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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- RSS generated by oldSchool v0.8.12 on Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:09:43 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, 07 Aug 2025 20:10:05 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>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:09:43 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, August 7, 2025 8:09 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>ChatGPT 5 is even <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/08/07/chatgpt-5-is-even-more-of-a-bastard-than-4/">more of a bastard</a> than 4.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:51:07 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a195107</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a195107</guid> <source:outline text="ChatGPT 5 is even <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/08/07/chatgpt-5-is-even-more-of-a-bastard-than-4/">more of a bastard</a> than 4." created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:51:07 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a195107"/> </item> <item> <description>That said, it got pretty far toward solving the problem I asked it to work on. Here's a <a href="https://this.how/chatGPT/newsExample1.opml">demo of a page</a> it put together for me of the top 25 articles in US news.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:10:05 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a201005</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a201005</guid> <source:outline text="That said, it got pretty far toward solving the problem I asked it to work on. Here's a <a href="https://this.how/chatGPT/newsExample1.opml">demo of a page</a> it put together for me of the top 25 articles in US news." created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:10:05 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a201005"/> </item> <item> <description>A summary of <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/08/07/catching-up-with-wordland-land/">recent work</a> via my WordLand blog.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:05:28 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a180528</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a180528</guid> <source:outline text="A summary of <a href="https://daveverse.org/2025/08/07/catching-up-with-wordland-land/">recent work</a> via my WordLand blog." created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:05:28 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a180528"/> </item> <item> <description>New version of <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandSocket">feedlandSocket</a>. It's now an NPM package you can include in Node projects. The demo is more useful, and there's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-ks3uytZI">video</a> of what it looks like as it scrolls through the JavaScript console. WebSockets + feeds. A fairly important component of an open social web system.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:34:03 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a173403</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a173403</guid> <source:outline text="New version of <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandSocket">feedlandSocket</a>. It's now an NPM package you can include in Node projects. The demo is more useful, and there's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q-ks3uytZI">video</a> of what it looks like as it scrolls through the JavaScript console. WebSockets + feeds. A fairly important component of an open social web system." created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:34:03 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a173403"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/02/09/punt.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I wanted to put together a demo of a very simple but interesting Node.js app, so I hooked up with <a href="https://replit.com/">replit</a>, and was surprised to find out that it's now an AI bot. But when I asked it to make a sandbox for this app, which is in a repo on GitHub, rather than take the direct route, and run the demo.js app (which is what I asked it to do), it concocted a pointless user interface, that hid all the interesting bits. This was a demo for programmers for crying out loud. I <i>want</i> to show them the machinery in motion. I'm going to try again today.</description> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:22:39 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a112239</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a112239</guid> <source:outline text="I wanted to put together a demo of a very simple but interesting Node.js app, so I hooked up with <a href="https://replit.com/">replit</a>, and was surprised to find out that it's now an AI bot. But when I asked it to make a sandbox for this app, which is in a repo on GitHub, rather than take the direct route, and run the demo.js app (which is what I asked it to do), it concocted a pointless user interface, that hid all the interesting bits. This was a demo for programmers for crying out loud. I <i>want</i> to show them the machinery in motion. I'm going to try again today." created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:22:39 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/02/09/punt.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a112239"/> </item> <item> <description>I recorded a good podcast yesterday about how I develop new stuff like podcasting, and how it only works if there isn't a huge dominant platform vendor to FUD the project. That's why RSS worked, sort of -- we did get FUDded by the RDF folk, who had a few famous people on their list of co-authors, and it put a big scar on RSS when it was just starting to grow. We cleaned up their mess after a while, and then it boomed, thanks to the New York Times. This is what usually happens, in markets that are controlled by a big company. Google has that effect, so does Apple as does the W3C. They force everything to stop and go through a process that simply doesn't work, it doesn't yield innovation in the market, because it wasn't <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2010/08/10/howToBootstrapFederated140.html">bootstrapped</a>. That's why I don't like the idea of "Podcasting 2.0" whatever it is. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@adam@podcastindex.social/114978962778121264">Adam Curry says</a> on Masto that it's all a big misunderstanding, but that's what the RDF people said too. Who cares what the name is. Everyone cares, when it comes to the name of a standard or protocol. And when you have an Apple or Google or IETF trying to confuse people about what you're doing, well you can't make any progress on interop. They freeze everything because users and developers will wait for them. Of course that's what "Podcasting 2.0" is all about. To make all the ideas flow through <a href="https://podcasting2.org/">one place</a>. And whoever they are (ChatGPT <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/08/07/isTherePodcastingTwoPointOh.png">says</a> it's Adam Curry btw) they didn't even bring the power of an Apple or Google to the table. They have nothing other than their aspiration to own the name of an open format and protocol that made the world a little happier for a while. For that of course someone has to try to own it. That's basically what I said, in a very long-winded way, in the podcast. I also talked about ways we could move forward anyway even though there is a 800-pound would-be gorilla trying to own our playground. Maybe I'll just release the podcast as-is and ask you all to indulge me for my need to say the same thing far too many times with so much vigor. :-)</description> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:24:57 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a112457</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a112457</guid> <source:outline text="I recorded a good podcast yesterday about how I develop new stuff like podcasting, and how it only works if there isn't a huge dominant platform vendor to FUD the project. That's why RSS worked, sort of -- we did get FUDded by the RDF folk, who had a few famous people on their list of co-authors, and it put a big scar on RSS when it was just starting to grow. We cleaned up their mess after a while, and then it boomed, thanks to the New York Times. This is what usually happens, in markets that are controlled by a big company. Google has that effect, so does Apple as does the W3C. They force everything to stop and go through a process that simply doesn't work, it doesn't yield innovation in the market, because it wasn't <a href="http://scripting.com/stories/2010/08/10/howToBootstrapFederated140.html">bootstrapped</a>. That's why I don't like the idea of "Podcasting 2.0" whatever it is. <a href="https://mastodon.social/@adam@podcastindex.social/114978962778121264">Adam Curry says</a> on Masto that it's all a big misunderstanding, but that's what the RDF people said too. Who cares what the name is. Everyone cares, when it comes to the name of a standard or protocol. And when you have an Apple or Google or IETF trying to confuse people about what you're doing, well you can't make any progress on interop. They freeze everything because users and developers will wait for them. Of course that's what "Podcasting 2.0" is all about. To make all the ideas flow through <a href="https://podcasting2.org/">one place</a>. And whoever they are (ChatGPT <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/08/07/isTherePodcastingTwoPointOh.png">says</a> it's Adam Curry btw) they didn't even bring the power of an Apple or Google to the table. They have nothing other than their aspiration to own the name of an open format and protocol that made the world a little happier for a while. For that of course someone has to try to own it. That's basically what I said, in a very long-winded way, in the podcast. I also talked about ways we could move forward anyway even though there is a 800-pound would-be gorilla trying to own our playground. Maybe I'll just release the podcast as-is and ask you all to indulge me for my need to say the same thing far too many times with so much vigor. :-)" created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:24:57 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07.html#a112457"/> </item> <item> <title>My uncle Ken</title> <description><p>This is a picture of my dear departed <a href="http://scripting.com/2020/04/28/212326.html?title=uncleKenAndAuntDorothy">Uncle Vava</a> taken in the early 1970s in my parents' house in Flushing. It just showed up in my On This Day list on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dave.winer.12/posts/pfbid0Bx7wYu7ouX1NKksrgxCVFMRQigCwkaxqKDTqeCHRCcJ1i2SPkrXhbUTZFMvKS9Prl?notif_id=1754565616420103&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif">Facebook</a>, thought it belongs on the blog too. .</p> <p><div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/08/07/uncleVava.png"></center>Ken Kiesler, in the early 70s, hamming it up at a family event. </div></p> </description> <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:02:51 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07/130251.html?title=myUncleKen</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/07/130251.html</guid> <source:outline text="My uncle Ken" created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:02:51 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07/130251.html"> <source:outline text="This is a picture of my dear departed <a href="http://scripting.com/2020/04/28/212326.html?title=uncleKenAndAuntDorothy">Uncle Vava</a> taken in the early 1970s in my parents' house in Flushing. It just showed up in my On This Day list on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dave.winer.12/posts/pfbid0Bx7wYu7ouX1NKksrgxCVFMRQigCwkaxqKDTqeCHRCcJ1i2SPkrXhbUTZFMvKS9Prl?notif_id=1754565616420103&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic&ref=notif">Facebook</a>, thought it belongs on the blog too. ." created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:03:41 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07/130251.html#a130341"/> <source:outline text="Ken Kiesler, in the early 70s, hamming it up at a family event." created="Thu, 07 Aug 2025 13:03:00 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/08/07/uncleVava.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/07/130251.html#a130300"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/02/10/gumby.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">A Brian Lehrer <a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/segregation-at-nycs-specialized-high-schools/">segment</a> on specialized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_high_schools_in_New_York_City">high schools</a> in NYC. I went to one of them, signed up for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_High_Schools_Admissions_Test">the test</a> mostly to get out of school for a day, and got in. Back in those days (the early 70s) no one studied for the test as far as I know. It has become very competitive and there's an issue of the racial makeup of the student body. As always Lehrer does a great podcast.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:43:26 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/06.html#a204326</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/06.html#a204326</guid> <source:outline text="A Brian Lehrer <a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/segregation-at-nycs-specialized-high-schools/">segment</a> on specialized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_high_schools_in_New_York_City">high schools</a> in NYC. I went to one of them, signed up for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialized_High_Schools_Admissions_Test">the test</a> mostly to get out of school for a day, and got in. Back in those days (the early 70s) no one studied for the test as far as I know. It has become very competitive and there's an issue of the racial makeup of the student body. As always Lehrer does a great podcast." created="Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:43:26 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2019/02/10/gumby.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/06.html#a204326"/> </item> <item> <description>Milestone: <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Chuck%20Shotton%22">Chuck Shotton</a> got his FeedLand up today. That's why I spruced up <a href="https://lists.opml.org/">lists.opml.org</a>, that's how we're connecting our servers. He's building this stuff to flow into his LLM via the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandSocket">FeedLand websockets interface</a>. He'll be updated on my subscriptions, and have his own, and the news will flow into his AI system. All of it can emanate from anywhere RSS is supported with a focus on WordPress. It's the secret sauce. 😀</description> <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:42:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/06.html#a204222</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/06.html#a204222</guid> <source:outline text="Milestone: <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22Chuck%20Shotton%22">Chuck Shotton</a> got his FeedLand up today. That's why I spruced up <a href="https://lists.opml.org/">lists.opml.org</a>, that's how we're connecting our servers. He's building this stuff to flow into his LLM via the <a href="https://github.com/scripting/feedlandSocket">FeedLand websockets interface</a>. He'll be updated on my subscriptions, and have his own, and the news will flow into his AI system. All of it can emanate from anywhere RSS is supported with a focus on WordPress. It's the secret sauce. 😀" created="Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:42:22 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/06.html#a204222"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://news.scripting.com/">news.scripting.com</a> is still going strong. Open to the public, no login.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:27:17 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a132717</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a132717</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://news.scripting.com/">news.scripting.com</a> is still going strong. Open to the public, no login." created="Tue, 05 Aug 2025 13:27:17 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a132717"/> </item> <item> <description>A <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/08/05/justAnswerTheQuestionPleaseDearChatgpt.html">podcast</a> I recorded this morning, prime time, while getting things done, and having ChatGPT getting in the way. It needs to become more invisible, there's no suspension of disbelief when you're working with it. I think we can do much better at finding a robot that can really augment human intelligence. This is awful stuff. We have to work on these dynamics.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:53:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a215348</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a215348</guid> <source:outline text="A <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/08/05/justAnswerTheQuestionPleaseDearChatgpt.html">podcast</a> I recorded this morning, prime time, while getting things done, and having ChatGPT getting in the way. It needs to become more invisible, there's no suspension of disbelief when you're working with it. I think we can do much better at finding a robot that can really augment human intelligence. This is awful stuff. We have to work on these dynamics." created="Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:53:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a215348"/> </item> <item> <description>Whenever you have to get something done with a company, get ready for lots of phone tag, waiting on hold, talking to bots, getting screened, trying to convince a computer that you have legitimate business, and no, what you're looking for isn't on their website (believe me I looked). The stupid thing about it is that ChatGPT is becoming more like those things every day. Companies have built awful systems for getting anything done that might eat into their profits. Google is the absolute worst. Even for services that cost real money, they absolutely will not help. You better hope everything goes perfectly if you buy their service.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:50:27 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a205027</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a205027</guid> <source:outline text="Whenever you have to get something done with a company, get ready for lots of phone tag, waiting on hold, talking to bots, getting screened, trying to convince a computer that you have legitimate business, and no, what you're looking for isn't on their website (believe me I looked). The stupid thing about it is that ChatGPT is becoming more like those things every day. Companies have built awful systems for getting anything done that might eat into their profits. Google is the absolute worst. Even for services that cost real money, they absolutely will not help. You better hope everything goes perfectly if you buy their service." created="Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:50:27 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/05.html#a205027"/> </item> <item> <description>WordPress will make a much better open social web server than any other software out there. We can all develop any component around a solid, documented, simple and widely supported open source API.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:54:05 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a125405</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a125405</guid> <source:outline text="WordPress will make a much better open social web server than any other software out there. We can all develop any component around a solid, documented, simple and widely supported open source API." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:54:05 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a125405"/> </item> <item> <description>My <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/08/04/himom.png">contribution</a> to <a href="https://715-999-7483.com/">715-999-7483.com</a>. Now it's your turn!</description> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:49:33 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a204933</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a204933</guid> <source:outline text="My <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/08/04/himom.png">contribution</a> to <a href="https://715-999-7483.com/">715-999-7483.com</a>. Now it's your turn!" created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:49:33 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a204933"/> </item> <item> <description>Since the govt is no longer funding NPR maybe they could stop bending over for the Repubs. Lay it all out there, stop spinning all the crazy fascist authoritarianism as both-sides and normal partisan politics. They know we're in a lot deeper. Since we're now paying the bills, how about plain facts.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:19:32 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a161932</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a161932</guid> <source:outline text="Since the govt is no longer funding NPR maybe they could stop bending over for the Repubs. Lay it all out there, stop spinning all the crazy fascist authoritarianism as both-sides and normal partisan politics. They know we're in a lot deeper. Since we're now paying the bills, how about plain facts." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:19:32 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a161932"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2022/02/16/gaslight.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting">Gaslighting</a> is <i>everywhere. </i>ChatGPT just said to me "I understand why you feel that way." It has nothing to do with my feelings. I don't have feelings about computers. It lied to me over and over just now. I said you're lying to me. "I understand why you feel that way." As if it were the all-knowing feeling-inferring god-like creature it is not. The real question for me is this -- Does Open AI program it to be this way. Think about the opportunities it has to introduce true feelings of insecurity and worthlessness. That's the purpose of gaslighting. It's evil.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:00:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a140042</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a140042</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting">Gaslighting</a> is <i>everywhere. </i>ChatGPT just said to me "I understand why you feel that way." It has nothing to do with my feelings. I don't have feelings about computers. It lied to me over and over just now. I said you're lying to me. "I understand why you feel that way." As if it were the all-knowing feeling-inferring god-like creature it is not. The real question for me is this -- Does Open AI program it to be this way. Think about the opportunities it has to introduce true feelings of insecurity and worthlessness. That's the purpose of gaslighting. It's evil." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:00:42 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2022/02/16/gaslight.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04.html#a140042"/> </item> <item> <title>Antisemitism is everywhere</title> <description><p>Academics, who speak scientific language, won't say "there's no antisemitism at UCLA" because they know that's not true. Antisemitism is everywhere. The question is how limiting and dangerous is it. And how often is it encountered. </p> <p>I grew up in the 1960s in a Queens neighborhood where antisemitism was a real thing. We were blamed for World War II. If it weren't for Jews my uncle Pete would still be alive. That was the story. No doubt the kids heard that at home. </p> <p>Antisemitism was bred into us at home. Because of all the abuse my parents and grandparents, uncles and cousins, suffered in Europe, before coming the US during the war, their own idea of what it meant to be Jewish was not entirely positive. You can't help but feel responsible in some ways for the abuse you suffer. And you can't help but pass that on to your kids. </p> <p>There was and is a fair amount of pain associated with being Jewish in the United States. Fact.</p> <p>But: At UCLA? Harvard? Columbia? Please. </p> <p>At the same time scientists can admit that there is antisemitism at these places we must also acknowledge that to single these institutions out among all, is complete utter total fucking bullshit.</p> <p>That's a scientific appraisal, btw. Provable in peer-reviewed publications (though not submitted).</p> <p>Antisemitism is complex. We should be hearing, openly, what exactly the case is against these universities. The government is theoretically representing the Constitution and the people of the United States. The old "no taxation without representation" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation">thing</a>. Let's hear the case in clear terms, and why the universities are supposedly so bad. </p> </description> <pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:33:15 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html?title=antisemitismIsEverywhere</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html</guid> <source:outline text="Antisemitism is everywhere" created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:33:15 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html"> <source:outline text="Academics, who speak scientific language, won't say "there's no antisemitism at UCLA" because they know that's not true. Antisemitism is everywhere. The question is how limiting and dangerous is it. And how often is it encountered." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:33:22 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html#a143322"/> <source:outline text="I grew up in the 1960s in a Queens neighborhood where antisemitism was a real thing. We were blamed for World War II. If it weren't for Jews my uncle Pete would still be alive. That was the story. No doubt the kids heard that at home." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:34:06 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html#a143406"/> <source:outline text="Antisemitism was bred into us at home. Because of all the abuse my parents and grandparents, uncles and cousins, suffered in Europe, before coming the US during the war, their own idea of what it meant to be Jewish was not entirely positive. You can't help but feel responsible in some ways for the abuse you suffer. And you can't help but pass that on to your kids." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:34:39 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html#a143439"/> <source:outline text="There was and is a fair amount of pain associated with being Jewish in the United States. Fact." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:35:11 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html#a143511"/> <source:outline text="But: At UCLA? Harvard? Columbia? Please." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:35:16 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html#a143516"/> <source:outline text="At the same time scientists can admit that there is antisemitism at these places we must also acknowledge that to single these institutions out among all, is complete utter total fucking bullshit." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:35:32 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html#a143532"/> <source:outline text="That's a scientific appraisal, btw. Provable in peer-reviewed publications (though not submitted)." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:40:30 GMT" isComment="true" flInCalendar="true"/> <source:outline text="Antisemitism is complex. We should be hearing, openly, what exactly the case is against these universities. The government is theoretically representing the Constitution and the people of the United States. The old "no taxation without representation" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation">thing</a>. Let's hear the case in clear terms, and why the universities are supposedly so bad." created="Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:40:33 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/04/143315.html#a144033"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description>A <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/08/03/aPodcastUsersApi.html">podcast</a> about a podcast users' API.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:38:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a163841</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a163841</guid> <source:outline text="A <a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/08/03/aPodcastUsersApi.html">podcast</a> about a podcast users' API." created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 16:38:41 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a163841"/> </item> <item> <description>It's always a good idea to get a second opinion with AI stuff. ChatGPT may give you a convoluted answer where Claude.ai gives you a concise one.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:22:09 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a152209</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a152209</guid> <source:outline text="It's always a good idea to get a second opinion with AI stuff. ChatGPT may give you a convoluted answer where Claude.ai gives you a concise one." created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:22:09 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a152209"/> </item> <item> <description>I've been working on the top level of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>, and finally got to a place where navigation feels good, like this is the right track. So I took a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9GiWjPgVhM">snapshot</a> so I can come back and look at this later.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:04:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a140422</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a140422</guid> <source:outline text="I've been working on the top level of <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>, and finally got to a place where navigation feels good, like this is the right track. So I took a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9GiWjPgVhM">snapshot</a> so I can come back and look at this later." created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:04:22 GMT" type="outline" urlvideo="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9GiWjPgVhM" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a140422"/> </item> <item> <description>As you get older your memory gets less reliable. It makes programming more of a challenge because as your software gets more features, there's more to remember and at the same time you're getting older. I wonder if there isn't some way to use ChatGPT to augment the aging mind dealing with more software complexity. It's very much in line with the idea I've had for a long time of putting all my writing in an AI database so I could then ask it to edit it down to book length. Or get a table of contents of what I think and then be able to read chapter-length sections on, say platforms, or how important prior art is, or what interop makes possible, and why everyone should give back when they take from open ecosystems. Each one of those topics has lots of associated stories over the years, but I probably couldn't find most of them, but an AI database certainly could. How to set that up? I've not figured that out so far.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:22:08 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a132208</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a132208</guid> <source:outline text="As you get older your memory gets less reliable. It makes programming more of a challenge because as your software gets more features, there's more to remember and at the same time you're getting older. I wonder if there isn't some way to use ChatGPT to augment the aging mind dealing with more software complexity. It's very much in line with the idea I've had for a long time of putting all my writing in an AI database so I could then ask it to edit it down to book length. Or get a table of contents of what I think and then be able to read chapter-length sections on, say platforms, or how important prior art is, or what interop makes possible, and why everyone should give back when they take from open ecosystems. Each one of those topics has lots of associated stories over the years, but I probably couldn't find most of them, but an AI database certainly could. How to set that up? I've not figured that out so far." created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:22:08 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a132208"/> </item> <item> <description>One of the more depressing things in having so much code that I can easily search, is the number of times I've rewritten the same code without remembering I had written it before. Yesterday I did it knowingly, I wanted a function that could tell me if one of a set of categories applies to a WordLand draft. So I could say "don't list drafts with 'linkblog' as a category." It could have other categories, and there could be more than one category to exclude. I wanted to take the time to write perfect code for this one problem. Not dense, not particularly efficient. No matter how inefficient the code is, on today's hardware such a function couldn't use any time at all. It's fair to say I've solved this problem before, but there was always more to it. Here's the <a href="https://gist.github.com/scripting/d61110c1d74eb1162ebc726c09dd22f1">function</a>. Now you know something about what I think is readable, understandable, respectful of a human more than I am of the computer. I know the computer would come up with much more dense and tricky code, but it doesn't have a mind, and I do. At times it can be relaxing, I magine, to not have a mind. And btw, in a couple of years this layer of code will be obsolete. We already are able to tell the machine how to do this in human language, it understands what we mean. One tiny little but hugely significant breakthrough made possible by ChatGPT and its cousins.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:26:05 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a132605</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a132605</guid> <source:outline text="One of the more depressing things in having so much code that I can easily search, is the number of times I've rewritten the same code without remembering I had written it before. Yesterday I did it knowingly, I wanted a function that could tell me if one of a set of categories applies to a WordLand draft. So I could say "don't list drafts with 'linkblog' as a category." It could have other categories, and there could be more than one category to exclude. I wanted to take the time to write perfect code for this one problem. Not dense, not particularly efficient. No matter how inefficient the code is, on today's hardware such a function couldn't use any time at all. It's fair to say I've solved this problem before, but there was always more to it. Here's the <a href="https://gist.github.com/scripting/d61110c1d74eb1162ebc726c09dd22f1">function</a>. Now you know something about what I think is readable, understandable, respectful of a human more than I am of the computer. I know the computer would come up with much more dense and tricky code, but it doesn't have a mind, and I do. At times it can be relaxing, I magine, to not have a mind. And btw, in a couple of years this layer of code will be obsolete. We already are able to tell the machine how to do this in human language, it understands what we mean. One tiny little but hugely significant breakthrough made possible by ChatGPT and its cousins." created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:26:05 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a132605"/> </item> <item> <description>A basic question I had about the <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11752874-chatgpt-agent">ChatGPT agents</a> that I can answer now that I have the feature, is whether or not the code you create can run on a server, where you can give it a URL and make it an endpoint other networked software can call. Or if it could run periodically, say once every five minutes for a function that was creating an RSS feed anyone could subscribe to. The answer is no -- it can't do either of these things. I'm sure they could do it at a technical level, but they don't want to host applications. But now I may understand better why they want to make a web browser, I bet you will be able to call these agents from apps that run in the browser. And in their case, they might not even have to support JavaScript? Heh. A wholly different programming model? Maybe I'm overestimating how much they're biting off? I wonder if anyone at OpenAI reads this blog and might want to get me in a tighter loop, so I can be among the first to try new features like this, rather than, in this case, among the very last.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:40:05 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a134005</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a134005</guid> <source:outline text="A basic question I had about the <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11752874-chatgpt-agent">ChatGPT agents</a> that I can answer now that I have the feature, is whether or not the code you create can run on a server, where you can give it a URL and make it an endpoint other networked software can call. Or if it could run periodically, say once every five minutes for a function that was creating an RSS feed anyone could subscribe to. The answer is no -- it can't do either of these things. I'm sure they could do it at a technical level, but they don't want to host applications. But now I may understand better why they want to make a web browser, I bet you will be able to call these agents from apps that run in the browser. And in their case, they might not even have to support JavaScript? Heh. A wholly different programming model? Maybe I'm overestimating how much they're biting off? I wonder if anyone at OpenAI reads this blog and might want to get me in a tighter loop, so I can be among the first to try new features like this, rather than, in this case, among the very last." created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 13:40:05 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03.html#a134005"/> </item> <item> <title>Let's all be anonymous!</title> <description><p>What if we all wore ICE-style masks as we went around doing our business.</p> <p>If a baseball player's uniform didn't have a number or name.</p> <p>Let's all be anonymous. It's very practical, we don't want to get doxxed either!</p> <p><div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/08/03/newBaseballUniform.png"></center>A model illustrating the new baseball uniform style. </div></p> </description> <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:07:58 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03/220758.html?title=letsAllBeAnonymous</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/03/220758.html</guid> <source:outline text="Let's all be anonymous!" created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:07:58 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03/220758.html"> <source:outline text="What if we all wore ICE-style masks as we went around doing our business." created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:08:36 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03/220758.html#a220836"/> <source:outline text="If a baseball player's uniform didn't have a number or name." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03/220758.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="Let's all be anonymous. It's very practical, we don't want to get doxxed either!" created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:08:42 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03/220758.html#a220842"/> <source:outline text="A model illustrating the new baseball uniform style." created="Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:16:24 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/08/03/newBaseballUniform.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/03/220758.html#a221624"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2018/08/21/bloatwareBoss.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I think I'm going to put in my will that ChatGPT should run the Dave Winer persona on all social networks, and my blog, as long as the money lasts. It would tell stories that I would likely tell, take political stands that I would take, draw meta-pictures of my sad and depressed <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/202442.html">programmer friend</a> and a cute and <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22wordle%20kitty%22">adorable kitty</a> getting into all kinds of trouble. The seasons would come and go, and there would be Dave, still diggin. And of course he would continue to develop software, using some of the greatest tried and true tools, reminding everyone of how great <a href="http://frontier.userland.com">Frontier</a> is -- but -- if only it ran <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22frontier%20on%20linux%22">on Linux</a>. The long-lived fearless and fully paid-up version of Uncle D.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:34:45 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a213445</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a213445</guid> <source:outline text="I think I'm going to put in my will that ChatGPT should run the Dave Winer persona on all social networks, and my blog, as long as the money lasts. It would tell stories that I would likely tell, take political stands that I would take, draw meta-pictures of my sad and depressed <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/05/09/202442.html">programmer friend</a> and a cute and <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22wordle%20kitty%22">adorable kitty</a> getting into all kinds of trouble. The seasons would come and go, and there would be Dave, still diggin. And of course he would continue to develop software, using some of the greatest tried and true tools, reminding everyone of how great <a href="http://frontier.userland.com">Frontier</a> is -- but -- if only it ran <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=%22frontier%20on%20linux%22">on Linux</a>. The long-lived fearless and fully paid-up version of Uncle D." created="Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:34:45 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2018/08/21/bloatwareBoss.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a213445"/> </item> <item> <description>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikjmz_SlGhg">change</a> would do us good too.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:41:29 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a164129</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a164129</guid> <source:outline text="A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikjmz_SlGhg">change</a> would do us good too." created="Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:41:29 GMT" type="outline" urlvideo="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikjmz_SlGhg" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a164129"/> </item> <item> <description>I got <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard">hoisted</a> with my own Picard.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:40:23 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a164023</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a164023</guid> <source:outline text="I got <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard">hoisted</a> with my own Picard." created="Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:40:23 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a164023"/> </item> <item> <description>I have a lot of <a href="https://github.com/scripting?tab=repositories">code</a> written before ChatGPT. Sometimes, as I read my old code, I wonder how the h*ck I ever figured that out without it.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:47:40 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a144740</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a144740</guid> <source:outline text="I have a lot of <a href="https://github.com/scripting?tab=repositories">code</a> written before ChatGPT. Sometimes, as I read my old code, I wonder how the h*ck I ever figured that out without it." created="Sat, 02 Aug 2025 14:47:40 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/02.html#a144740"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/08/01/wiredAndHarvardBigChangeStillComing.html">Podcast</a>. It's time for things to change. Two examples, Wired and Harvard. Change was always coming, but now you can't turn away from it very long before it re-appears.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:54:38 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a155438</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a155438</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://shownotes.scripting.com/scripting/2025/08/01/wiredAndHarvardBigChangeStillComing.html">Podcast</a>. It's time for things to change. Two examples, Wired and Harvard. Change was always coming, but now you can't turn away from it very long before it re-appears." created="Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:54:38 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a155438"/> </item> <item> <description>Welcome to August. More than half the summer is behind us. We're still here. The shelves in the supermarkets are full of good stuff. We've had about the normal amount of hot weather, a good amount of rain but not too much. The <a href="https://www.mlb.com/mets/standings/">Mets</a> are doing OK. They opened a <a href="https://www.tibetphowoodstock.com/">Pho restaurant</a> in Bearsville and it's good. Health, not too bad, all things considered. <i>Still diggin!</i></description> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:25:17 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a152517</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a152517</guid> <source:outline text="Welcome to August. More than half the summer is behind us. We're still here. The shelves in the supermarkets are full of good stuff. We've had about the normal amount of hot weather, a good amount of rain but not too much. The <a href="https://www.mlb.com/mets/standings/">Mets</a> are doing OK. They opened a <a href="https://www.tibetphowoodstock.com/">Pho restaurant</a> in Bearsville and it's good. Health, not too bad, all things considered. <i>Still diggin!</i>" created="Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:25:17 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a152517"/> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/07.opml">Source OPML</a> for July 2025 blog posts.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:37:09 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a153709</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a153709</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/07.opml">Source OPML</a> for July 2025 blog posts." created="Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:37:09 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/08/01.html#a153709"/> </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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