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32 years and still diggin!
On 10/7/1994, I wrote my first blog post.
I've been blogging ever since.
In the first years when wifi wasn't in every hotel room and restaurant as it is today, before cell phones or even iPods, there were weekly lapses when I went on vacation or to a massage retreat in the middle of nowhere.
Or in 2002 when I had life-saving heart surgery. I was gone for a week then. But as soon as I got home, I added a post so people knew I was okay. I understood that I was missed, and appreciated that. ;-)
But other than those week-long lapses, I'm pretty sure I've blogged every day since. I am what you would call a Natural Born Blogger. I got the blogging bug.
We've done a lot on this blog, it's hard to sum up. We created things that had lasting value. Told the truth about what the tech industry was up to, from the point of view of a Silicon Valley insider (me) who knows the language, where most journalists are intimidated. We fought the big companies and won. Podcasting was created in the community defined by this blog in the early 00s, and it remains independent to this day.
The bigs declared RSS dead, another product of this community. Wishful thinking perhaps, but things like RSS don't die. It's not like that. You can't create a better format for a standard. All the competition RSS has ever received, just changed the names of things, that's not competition, that's being petty.
I think we're on the verge of having new relevance, it feels that way because my secret weapon, Frontier, is running again and it will get even stronger and fit in better, now that I've been working primarily in JavaScript for the last 13 years. Today we're adding Node-like packages and support for WebSockets. Last time we worked on this, neither of those existed.
I take blogging seriously, you should too. It's very powerful, as long as we're really working on the web. There's a difference between having a product you can access through a browser and being on the web.
Small pieces loosely joined. All parts replaceable. Never forget that. If you can't plug in replacements for any component, if one piece gets too large to replicate, you should hit the Back button, as Google says you should do on my blog.
Why are they trying to destroy the historic record about the web on the web itself? I have no idea. Certainly they must have had some discussion internally, or with their partner at the EFF about the cost of destroying so much history. Usually when a platform vendor is going to break you, you get invited to a private meeting where you can tell them the cost and beg them not to do it. Not with Google.
And, as they say --
Still diggin!
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'Undue emotional weight'
AI-generated political slop, a farewell to a good bird, and more. -
Blue Planet III
BBC Earth is returning to the ocean. 25 years after the first installment, the legendary naturalist, presenter, and centenarian David Attenborough narrates Blue Planet III. This first look video, backed by a song Hans Zimmer & Jade Thirwall, is teeming with stunning footage of sea life of all sorts.
Ed Yong called BPIII’s predecessor the best nature series ever:
Blue Planet II is the greatest nature series that the BBC has ever produced.
It is almost transcendentally good—the product of a team that, after six decades of experience, is now at the height of its powers. The Blue Planet II crew traveled to 39 countries to capture over 6,000 hours of footage. They stuck their cameras into coral crevices. They hung off speedboats to film dolphins rocketing behind them. They literally stared into the abyss—and then repeatedly entered it. The resulting episodes, each narrated by David Attenborough in his trademark velvety tones, are hour-long distillations of wonder, featuring sequences that would be breathtaking had earlier shots left you with any breath to take away.
Blue Planet III will air sometime later in the year in the UK; not so sure about timelines in other locations at this point.
Tags: Blue Planet · David Attenborough · trailers · TV · video
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Watching X
Casey Newton plans to return to X in the coming days. He wrote in Platformer this week:
The community of people working in and around artificial intelligence product and policy simply refuses to move away from X, no matter how bad it gets.
And:
I am among those who believe that the next year will be decisive in shaping the future of AI policy, regulation, and safety. And increasingly, attempting to influence the AI policy conversation without participating on X (or Substack) has made me feel like I am fighting with both hands tied behind my back.
Three months ago, I blogged about reevaluating support for X in Micro.blog. I got mixed feedback about it, but ultimately decided that the negative feedback was enough for me to shelve the rollout. It was not worth the controversy.
Since that blog post, Federico Viticci and John Voorhees returned to X. Other people started posting to X who had never even posted to Twitter before, like Jensen Huang and Jeffrey Katzenberg. While I still believe X is doomed in the long run — closed, rudderless, and toxic to many — the AI community has held on to a remnant of the old Twitter, and in fact that community is growing, apparently immune to the decay of a platform that has no soul.
I should've followed my gut back in July. If I had brought back X cross-posting, I could now reach out to Federico or Casey and pitch them on posting simultaneously to their microblogs and X. Instead, I'll watch from the sidelines as the most pivotal discussions about AI remain heavily centered around X instead of the open web.
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118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling. Including “put...
118 Things to Do Instead of Doomscrolling. Including “put together a puzzle”, “go for a bike ride”, “hold a plank for as long as you can — even if it’s only a second”, and “make your own limoncello”.
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My Hobby Is Learning
I've had lots of hobbies over the years. To name a few off the top of my head, there's been fish keeping, guitar, harmonica, fountain pens, watches, motorbikes, this blog, web development, 3D printing, tattoos, digital minimalism, table tennis, and many more.
Some of my hobbies have stuck, but I've never gotten so enthralled into a hobby that I become obsessed. Instead, there's generally 4 steps in the process:
- I decide I want to take up a hobby.
- I read, watch videos, and obsessively learn about the topic.
- Invest lots of time and/or money into the hobby.
- Decide I've learned enough and move on.
I don't always get to step 4. For some hobbies, like watch collecting and motorbikes, I continue to invest some time and money into them, and they continue to bring me joy. But I'm not obsessed. I see someone wearing an interesting watch; it piques my interest and we can have a conversation about it. But I'm not the type of person who can tell a watch brand from across a room (unless it's a Casio).
Similarly, I love riding and working on my motorbikes - both bring me genuine joy. But I'm not the kind of biker who has to get out on their bike as much as possible, where driving the car is some kind of punishment. I enjoy driving too.
While walking the dogs this morning I was idly thinking about all the random possessions I have scattered around the house that are the culmination of many abandoned hobbies. I started to think about why that is, and it dawned on me…
It's not guitars, or harmonicas, or fish, or motorbikes, or watches, or anything else. It's learning about those thing that I find so enjoyable. It's the nitrogen cycle of an aquarium. It's learning to place your fingers at the right part of the fretboard on a guitar. It's learning to ride a motorbike safely and smoothly through some technical twisty roads, or learning how a clutch works and how to strip it down.
It's learning. Learning is my hobby.
And once I've decided I've learned enough about a topic, I'm good. I don't want to be the next Eric Clapton, Valentino Rossi, King of DIY, or Teddy Baldassarre. I want to be good enough at those hobbies, then move on to the next thing I can learn about.
I think that's why computers have always interested me, because there's always something new to learn with them.
So in future, instead of going neck deep and spending money on the next frivolous hobby, maybe I'll just spend some time learning about the thing to see if that satisfies my learning hobby. It probably won't though, as I'm something of a magpie when it comes to shiny things.
But hey, at least I'm having fun and I'm not hurting anyone, right?
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Leak Show Cops Can Break into Locked iPhones
We start this week with a story from our old friend Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, about how cops can bypass the inactivity reboot on iPhones. After the break, Jason tells us how people are losing their minds over an LLM ‘torture’ prison. In the subscribers-only section, Sam explains what happened in a wild ChatGPT case in New Mexico. Cops Can Bypass iPhone’s Automatic Reboot to Get Into Locked Phones, Leaked Video Claims Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Lycées : mobilisation historique, répression historique
Après cette journée historique de mobilisations à travers toute la France, lycéens, étudiants et personnels de l’Éducation nationale ont fait converger leurs colères pour de meilleures conditions d’enseignement. Après une semaine marquée par les violences policières, le sujet était sur toutes les lèvres. Émission spéciale avec nos invités.
Hébergé par Audiomeans. Visitez audiomeans.fr/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.
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A Working (Class) Economy with Kathryn Anne Edwards
As the cost of living keeps rising while Americans’ paychecks fail to keep pace, Jon is joined by labor economist Kathryn Anne Edwards to break down where our economy went so wrong for so many. Together, they explore how decades of policy choices and corporate practices have weakened workers’ leverage and channeled gains toward those at the top—and lay out a vision for how to rebalance the economy so that workers share more fairly in the prosperity they help create. Plus, Jon answers listeners’ questions about impeaching Trump, the White House Press Secretary, and Daylight Savings Time! This episode is sponsored by: GROUND NEWS - Go to https://ground.news/js to see all sides of every story. Subscribe for 40% off the Vantage Subscription only for a limited time through https://ground.news/js. BOLL + BRANCH - https://BollAndBranch.com/tws SMALLS - For a limited time, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping, when you head to https://Smalls.com/TWS. QUINCE - Head to https://Quince.com/tws for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada and the UK, too. Follow The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart on social media for more: > YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast> TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast > X: https://x.com/weeklyshowpod > BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/theweeklyshowpodcast.com Host/Executive Producer – Jon Stewart Executive Producer – James Dixon Executive Producer – Chris McShane Executive Producer – Caity Gray Producer – Brittany Mehmedovic Producer – Gillian Spear Video Editor & Engineer – Rob Vitolo Audio Editor & Engineer – Nicole Boyce Associate Producer - Rebecca Rottenberg Music by Hansdle Hsu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoiceswww.podtrac.com -
Stephen Kinzer - MKUltra, Sidney Gottlieb, and the CIA’s Hunt For Mind Control
This week, author and historian Stephen Kinzer joins Trust Me to discuss his book, Poisoner in Chief, and its subject: chemist Sidney Gottlieb, who led mind control experiments in the CIA’s Project MKUltra. Stephen explains who Gottlieb was and how he came to lead this harrowing attempt to control the human mind, what Operation Paperclip was (the US saved doctor-torturers from Nazi Germany and Japan and gave them jobs), and how the CIA began experimenting on subjects in other countries in horrific ways—all in the name of patriotism and “fighting communism.”
Stephen describes Gottlieb’s obsession with LSD and how the CIA began conducting drug experiments on inmates, people in psychiatric institutions, and other unwitting folks. He discusses the hunt for the perfect mind control tactic, how the word “brainwashing” can’t be separated from the Red Scare, and how none of the experiments were fruitful.
Plus, whether Gottlieb experienced any remorse later in life, and how we have the CIA to thank for the explosion of LSD onto the American scene (and, ironically, the major role it played in the anti-war movement).
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made a little windows rss reader that can turn basically any website into a feed (and send it to your phone over wifi) Reading Desk!
hey r/rss :D
i've been building this thing called Reading Desk for a while now and figured this is the place that'd actually get it.
it started because i wanted feeds from sites that don't have one. so now you just click one headline on a page and it figures out the rest and makes a feed out of it. works on sites you have to log into too.
it also does normal rss/atom (obviously lol), youtube channels, and reddit subs and searches with the galleries and videos playing right in the reader. you can mute words, and if 3 sources post the same story you only see it once. there's a daily briefing of what your sources covered, all made on your pc with no AI service or anything. folders fold away and there's a "hide read" button since someone asked for it. and kind of a random one: free classic books from Project Gutenberg, a chapter a day, like a feed. turned out way better than i expected xD
the part i think you guys might like most is that it can turn any folder back into an rss feed. tick "share on my home network" and you get a link for an rss app on your phone. tested it last night with FeedFlow on android and it just worked, pictures and all. then i noticed reddit link posts were opening reddit's page instead of the actual article, so i fixed that this morning. now they open the article, with a "comments on reddit" link right there if you want the thread.
heads up though, cloud readers like Feedly can't reach it since it never leaves your wifi. you want an app that runs on the phone itself.
everything stays on your pc. no account, no cloud, no subscription.
I can't link anything here so there's that.
i'm a solo dev so i'd genuinely love to hear what you'd want from it. what's your feed reader missing?
I do community updates for missing features as well! The goal is simple, no subscriptions, you own it. Trying to put powerful software back into the hands of the people without the hidden strings. :D
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Trump Says Voter Fraud is Rampant. The Evidence Says Otherwise.
More To The Story: If you’ve ever listened to President Trump talk about our elections, you might hear something like this: Voter fraud is rampant. Noncitizens are voting illegally. Our elections are rigged. The president uses the bully pulpit to repeat these claims despite study after study showing they’re just not true. But it’s not just the president. There are many others at the ground level saying the same things to justify voting restrictions that could disenfranchise legal voters, especially voters of color. One of them is J. Christian Adams. He’s the president of Public Interest Legal Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for stricter voter ID laws and sues states and local governments to remove voters from election rolls.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” Adams claims there’s systemic voter fraud in the US before abruptly ending the interview after host Al Letson challenges his assertions. Al then talks with Mother Jones National Voting Rights Correspondent Ari Berman about the lack of evidence from activists like Adams, the claims Adams and PILF have made that noncitizens are illegally voting, and what conservative activists who say election fraud is rampant are really trying to achieve.
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Read: Your Private Data is Building Trump’s Voter Purge Machine (Mother Jones)
Listen: Stop the Steal Never Stopped (Reveal)
Read: Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It (Picador)
Read: The Myth of Voter Fraud (Brennan Center For Justice)
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Surely the problems with Christa Pike’s failed execution rise to the level of cruel and unusual punishment set in the constitution. Can’t believe in 2026 we are still even debating this.
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If you squint, there are parallels this week between PhotoCraft, an AI re-implementation of Photoshop, and OpenAI dropping a GitHub repo with hundreds of solutions to open math problems. There are some professions that will need to be continuously rethought.
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Finally - where it all started with @dogcow
🖇️🔎Micro.Blog-MEETUP Number 1 - Tuesday March 6th, 208 - Palo. Alto, CA, USA
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The web of Markdown
How about a Markdown web browser. No CSS, no frameworks, just Markdown files. That would be how you would restart the web in 2026. When you've had enough of Google, let me know. I start posting my blog in that space, right away.
Google will not be allowed into this web. Buh bye.
We need our own EFF to keep the Old Arthritic Corporate Excuse-makers for the Tech Industry EFF from fucking it up, same with the W3C. There won't be a WordPress there to own 81% of the websites. Just Markdown please, we don't need Gutenberg. The cool thing about it is you could always fork off your own New Web of Whatever. You don't like Markdown, that's cool. Maybe the web of SVG or The Web of Hypercard cards. Just make sure you support inbound and outbound RSS.
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Does intelligence need a hard cap?
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Google Chrome, nice browser, but it doesn’t support the web.
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From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt...
From a tongue-in-cheek Google Japan, a conveyor belt keyboard, where the keys move and your hand stays still while typing. One of several unusual keyboards released by the company. You can even build your own.
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Silent Friend
Silent Friend is a historical drama written and directed by Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi. Here’s the description:
In the botanical garden of a medieval German university, a ginkgo tree hundreds of years old watches its human neighbors through the slip-stream of time. Among them, a young woman in 1908 attempts to break through the botany department’s masculine academic culture; an idealistic couple in 1972 performs experiments on plant communication under its branches; and a neurologist on lockdown in 2020 turns to it as he tries to push the boundaries of perception.
It’s got a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and some good reviews on Letterboxd, including this one from film reviewer David Ehrlich:
me before seeing this movie: that is a big tree.
me after seeing this movie: that is a giant, hormonal, unbearably horned up 900-year-old virgin that understands loneliness on a level that most humans could never even begin to imagine.
The trailer and description put me in mind of Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, The Overstory by Richard Powers, and Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard.
Tags: Ildikó Enyedi · movies · Silent Friend · trailers · trees · video
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Her AI-Generated Video Swayed the Judge. The Court Said it Carried 'Undue Emotional Weight'
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Surréalisme belge : vu sur le site internet de Lalibre.be en étant connecté en l...
Surréalisme belge : vu sur le site internet de Lalibre.be en étant connecté en lisant un article sur leur site depuis mon mobile en Wifi:
Pour accéder à cet article, veuillez vous connecter au réseau internet.
Clap, clap, clap.
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Things That Are Good to Do. Including “admit what you...
Things That Are Good to Do. Including “admit what you don’t know”, “put the cart away”, “rest before you’re exhausted” (I often get this one wrong), and “walk home if you can”.
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The Ku Klux Klan is rebranding itself as The Knights...
The Ku Klux Klan is rebranding itself as The Knights Party, centered on “family and faith” along with proud & open white supremacy. 💩🖕
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Fascinating online magazine from Microsoft. Looks like some thoughtful essays in this:
The Humanist Review of AI is a quarterly publication funded by Microsoft AI. We bring together thinkers from different fields to explore the impact of AI on society
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Great start to FediForum. Really enjoyed Anil Dash's talk, and now Daniel Holmgren is just wrapping up on AT Proto Spaces. Lots more for me to dig into with Spaces.
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Watch One of Radiohead’s Best Live Shows: Bonnaroo 2006
Back in ~2008, right on the cusp of stardom, Lady Gaga did a crate-digging video in a London record shop and named Radiohead’s set at Bonnaroo 2006 as her favorite show she’s ever been to. A post-fame Gaga reaffirmed her choice in this 2018 Vogue interview. Many share her opinion. Here’s the official concert video of that Bonnaroo show so you can judge for yourself.
The setlist for the show:
There There
2+2=5
15 Step
Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Exit Music (For a Film)
Kid A
Dollars & Cents
Videotape
No Surprises
Paranoid Android
The Gloaming
The National Anthem
Climbing Up The Walls
Nude
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
The Bends
Myxomatosis
How To Disappear CompletelyYou And Whose Army?
Pyramid Song
Like Spinning Plates
Fake Plastic Trees
Bodysnatchers
Lucky
Idioteque
Karma PoliceHouse of Cards
Everything In Its Right PlaceEven the band loved it:
The lore surrounding this show is well-documented: It was among the longest live sets the band has ever played, both by duration (two hours and twenty minutes) and number of songs (29). It featured early, alternate arrangements of six unreleased tracks that would go on to anchor ‘In Rainbows’ the following year. Thom Yorke said it was “his favourite gig for years and years and years.” Jonny Greenwood called it “the best festival experience I’ve ever had in America.”
I’ve mentioned this before but my favorite show was also Radiohead, in Oxford in 2001. It rained and they played Creep for the first time in three years; the crowd exploded.
During the pandemic, the band uploaded a number of full-length videos of their live shows to YouTube. Enjoy.
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An interesting long profile of Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark is...
An interesting long profile of Mark Zuckerberg. “Mark is the fucking Terminator. He’s actually not an asshole, which is interesting. He’s not a miserable fuck. But his source of advantage is he’s never happy. He just doesn’t fucking stop.”
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Toni Schneider revealed that Bluesky is trying to make a
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The Best Sandwich Shop in America?
YouTuber Rob Martinez travelled to Columbus, Ohio to tell the story of what he calls the best sandwich shop in America, Wario’s Beef and Pork. Here’s part of the transcript of owner Stephan Madias talking about the restaurant:
For the longest time, especially the first two years, I was very protective of how the bread was sliced and I would not let anybody cut bread. It’s about the experience. I think about me eating the sandwich. Think about the things that happen when you get a big sandwich. You take that first bite into it. I want you to be able to, like, move this thing around. Take bites from the top, the bottom, the front, the back. And it’s held.
We’re very particular, and it’s part of the reason why we don’t have the bakery cut the bread is cuz we want to sort through our things. Yes, we have volume. Yes, we have speed, but [my employees] all have the integrity that we started when we only sold five sandwiches an hour when the shop first started. That’s part of being committed to the fundamentals and being consistent.
The devil’s in the details, man. You got to take the extra minute to do it. Some people like it. Some people complain about it.
As a fellow sandwich overthinker, I love the ethos and the process. And man, those sandwiches do look amazing — tomato butter, homemade whiz for the cheese steaks, a chicken caesar sandwich, what is not to like?
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Richard Linklater is directing a film adaptation of the...
Richard Linklater is directing a film adaptation of the Sondheim musical Merrily We Roll Along. Shooting started in 2019 and will continue until 2040 to match the musical’s 20-year period. (Linklater’s Boyhood was shot over 12 years.)
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Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn...
Mapsnap is a program designed to take old Sanborn insurance maps (block-by-block maps of every US city from 1870-1960) and aligning them with modern maps.
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Lawmakers Introduce Multiple Laws to Curb Flock After 404 Media Coverage
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Adding a Cloudflare challenge to RSS feed URLs is a pretty ridiculous thing to do.
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Beta Week 2: Article Fetch and Read Later
After our firs week of beta at MediaHeat / Reader, we kick off the second week adding two new features: Full Article Fetch and Read Later.
Beta Tester slots still available - help me put some stress on this!
https://mediaheat.news/en/reader/
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404 Media Live! The Three Year Anniversary Show
Thank you to DeleteMe for helping make this night possible. They're offering 20% off a privacy protection plan for friends of 404 Media. Use code 404M20 at checkout. 404 Media just turned three years old, and to celebrate, we hosted a night of chatting about what we’ve accomplished with your support, what’s next for us, and whether or not we’re all going to be okay. We also threw in some weird bugs and community resistance for good measure. Don’t miss us pulling audience questions out of the mystery AMA box! Live from WNYC’s Greene Space, you can also watch the entire show on 404 Media’s YouTube channel. We Are Going to Be Okay: A Three Year Anniversary Events Recap Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here Watch 404 Media’s Super Bowl Ad Youtube Version: https://youtu.be/t_VjNAopjhI Subscribe at 404media.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicespdst.fm -
Trump Plans to Shove What Where?
With less than 30 days until the midterms, Trump hits the campaign trail, promising Republican voters that they're going to "win big" and "shove it up their ass." (Whose? He didn't specify.) Meanwhile, the polls tell a different story, showing Democratic Senate candidates leading in five Republican states: Texas, Alaska, Ohio, Iowa, and Kansas. Jon, Tommy, and Lovett discuss whether the Democratic momentum is too big to be true, Republican super PACs reallocating money to typically red states, and Trump doxxing Sen. Tom Cotton over daylight saving time dispute. Then the guys check in on the latest in the Michigan, Texas, and Florida Senate races, Kristi Noem's half-billion-dollar purchase of five jets on her way out the door at Homeland Security, and Vivek Ramaswamy's latest athletic passion: weightlifting. Finally, Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor in Texas, stops by the studio to talk to Tommy about opening up a lead on three-term Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
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Do you still use RSS in 2026, or do you mostly rely on social media to discover what to read?
Social media algorithms optimize for your attention.
RSS feeds optimize for what you actually want to read.
I’ve been thinking about how we consume information online.
When you rely on social media for news and updates, you don’t completely choose what you see.
The algorithm does. And the things that get pushed to you aren’t always the things you actually care about.
RSS feels different.
You choose the sources.
You choose what to follow.
You decide what’s worth reading.
It could be a news website, a blog, a YouTube channel, an engineering blog, a research publication, or simply someone whose work you enjoy.
No endless scrolling. No algorithm deciding what comes next. Just the content you chose to follow.
That’s the idea behind Frontpagee. I’m building it to make following the things you care about simpler, calmer, and more personal.
Still building and improving it, but I’m curious:
Do you still use RSS in 2026, or do you mostly rely on social media to discover what to read?
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2026-10-06 09:47: Been trying a new email client, Hylki, after reading about it on OMG! Ubuntu! Really...
Been trying a new email client, Hylki, after reading about it on OMG! Ubuntu! Really enjoying it. It's modern and has a tonne of features.
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RSS Feed with Pages - Plugin Search for KoReader
Hello!! Anyone know of any plugins for koreader that allow RSS feed articles to be viewed in the same way that epubs and other books are? The scrolling-down format is not something I like very much. I would love if when I choose an article it opens up in exactly the same way as a book does.
QuickRSS doesn't seem to have an option for this, and it looks a little janky right now in my opinion.
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The Cult of Dancing With The Stars
This week, Reese and Iman cha cha slide straight into the surprisingly culty world of Dancing With the Stars, where celebrities come for career rehab, pros become stars in their own right, and millions of viewers suddenly believe they are qualified to critique a Paso Doble from their couch. Joining them is pop culture commentator and So Bad It’s Good host Ryan Bailey (@sobaditsgoodwithryanbailey), who went from openly mocking the show to rearranging his schedule for the East Coast feed and contemplating DWTS merch. We get into the TikTok fueled voting wars, old fans versus new recruits, parasocial shipping, and fan favorites survival in the ultimate popularity contest. And a five, six, seven, eight... Subscribe to Sounds Like A Cult on Youtube!Follow us on IG @soundslikeacultpod, @amanda_montell, @reesaronii, @chelseaxcharles, @imanharirikia. Pre-order Iman's new book, Once in a Timeline, here! Your pre-order helps make more books possible! Sounds Like A Cult is coming to you LIVE from The Elysian in LA on October 15th! Get tickets at soundslikeacult.com! Thank you to our sponsors! Get free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Download the Quince app for app-exclusive offers, or go to https://Quince.com/slac Thanks to Article for sponsoring this podcast! Article is offering our listeners $50 off your first purchase of $100 or more. To claim, visit https://www.article.com/discount/cult and the discount will be automatically applied at checkout. If your glasses are overdue for a refresh, now is the time. Use code PODCAST15 for fifteen percent off your first order at bit.ly/3OdtU5X Download Whatnot today and get $20 off your first purchase Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicespdst.fm -
JumpStar is the world’s strongest Chinese Checkers AI...
JumpStar is the world’s strongest Chinese Checkers AI engine. Designed to emulate AlphaGo and Stockfish but for Chinese Checkers. The model was trained entirely on a M4 MacBook. You can play it online or on iOS.
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Cancer du sein : Être femme autrement
Pour la campagne d'Octobre Rose menée par Ruban Rose, Michèle et Louve me racontent leur cancer du sein, à deux âges et deux moments de vie très différents.
Au-delà des traitements, toutes les deux racontent surtout ce que la maladie vient bouleverser de plus intime : le corps, les cheveux, les seins, la sexualité, le désir d'enfant, le regard des autres et cette question de la féminité quand tout ce qu'on associait à son identité de femme est soudain fragilisé. Deux témoignages bouleversants sur la maladie, mais aussi sur la manière de se reconstruire et d'apprendre à être femme autrement. Parce que le cancer du sein peut toutes nous toucher, peu importe l'âge, pensez à vous faire dépister, peu importe votre âge <3
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Is anyone coming up with a good alternative to Reddit RSS feeds?
openrss had them but now my reddit feeds say Too many requests are being made from this network. i'm not a power user, if they only refresh every hour, that's fine for me. any alternatives?
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I built Feeddi, a free RSS reader for people who still miss Google Reader. Looking for honest feedback
Hi r/rss,
I registered feeddi.com back in 2008 and ran a Q&A site on it for years. It never made money, but I kept it going because I liked running it. When AI made Q&A sites pointless, I shut it down and used the
domain for something I'd missed since 2013: Google Reader.
So here it is: https://feeddi.com
What it does:
- Chronological feed, no algorithm. Newest or oldest first, nothing hidden or reordered.
- Folders, unread counts, starred articles, search.
- Google Reader keyboard shortcuts: j/k, s, m, v, Shift+A (press ? for the full list).
- Podcasts built in: audio and video episodes play right next to your articles. YouTube channel feeds show up as videos.
- OPML import and export. Your folders are kept, and you can leave anytime.
- Reading-focused design: Paper, Sepia and Night themes, adjustable text size, focus mode.
- Interface in 21 languages.
- Optional starter packs, so a new account doesn't open to an empty screen.
Platforms: The web app is live now. Android and iOS apps are coming in a few days, synced with the web.
Pricing: Free, and it will stay free. There won't be a paid tier. I'll keep it running on donations, the same way I kept the old site running for years.
What I'd love feedback on:
Import your real OPML. Did anything break, or did any feed fail to load?
What's missing that would stop you from switching from your current reader?
Anything that feels off compared to Google Reader?
I'll be around in the comments. Thanks for taking a look!
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Random TV Time: watch old TV pulled from the Internet...
Random TV Time: watch old TV pulled from the Internet Archive. 17 channels to surf, including cartoons, 1960s TV, and one that’s only old commercials.
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Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour. “I fear...
Designer Giorgia Lupi: In Defense of the Detour. “I fear that A.I. is undermining what makes us most human — the ability to translate lived experience and nuanced thoughts into a unique point of view…”
