It’s a dog food slop breakfast.
I love this image of reading. We’ve all been there, if not with a donkey in tow.
Source: [Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties] by Wordsworth Thompson, chromolithograph (L. Prang & Co.), 1878., Library of Congress, Popular Graphic Arts Collection, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016649779/.
My Kindle Paperwhite is a tank. Twelve years old and still fine. It takes 30 seconds to open a book from the main menu, but once that’s done page-turning is fast and smooth. Nicely done, Amazon.
Musk forced out the head of the FAA ten days ago, after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to comply with safety regulations. Trump appointed a replacement today — after the D.C. disaster.
Trump’s Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, is a former contestant on MTV’s “The Real World” and worked as a host on Fox Business. “The other top-ranking Trump Cabinet member tasked with dealing with fallout from the crash is Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is also a former Fox News host.”
Like the saying goes: When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become king. The palace turns into a circus.
Eight days ago, Trump proudly proclaimed he “ends DEI madness” and “restores excellence and safety within the Federal Aviation Administration.”
Trump’s delusions killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in his last term in office. He’s just getting started this time.
I see that OpenAI is claiming DeepSeek improperly harvested data. Must be terrible to have other people profit off your work.
Trump lost no time in fitting the DC crash tragedy into his toxic anti-woke delusions.
I poked around on the fanfiction archive AO3 for a few minutes last night
I have never explored AO3 much, but I saw a mention of it on Tumblr and figured, why not take a look?
I cast around in my mind for my all-time favorite TV shows to see if there might be fic for them. I thought of “Hill Street Blues.”
“No way there is ‘Hill Street Blues’ fic,” I thought. “That show’s been off the air more than 30 years, and it’s barely been on streaming.”
But I was wrong. There is “Hill Street Blues” fic. JD LaRue and Henry Goldblume seem to be popular characters.
Maybe I’ll check for old-time radio fic. “The Jack Benny Show.” “Fibber McGee and Molly.”
Replicating social silos, but with open protocols, is the wrong answer
I have a blog hosted on Micro.blog, and I’m active on BlueSky, Tumblr and Mastodon. I post mostly the same things in all those places.
I go back and forth on the issue of whether to post natively to all those platforms or just post once to Micro.blog and move on, relying on Micro.blog’s excellent built-in cross-posting tools to spread the word to the other places.
Every solution I’ve found is unsatisfactory.
The social Internet needs a model similar to podcasting, where folks can publish on whatever platform they prefer — Micro.blog, Facebook, WordPress, Ghost, Tumblr, Mastodon, BlueSky, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, whatever — and other folks can read on whatever platform they prefer, and everything is readable in native format. Dave Winer calls that textcasting.
Instead, we seem to be replicating proprietary silos but using open protocols, which is better than proprietary silos with proprietary protocols. But it’s far from ideal.