Boy sitting with a hen on his lap, 1943 #rafaelzabaleta #postimpressionism
Dave Winer
@scripting.com
OG blogger, podcaster, outliners, CMSes, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.
U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles: report.
U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
The U.S. Army has used up much of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its war with Iran, people familiar with the data told Reuters.
cnbc.com
I wrote this yesterday about how I want to hook RSS up to standard.site. I'd love to see my posts on their feed reader, and vice versa. scripting.com/2026/08/02.h...
thanks! we want all those excellent writing apps to work in our world too. 🤠
I wrote this yesterday about how I want to hook RSS up to standard.site. I'd love to see my posts on their feed reader, and vice versa. scripting.com/2026/08/02.h...
> Rudy deserves a lot of credit for taking those early risks when it was much harder to build and being the first to prove that it can be done, but it’s getting easier and easier. We are seeing more and more BlueSky and BlackSky-style networks pop up pretty often Shoutout the Original Risk Takers™️
CEO Toni Schneider on protocols, community, and control. www.theverge.com/podcast/9743...
The world is walking a path toward a world war, and no one — including the president of the United States — seems to be in command of events. www.nytimes.com
I usually don’t like horror movies but the Quiet series is good stuff. www.metacritic.com/movie/a-quie...
A Quiet Place Reviews - Metacritic
A family of four must navigate their lives in silence after mysterious creatures that hunt by sound threaten their survival. If they hear you, they hunt you.
metacritic.com
Has AI replaced many human jobs? Just wondering if any polling orgs are watching this.
Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...
Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.
nytimes.com
Some people deserve monuments as grand as their legacy. Harriet Tubman was reimagined as an ancient monument, the kind once reserved for kings and gods. Ruin of a Giant (Harriet Tubman) by Tavares Strachan. 🎥 IG: @UPB #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Andrew shell is testing how various feed readers handle websub. Thinking about supporting it in RSS.chat, but not if I have to put a big ad for Atom at the top of my feed. Nice try. 😀 rss.chat
I want soft networks that people can configure themselves that just pop up you do your thing and they pop right off. There’s so much overhead in creating an identity on a service like bluesky but what about just for the little things. We can do that privately, but what if it isn’t private.
I don't accept that blogging is a career. I write my blog because I want to influence people, and remember what I thought and it's nice when people read my blog, but what I really want is to work with smart people building stuff.
The Sunk Cost Fallacy Is Killing Your Blogging Career (And You Don’t Even Know It)
The quiet bias that keeps bloggers stuck in strategies that stopped working years ago
medium.com
I still love Zen Browser. Exactly the right mix of features for me; regular updates; Firefox at its core. I browse in full-screen with the sidebar set to auto-hide and it just gets out of my way in the way I need. werd.io/why-im-all-i...
Why I'm all-in on Zen Browser
After Arc's pivot to AI left power users behind, I found the browser I actually wanted.
werd.io
She Voted for a Justice Who Overturned Roe. Now it Haunts Her on the Trail. www.nytimes.com
Harris Says Supreme Court Should Expand to 13 Justices https://politicalwire.com/2026/07/31/harris-says-supreme-court-should-expand-to-13-justices/
The hardest thing for people to get about open systems is that if you move forward, not only do you benefit, but your competitors benefit equally. When one of them takes but doesn't give back, that's even worse. But you do it anyway because otherwise eventually, without interop, no one can move.
The hardest thing for people to get about open systems is that if you move forward, not only do you benefit, but your competitors benefit equally. When one of them takes but doesn't give back, that's even worse. But you do it anyway because otherwise eventually, without interop, no one can move.
My big peeve w Claude Code is that it stops to get permission which means I have to sit there clicking buttons, not getting my own work done. It makes overnight jobs almost impossible. I keep asking it to plan ahead, and it often forgets, with apologies, a lot of good that does me. ;-)
Federal regulators have cleared the way for robotaxi company Zoox to begin charging for rides in its self-driving vehicles, the first cars to get approval without having a steering wheel or gas pedals.
Self-driving vehicle without a steering wheel cleared to charge for rides
The boxy vehicles have two sets of face-to-face seats and can drive forward or backward without turning around.
washingtonpost.com
MAGA saw Covid as a criticism of their beloved leader, because it started on his watch, and he initially pooh-poohed it as a Chinese hoax that would go away of its own accord. Just like they can’t accept losing the 2020 election. Everything is about perceived slights to their emperor.
Couldn’t agree more. Dr. Fauci is an American hero.