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The America I love
I’m a natural-born American citizen but never lived here until my early thirties. I have a complicated relationship with the country: I never thought I’d live here until I suddenly did. As it...
View Article📖 A Psalm for the Wild-Built
[Becky Chambers]“You’re an animal, Sibling Dex. You are not separate or other. You’re an animal. And animals have no purpose. Nothing has a purpose. The world simply is. If you want to do things that...
View ArticleWhat matters
The only goal that really matters is building a stable, informed, democratic, inclusive, equitable, peaceful society where everyone has the opportunity to live a good life. One where we care for our...
View ArticleMy technology coaching and consulting in 2024
My availability has opened up for a handful of consulting engagements in addition to my regular work as Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica.I’ve founded two startups (both based on open-source...
View ArticleRural Republicans Pushing Back Against School Voucher Expansions
[Alec MacGillis at ProPublica]"Voucher advocates, backed by a handful of billionaire funders, are on the march to bring more red and purple states into the fold for “school choice,” their preferred...
View ArticleSubstack rival Ghost federates its first newsletter
[Sarah Perez at TechCrunch]"Newsletter platform and Substack rival Ghost announced earlier this year that it would join the fediverse, the open social network of interconnected servers that includes...
View Article‘It’s about survival’: Athens mayor focuses on getting capital through...
[Helene Smith at The Guardian]"Barely six months into the job, the mayor of Athens’s top priority is simple: ensuring that the people of Greece’s capital – mainland Europe’s hottest metropolis –...
View ArticleIntroducing Plausible Community Edition
[Plausible Analytics]"We’re real people who have rent to pay and mouths to feed. We make $300 per month from donations from our self-hosted users. It would take us more than ten years of donations to...
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15 books that made an impact
I really like Lou Plummer’s list of 15 books which made the most impact on him, which I discovered via Tracy Durnell’s own list:I think you can figure out a lot about a person if you know what books...
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Todoist is really good
I’m, uh, very bad at task management. I wouldn’t want to pathologize, but I’ve never been a particularly organized person. I’ve always aspired to be more organized, but I’ve never found a tool or a...
View ArticleInnovation in news is an oxymoron
If you’re waiting for permission to build something, or if you want to see how well something has worked for your peers or competitors before you implement it yourself, you will never, ever...
View ArticleEthicswishing
[Robin Berjon]This is somewhere between a call to action and a wake-up call:"If you wish to be moral, you have to also pay attention to whether what you're doing actually works. And the best way to do...
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The Silicon Valley Would-Be Vice President
JD Vance is an obvious, bald-faced opportunist. It makes sense that Trump would pick him as his Vice Presidential candidate; they probably understand each other quite well.It can’t have hurt that a...
View ArticleNews CEOs and the Question of News Experience
[Richard J. Tofel]"I think some of those choosing these new business leaders themselves forgot about the special nature of the news business. It won’t be enough, for instance, at least in most cases,...
View ArticleTaboola + Apple News? No thanks
[Om Malik]"Apple’s decision to strike a deal with Taboola is shocking and off-brand — so much so that I have started to question the company’s long-term commitment to good customer experience,...
View ArticleCan J.D. Vance's Populist Crusade Succeed?
[Matt Stoller]"So what does Vance think? He is in agreement with the views of a rising set of younger conservatives, populists like Sohrab Ahmari and Oren Cass, who assert that libertarianism is a...
View ArticleEnormous hugs to everyone who had to ...
Enormous hugs to everyone who had to work on the Crowdstrike outage today. One of the legendarily bad IT outages.
View ArticlePresident Harris?
I didn’t post about it — what is there to say that hasn’t been said elsewhere? — but former President Trump was almost shot last week. The would-be assassin’s motive is muddy (he was a Republican),...
View ArticleWhen ChatGPT summarises, it actually does nothing of the kind.
[Gerben Wierda at R&A IT Strategy & Architecture]"ChatGPT doesn’t summarise. When you ask ChatGPT to summarise this text, it instead shortens the text. And there is a fundamental difference...
View ArticleAfter years of uncertainty, Google says it won't be 'deprecating third-party...
[Kayleigh Barber and Seb Joseph at Digiday]"After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. Turns out all the fuss over the years wasn’t in vain after...
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