Some strong arguments from Dash here.

The Kobayashi Maru scenario is one of the best things to come out of Star Trek, and this is one of the best takes on it I’ve read.

I’ve seen this argument floating out there, but this is the first time I looked at some of the numbers.

If there were such a thing as a good army fighting a good war, it would be the Allies in World War II. It’s wildly irresponsible to overlook the awful things done by that army in that war for the sake of holding both up as “good,” though.

It never occurred to me that you could use a Kindle in such a “de-Amazoned” way… and it also infuriates me that Amazon still interferes this much.

I agree with a lot of this post.

Interested by Ken’s take here, even if it doesn’t necessarily make me feel better about gestures at everything. Also, this line cracked me up: Pete Hegseth’s chief qualification to be Secretary of Defense is that Trump saw him on the teevee a lot and his tattoos are not, technically, Nazi symbols.

Excellent article that sums up a lot of my thinking on this show.

Nearly spit out my lunch while watching this!

I don’t agree with Ken on everything, but I always appreciate his perspective. I could quibble about some of his finer points here, but I think this is worth a read.

Well, this sucks.

I appreciate these thoughts from Doctorow. I understand the excitement around Bluesky, I’m happy to follow people there, and I will likely lean into it more as a POSSE vector. That said, I still don’t know that it’s what I want the future of social media to look like.

Andy is a good one.

I stopped using Strava over five years ago when the stories were about secret military bases being identified through the service were coming out.

Standing in one of these lines right now! Fingers crossed for the future. 🤞🏻😬🤞🏻

Some powerful stuff in here.

Rank hypocrisy. I don’t necessarily think Musk should have been deported way back when, but I think he should be called out on this.

This is cute, but also Ring doorbells are seriously the thing that scares me most on Halloween.

There are countless GOP politicians and voters who believe Harris is unqualified for the job for lesser (and often exaggerated or fabricated controversies), and yet none of this seems to bother them. gift link

Wild to read this so soon after finishing Character Limit, because I’m getting very similar vibes.

Fascinating look at a controversial element in Mormon history. I wish more of the data here were firm rather than anecdotal—I think this topic is enough that it could be its own book if there were enough data (made) available.

McConnell comes so close to having a conscience and then seems to always bail when it becomes inconvenient to him. That makes him more of a disappointment than if he showed no moral awareness at all.

RSS forever! I love RSS, I love Cory Doctorow, and I love this post.

Like so many other things, this alone should disqualify him. Gift link.

What a gross offer to receive.

I am slowly writing something related to open source governance this semester, so naturally this story keeps getting wilder to give me things to think about.

This is terrifying—but needs more attention.

I don’t understand why anyone would stay on Twitter at this point, unless they’re staying for the nonsense. gift link

A good, informing read.

Look, I like Steam, but it’s still a sucky business model, like so many others today,

This was a hell of a semester to decide to not dedicate a whole lecture to WordPress in my CMS class.

Masnick is excellent at balancing “Musk has a right to do this” with “the hypocrisy is shameful.”

This article was a one-two punch for me. I hoped that the death of a Michigander might draw more attention to victims of the conflict, but his daughter’s comment that “The fact that he was an American citizen should not make his story more important than others” quickly called me to task. Gift Link

This makes a bad story even worse. What a joke.

Worth reading (and bookmarking). I’ve been hesitant to make the “no, actually, Big Tech is biased against liberals” argument, but this seems a compelling datum for that conclusion…

How is this guy a legitimate candidate?