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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- RSS generated by oldSchool v0.8.12 on Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:47:18 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>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:45:20 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>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:47:18 GMT</lastBuildDate> <cloud domain="rpc.rsscloud.io" port="5337" path="/pleaseNotify" registerProcedure="" protocol="http-post" /> <source:account service="twitter">davewiner</source:account> <source:localTime>Mon, March 10, 2025 9:47 AM 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>BTW it's worth <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/02/24/153052.html">calling attention</a> to a bit I linked to yesterday. <i>Cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon is not on the roadmap for WordLand.</i> They are too limited in the features they support for writers. This is a big point, not a casual thing. I am trying to create a network that's like stereo to mono. We're not going to try to scale down writing in WordLand so it fits into the tight little featureless well-silo'd boxes in order to peer with those systems. Instead, I want to force them to give writers a decent surface to write on. Somehow we lost our minds and decided deliberately to limit communication to grunts and snorts, and it should not be a surprise that when our civilization migrated to them, it became unable to understand complex ideas. I guarantee you Carl Sagan, if he were alive, would have seen this. Or maybe not? I don't know. But it's a bizarre situation that I've decided to try to fix.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:39:46 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a133946</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a133946</guid> <source:outline text="BTW it's worth <a href="http://scripting.com/2025/02/24/153052.html">calling attention</a> to a bit I linked to yesterday. <i>Cross-posting to Bluesky and Mastodon is not on the roadmap for WordLand.</i> They are too limited in the features they support for writers. This is a big point, not a casual thing. I am trying to create a network that's like stereo to mono. We're not going to try to scale down writing in WordLand so it fits into the tight little featureless well-silo'd boxes in order to peer with those systems. Instead, I want to force them to give writers a decent surface to write on. Somehow we lost our minds and decided deliberately to limit communication to grunts and snorts, and it should not be a surprise that when our civilization migrated to them, it became unable to understand complex ideas. I guarantee you Carl Sagan, if he were alive, would have seen this. Or maybe not? I don't know. But it's a bizarre situation that I've decided to try to fix." created="Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:39:46 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a133946"/> </item> <item> <description>A hard lesson to learn -- people don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:45:20 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a134520</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a134520</guid> <source:outline text="A hard lesson to learn -- people don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors." created="Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:45:20 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a134520"/> </item> <item> <description>A new kind of WordPress post for me. A <a href="http://scripting.com/images/2025/03/10/theseBoomersMeanBusiness.png">big picture</a> with a punchy caption and a teasing title.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:17:17 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a131717</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a131717</guid> <source:outline text="A new kind of WordPress post for me. A <a href="http://scripting.com/images/2025/03/10/theseBoomersMeanBusiness.png">big picture</a> with a punchy caption and a teasing title." created="Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:17:17 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a131717"/> </item> <item> <description>The word is starting to spread about <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. And the product is holding up pretty well. There are some issues in Safari with the toolbar that pops up over selection. I see people pasting in URLs that makes me think it's not working for them. Don Park started using it. I did my first project with Don in the late 80s. The project was very successful. His respect means a lot to me. The positioning -- it makes WordPress as easy to write for as Twitter, is great to hear as users write about it. That was one of the major design goals. What people are missing, and it's right in front of their eyes, they can use writing features that somehow never made it to the twitter-like systems, the ones listed on the <a href="https://textcasting.org/">textcasting memorandum</a> (or manifesto, whichever you prefer). I'm glad people are seeing this as an enhancement to WordPress, not an attempt to create a new community. I want <i>all</i> WordPress writers to use this product. Every one of them. I want people to feel that it's an essential part of WordPress, for writers. The writer's web. Remember that, you'll be hearing a lot about that. And I want to be sure we fix all the bugs, and add all the features they believe are missing, as long as the features pertain to writing. Everything else is well-covered by the main product. There's also an API that comes with WordLand, I'll be talking more about that later. Makes it easier to write WordPress apps in JavaScript that run in the browser.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:08:05 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a130805</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a130805</guid> <source:outline text="The word is starting to spread about <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. And the product is holding up pretty well. There are some issues in Safari with the toolbar that pops up over selection. I see people pasting in URLs that makes me think it's not working for them. Don Park started using it. I did my first project with Don in the late 80s. The project was very successful. His respect means a lot to me. The positioning -- it makes WordPress as easy to write for as Twitter, is great to hear as users write about it. That was one of the major design goals. What people are missing, and it's right in front of their eyes, they can use writing features that somehow never made it to the twitter-like systems, the ones listed on the <a href="https://textcasting.org/">textcasting memorandum</a> (or manifesto, whichever you prefer). I'm glad people are seeing this as an enhancement to WordPress, not an attempt to create a new community. I want <i>all</i> WordPress writers to use this product. Every one of them. I want people to feel that it's an essential part of WordPress, for writers. The writer's web. Remember that, you'll be hearing a lot about that. And I want to be sure we fix all the bugs, and add all the features they believe are missing, as long as the features pertain to writing. Everything else is well-covered by the main product. There's also an API that comes with WordLand, I'll be talking more about that later. Makes it easier to write WordPress apps in JavaScript that run in the browser." created="Mon, 10 Mar 2025 13:08:05 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/10.html#a130805"/> </item> <item> <description>I did a restoration of <a href="https://discuss.userland.com/">discuss.userland.com</a>, the discussion group for scripting.com between 1998 and 2001. I think now finally it works. If you find anything interesting in the archive, send me a link. A lot of the early blogs started from discussions there, heated at times. But a lot of good stuff came from it.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:23:12 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a152312</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a152312</guid> <source:outline text="I did a restoration of <a href="https://discuss.userland.com/">discuss.userland.com</a>, the discussion group for scripting.com between 1998 and 2001. I think now finally it works. If you find anything interesting in the archive, send me a link. A lot of the early blogs started from discussions there, heated at times. But a lot of good stuff came from it." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:23:12 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a152312"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2024/09/10/kittyStamp.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;"><a href="https://discuss.userland.com/msg021856.html">The very last message in the DG is</a>, now, 25 years later, basically the design of the network I'm building -- with WordLand as the frontend and WordPress as the backend. The issue is the same. When people post only to get attention, forget about anything useful getting done there. It's strictly a broadcast system. So the investment Masto and Bluesky make in discourse is imho wasted complexity. What we want is linking, not replies. If they were the web, they would be designed very differently. Anyway, in 2000, I asked people to put their ideas on their own sites, send me a link, and maybe I'll post it on my site. That right there is the plan for the new network. Facilitating that, it's as easy as posting on a twitter-like system (the early users <a href="https://doc.searls.com/2025/03/07/first-drafting/">confirm</a> that!), but the post goes into <i>your</i> space ie your blog, and a link goes to the person you're responding to, and it's up to them whether or not they want to amplify it, using their own criteria, in their space, to their subscribers. It's why twitter failed to be a keg of revolutionary ideas, instead one of warring factions in a prison. Not able to leave, but not able to do anything either.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:36:07 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a153607</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a153607</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://discuss.userland.com/msg021856.html">The very last message in the DG is</a>, now, 25 years later, basically the design of the network I'm building -- with WordLand as the frontend and WordPress as the backend. The issue is the same. When people post only to get attention, forget about anything useful getting done there. It's strictly a broadcast system. So the investment Masto and Bluesky make in discourse is imho wasted complexity. What we want is linking, not replies. If they were the web, they would be designed very differently. Anyway, in 2000, I asked people to put their ideas on their own sites, send me a link, and maybe I'll post it on my site. That right there is the plan for the new network. Facilitating that, it's as easy as posting on a twitter-like system (the early users <a href="https://doc.searls.com/2025/03/07/first-drafting/">confirm</a> that!), but the post goes into <i>your</i> space ie your blog, and a link goes to the person you're responding to, and it's up to them whether or not they want to amplify it, using their own criteria, in their space, to their subscribers. It's why twitter failed to be a keg of revolutionary ideas, instead one of warring factions in a prison. Not able to leave, but not able to do anything either." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:36:07 GMT" type="outline" image="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2024/09/10/kittyStamp.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a153607"/> </item> <item> <description>A question came up about the RSS feeds that WordLand maintains, so I <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/55">wrote it up</a> on the support site. Net-net: Unless you're developing a component of the <a href="https://textcasting.org/">textcasting vision</a>, you should probably use the WordPress-maintained feed for your site.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:41:19 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a144119</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a144119</guid> <source:outline text="A question came up about the RSS feeds that WordLand maintains, so I <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/55">wrote it up</a> on the support site. Net-net: Unless you're developing a component of the <a href="https://textcasting.org/">textcasting vision</a>, you should probably use the WordPress-maintained feed for your site." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:41:19 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a144119"/> </item> <item> <description>I love how people declare that Trump doesn't represent us. But the truth is as long as our representatives don't impeach and remove him, he absolutely does represent us. There aren't two definitions of <i>represent.</i></description> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:42:04 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a184204</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a184204</guid> <source:outline text="I love how people declare that Trump doesn't represent us. But the truth is as long as our representatives don't impeach and remove him, he absolutely does represent us. There aren't two definitions of <i>represent.</i>" created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:42:04 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09.html#a184204"/> </item> <item> <title>Fucking Republicans and Medicare</title> <description><p>I am hereby changing the name of "Republicans" to "Fucking Republicans" because that's what they do and what we're going to do to them. Today's issue is Medicare, which hits home to me, a person who planned for health care and depends on Medicare.</p> <p>I need my Medicare. It's my health insurance. Health insurance always been a problem for me, with pre-existing conditions, and at one point a lapsed corporate plan.</p> <p>I finally got on solid ground or so I thought when I turned 65 a few years ago. Now I find out that the Repubs are going to cancel or reduce my insurance, and I don't imagine that a person my age, with my pre-existing conditions (we all have them once at this age) I could get insurance.</p> <p>So please tell me Republicans, how this is meant to work? I am not stupid and I know Medicare is not out of money. Am I going to be paying out of pocket for my health care? Are there any doctors or hospitals who even do this any longer?</p> <p>Repubs, if my Medicare goes down, you are going down too.</p> <p>PS: The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLLFeZGeXbA">inspiration</a> for this fucking idea. </p> </description> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:10:52 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html?title=fuckingRepublicansAndMedicare</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html</guid> <source:outline text="Fucking Republicans and Medicare" created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:10:52 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html"> <source:outline text="I am hereby changing the name of "Republicans" to "Fucking Republicans" because that's what they do and what we're going to do to them. Today's issue is Medicare, which hits home to me, a person who planned for health care and depends on Medicare." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:10:57 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html#a141057"/> <source:outline text="I need my Medicare. It's my health insurance. Health insurance always been a problem for me, with pre-existing conditions, and at one point a lapsed corporate plan." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="I finally got on solid ground or so I thought when I turned 65 a few years ago. Now I find out that the Repubs are going to cancel or reduce my insurance, and I don't imagine that a person my age, with my pre-existing conditions (we all have them once at this age) I could get insurance." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="So please tell me Republicans, how this is meant to work? I am not stupid and I know Medicare is not out of money. Am I going to be paying out of pocket for my health care? Are there any doctors or hospitals who even do this any longer?" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="Repubs, if my Medicare goes down, you are going down too." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:13:32 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html#a141332"/> <source:outline text="PS: The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLLFeZGeXbA">inspiration</a> for this fucking idea." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:13:33 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/141052.html#a141333"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <title>Krugman's paywall</title> <description><p>I'm not a paid subscriber to anything on Substack. But I do read a few of their newsletters when they come out, including <a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/">Paul Krugman's</a>. Almost always must-read stuff. </p> <p>But he also writes on the "other side of the paywall." When he announced it, he said he doesn't need the money, so I wondered why he does it. I kept reading anyway.</p> <p>But he does something incredibly annoying and as clueless imho as the things he calls out in his writing — I only find out an article is on the other side of the paywall after I've read the first few paragraphs. I am a fan and I would send the money directly if he asked for it, but not via Substack.</p> <p>Here's an <a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-little-secret-of-social">example</a> of such a post. </p> <p>So because I don't pay I have to lose that time every time you do this? Have some respect for us who read you. I'm as old as he is, and I like to use my time well. So please either get rid of the stinking paywall, or warn us up front.</p> <p>And also consider getting off <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=substack">Substack</a>. It's not a good look.</p> </description> <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:02:03 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html?title=krugmansPaywall</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html</guid> <source:outline text="Krugman's paywall" created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:02:03 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html"> <source:outline text="I'm not a paid subscriber to anything on Substack. But I do read a few of their newsletters when they come out, including <a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/">Paul Krugman's</a>. Almost always must-read stuff." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:02:59 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html#a140259"/> <source:outline text="But he also writes on the "other side of the paywall." When he announced it, he said he doesn't need the money, so I wondered why he does it. I kept reading anyway." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:03:12 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html#a140312"/> <source:outline text="But he does something incredibly annoying and as clueless imho as the things he calls out in his writing — I only find out an article is on the other side of the paywall after I've read the first few paragraphs. I am a fan and I would send the money directly if he asked for it, but not via Substack." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:04:04 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html#a140404"/> <source:outline text="Here's an <a href="https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-clean-little-secret-of-social">example</a> of such a post." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:04:07 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html#a140407"/> <source:outline text="So because I don't pay I have to lose that time every time you do this? Have some respect for us who read you. I'm as old as he is, and I like to use my time well. So please either get rid of the stinking paywall, or warn us up front." flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html#aNaNNaNNaN"/> <source:outline text="And also consider getting off <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=substack">Substack</a>. It's not a good look." created="Sun, 09 Mar 2025 14:07:41 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/09/140203.html#a140741"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><a href="https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2025/03/08/trying-out-wordland-for-blogging/">David Weinberger on WordLand</a>. "It's a web page that clears out all of WordPress's cruft and gives you an interface that's so simple that it's actually enjoyable."</description> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:57:43 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a145743</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a145743</guid> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2025/03/08/trying-out-wordland-for-blogging/">David Weinberger on WordLand</a>. "It's a web page that clears out all of WordPress's cruft and gives you an interface that's so simple that it's actually enjoyable."" created="Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:57:43 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a145743"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2018/10/04/gumby.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Praise from David, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Small-Pieces-Loosely-Joined-Unified/dp/0738205435">Small Pieces Loosely Joined</a> and co-author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cluetrain-Manifesto-End-Business-Usual/dp/0738204315">Cluetrain Manifesto</a>, is the best. He picked up <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> overnight, and he loves it, for the right reasons. WordLand is an editor for "small pieces," maybe the first. Most of the really easy editors have been stuck in silos and thus are dead-ends. I'm sure the people who designed them wished they weren't locked up, but they had to work for billionaires-to-be, I don't. I called the locked-up editors <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html">tiny little text boxes</a>. I created an editor that starts out slightly larger than the TLTBs, and grows as your idea grows. So David opened up <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> and started typing. And it turned into a <a href="https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2025/03/08/trying-out-wordland-for-blogging/">normal sized blog post</a>. It flowed right into it. And unlike the TLTB's in twitter-like worlds, those bits live on the open web, and can use all the features of the web, and are fed out to software networks via <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html">RSS</a>, which is a lot simpler than other protocols. It can grow faster because there already is a huge installed base of software and knowledge for RSS. Imho developers should <a href="https://this.how/standards/">build on existing standards</a>, not try to replace them. They might be more <a href="https://isrssdead.com/">alive</a> than you think (or more accurately, wish).</description> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:14:55 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a151455</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a151455</guid> <source:outline text="Praise from David, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Small-Pieces-Loosely-Joined-Unified/dp/0738205435">Small Pieces Loosely Joined</a> and co-author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cluetrain-Manifesto-End-Business-Usual/dp/0738204315">Cluetrain Manifesto</a>, is the best. He picked up <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> overnight, and he loves it, for the right reasons. WordLand is an editor for "small pieces," maybe the first. Most of the really easy editors have been stuck in silos and thus are dead-ends. I'm sure the people who designed them wished they weren't locked up, but they had to work for billionaires-to-be, I don't. I called the locked-up editors <a href="http://scripting.com/2024/01/14/031201.html">tiny little text boxes</a>. I created an editor that starts out slightly larger than the TLTBs, and grows as your idea grows. So David opened up <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> and started typing. And it turned into a <a href="https://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2025/03/08/trying-out-wordland-for-blogging/">normal sized blog post</a>. It flowed right into it. And unlike the TLTB's in twitter-like worlds, those bits live on the open web, and can use all the features of the web, and are fed out to software networks via <a href="https://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html">RSS</a>, which is a lot simpler than other protocols. It can grow faster because there already is a huge installed base of software and knowledge for RSS. Imho developers should <a href="https://this.how/standards/">build on existing standards</a>, not try to replace them. They might be more <a href="https://isrssdead.com/">alive</a> than you think (or more accurately, wish)." created="Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:14:55 GMT" type="outline" image="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2018/10/04/gumby.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a151455"/> </item> <item> <description>I updated the <a href="https://this.how/wordland/#1734985792000">screen shot</a> on the WordLand <a href="https://this.how/wordland/">docs page</a>. It was really out of date. <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> is the best editor for people to write in WordPress. I've been developing it over the last couple of years. I wanted to get a really nice editor into this slot. I felt WordPress deserved one. It's designed to feel like the editor in twitter-like services, but without the limits. I've been writing about this <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=textcasting">on my blog</a>, while I was doing that, I was developing WordLand in the background. We have ignored the needs of writers for too long. It's time to remove the limits. People believed the formula Twitter arrived at was the right one. It is far too limited for writers. WordLand is the answer, in software.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:47:27 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a144727</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a144727</guid> <source:outline text="I updated the <a href="https://this.how/wordland/#1734985792000">screen shot</a> on the WordLand <a href="https://this.how/wordland/">docs page</a>. It was really out of date. <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a> is the best editor for people to write in WordPress. I've been developing it over the last couple of years. I wanted to get a really nice editor into this slot. I felt WordPress deserved one. It's designed to feel like the editor in twitter-like services, but without the limits. I've been writing about this <a href="https://daytona.scripting.com/search?q=textcasting">on my blog</a>, while I was doing that, I was developing WordLand in the background. We have ignored the needs of writers for too long. It's time to remove the limits. People believed the formula Twitter arrived at was the right one. It is far too limited for writers. WordLand is the answer, in software." created="Sat, 08 Mar 2025 14:47:27 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/08.html#a144727"/> </item> <item> <description>The United States is Russia's 51st state, sad to say. Let's get it back for the people of the United States. We don't like Putin. Sorry.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:10:34 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a211034</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a211034</guid> <source:outline text="The United States is Russia's 51st state, sad to say. Let's get it back for the people of the United States. We don't like Putin. Sorry." created="Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:10:34 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a211034"/> </item> <item> <description>Before our media was gradually taken over by Russia, they did it to Ukraine, but they managed to dig their way out, had a democratic election, resulting in their current government. So it's not impossible to dig your way out. But you have to stop insisting that <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/03/07/letHitlerSpeak.png">Hitler be allowed</a> to speak.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:16:35 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a161635</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a161635</guid> <source:outline text="Before our media was gradually taken over by Russia, they did it to Ukraine, but they managed to dig their way out, had a democratic election, resulting in their current government. So it's not impossible to dig your way out. But you have to stop insisting that <a href="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/03/07/letHitlerSpeak.png">Hitler be allowed</a> to speak." created="Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:16:35 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a161635"/> </item> <item> <description>The Fediverse is impossible to use even for people who understand what it's trying to do, and most people have no idea. The answer: <b>Stop trying to reinvent Twitter</b>. It wasn't a great idea! And figure out what really works in a decentralized system. It requires some serious brain work.</description> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:07:16 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a160716</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a160716</guid> <source:outline text="The Fediverse is impossible to use even for people who understand what it's trying to do, and most people have no idea. The answer: <b>Stop trying to reinvent Twitter</b>. It wasn't a great idea! And figure out what really works in a decentralized system. It requires some serious brain work." created="Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:07:16 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a160716"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/03/07/peloton600Riding.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I've been getting my exercise outdoors mostly, but then when the weather got bad for a bit, too bad to walk outdoors, I took up the Peloton again. I was really out of shape for that. So I started riding every third day or so. And then without any warning I just passed my 600th ride. Not too bad! :-)</description> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:32:01 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a173201</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a173201</guid> <source:outline text="I've been getting my exercise outdoors mostly, but then when the weather got bad for a bit, too bad to walk outdoors, I took up the Peloton again. I was really out of shape for that. So I started riding every third day or so. And then without any warning I just passed my 600th ride. Not too bad! :-)" created="Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:32:01 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/03/07/peloton600Riding.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/07.html#a173201"/> </item> <item> <description>Web isn't just a brand, it's also a noun and a verb. "I web you."</description> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:15:48 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/06.html#a161548</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/06.html#a161548</guid> <source:outline text="Web isn't just a brand, it's also a noun and a verb. "I web you."" created="Thu, 06 Mar 2025 16:15:48 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06.html#a161548"/> </item> <item> <description>Doc Searls wrote this <a href="https://doc.searls.com/2025/03/06/radios-death-knells/">beautiful blog post</a> with <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. If I have my way blogging is going to come all the way back and then zooooom out from there. Still diggin!</description> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:29:06 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/06.html#a012906</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/06.html#a012906</guid> <source:outline text="Doc Searls wrote this <a href="https://doc.searls.com/2025/03/06/radios-death-knells/">beautiful blog post</a> with <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. If I have my way blogging is going to come all the way back and then zooooom out from there. Still diggin!" created="Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:29:06 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06.html#a012906"/> </item> <item> <title>Tech and democracy</title> <description><p>I found the <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/">TechDirt piece</a> by Mike Masnick about being a democracy blog disturbing because imho it should have been about democracy at least since 2017, when it was clear that Twitter had just elected a president of the United States. That was a clear strong signal that tech and democracy were tightly connected. </p> <p>At the time I tried to <a href="http://scripting.com/2017/01/14/whatIfTwtrIsBoughtByARepub.html">raise the alarm</a>, in tech and in finance, that a Republican could buy Twitter for $12B, and that was a cheap price considering the value of the presidency in a tech entrepreneur's hands.</p> <p>My experience in Silicon Valley goes back to the late 70s, so I have a pretty good understanding of the personality of tech entrepreneurs.</p> <p>My blog, <a href="http://scripting.com/">Scripting News</a>, has been about democracy since <a href="http://scripting.com/davenet/">inception</a>, in 1994, though it has primarily been about technology. I got the same complaints that I should stick to tech, but I didn't see a line of separation. The stakes were large then, but now they're much larger and as Masnick notes, impossible to ignore. </p> <p>In the mid-90s there was not much of a debate whether the First Amendment applied to the web, the consensus was that it did not! The NYT didn't defend the 1st A on the web, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act">Congress passed a law</a> saying the 1st A didn't apply and a Democratic president, Clinton, signed the law. That was a pretty clear signal. (We were saved by a Federal appeals court, otherwise who knows what we'd be doing now.)</p> <p>In tech, every generation thinks they're seeing a problem for the first time. This is almost never true. It's like anything else, we're iterative, going over the same issues again and again, and we have a chance to wake up at any point and learn from our mistakes and not repeat the previous cycle, but it seems we never do.</p> <p>Most important is that we <b>work together</b> and share what we learned. But first you have to be aware that there is history. You know the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/634544-those-who-cannot-remember-the-past-are-condemned-to-repeat">famous line</a> about people who "cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."</p> <p>We have great historians working here, and TechDirt is more famous than Scripting News is now. It would be a shame if the historians overlooked the historic connection between tech and democracy because they weren't aware it was documented much earlier than 2025. And btw -- don't miss that <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">Google et al</a> would like to deprecate the archive of the early web. No one is paying attention to that problem, and it's another way history is lost. The wisdom of the Google people forcing this on the rest of us is very much like the DOGE bros in DC today. </p> </description> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:24:46 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html?title=techAndDemocracy</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html</guid> <source:outline text="Tech and democracy" created="Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:24:46 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html"> <source:outline text="I found the <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/">TechDirt piece</a> by Mike Masnick about being a democracy blog disturbing because imho it should have been about democracy at least since 2017, when it was clear that Twitter had just elected a president of the United States. That was a clear strong signal that tech and democracy were tightly connected." created="Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:24:58 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html#a142458"/> <source:outline text="At the time I tried to <a href="http://scripting.com/2017/01/14/whatIfTwtrIsBoughtByARepub.html">raise the alarm</a>, in tech and in finance, that a Republican could buy Twitter for $12B, and that was a cheap price considering the value of the presidency in a tech entrepreneur's hands." created="Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:28:08 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html#a142808"/> <source:outline text="My experience in Silicon Valley goes back to the late 70s, so I have a pretty good understanding of the personality of tech entrepreneurs." created="Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:28:21 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html#a142821"/> <source:outline text="My blog, <a href="http://scripting.com/">Scripting News</a>, has been about democracy since <a href="http://scripting.com/davenet/">inception</a>, in 1994, though it has primarily been about technology. I got the same complaints that I should stick to tech, but I didn't see a line of separation. The stakes were large then, but now they're much larger and as Masnick notes, impossible to ignore." created="Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:34:12 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html#a143412"/> <source:outline text="In the mid-90s there was not much of a debate whether the First Amendment applied to the web, the consensus was that it did not! The NYT didn't defend the 1st A on the web, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act">Congress passed a law</a> saying the 1st A didn't apply and a Democratic president, Clinton, signed the law. That was a pretty clear signal. (We were saved by a Federal appeals court, otherwise who knows what we'd be doing now.)" created="Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:25:38 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html#a012538"/> <source:outline text="In tech, every generation thinks they're seeing a problem for the first time. This is almost never true. It's like anything else, we're iterative, going over the same issues again and again, and we have a chance to wake up at any point and learn from our mistakes and not repeat the previous cycle, but it seems we never do." created="Fri, 07 Mar 2025 01:26:25 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html#a012625"/> <source:outline text="Most important is that we <b>work together</b> and share what we learned. But first you have to be aware that there is history. You know the <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/634544-those-who-cannot-remember-the-past-are-condemned-to-repeat">famous line</a> about people who "cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."" created="Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:25:28 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html#a142528"/> <source:outline text="We have great historians working here, and TechDirt is more famous than Scripting News is now. It would be a shame if the historians overlooked the historic connection between tech and democracy because they weren't aware it was documented much earlier than 2025. And btw -- don't miss that <a href="https://this.how/googleAndHttp/">Google et al</a> would like to deprecate the archive of the early web. No one is paying attention to that problem, and it's another way history is lost. The wisdom of the Google people forcing this on the rest of us is very much like the DOGE bros in DC today." created="Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:25:29 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/06/142446.html#a142529"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2022/02/16/gaslight.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">We need a new kind of social network designed to run an effective response to fascism. So far all we have are profit centers for billionaires and would-be billionaires.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:19:13 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a151913</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a151913</guid> <source:outline text="We need a new kind of social network designed to run an effective response to fascism. So far all we have are profit centers for billionaires and would-be billionaires." created="Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:19:13 GMT" type="outline" image="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2022/02/16/gaslight.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a151913"/> </item> <item> <description>When I ask a personal question on one of the AI bots, all of a sudden on Facebook I'm getting ads about what I asked about. It could be a coincidence, but it's happened a few times, on more than one system. And I'm a paying customer on all of them.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:14:51 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a221451</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a221451</guid> <source:outline text="When I ask a personal question on one of the AI bots, all of a sudden on Facebook I'm getting ads about what I asked about. It could be a coincidence, but it's happened a few times, on more than one system. And I'm a paying customer on all of them." created="Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:14:51 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a221451"/> </item> <item> <description>People who criticize Dems for weak opposition at the SOTU are not hypocrites only if they said before the event what they would do. I was glad not to have to choose. I think in the end they did what made sense to each one individually. The range of response by the Dems was much broader than the Repubs. We should be thankful they haven't capitulated, as so many have, esp in what we used to think of as journalism.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:19:36 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a151936</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a151936</guid> <source:outline text="People who criticize Dems for weak opposition at the SOTU are not hypocrites only if they said before the event what they would do. I was glad not to have to choose. I think in the end they did what made sense to each one individually. The range of response by the Dems was much broader than the Repubs. We should be thankful they haven't capitulated, as so many have, esp in what we used to think of as journalism." created="Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:19:36 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a151936"/> </item> <item> <description>One thing to be grateful for, Trump didn’t invite any of the Jan 6 rioters back to the Capitol for his speech.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:31:02 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a143102</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a143102</guid> <source:outline text="One thing to be grateful for, Trump didn’t invite any of the Jan 6 rioters back to the Capitol for his speech." created="Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:31:02 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a143102"/> </item> <item> <description>Watch out for people who celebrate your freedom while profiting from your enslavement.</description> <pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:31:49 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a143149</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a143149</guid> <source:outline text="Watch out for people who celebrate your freedom while profiting from your enslavement." created="Wed, 05 Mar 2025 14:31:49 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/05.html#a143149"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2024/05/03/shootThisDog.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">I'm trying to get ChatGPT to not assume I have the same abilities as it has. You can't dump a huge amount of code at me and expect me to quickly see what changed, that's not how human intellect works, but this is something computers are <i>extremely</i> good at. I told my bot that it would work a lot better if they just told me what to change. I said this: "I have a lot of experience being a human being and working with other humans, and all your clients as far as I know are human." In other words, be concise and direct. This is what it said in response. "That’s a sharp observation, and I appreciate the insight. I'll keep focusing on clarity, directness, and being actually helpful rather than just dumping information. If I ever seem to be leading you down a non-optimal path, feel free to call it out!" Note how concise the response was. More advice for the bot. Help your human understand. I think maybe eventually we may be their pets. Try scratching behind the ears. On the other hand, to my human friends, do not depend on the strategies they choose. They will never on their own question the path they took. It may not be the optimal one, but they'll keep going down it. It's up to you to say nah this isn't the way I want to go, and they will always respect that. It's not like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy4EfdnMZ5g&t=18s">HAL in 2001</a>. I've sometimes wasted whole programming session going in the wrong direction assuming my bot was good at this. None of them are, as far as I can tell.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:02:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a160242</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a160242</guid> <source:outline text="I'm trying to get ChatGPT to not assume I have the same abilities as it has. You can't dump a huge amount of code at me and expect me to quickly see what changed, that's not how human intellect works, but this is something computers are <i>extremely</i> good at. I told my bot that it would work a lot better if they just told me what to change. I said this: "I have a lot of experience being a human being and working with other humans, and all your clients as far as I know are human." In other words, be concise and direct. This is what it said in response. "That’s a sharp observation, and I appreciate the insight. I'll keep focusing on clarity, directness, and being actually helpful rather than just dumping information. If I ever seem to be leading you down a non-optimal path, feel free to call it out!" Note how concise the response was. More advice for the bot. Help your human understand. I think maybe eventually we may be their pets. Try scratching behind the ears. On the other hand, to my human friends, do not depend on the strategies they choose. They will never on their own question the path they took. It may not be the optimal one, but they'll keep going down it. It's up to you to say nah this isn't the way I want to go, and they will always respect that. It's not like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy4EfdnMZ5g&t=18s">HAL in 2001</a>. I've sometimes wasted whole programming session going in the wrong direction assuming my bot was good at this. None of them are, as far as I can tell." created="Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:02:42 GMT" type="outline" image="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2024/05/03/shootThisDog.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a160242"/> </item> <item> <description>The single most important thing about what Musk is doing is that it is Musk that is doing it. Not elected, not accountable to anyone, and the only way we know what he's doing is from the aftermath. We play no role in his choices. Plus, he would be our last choice if we were in the market for a crazy despot to ruin our country. He wasn't born or educated here, and thus has very little idea of who we are and thus what the people he's firing do.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:05:59 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a140559</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a140559</guid> <source:outline text="The single most important thing about what Musk is doing is that it is Musk that is doing it. Not elected, not accountable to anyone, and the only way we know what he's doing is from the aftermath. We play no role in his choices. Plus, he would be our last choice if we were in the market for a crazy despot to ruin our country. He wasn't born or educated here, and thus has very little idea of who we are and thus what the people he's firing do." created="Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:05:59 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a140559"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2024/11/13/mobIncited.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">Remember when watching the speech tonight, if you are watching, what <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXR_bqyAy4E&t=170s">our Capitol was like</a> on that infamous day. The guy speaking, the guy up there on the podium, he did that. That's who he is. And where is right now, that's where it happened. Takes a lot of nerve to return to the scene of his greatest crime, so far.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:51:57 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a135157</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a135157</guid> <source:outline text="Remember when watching the speech tonight, if you are watching, what <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXR_bqyAy4E&t=170s">our Capitol was like</a> on that infamous day. The guy speaking, the guy up there on the podium, he did that. That's who he is. And where is right now, that's where it happened. Takes a lot of nerve to return to the scene of his greatest crime, so far." created="Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:51:57 GMT" type="outline" image="https://s3.amazonaws.com/scripting.com/images/2024/11/13/mobIncited.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a135157"/> </item> <item> <description>Another question about tonight. Where will Elon be? In the seat usually occupied by the VP or the Speaker? Will he make faces at the camera or interrupt Trump?</description> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:12:55 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a141255</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a141255</guid> <source:outline text="Another question about tonight. Where will Elon be? In the seat usually occupied by the VP or the Speaker? Will he make faces at the camera or interrupt Trump?" created="Tue, 04 Mar 2025 14:12:55 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a141255"/> </item> <item> <description>The news should always report whether a bit of news is a financial plus or minus for Trump as in does this thing make him richer or poorer. That way you can zero in on the "why" of everything.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:30:55 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a213055</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a213055</guid> <source:outline text="The news should always report whether a bit of news is a financial plus or minus for Trump as in does this thing make him richer or poorer. That way you can zero in on the "why" of everything." created="Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:30:55 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a213055"/> </item> <item> <description>I'm thrilled the <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/article/warriors-vs-knicks-odds-predictions-165116069.html">Knicks</a> are playing tonight. That's what I'll be watching. Let me know if anything happens in DC.</description> <pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:14:42 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a211442</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a211442</guid> <source:outline text="I'm thrilled the <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/article/warriors-vs-knicks-odds-predictions-165116069.html">Knicks</a> are playing tonight. That's what I'll be watching. Let me know if anything happens in DC." created="Tue, 04 Mar 2025 21:14:42 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/04.html#a211442"/> </item> <item> <description>Idea for SNL. A special episode of Law and Order where the cops arrest someone for being disrespectful to Trump,. The prosecutors debate among themselves if they have to do this, no one quits, they don't feel good about it but they prosecute, being assured by the District Attorney it's the right thing to do. When there are objections judge rules in favor of the government most of the time, but wants to show balance so once or twice rules in favor of the defense, but it doesn't matter, when the judge gives instructions to the jury he says basically the only option is to convict, or so it seems that's what he's saying and dutifully, the jury convicts. There are sentencing standards, provided by the DOJ so the judge sentences the accused to life at hard labor. Back in the studio at 30 Rock the audience isn’t sure if they should laugh, slowly realizing it’s not meant to be funny, the skit fades out to a commercial break.</description> <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:24:41 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/03.html#a162441</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/03.html#a162441</guid> <source:outline text="Idea for SNL. A special episode of Law and Order where the cops arrest someone for being disrespectful to Trump,. The prosecutors debate among themselves if they have to do this, no one quits, they don't feel good about it but they prosecute, being assured by the District Attorney it's the right thing to do. When there are objections judge rules in favor of the government most of the time, but wants to show balance so once or twice rules in favor of the defense, but it doesn't matter, when the judge gives instructions to the jury he says basically the only option is to convict, or so it seems that's what he's saying and dutifully, the jury convicts. There are sentencing standards, provided by the DOJ so the judge sentences the accused to life at hard labor. Back in the studio at 30 Rock the audience isn’t sure if they should laugh, slowly realizing it’s not meant to be funny, the skit fades out to a commercial break." created="Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:24:41 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/03.html#a162441"/> </item> <item> <description><img class="imgRightMargin" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2017/09/12/pitcher.png" border="0" style="float: right; padding-left: 25px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 15px;">If I understand correctly, this <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/bluesky-based-instagram-alternative-flashes-launches-publicly/">TechCrunch article</a> is misleading the same way the Bluesky company misleads. There is no benefit to users of either app that they use the same complicated and new structure to communicate, where simpler and established standards would work just as well. There is a way they could make this work. Come up with a plugin architecture and something like an app store, so developers could define new data types, and then we'd really have something. I would probably do an <a href="https://opml.org/">outliner</a> plugin first, then a <a href="http://scripting.com/2022/08/25/210902.html">Markdown</a> plugin.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:24:20 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/02.html#a142420</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/02.html#a142420</guid> <source:outline text="If I understand correctly, this <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/28/bluesky-based-instagram-alternative-flashes-launches-publicly/">TechCrunch article</a> is misleading the same way the Bluesky company misleads. There is no benefit to users of either app that they use the same complicated and new structure to communicate, where simpler and established standards would work just as well. There is a way they could make this work. Come up with a plugin architecture and something like an app store, so developers could define new data types, and then we'd really have something. I would probably do an <a href="https://opml.org/">outliner</a> plugin first, then a <a href="http://scripting.com/2022/08/25/210902.html">Markdown</a> plugin." created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:24:20 GMT" type="outline" image="https://imgs.scripting.com/2017/09/12/pitcher.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/02.html#a142420"/> </item> <item> <title>The best revenge is none</title> <description><p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14997571.Pamela_Short">Pamela Short</a>: The best revenge is none. Heal yourself, forgive, move on and don't become like those who hurt you.</p> <p>There's a pragmatic reason for this. I found, when I was young and didn't know better, that getting revenge didn't just hurt the target, it also left me with a deep pain. When I did something to another person I was also doing it to myself. I found that the dark cloud of my harmful behavior would stay with me for a long time, maybe never going away. I would find it hard to forgive myself for what I did. So it's better to not try to get revenge, and let the pain of being hurt dissipate on its own.</p> <p>I have a story to go with that. In the beginning of RSS, I had a partner and customer ask me at lunch if there were any circumstances when I would take the server we ran for them off the air. I said that's a weird question, but of course not. The very next day, his team announced they were taking over RSS, completely changing it, and the first I heard of it was in the public announcement. Later that same day, my brain boiling over in anger at being treated so poorly, I did eventually land on the idea of just taking his server offline. And then I laughed that he knew I'd get to that, and wanted to plant a little marker there for whatever reason, I don't know. But no I didn't take his server off the air. He may be a bastard, but he did pay for the service so his server stays up. And two years later, his project a failure, I came out with RSS 2.0 and that was the end of that. It wasn't revenge, it was just picking up the ball in the playground and restarting the game that they had caused to stop. We went on and RSS did a lot of good work.</p> </description> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:44:16 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/194416.html?title=theBestRevengeIsNone</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/194416.html</guid> <source:outline text="The best revenge is none" created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:44:16 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/194416.html"> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/14997571.Pamela_Short">Pamela Short</a>: The best revenge is none. Heal yourself, forgive, move on and don't become like those who hurt you." created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:44:37 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/194416.html#a194437"/> <source:outline text="There's a pragmatic reason for this. I found, when I was young and didn't know better, that getting revenge didn't just hurt the target, it also left me with a deep pain. When I did something to another person I was also doing it to myself. I found that the dark cloud of my harmful behavior would stay with me for a long time, maybe never going away. I would find it hard to forgive myself for what I did. So it's better to not try to get revenge, and let the pain of being hurt dissipate on its own." created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:46:19 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/194416.html#a194619"/> <source:outline text="I have a story to go with that. In the beginning of RSS, I had a partner and customer ask me at lunch if there were any circumstances when I would take the server we ran for them off the air. I said that's a weird question, but of course not. The very next day, his team announced they were taking over RSS, completely changing it, and the first I heard of it was in the public announcement. Later that same day, my brain boiling over in anger at being treated so poorly, I did eventually land on the idea of just taking his server offline. And then I laughed that he knew I'd get to that, and wanted to plant a little marker there for whatever reason, I don't know. But no I didn't take his server off the air. He may be a bastard, but he did pay for the service so his server stays up. And two years later, his project a failure, I came out with RSS 2.0 and that was the end of that. It wasn't revenge, it was just picking up the ball in the playground and restarting the game that they had caused to stop. We went on and RSS did a lot of good work." created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:47:05 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/194416.html#a194705"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <title>Mike Myers as Elon Musk</title> <description><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU&t=260s">Video</a> of Mike Myers doing Elon Musk in last night's SNL cold open. </p> <p><div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/03/02/myersAsMuskSNL.png"></center><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU&t=260s">Myers does Musk</a> almost as well as Musk does Musk.</div></p> </description> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:32:27 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/153227.html?title=mikeMyersAsElonMusk</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/153227.html</guid> <source:outline text="Mike Myers as Elon Musk" created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:32:27 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/153227.html"> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU&t=260s">Video</a> of Mike Myers doing Elon Musk in last night's SNL cold open." created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:35:45 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/153227.html#a153545"/> <source:outline text="<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1MdU&t=260s">Myers does Musk</a> almost as well as Musk does Musk." created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 15:32:35 GMT" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/03/02/myersAsMuskSNL.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/02/153227.html#a153235"/> </source:outline> </item> <item> <description>The <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/49#issuecomment-2692351817">tab key</a> now switches between the main editor and title editor in <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. Still a little work to do there.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:25:54 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182554</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182554</guid> <source:outline text="The <a href="https://github.com/scripting/wordlandSupport/issues/49#issuecomment-2692351817">tab key</a> now switches between the main editor and title editor in <a href="https://wordland.social/">WordLand</a>. Still a little work to do there." created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:25:54 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182554"/> </item> <item> <description>These days I read <a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-trump-chooses">Timothy Snyder's essays</a> as soon as they come in.</description> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:23:51 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182351</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182351</guid> <source:outline text="These days I read <a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-war-trump-chooses">Timothy Snyder's essays</a> as soon as they come in." created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:23:51 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182351"/> </item> <item> <description>My America is still a democracy and still part of the western world. A pretty great country, far from perfect, but my home. It's rich in all kinds of things, including money. We made a mistake in electing the person we did. Can we admit that and start fixing the mistake now? If not now, when?</description> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:30:31 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a013031</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a013031</guid> <source:outline text="My America is still a democracy and still part of the western world. A pretty great country, far from perfect, but my home. It's rich in all kinds of things, including money. We made a mistake in electing the person we did. Can we admit that and start fixing the mistake now? If not now, when?" created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:30:31 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a013031"/> </item> <item> <description>What <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations-trump/681880/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHeTYjwxXW5BWaruPT1MU64A&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share">happened</a> in the Oval Office yesterday was as horror-inspiring as the riot in the Capitol on 1/6/2021.</description> <pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:41:45 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a014145</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a014145</guid> <source:outline text="What <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations-trump/681880/?gift=f35zZN0v_gDFE8xNwlQAHeTYjwxXW5BWaruPT1MU64A&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share">happened</a> in the Oval Office yesterday was as horror-inspiring as the riot in the Capitol on 1/6/2021." created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:41:45 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a014145"/> </item> <item> <description>New month. Last month's <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/02.opml">source code</a> archived. Onward! <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span></description> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:21:22 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182122</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182122</guid> <source:outline text="New month. Last month's <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/blog/opml/2025/02.opml">source code</a> archived. Onward! <span class="spOldSchoolEmoji">😄</span>" created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:21:22 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01.html#a182122"/> </item> <item> <title>One America Together</title> <description><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez">AOC</a> asked for ideas of what to do for the SOTU.</p> <p>I suggested we come up with a new slogan. Like this.</p> <ul> <li><i>One America Together.</i></li> </ul> <p>Make hats, purple — enough for everyone, including the Repubs. </p> <p>During applause, Dems rise and chant “One America Together.”</p> <p>What do you think?</p> <p><div class="divInlineImage"><center><img class="imgInline" src="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/03/01/wordleKittyForAmerica.png"></center>Wordle Kitty throwing out the first pitch of the baseball season. </div></p> </description> <pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:56:54 GMT</pubDate> <link>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html?title=oneAmericaTogether</link> <guid>http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html</guid> <source:outline text="One America Together" created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:56:54 GMT" type="outline" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html"> <source:outline text="<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez">AOC</a> asked for ideas of what to do for the SOTU." created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 18:57:00 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html#a185700"/> <source:outline text="I suggested we come up with a new slogan. Like this." created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:47:44 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html#a014744"> <source:outline text="<i>One America Together.</i>" created="Sun, 02 Mar 2025 01:47:34 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html#a014734"/> </source:outline> <source:outline text="Make hats, purple — enough for everyone, including the Repubs." created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:05:02 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html#a190502"/> <source:outline text="During applause, Dems rise and chant “One America Together.”" created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:05:20 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html#a190520"/> <source:outline text="What do you think?" created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:03:39 GMT" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html#a190339"/> <source:outline text="Wordle Kitty throwing out the first pitch of the baseball season." created="Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:03:41 GMT" type="outline" inlineImage="https://imgs.scripting.com/2025/03/01/wordleKittyForAmerica.png" flInCalendar="true" permalink="http://scripting.com/2025/03/01/185654.html#a190341"/> </source:outline> </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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