Scripting News: Friday, September 1, 2023

Friday, September 1, 2023
Today's song: She Blinded Me With Science.#
August 27: "Standards that move based on the will of big companies never move compatibly. The interop we have with the web wasn't created by Googles or Mozillas or the EFF. The web was created by accident, when the tech industry of the early 1990s wasn't looking. And of course they've been trying ever since to dismantle the interop gift we got from the accidental network."#
People whose careers began after the advent of the open web probably have no idea what a miracle it is, and imho once it's gone, it'll never happen again. The BigCo's are too entrenched, and have nothing to gain from the freedom and interop it provided. I know, because I was there, and know what a wasteland tech was before the web, and how that changed in an instant when the web caught on. All of a sudden the Bigs couldn't stop us from creating the things we wanted to create. #
States should have to buy insurance against mass shootings, to fund health care for victims and damages to families of those killed. That would give them incentive to control factors that cause mass shootings. No room for the usual bs. #
One of my favorite podcasters, Andrew Hickey, has a Bluesky feed that you can subscribe to in any RSS-compatible feed reader. #
I asked ChatGPT for 10 big themes on my blog.#
The August blog has been archived. #

Linkblog items for the day.

Donald Trump's election fraud trial in Georgia will be livestreamed . bbc.com
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