Pedal coast-to-coast without using a road? New program helps connect trails...
This is completely lovely and the kind of thing America absolutely should be doing. "O’Neil hopes the trail born from eastern Indiana’s old railroad tracks will eventually become a central cog in the...
View ArticleLawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X against CCDH thrown out by judge
"A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, writing in a judgement Monday that the “case is about punishing the...
View ArticleFacebook and X gave up on news. LinkedIn wants to fill the void
"All of this has led to some pretty serious soul-searching among America’s journalists. Is the future email newsletters? Will podcasts save the news? Does everything need to be short vertical video...
View ArticleThe Deaths of Effective Altruism
"This is a stranger story of how some small-time philosophers captured some big-bet billionaires, who in turn captured the philosophers—and how the two groups spun themselves into an opulent vortex...
View ArticleRussell T. Davies on Why Doctor Who's Disney Partnership Is So Important
"You’ve also got to look at the long-term, at the end of the BBC, which somehow is surely undoubtedly on its way in some shape or form. What, is Doctor Who going to die then?" This is a pretty...
View ArticleFacebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
"By 2013, Netflix had begun entering into a series of “Facebook Extended API” agreements, including a so-called “Inbox API” agreement that allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users'...
View ArticleWith 'Cowboy Carter,' Black country music fans are front and center, at last
"In interviews with The 19th, a dozen Black fans of country discussed reconciling their love for the music with its racist, misogynistic past, as well as the pervasive image of White men who continue...
View ArticleReplay: Memoir of an Uprooted Family, by Jordan Mechner
Just fabulous. Maybe it's because his family history is not a world of different from mine, or maybe it's because his journey and interests feels intertwined with my own, but I wept openly as I read...
View ArticleA ProPublica Lawsuit Over Military Court Access Moves Forward
From my colleagues: "ProPublica has “plausibly alleged that the issued guidelines are clearly inconsistent with Congress’ mandate.” This is most apparent, the judge said, in the allegation that the...
View ArticleWhy we invented a new metric for measuring readership
"One particular piece of the journalism model that is broken? How news organizations measure their readership." Pageviews are not a million miles away from hits - which is how we measured success in...
View ArticleHere's the column Meta doesn't want you to see
"On Thursday I reported that Meta had blocked all links to the Kansas Reflector from approximately 8am to 4pm, citing cybersecurity concerns after the nonprofit published a column critical of...
View ArticleThe US aims to 'crack the code' on scaling up geothermal energy production
This hadn't really been on my radar: "Just one type of next generation geothermal — called superhot rock energy, where deep drilling reaches temperatures 400 degrees Celsius (752 degrees Fahrenheit)...
View ArticleThe Thing That's Coming
An interesting opinion piece about the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, the aftermath thereof, and how it all relates to the election. "But even if we had performed adequate maintenance, the...
View ArticleMaking version noir
This is completely lovely: a responsive, noir-inspired personal homepage in the form of a comic. I'm inspired. #Indieweb [Link]
View ArticleWhat’s next for me…
"I am absolutely convinced that journalism’s most essential role at this critical moment goes far, far beyond what it’s doing. The status quo in political (and related) coverage consists of...
View ArticleAmazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made.
"Virtually every single part of the self-publishing grift world that can be automated or monetized has been automated and monetized." This is a really depressing read: fascinating, for sure, but...
View ArticleAI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
"I find my feelings about AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about blockchains: they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim...
View ArticleWhat you see
"Too often, [...] we assume that the person who is the object of our feedback has something to learn and fail to notice the same thing about ourselves." This is a really important observation. Without...
View ArticleVision for W3C
This is exactly what I'd hope to see from a standards organization like the W3C: "W3C leads the community in defining a World Wide Web that puts users first, by developing technical standards and...
View ArticleThe Internet and Climate Change
"A recent MIT study indicated that “the cloud” now has a larger carbon footprint than the airline industry, and that “a single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.” The...
View ArticleNewsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’
"This has long been the dream, and it seems like the platforms betting on it in various ways — Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Flipboard, and others — are where all the energy is, while attempts to...
View ArticleFTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
This is genuinely wonderful: “The FTC’s final rule to ban noncompetes will ensure Americans have the freedom to pursue a new job, start a new business, or bring a new idea to market.” This was already...
View ArticleAs TikTok ban threatens stability in social media ecosystem, some brands...
Buried here: "Vox Media’s technology news publication The Verge says it also has plans to federate its own site to have more ownership over its content and audience, according to The Verge...
View ArticleMy Dinner With Andreessen
Marc Andreessen on poor people: “I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.” This also resonated with me: "One participant was a British former journalist become computer...
View ArticleA Message from the Chancellor on the Recent Student Protest
"The University administration respects all student protests, just not this one. Students have fought for many important causes over the years, and their right to protest is sacrosanct. In this case,...
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