To feed my RSS habit, I recent I recently switched from Inoreader to Newsblur, which turned out to be well-timed, because Samuel Clay, the developer who runs Newsblur, has had a sudden burst of activity implementing new features. Among these are daily AI-generated summaries that I find to be quite good, if a bit buggy — like news roundups delivered multiple times daily. He’s also implemented natural language filtering, which I haven’t been able to get working.
Fellow RSS addict Jason Snell has more thoughts. Like Jason, I want my newsletters and RSS feeds in the same place, which is a major reason I switched away from Inoreader, because Inoreader’s newsletter support just does not work for me. It’s a great app otherwise — worth trying if you are a heavy RSS user.
Like other Founders, Thomas Jefferson was a contradiction on human rights: He dedicated his life to the United States and individual freedom, and often treated African-Americans with respect, while also owning 610 people as property. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed collected Jefferson’s own writings about race, both personal and public. “He wrote that all men are born free, but he also enslaved hundreds.”
Author Rachel Hartigan explores the life and disappearance of Amelia Earhart in a new book. “… the most likely thing to have happened, the simplest explanation that matches with most of what we know, it’s that she got lost, ran out of gas, and crashed.”
