Scripting News: Saturday, February 22, 2025

Saturday, February 22, 2025
WordLand opened yesterday for everyone to use. There was a deal-stopping bug reported last night, fixed provisionally, then for real this morning. Prevented new users from getting started. Really embarassing. If you have trouble, please report. There's a link for Support in the main menu. WordLand is designed to be the kind of editor you use in a social app like Bluesky or Mastodon, but with most of the features of textcasting. #
WordLand is where we start to boot up a simple social net using only RSS as the protocol connecting users. Rather than wait for ActivityPub and AT Proto to get their acts together. I think we can do it with feeds and start off with immediate interop without the complexity of federation. I call it the feediverse. It's not a joke, although it may incite a smile and a giggle. And that's ok.#
Jay Rosen started a list of journalism sources on Bluesky. John Spurlock wrote an app that generates an OPML subscription list using Bluesky's API. It will enable us to recreate a world that Jay put together, outside of Bluesky. From AT Proto to OPML and RSS. #
We aren't prepared for what's coming.#
We should be declaring independence from both political parties. We have to get together with other citizens whose lives are going to be torn apart by what's happening, and the Dems are not at this time representing us. This is our government that is being overthrown. #

Linkblog items for the day.

Kash Patel Tells FBI Employees To Ignore Elon Musk's Justify-Your-Job Edict. thedailybeast.com
Why "move fast and break things" doesn't work for government. wethebuilders.org
Here's a good story for one of fierce courageous reporters at the NY Times. Who should be more scared of what's coming? Blacks or Jews? scripting.com
Donald Trump was recruited by KGB with codename 'Krasnov', claims ex-Soviet spy. yahoo.com
2023: Watchdog calls for House committee to uninvite Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after his comments are blasted as antisemitic. pbs.org
"We want modern social media and public conversation online to work more like the early days of the web, where anyone could put up a blog or use RSS to subscribe to several blogs." (Honestly this is BS. If you want to be like the web, then BE the web.) johnjohnston.info
The builders website has a blog, unfortunately no RSS feed linked to from its metadata. To help spread their advice and discoveries we need a feed. wethebuilders.org
Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE. theverge.com
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