Scripting News: Sunday, January 14, 2024

Sunday, January 14, 2024

Another Dead song that must've been fun to sing. "Wherever he goes the people all complain." #

With mystique of Substack in retreat, now -- if we had a proper identity system with storage, we could make it easy for people to hook their world up to email, ie newsletters, and preserve choice, and be able to build editors that were more than tiny little textboxes. I was part of the PC wave in the 80s when writing tools advanced incredibly quickly. So many directions -- from line-oriented editors on Unix and early Apples, to screen editors, then with the Mac we got wizzy, and page layout, and outliners for thinking and presentations. In the same time period programming changed from something requiring a million dollar investment in hardware and infrastructure, to something most students could afford. Just ten years. Since then our world has been reduced to copying and pasting into tiny text boxes. The question is bigger than if we need journalism, the question is do we need writers? #

It makes sense that AI is coming into existence at the time the human species, and most living things on the planet, appear about to cease to exist. It's possible that we are just building our successor. A sort of ark of intellect. It would make sense, if there is a Creator, that they would arrange things this way. Just-in-time species reboot.#

BTW, what are the proper pronouns for The Creator?#

One man gathers what another man spills.#

Tiny little text boxes#

This is a tiny little text box. My goal is to eradicate these beasts.#

Linkblog items for the day.

Really need checkbox news finally, because I am so tired of hearing about all the same old bullshit about this asshole. You know who I'm talking about. scripting.com

When is the New York Times going to run a column about children of Holocaust survivors who are terrified of America turning into a Nazi dictatorship, next year. nytimes.com

When the "Summer of Love" Took over San Francisco pbs.org

Manton Reece: The case for .bar. manton.org

Reservation Dogs was great, esp the last season. metacritic.com

Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb. theatlantic.com

Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton, the wife of a guffawing, rubber-limbed sewer worker forever mired in a blowhard neighbor's get-rich-quick schemes and other hazards of life on the classic 1950s sitcom "The Honeymooners," died on Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 99. nytimes.com

Migrating from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. citationneeded.news

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