Links Worth Clicking

• This is worth digesting slowly in response to the news about Jason Arday's death. It's substack but I'm breaking my "don't share substack" rule because it's that important.

The last point is important— Terror campaigns also act as a social deterrent, in that they are designed to cause enough fear in institutions and allies: If you support Black people, we will come for you, anywhere you are, 24/7. The target may be one person or one institution, but the audience is everyone. And the fear comes straight to your phone, inbox, and social media feeds.

• If you are curious about my substack rule, this piece from Brennan is an important read on speech and harm and the like.
• Corruption was the main thing on display at the "Great American State Fairs" 250 thing. It happened more than a month ago but if you didn't know - this is worth a read.
• Details on OpenAI's hack on hugging face. It seems like a lot of marketing to me but still a bit of a fascinating train wreck of a story.
• The amazing web app Echofeed by Robb Knight is being sunsetted. Various replacements have popped up (that may or may not be vibe coded; if that matters to you, talk to the devs) like parrot.garden and FeedEcho.
• This story about Elizabeth Elliot is incredibly fascinating. Elliot is a whole foundation in the evangelical world, particularly around the whole misguided purity culture parts. The article documents (with a measure of receipts) her own same-sex relationship.
• The guy that build Ghostty just launched a new startup and I'm really curious to see what it's about. I spend a significant amount of my computer time in Ghostty.
• All of these datacenters that they AI and AI adjacent companies are trying to build are a humanitarian and environmental nightmare. Here's just one article from Michigan about the noise pollution they cause.
• I can be bad about stale CNAME records so this article provided the impetus to clean up my zones and move fully to dns kitchen. Basically, scammers could use stale CNAME records to pass DKIM on phishing emails and get in to your inbox.
• This is a wild AI story that got wilder as it unfolded. Basically, two devs released the same app within a short window of time. It seemed like one copied the other but as the story unfolded, it turns out they both used claude and super similar prompts.
• If you use Navidrome for streaming your own music, check out Navibeat for Mac & iOS. And, if you use it, check out their plugin for some custom playlists. Speaking of Navidrome - it uses the subsonic API which Bandcamp recently implemented on your collections which is pretty cool!
• This isn't a good look at all: the navy is considering renaming a carrier meant to honor a black war hero after trump instead. They are gonna have to try a lot harder if they want to beat a racism rap.
• Andros Fenollosa wrote this awesome writeup on the Finger protocol. It inspired me to get my .plan in order so if you finger mbjones@omg.lol you'll get what I'm up to! (h/t to Robb for sharing it!)

on social media

The video in this post has me laughing so hard:

https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/117067696008185308