manton 1 year ago

Still digging through support email. Happy to announce that starting next week, @sod will also be joining on a very part-time basis to help answer email questions. We worked with him a year ago on Micro.blog templates too. I’m inspired and thankful for the help!

Micro.blog - @sod

manton 1 year ago

While I don’t think it’s likely, if in the future, the only EV allowed to be sold in the United States is a Tesla, as Elon Musk has an office in the White House, that won’t be the most ridiculous thing to happen in Trump’s term. Not even close. From the Verge: Volkswagen cancels ID.7 sedan for US.

The Verge

Volkswagen cancels ID.7 sedan for US

VW isn’t planning on introducing any new EVs in the US this year.

manton 1 year ago

Batch, a new favorite. I can’t believe I’ve been living within walking distance to this place for over a year and never tried it before this week. A misty, gray morning.

manton 1 year ago

Seth Godin as usual has the perspective I need to hear, about prioritizing the important things instead of the urgent: "Waiting for trouble means that you’re going to spend your days dealing with trouble." Over the weekend, I made a few pretty big, probably overdue changes. A couple will be visible, like Core Intuition.

Seth's Blog

Organizing for urgent

There are many ways to prioritize our time and focus, but the easiest and most vivid way is to do the urgent things first. If we wait until a house...

Manton Reece

manton 1 year ago

Today we have the final episode of Core Intuition. 16 years. 626 episodes. Thanks for listening and thanks @danielpunkass for recording the show with me!

Core Intuition

Episode 626: Something Has To Change - Core Intuition

This is the final episode of our podcast. Thank you so much to everyone who has listened and supported us over the years! We’ve loved doing the s...

Micro.blog - @danielpunkass

manton 1 year ago

Taking a short break from support email and questions to edit the latest Core Intuition. If you have ever listened to our podcast before and liked it, you will probably want to hear this one. (How’s that for hyping it up?)

manton 1 year ago

Micro Social is looking really good! Upcoming app for Micro.blog from @gregmorris.

Greg Morris

Micro Social: Your Timeline

Along with ensuring you can follow a conversation with ease, one of the biggest things I wanted from Micro Social is the ability to be customisable...

Micro.blog - @gregmorris

manton 1 year ago

This post by Bear creator Herman Martinus is great. I probably could’ve written the same thing about Micro.blog but with a few twists. It’s always been about slow growth and lasting decades. Ben Werdmuller also has some good counterpoints about funding.

Herman's blog

The Bear Manifesto

An outline of my philosophy and direction for the platform

Ben Werdmuller

The Bear Manifesto

[Herman Martinus] I recognize a lot of the sentiment here. Twenty years ago, I ran an open source social networking startup and tried to different...

manton 1 year ago

Really nice FAQ-style format for today’s Stratechery update on DeepSeek. Even if you don’t read the whole thing, you can tell something big is happening. I downloaded a medium-sized R1 model last week to test with Ollama on my Mac. Very impressed.

DeepSeek FAQ – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

manton 1 year ago

Good morning! This week I have two goals: respond to every email I received in January, and fix some bugs. There is low hanging fruit and a few more difficult problems to address.

manton 1 year ago

I finally sorted through an old box of my dad’s stuff that I’ve had for over 25 years. I could never bring myself to open it after he died. I knew there would be some letters in it that were heartbreaking, but if I had also known there would be gems like this I would’ve looked sooner! Made me smile.

manton 1 year ago

Brandon Sanderson brings so much joy to his writing class. I’ve been going through old boxes and papers (we’re moving again!) and found some sci-fi stories I wrote when I was a teenager. Younger me would’ve loved this.

manton 1 year ago

SNL tonight with Timothée Chalamet. For so many years I looked forward to watching it live every weekend, a way to put the week in perspective and just laugh. I stopped watching it in November. Now ready to get back to it. 📺

manton 1 year ago

I’m still reading Wind and Truth. Taking my time. I’m on page 1100 and it’s just starting to get really good. 🤪

Wind and Truth

manton 1 year ago

After a few days of the freeze, actually turned into a nice late afternoon for a walk. Mueller Lake Park.

manton 1 year ago

As expected, Pixelfed and Loops blew through their Kickstarter fundraising goal. I know from experience that running a campaign is actually a lot of work. When the dust settles, I hope they finish the new export format that was hinted at. We’ll do blog → Pixelfed import and back right away. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

manton 1 year ago

I hope one day, if I get through this with my sanity and health, we look back and find it odd that in the first week of Trump’s 2nd term, looking for someone to blame, all eyes turned to… Manton. The guy who has been fighting Trump for 8 years. The guy who has volunteered on campaigns against Trump. The gu... www.manton.org

Manton Reece

manton 1 year ago

Vincent Ritter has another post: Context. Thank you so much to everyone who has supported me, in public and private. I’m not linking to the other posts, so it might seem like this is a one-sided fight with everyone on the other side, but I’ve seen many of the posts and greatly appreciate it. Let me reite... www.manton.org

Manton Reece

manton 1 year ago

Enough

Manton Reece - Enough

manton 1 year ago

Kimberly Hirsch shares LGBTQ+ organizations to donate to: "GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and crisis intervention program for LGBTQ+ young people." 🏳️‍🌈

Kimberly Hirsh

Kimberly Hirsh

Information is my love language! GLSEN is my go-to resource for LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. The Trevor Project is a suicide prevention and...

Glisten

Homepage - Glisten

Glisten: Championing LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 education. Together we can transform our nation's schools into the safe and affirming environment a...

The Trevor Project

Support Homepage

The Trevor Project is a non-profit suicide prevention organization that provides 24/7 crisis support services, research, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ yo...