Scripting News: Thursday, January 23, 2025
The W3C should've gotten behind RSS long before they endorsed ActivityPub. They're controlled by big companies who are truly scared of interop, explains why most of their proposed standards go nowhere. BTW, I figure if Matt can openly discuss what's undermining WordPress as an open standard (which it is) no reason I can't tell the truth why the social web is not even a web. It's all a big corporate con. Everywhere you look, ripping us off and selling us out. #
To answer Mark Cuban's question of what could we do now to make things better. I forgot that I have two ready-made answers. First, let's get the Democrats or whatever its successor is called, on the air 365 days a year, every year, not just in election years, and have it do many things other than raise money to buy ads. We need to always be communicating with each other not just in season. You could see we had a problem when Obama's campaign website, which should have become whitehouse.gov was turned into a stupid feature of the site where people could petition their government. It said to voters, thanks we'll take it from here. We all saw that as putting us in our place. We must be invoved in governing, not just electing. Second, for podcasts and what's left of journalism, it should all move out out of the northeast and into the country. The hosts should be in St Louis, Dallas, Detroit, Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix even Memphis, Miami and Charleston. That would change the focus not only symbolically, but they could insist that guests go there to be interviewed. Change the meaning of flyover country. People would feel different about the country and that would come through. Democrats tend to cater their ideas to people in the Northeast. This part of what Repubs say is very true. They do the same thing, only worse, but they are smart about pretending they don't. Third, amplify AOC. She's the leader we need. The Dems are too scared of Republican criticism. Stop worrying so much. If they're complaining that means it's working. Her interview on Jon Stewart's podcast this week is wonderful.#Linkblog items for the day.
'It was carnage. It was chaos,' Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards says of Jan. 6 attack. pbs.org
January 31, the Democratic National Committee is meeting in National Harbor, Maryland to select a new party chair and chart their path out of last year's catastrophe. actionnetwork.org
Substack is spending $20 million to court TikTokers. theverge.com
I wish we, as an industry, had something better to offer than Substack. substack.com
The social web is not even a web. scripting.com
Trump Was Prepared This Time. politicalwire.com
Here are some sexy replacements for a Tesla Model Y. caranddriver.com
The Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is a Big Test for the Constitution. theatlantic.com
A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump's Birthright Citizenship Executive Order by the great Elie Mystal. thenation.com
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