Scripting News: Friday, April 11, 2025
The difference between the 2008 crash and now is that we had a functioning government in 2008.When young people come out of university in a technical subject, they think they know more than people already doing the jobs. They quickly learn that in school they were doing "student projects" which are not the real thing. Ooops, maybe we didn't know as much as we thought.#
Why we all have to be working together on creating a modern easily distributed communication system that's truly decentralized. The key is to only implement features that have super-simple implementations, so it will be easy to product new versions quickly in all environments. Which means starting with formats and protocols that are already widely supported. #
This morning ChatGPT told me it knows more about me, and will learn better. Promises promises. I would like to begin with teaching it my coding conventions. Will make it much easier for me to work with it. Their idea of how JavaScript works is disorganized bordering on chaos. I find that human developers always find a reason not to listen to other people, and that has huge problems (like no interop), but machines should do better. It seems to have infinite patience. What I need is to share a bit of space with the bot, so I can keep it up to date on my worknotes. I'm pretty good at it these days. Why not let that be input into the system so I can say -- give me all the notes I have on my Bingeworthy project. Why should I have to copy/paste. This is a big problem in the web, products that pretend to be islands, when they're really all floating on the same sea, the internet. We were supposed to be able to network not only our attention, but also our work.#
Did you know there's a chain of beating hearts going from your heart all the way back to the first animal on earth with a heart.#
Linkblog items for the day.
Netflix is testing a new OpenAI-powered search. theverge.com
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X. wired.com
A Primer on Trade Wars. substack.com
Zuckerberg in the dock. pluralistic.net
More and more I realize that we totally blew it with our social media systems. substack.com
The year is 2052. Drinking water has been rationed globally. 42°C in Paris in the summer is now considered cool. Macron is halfway through his 7th term as President Eternal of France. And tech journalists are still convinced Bluesky is decentralized. mastodon.social
Welcome to our shithole country, brought to you by That Trump Show, season 2. apnews.com
The Third-Worlding of America. substack.com
I wrote this on March 28, published on my test blog for WordLand. We've built too much dependence on unreliable communication systems. "We need Timothy Snyder. We need Heather Cox Richardson, and we also need a plan for how we are going to communicate after democracy is done." wordpress.com
Space Force Commander in Greenland Sent Out Email Breaking with Vance After His Visit. military.com
Stocks Dive Again as Angst Rises Over Trump's Trade War. nytimes.com
How Trump's Forest Service Cuts Could Affect Wildland Firefighting. propublica.org
This Is Why Dictatorships Fail. theatlantic.com
The SAVE Act Would Hurt Americans Who Actively Participate in Elections. brennancenter.org
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