Speak for America, Democrats.
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Why doesn't President Biden use the FBI to vet Trump's cabinet nominees?
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Whoever ends up owning Chrome, we could use a new browser war.
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The Repubs have Twitter. The Dems need their own. That's impossible, any time soon, but at least let's get started. I did a podcast yesterday about how to bootstrap it. The answer -- let's restart kamalahq asap.
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2023: Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets. (I did not know this.)
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It's noteworthy that we haven't seen many outages as Bluesky scales. On Twitter they had fail whales for years
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2009: RSS has no Fail Whale. (This was an important point, still is.)
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Texas offers border ranch to Trump for mass deportation plan.
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2021: “it should be possible to hook your writing tool directly to both WordPress and Substack.”
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Trump, Musk solidify bond with Texas trip for Starship rocket launch.
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Calling your blog a substack seems like a minor thing. What’s really offensive is that Substack makes you use their cheesy editor. Instead they could support inbound RSS and trust their users, and thus be powerful.
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Lauren Kapp was one of the creative geniuses behind @kamalahq. We need to get her back on the air, with her team, fully funded and supported. We need leadership on the social web.
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US justice department plans to push Google to sell off Chrome browser. I like this a lot. And make sure the browser company understands that all they do is make a browser, one of many.
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Truth Social investors hoped to get ‘very rich’ after Trump’s win.
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"...a layer cake of corruption and it’s taking place in broad daylight"
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A complete guide to all the things you missed in season 1 of Severance. (Season 2 is coming on January 17.)
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Elon Musk is not America’s new king. But he might be its new Thomas Cromwell.
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If a someone says something online that pisses you off, ignore and/or block them.
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The Justice System Still Has a Chance to Sentence Trump.
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The media industry badly needs to enter 'founder mode.'
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Trump won. The celebrations started. Then the trouble began.
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Trump Boosters Expect Big Returns on Their Investment: ‘The Shackles Are Off.’
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Inbound RSS for Bluesky would provide a lot of decentralization and interop for very little development investment and would ease concerns about what happens if they are acquired by a Musk-alike.
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Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC programming language, dies at 96.
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The boys in our liberal school are different now that Trump has won.
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John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop 'freaking out' over everything Trump does.
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Why are the Oakland A's playing in a minor league park in Sacramento next year? Does not compute.
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Carl Sagan explains why it’s worth preserving our web writing. It would be great for one of the social web ventures to take an interest, so people of the future can understand how our generation destroyed the civilization our ancestors built and fought for.
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“At 78, Trump is not exactly the face of the party’s future.”
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I got lots of new followers on Bluesky too, did you all wonder how and why it happened? Also have any journos looked into who owns it, and who just made a big investment? Do some digging before you fall in love.
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If you're looking for a feel-good sports documentary, I recommend The Comeback on Netflix, wherein the Boston Red Sox finally win the World Series in 2004. Because the Yankees are evil.
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It’s Time for Outgoing Democrats to Play Hardball. #amen
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Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts. (“No intention” isn’t very binding fwiw.)
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No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
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Reports from 2008 indicated that Obama ultimately believed [RFK Jr's] controversial statements and a past arrest for heroin possession in the 1980s made Senate confirmation highly improbable.
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China's tight security, metal detectors at Tiananmen Square reveal changed nation.
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One of the nicest features of Bluesky is that every user has an RSS feed, so you can follow people from Bluesky in any RSS-compatible feed reader.
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Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States. How could you do so? The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves.
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Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage.
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Matt Gaetz Is the Best Possible Outcome for Attorney General.
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Is BlueSky the new Twitter, and if so is that a good thing?
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Infowars Acquired by The Onion, Will Become a Parody of Itself.
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An HTTP server that can post messages to Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter and WordPress via REST call. A bridge betw web writing tools and various places people want to post their writing to.
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Last year on this day: We have too many modes of writing.
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Dearborn Residents Show Remorse After Trump Win: 'He's Playing Us.'
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How Do I Protect My Privacy If I’m Seeking an Abortion?
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America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power.
