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I honestly have no idea what a webmention is, or how it’s different from a pingback/trackback, but it sounds complicated to implement.

(I also never understood the difference between a pingback and a trackback.)

Also, thank god for the old stalwart of the blogging days, Pingbacks, through which I found this collection of observations from @mjtsai: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/07/03/big-surs-narrow-alerts/

An 2020 analysis from @morrick: https://morrick.me/archives/9025

#macOS #Apple

Good job, Apple, A++, no notes

Trump is not secretly politically savvy, despite what even some of his detractors have said over the years.

He’s just willing to do things nobody was willing to do before. His “savvy” is just being completely unscrupulous.

But that’s weird, isn’t it? Normal people don’t care about it; people who actually make tech don’t care about it (judging by the vibe on Mastodon). Who then is pushing this narrative that it’s an essential feature in every product? Venture capital?

It is absolutely a tech-headed echo chamber belief that things need AI. Normal people do not think it’s a defect of the iPhone 15 that it didn’t “have AI in it.” Nobody is using any of this stuff except talking to ChatGPT. It sucks to watch Apple sink its brand chasing this nonsense.

New Frog Eyes: https://frogeyes.bandcamp.com/album/the-open-up

#music

The world’s greatest deal-maker: Ask Putin what he wants and then give it to him.

”Nobody else could get it done except me, because they’re stupid and I’m smart.”

From @jonny, author of the incoming Mastodon “fetch all replies in thread” PR:

“As an addendum, I would say that this should be considered *expected behavior* for activitypub: the `replies` collection is a public `Collection` that is part of an actor’s `outbox` and servers should expect other servers to to paginate through these, and the source servers should implement access controls accordingly.”

Cosmic horror from Flying Lotus?? https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/ash-movie-review-flying-lotus-eiza-gonzalez-aaron-paul-1235103042/

J.D. Vance wears eyeliner? Good for him, straight men should feel no shame in wearing makeup or doing other conventionally “un-masculine” things.

As David Bowie said when asked why he was wearing “a woman’s dress”: “It’s a man’s dress.”

Sorry I just love Jon Hamm, I can’t help it https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2025/03/-apple-tv-unveils-trailer-for-highly-anticipated-jon-hamm-led-drama-your-friends-neighbors-premiering-globally-april-11/

via @parkermolloy (dormant account) https://www.readtpa.com/p/the-media-treated-trumps-tesla-stunt

I wish there were a website or widget for people who don’t really follow sports but would just like a vague idea of how their local teams are doing.

I still have no idea what Newsmast is

Twin Peaks (the first two seasons) is on iTunes for $13 right now.

I didn’t think Crocs would last, I didn’t think they’d become socially acceptable, and I certainly didn’t think people would start decorating them with little charms.

First bike ride of the year!

Gang, it’s me. I’m the Fediverse Chick