Scripting News: Thursday, January 16, 2025
Before declaring democracy over, as our major news orgs and tech companies seem to have, remember there are still 50 states, most of whom still seem to accept that votes must be counted, and the winner is who gets the most, not the one who sends in a mob to trash the state Capitol.#Now that I have a search engine for my blog, I can reliably look for all instances of Wordle Kitty which was a character I was playing around with last year with ChatGPT. It even comes out in reverse chronologic order, and it's better than Google which ignores a lot of my blog these days. My own search engine doesn't do that of course.#
When I buy a domain speculatively, I usually put up some kind of placeholder page with a title, picture and tagline. Like feediverse.org. I pushed a link to it yesterday, and got back this possibly snarky response, but still thought provoking. Why isn't there a feed for the feediverse.org page. Good point! So if you were to put a feed on the home page of the open feediverse, what it be? A feed of posts to the Little Feed Reader account on Bluesky. I think that might be it. We can celebrate the day when that feed is mirrored on Bluesky (Inbound RSS ftw!) and we can shut down the stupid app that does the bridging. We had a standard long before Bluesky came along, isn't it wrong for them to try to force everyone to use their reinvention? It doesn't say anything good about the people who made that choice, among interop-minded developers. It kind of violates our ethos imho.#My advice for today.#
Tell someone they're right.#
With gusto!#
Like this.#
You're not just right, you're fucking right!#
Linkblog items for the day.
Trump Picks Elon Musk Pal to Go Get Greenland. politicalwire.com
"I knew one day I'd have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn't expect them to be such losers." theguardian.com
Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky's AT Protocol. techcrunch.com
A Conversation With Longtime UWS Absolute Bagels Manager: 'I'm Heartbroken'. westsiderag.com
Matt Mullenweg has kind words for XML-RPC. Much appreciated. x.com
A group of House Democrats want Attorney General Merrick Garland to release special counsel Jack Smith's report on President-elect Trump's classified documents case — even if it means dismissing charges against his former co-defendants. axios.com
Tech billionaires expose MAGA's "populism" con job. salon.com
Tesla is throttling down Cybertruck production as it shifts workers to Model Y production because inventory of the electric pickup truck is piling up. electrek.co
2016: The Central Park of the web. scripting.com
Obviously there should be a feed on the feediverse placeholder page. What should we put there? What an oversight. Kind of embarrassing. :-) feediverse.org
Planning for a social web outage. mastodon.social
Apparently, Philippe Beaudoin is the lead developer on the $30 million effort to implement AT Proto as an alternative service to Bluesky. google.com
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is on Monday. wikipedia.org
Severance cast, Ben Stiller take over Grand Central with Season 2 pop-up. nypost.com
2021: Facebook is at least eight things. scripting.com
Zelenskyy warns Europe: You guys are doomed without us. politico.eu
Daytona is the search engine for Scripting News. scripting.com
It seems everyone knows what to do, now we just have to do it. manuelmoreale.com
It's feeds all the way down. feediverse.org
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