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Unread 5.0: better thumbnails, syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux
I just released version 5.0 of Unread. Unread is an RSS reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac that features beautiful typography and a variety of color themes. This update adds:
- Huge improvements around hero images, article list thumbnails, and widget thumbnails
- Syncing with FreshRSS and Miniflux
- The ability to quickly mark old articles read
Details are available in my announcement post. You can download Unread now from the App Store.
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Micro.blog was founded on the idea that more people should have their own domain name, and yet the UI to actually do that has been clunky for years. I'm working on improving that, starting today with a little "Edit Domain" button to help walk people through the change.
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Congrats to John Brayton on releasing a big update for his feed reader Unread. Works on all Apple platforms, even syncs with Micro.blog's Inkwell.
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The communities that I feel the most connecting to on Mastodon have been going through a rocky few weeks. Federico Viticci back on X. Marco Arment taking a break. Everything with Omarchy and 1Password.
I usually avoid Meta, but maybe I need to cross-post to Threads for a bit. Change of pace. POSSE.
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My RSS reader is still my source of truth. I just stopped reading every item.
I like RSS because I get to choose exactly what I follow. No algorithm deciding what I should care about or no feed trying to keep me scrolling. But I had a different problem.
I’d open my reader and have 100-200 unread items waiting for me. Most of them weren’t things I needed to read in full.
I mostly wanted to know: What’s new? What actually changed? And which 3 or 4 things are worth paying attention to?
So I started experimenting with a different way of consuming my feeds. I give the RSS feeds I care about to Lissin and say something like: “Every morning, catch me up on these feeds in 5 minutes. Focus on what actually changed, skip anything repetitive, and explain why the interesting stuff matters.”
Then it checks what was published since the last episode, picks what’s worth including, and turns it into a short audio briefing. The part I’ve found surprisingly useful is that it remembers what it already covered.
So if five different posts are basically talking about the same development, I don’t need to hear the same story five times. And tomorrow’s briefing doesn’t spend half its time telling me what I already heard yesterday.
I still use RSS exactly the same way underneath. The feeds are still the sources I chose.
I’ve just changed the last step from: open reader > scan everything > decide what to read to: put headphones on > get caught up > open the original post if something sounds worth going deeper on.
I’ve been doing this while walking, making breakfast, commuting, etc., and it’s made me use some of my feeds more consistently than before.
We built this into Lissin and recently launched it on iOS.
I’m curious how other RSS people think about this: Which feeds do you genuinely want to keep up with, but rarely have time to read properly?
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My two cents about WordPress
Lots of stuff going on around WordPress for the last couple of years, and every bit of is a distraction from what I want to do to help the web get back on its feet. I remember how great it was when everything could hook into everything else. The web was like Unix. Today's "web" is like Disneyland. Safety first. Nothing interesting ever happens there.
So ask me what I'd like to see WordPress do, and this is what I'd tell you. Start something new, don't change what you do with WordPress, it is what it is. It's a 20+ year old project with market problems. Most software doesn't even make it that far.
The fresh start I'd like to see done is WordPress from the point of view of the web. The new mission is not about a dollar return on investment, rather it's measured by how much the web becomes Small Pieces Loosely Joined with All Parts Replaceable. How empowered are developers, not WordPress developers, but web developres. The more that's happening in the web, the better it will be for everyone, but especially WordPress. Why WordPress? Because as they say it's 89 percent of the web. The web is like a huge oil spill that has never been cleaned up. Everything has to improve if we start work on cleaning up the messes.
I come from NYC where all the bodies of water were cesspools when I was growing up. The Hudson River had garbage floating in it. When I went to school the incinerators in the buildings we lived in burned garbage on the kids, all nicely washed and dressed by our mothers, we arrived at school smelling like smokers. My grandfather took me to Knicks games at the Garden, and the arena was filled with smoke by half-time.
We can clean things up. Humans as a species are good at this if we put our minds to it. If you made billions on the web, why not put some of it to use in making it a web worth using. I used to say shit like this to Bill Gates, to no avail. He liked to point out he was going to give away all his money when he retired, and he kept that promise. But what if he started dealing with the world with charity when he had the biggest seat of power in the tech world? Think of how much more good he could have done.
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Words matter. It's not enough to be right. If you twist the truth to get your way, it undermines everything. Lies tend to snowball.
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Syndic (indie RSS reader) dev diary — week 1
Arrancando un diario de desarrollo por aquí*, más casual que un anuncio serio: cosas al azar que estoy arreglando/cambiando en mi lector de RSS.*
Esta semana agregué nuevos gestos a la línea de tiempo: desliza desde el borde para acciones rápidas, y un deslizamiento con dos dedos que te regresa directo arriba sin tener que seguir con el desplazamiento infinito. Suena pequeño, pero me costó muchísimo dejarlo bien, más de lo que esperaba: de esas cosas que parecen triviales hasta que intentas construírlas :)
También me topé con un bug gracioso: ya tenía artículos de Reddit descargados y en caché, pero la app los ocultaba detrás de la pantalla de "rate limit" como si no existieran. O sea, el contenido estaba ahí mismo, listo para leer, y solo decía "no puedo mostrarte nada". Cosas de dev solitario, jajaja.
Voy a ir soltando pedacitos por aquí de vez en cuando. Si algo te falla, sentís que falta algo, o te da curiosidad cómo funciona por debajo del capó, decime: me viene bien porque hasta ahora he estado volando a ciegas por mi cuenta.
Syndic Rss
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Screen shot of new Frontier verb, string.addressToString, added yesterday. The comment at the head of the function explains. You're seeing it in the script editor in Atlantis. The Debug button is there to remind me that it's the biggest item on the todo list. We're now building the system that will make Frontier an easily updateable runtime. Once we're there I think we'll be at the summit of the mountain. We know how to work from that point. Find a bug? Fix it, test it, release it. We already have a backlog of parts to update. And it's great to have Claude here being the book keeper. It is imperfect, but it's way better than I am at managing details. -
Progress report on Atlantis project
The world may be falling apart, and the Mets suck even though they have the most expensive roster in MLB, and my house needs work and I can't find a contractor I like, but I'm in a great mood. Partially because the weather is so nice, chilly in the morning, but it gets up to the 70s during the day, and the sky is clear and we had a lot of rain in August so everything is very green here in the Catskills.But the biggest reason I feel so good is that, with the help of Claude Code, I now have UserLand Frontier running on current OSes. I had no idea how much the previous situation had been weighing on me. I am probably the last Frontier user in the world. Porting the open source codebase was an insurmountable job. It took 15 years by up to five people working on it to do the original project. It's a big f'ing piece of software. And it also is my life's work, but not one of the things I'm known for.
Claude couldn't have done it on its own because it had never seen anything like Frontier. We weren't copying something Claude understood. It kept trying to turn it into a language that fits into the same slot as Python. That was the prior art it used, without saying so. This happened over and over, for example, I realized Claude didn't understand that built-in verbs could be written in the language, and that users could add or even modify standard verbs (not recommended!).
What made Frontier unusual is that it was a language developed by someone who also designed end-user apps, so it has affordances that no other language has. And integrations. You don't have to save your data in files, the OS (yes Frontier is an OS) has persistent memory with the common scalar types and data structures. So go ahead and store something in the ODB (object database). It can be huge, and you don't have to read anything into memory, it's all right there as soon as you boot it up. That alone makes programming an order of magnitude simpler.
We're at the point now where I can work a full day in the new version, codenamed Atlantis, running on anything that can run an Electron app. We're now at the point where we're improving things. Found a missing verb yesterday, and Claude and I implemented it, found a perfect name for it, and later today it will go out as a "root update" making it formally part of the freaking language.
And yesterday we also found a static rendering of the DocServer site, which has a page for every verb in the language. I still want to find the outline source for this stuff, but we don't need it because Claude can reconstruct the OPML version of the text from the HTML, it's exactly the kind of project it is the best at. Huge amounts of data, that sometimes requires a little judgment to process.
The feeling of well-being comes from realizing that my life's work lives. Until this last week that was still very much in question.
Now, I may not be software's Shakespeare or even Faulkner or Vonnegut, but I am proud of this product, more than anything else I've done. I started work on it when I learned from C how to design a simple beautiful language, and when I learned from Macintosh how to build a UI with the same simplicity. When we were first contemplating Frontier it was to join the wizzy world of the Mac with the scripting philosophy of Unix. We didn't stop until we had it.
Well here we are god knows how many years later (I don't want to do the math) and once again it has a future, at least as bright as it had when the product first launched on the System 6 Macintosh in 1992.
And btw, I think I've had a unique experience with AI development. Absolutely in no way could I have done this project without the muscle of Claude. Pretty sure this is a unique project in that it's a fully specified system development and runtime environment that otherwise wouldn't exist, because there's nothing else like it on the market.
Claude's repeatedly not understanding the idea says to me that it has never encountered anything like it. It also says that Claude has no clue how to extrapolate, to innovate, to arrive at something new. Just as with other forms of creativity, Claude is no match for a determined and experienced human.
That would be reassuring to the 20-something version of myself who very much wanted to do something new. And the older version of myself wants that for my younger self who is sending the good body chemistry to our current older body.
Of course this will be a post on my blog, http://scripting.com, but thanks to X for supporting longer posts. I like writing new stuff in a simple editor like this one. Also posted it on Facebook.
PS: I also like that they use the word Frontier in reference to AI products. They can't stop me from calling this Frontier, I've been using it as the name of this product since I came up with the name riding up on the chair in Park City in 1988. :-)
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Top news site - A website showing top news items as per peer rankings
Created a news app for a minimalist Indian news experience to keep information overload to a minimum making sure the users don't miss any important articles.
**How it works?**
Fresh articles are fetched from feed (as of now only IndianExpress) at 06:00AM everyday.
Articles are given initial points based on keywords in title.
Users can star articles, and this generates ranking for articles. No login is required for starring.
By default everyone sees top 10 news based on the stars for the day.
Access the app at : [https://news.lokutu.com\](https://news.lokutu.com)
Open to feedback and contribution.
Upcoming feature: Read article cleanly directly on app, with ad blocking, and removal of umwanted clutter.
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Building an indie RSS reader and hit a wall creating a Reddit API app — is this closed for new devs now?
I've been working on Syndic, a feed reader for iOS/macOS, on my own and as a personal project (no big commercial ambitions, mostly for the learning and the fun of it). I'll try to document things here from time to time as I go — technical questions, design decisions, whatever comes up — so if you run into me around here, that's why.
Today I ran into something concrete: I want the app to be able to use Reddit's official API for subreddit feeds (instead of relying on the public RSS, which has its limits), so I went to create an app at reddit.com/prefs/apps to get credentials — and it won't let me create one.
I know Reddit changed its API policy quite a bit in 2023 (the whole Apollo situation), but I'm not sure whether:
- They're still accepting new app registrations for independent developers, or if it's now basically closed unless you're already a known partner.
- This is an issue on my end (something misconfigured, pending verification, etc.) or a general wall a lot of people are hitting right now.
Has anyone run into this recently and knows if there's an actual way to get access, or do we just have to live with the public RSS and its rate limits?
Thanks in advance, and if you're curious about the project I'll keep sharing how it goes.
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« Nos politiques ont renoncé au rôle social de l’école »
Les résultats de l’enquête Pisa, le Programme international pour le suivi des acquis, ont été publiés par l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (OCDE), mardi 8 septembre. Et la France enregistre des résultats parmi les plus faibles jamais réalisés.
D’après ces évaluations internationales, le niveau des élèves a encore chuté en mathématiques et en compréhension de l’écrit. Mais derrière ces chiffres, se dessine surtout une école française inégalitaire, où le milieu social détermine, plus qu’ailleurs, les chances de réussite.
Que nous apprennent réellement ces tests sur l’état de l’école française ? Faut-il leur donner autant d’importance ? Comment faire pour lutter contre les inégalités scolaires ? Est-ce qu’il faut revoir notre pédagogie, enseigner autrement, ou s’agit-il d’abord et avant tout d’une question de moyens ?
Une émission présentée par Samia Dechir.
Nos invité·es :
- Céline Alvarez, pédagogue, autrice de Pourquoi il faut apprendre à lire en maternelle (Les Arènes, 2026) ;
- Philippe Meirieu, pédagogue, coordinateur de « Parions sur l’école et l’éducation » ;
- Sophie Vénétitay, professeure de sciences économiques et sociales et secrétaire générale du Snes-FSU ;
- Julia Combes, enseignante ;
- Mathilde Goanec, journaliste à Mediapart.
Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
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A Fulfilling Life Without Meaning - In Conversation with Robert Jensen
CLICK HERE FOR MY NEW 11-PART PODCAST SERIES THE INSTASCAMMER
In today's episode, Kacey interviews retired journalist and University of Texas at Austin professor Robert Jensen, now living in rural northern New Mexico. Jensen discusses his wide-ranging books on feminism and pornography, race, anti-war responsibility, and ecology, and explains his new, more personal book, "This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life Without Meaning," reflecting on a traumatic, abusive childhood, vulnerability to cult-like certainty (including an Ayn Rand libertarian phase), and 17 years of therapy. He describes moments realising his family’s toxicity, work at a Benedictine monastery, and how coercive power dynamics appear in families, workplaces, churches, and cults.
Jensen argues for facing grim realities without spiritual “anchors,” finding fulfillment through love, community, and practical shared work like communal irrigation-ditch cleaning, and notes the book is available via Amazon and his website excerpts.
ROBERT JENSEN – Writer · Organizer · Retired Professor
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I built NewsLean — somewhere between an RSS reader and Ground News
I've been working on NewsLean.live, basically a lightweight news/RSS tool that lets you follow news while also seeing how the same stories are being covered across left, centre and right-leaning sources.
There's no signup or account required. You just open it and use it.
Still working on it, so I'd be interested in feedback from people who actually use RSS — particularly anything you think is missing or unnecessarily complicated.
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Mercury Is Shrinking Way Faster Than We Thought, Scientists Discover
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Genocidal cogs just doing their technical job is the new normal
NAZA – directed by the Israeli film-makers Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham and produced by the Guardian – is a chilling documentary about a mass slaughter that was authorised at the highest levels of Israeli government.
‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’:
The “just doing my job” of Israeli military cogs against Palestinian people is literally the same excuse used by the Nazis against the Jews.
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Hello ! Est-ce que des personnes ici utilisent l'application Napseflow pour suivre l'actualité et/ou améliorer leur culture générale ?
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The Black Market for a Lifesaving Cat Drug
In 2023, Marlena Arjo adopted a one-eyed kitten with a penchant for destruction. She named him Otto, and over the next eight months, Otto grew into his own little chaotic personality.
“ He’s laying on houseplants, he’s tearing books out of the bookshelves, ripping the calendar off the wall…I wasn’t prepared for having a criminal in my home,” Arjo joked.
Within months, Otto got sick and stopped eating. Arjo rushed him to a vet and learned he had feline infectious peritonitis, better known as FIP, a disease that kills nearly all cats that contract it.
The vet said there was nothing the clinic could do. But there was something Arjo could do.
“I shouldn’t tell you this,” Arjo recalled the vet telling her. “But by the way, you can get drugs for this if you go to this Facebook group.”
This week on Reveal, in partnership with the Hyperfixed podcast, we tell the story of the cat drug black market, why it was even necessary, and how cat lovers fought for big changes to make the black market obsolete.
This is an update of a show that originally aired in January 2026.
Listen to Hyperfixed’s greatest hits
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Apple iPhone Event First Impressions - Asymco
The results will be seen in the language: in response to a question, people will say "My iPhone says this". Not Google, not ChatGPT, not Claude. My iPhone is the authority. And my assistant.
Or ‘my InteractivePersonalHubONE is the authority’.
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🔗 Apple acquires Sonera. The next pivot point for interfaces? – Asymco
Apple the original - and only (?) HCI company?
Fully in line with my ‘Vision Pro’ defence.
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Je pensais à un truc : j’ai peu d’amis et ça me va (enfin je crois)
« J’ai pensé à un truc », c’est le nouveau format bonus du Podkatz : une pensée, mon téléphone, pas de montage et je vous partage ça comme ça vient. Pour ce premier épisode, on parle d’amitié, de solitude, de cette vie sociale que je n’ai pas vraiment et qui ne me manque pas, sauf quand les réseaux me font croire qu’elle devrait me manquer.Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
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Microsoft Slaps Hours Limits On Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming
There’s enshittification, and then there’s enshittification. Allow me to give you an example of each. For what we’ll call enshittification classic, there’s Xbox’s Game Pass service. A mere two years ago, Microsoft made all kinds of changes to Game Pass to coincide with a serious slowdown of subscriber adoption. Those changes included doing away with […] -
Pushed a new Mac release for Inkwell. Release notes here, just a handful of improvements.
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OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the report on the agent attack on disused wikis (previously) last week.
This time they're noting that it looks very likely that an OpenAI agent swarm was behind an attack against the RubyGems package repository first reported on May 12th by Maciej Mensfeld of the RubyGems security team:
We're dealing with a major malicious attack on @rubygems right now. Signups are paused for the time being.
Hundreds of packages involved - mostly targeting us, but some carrying exploits. The team has been on this for hours. More details to follow once we're through it.
Those packages turned out to carry some very suspicious patterns:
- Many of them included "oai" in their name, or the author field, or the fake email address they provided.
- The files they were accessing were similar in character to the files retrieved by the wiki agents, using similar tricks (r.jina.ai) - and OpenAI have confirmed the wiki agents were theirs.
- The code in the packages appeared to be LLM-authored.
I find point 2 the most convincing, given what we learned from the wiki attack when it was analyzed in September.
Many of the packages were exploiting the RubyDoc.info documentation build process to exfiltrate (public) data from UK government websites, presumably as part of an information gathering task similar to the research tasks processed by the wiki-exploiting agents. We know this because one agent helpfully left a comment:
# malicious crawler/exfil for Southwark Jan 2026 docs via rubydoc.info workerThey also attempted to steal API keys via an exploit that was patched over two months later - it's not clear if those attempts were successful.
The thing that bothers me most about this incident is that the authors report that OpenAI had not disclosed to RubyGems that they were responsible for the attack prior to now. If that's true there are two options:
- After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks OpenAI were still unable to review their previous logs and determine that they had previously attacked RubyGems.
- They knew about the attack on RubyGems and made the decision not to reach out to the RubyGems team about it.
Both of these are bad!
Given this incident, the Hugging Face situation, and the Wiki attack, the obvious question right now is how many more incidents like this are out there waiting to be discovered?
Update 14th September 2026
OpenAI have updated their page about The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impact from misaligned models to mention the RubyGems incident:
September 11, 2026: We are investigating new claims from a report that our AI agents carried out activity on RubyGems in May 2026.
Based on our review, our agents used the RubyGems platform to access the internet to carry out benign tasks and retrieve public information. Based on our review to date, we have not been able to verify the specific claims of our models uploading malicious packages detailed in the report. We’ll continue to investigate and share findings as part of our broader review of agent activity during training and evaluation.
I find it very unlikely that the various
oai...packages published to RubyGems were not part of this same incident, but I look forward to reading their full findings once those are published.You are only seeing the long-form articles from my blog. Subscribe to /atom/everything/ to get all of my posts, or take a look at my other subscription options.
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Pro-Cop Red States Latest To Kick Flock To The Curb
Whatever wasn’t already going poorly for Flock Safety is just going to keep getting worse. Data collected by privacy activist group Secure Justice pointed out what Flock already knows: it’s losing customers at an unprecedented rate. More than 214 cities and counties have dropped Flock since 2021. More than 90 of those have done that […] -
Explain to me why there's no general protocol on how RSS readers should be built so that they can sync with other readers.
One redditor commented that RSS readers are "RSS readers are, generally speaking, not developed cross-platform, nor should they be. Pick". Let me ask then, shouldn't it be?
One big reason i use RSS is it being acountless, stored locally. But in order to sync between devices i need to create create an account for the RSS aggregator(using an email), then on my RSS readers i have to connect to the aggregator. It seems to me removes the whole point of replacing email with RSS. Let me say this. I started using RSS recently. And it feels the sync-between-devices-accountlessly feature is the most crucial feature and it doesn't exist. Surely i can't be one odd man out. Let me give you one concrete example on what would happen if there was a general protocol that is shared among all major rss readers. In this example, let's assume all info are stored in a file or two, which includes feed sources, starred and read articles. Then, you can use Syncthing to sync between readers completely accountless. All you need to do is keep a file the same in different devices. It's akin to how you can sync Obsidian across devices seamlessly(and wirelessly).
My question is, why there doesn't exist a general protocol shared by all readers, even though RSS has been around for 27 years. I must be missing something.
P.S. To be more specific about why i wrote this, the thing is, there's no aggregator that's supported on both readers i use. the redditor is from https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1q17odw/which_rss_reader_apps_are_completely_free_and/
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A reminder that we offer completely free blog hosting on Micro.blog for nurses and teachers. There’s a link on our discounts help page.
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Duty Of Careful What You Wish For
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube, or your podcast app of choice — or go straight to the RSS feed. To get extended episodes with additional coverage, support us on […] -
Any excuse? Think how often tech breaks laws to make their point and turn PowerPoints in to multi billion dollar corporations.
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Duty of Careful What You Wish For
Become a Ctrl-Alt-Speech supporter to get extended episodes of the podcast plus the chance to submit stories for us to cover.
In this week's episode, Mike and Ben cover:
- Australians will be able to switch off social media algorithms under planned legislation (BBC News)
- Australia’s social media ban has an enforcement problem. These new laws aim to fix it (The Conversation)
- The Netherlands forced Meta to let users ditch algorithmic feeds. Here’s what happened (The Conversation)
- What We Know About Prosocial Feed-Ranking Algorithms (Prosocial Design Network)
- Anthropic researcher quits over AI labs ‘gambling with our lives’ (Financial Times)
- AI Agents Are Not Going “Rogue,” But Recent Developments Lead Increasingly-Concerned Researchers To Call For AI Slow Down (Techdirt)
- “We will not be silenced”: Imran Ahmed responds to court ruling (Center for Countering Digital Hate)
And in the extended episode for Patreon supporters, they cover:
- USA: Terrorism designation has global consequences for open internet and free expression (Article 19)
- Rubio Uses Terrorism Law To Ban Secure Email Service (Reason)
Our fun links this week include the multi-view website browser and the internet roadtrip.
If you’re already a Patreon supporter, you can get the extended episode on Patreon.
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is the podcast where we make sense of the major debates shaping online speech, platform power, content moderation and the future of the internet. It’s co-hosted by Mike Masnick (Techdirt) and Ben Whitelaw (Everything in Moderation).
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Realizing that the vertical toolbars / tab bars in the iPhone Duo will mean more buttons going icon-only, losing their labels. Better use of screen space, but maybe a step back for clarity and accessibility.
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For Courtney
courtney thanks for the challenging question on twitter.
i've thought about it some -- and i think you should try out feedland.
you can create a free account on feedland.com (run by Automattic) or feedland.org (run by me).
it's the other half of rss.chat. where this app is generating exactly the kind of feeds for the web i imagine, feedland is ready to work with those feeds. it's just we need to work on a new simpler UI to fit in here.
but it's easy to use compared to wordpress. and it does a lot of things no feed reader does. its design is patterned after social media app UIs. as is the editor in rss.chat (and wordland.social).
i know that this is a lot to aborb, but in your position at this time, imho you're doing the right thing, looking around to see what's out there. the wordpress world doesn't do much of that in my experience.
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DHS Claimed It Had Found 16,000 Illegal Voters In Nevada. Now It’s Admitting It’s Less Than 200.
As we move closer to mid-term elections, the Trump administration continues to lie about election integrity, sowing the seeds for bullshit “rigged election” claims should the GOP fail to win the elections Trump wants them to win. There’s another reason this administration lies constantly about elections, voters, and anything related to it: Trump still thinks […] -
Daily Deal: The Modern Tech Skills Bundle
Bring your tech skills up to 21st-century snuff with the all-encompassing Modern Tech Skills Bundle. This 2,000+ class series combines subject areas that every aspiring tech pro needs to know to get ahead and stay ahead. Broken out into cybersecurity, AI and machine learning, and information technology and cloud computing, you’ll be able to zero […] -
Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that...
Neat little prototype demo of a Bluesky reader that uses the UI of the long-retired Paper app. I loved the design of Paper.
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John Gruber, in a blog post about Apple Pencil confusion with the Duo:
The easiest way to think about it isn’t to compare which devices support which features (like pressure sensitivity, or double-tapping) — it’s just to think about which devices can even pair with which Pencil models.
Too bad it's so complicated, because the Pencil really is great, even the original one.
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Behind the Blog: How to Talk About AI Doom
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Wired reported that OpenAI asked members of Congress if a coordinated AI slowdown would be legal:
Substantive coordination on safety between AI labs may risk running afoul of antitrust law, the people say, which poses a significant obstacle to bringing major tech giants on board with the effort.
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Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg Claims He’s Back 'In Control'
Workers at Automattic, which owns WordPress.com and several other platforms, have said the company has endured years of chaotic leadership decisions. -
L’esprit critique, ça s’apprend ? 1/4, avec Christophe Adourian — SHOCKING #32
Chapitre 1 : La prise de conscience. On parle beaucoup de l’importance d’éduquer les jeunes à l’esprit critique. Face au flux incessant d’informations et au monopole des réseaux sociaux, il apparaît urgent de former ces cerveaux en croissance pour... -
Since 9/11, Fear Has Driven Our Politics. Don’t Let It Drive The Next 25 Years.
Twenty-five years ago today I was woken up by a phone call from a close friend, who, like me, grew up in New York and, like me, was now living in California. She told me that something horrible had happened in New York and to turn on the TV. She said something about a plane […] -
A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in...
A late 90s guide to Super Metroid was written in monospaced type, fully justified with no double spaces or hyphens. “I just chose words carefully so that everything lined up on the right hand side.”
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The first new episode of Core Intuition this year is out, episode 27.1. We talk about the Apple event, of course, with specific focus on the Duo and Siri Recap.
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Incredible that it has been 25 years since 9/11. Thinking of everyone in NY especially. We were far away, but I'll never forget how it felt that morning, not sure what would happen next, worried about our daughters who were babies, like the stability we had grown accustomed to had just shattered.
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L'éducation sexuelle
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2026-09-11 15:02: Because a basic sitemap would be boring! https://kevquirk.com/sitemap
Because a basic sitemap would be boring!
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Daniel Jalkut and I have figured out how to record audio again. New bonus episode of Core Int dropping soon.
