Made it 3 weeks into 2025 before I saved a blog post bookmark with the tags “2025”, “web”, and “drama” 🤪
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Are you keeping cozy during eternal Caturday?
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I've been trying to track down why this heater keeps tripping the 40A breaker. This is not a good sign.
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In progress: a pegboard mount for my DJI Mini 3 drone
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I understand that, when you are staring at a factory spewing toxic chemicals and carbon into the atmosphere, someone who shuffles over and whispers in your ear “Go plant a tree and save the world”; your first instinct isn’t to thank them for their keen insight but to launch a broadside in their direction.
And yet…in twenty years the factory could be thoroughly reformed or closed for good, and meanwhile, you played an instrumental role in growing a forest.
We are in the “planting trees” era of American #politics and #openweb technology right now. It will take a whole lot of effort and feel silly or pointless at times…and there will be moments when the desired future for our society seems farther away than ever before.
Don’t let the temptation of bitter despair take hold. Go plant a tree and save the world. Future generations are counting on you to do right by them.
“Art is the only thing that helps people stay alive, and it is the only thing that has allowed people to create joy in this insane, suppressive universe. And art is the only thing that they can’t get rid of. They’ve tried, but ultimately they can’t stamp it out.”
–Juliette Lewis
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My Seek 2024 Year in Review:
* 141 new species observed, of those, the top three kinds:
* 79 plants
* 20 insects
* 16 fungi
* 56 challenge badges earned
June was the month I observed the most new species in 2024, followed by March, and then July.
Seek also gave me a graph of observations per month, and also a map of where I made my discoveries.
Rather than posting screenshots of the Year in Review that Seek provided me in the app, I am posting the relevant content here in a post on my personal site, which I know I’ll be able to search and look up in the future.
Seek is a delightful free (like actually free, free of tracking, free of surveillance) native mobile application for identifying species.
Made by the iNaturalist folks (https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app), Seek works without creating an account, and is able to work completely offline to identify species out in the wild (and add them to your local collection).
Seek awards you Species Badges when you discover a number of species of a particular grouping, as well as Challenge Badges when you complete one or more of their monthly challenges that they post.
In some ways it’s like Pokemon Go, except based on finding and collecting observations of real living things.
I have found it quite useful especially when traveling, and wondering is that plant (or animal) the same as one I’ve seen elsewhere, perhaps around home, or is it a slightly different species?
I also really like the good example that Seek provides for how an app can be immediately useful without requiring extra labor (like creating an account, or logging on) on behalf of the person using it.
Lastly, Seek is an excellent example of a truly offline capable app where nearly all of its functionality works just fine without a network connection.
Both of these capabilities (offline first, no login wall) are what we should aspire to when we build #indieweb apps or websites for ourselves and our friends.
This is post 8 of #100PostsOfIndieWeb. #100Posts #yearInReview #iNaturalist #SeekApp
← https://tantek.com/2025/012/t1/eight-years-webmention
→ 🔮
Glossary:
login wall
https://indieweb.org/login_wall
offline first
https://indieweb.org/offline_first
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"html": "<blockquote>\n <h2><a href=\"https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/the-pc-is-dead-its-time-to-make-computing-personal-again\"></a></h2>\n\n <p>Americans have allowed runaway business models, empowered by tech, to subvert privacy and individual liberty on the road to making money. Our default tech business model has become extractive, like part of a strip-mining operation. Consumers\u2014and now creative works (used for training AI)\u2014are treated as a natural resource to be milked and exploited.</p>\n\n<p>The extractive model may end up being self-destructive for the tech industry itself. In the physical world, resource extraction needs limits and regulations to be sustainable. It can be wildly profitable until a resource becomes over-harvested, or the harvesting process corrupts the environment that lets the industry exist in the first place.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This entire essay by Benj Edwards over at Vintage Computing and Gaming is fantastic, but that section in particular stood out to me because I\u2019ve been making the exact same analogy. <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/generativeai\">#GenerativeAI</a> companies are treating all human creative output on the Internet like it\u2019s merely raw material to extract out of the environment and repurpose for their paying* customers. Who cares if the overall quality of software keeps decreasing and frequent <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/enshittification\">#enshittification</a> is the new normal? <a href=\"https://buttondown.com/theinternet\">Gotta keep the hype cycle, er, cycling!</a></p>\n\n<p>Benj\u2019s larger point about the lack of true <strong>ownership</strong> in today\u2019s computing landscape is worthy of a long and serious conversation, one I\u2019ll be having over at <a href=\"https://theinternet.review/\">The Internet Review</a> in due course. There\u2019s something seriously, seriously wrong with software and media being totally ephemeral, morphing and even vanishing at the whims of the real owners (<em>not you!</em>), and it\u2019s high time we begin to wrest back control. <em>This essay gets it.</em></p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt is possible to learn from history and integrate the best of today\u2019s technology with fair business practices that are more sustainable and healthy for everyone in the long run.\u201d <strong>Amen to that.</strong></p>\n\n<p>* There\u2019s actually legitmate debate to be had if any of these AI chatbots and assistants will even be profitable, because so far the answer is no. Hardware manufacturers and data center operators sure are making bank however!</p>",
"text": "Americans have allowed runaway business models, empowered by tech, to subvert privacy and individual liberty on the road to making money. Our default tech business model has become extractive, like part of a strip-mining operation. Consumers\u2014and now creative works (used for training AI)\u2014are treated as a natural resource to be milked and exploited.\n\nThe extractive model may end up being self-destructive for the tech industry itself. In the physical world, resource extraction needs limits and regulations to be sustainable. It can be wildly profitable until a resource becomes over-harvested, or the harvesting process corrupts the environment that lets the industry exist in the first place.\n\n\n\nThis entire essay by Benj Edwards over at Vintage Computing and Gaming is fantastic, but that section in particular stood out to me because I\u2019ve been making the exact same analogy. #GenerativeAI companies are treating all human creative output on the Internet like it\u2019s merely raw material to extract out of the environment and repurpose for their paying* customers. Who cares if the overall quality of software keeps decreasing and frequent #enshittification is the new normal? Gotta keep the hype cycle, er, cycling!\n\nBenj\u2019s larger point about the lack of true ownership in today\u2019s computing landscape is worthy of a long and serious conversation, one I\u2019ll be having over at The Internet Review in due course. There\u2019s something seriously, seriously wrong with software and media being totally ephemeral, morphing and even vanishing at the whims of the real owners (not you!), and it\u2019s high time we begin to wrest back control. This essay gets it.\n\n\u201cIt is possible to learn from history and integrate the best of today\u2019s technology with fair business practices that are more sustainable and healthy for everyone in the long run.\u201d Amen to that.\n\n* There\u2019s actually legitmate debate to be had if any of these AI chatbots and assistants will even be profitable, because so far the answer is no. Hardware manufacturers and data center operators sure are making bank however!"
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"text": "Stuff on my plate right now, for the immediate future:\nHave some lunch\nFinish reorganizing my bedroom\nLaundry\nGet around to editing and posting my VRChat concert recordings\n\nTidy up my recording studio\nLonger-term things:\nGet around to replacing the failing security camera on my studio entryway\nWork on some music, gosh darnit\nGather and donate/sell all the disused crap treasures I don\u2019t want anymore that could do others much more good\nAll the other stuff",
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"text": "The Level Up is a LOOSELY video game-themed indie improv showcase! Come and see some of the freshest talent in the New York indie improv scene!\n\nCome support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for these exciting indie teams:\nNAP TIME\n\nBIZZO\n\nIMPROV DOT GOV\nI\u2019ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!\nLooking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)\nMagnet Theater\n254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)\nNew York City, NY 10001\nTickets $10: https://magnettheater.com/show/59154/",
"html": "<blockquote>\n<p>The Level Up is a LOOSELY video game-themed indie improv showcase! Come and see some of the freshest talent in the New York indie improv scene!</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Come support Michael as he dons his hosting-duties cap for these exciting indie teams:</p>\n<p>NAP TIME<br />\nBIZZO<br />\nIMPROV DOT GOV</p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be playing in with Michael and the rest of the Level Up!</p>\n<p>Looking forward to it! And to seeing you there!! (Yes, you. Come on out!!!)</p>\n<p>Magnet Theater\n254 West 29th St (btwn 7th and 8th Ave.)\nNew York City, NY 10001\nTickets $10: <a href=\"https://magnettheater.com/show/59154/\">https://magnettheater.com/show/59154/</a></p>"
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This is for my fellow Yanks out there: Take care of yourselves and your loved ones this weekend.
I just want you to know I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with all of the people out there who have even more reason to be afraid come January 20th than I do (being a white man). I know how hard this must be for you, because there are people I love very close to me who—if you pay attention to the rhetoric—are living with MAGA targets on their backs. It’s shameful. It’s appalling. It’s #politics with very few guardrails left.
And yet…we will get through this. We must. I keep telling that to myself every day. We have to keep going. Because the alternative is…unimaginable.
So I wish you all good wishes, and know that you are not alone. Millions upon millions of your fellow Americans are just as appalled as you are, and this ain’t over. MAGA can believe they “won” all they want, but the war for the soul of this nation continues, and we live to fight another day. Resist! ✊
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"html": "<p>This is for my fellow Yanks out there: <strong>Take care of yourselves and your loved ones this weekend.</strong></p>\n\n<p>I just want you to know I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with all of the people out there who have even more reason to be afraid come January 20th than I do (being a white man). I know how hard this must be for you, because there are people I love very close to me who\u2014if you pay attention to the rhetoric\u2014are living with MAGA targets on their backs. It\u2019s shameful. It\u2019s appalling. It\u2019s <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/politics\">#politics</a> with very few guardrails left.</p>\n\n<p>And yet\u2026<strong>we will get through this</strong>. We must. I keep telling that to myself every day. <em>We have to keep going</em>. Because the alternative is\u2026unimaginable.</p>\n\n<p>So I wish you all good wishes, and know that <strong>you are not alone</strong>. Millions upon millions of your fellow Americans <strong>are just as appalled</strong> as you are, and this ain\u2019t over. MAGA can believe they \u201cwon\u201d all they want, but the war for the soul of this nation continues, and we live to fight another day. <strong>Resist!</strong> \u270a</p>",
"text": "This is for my fellow Yanks out there: Take care of yourselves and your loved ones this weekend.\n\nI just want you to know I stand shoulder-to-shoulder with all of the people out there who have even more reason to be afraid come January 20th than I do (being a white man). I know how hard this must be for you, because there are people I love very close to me who\u2014if you pay attention to the rhetoric\u2014are living with MAGA targets on their backs. It\u2019s shameful. It\u2019s appalling. It\u2019s #politics with very few guardrails left.\n\nAnd yet\u2026we will get through this. We must. I keep telling that to myself every day. We have to keep going. Because the alternative is\u2026unimaginable.\n\nSo I wish you all good wishes, and know that you are not alone. Millions upon millions of your fellow Americans are just as appalled as you are, and this ain\u2019t over. MAGA can believe they \u201cwon\u201d all they want, but the war for the soul of this nation continues, and we live to fight another day. Resist! \u270a"
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My cat decided to join my work meeting this afternoon
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Hey San Diego, some of the lovely people in Fan Favorite are presenting next week: Navigating Fractured Realities and the Need for Clean Air (“During the Pandemic” is Right Now). January 21, 6:30pm–8pm at Centro Cultural de la Raza. Masks required and provided? Air purifiers? You know it! 😷💛
Also, check out and share the Instagram post.
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"html": "<p>I tuned into the final presidential address by Joseph R. Biden Jr. to the American people.</p>\n\n<p><strong>I tuned out after a few minutes.</strong></p>\n\n<p>And therein lies the unfortunate legacy of this administration. Perhaps unparalleled in modern history has been this president\u2019s impact on the lives of everyday Americans, making their lives substantially better in a myriad of key ways\u2014and at the same time, <strong>so little impact on the hearts and minds of these same people</strong>. Biden was an anachronism the moment he stepped into office\u2014a politician forged in an era which was rapidly fading from view. Yes, as many pundits (including myself) were keen to point out, Biden is only a few years older than Donald Trump. Yet somehow, in some fashion, Trump felt \u201cof the times\u201d\u2014times being that we live in a world transformed by Twitter, by YouTube, by TikTok, by <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/politics\">#politics</a> being reduced to nothing more than rapid soundbites, savage texts, and \u201cowns\u201d. Biden still lived in the world of <em>60 Minutes</em>.</p>\n\n<p>And even when he made his generous, noble act of stepping away from the limelight in the 2024 race to give Kamala Harris a real shot at winning the thing, he doomed her to repeat the same error: assuming that the way Americans get their news and collectively process what\u2019s going on in the world around them was to trust <em>journalists</em>, trust <em>institutions</em>, and trust <em>traditions</em>.</p>\n\n<p>Hate to break it to ya, but Americans in 2025 <strong>don\u2019t give a fuck</strong> about \u201cjournalists\u201d, \u201cinstitutions\u201d, and \u201ctraditions\u201d. The old ways are dying\u2026some are already dead. And MAGA is gloating that it gladly wielded the knife.</p>\n\n<p>I fear for our future\u2014not because I think Trumpism is all-powerful. Trumpism, as just another two-bit fascist ideology, contains legitimate weakness at the heart of it all. That\u2019s <em>why</em> it must remain so noisy, all the time. <strong>The grift must never end.</strong></p>\n\n<p>No, rather I fear that the institutionally-minded Democrats are unable to grapple with this new reality. They expect business-as-usual in Washington, D.C. They assume in 2026 or 2028, there will <em>still be</em> a 60 Minutes for a candidate to appear on. They assume the delicate balance between various branches of governments, departments, committees, and lobbyists will continue in a similar vein to what has occurred before.</p>\n\n<p>I just don\u2019t know if Democrats understand Trumpism\u2019s true agenda: which is to tear everything down to the studs and rebuild an entirely new world order. And by the time the Dems <em>finally</em> get it through their thick skulls\u2026<strong>I fear it will be too late.</strong></p>\n\n<p>I\u2019m not saying all of this is Biden\u2019s fault. Yet Biden represents that wing of the Democratic Party which failed to meet this moment. <strong>It\u2019s a shame, it really is.</strong> Because the truth our collective amnesia failed to grasp is that, on a pure domestic policy review, President Biden was one of the great leaders across the entire history of the United States.</p>\n\n<p>And thus I salute you sir. <strong>Thank you for your service.</strong></p>\n\n<p>(And now the next four years begin. <em>May God have mercy on our souls</em>.)</p>",
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16 years ago today I wrote up and posted a proposal for a new calendar: newcal.org
Having long been frustrated by unnecessary unevenness and other quirks of the Gregorian calendar, I designed and wrote up a more ordered, mathematically simpler, and more continuously consistent calendar.
Building up from the atomic calendar unit of a 'day':
* five day weeks
* six week (30 day) months
* two month (60 day) + a sync day bims¹
* six bim years (minus a day for non-leap-years)
After giving it an obvious name, “New Calendar”, and somehow getting a short speakable .org domain (newcal.org), I wrote code to do all the calendar computations and conversions.
The simpler calendar computations made me realize I had invented something that would help solve a completely different problem I was working on: an efficient date-based storage format for my new blog.
It‘s rare that an invention, or reinvention of something inelegant, actually serves a useful purpose. This was one of those rare exceptions.
I also taught myself and have kept practicing the use of ISO 8601 Ordinal dates for my own personal calendaring, which literally gave me a new perspective of time. A much smoother and more linear progression of time across the duration of a year.
Previously: https://tantek.com/2019/015/t1/10-years-ago-today-new-calendar
¹ https://tantek.com/2015/228/t3/bim-definition
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates
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"text": "16 years ago today I wrote up and posted a proposal for a new calendar: newcal.org\n\nHaving long been frustrated by unnecessary unevenness and other quirks of the Gregorian calendar, I designed and wrote up a more ordered, mathematically simpler, and more continuously consistent calendar.\n\nBuilding up from the atomic calendar unit of a 'day':\n* five day weeks\n* six week (30 day) months\n* two month (60 day) + a sync day bims\u00b9\n* six bim years (minus a day for non-leap-years)\n\nAfter giving it an obvious name, \u201cNew Calendar\u201d, and somehow getting a short speakable .org domain (newcal.org), I wrote code to do all the calendar computations and conversions.\n\nThe simpler calendar computations made me realize I had invented something that would help solve a completely different problem I was working on: an efficient date-based storage format for my new blog.\n\nIt\u2018s rare that an invention, or reinvention of something inelegant, actually serves a useful purpose. This was one of those rare exceptions.\n\nI also taught myself and have kept practicing the use of ISO 8601 Ordinal dates for my own personal calendaring, which literally gave me a new perspective of time. A much smoother and more linear progression of time across the duration of a year.\n\nPreviously: https://tantek.com/2019/015/t1/10-years-ago-today-new-calendar\n\n\u00b9 https://tantek.com/2015/228/t3/bim-definition\n\u00b2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates",
"html": "16 years ago today I wrote up and posted a proposal for a new calendar: <a href=\"http://newcal.org\">newcal.org</a><br /><br />Having long been frustrated by unnecessary unevenness and other quirks of the Gregorian calendar, I designed and wrote up a more ordered, mathematically simpler, and more continuously consistent calendar.<br /><br />Building up from the atomic calendar unit of a 'day':<br />* five day weeks<br />* six week (30 day) months<br />* two month (60 day) + a sync day bims<a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5a31_note-1\">\u00b9</a><br />* six bim years (minus a day for non-leap-years)<br /><br />After giving it an obvious name, \u201cNew Calendar\u201d, and somehow getting a short speakable .org domain (<a href=\"http://newcal.org\">newcal.org</a>), I wrote code to do all the calendar computations and conversions.<br /><br />The simpler calendar computations made me realize I had invented something that would help solve a completely different problem I was working on: an efficient date-based storage format for my new blog.<br /><br />It\u2018s rare that an invention, or reinvention of something inelegant, actually serves a useful purpose. This was one of those rare exceptions.<br /><br />I also taught myself and have kept practicing the use of ISO 8601 Ordinal dates for my own personal calendaring, which literally gave me a new perspective of time. A much smoother and more linear progression of time across the duration of a year.<br /><br />Previously: <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2019/015/t1/10-years-ago-today-new-calendar\">https://tantek.com/2019/015/t1/10-years-ago-today-new-calendar</a><br /><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5a31_ref-1\">\u00b9</a> <a href=\"https://tantek.com/2015/228/t3/bim-definition\">https://tantek.com/2015/228/t3/bim-definition</a><br /><a href=\"https://tantek.com/#t5a31_ref-2\">\u00b2</a> <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Ordinal_dates</a>"
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