Scripting News v2: Thursday, May 1, 2025
Has anyone thought to give ChatGPT a Turing test?#
One consistent bit of feedback on the new email format, which appears to be working for just about everyone, is that the text is too small. And while it is a rewrite, for a lot of people it looks exactly the same. That's because of differences in how email clients deal with HTML. #
Phil Donahue interview with Bernie Sanders from 1981, then-mayor of Burlington, VT. He was a novelty then, an American politician who was a socialist. He was asked if capitalism was the normal way for humans to relate, he said no. I wonder if he still agrees, because I think that's the goal, and the reason we're in so much trouble is there really isn't an impulse to work with each other. What I've seen mostly is that when there's work to do, it's hard to find help, but once something has taken off, there isn't much help available either, the people who could make the greatest contribution just want to take over. And they often feel they have, but usually it doesn't work out, it would have been better if we all collaborated. At this point, the hurdle the human race has to get over is working together. We will never get out of the climate crisis without it, or avoid the next pandemic without millions of unnecessarily lost lives. The cynics are winning, basically -- and there isn't net-net much of a will for our species to survive. It's only getting worse. #I turned yesterday's Baseline Playground into a GitHub repo. I never made one of these before and thought it was worth sharing, or just writing about. I'm struggling to find the most readable font, size, line-height. I'm looking at the screen where I do most of my online writing, and I find this very readable, it just fades into the background, to the base of the spine, so intrinsic it occupies none of my conscious mind. Anyway the purpose of the baseline is to give WordLand a target to work out all the glitches in, so the writing experience goes fully end-to-end. I didn't find any WordPress themes that I felt worked really well for this, so we set out to create one. Thanks to Scott Hansen who is using my work to build out a WordPress theme and thanks to Jeremy Herve for helping us work with WordPress, which is more than a CMS, it's a network OS. There's a lot of value in the WordPress platform that has been widely overlooked, imho.#
- Good morning and welcome to May 2025. #
- It's nice to start with a simple almost-empty outline. #
- Archived the OPML for April in the usual place.#
Linkblog items for the day
Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply condemns Trump's attacks on judges. politico.com
NBA playoffs: Jalen Brunson scores 40, leading Knicks to 1st-round series win over Pistons. sports.yahoo.com
GM Cuts Profit Forecast by 20% and Says Auto Tariffs Will Cost It Billions. nytimes.com
Why fired Justice Dept. pardon attorney says Trump pardons cost $1B. washingtonpost.com
Using AI for polish. manton.org
Trump's Legacy Will Be the Countless People Killed by His Policies. thenation.com
Bernie Sanders on the Phil Donahue Show in 1981. youtube.com
Republicans Want A New $250 Tax On Electric Vehicles. cleantechnica.com
New restaurant, wine bar replacing Mud Club in Woodstock. hudsonvalleyone.com
Fight Like Our Democracy Depends on It. nytimes.com
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