Republicans Are Dreading Trump’s Speech politicalwire.com

ABC and NBC Will Not Air Trump’s Speech as Other TV Networks’ Plans Remain Uncertain nytimes.com

The Odyssey can’t be as great as the critics say metacritic.com

Linus Torvalds puts his foot down, tells anti-AI programmers to 'fork it.' zdnet.com

rss.chat is the start of a new social network built on existing web standards. Easy to deploy on Node.js and getting easier. New RSS features. Infinite possibilities for developers. Owned by no one rss.chat

‘Scared shitless’: Republicans brace for Trump’s primetime speech. So sad for Repubs. The rest of us are scared too. � politico.com

George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts theguardian.com

Canada Offers Lesson in the Economic Toll of Climate Change nytimes.com

How Die Zeit built a searchable database of Nazi Party members niemanlab.org

Elon Musk’s X turned Graham Platner’s campaign into a political mirage. slate.com

Howard Rheingold, social network pioneer, shows up on the new demo server we put up yesterday. I explain in a reply that we're mostly focused on developers to start, because we want people to copy us. We want a big fat happy network of writers and readers demo.rss.chat

A beautiful TV ad from Claude. It addresses head-on the concerns people have about AI apps. There is a PR disaster brewing out there. And those of us who use the tools and don't want to or won't go back, need this to work out well x.com

All in on Platner, supporters look to what's next in Maine Senate race npr.org

Lake Powell reaching critically low elevation levels, nearing 'dead power pool,' experts say abcnews.com

You can now chat using RSS coywolf.com

Claude Code now has a built-in browser that lets the AI read, click, and type on external websites the-decoder.com

Lindsey Graham, longtime South Carolina senator, dies at 71, office says wapo.st

Jose Alvarado's father recalls what his son gave him after the Knicks won the Finals nypost.com

Toni Schneider is the new full-time CEO of Bluesky. I know him from the old days of blogging, and of course from Automattic. Best of luck Toni and I hope someday to be able to connect our products over the web. :- toni.org