“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.
ActivityPub and ATPro need to fully interoperate. A Mastodon user should be able to follow a BlueSky user and vice versa.
It’s insane that this is not possible today. My iPhone on AT&T doesn’t care if you have a Samsung phone on Verizon. We can just talk to each other.
Twitter, Threads and Tumblr have financial interests in blocking interoperability. Mastodon and Bluesky do not have those interests. So what’s the hold-up?
Elizabeth Warren sends a letter to Whiskey Pete Hegseth questioning whether it’s a good idea to grant a $200 million defense contract to Elon Musk’s MechaHitler. theverge.com
Apple’s new crossbody phone strap has a surprisingly interesting history, going back to the 1940s, when fashion designers started shrinking or removing women’s pockets “because they interfered with the form-fitting silhouettes popularized by Christian Dior’s ‘New Look.’” theverge.com
I probably won’t get the strap; my phone lives in my left front pants pocket most days.
Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t. Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed. [The Atlantic]