As the shutdown drags into its 20th day, both President Trump and Democratic leaders appear to be doubling down.
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Playlist of posts listened to, or scrobbled
🎧 The Daily: Trump’s Prime-Time Address | New York Times
The president made a televised appeal to the nation for a border wall, but Democrats showed no signs of giving in.
🎧 The Daily: Is There a Crisis at the Border? | New York Times
President Trump says there’s a problem, but it may be one of his own making.
🎧 The Daily: Trump’s Plan to Withdraw Troops From Syria | New York Times
The president’s abrupt order may have raised important questions about the future of American wars, but it stymied others.
🎧 The Daily: Day 1 of a Democratic Majority | New York Times
As the 116th Congress was gaveled in, Nancy Pelosi took her place at the helm of the most diverse House in history.
🎧 The Daily: Chuck Schumer on the Wall, the Shutdown and the Era of Divided Government | New York Times
On the eve of a new Congress, the Senate minority leader sat down with “The Daily” to discuss his hopes — and his strategy for getting things done — before the next election rolls around.
👓 The world in brief, January 22nd 2019 | Economist Espresso
WhatsApp, a messaging service, is cracking down further on fake news. Users will now only be allowed to forward a message to five groups (each group can be up to 256 people), down from 20. The limitation was first introduced in India last year after several mob lynchings there appeared to start after incendiary messages spread through the service.
I can’t imagine that unless the average group is well under 20 people, that WhatsApps change will have a drastic effect. 256 by itself, much less 5 times that, is way over the Dunbar number and likely not enough of a brake on social gossip. This sounds like a lot of lip service to me.
👓 Collecting note takers | Andy Bell
Andy Bell (Andy Bell)I think I might collect links to sites of folks who are posting notes on their personal sites on GitHub. It’d be great if y’all could send me some links so I can start it off with a nice healthy list!
👓 Feed page | Andy Bell
Andy Bell (Andy Bell)I started using this site as the canonical root of all of my “social” content in 2018, but got lured back into the convenience of Twitter and Mastodon and sort of gave up on that idea. With yet more Facebook and Instagram controversies closing out the year, I had a sudden reminder that I should own my content—not irresponsible corporations like them or Twitter.
👓 Politics Perspective ‘Would you like to speak to the president?’ | Washington Post
PARIS — “Would you like to speak to the president?” That was about the last question I expected from a stranger on a Friday night in Paris. I was at a brasserie in the Latin Quarter, enjoying dinner with James McAuley, The Washington Post’s Paris correspondent. We had finished our meals and were continuing our conversation as we waited for the check to arrive.
👓 4 Reasons @GetClassicPress Should Add Native Microformats Support | Greg McVerry
Greg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)Now that phase one of Gutenberg has dropped the interest in #ClassicPress grows by the day. So many WordPress developers fear the loss of control they will face under the new regime of 5.0. Many just don't want to do the work of all that refactoring. #IndieWeb and #ClassicPress should join forces. w...
👓 it is an inescapable law of journalism that a simple yes/no question in a headline almost always requires a “No” | Jeremy Cherfas
Jeremy Cherfas (Jeremy Cherfas)Because it is an inescapable law of journalism that a simple yes/no question in a headline almost always requires a "No". And in this particular case, I do not believe blogging waned in 2018. QED.
An interesting rule of thumb…
👓 Yes, let’s begin impeachment | Fogknife
Jason McIntosh (Fogknife)I hereby add my small voice to the rising chorus of those with their minds changed by Yoni Appelbaum's "Impeach Donald Trump", published in The Atlantic this month.
Amen
👓 Libraries | Manton Reece
Manton Reece (manton.org)For 30 days between March 19th and April 17th, 2016, I visited a different library in Austin and posted to my microblog about each one. The best libraries can be wonderful, quiet places to work. I always brought my iPad Pro with me to do some writing. Here are the libraries, with the date linked to ...
After reading about Snippets from Manton, I thought this was going to be about coding libraries. Yet again, he’s pulled the rug out from underneath me…
I do love this idea of getting out more, going to different places, and even more particularly going to so many different nearby libraries. This is an awesome idea!
👓 New example code: Snippets | Manton Reece
Manton Reece (manton.org)It might surprise some developers to learn that the 4 official apps for Micro.blog — the iOS and macOS apps, Sunlit, and our microcasting app Wavelength — don’t actually share very much Objective-C or Swift code. To minimize dependencies and so that we could more easily develop each app quick...
I saw Snippets and thought about micro.blog’s predecessor. This post turned out to be about something related but much different.
Great to see pieces of micro.blog opening up like this.