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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- RSS generated by oldSchool v0.8.12 on Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:47:41 GMT --><rss version="2.0" xmlns:source="http://source.scripting.com/"> <channel> <title>Scripting News</title> <link>http://scripting.com/</link> <description>Dave Winer, OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:47:12 GMT</pubDate> <language>en-us</language> <generator>oldSchool v0.8.12</generator> <copyright>&copy; copyright 1994-2024 Dave Winer.</copyright> <docs>http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html</docs> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 20:47:41 GMT</lastBuildDate> <cloud domain="rpc.rsscloud.io" port="5337" path="/pleaseNotify" registerProcedure="" protocol="http-post" /> <image> <url>https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/04/curly.png</url> <title>Scripting News</title> <link>http://scripting.com/</link> <description>Scripting News gets an image because it's part of a network that uses them. 6/4/25 by DW</description> </image> <source:account service="twitter">davewiner</source:account> <source:localTime>Thu, June 5, 2025 4:47 PM EDT</source:localTime> <source:self>http://scripting.com/rss.xml</source:self> <source:blogroll>https://feedland.social/opml?screenname=davewiner&catname=blogroll</source:blogroll> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2022/03/21/beetle.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Regular readers of my blog know that I've been <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Bluesky">calling out Bluesky</a> and people associated with it for saying they're an open platform, and part of the web, when they are neither. Why don't people, esp journalists, call them out on this? We've been around this loop over and over in tech. There's a virtual conference today, FediForum, that on their <a href="https://fediforum.org/">home page</a> repeats <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/05/promises.png">the hype</a>. Why do people do this? What's the point of pouring your time into technology you hope someday will be open? I bought a ticket to the conference so if there are any sessions that look like they might be productive I can participate. I even wrote a <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html">keynote</a>, so you can see there is a way for this stuff to start working, quickly, if the vendors you're looking up to are sincere in their promises. I've posted it on <a href="https://mastodon.social/@dave@social.masto.land/114630925085003307">Mastodon</a> and <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3lqufhhswis2r">Bluesky</a> so if you have comments or questions, we can start the discussion now, or any time.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:24:26 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/05.html#a132426</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/05.html#a132426</guid> <source:outline text="Regular readers of my blog know that I've been <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=Bluesky">calling out Bluesky</a> and people associated with it for saying they're an open platform, and part of the web, when they are neither. Why don't people, esp journalists, call them out on this? We've been around this loop over and over in tech. There's a virtual conference today, FediForum, that on their <a href="https://fediforum.org/">home page</a> repeats <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/05/promises.png">the hype</a>. Why do people do this? What's the point of pouring your time into technology you hope someday will be open? I bought a ticket to the conference so if there are any sessions that look like they might be productive I can participate. I even wrote a <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html">keynote</a>, so you can see there is a way for this stuff to start working, quickly, if the vendors you're looking up to are sincere in their promises. I've posted it on <a href="https://mastodon.social/@dave@social.masto.land/114630925085003307">Mastodon</a> and <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3lqufhhswis2r">Bluesky</a> so if you have comments or questions, we can start the discussion now, or any time." created="Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:24:26 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2022/03/21/beetle.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/05.html#a132426"/> </item> <item> <description>Now a personal comment. What pisses me off most about Bluesky is the political environment all this is happening in. We <i>need</i> an open social web. They've got a lot of people convinced they are it. They are not and they know it. And they keep leading people on. They should either deliver, now, or get out of the way.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:47:12 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/05.html#a134712</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/05.html#a134712</guid> <source:outline text="Now a personal comment. What pisses me off most about Bluesky is the political environment all this is happening in. We <i>need</i> an open social web. They've got a lot of people convinced they are it. They are not and they know it. And they keep leading people on. They should either deliver, now, or get out of the way." created="Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:47:12 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/05.html#a134712"/> </item> <item> <description>Why doesn't Walt Frazier have a freaking podcast. Come on. (Jon Stewart did a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dAKo76RtpM">series</a> of podcast-style interviews with him.)</description> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:50:28 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a155028</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a155028</guid> <source:outline text="Why doesn't Walt Frazier have a freaking podcast. Come on. (Jon Stewart did a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dAKo76RtpM">series</a> of podcast-style interviews with him.)" created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:50:28 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a155028"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/02/02/curly.gif" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">If everything goes well, the <a href="http://scripting.com/rss.xml">RSS feed</a> for Scripting News will now have a channel-level image element because it's part of a network that requires an avatar-like image. This required me to go through some very old code that my system still depends on. It's remarkable how much time this seemingly small feature took to implement. One of these days I have to move this code to one of my more modern servers. One reason it took so long is that a random package that does something that never changes, had a breaking change in it. The breakage culture of the Node.js world is just plain fucked up, no other word for it.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:32:12 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a153212</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a153212</guid> <source:outline text="If everything goes well, the <a href="http://scripting.com/rss.xml">RSS feed</a> for Scripting News will now have a channel-level image element because it's part of a network that requires an avatar-like image. This required me to go through some very old code that my system still depends on. It's remarkable how much time this seemingly small feature took to implement. One of these days I have to move this code to one of my more modern servers. One reason it took so long is that a random package that does something that never changes, had a breaking change in it. The breakage culture of the Node.js world is just plain fucked up, no other word for it." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:32:12 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2024/02/02/curly.gif" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a153212"/> </item> <item> <description>And btw one of these days I'm going to clear the time to write a useful and up to date RSS feed validator. The one the W3C uses is a total embarassment. I'm not even going to link to it it's so awful.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:39:38 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a153938</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a153938</guid> <source:outline text="And btw one of these days I'm going to clear the time to write a useful and up to date RSS feed validator. The one the W3C uses is a total embarassment. I'm not even going to link to it it's so awful." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:39:38 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a153938"/> </item> <item> <description>I've heard that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andor_(TV_series)">Andor</a> is great stuff. I'm on episode 6 of season 1, and it's the usual Star Wars bullshit. It was fun in 1978. But now? It's so freaking boring. Tell me it's worth continuing to watch, that it gets an actual plot at some point.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:08:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a140842</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a140842</guid> <source:outline text="I've heard that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andor_(TV_series)">Andor</a> is great stuff. I'm on episode 6 of season 1, and it's the usual Star Wars bullshit. It was fun in 1978. But now? It's so freaking boring. Tell me it's worth continuing to watch, that it gets an actual plot at some point." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:08:42 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a140842"/> </item> <item> <description>I had a neighbor and friend a long time ago named Ann Doerr. I used to joke with her how her name was a combination of two of the main types of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate">logic gates</a> in computers. I think that's what attracted me to the Star Wars Andor show.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:09:08 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a140908</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a140908</guid> <source:outline text="I had a neighbor and friend a long time ago named Ann Doerr. I used to joke with her how her name was a combination of two of the main types of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate">logic gates</a> in computers. I think that's what attracted me to the Star Wars Andor show." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:09:08 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a140908"/> </item> <item> <description>I now have the special ChatGPT function I've been waiting for. <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/">Codex</a>. Give it access to my entire <a href="https://github.com/scripting?tab=repositories">GitHub collection</a> and let it go. I stopped myself from authorizing, wanting to sleep on it. I know I'm going to do it, but.. Gulp. Do I really want to dump all my thinking for <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/04/samAltmanAndFriends.png">Sam Altman</a>?</description> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:58:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a135841</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a135841</guid> <source:outline text="I now have the special ChatGPT function I've been waiting for. <a href="https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/">Codex</a>. Give it access to my entire <a href="https://github.com/scripting?tab=repositories">GitHub collection</a> and let it go. I stopped myself from authorizing, wanting to sleep on it. I know I'm going to do it, but.. Gulp. Do I really want to dump all my thinking for <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/04/samAltmanAndFriends.png">Sam Altman</a>?" created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:58:41 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04.html#a135841"/> </item> <item> <title>Can David Frum hear me?</title> <description><p>I've been enjoying the new <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the-david-frum-show/">David Frum podcast</a>. He's very good at thinking and does a lot of it, and expresses himself very well. I read all his columns and have read two of his books, even though I don't share much of his pre-Trump politics, I find it interesting to hear how he parses things. I also subscribe to The Atlantic. I listen to him. But in this week's episode it's clear that the listening is one-way. </p> <p>In today's <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/06/david-frum-showwhy-are-the-media-so-afraid-of-trump/683029/">episode</a> we heard from the elite journalist David Frum, interviewing elite editor in chief Marty Barrett, formerly of the Washington Post, and they both make what I believe are wildly inaccurate generalizations about the quality of the news reporting by professionals and the ugliness and inadequacy of bloggers and podcasters. </p> <p>The problem is, they don't read widely enough to know that there are bloggers and podcasters with good intentions, ethics, deep knowledge and experience who are also well educated -- they don't know we exist and therefore can't hear about the huge mistakes they are making with their own self-perception of their role that we can see because we are not in their world. (BTW, I have been in their world, I was a contributing editor at Wired, a research fellow at Harvard and NYU, each for two years, and I have collided with Frum-like elites, the usual response is a hand-wave of dismissal, written off as not worth listening to, I guess.)</p> <p>Frum, at the end of the episode talks about how the press covered Biden's incapacity, that led to the second Trump term. They should have stopped, once we were all informed of what happened, and let the <i>electorate</i> decide, it wasn't up to them, or the celebrities they gave space to in their op-eds. In the United States, the <i>people</i> decide. Instead they put up a roadblock and wouldn't let the issue drop. We all knew, we were all informed, probably long before we read a single article about his debate performance. They should have stopped. That was their malpractice. </p> <p>Their responsibility was to give us the information, and it was also their responsibility to stop right there. Once informed, they were wrong in continuing to harp on it. </p> <p>We saw them do it with Governor Cuomo of New York. And Senator Al Franken. And Donald McNeil at the NY Times. And on and on. There's so much reporting that's lazy and incompetent, but they'll never report on that, because of their conflicts. And they never listen to their critics. And as a result they play a role they are not entitled to play. </p> <p>They need to wake up to the idea that while reporting from their bubble is still important and is heard, they misuse it regularly, and we are fed up with it. If they want to control the government, do the right thing, and run for office. Don't do it from your byline in the Washington Post or NY Times. </p> </description> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:01:20 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html?title=canDavidFrumHearMe</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html</guid> <source:outline text="Can David Frum hear me?" created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:01:20 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html"> <source:outline text="I've been enjoying the new <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/the-david-frum-show/">David Frum podcast</a>. He's very good at thinking and does a lot of it, and expresses himself very well. I read all his columns and have read two of his books, even though I don't share much of his pre-Trump politics, I find it interesting to hear how he parses things. I also subscribe to The Atlantic. I listen to him. But in this week's episode it's clear that the listening is one-way." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:55:06 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html#a215506"/> <source:outline text="In today's <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/06/david-frum-showwhy-are-the-media-so-afraid-of-trump/683029/">episode</a> we heard from the elite journalist David Frum, interviewing elite editor in chief Marty Barrett, formerly of the Washington Post, and they both make what I believe are wildly inaccurate generalizations about the quality of the news reporting by professionals and the ugliness and inadequacy of bloggers and podcasters." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:02:23 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html#a220223"/> <source:outline text="The problem is, they don't read widely enough to know that there are bloggers and podcasters with good intentions, ethics, deep knowledge and experience who are also well educated -- they don't know we exist and therefore can't hear about the huge mistakes they are making with their own self-perception of their role that we can see because we are not in their world. (BTW, I have been in their world, I was a contributing editor at Wired, a research fellow at Harvard and NYU, each for two years, and I have collided with Frum-like elites, the usual response is a hand-wave of dismissal, written off as not worth listening to, I guess.)" created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:03:48 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html#a220348"/> <source:outline text="Frum, at the end of the episode talks about how the press covered Biden's incapacity, that led to the second Trump term. They should have stopped, once we were all informed of what happened, and let the <i>electorate</i> decide, it wasn't up to them, or the celebrities they gave space to in their op-eds. In the United States, the <i>people</i> decide. Instead they put up a roadblock and wouldn't let the issue drop. We all knew, we were all informed, probably long before we read a single article about his debate performance. They should have stopped. That was their malpractice." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:04:29 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html#a220429"/> <source:outline text="Their responsibility was to give us the information, and it was also their responsibility to stop right there. Once informed, they were wrong in continuing to harp on it." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:15:01 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html#a221501"/> <source:outline text="We saw them do it with Governor Cuomo of New York. And Senator Al Franken. And Donald McNeil at the NY Times. And on and on. There's so much reporting that's lazy and incompetent, but they'll never report on that, because of their conflicts. And they never listen to their critics. And as a result they play a role they are not entitled to play." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:05:53 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html#a220553"/> <source:outline text="They need to wake up to the idea that while reporting from their bubble is still important and is heard, they misuse it regularly, and we are fed up with it. If they want to control the government, do the right thing, and run for office. Don't do it from your byline in the Washington Post or NY Times." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:06:58 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/220120.html#a220658"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <title>My keynote for FediForum</title> <description><p><a href="https://fediforum.org/">FediForum</a> is a virtual conference that starts on June 5. If they had asked me to keynote, this is roughly what I would say. </p> <p>Imho this stuff is pretty freaking simple, esp since there are well over 20 years of prior art to use, and not that many ways to do what we're trying to do. I'm impatient, so here's a quick set of observations with my opinion, take it for what it's worth, ymmv, etc. </p> <ul> <li>You shouldn't be reinventing so much. Always look around for <a href="http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/priorArtDesignMethod">prior art</a>. That will make it possible for you to interop more quickly at both a software level and at a human level. </li> <li>Don't invent stuff you think you may need later. Save that for later. You have no intuition for what's needed and more important nothing to test against. You will get it wrong 100 percent of the time.</li> <li>Don't invent stuff you think you may need later that makes what you're doing now more complicated. I see a lot of that in ActivityPub. </li> <li>The only reason you're doing all this work is for interop. If you've been doing it for years and you don't have much meaningful interop you're doing it wrong.</li> <li>Write the software first. Use formats that exist, or if you must invent new stuff, make sure it's simple. Work on its simplicity as you would any other feature. Factor! If there are going to be 100 interoperable products and you make it a little more difficult to implement, that work will be multiplied 100 times. And it be a barrier to entry, so you may not get the most powerful interop possible with the most interesting products. </li> <li>Read and follow the <a href="https://this.how/standards/">Rules for Standards-makers</a>. There aren't that many. But if you're breaking them, you're not going to end up with a standard. If your goal is to appear to be making standards, you should also read RFSM, and don't do anything in it. I've seen people do that btw. </li> <li>Have you looked at the world outside the tech stuff to see how important this all has become? All the time we're wasting is very costly in everything that depends on the social web actually existing as opposed to just being talked about.</li> </ul> <p>Now, what would I request if I could influence you??</p> <ul> <li>Mastodon and Bluesky should support inbound and outbound RSS, and do it really well. Right now they do outbound only, and the implementations are incomplete at covering the functionality they have now, and there needs to be more (see the next item). </li> <li>They'd support the basic features of the <a href="https://textcasting.org/">textcasting</a> spec, including Markdown because it's a great standard, very much of the same school as RSS. If it had existed when we did RSS 2.0 it would have been part of it. </li> </ul> <p>That's it. Really not much work. </p> <p>From there we'd have 25 years of interop to explore. </p> <p>And we could really call this the open social web.</p> <p>I'm ready to do it any time you all are. </p> <p>Yours in not wasting time.</p> <p>Dave</p> <p>PS: I asked ChatGPT to <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/04/talkVisualized.png">visualize</a> me giving this talk.</p> <p>PPS: Comments or questions on <a href="https://mastodon.social/@dave@social.masto.land/114630925085003307">Masto</a> or <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3lqufhhswis2r">Bluesky</a>.</p> </description> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:22:06 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html?title=myKeynoteForFediforum</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html</guid> <source:outline text="My keynote for FediForum" created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:22:06 GMT" type="outline" description="FediForum is a virtual conference that starts on June 5. If they had asked me to keynote, this is roughly what I would say." metaImage="http://scripting.com/images/2025/06/04/keynote.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html"> <source:outline text="<a href="https://fediforum.org/">FediForum</a> is a virtual conference that starts on June 5. If they had asked me to keynote, this is roughly what I would say." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:38:30 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a163830"/> <source:outline text="Imho this stuff is pretty freaking simple, esp since there are well over 20 years of prior art to use, and not that many ways to do what we're trying to do. I'm impatient, so here's a quick set of observations with my opinion, take it for what it's worth, ymmv, etc." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:23:27 GMT" flBulletedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a162327"> <source:outline text="You shouldn't be reinventing so much. Always look around for <a href="http://essaysfromexodus.scripting.com/priorArtDesignMethod">prior art</a>. That will make it possible for you to interop more quickly at both a software level and at a human level." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:23:59 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a162359"/> <source:outline text="Don't invent stuff you think you may need later. Save that for later. You have no intuition for what's needed and more important nothing to test against. You will get it wrong 100 percent of the time." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:24:33 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a162433"/> <source:outline text="Don't invent stuff you think you may need later that makes what you're doing now more complicated. I see a lot of that in ActivityPub." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:24:49 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a162449"/> <source:outline text="The only reason you're doing all this work is for interop. If you've been doing it for years and you don't have much meaningful interop you're doing it wrong." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:25:56 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a162556"/> <source:outline text="Write the software first. Use formats that exist, or if you must invent new stuff, make sure it's simple. Work on its simplicity as you would any other feature. Factor! If there are going to be 100 interoperable products and you make it a little more difficult to implement, that work will be multiplied 100 times. And it be a barrier to entry, so you may not get the most powerful interop possible with the most interesting products." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:26:26 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a162626"/> <source:outline text="Read and follow the <a href="https://this.how/standards/">Rules for Standards-makers</a>. There aren't that many. But if you're breaking them, you're not going to end up with a standard. If your goal is to appear to be making standards, you should also read RFSM, and don't do anything in it. I've seen people do that btw." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:28:09 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a162809"/> <source:outline text="Have you looked at the world outside the tech stuff to see how important this all has become? All the time we're wasting is very costly in everything that depends on the social web actually existing as opposed to just being talked about." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:37:16 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a163716"/> </source:outline> <source:outline text="Now, what would I request if I could influence you??" created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:39:15 GMT" flBulletedSubs="true" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a163915"> <source:outline text="Mastodon and Bluesky should support inbound and outbound RSS, and do it really well. Right now they do outbound only, and the implementations are incomplete at covering the functionality they have now, and there needs to be more (see the next item)." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:39:29 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a163929"/> <source:outline text="They'd support the basic features of the <a href="https://textcasting.org/">textcasting</a> spec, including Markdown because it's a great standard, very much of the same school as RSS. If it had existed when we did RSS 2.0 it would have been part of it." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:40:22 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a164022"/> </source:outline> <source:outline text="That's it. Really not much work." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:41:17 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a164117"/> <source:outline text="From there we'd have 25 years of interop to explore." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:51:03 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a165103"/> <source:outline text="And we could really call this the open social web." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:46:39 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a164639"/> <source:outline text="I'm ready to do it any time you all are." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:30:14 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a163014"/> <source:outline text="Yours in not wasting time." created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:37:08 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a163708"/> <source:outline text="Dave" created="Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:38:16 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a163816"/> <source:outline text="PS: I asked ChatGPT to <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/04/talkVisualized.png">visualize</a> me giving this talk." created="Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:14:42 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a011442"/> <source:outline text="PPS: Comments or questions on <a href="https://mastodon.social/@dave@social.masto.land/114630925085003307">Masto</a> or <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/scripting.com/post/3lqufhhswis2r">Bluesky</a>." created="Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:13:32 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/04/162206.html#a131332"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description>On today's Bill Simmons <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indianas-incredible-finals-run-a-knicks-summer/id1043699613?i=1000710778336">podcast</a>, their Knicks expert, <a href="https://www.theringer.com/creator/van-lathan">Van Lathan</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/9zHiCEhK7K8?si=IgvQiNKtzDPXenXW&t=2531">said</a> "I would under-react but they're going to over-react." I heard that about an hour before the Knicks fired their coach. I don't think it's good or bad, it could work out great. No one knows if this was The Season the Knicks were meant to go to the Finals, but if it was, maybe next year will be too? There's no right answer. Maybe this was Dolan's call. I hope not.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:12:55 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a211255</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a211255</guid> <source:outline text="On today's Bill Simmons <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indianas-incredible-finals-run-a-knicks-summer/id1043699613?i=1000710778336">podcast</a>, their Knicks expert, <a href="https://www.theringer.com/creator/van-lathan">Van Lathan</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/9zHiCEhK7K8?si=IgvQiNKtzDPXenXW&t=2531">said</a> "I would under-react but they're going to over-react." I heard that about an hour before the Knicks fired their coach. I don't think it's good or bad, it could work out great. No one knows if this was The Season the Knicks were meant to go to the Finals, but if it was, maybe next year will be too? There's no right answer. Maybe this was Dolan's call. I hope not." created="Tue, 03 Jun 2025 21:12:55 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a211255"/> </item> <item> <description>"Courtesy" calls from insurance companies aren't.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:48:36 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a204836</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a204836</guid> <source:outline text=""Courtesy" calls from insurance companies aren't." created="Tue, 03 Jun 2025 20:48:36 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a204836"/> </item> <item> <description>If you followed the Knicks through the playoffs as I did, I recommend the latest <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indianas-incredible-finals-run-a-knicks-summer/id1043699613?i=1000710778336">episode</a> of the Bill Simmons podcast. It began with talk about the fan base and that got me thinking. We don't know what would happen if the Knicks were in the Finals. Honestly. It could be the antidote to the crazyness. Maybe the reason things are so fucked up is that it's been 52 freaking years since the Knicks won the title. Something happens every so often, the energy field around the Knicks shifts -- Patrick Ewing, Melo, Linsanity and now Brunson. It'd be interesting to map that out against events in the world at the corresponding times. We won't find out this year. In the same way I sensed that New Orleans was doomed when I went to school there, I have a strong feeling connecting the Knicks to something not sure what, but it feels big.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:41:31 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a164131</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a164131</guid> <source:outline text="If you followed the Knicks through the playoffs as I did, I recommend the latest <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/indianas-incredible-finals-run-a-knicks-summer/id1043699613?i=1000710778336">episode</a> of the Bill Simmons podcast. It began with talk about the fan base and that got me thinking. We don't know what would happen if the Knicks were in the Finals. Honestly. It could be the antidote to the crazyness. Maybe the reason things are so fucked up is that it's been 52 freaking years since the Knicks won the title. Something happens every so often, the energy field around the Knicks shifts -- Patrick Ewing, Melo, Linsanity and now Brunson. It'd be interesting to map that out against events in the world at the corresponding times. We won't find out this year. In the same way I sensed that New Orleans was doomed when I went to school there, I have a strong feeling connecting the Knicks to something not sure what, but it feels big." created="Tue, 03 Jun 2025 16:41:31 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a164131"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2017/05/26/cat.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Jeremy Herve of Automattic <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jeremy@herve.bzh/114618613561154574">responded</a> to yesterday's <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html">suggestion</a> about when to set the og:image metadata in a page. His response is persuasive, but there may be a way to work around it. And a hat-tip to Jeremy, he's helped us so many times getting <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> ready to market. When you're fitting a product to another <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/10/21/155259.html">product</a> as a platform, it's so important to get help from the vendor, and usually you don't get much of that. Thanks! <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span></description> <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:54:51 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a125451</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a125451</guid> <source:outline text="Jeremy Herve of Automattic <a href="https://mastodon.social/@jeremy@herve.bzh/114618613561154574">responded</a> to yesterday's <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html">suggestion</a> about when to set the og:image metadata in a page. His response is persuasive, but there may be a way to work around it. And a hat-tip to Jeremy, he's helped us so many times getting <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> ready to market. When you're fitting a product to another <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/10/21/155259.html">product</a> as a platform, it's so important to get help from the vendor, and usually you don't get much of that. Thanks! <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span>" created="Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:54:51 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2017/05/26/cat.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/03.html#a125451"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/01/18/anythingGoes.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Jay Rosen gave a <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jayrosen.bsky.social/post/3lqmvt22be22u">brilliant short talk</a> in 2008 about the role of links in the web, and how journalism would have a hard time translating their self-contained worlds with the idea of the web, which is there is no container other than the whole world. Lots of important ideas in Jay's talk. For example, the idea of developing something from one direction or the other. The problem with Bluesky and Mastodon is that they're coming from Twitter, and think they're aiming toward the web, apparently -- but they must not understand the web, because they're going to have to break with Twitter's model in <a href="https://textcasting.org/">so many ways</a> to reach the web, they'll never get there if they go slowly. If you tried to develop the social web by starting with the web, you arrive at a different place, w/o all the problems of twitter-like systems. Different problems, but not the ones the twitter model has. How do I know? Because I know. <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span></description> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:40:43 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a144043</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a144043</guid> <source:outline text="Jay Rosen gave a <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/jayrosen.bsky.social/post/3lqmvt22be22u">brilliant short talk</a> in 2008 about the role of links in the web, and how journalism would have a hard time translating their self-contained worlds with the idea of the web, which is there is no container other than the whole world. Lots of important ideas in Jay's talk. For example, the idea of developing something from one direction or the other. The problem with Bluesky and Mastodon is that they're coming from Twitter, and think they're aiming toward the web, apparently -- but they must not understand the web, because they're going to have to break with Twitter's model in <a href="https://textcasting.org/">so many ways</a> to reach the web, they'll never get there if they go slowly. If you tried to develop the social web by starting with the web, you arrive at a different place, w/o all the problems of twitter-like systems. Different problems, but not the ones the twitter model has. How do I know? Because I know. <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span>" created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:40:43 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2020/01/18/anythingGoes.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a144043"/> </item> <item> <description>I asked ChatGPT if I moved to NYC in 2009 or 2010. It answered in an instant. "You moved to NYC in 2010." I asked how it knew. It <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/02/whenIMovedToNYC.png">used my blog</a> as the source. We have <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/683da1e2-33d0-8012-a86c-d5310ac4538e">arrived</a> in the future. This is exactly the kind of query I've been begging Google to support for decades. They could have figured out where my blog is, or let me tell it where it is. Famously they once asked if I had misspelled my mother's last name in a query. How freaking clueless can you get.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:15:36 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a151536</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a151536</guid> <source:outline text="I asked ChatGPT if I moved to NYC in 2009 or 2010. It answered in an instant. "You moved to NYC in 2010." I asked how it knew. It <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/06/02/whenIMovedToNYC.png">used my blog</a> as the source. We have <a href="https://chatgpt.com/share/683da1e2-33d0-8012-a86c-d5310ac4538e">arrived</a> in the future. This is exactly the kind of query I've been begging Google to support for decades. They could have figured out where my blog is, or let me tell it where it is. Famously they once asked if I had misspelled my mother's last name in a query. How freaking clueless can you get." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:15:36 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a151536"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/hating-new-york">Krugman is right</a>, living in NYC is amazing. When I lived in Manhattan betw 2010 and 2019, I had it great but toward the end I yearned to live in the mountains, the year before Covid hit (that was a bad time to be in Manhattan, btw). Now I yearn to again live in the city. Funny how that works. Even in the 70s I felt safe in NYC, and I commuted to school from Queens to the Bronx. It was safe enough to let a 14 year old kid ride the subway into Manhattan and up to the Bronx and back, every freaking day. I never got mugged. And I did all kinds of dangerous stuff that independent-minded teen agers do. If you can afford it, I recommend you spend some time in NYC before you believe the bullshit the Repubs say about it. They have reasons not to like the cities that have nothing to do with how nice it is. In NYC we don't trust our politicians to tell the truth. You shouldn't trust yours so much either, dear Republicans. <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span></description> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:55:36 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a125536</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a125536</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/hating-new-york">Krugman is right</a>, living in NYC is amazing. When I lived in Manhattan betw 2010 and 2019, I had it great but toward the end I yearned to live in the mountains, the year before Covid hit (that was a bad time to be in Manhattan, btw). Now I yearn to again live in the city. Funny how that works. Even in the 70s I felt safe in NYC, and I commuted to school from Queens to the Bronx. It was safe enough to let a 14 year old kid ride the subway into Manhattan and up to the Bronx and back, every freaking day. I never got mugged. And I did all kinds of dangerous stuff that independent-minded teen agers do. If you can afford it, I recommend you spend some time in NYC before you believe the bullshit the Repubs say about it. They have reasons not to like the cities that have nothing to do with how nice it is. In NYC we don't trust our politicians to tell the truth. You shouldn't trust yours so much either, dear Republicans. <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span>" created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:55:36 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a125536"/> </item> <item> <description>In honor of the Knicks' very successful season, I temporarily put the <a href="http://scripting.com/images/2023/04/27/knicksFansWithBagsOverHeads.png">paper bags fans</a> at the top of my home page as a reminder to anyone who wants to blame someone on the Knicks for how the season turned out. I think we should all wear the paper bags on our heads as a reminder of how we felt about being Knicks fans <a href="https://www.nba.com/game/ind-vs-nyk-0042400301">not all that long ago</a>. They are always a horrible team to love, whether they're playing for the title, or just trying desperately not to be the worst team in the NBA this season. Love hurts as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFE2SnliiV0">some</a> wise <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhJyjBVTyxU">person</a> once <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDZBW-1P04">sang</a>.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:50:40 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a145040</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a145040</guid> <source:outline text="In honor of the Knicks' very successful season, I temporarily put the <a href="http://scripting.com/images/2023/04/27/knicksFansWithBagsOverHeads.png">paper bags fans</a> at the top of my home page as a reminder to anyone who wants to blame someone on the Knicks for how the season turned out. I think we should all wear the paper bags on our heads as a reminder of how we felt about being Knicks fans <a href="https://www.nba.com/game/ind-vs-nyk-0042400301">not all that long ago</a>. They are always a horrible team to love, whether they're playing for the title, or just trying desperately not to be the worst team in the NBA this season. Love hurts as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFE2SnliiV0">some</a> wise <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhJyjBVTyxU">person</a> once <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDZBW-1P04">sang</a>." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:50:40 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a145040"/> </item> <item> <description>It's already June 2! It seems like just yesterday it was June 1!</description> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:41:35 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a124135</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a124135</guid> <source:outline text="It's already June 2! It seems like just yesterday it was June 1!" created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:41:35 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a124135"/> </item> <item> <description>From <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dave.winer.12/posts/pfbid036ocMzLcmc9UfcDSxTqVWvwHra9NvN8hwaXudXWnUD6FrjmMgLfFULRxWWMY6d4REl">Facebook</a> on this day in 2015. "There should be a required college course called Introduction to Assholes. The student would learn how not to be manipulated by jerks."</description> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:47:23 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a164723</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a164723</guid> <source:outline text="From <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dave.winer.12/posts/pfbid036ocMzLcmc9UfcDSxTqVWvwHra9NvN8hwaXudXWnUD6FrjmMgLfFULRxWWMY6d4REl">Facebook</a> on this day in 2015. "There should be a required college course called Introduction to Assholes. The student would learn how not to be manipulated by jerks."" created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:47:23 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02.html#a164723"/> </item> <item> <title>Suggestion to WordPress devs</title> <description><p>Below is a screen shot of a post written by Doc Searls as viewed in Bluesky. It's jarring. The big picture of Doc gets in the way. </p> <p><div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="//s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2025/06/02/docInBluesky.png"></center>Doc's post as viewed in Bluesky. His picture dominates. Imho it shouldn't.</div></p> <p>I realize no one designed this, but it also is reality, it's how a lot of people see Doc's writing. </p> <p>Here's my suggestion. When the user specifies a <a href="https://wordpress.com/support/featured-images/">featured image</a> for a post, set the og:image element in the head section of the page. When they don't specify such an image, omit that element. </p> <p>That's how we did it in the <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html">Baseline theme</a>, and I, as the writer, am happy with the <a href="https://daveverse.org/">result</a>.</p> </description> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:14:44 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html?title=suggestionToWordpressDevs</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html</guid> <source:outline text="Suggestion to WordPress devs" created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:14:44 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html"> <source:outline text="Below is a screen shot of a post written by Doc Searls as viewed in Bluesky. It's jarring. The big picture of Doc gets in the way." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:17:50 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html#a131750"/> <source:outline text="Doc's post as viewed in Bluesky. His picture dominates. Imho it shouldn't." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:28:49 GMT" inlineImage="//s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2025/06/02/docInBluesky.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html#a132849"/> <source:outline text="I realize no one designed this, but it also is reality, it's how a lot of people see Doc's writing." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:21:35 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html#a132135"/> <source:outline text="Here's my suggestion. When the user specifies a <a href="https://wordpress.com/support/featured-images/">featured image</a> for a post, set the og:image element in the head section of the page. When they don't specify such an image, omit that element." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:21:53 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html#a132153"/> <source:outline text="That's how we did it in the <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/160323.html">Baseline theme</a>, and I, as the writer, am happy with the <a href="https://daveverse.org/">result</a>." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 13:36:47 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/131444.html#a133647"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <title>Your butt still stinks</title> <description><p>Human beings spend far to much effort feeling better than some people or feeling inferior to others.</p> <p>This is understandable, I guess, as far as evolution is concerned, up to a point, but I think we've been past that point for a long time now. Now, evolution brought us to a point where in order to survive as a species we have to get over this need to rank people and work together.</p> <p>So if you feel other people are better than you, get over it. Same thing if you feel better than others. You aren't and they aren't.</p> <p>Your shit still stinks and as the great Republican philosopher Joni Ernst so eloquently put it, she's going to be dead pretty darned soon and so will you.</p> <p>I have to remind myself of this when I see a picture of someone who is really ugly but acts like they're not. And when I say ugly, I mean ugly inside. I say to myself "Davey, they are reflecting off something inside yourself that you don't like. On a different day they might seem very beautiful to you!" So I can relax and stop worrying so much about what I think about them in the moment. It matters not one bit.</p> </description> <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:41:45 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/124145.html?title=yourButtStillStinks</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/124145.html</guid> <source:outline text="Your butt still stinks" created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:41:45 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/124145.html"> <source:outline text="Human beings spend far to much effort feeling better than some people or feeling inferior to others." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:41:49 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/124145.html#a124149"/> <source:outline text="This is understandable, I guess, as far as evolution is concerned, up to a point, but I think we've been past that point for a long time now. Now, evolution brought us to a point where in order to survive as a species we have to get over this need to rank people and work together." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:42:13 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/124145.html#a124213"/> <source:outline text="So if you feel other people are better than you, get over it. Same thing if you feel better than others. You aren't and they aren't." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:42:21 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/124145.html#a124221"/> <source:outline text="Your shit still stinks and as the great Republican philosopher Joni Ernst so eloquently put it, she's going to be dead pretty darned soon and so will you." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:42:28 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/124145.html#a124228"/> <source:outline text="I have to remind myself of this when I see a picture of someone who is really ugly but acts like they're not. And when I say ugly, I mean ugly inside. I say to myself "Davey, they are reflecting off something inside yourself that you don't like. On a different day they might seem very beautiful to you!" So I can relax and stop worrying so much about what I think about them in the moment. It matters not one bit." created="Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:53:09 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/02/124145.html#a145309"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2021/09/05/goneWithTheWind.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Good morning and welcome to June. Another <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/05.opml">month gone</a>, and coincidentally the end of the NBA season. I woke up this morning with the worst hangover ever, and I haven't had a drink in months (never was my vice, I have others). The Knicks lost fair and square to the Indianas last night. My first message came from NakedJen who isn't as far as I know a Mets fan, saying simply "Let's go Mets!" I like that, though it will of course take me some time to get re-adjusted. I think the Knicks were jinxed because Brunson said in <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-highlight-jalen-josh-explain-why-the-yankees/id1729497779?i=1000710590814">his podcast</a> that New York has two teams, the Knicks (I agree) and the Yankees. What! No. I think we may have to consider trading him to a team without <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=philosophy">philosophy</a>. I'm not sure anyone will have him though, considering this possibly fatal flaw, philosophy-wise. And no doubt the Knicks are going to change some things over the summer, and I've heard that they might try to get <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22kevin%20durant%22">Kevin Durant</a>. I sure hope not. I think the Knicks are benefiting from <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/dern8c/kevin_durant_explains_why_free_agents_wont_join/">the jinx</a> he put on himself when he tried in vain to stir up a "rivalry" between the Knicks and the Brooklyns. No, that isn't likely to happen, unless they try to become a contender without kicking the Knicks in the butt like KD did. Maybe the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers">Portland Trail Blazers</a> will want him. That's about as <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/New+York,+NY/Portland,+OR/@41.7399086,-119.4458701,4z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c24fa5d33f083b:0xc80b8f06e177fe62!2m2!1d-74.0059728!2d40.7127753!1m5!1m1!1s0x54950b0b7da97427:0x1c36b9e6f6d18591!2m2!1d-122.6783853!2d45.515232!3e0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D">far</a> from New York as you can get in the NBA. And with that I now officially shut the door on the 2024-25 NBA season. We had a great run. See you all in October! <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span></description> <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:29:01 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/06/01.html#a142901</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/06/01.html#a142901</guid> <source:outline text="Good morning and welcome to June. Another <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/05.opml">month gone</a>, and coincidentally the end of the NBA season. I woke up this morning with the worst hangover ever, and I haven't had a drink in months (never was my vice, I have others). The Knicks lost fair and square to the Indianas last night. My first message came from NakedJen who isn't as far as I know a Mets fan, saying simply "Let's go Mets!" I like that, though it will of course take me some time to get re-adjusted. I think the Knicks were jinxed because Brunson said in <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-highlight-jalen-josh-explain-why-the-yankees/id1729497779?i=1000710590814">his podcast</a> that New York has two teams, the Knicks (I agree) and the Yankees. What! No. I think we may have to consider trading him to a team without <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=philosophy">philosophy</a>. I'm not sure anyone will have him though, considering this possibly fatal flaw, philosophy-wise. And no doubt the Knicks are going to change some things over the summer, and I've heard that they might try to get <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22kevin%20durant%22">Kevin Durant</a>. I sure hope not. I think the Knicks are benefiting from <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/dern8c/kevin_durant_explains_why_free_agents_wont_join/">the jinx</a> he put on himself when he tried in vain to stir up a "rivalry" between the Knicks and the Brooklyns. No, that isn't likely to happen, unless they try to become a contender without kicking the Knicks in the butt like KD did. Maybe the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers">Portland Trail Blazers</a> will want him. That's about as <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir/New+York,+NY/Portland,+OR/@41.7399086,-119.4458701,4z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x89c24fa5d33f083b:0xc80b8f06e177fe62!2m2!1d-74.0059728!2d40.7127753!1m5!1m1!1s0x54950b0b7da97427:0x1c36b9e6f6d18591!2m2!1d-122.6783853!2d45.515232!3e0?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D">far</a> from New York as you can get in the NBA. And with that I now officially shut the door on the 2024-25 NBA season. We had a great run. See you all in October! <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span>" created="Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:29:01 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2021/09/05/goneWithTheWind.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/06/01.html#a142901"/> </item> </channel> </rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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