We’ve been traveling, and I’ve been mostly unplugged from the news during that time. I see we’re going to war in the Middle East again. I’m sure it will go well this time. Fourth time’s a charm, right?
A Republican lawmaker suffered delays receiving care for her life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, blames the left. Classic MAGA: Pass a bad law and then blame the people who opposed the law for the problems the law creates. theguardian.com
House staffers can’t have WhatsApp on their devices. The chief administrative officer claims the messaging app is “high-risk.” theverge.com
You sound like ChatGPT: AI is changing how we write and what we sound like when we talk. theverge.com
As ICE Raids Continue, Parts of a Vibrant City Go Empty. Missing vendors, markets of rotting food, and families too frightened to leave home: this is life in Los Angeles now. motherjones.com
Jio: ‘AI is the new UI and APIs are the new KPI’ — The telco discussed its ambitious plan to make AI inclusive and affordable for 1.4 billion Indians, at TM Forum’s DTW Ignite conference. My latest on Fierce Network.
“Let’s make sure that Venice is not remembered as a postcard venue where Bezos had his wedding but as the city that did not bend to oligarchs.” nytimes.com
Mitchellaneous Vol. LXXXV: Twelve things I saw on the Internet
May 1943. Point Pleasant, West Virginia. “Rural life along the Ohio River. Jimmie Fergusen, son of the local junior high school principal, pouring out a glass of lemonade with his mother.” Acetate negative by Arthur S. Siegel for the Office of War Information. The high-resolution version reveals details.
The Disciples Of Cthulhu edited by Edward P. Berglund, cover Karel Thole
Forms of Transportation that Were Supposed to Change the World (But Didn’t…). youtu.be
A friend asked a group of tech journalists the most time we spent at an individual publication. I spent a long time poring over my memory and LinkedIn profile and am still not sure.
Mapping my career path is like working out the timelines of the Back to the Future movies. Or unbending a pretzel.
The Micro Macintosh is a programmable $43 miniature reproduction of the 1986 Macintosh Plus with a 0.85-inch screen that “runs animated images of the Mac OS 7 operating system and a captivating game of Pong.” It “serves as a delightful desktop toy that pays tribute to a bygone era of computing.” tindie.com
California Senator Alex Padilla was assaulted, handcuffed,forced to the ground and detained when he tried to confront Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a press conference. politico.com
Tape, glass, and molecules – the future of archival storage. Tape is the standard for archival storage, but it has to be rewritten every five years or so, which is expensive. Microsoft and other vendors are working on technologies using etched glass and DNA that could last hundreds or thousands of years. theregister.com
A Manufactured Crisis: How A Few Hooligans In LA Became The Pretext For Military Rule. techdirt.com
Trump overhaul of $42B broadband fund upends states' plans to expand access. arstechnica.com
Move over Disinformation Dozen — Meet the Hateful Eight. RFK Jr. is stacking the federal vaccine advisory council with anti-vaccine lunatics and grifters. Many people will die because of this. Violet Blue’s Threat Model