Jon Udell
@jonudell.bsky.social
This account exists mainly to test the Mastodon to Bluesky bridge.
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https://jonudell.info/fedi-bsky-interactive-cheatsheet/
Thanks!
If you would like to be followable from the Fediverse, please follow @ap.brid.gy from Bluesky, and let me know you did.
https://jonudell.info/fedi-bsky-interactive-cheatsheet/
Thanks!
Well this is the coolest BYTE archive ever.
The home page, a grid with cover pages down the left side, functions as an infographic that charts the rise and fall of the magazine. (I arrived long after the glory days of 450-page issues.)
The home page, a grid with cover pages down the left side, functions as an infographic that charts the rise and fall of the magazine. (I arrived long after the glory days of 450-page issues.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Well this is the coolest BYTE archive ever.
The home page, a grid with cover pages down the left side, functions as an infographic that charts the rise and fall of the magazine. (I arrived long after the glory days of 450-page issues.)
The home page, a grid with cover pages down the left side, functions as an infographic that charts the rise and fall of the magazine. (I arrived long after the glory days of 450-page issues.)
"if this kind of infrastructure doesn’t exist yet, it can be built. “I think the most important lesson from Chicago right now is that anyone can do this and everyone should do this”"
https://organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-we-run-toward-danger-together/
#Chicago #Resistance
https://organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-we-run-toward-danger-together/
#Chicago #Resistance
In Chicago, We Run Toward Danger Together
"Faced with unrelenting state violence, Chicagoans have refused to be cowed," says Mariame Kaba.
organizingmythoughts.org
November 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
"if this kind of infrastructure doesn’t exist yet, it can be built. “I think the most important lesson from Chicago right now is that anyone can do this and everyone should do this”"
https://organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-we-run-toward-danger-together/
#Chicago #Resistance
https://organizingmythoughts.org/in-chicago-we-run-toward-danger-together/
#Chicago #Resistance
"The tractor beam that pulled me in was the special exhibit of Ray Harryhausen’s orginal animatronic models and drawings. Here’s the Kraken from Clash of the Titans."
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/11/02/release-the-kraken/
#Miniatures #HarryHausen #Dynamation
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/11/02/release-the-kraken/
#Miniatures #HarryHausen #Dynamation
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"The tractor beam that pulled me in was the special exhibit of Ray Harryhausen’s orginal animatronic models and drawings. Here’s the Kraken from Clash of the Titans."
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/11/02/release-the-kraken/
#Miniatures #HarryHausen #Dynamation
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/11/02/release-the-kraken/
#Miniatures #HarryHausen #Dynamation
"I’m not sure you’ll see a bank robber assessed as having made “a startling departure from traditional cash withdrawals.”
Nice essay on the media's startling departure from plain language.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202475/media-euphemism-trump-sanewashing-departure
Nice essay on the media's startling departure from plain language.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202475/media-euphemism-trump-sanewashing-departure
November 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"I’m not sure you’ll see a bank robber assessed as having made “a startling departure from traditional cash withdrawals.”
Nice essay on the media's startling departure from plain language.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202475/media-euphemism-trump-sanewashing-departure
Nice essay on the media's startling departure from plain language.
https://newrepublic.com/post/202475/media-euphemism-trump-sanewashing-departure
"In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence."
If only more humans could learn that trick.
https://www.404media.co/chimps-are-capable-of-human-like-rational-thought-breakthrough-study-finds/
If only more humans could learn that trick.
https://www.404media.co/chimps-are-capable-of-human-like-rational-thought-breakthrough-study-finds/
Chimps Are Capable of Human-Like Rational Thought, Breakthrough Study Finds
In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence, shedding light on the evolutionary origins of rational thought.
www.404media.co
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"In a series of experiments, chimpanzees revised their beliefs based on new evidence."
If only more humans could learn that trick.
https://www.404media.co/chimps-are-capable-of-human-like-rational-thought-breakthrough-study-finds/
If only more humans could learn that trick.
https://www.404media.co/chimps-are-capable-of-human-like-rational-thought-breakthrough-study-finds/
There's nothing like a big dose of the majesty of California, a friend likes to say. It sure was powerful medicine today.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/30/a-day-in-sequoia-national-park/
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/30/a-day-in-sequoia-national-park/
October 31, 2025 at 5:52 AM
There's nothing like a big dose of the majesty of California, a friend likes to say. It sure was powerful medicine today.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/30/a-day-in-sequoia-national-park/
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/30/a-day-in-sequoia-national-park/
Cars are fundamentally anti-social. As we transition to a world with fewer of them, how might we improve the sociality of automous EVs?
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/25/reimagining-car-culture/
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/25/reimagining-car-culture/
October 25, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Cars are fundamentally anti-social. As we transition to a world with fewer of them, how might we improve the sociality of automous EVs?
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/25/reimagining-car-culture/
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/25/reimagining-car-culture/
This lovely paean to the roundabouts in my former home town omits the traffic disaster at Keene's core. Central Square (which is a circle) awkwardly combines a roundabout with intersections and traffic lights: the worst of both worlds.
I love you anyway, Keene!
I love you anyway, Keene!
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This lovely paean to the roundabouts in my former home town omits the traffic disaster at Keene's core. Central Square (which is a circle) awkwardly combines a roundabout with intersections and traffic lights: the worst of both worlds.
I love you anyway, Keene!
I love you anyway, Keene!
Good overview of how TikTok-style moderation has led to wider enshittification. But the defeatist tone annoys me, and a nod to the fediverse would have been appropriate.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/content-warning
https://radiolab.org/podcast/content-warning
Content Warning
The story of how TikTok changed everything you see online.
radiolab.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Good overview of how TikTok-style moderation has led to wider enshittification. But the defeatist tone annoys me, and a nod to the fediverse would have been appropriate.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/content-warning
https://radiolab.org/podcast/content-warning
Thanks! I signed up and am looking forward to it. The von Hippel principles are top of mind for me in my current project.
#DemocratizingInnovation https://ruby.social/@bracken/115414726225149327
#DemocratizingInnovation https://ruby.social/@bracken/115414726225149327
bracken (@[email protected])
@[email protected] I loved yours and Mike's posts on User Driven Innovation in edtech years ago and have always loved that concept since.
I'm leading a discussion on it in a couple weeks (generically, not specifically for edtech), and made my own summary of the lectures.
https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/115414696529671437
ruby.social
October 22, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Thanks! I signed up and am looking forward to it. The von Hippel principles are top of mind for me in my current project.
#DemocratizingInnovation https://ruby.social/@bracken/115414726225149327
#DemocratizingInnovation https://ruby.social/@bracken/115414726225149327
"Success depends on convincing people that opposing tyranny is just the first step in a program dedicated to changing the fact that some of us live too well while many others cannot live well at all." https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/115412582784682138
Alexander Karn (@[email protected])
I've said already what I think were the positive outcomes of #NoKings but here's a reminder that there is likely no Trump take-down until Dems offer a positive program for change and equity.
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/21/no-kings-missed-the-mark-heres-how-we-can-fix-that/
mastodon.online
October 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"Success depends on convincing people that opposing tyranny is just the first step in a program dedicated to changing the fact that some of us live too well while many others cannot live well at all." https://mastodon.online/@xankarn/115412582784682138
October 18, 2025 at 4:57 PM
"We are saving God."
Like Marshall McCluhan in Annie Hall, God steps out from behind a potted plant to say: "You know nothing of my work." https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3m363pzny4s2y
Like Marshall McCluhan in Annie Hall, God steps out from behind a potted plant to say: "You know nothing of my work." https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3m363pzny4s2y
October 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"We are saving God."
Like Marshall McCluhan in Annie Hall, God steps out from behind a potted plant to say: "You know nothing of my work." https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3m363pzny4s2y
Like Marshall McCluhan in Annie Hall, God steps out from behind a potted plant to say: "You know nothing of my work." https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3m363pzny4s2y
A good goal to aim for here in America. Perhaps our public health leaders can visit the Pacific island countries to learn how it was accomplished.
#measles #vaccines https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115362271190176360
#measles #vaccines https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115362271190176360
Ada Palmer (@[email protected])
The entire Western Pacific has been verified free of measles and rubella. The WHO has verified the elimination of both diseases in all Pacific Island countries, alongside rubella elimination in Japan. The achievement follows two decades of coordinated immunisation campaigns, regional surveillance, and high routine vaccine coverage, making the Western Pacific the first WHO region to eliminate rubella entirely. https://www.who.int/westernpacific/news/item/26-09-2025-rubella-elimination-verified-in-japan--and-measles-and-rubella-elimination-verified-in-pacific-island-countries-and-areas?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
#ShareGoodNewsToo
wandering.shop
October 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
A good goal to aim for here in America. Perhaps our public health leaders can visit the Pacific island countries to learn how it was accomplished.
#measles #vaccines https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115362271190176360
#measles #vaccines https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/115362271190176360
Note to self: always bring a real map.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/04/maps-old-and-new/
#maps #navigation
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/04/maps-old-and-new/
#maps #navigation
October 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Note to self: always bring a real map.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/04/maps-old-and-new/
#maps #navigation
https://blog.jonudell.net/2025/10/04/maps-old-and-new/
#maps #navigation
I have long admired ourworldindata.org for its comprehensive data and analysis, much of which is the work of Hannah Ritchie. Her new book, Not The End of the World, synthesizes what she has learned over the past decade and delivers a credible, much-needed message of hope.
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems
ourworldindata.org
September 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I have long admired ourworldindata.org for its comprehensive data and analysis, much of which is the work of Hannah Ritchie. Her new book, Not The End of the World, synthesizes what she has learned over the past decade and delivers a credible, much-needed message of hope.
To those who heed this message: thank you for your service. https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/115285852310095053
Voline (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 video
A message from Portland City Councilor and US Army veteran Mitch Green, urging Oregon Guardsmen to remember their oaths to the Constitution and refuse deployment to Portland.
#PDX #ICE #Antifa
kolektiva.social
September 29, 2025 at 8:43 PM
To those who heed this message: thank you for your service. https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/115285852310095053
"One reason techno-utopians don't worry about the loss of human meaning is that they're not particularly attached to humans."
- Bill McKibben
- Bill McKibben
September 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
"One reason techno-utopians don't worry about the loss of human meaning is that they're not particularly attached to humans."
- Bill McKibben
- Bill McKibben
"The number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.
September 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
"The number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.
"The demonstration is widely considered to be the longest continuous act of political protest in U.S. history. It has survived seven presidents, countless global conflicts, hurricanes and blizzards, heat waves and floods. It has outlasted several U.S.
September 20, 2025 at 3:47 AM
"The demonstration is widely considered to be the longest continuous act of political protest in U.S. history. It has survived seven presidents, countless global conflicts, hurricanes and blizzards, heat waves and floods. It has outlasted several U.S.
All I hear about is the Target boycott, which is important, but now it's time to organize a large-scale boycott of CBS/Paramount (Colbert) and ABC (Kimmel).
I cannot be the first person to entertain this thought. Who is working on this and how can we help?
#CBS #Paramount #ABC #Boycott
I cannot be the first person to entertain this thought. Who is working on this and how can we help?
#CBS #Paramount #ABC #Boycott
September 17, 2025 at 11:34 PM
All I hear about is the Target boycott, which is important, but now it's time to organize a large-scale boycott of CBS/Paramount (Colbert) and ABC (Kimmel).
I cannot be the first person to entertain this thought. Who is working on this and how can we help?
#CBS #Paramount #ABC #Boycott
I cannot be the first person to entertain this thought. Who is working on this and how can we help?
#CBS #Paramount #ABC #Boycott
Here's how to make an XMLUI table responsive: https://docs.xmlui.org/howto/make-a-table-responsive
I just added the example to the Howto section in the docs. Now when I ask an agent how to do this, the XMLUI MCP server should guide the agent to the working example and cite the URL.
I tested.
I just added the example to the Howto section in the docs. Now when I ask an agent how to do this, the XMLUI MCP server should guide the agent to the working example and cite the URL.
I tested.
September 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Here's how to make an XMLUI table responsive: https://docs.xmlui.org/howto/make-a-table-responsive
I just added the example to the Howto section in the docs. Now when I ask an agent how to do this, the XMLUI MCP server should guide the agent to the working example and cite the URL.
I tested.
I just added the example to the Howto section in the docs. Now when I ask an agent how to do this, the XMLUI MCP server should guide the agent to the working example and cite the URL.
I tested.
Bright engineering students in China used to flock to American universities. That flow will now reverse. And we'll need to train our students in spycraft. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3lyve2jrvts25
David Roberts (@volts.wtf)
After years of hype, Chinese investors are convinced that solid-state batteries are here, ready to revolutionize the market.
Another huge, world-changing technology that China is kicking our ass on.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-15/china-s-battery-makers-get-boost-on-hopes-for-solid-state-tech?cmpid=BBD091525_hyperdrive
fed.brid.gy
September 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Bright engineering students in China used to flock to American universities. That flow will now reverse. And we'll need to train our students in spycraft. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3lyve2jrvts25
The Fresh Air interview with Billy Strings is deeply moving. Hearing he is from Ionia, Michigan added a layer for me. Two of my college roommates were from there. It wasn't an artsy town when I visited in the 70s, nor was it during his troubled childhood.
September 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
The Fresh Air interview with Billy Strings is deeply moving. Hearing he is from Ionia, Michigan added a layer for me. Two of my college roommates were from there. It wasn't an artsy town when I visited in the 70s, nor was it during his troubled childhood.