Scripting News: Thursday, January 9, 2025

Thursday, January 9, 2025
If you read this blog, I hope you'll take the time to listen to yesterday's podcast. It's all about WordPress, a product that you won't read much about on this blog, going back through the archive. I wasn't paying attention until 2023 when I began to see what an amazing product it is, not just for 2004 when it came out, but in 2024. My theory is that it's the basis for an incredible social web platform, much better than Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky and of course Twitter. That's what I'm talking about for 1/2 hour in this podcast. If you give me that much time, I'll change the way you see the world, or at least the way you see me. I think I'm right about this, with another layer on top of the WordPress foundation, it becomes newly relevant, and very timely, in ways that as far as I know, no one has been pushing it. I think for example that Ghost and Substack should be built on top of WordPress. The fact that they aren't gives a clue as to how portable your work is there, and how little choice you get in writing tools. Anyway, please make the time to listen. This is pivotal, and I don't think I'll ever be able to spell it out in writing, it's pure storytelling. Thanks!#
I started a thread for questions and comments re the podcast.#
Dear president Biden#
We demand that the Department of Justice to release all the special counsel reports behind the indictments of former president Trump. #
Now, before the next government gets to do what Barr did to the Mueller Report, or worse? #
We have a right to see what led to the indictments.#
Now is the time to speak up, for once, it really matters. #
Let's make the earth shake for the Biden and Garland. #
It's time for one last chance to not be a scared Democrat. #
Speaking up is often a pointless exercise on the net, but this is one of those times when it could really make a difference. #

Linkblog items for the day.

Employees Protest Zuckerberg's Anti LGBTQ Changes. 404media.co
As a regular NYT reader (then) and a huge fan of Donald McNeil's lifesaving courageous reporting on Covid starting in 2020, when it was raging out of control, the NYT was dead wrong in the way they treated him, and his fans, who never are mentioned anywhere, as if McNeil's reporting never existed. medium.com
Another oldie but goody: Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys. youtube.com
Google donates $1M to Trump's inauguration. It's a new tax. A tariff. Royalties. techmeme.com
Dear president Biden: We have a right to see what led to Trump's indictments. Do it for Jimmy Carter. Do it for American democracy. Release the special counsel reports, now, before it's too late. scripting.com
Today's song: Cold, Cold, Cold. youtube.com
Elon Musk's rage-fests on X make it clear that he wants to be an entertainer. theguardian.com
How Trump's Greenland Plan Could Hit Ozempic, Legos and Hearing Aids. nytimes.com
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