Scripting News: Thursday, April 17, 2025
Watching debates on CNN it's amazing how many arguments would be settled by saying "It's nice you feel that way, but that's not what the Constitution says."#
I like that Powell is telling Trump he won't go. I wish Obama had had the guts to say that to McConnell when he wouldn't hold hearings on Garland. "Well if you won't take a vote, we'll take that as consent," says the President. "And you can quote me on that." In a televised event Obama himself would walk Garland over to his office at the Supreme Court and administer the oath and let him take his seat. I don't know about you but I would have felt great about America then. We're finished being such pussycats. #
This piece echoes what I've been saying. Twitter was a fine start, in 2006, but today it's clear a lot of its rules and limits were mistakes. 19 years later it's ridiculous that Bluesky and Mastodon repeat those mistakes. I love the term he uses, the "shape" of Twitter. Each decision we make in developing our means of discourse shapes the discourse. And with the character limit and the inability to edit, and the incentives are all wrong (I can tap into your follower flow without your permision just by posting a reply) it makes almost all twitter-like discourse spam or abusive. I'm planning a different structure for discourse in the world shaped by WordLand. A reply will only be visible to the person who you're replying to. If they want others to see it, they can make it public. It's their choice. So you probably should be respectful if you're looking for a flow boost. You can turn off all discourse if you want, giving the ability to finish a thought. We've learned so much about this in the 19 years since Twitter started. It's time to break out of the limits. BTW, that's what my textcasting doc was all about. #Linkblog items for the day.
JD Vance to UK: Repeal LGBTQ hate speech laws for trade deal. advocate.com
'The federal government will find you': Immigration officials wrongfully told a Fox Valley man to leave the US. wpr.org
GOP Sen. Murkowski on Trump's sweeping changes: 'We are all afraid.' washingtonpost.com
Bessent urges caution as Trump rages against Powell. Firing Powell would be the end of the dollar. Everyone would dump dollars as fast as they can. And just talking about it might be enough. politico.com
Wesleyan president says Trump is not protecting Jewish students. npr.org
Trump Needs Someone to Blame. theatlantic.com
American doctor receives email from immigration officials telling her to leave the country immediately. nbcnews.com
Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers. 1. I'd like to submit my blog archive in the same way. 2. Does Wikipedia think it owns the data it hosts, even though it's all created by unpaid volunteers? theverge.com
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