Revisiting this piece about how to build a strong newsroom technology culture. "I like to say that journalism treats technology as something that happens to it — like an asteroid. But technology is too important to the future of news for it to be treated passively. [...] If you want to spread a […]

Idea for a service: You submit your resume / CV and links to any professionally relevant websites (your own, LinkedIn profile, social handles, etc). A panel of hiring managers in your field then gives you anonymous feedback, letting you know the first impressions that you wouldn't otherwise […]

Read too many things & killed my static site build process w/ all the articles. Time to do another round of performance improvements and seriously consider breaking out my quotes and amplifies to a subdomain/separate build process. 11ty just can't take the scope + do the cool things I want it to do.

🧐 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-amd-pay-15-china-chip-sale-revenue-us-official-says-2025-08-11/

"But the “fear of being left behind” argument is particularly dangerous: it suggests that you should pick a technology first and then find problems for it to solve. That’s always backwards." In case you missed it, how I think about AI - in terms of vendors, tech, and power […]

XSLT *should* be part of the web platform. https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/xslt-is-still-important/

The idea of a blogging residency is lovely. One based on the kinds of conversations hosted on Lesswrong is less appealing to me. I kind of want to start an equivalent for optimistic humanist writers who believe in a community, equity, and human-centered view of the present and future […]

On bridging between networks vs cross-posting: "They’re similar, but they’re different in some important ways. Notably, bridging results in more unified conversations, while cross-posted conversations are more fragmented." That's why Bridgy Fed's approach is so interesting - and, imo […]

> In a 2015 lecture, Wreden declared that a “fearful state of mind” within the mainstream video-game industry had led to “an art form in which by far the most ubiquitous form of expression is that of firing a gun.” We have, he went on, “a culture where violence is understood and implied to be […]

I am happy to have been wrong about Ghost and excited with what they're building! I can't wait to try out the latest version, and test out its really cool integration with the decentralized web. https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/ghost-is-building-a-blogger-decentralized-future/

What is the absolutely gold-standard, best-in-class, most diamond-class experience for a Linux laptop in 2025? I'm interested in model, distribution, etc. My work computers are all Mac but I'm thinking about diverging for my next personal machine.

Ads on your AI chats and in your AI systems are just inevitable now https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/frontier-ai-labs-the-call-option-to-agi/

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More people read my blog via RSS than any other single platform or social media platform. I think that's really cool! Here's how I figured out how to get a rough count of how many people read my site via RSS […]

It should be said, and doing this in their free fucking time as a volunteer effort too. > And we ordinary people are all out here in the feeds trying to piece it together in our heads. https://mas.to/@kissane/114558323930891999

I don't think it's possible to be where we are in #uspol (and in the global authoritarian slide) without our information ecosystems being such a mess. There's a ton of work to do on the distribution side of the problem, but also on the info-making side: Even great newsrooms aren't built to make […]

This is an important way to support different kinds of communities. It's great to see the Mastodon team grow to support these features. I'd love to see CC-licensed terms of service for communities to use. #Fediverse https://werd.io/2025/mastodon-updating-some-legal-features

Anyway, I've asked the Linus Tech Tips guys if they would run the n=13 search, over at https://linustechtips.com/topic/1612153-this-world-record-took-years-and-a-million-dollars/page/2/#comment-16732910. We'll see if they take me up on it. If not, maybe I'll actually do the n=12 version myself […]

What!? Insane thing to do. Give me Pocket. I could do some good shit with Pocket. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket

The thing that makes public transit in cities like NYC work is that you don’t need to know the schedule; you just show up and you know something will come along shortly. When I lived in Oxford the buses to London ran every 5 minutes. Anyway, I have to wait 45 minutes for my SEPTA train.

Can't believe that we're still having this same discussion from last year. Obama got elected by promising change and the Dems put up the three most establishment status quo candidates following. We're not going to fix the problem by making lefty Rogan […]

Blogged on if the Pivot deal matters, and what it could mean. https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/kara-swisher-and-scott-galloway-bet-dollar30-million-they-know-how-to-run-a-podcast-better-than-you/

I’ve written before about what I’d do if I ran Bluesky or Mastodon. But what if I started from scratch? What would it look like to build a new open social platform - one that's private-by-default, human-centered, and sustainable from day one? Here’s the blueprint I’d follow […]

I started a tag to track stories that a mere decade ago would have each justified an entire news cycle, but in the current administration come and go. We keep establishing new baseline norms of terrible. It's about to break 200 stories. The list needs its own site soon […]

This is obvious, but if people broadly rely on a black box to give them answers that help them understand the world, whoever controls the black box controls those answers and therefore the understanding that comes from them. Openness is safety.

Why am I running for @w3c Advisory Board (@ab)? https://www.torgo.com/blog/2025/05/why-am-i-running-for-w3c-advisory-board.html

I am really recommending Lily Alexandre's striking latest video on trans visibility and why her community should resist the urge to disappear from the public sphere - https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/notes-on-notes-on-vanishing/

NYC folks! Are you into Horror, the Environment, or Climate Journalism? Come to this event, w/all proceeds going to the Society of Environmental Journalists this weekend! Enjoy a horror movie staring Ron Perlman and a Q&A with the director. https://partiful.com/e/1WB9DOK8iQFJpuQDAdq9

"I spoke with eight journalists about how to leak in a safe, smart way." A good introduction to leaking to a journalist. #democracy https://werd.io/2025/how-to-leak-to-a-journalist

It sort of is wild to me that Arc was clearly immensely influential, huegely successful in changing the UI conversation, and tapped into a big desire by users for a different window on to the web and then they we're like 'nah, what if we fked about w/AI' It's very clear that we're going to look […]

We won't even know how many people Trump has killed until so far in the future. https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/the-cdc-has-been-gutted/

This keeps happening, we saw it coming, we know its shape and yet we remain helpless to stop it apparently. I want something to be next that isn't more and more of this. https://aramzs.xyz/noteworthy/blake-lively-becomes-the-latest-target-of-the-harassment-tactics-developed-by-gamergate/

"Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed." #technology […]

Made a little character sheet system for my players of Homeworld Revelations. LMK if this works! https://homeworld-character-sheet.glitch.me/

All of the materials we covered in class, including my screencasts, are free and open to anyone at https://palewi.re/docs/first-python-notebook/

this feels like a silly thing to say but even though i’ve been using linux since 2004 I feel like i’m learning recently that the impact of the GNU project is even bigger than I thought (please no “it’s GNU/Linux”)

With RFKJr.'s confirmation I suspect we will have an explosion of misinformation, about vaccines especially. Here's a context page I put together to help people looking for references and ways to discuss vaccines and how safe they are. https://context.center/topics/vaccines/

"Automattic confirmed to TechCrunch that when the migration is complete, every Tumblr user will be able to federate their blog via ActivityPub." I didn't realize this was still happening! #Fediverse https://werd.io/2025/tumblr-to-join-the-fediverse-after-wordpress-migration-completes

My feed blew up with debate on the Roost announcement. Here are my thoughts: https://aramzs.xyz/thoughts/roost-must-prove-itself-good-thats-a-reasonable-request/

A continued reminder that blocking referrers on Mastodon means that nobody can measure how many visits they're getting from the platform, so publishers don't know how much to invest in it (and therefore don't). It's such an own goal for the platform.

"How do we design tools for the next decade of the web? I keep coming back to this question. At the root of this question is a yearning to reflect on what we have learned from the technology we have today and figuring out what we can make better. Given what we know, what should we do next?" […]

The questions I would like to see people thinking about w/r/t ROOST are things like: * Who is NOT on that founding partners list? And what does that mean? * How much do I know about Camille François, the actual president of the initiative, and how does that change my sense of what this is? * […]

Trying to keep track of Bird Flu, which seems to be a quickly worsening situation after we did... very little about it for 3 years. With the neglect the subject is certain to get by the new administration I thought it would be good to start a timeline context page […]

Hey, for those of you doing home web hosting, what's your suggestion for a setup that can handle a bunch of docker containers and some RAM-heavy tasks?

A massive, last-minute data preservation effort was undertaken this week as important federal datasets were taken offline. #democracy https://werd.io/2025/researchers-rush-to-preserve-federal-health-databases-before-they-disappear

"On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make: Defy President Donald Trump’s order to immediately stop their operations or let up to 100 babies and toddlers die." They chose the children. […]

The present moment is just another example of why every newsroom needs to have a diverse reporting staff and inclusive policies. Peoples' lived experiences inform their reporting; Black people, trans people, working class people, women, people with chronic illnesses, and more, are all under […]

Where do you go when you need to find out what's breaking in your webviews?

“Journalists, including some at CBS News, are expressing alarm at reports that CBS parent company Paramount Global is trying to settle a legally dubious lawsuit lodged by #Trump last fall.” https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/media/cbs-trump-settlement-60-minutes?cid=ios_app

🎙️ “If we do not follow the audiences to the new platforms with real conviction and scale, our future prospects will not be good.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/business/media/cnn-layoffs-mark-thompson.html