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David Cay Johnston has been a good investigative reporter for decades. He has followed trump's misdeeds since at least Atlantic City. This article needs more citations (has some loose sourcing); if the allegations are true, it points to disturbing fragility in the US banking sector with serious adverse potential for real harm on the economy, including small investors and regular folks. I'm sure the billionaires will be fine.
https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/
h/t @dangillmor
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115806627318781394

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

David Cay Johnston used to be one of the best reporters on the NY Times, so sad to say, I regard this as very reliable information:

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

h/t @alex

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

One of the best journalists in recent history has a new and scary scoop: The feds are pouring HUGE amounts of cash into big banks, apparently to avoid a new (and predictable) meltdown.

Once again, Wall Street makes reckless bets, and gets rewarded for failure.

https://www.dcreport.org/2025/12/29/ny-fed-unlimited-cash-infusions-bank-crisis/

I worry that we’re going to pendulum-swing back too far, or for the wrong reasons (semi-transparent N64 nostalgia, for example), when I read pieces like these.

The toilet seat iBook is not a “rectangle” and was colorful, but it was in no way even in the same universe of quality as the devices we have today.

And, reducing clutter IS good in software design. The person designing it just needs to know the difference between UI and clutter. Dye clearly does not.

https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out

Karbon Based — And Stay Out https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out

After reading Louie Mantia’s blog post “And Stay Out”, some of my thoughts about Alan Dye leaving Apple, Jony Ive’s influence on Apple’s interface and hardware design before Dye, and the general lack of playfulness in everything Apple makes these days. https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out

Karbon Based, And Stay Out:

I sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury. Jony Ive spent a decade slowly removing any trace of personality from every product Apple released… Chasing thinness, removing ports, simplifying everything down to metal and glass with no differentiation. https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out

https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out
> It took a decade for iOS 7’s damage to be mitigated. I hope we’re not in for another decade of repair to fix Liquid Glass. And more importantly, I hope Apple learns their lesson with Dye and only invests in specialists with the skill and experience necessary to truly lead their interfaces into the future.
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But we are. I loathe the liquid ass UI, and won't be putting it on anything I use until I absolutely have to. And will just have to keep using old apps.
#apple

Karbon Based, And Stay Out:

I sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury. Jony Ive spent a decade slowly removing any trace of personality from every product Apple released… Chasing thinness, removing ports, simplifying everything down to metal and glass with no differentiation. https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out

I sometimes think about what we lost along the way as Apple chased ultra-simplicity and luxury. Jony Ive spent a decade slowly removing any trace of personality from every product Apple released… Chasing thinness, removing ports, simplifying everything down to metal and glass with no differentiation. https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out

After reading Louie Mantia’s blog post “And Stay Out”, some of my thoughts about Alan Dye leaving Apple, Jony Ive’s influence on Apple’s interface and hardware design before Dye, and the general lack of playfulness in everything Apple makes these days. https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out

After reading Louie Mantia’s blog post “And Stay Out”, some of my thoughts about Alan Dye leaving Apple, Jony Ive’s influence on Apple’s interface and hardware design before Dye, and the general lack of playfulness in everything Apple makes these days. https://karbonbased.io/posts/2025/12/and-stay-out

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

Working full time on the Social Web

In January 2026, I will begin working full time in my role as Director at the Social Web Foundation. I am looking forward to the challenge of growing this young non-profit and fulfilling our mission to make a bigger, better Fediverse.

As a refresher: I have been working in the area of federated social networks since starting Identi.ca in 2008. Federated social networks are social platforms that let users on one platform connect to and interact with users on another platform. Linked up with open standard protocols, these platforms together form a Social Web that puts people first.

In 2018, I was a co-author of the ActivityPub standard for social network interoperability. I currently maintain the spec for the W3C and develop extensions for it. In 2024, I wrote ActivityPub: Programming for the Social Web for O’Reilly Media. And I co-founded the Social Web Foundation to further encourage the use of ActivityPub in social networks.

For the last year, I’ve been working nights, lunchtimes and weekends on SWF while holding down my full-time role as Director of Open Technology at the Open Earth Foundation. I love working at OEF; the organization build Open Source software to help cities fight climate change. I have felt very fulfilled in my work there, and I’ve made really strong friendships with the team. It’s been a very special place to work that has changed how I think teams can be.

But over the last year, SWF has had some really amazing opportunities, and in 2026 we’ll be making some big steps forward for the Social Web. I can’t keep doing both jobs, and I feel like, after 4 years at OEF, I’ve done what I can to build up that organization, and I am ready to start on this next one.

It will feel good to have my full attention focused on the Social Web. I’m looking forward to seeing my Open Source friends at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels at the end of January where I’m helping to organize the Social Web track. I’m speaking at Princeton mid-February, and I’ll be in the Bay Area at the beginning of March. All this time, I’ll be working hard to get the next version of ActivityPub released and to push out several software projects to make the Social Web more fun and interesting.

Thanks to everyone who’s put time, effort and help into the SWF. Thanks to my coworkers at OEF for encouraging me on my next steps in my career. Thanks to my wife and family for tolerating yet another leap into the void.

I hope you have as exciting a New Year as I will.

#activitypub #career #job #socialweb #swf

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss.

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/?ref=forever-wars-newsletter

2/2

"Reality ... doesn’t matter to analysts, because stocks are thoroughly, inextricably enshittified, and analysts don’t even realize it’s happening."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

"The mistake that every investor, commentator, analyst and member of the media makes about NVIDIA is believing that its sales are an expression of demand for AI compute, when it’s really more of a statement about the availability of debt from banks and private credit."

-Ed Zitron

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

"The Enshittifinancial Crisis"
#AI #KI #enshitification #steal
"OpenAI told me opex keep eating his revenues, so I asked how many rounds of private equity he has burned and he said he just goes to the market and gets new equity afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding equity to opex and then Sam Altman started crying — @FraPippo428

One time, a good friend of mine told me that the more I learned about finance, the more pissed off I’d get.

He was right."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

"Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas full of negative-margin GPUs."

-Ed Zitron

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

"We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools"

#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

I like the fact that in his latest piece, @Zitron zooms out to point out that the collective insanity of the AI bubble is not just an AI or tech thing, but a generally delusional pattern of behaviours in the stock market and those who are meant to analyse and report on it for investors, "line go up" being the pathological obsession that ignores any evidence to the contrary.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

#Enshitiffication #aibubble #AI #LLM #tech

Ed Zitron:

> We have now entered Enshittification Stage 4, where businesses turn on shareholders.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

"The mistake that every investor, commentator, analyst and member of the media makes about NVIDIA is believing that its sales are an expression of demand for AI compute, when it’s really more of a statement about the availability of debt from banks and private credit."

-Ed Zitron

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

"Every part of the AI bubble — this fucking charade — is unprofitable, save for NVIDIA and the construction firms erecting future laser tag arenas full of negative-margin GPUs."

-Ed Zitron

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifinancial-crisis/

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

"The reason it is important to identify the Court as corrupt is because it is in fact corrupt."

Essential commentary from Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo, one of the news sites that is doing the journalism we need right now.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-latest-defenses-of-scotuss-corruption-only-make-the-case-against-it/sharetoken/d7bf45cf-5baf-4556-a9a1-c6929ed6cc21

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it, unless you're posting on Mastodon or Bluesky: Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/social-media-follower-counts-have-never-mattered-less-creator-economy-execs-say/

Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/social-media-follower-counts-have-never-mattered-less-creator-economy-execs-say/

Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/social-media-follower-counts-have-never-mattered-less-creator-economy-execs-say/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/social-media-follower-counts-have-never-mattered-less-creator-economy-execs-say/

#Mastodon #AI #TechnoTrust #SocialMedia

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it. @Techcrunch tells us how creators are navigating social networks that have become increasingly reliant on algorithmic feeds:

https://flip.it/RH1N.T

#Tech #SocialMedia #Technology #Algorithm

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it, unless you're posting on Mastodon or Bluesky: Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/social-media-follower-counts-have-never-mattered-less-creator-economy-execs-say/

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it, unless you're posting on Mastodon or Bluesky: Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/social-media-follower-counts-have-never-mattered-less-creator-economy-execs-say/

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it, unless you're posting on Mastodon or Bluesky: Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/social-media-follower-counts-have-never-mattered-less-creator-economy-execs-say/

Social media follower counts have never mattered less, creator economy execs say https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/social-media-follower-counts-have-never-mattered-less-creator-economy-execs-say/

Just because you post something doesn’t mean your followers will see it. @Techcrunch tells us how creators are navigating social networks that have become increasingly reliant on algorithmic feeds:

https://flip.it/RH1N.T

#Tech #SocialMedia #Technology #Algorithm

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

/Cc @pjacock

Split Keyboards Are Superior - Aftermath
https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

#keyboards

Last week I wrote about the world's difficult year. This week: my own. Work at ProPublica, what I've read, watched, and enjoyed, and hopes for 2026. werd.io/2025-a-perso...

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Last week I wrote about the world's difficult year. This week: my own. Work at ProPublica, what I've read, watched, and enjoyed, and hopes for 2026. https://werd.io/2025-a-personal-year-in-review/

Last week I wrote about the world's difficult year. This week: my own. Work at ProPublica, what I've read, watched, and enjoyed, and hopes for 2026. https://werd.io/2025-a-personal-year-in-review/

Last week I wrote about the world's difficult year. This week: my own. Work at ProPublica, what I've read, watched, and enjoyed, and hopes for 2026. https://werd.io/2025-a-personal-year-in-review/

Last week I wrote about the world's difficult year. This week: my own. Work at ProPublica, what I've read, watched, and enjoyed, and hopes for 2026. https://werd.io/2025-a-personal-year-in-review/