What a dumb, petty administration this is.

I have been meaning for months to embrace Kagi, and this is pushing me further over that edge.

Posting this in the interest of fairness, but I’m still not happy with Mozilla right now.

Yes please.

The headline is a little provocative, but it’s scary that we live in a world where it makes some sense. More broadly, though, I found that the first Trump administration converted me to nuclear disarmament—yes, this president is scary, but that any president has access to that much destructive power is scarier still. I expect I’ll go further in that direction this time around.

I’m teaching a social media research methods class this semester, and I’m pretty sure I need to bring this article up in this week’s class.

Lots of bad things are happening right now, but this one stands out. There’s no good reason for this except to make Musk happy.

Personally, I’ve come around to the idea that fewer restrictions, “Community Notes”-style responses, and lots of personal control over what one sees could work better as content moderation. It’s interesting to see Bluesky take some of these approaches, for example! Here, though, this seems like it’s bending the knee to the Trump administration, and I can’t imagine any of this being done in good faith. What a disappointment Meta continues to be.

I don’t see myself pivoting away from Reeder, but this looks interesting, and I want to see more of this kind of app out there.

Look, I’m a bit hesitant here, but Aardman’s take on Star Wars was great, so fingers crossed!!

I’ll admit that I haven’t read much on all of this, but I can’t imagine any coverage better than this article.

Well, this sucks.

Some powerful stuff in here.

What a wild story.

In a weird kind of Streisand effect, I’ve only started using the Internet Archive library since this lawsuit began and it’s a fantastic service. I won’t pretend to know the ins and outs of copyright law, but this sucks.

What reckless hubris. As I wrote earlier today, I’m in favor of more liberal IP law, but not so that businesses can swallow up content to profit from it.

What a sucky situation.

I am very grumpy about this. Also, the point of emoji is that they exist within Unicode, yeah? So these aren’t really emoji in the way that those icons are useful—they’re just a fun trick that’s helping advance the climate crisis.

I’ve been feeling for a while like I need to move away from Apple eventually, but I’m so entangled in the ecosystem that I’m dragging my feet on it. Seeing the company drink the AI Kool-Aid is definitely accelerating my plans—and will even more so if there’s no easy way to turn these featutes off.

Oh, please no no no. I usually read a whole article before posting it, but just the first few paragraphs are giving me such a visceral reaction that I don’t know if I’ll make it through the rest. The existing tech giants already have such a hold on us, let’s please not let OpenAI in the door.

This is why I include nonsense descriptions for all my Venmo transactions.

Such a depressing article.

Hmm. Unsurprising but all the more frustrating for it.

Fascinating read on web crawlers and robots.txt

Domain name infrastructure plays a bigger role than we might think.

Hate to see Swift taking a page out of Musk’s book here.

I don’t like Spotify, but they’re not wrong here.

C’mon Apple.

Sideloading for Americans, too, please.

I don’t get what’s missing from a world without generative AI—and examples like this don’t make me any more convinced.

Yeah, but don’t worry, this is definitely the only way that generative AI will be used to overwhelm us with useless content.

Good for Platformer.

Happy Public Domain day!

There are legitimately difficult content moderation decisions, but this is not one of them. Shame on Substack for this approach.

I think folks are right to distrust Meta, but Threads with ActivityPub seems to me to be clearly better than Threads without.

This… this is even worse than just giving him an account back. Ugh.