Scripting News: Saturday, February 10, 2024

Steven Levy asked an interesting question on Bluesky or Threads, can't remember which. Would I feel differently if I knew a work of art that I found inspiring was created by an AI. At first I said no, because what matters in art is how it is received, not how it was created. What effect did it have on the viewer. That's the art. But then I remembered that when I found out that Wordle was edited by a human, that the words were chosen by a person not at random, I found the game less interesting, because certain words obviously would be eliminated from consideration, even though they are in the dictionary and are used in normal writing and speech. I found myself guessing at who the editor is, and that's not why I play Wordle. I don't know why, but understanding this person isn't it. #
Trump is treated by Big News the way they cover climate change, with a big shrug, what can we do. Meanwhile, they get all twisted up in Her Emails and the like.#
I enjoy blocking "top contributors" on Facebook who respond with sarcasm to requests for help.#
Thinking out loud. #
It would be interesting if every feed for a wordpress.com site included the site_ID of the site an item came from, and if every item had the ID of the item it came from. Shorten the distance from seeing something that needs editing to actually being able to edit it. #
This was one of the big realizations of Edit This Page in 1999. #
A WordPress-aware reader might be able to do something with this. Or if it knew that the user owned the site it came from, it could open it in a simple editor. #
I was thinking through a use-case and came across this idea. #
Isn't it time for there to be a WordPress namespace? After all it's not only a big part of the web, it's also a big part of the feed world. #

Linkblog items for the day.

Vision Pro + Drone. ma.tt
DALL-E3 generates candy hearts. aiweirdness.com
The Apple '1984' Ad Changed the Super Bowl Forever. nytimes.com
Former FBI official: Similarities between Biden and Hillary Clinton reports 'nauseating.' thehill.com
I was feeling all nostalgic about the Niners until I remembered Colin Kaepernick and how awful the NFL is, esp the Niners. wikipedia.org
Hacker News thread for "OPML is underrated." ycombinator.com
OPML is underrated. kmaasrud.com
Automatically Publishing a Blogroll from an OPML File. duncanlock.net
Stinge Watching Is the Opposite of Binge Watching. kottke.org
They gave local news away for free. Virtually nobody wanted it. cjr.org
How Twitter's descent into chaos is paving the way for a new web. techcrunch.com
Trump is a convicted rapist. washingtonpost.com
Not just the White House. Garland is a disaster. politico.com
How does it make sense to give him the same oath again when he violated it in such a craven way last time? scripting.com
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