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The Turtles’ (Flo and Eddie’s) Beatles-esque Gumby song. youtube.com/watch?v=2_SdxSrFKI…






To paraphrase @Christina, 'AI' - which is to say a software product - may likely get legal rights before the environment and animals, and all to benefit the corporations that produce this technology.

wired.com/story/model-welfare-…

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That aside, I was mainly commenting on the scientism involved in claiming that animist metaphysics are "unscientific", implying that materialist metaphysics is "scientific". When both are, by their very nature, beyond the realms of scientific investigation (science provides a ground for ontology only if it already assumes an ontology, etc).

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@JulianOliver
> I do not believe we 'assign being' to other people by way of animism or anthropomorphic projection

Maybe not. Sociopaths definitely do (or don't). By definition, they don't have any ...

> innate - socio-biological, animal, essential

... mechanisms for it. We do seem to need the aid of anthropomorphism to assign being to nonhuman animals. I would argue we also need it in day-to-day interactions with strangers outside our kin groups (buying a snack, riding a bus, etc).





Remembering Nicky Hopkins , who died today 6th September
1994 .

"Rock Classics Improved by Nicky Hopkins".. great piece by
Bryan Wawzenek,

ultimateclassicrock.com/15-cla…

#photography #music

📸 Baron Wolman





Aggressione nella sanità, incontro tra Asl e Prefettura di Massa-Carrara
La riunione si è resa necessaria per fare un punto della situazione.

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So much to unpack from Judge Mehta’s remedy opinion in the US v. Google search case. If these remedies ultimately go into effect, evidence indicates that Google’s dominance over online search – a critical information pathway for billions of internet users – will remain entrenched. Long 🧵⬇️


BREAKING: Feud erupts at US Supreme Court. Via @briantylercohen #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ youtu.be/PPibtWESIus?...

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Been driving Lyft to make ends meet. Just dropped off a couple at the Thievery Corporation show. They mentioned wanting to drive but not wanting to pay for parking. I thought, “wow. Parking can’t be that horrible, can it?”

….Parkong at the Greek is currently $60. At the top of the hill for those who know. SIXTY AMERICAN DOLLARS.

No wonder no one goes outside.



Why am I, at my age, still a radical progressive socialist?

“Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.” – Christopher Hitchens



Logically speaking, #noncompete clauses are #anticapitalistic. But then, when has this #corrupt #soldout #administration done anything remotely logical. It only caters to big #business paymasters.

#antiworker #antiAmerican #FTC #USPolitics #government
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got this print in the mail all the way from England, thx sonnyross.com #AI
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🔥 asked and answered 👇🏽 @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social then explained to Abby Phillip he backs these policies out of love for his city/country, pointing out democratic socialism is not a foreign concept here despite what those in power would have you believe. 🇺🇸


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Remembering Dolores O'Riordan on what would have been her birthday, she was born today 6th September 1971

"I try to think about optimism. I try to look at the beautiful things in life."

#DoloresORiordan #TheCranberries #music #photography



"If you sit there and zoom in on screenshots of different UI elements, sure you’ll probably find something.

That’s been true of every iteration of the OS. But speaking from experience, the less you think about it, the more it just works."

#Apple #Technology #Blog #Design #SocialWeb #WWDC25 #LiquidGlass #iOS26 #iPhone #iOS #macOS #iPadOS
blog.samclemente.me/dont-make-…



Visited a farm in the foothills of the Cascades today. The owner is a photographer and she grows this incredible garden to use in photo shoots. Despite the #wildfires pouring smoke into the air, it was still pretty magical. #PNW #gardening #Bloomscrolling
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More photos of my friend's flower farm. It's dahlia heaven. She actually lifts and stores all these tubers in the fall. #wildfires #PNW #gardening #Bloomscrolling


By 1999, Microsoft had vanquished Netscape in the browser war, Google was starting to show up competing search engines, and Napster and Blogger had arrived to shake up our culture. cybercultural.com/p/internet-1… #InternetHistory

Author's note: if you read and enjoy my article, don't just 'like' it — please boost or share it on the web another way. Indie bloggers can no longer rely on Google or other big tech companies for attention, so human curation is what it's all about (again). 🙏




ChatGPT is now sending me more traffic than X. Three years ago, Twitter was second only to Google as a source of traffic. Now, it’s a rounding error.


In another 15 years, Instagram will introduce “links” — an innovative new way to connect with “websites”. theverge.com/news/769460/insta…


Slopaganda, hehe. That word will enter my mind whenever I am browsing X (for work purposes, you understand). mastodon.social/@adactio/11514…


爆発数時間前の恒星内部の変化を物語る? 超新星残骸「カシオペヤ座A」の研究成果 – sorae 宇宙へのポータルサイト yayafa.com/2518405/ #SCIENCE #Science&Technology #Technology #テクノロジー #科学 #科学&テクノロジー


This history of Return / Enter / whatever it is on your keyboard is more fascinating and surprising than I expected. Worth reading:

aresluna.org/the-day-return-be…

(via twostopbits.com/ which will be of interest to some of you, via tilde.zone/@movq/1151248132156… via @rk because Attribution Damnit™ as I was indoctrinated long ago and feel like indulging tonight.)

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Happy birthday to photographer and musician Henry Stanford Diltz , Born today 6th September 1938.

#henrydiltz #photooftheday #music #photography
📸 Henry Diltz



#Paulofigueiredo #direita #politica #noticias #politics Dino diz que STF avaliará validade e alcance da delação de Mauro Cid paulofigueiredoshow.com/dino-d…


WTN #3: XSLT Heat, Cool Fedi Apps, Web UIs in Agents


Welcome to Web Technology News (WTN), my weekly newsletter tracking what's next on the web. As usual, I'm using the following three categories:

  1. Web platform
  2. Open social web
  3. Web + AI


Web Platform


"Should we remove XSLT from the web platform?" That question was asked by Google engineer Mason Freed on the WHATWG GitHub account a few weeks ago. "Its role within the web browser has been largely superseded by JavaScript-based technologies such as JSON+React," explained Freed, adding that it's now a big security risk in browsers.

Judging by the comments, one of the primary uses of XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is for "displaying RSS feeds pleasantly." Another commenter added that "XSLT is extensively used by podcast hosting companies to beautify their raw feeds." The discussion around this got heated, so the thread was locked to non-collaborators. A second thread also got locked.

In other news, Mozilla has launched a new front end for MDN: "We've intentionally targeted Baseline "Widely available" features when deciding on which ones to use, and polyfilling or progressively enhancing when using anything Baseline "Newly available"."

Staying with Mozilla, its newly hired Web Dev Relations Lead, Jake Archibald, took to Mastodon to promote Firefox v142. I like the video explanations.


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Let's get crazy now... I stumbled upon a couple of 'out there' ideas this week.

Hyperclay is a new product pitching itself as "Google Docs for interactive code." The site further explains:

"What if web apps were as simple to edit as documents? Hyperclay makes it possible: UI, logic, and data live in one self-modifying HTML file."


There's an excellent discussion about this on Hacker News. Hyperclay's developer, panphora, has also created a Markdown editor called Overtype.

I liked this web dev head-mash by Chris Shank: "This may look like my personal website, but it's not served via a traditional web server. Rather it's served from a service worker that proxies all network requests to a locally cloned git repository (stored in-browser)!"
Chris Shank's service worker webpage.

Open Social Web


It's great to see Bluesky starting to have alternative servers (i.e. ones not owned and run by the Bluesky company). As reported by Laurens Hof in his Connected Places blog:

"Blacksky is taking further steps towards their own community platform within the ATmosphere, and have started inviting community members on their own Blacksky PDS servers. Blacksky has their own PDS migration tooling, Tektike, to help users transfer their account to a new PDS."


On the fedi side of the open social pond, Sean Tilley has written a roundup of the recent FediCon event in Canada. I was pleased to see this note from Sean:

"...there's some legitimately interesting developments happening with paying server admins, artists, and developers. I've written a bit about what Bandwagon and CrowdBucks are doing, and hopeful some collaboration can emerge between projects."


CrowdBucks is fairly new to me, but the following thread told me that Charles Iliya Krempeaux — a.k.a. reiver — is behind it (Charles also organized FediCon and is an active fediverse developer).


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Another cool-sounding open web app I came across this week:


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In Mastodon news, quote-posts are officially coming:


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Finally in this section, you might be interested in my blog post this week outlining my experiences with Ghost, Substack, Eleventy and WordPress. I focus in particular on Ghost's federation (I use Ghost to publish this newsletter).

Web + AI


Vercel is proposing a convention to include instructions to an LLM directly in HTML responses as <script type="text/llms.txt">. But standards be damned...in classic 'Marc Andreessen and the <img> tag' fashion, Vercel encourages its users to just go ahead and do it anyway: "[it] doesn't need to be a formal standard. You can just start using it now."

For my post on The New Stack this week, I interviewed the two creators of MCP-UI, an open source project that creates React or web components for agents. The technology is just 3 months old, but is already being used by Shopify and others. One of the founders, Ido Salomon, explained to me why it's using the HTML <iframe> element to ferry UI components to agents:

"I think MCP-UI, at its core, is fairly simple. It basically takes the building blocks of MCP [the parent protocol] — MCP has a way to respond not just with text, but with an embedded resource that can be anything. So the idea was, how do I take something like an embedded resource, get some consensus around when this embedded resource contains something. Then the host — you know, ChatGPT, whatever — can render it. And how does it run basically arbitrary code, that is unsafe, without harming the users. Iframe is kind of the only way to do that. And sandbox iframe in particular gives you an extra edge."


Web UIs in agents — it's a trend to watch. I have another post coming up early next week about MCP-UI, based on an interview with two Shopify engineers.

Meanwhile, Paul Kinlan from Google is calling for experimentation with hyperlinks in the AI age:

"LLMs also offer the practical tools to finally realize the promise of hypertext on the web itself. They are the enabling technology that can upgrade the humble <a> tag and make it truly “hyper.”"


Launched this week: Tidewave Web for Rails and Phoenix, "a coding agent that runs directly in the browser alongside your web application, in your own development environment, with full page and code context." (via Hacker News)

One More Thing


What's the point of vibe coding if...


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chrome developers: we are thinking of dropping support for rendering RSS feeds as something other than garbage code. does anyone have any reasons not to do this?

developers from many different backgrounds: yes, I rely on normal people being able to understand RSS for my business. dropping support will be disastrous for me because I can't rely on people to have some random extension installed.

chrome devs: OK well we're probably going to do it anyway because we can't be bothered to support web standards. uwu google is only a teensy wee company uwu

github.com/whatwg/html/issues/…

#xslt #standards #openWeb