TikTok says it will go offline on Sunday if Biden doesn’t intervene. theverge.com

Nebraska is one of the top meat producers in the U.S. It also has one of the worst labor shortages in the country. For every 100 jobs, there are only 39 workers, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. #MAGA npr.org

Trump says his inauguration will be indoors. reuters.com

Trek FX+ 7S e-bike is a premium city commuter. arstechnica.com

How some houses survived Los Angeles’ extreme wildfires. Fire experts are finding those homeowners took key precautions that likely saved their houses from burning. npr.org

Video demo of new searchbox on Scripting News. youtube.com

Pamela Paul Is Out at the Times Opinion Section. nymag.com

New York Magazine: "This story is free for a limited time. Subscribe to enjoy uninterrupted access." This is a good idea. Makes current news immediately accessible. nymag.com

White House Pandemic Office Loses Half Its Staff. politicalwire.com

Hacker News thread on ditching the algorithm. news.ycombinator.com

I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS—and You Should Too. #amen joeyehand.com

I'm not going to Davos either, but I sure as heck am not going to Trump's inauguration. I will be wearing my MLK button, for sure. scripting.com

Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman choose Trump inauguration over Davos. nypost.com

2023: Andrew Hickey is why we started blogging and podcasting. scripting.com

Trump Picks Elon Musk Pal to Go Get Greenland. politicalwire.com

"I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers." theguardian.com

Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol. techcrunch.com

A Conversation With Longtime UWS Absolute Bagels Manager: 'I'm Heartbroken'. westsiderag.com

Matt Mullenweg has kind words for XML-RPC. Much appreciated. x.com

A group of House Democrats want Attorney General Merrick Garland to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on President-elect Trump's classified documents case — even if it means dismissing charges against his former co-defendants. axios.com

Tech billionaires expose MAGA's "populism" con job. salon.com

Tesla is throttling down Cybertruck production as it shifts workers to Model Y production because inventory of the electric pickup truck is piling up. electrek.co

2016: The Central Park of the web. scripting.com

Obviously there should be a feed on the feediverse placeholder page. What should we put there? What an oversight. Kind of embarrassing. :-) feediverse.org

Planning for a social web outage. mastodon.social

Apparently, Philippe Beaudoin is the lead developer on the $30 million effort to implement AT Proto as an alternative service to Bluesky. google.com

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on Monday. en.wikipedia.org

Severance cast, Ben Stiller take over Grand Central with Season 2 pop-up. nypost.com

2021: Facebook is at least eight things. scripting.com

Zelenskyy warns Europe: You guys are doomed without us. politico.eu

Daytona is the search engine for Scripting News. scripting.com

It seems everyone knows what to do, now we just have to do it. manuelmoreale.com

It's feeds all the way down. feediverse.org

If you thought those kinds of questions would dominate the hearings, you must be living under the illusion that we live in a serious country. nytimes.com

These things we call the social web are really just feed readers. daveverse.wordpress.com

2009: Where is Twitter's WordPress? scripting.com

Elon Musk complains Tesla is not getting subsidies for electric truck chargers while calling for end of EV subsidies. electrek.co

And Peter Baker is an asterisk on an asterisk on an asterisk that has already been forgotten. politicalwire.com

Flickr: Not on my wrist! scripting.com

A new version of my blog’s search engine is running. Here’s an example lookup, for Berkeley, where I lived for a few years. It looks a lot nicer than Google, indexes all my writing, no funny business, and no ads. daytona.scripting.com

A pedestrian scramble is a type of traffic signal movement that temporarily stops all vehicular traffic, thereby allowing pedestrians to cross an intersection in every direction, including diagonally, at the same time. en.wikipedia.org

Are there blogging platforms that don't automatically support RSS? Kind of hard to believe. mastodon.social

Heather Cox Richardson's How the South Won the Civil War has never been more relevant. They had another insurrection, and this time in addition to being welcomed back into the Union, they're now going to run it. amazon.com

John Scalzi on his friendship with the scandalized Neil Gaiman. whatever.scalzi.com

The "feediverse" is not a joke. It's deployed, scaled, widely supported -- far beyond AT Proto or ActivityPub. It's the HTML of the open social web. And where the others are complicated, feeds are really simple. feediverse.org

I want ChatGPT to be a programming partner, and nothing I do can get it to work that way. daveverse.wordpress.com

How will you feel when you’ll have to swear loyalty to Generalissimo Trump to see a doctor, or to drive on a public road? politicalwire.com

The entire MAGA world is rushing headlong to install a guy with no qualifications to run DOD. emptywheel.net