Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz is an international crisis aljazeera.com

“Too complicated for people to understand” is often bullshit seths.blog

BTW, as long as Bluesky has a 300 char limit and no style or links, I'm going to have to hand-translate posts there to become posts on my blog where no such limits exist. At some point either they give up on the limits or I give up on them scripting.com

7 Design Rules That Take 10 Minutes to Learn and Fix Your UI Forever pixicstudio.medium.com

Iran Is Setting the Pace; Trump Is Reacting talkingpointsmemo.com

RSS creator on Bluesky & AT Proto zeldman.com

WordPress, the new HyperCard? johnjohnston.info

War in Iran Reveals Strait of Hormuz’s Weakness as an Oil Bottleneck nytimes.com

Reminder that Mastodon supports outbound RSS mastodon.social

Robert Mueller, ex-FBI director at center of political tempest, dies at 81 wapo.st

Paul Brainerd Dies at 78; Pioneered Desktop Publishing With PageMaker nytimes.com

The Removal of Kingston’s Sidewalk Canopies Reveals a Time Capsule nytimes.com

Welcome to Paris, the City That Said No to Cars bloomberg.com

I’ve been waiting for the moment when Krugman is left speechless. It appears to have arrived paulkrugman.substack.com

WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more techcrunch.com

Bernie Sanders spoke to AI agent Claude m.youtube.com

White House releases AI policy blueprint for Congress politico.com

Why Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky. This was a mistake, they bought the hype from the company, it is not a friend to the web, to the extent that it works, it undermines the web. I like Bluesky as a product, but I liked Twitter too, even though they hurt the web knightfoundation.org

Someone Needs to Tell Trump the Truth About the War thebulwark.com

Trump might end the war by resigning washingtonpost.com

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition techcrunch.com

Everyone but Trump Understands What He’s Done theatlantic.com

The Outcast podcatcher now supports transcripts reddit.com

Google co-founder spends $45m in fight against California billionaire tax theguardian.com