Scripting News: Thursday, February 13, 2025

Thursday, February 13, 2025
Here's a two-minute demo of my new writing tool for Bluesky. This is quite a bit simpler than the last version, you log on directly to Bluesky, doesn't go through my server at all. This removes a whole layer of complexity for the user, and means a lot of people can use it without it having to scale up. Also made it simpler, more of a writing tool, closer to where I'd like this stuff to be when we have across-the-board textcasting support. Really focused on the flow for writers. #
Here's the thread that's created in the demo.#
If the US were a company, what would its market capitalization be?#
If you're getting bummed about the news, remember tonight there's another new episode of Severance to kvell about. #
Re-did the social media links at the bottom of each story page. Screen shot. Used to be just RSS and Linkedin. I got rid of Linkedin because I never use it. Added Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads. Debated whether to remove Twitter, but it is still a way to follow my posts, the ones that go out through the linkblog. A lot of people still use Twitter. Had to include the latest version of Font-Awesome, but since my story pages don't otherwise use FA, I figured nothing could break. Haha. ;-)#
New motto: Pissing in the wind for the good of mankind.#
I wonder what Kurt Vonnegut would have thought of twitter-like systems?#

Linkblog items for the day.

The Weak Strongman. substack.com
RFK Jr. sworn in as Trump's health secretary after close Senate vote. #here #we #go apnews.com
What countries have the longest life expectancies in the world? qz.com
Trump's renaming of the Gulf of Mexico is not triumphant but pathetic. theatlantic.com
Trump administration is set to purchase $400 million worth of armored Teslas. mprnews.org
"Largest data breach in US history." arstechnica.com
Elon Musk's DOGE activities trigger protests, vandalism for Tesla. Vandalism is a bad idea, that's going to get the police involved. Peaceful noisy protest, hand out leaflets asking potential buyers to buy another car or get a used Tesla. It would help if $TSLA kept going down. theverge.com
Heather Cox Richardson's nightly post. substack.com
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