Scripting News: Sunday, September 22, 2024
Instead of just fact-checking the candidates, and presenting "both sides," how about recording the number of times the candidate threatens specific races, genders, lifestyles, religions and of course individual people. Keep a page where you tally the groups he doesn't threaten with expulsion or worse. That would be very revealing, and in line with the true issue of this election. Time for you all to get in sync with the actual American history that's being made. #
It's around this time of year that I start thinking about my BOTY. I should give out a plaque or a statue or something. Someday! Anyway almost immediately I had my answer. The announcement will wait till December of course, sometimes early January. #
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. #
To my programmer friends, how long would it have taken to answer this question using Google and StackExchange. There was a bug in this one line of code, a call to new Date () in JavaScript, that was behaving as if months were not 0-based, which they are known to be. The problem: I was specifying the day as 0 and month, correctly, but the day had to be 1 in order for it to work and without thinking I had specified it as 0. #
Linkblog items for the day.
NC governor candidate Mark Robinson campaign staff resigns. newsobserver.com
Dear NYT how about recording the number of times each candidate openly threatens specific races, genders, lifestyles, religions and of course individual people. Keep a page where you tally. Point to it frequently (we will). politico.com
More Than 700 Current and Former National Security Officials Back Harris. nytimes.com
Mets owner Steve Cohen unveils renderings of Citi Field casino and park proposal in Queens. amny.com
Open question: What are the basic capabilities of a [Bluesky's PDS] explained in terms that would be understood by a person who has run web servers and worked with RSS and OPML. bsky.app
Throwing a wrench into the already broken wheels of our medical system is the crime. They should go to prison for doing this, the six Supreme Court justices and other Republican assholes who stick their noses where they don't belong. scripting.com
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