Scripting News: Saturday, November 16, 2024

Saturday, November 16, 2024
Excellent piece on how Bluesky leaves users with the impression that it's open and decentralized in ways it is not. If it's bought by someone who wants to use it the way Musk has, they can, without any recourse by the users. As they said in the old days, if you're getting something for free, you're the product, not the customer. We helped Musk build a way to excercise political power against our interests. You may think Bluesky is a way of fixing that, but it probably isn't. They're digging a deep hole, probably too deep to climb out of at this point. They did some innovative stuff, perhaps. But they ended up at the same place, it appears, as Twitter did. #

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Inbound RSS for Bluesky would provide a lot of decentralization and interop for very little development investment and would ease concerns about what happens if they are acquired by a Musk-alike. bsky.app
Thomas E. Kurtz, co-creator of BASIC programming language, dies at 96. nytimes.com
I am @scripting.com on Bluesky. bsky.app
Alex Carter: Bluesky is Twitter 2.0. medium.com
The boys in our liberal school are different now that Trump has won. theguardian.com
Maybe Bluesky has "won." anderegg.ca
John Fetterman says Democrats need to stop 'freaking out' over everything Trump does. nbcnews.com
How Jon Stewart Stays Hopeful In Uncertain Times. youtube.com
Neo Meets The Oracle. youtube.com
Why are the Oakland A's playing in a minor league park in Sacramento next year? Does not compute. theguardian.com
What The Fuck Is A "Vaccine Skeptic"? #goodquestion defector.com
I'd love to help a podcast client developer create the equivalent of Starter Packs. They would quickly become a standard. Influencers will love them. I have a list ready to go. Email me. bsky.social
Carl Sagan explains why it's worth preserving our web writing. It would be great for one of the social web ventures to take an interest, so people of the future can understand how our generation destroyed the civilization our ancestors built and fought for. threads.net
"At 78, Trump is not exactly the face of the party's future." substack.com
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