Scripting News: Sunday, February 9, 2025
I'm still fixing bugs in the new Bluesky feature I wrote about yesterday. If the URL of an image has search args, I wasn't getting the type correct and Bluesky rejected it. I used a post about Aaron Swartz's statue unveiled in San Francisco yesterday to test the fix. I knew Aaron of course, he was part of the group developing RSS in the early 00s. He went on to do other things, as did I, and I met up with him again in NYC in the early teens, and then a few months or a year or two (I don't have the exact date of the meetup) he commited suicide. It was a real shock. Now, many years later -- a statue. And the random snarky slogan my test script picked out was really appropriate to the event. It was a tragedy, because an older more confident Aaron would have made a big contribution. I often think about that. #I subscribed to Wired because of their famous coverage of the Musk Coup, so I also added its feed to my blogroll so I could see what I bought, and was actually not surprised that they've been hit by the same disease all online publishing has, the need to bait the clicks, and of course not very much of it is hard-hitting. #
BTW, being in my blogroll means that your posts have a chance of being included in my Little Feed Reader on Bluesky. #
Linkblog items for the day.
Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK. arstechnica.com
Locals protest Musk, DOGE outside of Tesla dealership. ksby.com
Trump To New York: Drop Dead. substack.com
I now have turned Bluesky into a feed reader. This is new. Pretty sure it wasn't ever done on Twitter either. Here's the first one. It might be fun if this post turned up over there. It could (that part is somewhat random). bsky.app
Picking the Perfect Episode of TV. theatlantic.com
I subscribed to Wired yesterday. Their coverage of the Musk coup is unparalleled, and I am a Wired alum, having written for them in the early days of the web. It was only $10 for a year. wired.com
Recommend listening to the segment of this week's On The Media about what's going on at the DoJ. I know you don't need more to be depressed about, but something big is changing there, and you should know. Begins at 12:51. apple.com
Do you take me for a fool? Do you think that I don't see That ditch out on Gitmo that they're digging just for me? youtube.com
Trump's Effort to End Basic Medical Research in the United States. talkingpointsmemo.com
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