focus only on a great foundation. The pace at OpenAI and Anthropic is nuts. Let them push the cutting edge and then bring in the best ideas once they're proven.
And don't forget the human element. That has always been Apple at its best.
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Quick video demo of the new photos picker in Micro.blog for Mac. Much faster to grab a photo from your library in Photos.app.
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Ben Thompson in today's daily update about AI on the Apple Watch:
It does appear that Apple has taken care with this feature, including not making raw transcripts available, even to the Apple Watch owner, but this is an area where I wish the company wasn’t early.
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#562: DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet
How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question instead. The metadata lives in a real database. The data stays in plain Parquet. That's the entire format.
Pedro Holanda joined DuckDB in 2018, when it was still a research prototype at CWI. He's the lead DuckLake developer. Guillermo Sanchez Dionis works on DuckLake and the new Quack protocol.
With Quack as the catalog, DuckLake handles 200 transactions a second under heavy contention. No other open table format comes close.
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Good perspective from Dave Winer about the news that Matt Mullenweg is on leave from Automattic:
I didn't want to be the CEO of a tech company, and I expect that being the CEO wasn't really a good fit for Matt either. A CEO's job is very different from being a developer and idea guy which Matt clearly sees himself as. Something has got to give, either you're a good CEO and the product languishes, or you focus on the product, and the company is unmanaged.
This applies to Micro.blog too. I'm not a good CEO and not a good boss. I try to make the web a little better by helping people blog.
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Repository: BlackRock’s latest SEC filing values its Automattic shares at $14.33 per share. They originally invested at $85 a share in 2021. That means their market cap has dropped from $7.5 billion to $1.2 billion. My guess is when that happens the CEO if they want to keep their job, has to rethink the whole enterprise. And that usually doesn't happen until they get a new CEO. My guess is that's what we saw play out yesterday.
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Gobsmacked by Automattic, but then...
Fair to say I was gobsmacked by the news late yesterday that Automattic's board had put their CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on paid leave. I've read lots of stuff about it, in news articles and in a Hacker News thread. And a lot of posts on Twitter by Matt, and the replies.
Are you a developer or a CEO?
It's a very unusual situation in my experience in tech. Matt was able to raise a lot of money for Automattic, so he has maintained a controlling interest in the company, even though it has raised hundreds of millions of dollars. I left my own startup, voluntarily, when I was a little older than Matt, and I didn't return. I never wanted to be the CEO of a tech company, and I expect that being the CEO wasn't really a good fit for Matt either. A CEO's job is very different from being a developer and idea guy which Matt clearly sees himself as.
Something has got to give, either you're a good CEO and the product languishes, or you focus on the product, and the company is unmanaged. In the cause of WordPress, I'd say it suffered in both areas. When I saw a chart of Matt's direct reports, I immediately saw a problem -- it was very long, iirc 60 people? No one can manage and guide that many people. Most of those people probably never get to talk one-on-one with the boss.
For me, even when I was CEO, I wanted to spend all day working on new software and working with five or six other devs doing the same. Digging back into the past with Frontier these last weeks has reminded me both how good that can be, and how utterly frustrating -- when the people you're working with don't understand the mission. It's not their fault, it's the visionary's job to explain it so they can understand, and that takes time. These days Claude is filling in for all that, and doing a fantastic but at times incredibly frustrating job trying to give me what I'm asking for, while not understanding what I'm asking for. But we move through those disconnects quickly now, compared to how it was a couple of weeks ago. We have the source of truth that we didn't have the last time around, in the 90s, we have the C source code of the kernel, the product we built in the 90s. And Claude is the easiest to manage, so far I only think I detect an ego, it never seems to resent me criticizing its work, sometimes in ALL CAPS with strong language. :-)
WordPress Lite
My wish for WordPress, in all its forms and shapes, is that it broaden its focus. I want a WordPress Lite, I implemented it, and it's sitting here ready to do a good deed for all the parties concerned esp the web and web developers. Maybe someone there will now have the time and be empowered to build out the product line beyond the narrow focus it has now. It doesn't matter what percentage of the web is WordPress, if it isn't going anywhere. The web needs help, and right now WordPress is pretty much asleep in regard to what's going on now in the web. And it could do so much to help the web get back on its feet. It should be a public resource as much as a profit machine for a few companies.
All roads lead to Om
One thing that opened my eyes about what Matt and Automattic are, was his story about how he and Om got together. "All roads lead to Om." What a great line, and based on the story, so true. A lot of things clicked for me then. I remember what a phenomenon Matt was when he arrived in California about 25 years ago? Very good looking young man, polite, quiet and rumored to get Web 2.0 better than anyone. This kind of thing happens in tech, and if you know everyone as Om did, and was liked by everyone, you could manage to hit the ball out of the park, investment-wise, and he did. Click click click. I had the individual facts but had no idea how they were strung together. I played a similar role at times in Silicon Valley, on both sides, as a bright young dude who "gets it" and as the gray beard who recognized the charm of a young new face and helped create a big money reality around it. There is a lot of snake oil in tech, before and even more now, and this one has had a long run, 2.5 decades, but it needs a new direction, because the money people aren't buying the magic any longer. That's probably imho really what Matt's firing is all about.
I actually have more to say about this, but I have to get back to my programming work. If you have a comment, here's a good place to post it.
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Automakers Pressure Congress To Ban Chinese EVs To ‘Protect Privacy’
If you enjoy badly written bipartisan protectionist tech legislation designed primarily to coddle giant U.S. companies under the xenophobia-tinged breathless pretense of privacy and national security, you are really going to enjoy the next twelve to twenty-four months. While the U.S. drowns in corrupt kakistocracy, the Chinese are making significant market inroads in everything from […] -
Listening to Hillary Clinton on the news this morning. It’s always like a glimpse into what might’ve been. She actually knows things. Thoughtful, measured. 🇺🇸
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« Nous assistons à une entreprise inédite de prédation de notre modèle social »
Dettes, déficit, modèle social, salaires : ces questions essentielles sont déjà au cœur de la campagne présidentielle. Elles sont posées avec les débats à venir sur le budget 2027, pour lequel le gouvernement est en train de chercher entre 20 et 30 milliards d’économies.
Mais sur ce sujet, les constats se suivent et se ressemblent, souvent de la part de la droite, mais pas seulement : « le modèle social français coûte trop cher », « l’État dépense trop », il faut « réduire, tailler, couper » et, pour certain·es, privatiser.
Autrement dit : « There is no alternative » (« Il n’y a pas d’autres solutions »), célèbre phrase de la première ministre britannique ultra-libérale des années 1980, Margaret Thatcher, qui a fracassé le modèle social anglais.
Malgré tout ce que vous entendez, des solutions alternatives, il y en a…
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- Anne-Laure Delatte, économiste, autrice de Riches ensemble !, à paraître le 11 septembre aux éditions du Seuil ;
- Xavier Ragot, économiste, président de l’Institut français d’économie ;
- Aurélie Trouvé, économiste, députée La France insoumise de Seine-Saint Denis.
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Countries With A Larger Military Than The UK In 1900 vs 2026
The map above supposedly comes from the IISS (The International Institute for Strategic Studies) and shows which countries in 1900 (using modern borders) had more active miliary personnel than the United Kingdom in 1900 compared to today. Getting data for the numbers in 1900 is actually difficult (can’t find them published online), but Data Is […]
