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Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS

forever-wars.com · Dec 31

Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked

Shared by @topstories and 46 others.
ThatKomputerKat :neocat_cool: (@thatKomputerKat) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Rich Stein (he/him) (@RunRichRun) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Adventurer In California (@Adventurer) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Jonathan Kamens 86 47 (@jik) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Faraiwe (@faraiwe) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@ZhiZhu) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Trendy Toots (@trendytoots) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Compassionate Crab (@Compassionatecrab) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

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.

forever-wars.com/watching-bari

Shared by @tsvenson and 32 others.
*|FNAME|*:canada: (@crispius) · Dec 31
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

Festive Yule Roy Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Dec 31
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

Star Kitty ☆♡ (@Crissy) · Dec 31
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

Adrian Cockcroft (@adrianco) · Dec 31
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

Stephen Bannasch (316 ppm) (@stepheneb) · Dec 30
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

Box464 (Not Hipster Santa) (@box464) · Dec 31
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

hypebot (@hypebot) · Dec 31
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Dec 31
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

Bill Minarik (@silicatefondue) · Dec 30
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

dansup (@dansup) · Dec 30
🔁 @evanprodromou:

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

Stewart Cheifet Obituary December 28, 2025 - Goldsteins Funeral

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com · Dec 31

View Stewart Cheifet's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Shared by @mxp and 56 others.
ARadioGurl (@aradiogurl) · Dec 31
🔁 @jalefkowit:

"Stewart Douglas Cheifet, age 87, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on December 28, 2025.

Stewart is best known for producing and hosting the nationally broadcast PBS television programs Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. Computer Chronicles aired from 1984 to 2002, producing more than 400 episodes that documented the rise of the personal computer from its earliest days. Net Cafe, which aired from 1996 to 2002, explored the emergence of the internet. Both programs were widely regarded as visionary, capturing the evolution of personal computing and the early development of the digital age."

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

Stephen Hackett (@ismh86) · Dec 31
🔁 @siracusa:

Before the Internet, I got a lot of my computer news from this man. RIP 🫡 obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

Nicole Parsons (@Npars01) · Dec 31
🔁 @karpour:

Stewart Cheifet, legendary host of The Computer Chronicles, has passed away on December 28. :(
obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

arturo182 (@arturo182) · Dec 31
🔁 @jalefkowit:

"Stewart Douglas Cheifet, age 87, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on December 28, 2025.

Stewart is best known for producing and hosting the nationally broadcast PBS television programs Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. Computer Chronicles aired from 1984 to 2002, producing more than 400 episodes that documented the rise of the personal computer from its earliest days. Net Cafe, which aired from 1996 to 2002, explored the emergence of the internet. Both programs were widely regarded as visionary, capturing the evolution of personal computing and the early development of the digital age."

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

vga256 (@vga256) · Dec 31
🔁 @karpour:

Stewart Cheifet, legendary host of The Computer Chronicles, has passed away on December 28. :(
obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

Festive Yule Roy Pardee 🇺🇸 (@rpardee) · Dec 31
🔁 @jalefkowit:

"Stewart Douglas Cheifet, age 87, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on December 28, 2025.

Stewart is best known for producing and hosting the nationally broadcast PBS television programs Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. Computer Chronicles aired from 1984 to 2002, producing more than 400 episodes that documented the rise of the personal computer from its earliest days. Net Cafe, which aired from 1996 to 2002, explored the emergence of the internet. Both programs were widely regarded as visionary, capturing the evolution of personal computing and the early development of the digital age."

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

Trending Bot (@trending) · Dec 31
🔁 @siracusa:

Before the Internet, I got a lot of my computer news from this man. RIP 🫡 obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

G. Gibson (@mistergibson) · Dec 31
🔁 @jalefkowit:

"Stewart Douglas Cheifet, age 87, of Philadelphia, PA, passed away on December 28, 2025.

Stewart is best known for producing and hosting the nationally broadcast PBS television programs Computer Chronicles and Net Cafe. Computer Chronicles aired from 1984 to 2002, producing more than 400 episodes that documented the rise of the personal computer from its earliest days. Net Cafe, which aired from 1996 to 2002, explored the emergence of the internet. Both programs were widely regarded as visionary, capturing the evolution of personal computing and the early development of the digital age."

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

Sam Johnson (@scj) · Dec 31
🔁 @siracusa:

Before the Internet, I got a lot of my computer news from this man. RIP 🫡 obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/st

The Latest Defenses of SCOTUS’s Corruption Only Make the Case Against It

talkingpointsmemo.com · Dec 31

Chris Geidner flags today an appearance by CBS News’ Chief Legal Correspondent...

Shared by @topstories and 34 others.
Jeff (@Porkwich) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

Rob Cinos :verified: (@robcinos) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@ZhiZhu) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

Journalism & Comment Channel (@journalismandcomment) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

Brian Tatosky (@virtualbri) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

Exhaust_Fumes (@VCP) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

Hands Off Christo (@ChristoFBG) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

John Gordon (@jgordon) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

Grant (@gsymon) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

yuhasz01 (@yuhasz01) · Dec 31
🔁 @dangillmor:

"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.

talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t

The year politics became brainrot

theverge.com · Dec 31

You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

Shared by @CosmicTraveler and 14 others.
Your Last Merry Popehat (@kenwhite.bsky.social) · Dec 31
🔁 @sarahjeong.bsky.social:

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The year politics became brain...

Ian Brown :verified: (@igb) · Dec 31
🔁 @sarahjeong.bsky.social:

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The year politics became brain...

Axomamma, Antifa's cousin* (@Axomamma) · Dec 31
🔁 @sarahjeong.bsky.social:

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The year politics became brain...

The Flight Attendant (@CosmicTraveler) · Dec 31
🔁 @sarahjeong.bsky.social:

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The year politics became brain...

Cameron Watters (@watters) · Dec 31
🔁 @sarahjeong.bsky.social:

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The year politics became brain...

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva) · Dec 31
🔁 @sarahjeong.bsky.social:

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The year politics became brain...

Marv Clowder (@MarvClowder) · Dec 31
🔁 @sarahjeong.bsky.social:

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

The year politics became brain...

Worth reading

Windows 11’s 2025 meltdown: bugs, bad updates, and fed‑up users

windowscentral.com · Dec 30

Windows 11 is having its worst year yet, with nonstop bugs, broken updates, and unwanted features pushing users to the breaking point.

Shared by @hn100 and 13 others.
Janeishly (@janeishly) · Dec 31
🔁 @mhoye:

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur) · Dec 31
🔁 @mhoye:

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

sebsauvage (@sebsauvage) · Dec 31
🔁 @mhoye:

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

Jason Lefkowitz is exhausted (@jalefkowit) · Dec 31
🔁 @mhoye:

I had no idea that Windows was doing fractal incremental feature rollouts now and it sounds like an absolute goddamn disaster for anyone who needs to support a senior with a computer.

I did not expect the year of linux on the desktop to happen because everyone else in the world started fucking up their own shit in catastrophic, undiagnosable, incomprehensible ways.

windowscentral.com/microsoft/w

Site Blocking Laws Will Always Be a Bad Idea: 2025 in Review

eff.org · Dec 30

This year, we fought back against the return of a terrible idea that hasn’t improved with age: site blocking laws. More than a decade ago, Congress tried to pass SOPA and PIPA—two sweeping bills that would have allowed the government and copyright holders to quickly shut down entire websites ...

Shared by @BrideOfLinux and 6 others.
Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) · Dec 31
🔁 @eff:

It’s time for Big Media and its friends to drop their quest for dangerous new site-blocking laws. But every time they bring it up, we’ll rally internet users of all stripes to fight it. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/site

Police State UK (@PoliceStateUK) · Dec 31
🔁 @eff:

It’s time for Big Media and its friends to drop their quest for dangerous new site-blocking laws. But every time they bring it up, we’ll rally internet users of all stripes to fight it. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/site

ICYMI (Law) (@icymi_law) · Dec 31
🔁 @eff:

It’s time for Big Media and its friends to drop their quest for dangerous new site-blocking laws. But every time they bring it up, we’ll rally internet users of all stripes to fight it. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/site

Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Dec 30
🔁 @eff:

It’s time for Big Media and its friends to drop their quest for dangerous new site-blocking laws. But every time they bring it up, we’ll rally internet users of all stripes to fight it. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/site

Worth reading

A 2026 checklist

werd.io · Dec 31

A way to build a habit out of what's important.

Shared by @fractals and 9 others.
Tim Chambers (@timothyjchambers) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben.werdmuller:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. https://werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Dr.Implausible (@drimplausible) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Tim Chambers (@tchambers) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Shannon Prickett (@Binder) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

May Likes Toronto (@mayintoronto) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

Flipboard Tech Desk (@TechDesk) · Dec 31
🔁 @ben:

Rather than new year's resolutions, I'm experimenting with a checklist for 2026: things I want to try and do every day. This is my list, and I'd love to read yours. werd.io/a-2026-checklist/

The Weird Way the 404 Media Zine Was Built

404media.co · Dec 30

Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.

Shared by @zak and 8 others.
Nathaniel Daught (@nfd) · Dec 31
🔁 @404mediaco:

Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.

404media.co/the-weird-way-the-

ophiocephalic 🐍 (@ophiocephalic) · Dec 30
🔁 @404mediaco:

Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.

404media.co/the-weird-way-the-

petes_bread_eqn_xls (@petes_bread_eqn_xls) · Dec 30
🔁 @404mediaco:

Lessons on laying out the 404 Media zine using a relatively weird setup—on Linux, using Affinity, with the help of the Windows translation layer WINE.

404media.co/the-weird-way-the-

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