Scripting News: Sunday, March 2, 2025
If I understand correctly, this TechCrunch article is misleading the same way the Bluesky company misleads. There is no benefit to users of either app that they use the same complicated and new structure to communicate, where simpler and established standards would work just as well. There is a way they could make this work. Come up with a plugin architecture and something like an app store, so developers could define new data types, and then we'd really have something. I would probably do an outliner plugin first, then a Markdown plugin.#Pamela Short: The best revenge is none. Heal yourself, forgive, move on and don't become like those who hurt you.#
There's a pragmatic reason for this. I found, when I was young and didn't know better, that getting revenge didn't just hurt the target, it also left me with a deep pain. When I did something to another person I was also doing it to myself. I found that the dark cloud of my harmful behavior would stay with me for a long time, maybe never going away. I would find it hard to forgive myself for what I did. So it's better to not try to get revenge, and let the pain of being hurt dissipate on its own.#
I have a story to go with that. In the beginning of RSS, I had a partner and customer ask me at lunch if there were any circumstances when I would take the server we ran for them off the air. I said that's a weird question, but of course not. The very next day, his team announced they were taking over RSS, completely changing it, and the first I heard of it was in the public announcement. Later that same day, my brain boiling over in anger at being treated so poorly, I did eventually land on the idea of just taking his server offline. And then I laughed that he knew I'd get to that, and wanted to plant a little marker there for whatever reason, I don't know. But no I didn't take his server off the air. He may be a bastard, but he did pay for the service so his server stays up. And two years later, his project a failure, I came out with RSS 2.0 and that was the end of that. It wasn't revenge, it was just picking up the ball in the playground and restarting the game that they had caused to stop. We went on and RSS did a lot of good work.#
Linkblog items for the day.
"Democrats have been playing dead for too many years," Sanders said. politico.com
Rubio Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4 Billion in Arms. nytimes.com
DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones. npr.org
Chris Lydon interview with Senator Angus King (I-Maine): "The most direct assault on the Constitution in our history." substack.com
"The White House has become an arm of the Kremlin. Every single day you hear from the National Security Advisor, from the President of the United States, from his entire national security team, Kremlin talking points." politicalwire.com
18F: We are dedicated to the American public and we're not done yet. Quite a message. Our kind of American. Let's fix this. Good idea. 18f.org
An idea for our answer to MAGA: "One America Together."
Purple baseball caps. Ideally worn by everyone at the SOTU address, and chanted for every applause line.
Kind of the way Knicks fans say Doooooce when Deuce McBride gets a score.
scripting.comIf I understand correctly, this TechCrunch article is misleading the same way the Bluesky company misleads. There is no benefit to users of either app that they use the same complicated and new structure to communicate, where simpler and more established standards would work just as well. techcrunch.com
Elon Musk's quest for power has a new target: Wisconsin's Supreme Court. theguardian.com
Anti-DEI push ends effort to plant trees in places that need them. apnews.com
All or Nothing review: Michael Wolff details Trump's bilious re-election campaign. theguardian.com
Loss to 76ers provides graphic proof why Warriors paid Butler. yahoo.com
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