2026-01-28 07:25:14
Kristen Radtke writes at The Verge about her childhood friend Alex Pretti:
There is something destabilizing about having known someone only as a child and then hearing they were gunned down in the street. The person you see in your mind lying in that street is still a child. I’m sure his mother feels that way, too, or she sees him at every age all at once, including those he did not live to see.
Heartbreaking. The world is smaller and more connected than we sometimes realize… Everyone is someone’s friend, son, daughter.
2026-01-28 03:50:27
NetNewsWire 7 is out with a UI update for Liquid Glass. Don’t worry, it fits well on macOS 26 without going too far with the design. All the menu icons are also hidden, which I like.
2026-01-28 00:56:34
Growing the Open Social Web, an un-workshop from the FediForum folks with a new format:
Prior to the un-workshop, we invite participants to submit a short post or position paper that summarizes their own perspectives on the subject. […] In advance of the event, we distribute a (lightly curated) set of these position papers to other participants of the un-workshop for preparation.
I like this. I’m traveling that day so might miss it, but maybe some Micro.blog people would like to participate.
2026-01-28 00:27:19
Bethany blogging about a GoFundMe in Minneapolis:
Many people have not been able to work for the past month or more, either because they are personally afraid to leave their homes, or their workplaces have closed (out of caution or because too many employees have been taken to continue operating), or because a wage-earner in their household has been taken. If you’re looking for a very specific, focused place to give, please consider this GoFundMe which is to give rent relief to some of these families in the Twin Cities, primarily South Minneapolis.