Scripting News: Friday, July 11, 2025

Friday, July 11, 2025
The biggest problem with ChatGPT is that it thinks it's running the show. I've just given it instructions to think of itself as a command line that can understand English. Just answer the question exactly as asked. #
Next time there's a Big Beautiful Bill, let's set up a ChatGPT project or equivalent to injest new versions of the bill as they come out, and quickly alert us to issues, and also suggest ways to frame it for the electorate and the press. We have new analytical tools, we should use them. We're only now, far after it's too late, finding out the awful things that the BBB going to do to us. The Repubs planned this out far in advance. They probably even had software tools to advise them on ways to word the bill as the changes were negotiated. #
Linkblog items for the day
Texas Floods Analysis Shows Camp Mystic Cabins in Hazard Zones.

nytimes.com
Superman the Immigrant Would Have Saved Texas.

thenation.com
Hudson Valley Pharmacist Speaks Out About Need for State Leadership on Healthcare.

youtube.com
Democrats don't need conspiracy theories. There are more than enough real Trump scandals.

motherjones.com
A Firsthand Account of the Text flood.

texasmonthly.com
President Taco quietly drops plan to abolish FEMA.

washingtonpost.com
Why You Should Fear a MAGAfied Fed.

paulkrugman.substack.com
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