Notices by Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto (dave@social.masto.land)

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars.

https://theconversation.com/the-worlds-280-million-electric-bikes-and-mopeds-are-cutting-demand-for-oil-far-more-than-electric-cars-213870

Tesla owners turn against Musk.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/29/tesla-owners-elon-musk

A Good Country’s Bad Choice.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/good-country-bad-choice/680743/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHYBfJ_kuIQW1jXdJTUHp7T0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Whoever ends up owning Chrome, we could use a new browser war.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91231751/google-chrome-sale-department-of-justice-browser-war

I’d love to help a podcast client developer create the equivalent of Starter Packs. They would quickly become a standard. Influencers will love them. I have a list ready to go. Email me.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/06-26-2024-starter-packs

No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nobody_ever_went_broke_underestimating_the_intelligence_of_the_American_people

If Bluesky is open source, which it appears to be, someone who has time and has experience packaging products, should create a Bluesky distribution for a few popular hosting services (Digital Ocean, AWS, Google Cloud, etc), so installing a new instance is as simple as it can possibly be. One click? That would be awesome.

We need to have thousands of these running. If it really is like the web, as they say it is, then it should be like the web in every way. There are lots of websites. If you sell your website to a billionaire, that has no effect on my website.

Right now we are totally vulnerable to the Bluesky folk selling their service to another country, or our country for that matter -- or a billionaire, or whoever.

Whoever did this packaging job would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

Anticipating the objection that Mastodon is already doing this -- it is not. Setting up and using a Mastodon instance is good for nerds. Not for poets.

@evan

thanks! ;-)

i hope the idea catches on.

has the book come out yet?

This is the OPML list of podcasts I follow. I keep it updated when I add or remove feeds. You are welcome to use this list, I publish it because I want to bootstrap this practice, of influencers sharing lists o...

http://scripting.com/publicfolder/feedland/subscriptionLists/podcasts.opml

"Trump is leading the country off a cliff and that the only one with a parachute is Trump." Must-read.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/10/how-donald-trump-could-still-be-winning.html

How Mass Deportations Would ‘Devastate’ Texas.

https://www.texasobserver.org/how-mass-deportations-would-devastate-texas/

Bloggers, here's an idea. When you write a piece you're proud of, end it with a sentence like this: "And that's why I have a blog." It plants a seed, which through repetition and app...

http://scripting.com/2024/10/17.html#a145140

@powersoffour

there's a big difference between importing and subscribing.

I'm still waiting for the podcast client that can subscribe to OPML lists, so I can subscribe to shows from my desktop. If one of them did, we could start curated lists of feeds put together by smart people and influencers.

http://scripting.com/2024/10/01.html#a145535

Georgia Governor Yanks Endorsement of Mark Robinson.

https://politicalwire.com/2024/09/23/georgia-governor-yanks-endorsement-of-mark-robinson/

Pregnancy deaths rose by 56% in Texas after 2021 abortion ban, analysis finds.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/womens-health/texas-abortion-ban-deaths-pregnant-women-sb8-analysis-rcna171631

A Meticulous Accounting of How The Beatles Recorded Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band.

https://laughingsquid.com/recording-the-beatles-sgt-peppers/

These two friends built a simple tool to transfer playlists between Apple Music and Spotify, and it works great.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/14/these-two-friends-built-a-simple-tool-to-transfer-playlists-between-apple-music-and-spotify-and-it-works-great/

WordPress Community on Mastodon.

https://wp-community-on-mastodon.wptoots.social/

Molly Maguires.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires