Rebooting The Blogosphere (Part 1: Activities) climbtothestars.org. Lately I like blogging more and more as an alternative to the twitter-alikes.
Five technological achievements! (That we won’t see any time soon.) crookedtimber.org/2025/09/0…
“Anytime soon” = 25 years. By 2050.
The first is sending humans to Mars and bringing them home alive.
The final two predictions are particularly painful.
Google: The worst possible antitrust outcome. pluralistic.net
“Blogging lost to Twitter because Twitter had one-click subscribe.” scripting.com/2025/09/0…
“The Dems are terrible at politics. They should be running ads on TV saying that no workers in the fields means food prices soaring as we’ll have to import food because all the American crops are dead because there was no one to harvest them.” scripting.com/2025/09/0…
“Reminder: Sept 18, one week from today, is the 3rd anniversary of the 20th anniversary of the release of RSS 2.0.” I love RSS. I use it every day, and have for more than 20 years. scripting.com
Mastodon is getting quote posts. blog.joinmastodon.org
On Political Violence. A short, insightful commentary. prospect.org
“The logical endpoint of 21st-century America: An influencer shot to death at a school in front a crowd of smartphones.” garbageday.email
I published and deleted two posts about Charlie Kirk yesterday, and then wrote one more today, and I don’t expect to publish it.
Anything I can think to say about the subject seems like something that will just add heat, rather than light, to a situation that’s already in danger of boiling over.