Scripting News: Wednesday, February 26, 2025
People give Matt Mullenweg a lot of grief, but do they realize how hopeless the open web would be if he and his friends hadn't kept it going for 20+ years. I wrote the other day that I feel like a time traveler, discovering WordPress 20 years after I left UserLand. I care that it's open source, but I care much more that it's open web esp after we've been so thoroughly dominated by feature-limited silos such as Twitter, Facebook and yes -- even Mastodon and Bluesky. Even if there's a theoretical way to do it, practically speaking we have to wait for their developers to implement the features we want. Open source doesn't help there, but open web does. Matt puts the emphasis on the open source part, that's why it wasn't until very recently that I realized that open web is more important, to me at least. #An email arrived from the Social Security Administration entitled Help Us Slam the Scam. Explains how not to get scammed by people who want our checks. Wonder if they realized it applies equally to Elon Musk, richest man in the world, who wants to eat old people's cupcakes because, well I can't explain it. #
I asked ChatGPT to draw a picture of a death panel as described by Republican lawmakers as they fought the Affordable Care Act. I was surprised it was willing to do it.#
According to the bot: "The concept of 'death panels' was a widely debunked political talking point used by opponents of the Affordable Care Act. It falsely suggested that government-run committees would decide whether individuals—especially the elderly or disabled—would receive life-saving care. #
"I can generate an image depicting a grim, dystopian bureaucratic setting where a group of shadowy officials in suits are sitting at a long, dark table, stamping papers while an elderly patient looks on with concern. The room would have a cold, sterile look, with a looming clock symbolizing bureaucratic power over life and death."#
Linkblog items for the day.
Unvaccinated child dies of measles in west Texas as outbreak worsens. theguardian.com
Heritage Foundation Presentation Details Plans To Doxx And Target Wikipeda Editors It Claims Are 'Abusing Their Position.' techdirt.com
The feeds that are included in the Little Feed Reader on the Bluesky. opml.org
The Little Feed Reader account on Bluesky. Please follow it for an eclectic feed with news and various other topics. bsky.app
Jeff Bezos declares opinions questioning "free markets" no longer welcome at The Washington Post. niemanlab.org
Bitcoin plunges as crypto fans didn't get everything they wanted from Trump. arstechnica.com
Bezos takes control at the Washington Post. I guess he has to with Musk controlling Twitter. I bet Bezos wishes he had built his own twitter. nytimes.com
How Much Elon Musk Pocketed in Government Funding Before DOGE. newrepublic.com
I'm interested in knowing what browsers people who use WordLand are using, so I asked ChatGPT to write some code that makes sense of them in some human-readable way. github.com
Timothy Snyder: The "Fraud" Fraud. substack.com
Musk Wants a Cut of $42 Billion Biden Internet Plan. politicalwire.com
Musk's cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website. theguardian.com
Elon Musk's Toxicity Could Spell Disaster for Tesla. wired.com
This is what the would-be king of the USA hasn't factored into His Holy Calculus. wordpress.com
Heather Cox Richardson's nightly post shows that Congress is still in charge, and tells the story of what the Repubs are trying and failing to do. substack.com
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