Scripting News: Sunday, January 21, 2024
Sunday, January 21, 2024 Podcast : ActivityPub is a typical tech industry mess. 12 minutes. # I realize that most of the people who read this blog aren't sports fans, something that I wish were different, because sports, like HBO series, give us a way to talk about complex human relationships in the 21st century that we don't get any other way to imho. If we all watch Succession , for example, then we know how to talk about the relationship between Shiv and her wimpy husband whose name I now have trouble remembering (later: Tom ). (No spoilers as to why he's significant, and won the Emmy for best supporting dramatic performance.) We all know the scene where they both nailed it. For anyone who has ever loved someone yet had to say goodbye anyway, it reached into your heart, and gave you a way to say to your friends -- there! -- that's what I was talking about. Same thing in sports, esp basketball, where you get to know a team a few players at a time,...