Scripting News: Sunday, March 23, 2025

Sunday, March 23, 2025
WordLand 0.51 is out, with support for featured images and excerpts, and a better designed home page for the app, before you sign in. #
I've been putting Markdown support in my feeds -- everywhere -- on both sides, yielding serendipity like this. This is how "it just works" comes about. With a good design and a lot of love. #

Linkblog items for the day.

Americans Are Buying an Escape Plan. theatlantic.com
The Lutnick wedding announcement in 1994. nytimes.com
Has anyone verified with Howard Lutnick's mother in law? I'm not entirely sure I believe him, btw. google.com
Recreating the "Severance Effect" with motion control. youtube.com
Benjamin Franklin: "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." wikipedia.org
His wonderful mother in law knows who to call to get her a few mill to tide her over to next month. No big deal. youtube.com
Small Batch, Big Flavor: Why New Yorkers Are Choosing Silly Nice Weed. stupiddope.com
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced. time.com
Musk's X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest. politico.eu
I trust that invisible hand Darwinian ecosystem builds better networks, because they are real, not contrived. scripting.com
When power went out in our Kansas home, I pondered political disaster. Our only hope is self-rescue. kansasreflector.com
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