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Some sentences are endlessly reusable as is or by shifting a single word. Eg., this by Dave Winer:
“________, some day someone will want to know what you destroyed.”
Repeat the next sentence too.
“I'm going to make sure that part is easy to find.”
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There should be a single word for a social post that links to something, claims vaguely that it has value, but refuses to give any clue about even the topic of the linked item, much less what value it actually offers a reader.
Classic WNDU content — somebody misbehaves a few states away from our area, and WNDU is here with the link.
A man was arrested for alleged unruly behavior on an American Airlines flight, causing it to divert to Baltimore, according to multiple reports.
STORY >> wndu.com/2026/09/05/passenge…
For years I have known how to include a working link in a message here, but maybe something has changed.
One year in, working with Claude Code on an ambitious project, Dave Winer offers the idea that, powerful as it is, AI “doesn't do pioneering at all.”
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One year in, working with Claude Code on an ambitious project, Dave Winer offers the idea that, powerful as it is, AI “doesn't do pioneering at all.”
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“Real food from farms is exactly what we should be eating,” as James Rebanks says here, for at least four reasons.
1) Our health.
2) The health of the land and, in time, the planet.
3) Our chance at building up economic power.
4) . . . leading to our chance for political power.
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Software meant to toggle in a flash between two display formats for the same content, each format serving a different purpose. Maybe it's somewhat common now, I don't know. But it's very cool.
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A major flaw in blogging was that good posts would slide down the screen into a blog's shadowy archive, unlikely to be seen again. Now Dave Winer looks to index years or decades of web writing, just like the back of a book. I bet there will be links.
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For some reason @WSBT wants its northern Indiana audience to know that a road rage incident took place at the far end of Texas recently. That's a total waste of time.
A social media influencer was taken into custody after an alleged road rage incident and pursuit from law enforcement. bit.ly/4ez8SJv
I count on our local WNDU news team to repeatedly post grim and brutal news stories that have taken place hundreds of miles from our community. What a service they provide!
The body of a woman discovered earlier this week has been identified as a missing trainer who was last seen leaving Planet Fitness.
STORY >> wndu.com/2026/06/20/body-mis…
David Foster Wallace about we Americans starving the part of ourselves “that is almost hungry for silence and quiet and thinking really hard about the same thing for maybe half an hour instead of thirty seconds…”
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Stoermer: The utility of seeing America clearly
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Ken Smith retweeted
This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.
Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.
IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.
The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.
The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.
Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.”
Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.
The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.
This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.
Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?
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After the 2016 election, Trump said that 3-4 million fraudelent votes were cast. He set up a commission to investigate. The commission faded away later. You can bet they failed to find what he claimed they would find, and as their propaganda value lapsed, so did the commission.
“The good news from Hungary is that blatant corruption doesn’t have to be normalized,” writes Paul Krugman.
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Ken Smith retweeted
It is nearly impossible for a European to comprehend the psychological reality inside Russia. It is not just "fake news." It is a total deconstruction of reality.
Let me try to immerse you in the world Russians live in [1/9]
Not having to know, or, as Dave Winer puts it, becoming Good Germans. @bullmancuso
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