Notices by Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto (dave@social.masto.land), page 2

Trump Rally Shooter Had Interest in Violence Since 2019, FBI Analysis Shows.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/us/politics/thomas-crooks-trump-fbi.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Gk4.EFIN.EViTkXZBFHAI&smid=url-share

Automattic press release on the Tumblr switch to WordPress on the back end.

https://automattic.com/2024/08/27/shipping-tumblr-and-wordpress/

People have been saying that podcasting is dead or Spotify is gonna own it or Google’s gonna own it or who knows and podcasting keeps on going just fine.

https://spyglass.org/pod-is-dead/

For no particular reason I'm thinking of Jon Postel this morning. He held up the internet for its earliest years, and died way the fuck too young. People should know who he was and what he did for us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel

Pat Robertson, broadcaster who helped make religion central to GOP politics, dies at 93.

https://apnews.com/article/pat-robertson-dead-christian-broadcasting-700-club-91299d0953c014ca6860fe545cac793e

Alito's neighbor interviewed on CNN. Very brave and clear-thinking. We should be organizing for what's to come.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alAn-gyiXNY&t=634s

Bill Walton dies at 71: 'Truly one of a kind' Basketball Hall of Famer succumbs to cancer.

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/bill-walton-dies-at-71-truly-one-of-a-kind-basketball-hall-of-famer-succumbs-to-cancer/

An 'epic fart' helped get Knicks ready for Game 5 rout of Pacers.

https://nypost.com/2024/05/16/sports/an-epic-fart-helped-get-knicks-ready-for-game-5-rout-of-pacers/

New York Times editor Joe Kahn says defending democracy is a partisan act and he won’t do it.

https://presswatchers.org/2024/05/new-york-times-editor-joe-kahn-says-defending-democracy-is-a-partisan-act-and-he-wont-do-it/

Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

https://mastodon.social/@secretgeek@mastodon.cloud/112314664970125435

Why do we always cut Trump a great deal when he's always selling us out. When will he pay?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/nyregion/trump-bond-reduced.html

I think it could be reported as fact that trump threatens democracy.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/18/pences-refusal-back-trump-points-larger-problem/

Liz Cheney Nukes the Supreme Court Over Trump Delay—and Hands Dems a Weapon.

https://newrepublic.com/article/179438/liz-cheney-supreme-court-trump-trial-delay-dems-weapon

This is a tale of two brains. Biden's brain is aging. Trump's brain is dementing.

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/23/dr-john-gartner-on-a-tale-of-two-brains-bidens-brain-is-aging-brain-is-dementing/

ProPublica Hires First Senior Director for Technology.

https://www.propublica.org/atpropublica/propublica-hires-first-senior-director-for-technology

I rode in a Hyundai Ioniq 5 with wheels that go sideways.

https://www.theverge.com/24035050/hyundai-mobis-e-corner-system-ioniq-5-crab-drive-360

Zyns are filled with nicotine and are meant to be placed under your lip like tobacco dip. No spitting is required, so nicotine pouches are even less visible than vaping.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/opinion/children-nicotine-zyn-social-media.html?smid=tw-share

On this day in 2001: Payloads for RSS, which would eventually be known as “podcasting.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20010202144800/http://www.thetwowayweb.com/payloadsForRss

Post-2020 election: American democracy has overcome big stress tests. More challenges are ahead

https://apnews.com/article/democracy-threats-trump-2024-election-lies-biden-716360db82a28a023bbee0d99f607a76

@tealcows @evan

there wasn't much of a context.

i was somehow cc'd because (i think) evan was saying something about RSS, speculating how it could do what ActivityPub was doing and what it's strengths and weaknesses would be.

I wanted to say that wasn't necessary, each protocol has its advantages.

the advantage of RSS is that it's well-understood, there are lots of apps that support it, and it can be implemented in days or weeks.

in fact mastodon has already implemented it.

i'm going to publish a list of all the people i follow in bluesky via their RSS feeds, as a reading list that people can subscribe to in FeedLand, or any other reader that can subscribe to OPML lists (the standard for exchanging addresses in the RSS world).

how did i do this? because we have built RSS support for Bluesky.

we can have a bunch of the benefits of federation right now, and without any need for facebook's support.

we should work with each other, in other words, is what i was saying to evan and others.

i've seen this happen over and over, everyone wants to work with the big company, when history has shown they would have done better to work with each other.

you may hope the big company has good intentions, but they're a big company and they honestly don't have very much respect for us. i've had my nose rubbed in this for my whole career. it was amazing how much better they listened when i had a Harvard business card. ;-)

that's the context.