I added a new award to the 612 POAP Challengethe Explorer! This token is given to players that are the first to mint a location in the event. I sent it to the 8 players that have been the first to claim 31 of the 33 locations. There are only two more chances to get this award!

Great day having fun around the pool. 💦

I love Tetris. This is a whole different take — Tetris Tumble XL.

Happy 𝜏 (2π) Day!

Delightful evening at Magic Pines.

We saw F1: The Movie tonight and I thought it was awesome. Great summer movie with a predictable story but still thrilling and exciting! I loved the race scenes — which were plenty. Brad Pitt was great as was the rest of the cast. Recommended!

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Tyler got Dayne St. Clair’s signature after tonight’s United win. ⚽️

Let’s go United! Playing Houston Dynamo tonight. Storm has passed but “Dark Clouds” still present. ⚽️

Important ruling for AI model training, cooyright, and fair use. This aligns with how I would think about it.

A federal judge in America ruled it was “fair use” for Anthropic, an AI lab, to train its chatbot on books without authors’ permission. Its storage of over 7m pirated books, however, was not. Last year three authors sued Anthropic for allegedly copying and storing pirated material without compensation; the judge said Anthropic will face a separate trial to determine the damages it owes. — Economist, World in Brief, June 25, 2025

Love that @ericmwalk did a run with Strava to get some 612 POAP Challenge locations today! Brilliant! Nice collection of 7 locations so far.

IndieWeb is Punk: Wear It!

I published IndieWeb is Punk and it resonated with folks.

Jim Mitchell created the shirt! Go ahead and get one!

I wanted to make a POAP to go with it so Jim sent me the image files and here we are!

For fun I asked ChatGPT to create the description for this POAP in the voice of Henry Rollins of Black Flag speaking to bloggers of today!

You walked away from the corporate feed trough. You ripped your voice out of the algorithm’s claws. That took guts. That took conviction. That’s punk!

The IndieWeb isn’t some polished product you buy with a tap. It’s you, your words, your server, your turf. It’s raw HTML and full-throated autonomy. This isn’t about metrics or brand deals – it’s about owning your damn voice. If you’ve ever looked at those social media sugar traps and said, “No thanks, I’m not a product,” then congratulations – you’re part of the resistance.

We need digital buttons, badges like the ones we used to stab into our jean jackets – statements of identity, rebellion, belonging. This POAP? It’s not just a collectible. It’s a battle patch. A symbol. A nod to the hard-headed, soft-hearted punks building the web they want to live in.

It started with Jamie Thingelstad screaming the truth from his blog: IndieWeb is Punk. Then others joined the chorus and even joined in voice, and Jim Mitchell did what punks do – he made a damn shirt.

So slap that badge on your digital vest. Wear it like blood, sweat, and static.

You’re not just on the web – you are the web!

Want a POAP? Contact me and I’ll send you a claim code!

Wild electrical activity in last nights storm.

Mesmerizing and weird looking clouds as storms approached.

Radar imagery before last nights storms hit — 100 mph winds.

My car was parked right here before the storm hit, right next to @quinntchrest. Luckily we both moved them to a clear area. These branches would have done significant damage.

We are visiting my relatives in Grandin, ND and last night’s storm was the worst I’ve ever been through. Winds in excess of 100 mph. Lasted for hours. Power is out to the entire town. Many trees down. Uncle’s house power line from the pole is down.

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Posted a new @roadsignmath winner for first time in a couple years and it’s a good one. Found by @tthing!

As AI Agents continue to grow in capability it seems likely that we will want them to have financial resources to take action with. AI Agents will need an account balance, micropayments, and immediate settlement which are all feasible today with crypto. Digital money for digital agents. 🤔

Manton Reece @manton shared he’s pausing blogging on AI because of pushback he receives on his writing. I can empathize based on comments I’ve received about crypto. In 2022 I wrote on polarizing technology. AI is likely to be similar to Encryption and Crypto and I’m going to continue exploring.

IndieWeb is Punk

Last night, Mazie and I went to Pink Ivy for dinner, and as we pulled out of the driveway, she took control of the music and right away started playing “Basket Case” by Green Day. Mazie has wide-ranging musical interests. She is happy to rock out with me to the Foo Fighters. Lately, Green Day has been rotating in more, but she found that one on her own. We were both digging the song, and I told her how fun it was for me that she was listening to Green Day and shared the Punk Rock roots of the band. We dug further back into my Music Library and found their first two albums on Lookout! Records “1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hour” and “Kerplunk.” We listened to “Disappearing Boy” and “At the Library,” and I joked with her that most of the songs were about girls they were too scared to talk to.

She thought the music itself was just okay, and I was like, “Yeah, but that was Punk Rock.” With that, I attempted to summarize the music world of the late 80s and 90s, which was dominated by Top 40 music and record labels controlling distribution. Punk Rock stormed onto the scene and ignored all of that. This led to a meandering listen through some Screeching Weasel and their tributes to the Ramones, then to the Straight Edge scene and Minor Threat. Punk Rock was so fundamentally different from what most people were listening to then. Unfortunately, we arrived at the restaurant before I was able to cover the New Bomb Turks and NOFX.

However, as we discussed the anti-commercial, independent, and community aspects of Punk Rock, it struck me that I could be describing the IndieWeb movement of today in nearly identical terms. As Punk Rock was to the music industry of that era, is the IndieWeb bringing the same ethos to the Web of today — minus the mohawks?

Punk Rock was famously DIY, playing whatever instruments they could get their hands on. Most were self-taught and just learned to play to make the music. Bad singer? No problem. Do you only know three chords? Perfect. Do you own a drum set but don’t know how to play? Great. Let’s go. This same spirit embodies the IndieWeb as people use open-source tools to create their websites. Need a primary topic for your newsletter? How about I just write? Don’t have flashy features or pixel-perfect design? Doesn’t matter. It works. It’s yours.

IndieWeb creators and providers shun the pursuit of monopoly power and giant profits. Most focus on being small services that charge a fair fee based on the cost of providing the service. No venture capitalist would invest in these projects. Punk Rock didn’t care about selling millions of records. Punk was about creating music and getting it into people’s hands.

Punk was also about community and creating connections. No Punk Rock band stood on their own, and the folks at the shows were part of their community more than an audience. IndieWeb communities share similarities, focusing on related tools and systems and exploring how they can collaborate to empower individuals. The zine movement of Punk Rock was blogging before the Internet! That spirit lives on today.

One of the most significant ways they are similar is they are both counterculture. In the 1990s, listening to Punk Rock was a way to subvert the mass media system. Punk Rock gave the middle finger to that “system” and said, “No.” That’s precisely what IndieWeb folks are saying to the dominant social media platforms today. We opt out of algorithmic surveillance systems and choose to be independent.

CC0 is Punk

The IndieWeb is Punk. I love this image from Matt Downey. CC0 is a public domain dedication license from Creative Commons. Giving away ownership and contributing to the community is Punk.

We don’t need major platforms. We have the Web, keyboards, tools, and community. IndieWeb is Punk! Is it time to bring the Mohawks back?