I follow the river of news approach for RSS feeds. I have done for twenty-plus years. I ignore unread counts. On the other hand, there are few RSS feeds where I do want to read every one that comes in. I use folders to separate the must-read streams from the high-volume, read-whenever feeds.
I don’t follow podcasts on proprietary platforms like YouTube and Spotify. That’s not out of principle. I just don’t bother with it. For 95% of my podcasts, I listen rather than watch and I do it in Overcast. Why fuss with another app?
Why telcos shouldn’t fear an AI apocalypse — yet. AI doomer hype is surging, but telcos shouldn’t expect catastrophic change to OSS/BSS modernization. My latest on Fierce Network.
Voter ID isn't designed to protect voting. It's designed to steal elections.
Voter ID is a scam to disenfranchise millions of voters. The conservative Heritage Foundation, one of the biggest backers of the SAVE Act, which requires proof of citizenship to vote, claims voter fraud is a major issue. But in the groups own records, there have been 68 documented cases of residents casting a ballot in a US election since the 1980s.
That’s just 68 over the past 40 years — a fraud rate of 0.0001%.
The SAVE Act would require a passport or Real ID to vote, both of which cost money. It’s a poll tax, meant to punish people who can’t afford to pay.
Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions. Staggering corruption: Trump is suing the US government for billions of dollars as a result of the criminal investigations against him, and Trump and his cronies — including Pam Bondi — will decide how much he gets.
MAGA’s “People’s Capitalism”: An Alliance of Bourgeoisie and Mob. Corrupt family-owned businesses that support Trump reap billions from ICE’s terror campaign, along with a “reactionary fraction of the tech sector…. It’s the mob from top to bottom.”
The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Pete Hegseth. Does not disappoint.
I’ve been doing a lot of chopping lately. I like to have an apple nearly every day with lunch. My teeth have been bothering me for a couple of months — not enough to schedule an emergency dentist visit — but it’s uncomfortable for me to bite into an apple. So I’ve been cutting the apple into bite-sized pieces. And even though I don’t cook, I’ve gotten great at chopping, and also pretty good at not slicing open a finger.
Last weekend I decided to once again migrate my Mastodon usage to my blog at mitchwagner.com, hosted by Micro.blog, as my only outpost on the Fediverse. Micro.blog seems to work pretty well for me as a Mastodon client, though it has not in the past.
However, I’d still like to be able to see other people’s boosts from Micro.blog — that is a feature that @manton has steadfastly resisted implementing.