Scripting News: Monday, June 10, 2024
Greetings from the Catskills where it's a bright early summer day. #
Podcast: Why the mechanism behind ChatGPT doesn't matter. As usual I ramble all over the place, but hopefully this illuminates and perhaps entertains. 15 minutes.#
The real story of RSS is that in a moment when the NYT had a spirit of adventure, they backed RSS and as a result news adopted a technology that was pioneered by bloggers, not the tech industry. If that partnership had flourished and developed we might now have a good alternative to the tech billionaires. #
And before that a few oddly empowered crazy-ass people at Netscape had an idea that bloggers had the answer, not Google. I don't really know who they were, they communicated through their actions, not via email or the phone. Same kind of thing happened with XML-RPC, except there I knew the people at Microsoft who momentarily bent the corporate rules to make something happen quickly and simply in the market. #
Spoiler: The tech industry eventually had their way. As a friend from Microsoft who is now gone liked to say: too bad so sad. 😄#
Linkblog items for the day.
Introducing Apple's On-Device and Server Foundation Models. apple.com
In a new, secret recording, Alito says he "agrees" that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness. rollingstone.com
2011: Who I am. scripting.com
An Open-Source Tool for Exploring Web Archives Using AI. harvard.edu
Blogs and longevity. jamesg.blog
Netscape and blogging got together with Salon, Wired, Red Herring and Motley Fool, and eventually brought the NYT and NPR on board, and that created a powerful standard supported by the entire publishing industry, that led to social media and podcasting. scripting.com
A unified theory of fucks. aworkinglibrary.com
Unaired footage shows chaos, anger of congressional leaders amid Jan. 6 evacuation. politico.com
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