Me, two weeks ago: wow it's so fun making an #ATProto project, lots of the hard stuff like auth are already taken care of! Me, now: *writing blog posts and staying up way too late thinking about auth for my ATProto project*

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

I have surprised myself today in that I somehow had just assumed Bari Weiss was smarter than she apparently is.

They even memory-hole'd the description from the news release, as I note at Law Dork — with credit to Nolan for initially highlighting the release (to me at least). www.lawdork.com/p/sixty-minu...

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

One of the things that unites MAGA and Technofacists is a hatred for truth telling and investigative reporting. So, the thing that happened to Twitter and the thing that's happening to CBS have the same root motivations.

she's just doing what she was hired to do

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

If you are involved with this report, or have any information about the process involved in today's decision, please reach out. I am on Signal: crg.32

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

this is a much sadder share experience than with other games: apple.news/JhSKeXPD4Qp3...

a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect. now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts

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we also hadn’t invented roast vegetables yet. many problems, with the recent past

@danhon.com I was loosely trolling my eldest by reading the forward to this academic book at bedtime, but I think you might be interested in this: (And it's open access) direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

User research?

Lmao @jeffgeerling.com shouting out xserve!

Delano Massey doesn't seem like he's on here, but it's great to see a topic said out loud that I've seen in a lot of group or closed chats: www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

we just launched the oakland collaborative syllabus! a living, evolving guide to the media of this place also experimenting with a version on protocol (thanks @ronentk.me) and would love to collaborate with other folks interested in participatory local archiving tools semble.so/profile/oakl...

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Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.

Meta's auto translation of voiceovers on Reels is pretty wild. Tho I am not particularly excited to have influencer voice being codified as international style. www.instagram.com/reel/DSVr14W...

I can't decide if this sounds more like a Laundry Files book or a Her Majesty's Royal Coven book where Elon is trying to destroy or co-opt witchcraft because it is denied to him because of his antifeminist MRA praxis.

It is so funny that people are calling a discussion about network ui and ux as a scandal. How do people think communities and open decisions get made? Discussion is important! Disagreement is ok!

Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...

again thinking of when The Free Press ran an article alleging that George Floyd was not killed by the cops, and @radleybalko.bsky.social proved beyond any question that the article was bullshit, and instead of retracting it Weiss asked him to come on her podcast

Today, ProPublica launched a first-of-its-kind app to help you find out where your generic drugs come from and what the factories that made them are like. Here’s how to use it.

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Everyone is understandably sharing the Miller quote, but I found this response from photographer Christopher Anderson to be notable, too.

Yeah, here's my All Online Life Handle

I'll be honest, I'm not especially worried about whether we call it "internet handle" or "at handle" or something else. I'm thinking more about things like this.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

So much of this should focus on some basic branding. Like, how would normal people use it in a sentence? This is what was brilliant about "tweet". "You can find me 'at' knowtheory.net " makes sense and has previous history. I'm less excited about "My internet handle is 'at' knowtheory.net "

Can confirm: regular people who use social networks like normal people pretty much _have_ to have a way of looking up their IRL friends if they're going to get any utility whatsoever out of a social network online. Suggested accounts are barely useful, suggested accounts on small platforms, less so.

The Bandcamp Links feed provides (yet again)

It's landed! So soon we'll be able to instruct PDSes to show the account creation flow (this may need work internally from Bluesky to work with the entryway, not sure)

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Daniel Kwan of the Daniels just announced the creators coalition on AI www.creatorscoalitionai.com

Idea for Semble x Leaflet: - make a Semble collection of your favorite things from this year - make a Leaflet post (doc or canvas) and add those links + some extra commentary or reflection! Hopefully soon we can even make it possible to link to Semble collections & cards directly :)

Recurring payments is a complex set of features with development and user experience questions mingled together. This is something that I have a lot of experience with, so I've written a small series to go along with the engineering plan.

@werd.io What is this, 2014? 🥲

Tech sovereignty isn’t about swapping US hyperscalers for local monopolies, writes David Eaves. That just recreates dependency. Real agency comes from interoperability, de facto standards, and procurement that makes switching cloud providers simple, says Eaves.

And the nominees for the Rogueie for Best Cozy Game are … www.rogue.site/editorials/t... (Audience poll in the replies.)

There be no shelter here

My house and neighborhood is enshrouded in a thick fog. Weirdly skyline road is totally clear

Is it too much to hope that Trump's eventual obituaries are written in the same style

This whole thread up and down seems to me to be a good way of reframing the “cultures of play” concept — tied into @kierongillen.bsky.social reminder the other day of the way that TTRPGs were learned first in oral, table-specific traditions, far more than Rules As Written.

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different