Scripting News: Monday, September 23, 2024
This is what it looks like when UPS loses a package. It's a case for the new Pixel 9 Pro. It shipped 17 days go. It was hell to just tell Google that the case was lost. I expected at that point they'd apologize and refund the money. That was a week ago. Just got an email saying want me to return the case when it arrives. It's never going to arrive. Luckily this is a cheap product, just $38. If it had happened with the $1300 phone, that would be a pretty big problem. It's amazing that a company the size and age of Google doesn't have a procedure for dealing with products that are lost (or more likely stolen) in transit. I've been through this with Amazon, they knew what to do, because UPS does lose packages, esp ones that look like they have phones in them. Anyway I have a fairly large credit with Google. I don't dare use it to purchase anything else, given how incompetent they are at dealing with fairly common customer problems. #I wish my father had lived to use ChatGPT. He would have been so thrilled. My uncle would have lost his shit. #
BTW, to be clear, I have no interest in working on twitter-like systems.#
It's been like a prison to writers, we're stuck with this huge divide, with crap on both sides. #
These things exist, they have a jumble of APIs and ways to integrate. #
And we've been playing by the rules laid down by Twitter (ev, biz and jack) for 18 freaking years. That's enough. #
This will never get sorted out until people realize it needs sorting out.#
Not expecting much more to happen there. #
Linkblog items for the day.
Trump says Americans who criticize the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade should be imprisoned. threads.net
Georgia Governor Yanks Endorsement of Mark Robinson. politicalwire.com
Profile of the NYT Pitchbot twitter account. cjr.org
What a "critical section" is. wikipedia.org
Social networks are condemned when they carry lies from race-hate, misogyny and worse, but the major news orgs do it all the time. It's ridiculous that there are two standards. google.com
A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform. bearblog.dev
Putin Is Hunting Down Ordinary People All Over the World. nytimes.com
Why Is It Silly to Think It's the Media's Job to Inform the Public? cepr.net
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