Scripting News: Bringing Bluesky to the open web.
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Disney to Take $1.5 Billion Content Write-Off Charge in June Quarter After Pulling Dozens of Titles From Streaming Services.
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Ryan Busse Explains Roots of the U.S. Gun Violence Epidemic.
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"When he died, his university server space was wiped without a backup, and all of his source code went with it"
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The Right Way to Make Your Clothes Dry Faster with a Towel.
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Elon Musk: anti-trans video dispute ends with Ella Irwin departure.
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New York Regulators Will Launch Cannabis Farmers Markets 'Within A Month.'
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My one-month review of the first iPhone in July 2007. I didn't remember not liking the product then, that's why it's good to keep an archive of these things. 😀
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I was a skeptic when Apple came out with the iPhone, iPad and the watch and ended up eating my words.
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Amazon in talks to offer low-cost or free mobile service to Prime customers, report says.
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Did you know that you can get Alexa to play the Succession theme song. On the Studio player it's magnificent. Now you can have it be the theme song for your great accomplishments. Get an elegant bit of code running? Fire it up! You're the boss. You did it.
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I asked ChatGPT for a list of popular podcasting clients.
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Early Childhood: How to bring more nature into preschool.
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Tim Scott 2024 presidential campaign: Will the senator's Christian virgin past help or harm him?
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With WordPress competing with Substack in email newsletters we should now be able to work around Substack’s insistence that writers must use their editor. WordPress has a simple API making that kind of lock-in impossible.
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Twitter not removing hateful posts from subscribed users, study finds.
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I'm starting to post links to Masto on Twitter, and links to Twitter on Bluesky. All combos. I realized I was, in my mind, assuming these were silos. That's not a good limit to impose, doesn't work in our interests, as users and developers.
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Top Podcast Hosting Companies by Episode Share (May 2023).
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Spam is one thing, but spam that assumes I have a living father is another altogether.
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Twitter requires organizations to pay to be verified. It actually makes sense. This was a service they previously provided for free, but they were not a profitable company. Other companies should share in the expense.
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After Calling Joe Biden Senile, GOPers Complain He Outsmarted Them.
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My first fat tweet. I've only been begging for this for over a decade. Now give us optional titles, styles, links, enclosures.
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How Picnic, an Emerging Social Network, Found its Niche.
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Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop.
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Twitter value keeps falling under Musk, now worth a third of what he paid.
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I've already watched the last episode of Succession about five times, and I expect to watch it a few more.
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Sixty years of A Confederacy of Dunces' Ignatius J. Reilly.
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State Farm won't insure new California customers amid wildfire risks.
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The Auschwitz Memorial feed on Twitter tells stories in pictures.
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Karl, about Tom: “You’re a clumsy interloper and no one trusts you. The only guy pulling for you is dead. And now, you’re just married to the ex-boss’ daughter, and she doesn’t even like you. And you are fair and squarely fucked.”
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The NYT is shameless, but at least they're not calling them podcasts.
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"Dark Star is always playing somewhere. All we do is tap into it."
Bluesky People Browser
I'm playing with ideas of how to browse around a network of followers on a social media platform. Bluesky is the first that I've had an OPML interface to work with. So I created an outliner for walking the structure of people and who they follow on Bluesky.
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According to the Supreme Court, science and clean water don’t matter.
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‘Seinfeld’ Ended 25 Years Ago. Its View of Adulthood Endures.
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"Once a woman became pregnant for any reason, she would now become the property of the state of South Carolina," said SC state senator Katrina Shealy, a Republican.
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“The Great” on Hulu is fantastic. A comedy about Russian empress Catherine the Great. There’s a new season out.
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A nice thing about Bluesky is that everyone has about the same small number of followers, which suggests that perhaps follower count should not be in the UI. Wondering what other features turn up the heat too much and should be similarly treated.
