Friday, April 25, 2025

ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation. aclu.org

Knicks’ OG Anunoby is putting the clamps on Cade Cunningham. nydailynews.com

FBI Stages Courthouse Arrest of Wisconsin Judge. talkingpointsmemo.com

F.B.I. Arrests Wisconsin Judge, Patel Says. nytimes.com

Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan arrested by feds at Courthouse. jsonline.com

TechCrunch is finally asking if Bluesky really is decentralized as they have been claiming. techcrunch.com

At Last, College Presidents Are Standing Up to Trump. motherjones.com

A $20,000 electric truck with manual windows and no screens? Meet Slate Auto. arstechnica.com

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Mozilla’s CEO weighs in on U.S. v. Google. blog.mozilla.org

We should demand that the new owner of Chrome must respect the open web as something it does not have the power to change. Google never got this and we're losing the archive function of the web because of this. Please read, now we're in a position to fix this. this.how

Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Abrego Garcia’s Wife Forced to Go Into Hiding Thanks to DHS Slip-Up. newrepublic.com

Knicks' Jalen Brunson named 2024-25 NBA Clutch Player of the Year. sny.tv

In New York, Harvey Weinstein's sex crimes trial is underway. npr.org

Another Dem Sends Warning To Bukele. talkingpointsmemo.com

Tesla’s Remarkably Bad Quarter Is Even Worse Than It Looks. theatlantic.com

Long Island man arrested for damaging Teslas in parking lot. nydailynews.com

More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record. theguardian.com

When one person sets out to "change the world" it usually doesn't work and when it does it's often changed for the worse. I can't believe the Twitter founders, for example, are boasting about the nightmare they created. scripting.com

Over 150 US university presidents sign letter decrying Trump administration. theguardian.com

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Universities band together, fight “unprecedented government overreach.” arstechnica.com

Skype is shutting down in May after more than two decades of service. restofworld.org

Let's make the world better, one little evolutionary step at a time. scripting.com

OpenAI exec says the company would buy Google's Chrome browser if offered the chance. (That's a crazy idea. Chrome should be an independent company. No more tying the open web to Silicon Valley business models.) techcrunch.com

Monday, April 21, 2025

Evolution is the result of lots of infinitesimal events, not some great god-like creation that young people tend to dream of. scripting.com

US intelligence has determined that the Venezuelan government is not directing an invasion of the United States by the prison gang Tren de Aragua. wapo.st

Today's Olbermann podcast is a must-listen. podcasts.apple.com

A New Form of Verification on Bluesky. bsky.social

2022: Why you stopped blogging. scripting.com

Pete Hegseth was educated at Princeton and Harvard. Well well well. Sounds pretty elite to me. Hmmm. en.wikipedia.org

Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88. vaticannews.va

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Weird headline from the NYT. Obviously Trump is defying the courts. That isn’t Van Hollen’s opinion, it’s a fact. When is the NYT going to show a tiny bit of courage. nytimes.com

Web typography: a refresher and history. zeldman.com

The Knicks Gave The Pistons A Lesson In Playoff Entropy. defector.com

Democrats dive into GOP districts, accusing Republicans of avoiding constituents. thehill.com

Dave's not here. youtube.com

I was looking around on my server and came across this neat little tree chart app. I probably wrote it ten years ago, but it still works, the wonder of the open web. Software you write for it tends to still run. scripting.com

Saturday, April 19, 2025

This podcast might give you some idea of why Elon Musk is doing whatever he’s doing. Zaphod Beeblebrox has a role in it? wnycstudios.org

Protesters fill the streets in cities across the US to denounce Trump agenda. theguardian.com

Three former U.S. presidents denounce Trump in a two-week stretch. washingtonpost.com

DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track (everyone, not just) Immigrants. wired.com

'The Speed Project': A race that runs from rules. wapo.st

The Next Terrorist Attack by Timothy Snyder. snyder.substack.com

Mazda EZ-60 interior revealed ahead of launch. It looks like a Tesla. electrek.co

Supreme Court keeps hold on Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship but sets May arguments. apnews.com

ChatGPT is the best research tool ever invented by our species. But you'll never read about that in a journalist's report on the technology. Instead, they're obsessed with how kids can use it to cheat on their homework. Not much creativity in evidence there, ironically. theguardian.com

US philanthropists warn against capitulating to Trump: ‘We need to step up.’ theguardian.com

The New America: Federal (ICE) Agents Boarding Trains. weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com

NBA playoffs 2025 predictions: the winner, key players and dark horses. sports.yahoo.com

Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportations of Venezuelans held in northern Texas. apnews.com

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard. (Must read.) nytimes.com