Scripting News: Wednesday, September 4, 2024
I'm watching the HBO series The Newsroom from 2012, it's an Aaron Sorkin show. It's fairly insipid, but for some reason I keep watching. They have a multi-episode controversy as they go crazy trying to source a rumor they've heard that the US bombed a town in the Middle East with sarin gas, and killed a lot of people. In other words they committed a war crime. Turns out they were set up by multiple people, and they went through all kinds of angst over who should resign and who should be fired, and how they would ever regain the trust of the viewers. It is a Sorkin thing so it is by definition overdone, but in the context of today's NYT and CNN and all the other schlock "news" that reports Trump's ever-more-egrious lies not only without fact checking, but knowing for sure the lies are coming. That this has happened to American "journalism" is worse than a war crime. It's what everyone told us is an essential part of an authoritarian state, we expect everything in the news to be lies. We have now gotten there. It's good to acknowledge that, imho and stop asking why it is, rather think about what you can do about it. #
Aaron Sorkin is like Ayn Rand. Reviewing his stories after you've grown up makes you wonder why you liked it in the first place. 😄 #
I don't understand using an email to send a code to verify the email address, that you then have to enter into a dialog. Why not just send a URL that the user can click on? What's the design rationale for making the user do the extra steps in remembering the number, switching back to your app, and entering the number by hand, when it could all be done with a single click?#I asked ChatGPT to "colorize" the first picture. The second picture is what it produced. Note I didn't say "editorialize." I don't know what you think but I think it's art! (I'm serious, I'll write more about that. I love that it's making us define art.)#
Linkblog items for the day.
Internet Archive's e-book lending is not fair use, appeals court rules. arstechnica.com
Liz Cheney says she's voting for Kamala Harris. thehill.com
The web's clipboard, and how it stores data of different types. alexharri.com
Has anyone tried SearchGPT? chatgpt.com
What Trump 2.0 Would Mean for Texas. texasobserver.org
The Big Five publishing houses, John Green sue Florida over book bans. cfpublic.org
This is the kind of debate-bomb Trump is getting ready for the debate. threads.net
Why Lyft's CEO says 'it would be insane' not to go all in on bikeshare. techcrunch.com
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