James Gallagher’s post on “The indie web” is getting some notice, but here is the quote I like the best: “The indie web is all about people sharing what they want to share and doing so on their own platform.” That is what I try to do with every post! Keep it up, James!

Mike Hall talks about Newsboat, a command line RSS reader, and highlights a neat feature – the ability to ignore certain URL patterns. Reminds me some of the Checkbox News concept, but in reverse. Nice!

The Big Lie continues in 2024

Kaitlan Collins presses Rep. Norman on 2021 text message calling for martial law

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) about a 2021 text message he sent to Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, pleading for the former president to declare martial law. Norman also references other alleged incidents of voter fraud, which Kaitlan Collins refutes.

Source: CNN

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The New Republic: Republican Rep. Has No Regrets About That “Marshall Law” Text – Years later, Ralph Norman still stands by his infamous text to Mark Meadows after the 2020 election.

South Carolina Public Radio: Leaked 2021 text from SC Rep. Ralph Norman calls for martial law; Congressman says message came from ‘frustration’

Voting Booth: Election Defenders’ Top 2024 Worry: Online Rumors, Deceptions, Lies Swaying Masses

The Fulcrum: Scholars unmask Trump election lawyers’ use of falsified evidence – Study finds a cottage industry of bogus claims and statistics – the post links to a working paper (Dropbox link to PDF) analyzing 38 claims of election fraud “…Regardless of the reason why, every claim we analyze fails to provide evidence of illegality or fraud.” (page 3) (via Election Law Blog)

Arizona Republic editorial: Title: “Stay in this race, Nikki Haley, and make Donald Trump set himself on fire” – offers a speech that Nikki Haley could give to really enrage Trump, best quote is this one after the suggested speech: “That should do it. That should ignite the afterburners in Trump’s ears and eye sockets.”

CNN: Jury finds Trump must pay $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll (Love it!) (link is to CNN live blog of coverage for 1/26/2024, includes a lot of quotes from E. Jean Carroll’s closing statements).

New York Times: “Here Is One Way to Steal the Presidential Election” by Lawrence Lessig and Matthew Seligman – Gives an overview of how state legislators could direct electors on how to cast their electoral votes, and some ideas to stop this. I would say this could happen – let’s be careful out there!

Jeffrey Zeldman: Knowledge Management for the Win – gives some examples of online org/companies sharing handbooks/guides, makes the statement that the main areas of KM are accumulating, storing, and sharing knowledge. Brief, but has some good links. (My category on knowledge management)

James Gallagher: The what, why, how formula of technical writing – “These three questions allow me to evaluate the extent to which my writing and the writing of others follows through on its stated goals.”. The post gives examples of each question – nice!