
2025-06-30 19:59:36
The Kyiv Independent launches 'How to help Ukraine' newsletter: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/the-kyiv-independent-launches-how.html
The Kyiv Independent launches 'How to help Ukraine' newsletter: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/the-kyiv-independent-launches-how.html
Rocky Mountain Straphanger
How the Town of Banff (pop. 8,000) Built one of Alberta's Most Successful Transit Networks
Taras Grescoe
https://www.highspeed.blog/rocky-mountain-straphanger/?ref=high-speed-newsletter
May newsletter with a collection of links to gorgeous #MerMay art, a link to all my merfolk stories, and a round-up of my latest posts:
https://eroticmythology.c…
Something here touching on people modelling systems based on a simplified abstraction. (aka why seemingly simple government processes are surprisingly expensive to run.)
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s19e11-your-model-is-naive-and-its-not-the/…
Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a "White homeland" (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)
https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-push-alert-promoting-na…
A Court Without the Range (Sherrilyn Ifill/Sherrilyn's Newsletter)
https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/a-court-without-the-range
http://www.memeorandum.com/250701/p1#a250701p1
Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a "White homeland" (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)
https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-push-alert-promoting-na…
Who can help me find out who owns the publication “Canada Minute”? I subscribed to this emailed newsletter, but now I would like to know who owns it, and I cannot find out. They also publish BC, Alberta, SK, and Manitoba Minute.
I cannot believe how evil GrowSF is. They praised the market-rate-only housing at 2588 Mission with no replacement for rent-controlled units destroyed in a fire, a project where even SFHAC said activists opposing it had a point. Now they're calling Lurie's budget that catastrophically defunds social services and will take away people's access to food and housing "a step in the right direction." They spam me with their newsletter and every time I open it my jaw drops.
Urheberrecht: KI-Training mit Büchern ist erlaubt – wenn man sie kauft
https://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2025-06/urheberrecht-buecher-meta-anthropic-newsletter-kuenstliche-intelligenz
@… Given the article you just published, any chance of moving from SubSStack to something like Ghost?
https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent…
@… I know that Iconfactory is struggling now. That breaks my heart 💔.
As you look for additional revenue I wonder if you’ve considered a design or tech centered podcast or newsletter. I’m thinking of a paid addon for Patreon members.
I know that I would instantly subscribe to either a newsletter or podcast that was simply
Offseason All-Hype Team heralds NFL's return. Plus: Shannon Sharpe out at ESPN https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6526678/2025/07/31/nfl-offseason-highlights-preseason-the-pulse/
If you are interested in technology, particularly from an Australian perspective, you should sign up for the Crux from @… at https://pivotnine.com/newsletter/
In addition t…
ICE is Trump’s 21st Century Gestapo
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
There are some good writers on Substack. But I still hope they will take their writing elsewhere someday.
Substack Sent a Push Alert Promoting a Nazi Blog https://pxlnv.com/linklog/substack-nazi-notification/
Eu recebi uma newsletter da Stack Overflow com o título de "experiments in community". Eu li "experiments in communism" 🤡. Isso que dš eu frequentar uma rede cheia de comunistas safados como vocês aí! rs
Antisemitismuskritische Arbeit - auf der Fusion leider unerwünscht.
Quelle:
#antisemitismus
Fact: It is my birthday.
Fact: I run a free & ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.
Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/
Ja, bei 30°C wild, doch in einem halben Jahr is Weihnachten.
Meine legendären #klexadventskalender sowie Kapazitäten für Sonderanfertigungen bewerbe ich niemals in der social media timeline, das verrat ich alles immer nur im #Klexpressbrief.
Wie jeden Juni schreib ich grad an dem mitm Weihnachtsprogramm.
Da ich alles von Hand fertige und generell ganzjährig Vollzeit ausgelastet bin, wirds Zeit, meine verplanbare Arbeitszeit ist ja nicht skalierbar.
Jetzt noch eintragen: https://wandklex.art/newsletter.
At an all-hands, Andrew Bosworth says Sam Altman is not happy about Meta getting OpenAI talent and is "being dishonest" about Meta offering $100M bonuses (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-newslet…
re the The fuckity-fuck cycle -
Reminds me of the" 1950s in the United States are often characterized by a strong emphasis on conformity, particularly within the white, middle-class society. This era saw the rise of the suburbs, with mass-produced homes and consumer goods, reinforcing a sense of sameness."
via @…
Berlin! Kleinmachnow! Kino-Tipp! Die Neuen Kammerspiele in Kleinmachnow sind ein Kleinod des Kinos im (sorry, Brandenburg) Berliner Umland. Morgen ist das Programm besonders toll und ihr wollt da eigentlich gleich den ganzen Tag bleiben, denn den morgigen Tag haben deren Schulpraktikant_innen gestaltet. Tolles Programm und abends gibt es Dirty Dancing. Yay!
Local newsletter company 6AM City acquires AI newsletter startup Good Daily, expanding 6AM subscribers from 1.4M to ~2M and footprint from 30 to 400 US cities (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/6am-city-ai-newsletter-good-daily/
»The group is due to play the enormous annual Belfast Vital festival at the council-owned Boucher Playing Fields in south Belfast on August 29, in support of Dublin band Fontaines DC.« 😭😭 (I used to love Fontaines DC.). https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/kneecap-alliance-calls-for-responsible-language-but-stops-short-of-objecting-to-upcoming-major-concert-on-public-land-5099865
If you like the Bach(s) and appreciate organ music it's well worth signing up. It's free too!
This month's film is from the Bachfest - Prelude, pipes and pedals at Thomaskirche in #Leipzig. https://bit.ly/IOOFNews
How Brett Kavanaugh Is Putting His Thumb on the Scale for Trump | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/article/198304/trump-tariff-lawsuit-brett-kavanaugh?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tnr_daily
OMFG
"A hacker compromised a version of Amazon’s popular AI coding assistant ‘Q’, added commands that told the software to wipe users’ computers, and then Amazon included the unauthorized update in a public release of the assistant this month"
https://www.
Luckily most newsletter providers offer RSS so you don't need to add more spam to your inbox to read a blog.
https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/114574046492220178
Morning all!
Today is all about podcast editing, finishing this month's newsletter, and some slide's for next week's webinar all about #SelfCare and Coping. Have a great day!
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Die Frage steht im Raum: Wiederholen wir mit KI dieselben Fehler wie einst mit Social Media? Miranda Bogen, Expertin für KI-Sicherheit, mahnt zur Vorsicht. Der „persönliche Assistent“, der E-Mails, Arzttermine & Co. durchforstet, klingt praktisch – doch der Preis: totaler Datenzugriff für datenhungrige Konzerne. Datenschutz darf kein lästiges Hindernis sein, sondern Schutzwall!
Mehr hier im KI-Newsletter der ZEIT
Today I wanted to add a semi-complex feature (L10N) to our new newsletter tool, only to realize that I have already added it when setting it up (based on the older, less flexible mail tool). Thanks, past domm!
If you offer newsletters as part of a broader service, don't just make it a checkbox. I don't want your newsletter anywhere near my regular inbox.
Give me an input field for a separate email address.
#DigitalCompassion
Source: OpenAI is planning to launch GPT-5 in early August, complete with mini and nano versions that will also be available through its API (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-m…
Wether you prefer noisy or quiet events, here are some ideas for the #WordPress community! https://make.wordpress.org/community/2025/07/15/meetup-organizer-…
I just published '🌶️ Hot Fudge Sunday for 2025-05-25'.
https://hot.fudge.org/archive/hot-fudge-sunday-for-2025-05-25/
The Lever: Amid Deadly Floods, Lawmakers Left Gap In Warning System
https://www.levernews.com/amid-deadly-floods-lawmakers-left-gap-in-warning-system/?utm_source=…
Has #DH2025 inspired you to get more involved in Digital Humanities communities? Sign up for the @… newsletter for updates from our 14 DH organisations and 10 special interest groups (SIGs)
»The group is due to play the enormous annual Belfast Vital festival at the council-owned Boucher Playing Fields in south Belfast on August 29, in support of Dublin band Fontaines DC.« 😭😭 (I used to love Fontaines DC.). https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/kneecap-alliance-calls-for-responsible-language-but-stops-short-of-objecting-to-upcoming-major-concert-on-public-land-5099865
'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
"Ndebele, who is from Zimbabwe, noted that most of the people opposed to the elimination of the mosquitoes “are not based in Africa.” "
https://www.washingtonp…
A commitment to disabled users deserves more than one day a year.
Subscribe to the Accessibility Weekly email newsletter! Every Monday you'll learn the latest scuttlebutt from expert disabled users and digital accessibility professionals.
https://a11yweekly.com
This month's newsletter/digest is on it's way to the email box of all the amazing friendly good people who asked for it.
The rest of you bitchy vicious augmentative people in public spats can read it here:
#newsletter #digest
Immediate Media's BBC History Magazine launches a Substack and a weekly podcast, and says it has 745,000 paying online subscribers, but print remains important (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…
"Dokumente vergleichen in #Word – lokal und via SharePoint" https://www.deroutlooker365.de/das-loesungsvideo-817-dokumente-verglei…
Epstein breaks Congress (Cameron Peters/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/420745/jeffrey-epstein-files-donald-trump-house-recess
http://www.memeorandum.com/250722/p146#a250722p146
„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…
@… I would like to subscribe to his newsletter!
How an ESPN-NFL deal could change how we watch football, plus McAfee's apology https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6510910/2025/07/24/nfl-espn-red-zone-deal-the-pulse/
Food52 co-founder Amanda Hesser is stepping down after 16 years; she launched a Substack newsletter in March that has 705K subscribers (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/food52-cofounder-amanda-hesser-steps-down/
"Silicon Valley’s era of innovation is over. This is their villain era. The era of the con. Having bled themselves dry of ideas, and all sense of moral decency, they’re now attempting to bleed us dry of our own humanity."
(Original title: How to keep sea-monkeys alive)
https://
Very early research (prepaper, not validated etc.) but interesting concept to read about,
"Self-Adapting Language Models "
https://jyopari.github.io/posts/seal?…
"..motorists have reported 20 to 40 minute delays on the route since May.."
That's the point: stop private cars driving into the city. You can't just go on driving like you have before, and much much more needs doing.to give back the city to pedestrians.
Disincentivise private motoring.
'We want fewer people coming into Manchester city centre in cars' - Manchester Evening News
Statt Kathedralenbau braucht Europa einen digitalen Bazar, meint Markus Beckedahlä: Offen, vielfältig, lebendig. Zentralisierung ist keine Antwort auf Vielfalt. Leider wollen viele Konsumenten aus Bequemlichkeit aber das All-in-One-Kaufhaus, das Amazon der sozialen Medien. Dabei könnte der Bazar viel bunter und spannender sein, aber eben nicht bequem #Medienpolitik
"**The wiping commands probably wouldn't have worked, but a hacker who says they wanted to expose Amazon’s AI “security theater” was able to add code to Amazon’s popular ‘Q’ AI assistant for VS Code, Amazon then pushed out to users.**"
Hacker Plants Computer 'Wiping' Commands in Amazon's AI Coding Agent
https://www.404media.co/hacker-plants-computer-wiping-commands-in-amazons-ai-coding-agent/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
Creative Intelligence is the only book that will give you the foundation, the ability for you to create your own floor. While others scramble to hit AI usage metrics and come up with bland ideas, you'll be building the skills and capabilities that actually matter and set you apart.
https://
The New York Times doubles down on cooking videos by partnering with cooking creators, expanding its video lineup, exploring more brand collaborations, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Today i wrote a parser & import to convert some semi-structured plain text into 40 different newsletter issues for an upcoming newsletter relaunch. And also fixed the internal structure of some of the mail widgets we are using, and their HTML representation.
You picked the most overrated and underrated NFL teams https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6509332/2025/07/23/nfl-underrated-overrated-teams-the-pulse/
This month's newsletter/digest is on it's way to all the amazing lovely peaceful protestors who want it in the email box.
The rest of your terrorist sympathizers who should be arrested can read it here:
#newsletter #digest
Why the Trump Administration Is Handcuffing Politicians (Eric Lach/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/newsletter/the-daily/why-the-trump-administration-is-handcuffing-politicians
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p158#a250618p158
Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, still earns profits from Substack subscriptions despite ceding editorial control of the Huckabee Post to his son (Dave Levinthal/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/news/huckabee-substack
Teslas Robotaxi fährt jetzt – aber nur, wenn die Sonne scheint, der Regen ausbleibt und ein Tesla-Mitarbeiter auf dem Beifahrersitz brav winkt. Autonom? Eher autonom-isch! Der große Sprung nach vorn sieht aus wie ein Beta-Test auf Rädern. Waymo fährt längst, #Tesla feiert noch das Versprechen von 2016. Willkommen in der PR-Zone! (
Die Regierung in #Chile hat am vergangenen Montag per Dekret die Enteignung der ehemaligen deutschen Sektensiedlung #ColoniaDignidad eingeleitet. Sie soll eine Gedenkstätte werden.
Every tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.
I never understood the "you need to push out a newsletter every week or people unsubscribe" thing. Like: If you don't send anything you are totally out of my attention and I don't think enough about you to hunt down your page and unsubscribe. What gets me to unsubscribe is some filler post that has a convenient "click here to unsubscribe" post at the bottom.
The monster isn't in the machine. It's in the mirror
https://brilliantcrank.com/every-generation-discovers-the-same-monster/?ref=brilliantcrank-newsletter
via @…
Let's start football season with some takes, plus the strangest walk-off win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6506943/2025/07/22/nfl-power-rankings-the-pulse/
DOJ seeks a single-day prison sentence for an officer convicted in the Breonna Taylor raid (Cameron Peters/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/420214/breonna-taylor-brett-hankison-sentencing-doj-police-reform
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p151#a250717p151
Oliver Darcy expands his Status newsletter by launching a podcast and videocast called Power Lines, and says Status is approaching 85,000 paid and non-paid subs (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/oliver…
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
https://www.404media.co/ai-scraping-bots-are-breaking-open-libraries-archives-and-museums/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft
„Was passiert, wenn Plattformen journalistische Inhalte noch mehr gezielt diskriminieren – algorithmisch oder manuell? Was, wenn der Rechtsruck weiter voranschreitet und die Pressefreiheit auch bei uns systematisch beschnitten wird? Was, wenn Informationsfreiheitsgesetze, Pressegesetze, Datenschutzstandards ‚abgeräumt‘ werden – in einem Klima der Gleichgültigkeit oder des Zynismus?"
@…
Jerry Jones' latest doomed standoff, plus MLB's best stat line ever? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6516122/2025/07/26/jerry-jones-micah-parsons-contract-the-pulse/
Trump's new Ukraine plan, briefly explained (Cameron Peters/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/419763/trump-nato-ukraine-weapons-patriot-missiles-plan
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p148#a250714p148
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft
AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations Say
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter
Gmail: Google kündigt vereinfachte Abo-Verwaltung an
Google startet in Gmail eine zentrale Abo-Verwaltung, um Newsletter einfacher zu verwalten und abzubestellen.
https://www.heise.de/news…
heise | heise Update vom 4. Juli 2025: Lesetipps zum Wochenende
Der Newsletter von heise : Arzttermin-Scraper, Klimaanlagen-Guide, Schlüsselfinder, Donkey Kong und Bier-Reportage.
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