Travis launched an indiegogo campaign for the Buddyhead movie.
Deanna Dikeman’s Leaving and Waving really got to me. I was visiting my mom, who has Parkinson’s, last week. Brutal.
According to Infectious Disease Tracker, “H5 bird flu virus levels in Los Angeles County wastewater have increased AGAIN, reaching a new high of 109.3, up from 87.62.”
I’m sure it’s nothing 😬
John Gruber’s latest post is some of his best writing, maybe ever. It’s also a lot more personal than he almost ever is.
Seems like a lot of people are closing their Twitter (still not calling it X) accounts for good this time. While I remain largely inactive, I still find value in quite a bit that gets posted there, at least as I experience it, but I hardly ever post there.
I used to have a service that deleted my tweets every 30 days and since Twitter closed down their API, I haven’t been able to do it systematically. Deleting tweets one-by-one is a real PITA. So today I collaborated with Claude and ChatGPT to code what I am calling Delete Tha Tweets. It’s some javascript that you can copy/paste into your browser console to delete your tweets, retweets and replies, though as of this writing the replies functionality is a separate script. Anyway, I hope this helps some others that may not want to delete their accounts, but don’t want their posts to stick around.
Here’s a little screen recording of it doing its magic.
The first public use of the word internet wasn’t for the internet. (h/t TF)
I’m not sure I agree with it all the way down, but Ken White wrote one of the best things I read today.
Prince warned us about the Internet.
If you need a feel-good story, I suggest this one.
I just finished recording myself reading Bill Watteson’s commencement speech to the 1990 graduating class of Kenyan College for my kids. I just did it in Voice Memos on my computer. I then put it into a collection of stuff for my kids. There are quotes, advice, links to things, lists and other stuff that I’m collecting for my kids as a reflection of me and my values. More parents should do this kind of thing.