Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work. People are complaining about this, but I think it’s good techcrunch.com

Monday, August 17, 2026

Howard Rheingold has an archive of his career as a writer and thinker rheingold.com

Andrew Shell is the guy at WordCamp with the I ❤️ RSS shirt and stickers he's giving out. And he's a nice guy who knows a lot about RSS-based networking. He's kind of the expert on that andrewshell.org

Feedly attributes weeklong slowdown to bug, not its AI pivot techcrunch.com

Some people are taking Cialis for more than sex npr.org

Sunday, August 16, 2026

This is something like every bridge in the world being blown up at the same time, and I don't think that's an exaggeration. scripting.com

The Trump administration is building a growing detention archipelago overseas, often in unstable or autocratic countries. And in cases like Mosquera’s, it’s turning deportation into a form of indefinite imprisonment with no legal recourse. nytimes.com

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing daringfireball.net

Remembering San Francisco’s KKSF sjl.us

Can public media build its own social network? Chicago Public Media teams up with New_ Public to try niemanlab.org

The 50 Best Thriller Books of the 21st Century nytimes.com

Manton loves Computer History feature in ChatGPT manton.org

Europe’s Great Rivers Are Dying. The Continent Is In for a Shock nytimes.com

Saturday, August 15, 2026

Transgender athletes are a red herring publicnotice.co

Key concept of the open web: Working Together scripting.com

Friday, August 14, 2026

No privacy, little downtime: Life aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln npr.org

They should have worked together and controlled their own distribution, but as I was told over and over, they never will work together. It might not be too late brianalvey.com

Corporate Power Approaches Escape Velocity hamiltonnolan.com

Hands-On with Computer History: OpenAI's Take on Agent Memory macstories.net

Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda thenation.com

The Gaping Hole in El-Sayed’s Progressive Agenda thenation.com

Lawmakers demand answers about USS Abraham Lincoln conditions as reports emerge of sailors attempting to jump overboard cnn.com

Wednesday, August 12, 2026

The Iran War Is a Whole New Level of Quagmire for the US politico.com

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app techcrunch.com