you mean i can just publish anything to the web without some random gatekeeper (apple, google) telling me what to do? that's crazy

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it,… https://zeldman.com/2025/10/25/receipts-a-brief-list-of-prominent-articles-proclaiming-the-death-of-the-web/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

For one of my final stories with @wired.com, I teamed up with @peggylowe.bsky.social at KCUR to dig through a Kansas City, KS police hack Inside were some of the most disturbing misconduct files I’ve ever read—and a secret list of cops the department said couldnt be trusted Here are a few of them:

It's actually not swindling to tell people what they want to hear if you actually intend on doing those things. Swindling would be something like, just for example, announcing a fake Hyperloop system solely to kill California's high speed rail initiative.

Trying to figure out what #SCOTUS just did with #SNAP, and why Justice Jackson temporarily froze the district court's ruling? Via "One First," me on what's going on—and why I think Jackson's move was savvy, notwithstanding the awful circumstances that forced it: www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

NEW: Former federal employees released another Shadow Report—this time on the State Dept's Women, Peace, and Security program—after the US gov failed to deliver its report to Congress, which it was legally obligated to do by 10/31 per the 2017 WPS Act (co-sponsored by Rubio and signed by Trump).

Condolences on everybody who now needs to write articles about how resistance to fascism is super unpopular and can’t win. It’s a tough job, but at least it pays well.

actual communism

a new #CSS <color-input> enters the ring try it codepen.io/argyleink/pe... source github.com/argyleink/cs...

Is there a way to buy a peerage these days? Because I would contribute cash money to get Sean Dunn named the Earl of Sandwich

It's been a few days since Trump announced his "deal" with Xi. It's now clear that Trump got fleeced. America gave up lots and got nothing. It's a story you should know bc few things matter more than the U.S.-China relationship. 1/ So here's a🧵

JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing. Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵

adactio.com/journal/22235 ☝️ wise words in this link

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

Oh, to be a whole-house battery sales exec down under... electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Dr. Oz screaming "Is there a doctor?"

The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

ICYMI, servers got good, which means that if your data is smaller than ~8TB (yes, TB), it's not "big data", it's "thing you can grep in memory in near real time."

Now *this* is how you write a bloody headline.

Introducing Learn JavaScript for Universities ✨ Many universities and coding bootcamps use Learn JavaScript to supplement their curriculum. They get to outsource the basics of JavaScript so they can focus on teaching more advanced content.

The 🇬🇧UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has officially designated Apple as having Strategic Market Status (SMS). After four years investigating Apple’s restrictions on browser engines and web apps, the CMA now has statutory authority to enforce a code of conduct. 1/12

It was very good! Hope to see you there next year.

A little aftermovie to whet your appetite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByOC...

It's wild that mobile apps are so entrenched that even the EFF doesn't pause and ask "waitaminute, we haven't really had this problem on desktop for decades... now what invisible force has kept those platforms in check all these years??"

Apple's mask-off suppression of PWAs has been shockingly effective, amd regulators around the world are connecting the dots, even if the tech press continually fail to.

The UK is being deliberate and clear-eyed. Apple has already played high-stakes games to avoid EU and UK regulation, but the momentum is building. Japan's new rules come into force in December, and Cupertino's transparent gamesmanship is going down like a lead balloon.

No mention of the web or PWAs? What the actual EFF? www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... /cc @open-web-advocacy.org

We've got you 👍

Is there ever going to be an interviewer who pushes back and tells him that immigrants seeking asylum is different than insane asylums?

Pretty extraordinary story here www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

I've been writing more about how Web Standards *actually* come to be, and the responses make me thing there's a ton more to discuss; so in the spirit of figuring it out together, AMA: infrequently.org/series/effective…

✍️ New Article: Use Cases for Field Sizing A quick look at field-sizing and where it can be used. I hope this will land in Firefox and Safari soon. The good thing? We can use it as an enhancement. 🔗 ishadeed.com/article/fiel...

"No, this bunker and mercenary army is definitely NOT for the inevitable economic collapse I am causing. It's because my product is so worthy of investment that I need literally all the money or else it might do a science fiction on us. Yeah, that's the ticket. Robot armies, paperclips. Roko."

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Fellow #perfnow fellows, a reminder that PerfPlanet calendar is coming this December for another edition. And it needs YOU. Please ask if you have any contribution ideas or concerns calendar.perfplanet.com/contribute/

Great piece from Shannon, who has come to the very sensible conclusion that the very male-dominated discourse around AGI is basically conspiracy theories.

As SNAP hangs in the balance for nearly 42 million people, misinformation is rampant. Myths of laziness and fraud persist when we should be talking about too low wages for workers, income inequality, and our threadbare social safety net. In this guest post, Adam Chandler sorts fact from fiction:

It’s okay to be glad that restaurants are doing stuff like this AND absolutely furious about the utter failure of the United States government.

Folks, please note this. The top military official overseeing Trump's boat bombings recently resigned with no explanation, and now Republicans in Congress are refusing to press for his testimony even in a classified setting. Lots of new behind-the-scenes reporting in this piece:

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

This was intensely good in person, and the slides are worth your time.

Lmao literally having a "we're rich" party while they cut SNAP is like cartoon level evil it's like the villain in a Dr. Seuss book

No lies detected.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Courage is contagious. Sounds too simple, but is true. Same for cowardice.

I have been sooooo looking forward to this! SPA heuristics are gonna be such a huge step forward for measuring perf on the web and finally having hard data on the perf impact. @mmocny.com #perfnow

Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...

Hello, jetlag, my old friend...