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Currently following: Tim Bray, Simon Willison, Techdirt, Manton Reece and Cory Doctorow.
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More info: https://devs.feediverse.org/
Currently following: Tim Bray, Simon Willison, Techdirt, Manton Reece and Cory Doctorow.
It's an extension of blogrolls.
More info: https://devs.feediverse.org/
Trump Threatens BBC With Billion-Dollar Lawsuit For Correctly Pointing Out He Supported A Violent Insurrection.
Trump Threatens BBC With Billion-Dollar Lawsuit For Correctly Pointing Out He Supported A Violent Insurrection
You might recall that not that long ago Trump managed to get CBS to pay him a $16 million bribe based entirely on a lie: that the network’s 60 Minutes program had unfairly edited an interview…
www.techdirt.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Trump Threatens BBC With Billion-Dollar Lawsuit For Correctly Pointing Out He Supported A Violent Insurrection.
Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
November 12, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Pluralistic: A tale of three customer service chatbots (12 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
Agentic Pelican on a Bicycle.
Agentic Pelican on a Bicycle
Robert Glaser took my pelican riding a bicycle benchmark and applied an agentic loop to it, seeing if vision models could draw a better pelican if they got the chance …
simonwillison.net
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Agentic Pelican on a Bicycle.
Six coding agents at once.
Six coding agents at once
I've been upgrading a ton of Datasette plugins recently for compatibility with the Datasette 1.0a20 release from last week - 35 so far. A lot of the work is very …
simonwillison.net
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Six coding agents at once.
Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Pluralistic: Theodora Goss's 'Letters From an Imaginary Country' (11 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
Hey, Microsoft: Are You Guys Also Cool With DHS And Trump Using ‘Halo’ Imagery For Fascism?
Hey, Microsoft: Are You Guys Also Cool With DHS And Trump Using ‘Halo’ Imagery For Fascism?
Earlier this year, I wrote about how ICE had decided to publish a horrifying recruitment video that mixed in footage of ICE raids, including one that got Kristi Noem in some hot water, along with t…
www.techdirt.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Hey, Microsoft: Are You Guys Also Cool With DHS And Trump Using ‘Halo’ Imagery For Fascism?
Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is.
Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is
After forty days. Forty days of the longest government shutdown in American history. Forty days of Democrats saying this is the line—healthcare for twenty-two million Americans. Forty day…
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Chuck Schumer Doesn’t Know What Time It Is.
DHS Wants States To Hand Over Driver’s License Data For Citizenship Checks.
DHS Wants States To Hand Over Driver’s License Data For Citizenship Checks
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Department of Homeland Security says it intends to add state driver’s license information to a sw…
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
DHS Wants States To Hand Over Driver’s License Data For Citizenship Checks.
Daily Deal: TP1 Multi-Device 4-Touch Recognition Wireless Trackpad.
Daily Deal: TP1 Multi-Device 4-Touch Recognition Wireless Trackpad
Upgrade your workspace with the Turonic TP1 — a wireless touchpad designed for seamless navigation, precision gestures, and multi-device flexibility. Whether you’re working on a laptop, desktop, or…
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Daily Deal: TP1 Multi-Device 4-Touch Recognition Wireless Trackpad.
Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’.
Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’
Over the weekend, the President of the United States fell for obvious satire from a website literally called “The Dunning Kruger Times.” Donald Trump—a man with access to the best, most…
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Trump Falls For Satire From Site Called ‘The Dunning Kruger Times’.
Trump OLC On Boat Strikes: The Less Of A Threat Posed By Boat Occupants, The More Justified We Are In Murdering Them.
Trump OLC On Boat Strikes: The Less Of A Threat Posed By Boat Occupants, The More Justified We Are In Murdering Them
This administration isn’t content to be normal awful. It insists on being ghastly awful as often as possible. Not content to eject hundreds of migrants into foreign torture prisons, the admin…
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Trump OLC On Boat Strikes: The Less Of A Threat Posed By Boat Occupants, The More Justified We Are In Murdering Them.
YouTube TV Customers Lose Access To ABC Channels, DVR Recordings Due To Annoying, Avoidable Disney Contract Dispute.
YouTube TV Customers Lose Access To ABC Channels, DVR Recordings Due To Annoying, Avoidable Disney Contract Dispute
For the last decade or so, U.S. cable TV customers have been plagued by a steady parade of content blackouts as cable providers and broadcasters bicker over new programming contracts. For the end u…
www.techdirt.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
YouTube TV Customers Lose Access To ABC Channels, DVR Recordings Due To Annoying, Avoidable Disney Contract Dispute.
Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Pluralistic: "Flexible labor" is a euphemism for "derisking capital" (10 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
Pelican on a Bike - Raytracer Edition.
Pelican on a Bike—Raytracer Edition
beetle_b ran this prompt against a bunch of recent LLMs: Write a POV-Ray file that shows a pelican riding on a bicycle. This turns out to be a harder challenge …
simonwillison.net
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pelican on a Bike - Raytracer Edition.
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican.
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican
OpenAI partially released a new model yesterday called GPT-5-Codex-Mini, which they describe as "a more compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex". It’s currently only available via their Codex CLI tool …
simonwillison.net
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican.
This Week In Techdirt History: November 2nd – 8th.
This Week In Techdirt History: November 2nd – 8th
Five Years Ago This week in 2020, we featured a guest post about why most complaints about Section 230 are really just complaints about the First Amendment, and another with a deep dive into the im…
www.techdirt.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
This Week In Techdirt History: November 2nd – 8th.
Pluralistic: Facebook's fraud files (08 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Pluralistic: Facebook's fraud files (08 Nov 2025). pluralistic.net
‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK.
‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK
Thankfully, the Stop Killing Games movement isn’t stopping this time. YouTuber Ross Scott kicked the movement off in 2024 to generate political action around the disappearance of games that p…
www.techdirt.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 AM
‘Stop Killing Games’ Finds More Allies From MPs In The UK.
The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works.
The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works
When Congress eventually reopens, the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will be moving toward a vote. This gives us a chance to see the priorities of the Secretary of Defense…
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The Department Of Defense Wants Less Proof Its Software Works.
Fox News Desperately Tries To Repair The Broken Simulation.
Fox News Desperately Tries To Repair The Broken Simulation
Within twenty-four hours of Republicans getting crushed in elections they’d convinced themselves were winnable, Fox News deployed the counter-move. Not denial—the losses were too visible …
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Fox News Desperately Tries To Repair The Broken Simulation.
CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really).
CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really)
VPN company CyberGhost just sent Cloudflare a bogus DMCA takedown demand, claiming that our article about their last bogus copyright takedown demand, somehow violates their copyright. I’m not sure …
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really).
Trump Administration Won’t Stop Mandatory Detention Of Migrants Despite 200 Court Rulings Calling It Illegal.
Trump Administration Won’t Stop Mandatory Detention Of Migrants Despite 200 Court Rulings Calling It Illegal
This news should be far more heartening than it is. In any normal version of the United States, it might have been. The administration’s willingness to perpetrate immoral and illegal evil on …
www.techdirt.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Trump Administration Won’t Stop Mandatory Detention Of Migrants Despite 200 Court Rulings Calling It Illegal.