Scripting News: Tuesday, July 15, 2025
I was going to recommend an episode of The Daily podcast, but when I found the show page on Apple podcasts, it said it was subscribers only. They interviewed the person who runs KFSK, an Alaska public radio station. Very revealing. I listened to it in a standard commercial podcast client. How did it know that I am a NYT subscriber, so I could listen? I heard from a few people who don't subscribe to the NYT, they can't get through. There was a lot of cooperation going on there, and I don't really like listening to episodes that I can't pass on to friends. That's cheap, I also don't read Krugman any longer for the same reason I guess. I'm going to start recommending specific episodes of podcasts, but only ones that everyone can listen to. Not even sure why I want to do that, but it feels right. If the money went to KFSK I would definitely feel better. #
Part of the reason I don't like it is that I pay for the NYT and read very little of it, and most of what I read I think is bullshit. But there still is a bit of credibility in it. So even though I'm over-paying for this, they still want more money. Every fucking time I go to the site they stop me to be sure now isn't the time I'm going to go for the "full package." Even if I did, I'm sure there would be an even bigger package that I could pay more money for and not read like the rest of their bullshit. I hate them more than I usually would because I used to trust them, when I was a kid, I trusted them blindly. Being betrayed like that, ugh. BTW the NYT is my hometown paper, but you know what they don't even cover the Mets and Knicks. Fuck that shit. (Said in the NY fucking dialect of English.)#
I'm going to add a command to WordLand that lets you quickly edit the text of the current post in Markdown. An example of a post I edited with the new command. So if you you can quickly change the URL on a link. Or just see what you got when you pasted some text into the document. It's for tuning up your text. The thing I don't want to do is a full-blown Markdown editor. I want to do that too at some point, or leave the door open for other developers to do it. I'm not trying to own the market for nice editors for WordPress, I just want to open the market. And along the way I'm going to do a bunch of marketing for WordPress that it really needs. I hope Matt and company appreciate this. WordPress needs, imho, a kind of love and support that honestly it hasn't been getting. #I was poking around on an old server, and found a domain that looked interesting, and it was. The first version of Daytona, built around an outliner. I got the impression people didn't like it, so I developed a new one using a more conventional approach, and I love that one too, and I did a better job the second time. But it's interesting to poke around the old one as well, and it still works, which is great to see. In an alternate universe in the year 2025 the whole human species is organized by one big outline that everyone contributes to in peace, love and harmony, as opposed to this one which grunts and snorts on Twitter and can't even put a freaking title on their posts. #
I should do this more often, spelunking around an old server that's just sitting there. I was wondering why my posts to my linkblog feed were going to Mastodon, since I only post them to Bluesky in my new software. I just found out. I have an app running on this server called FeedToMasto, which apparently is watching that feed. It's been chugging away like an abandoned science fiction robot, seeing if I posted anything to my linkblog, and forwarding it to Mastodon if I have. Hello my robot friend, you were forgotten but still appreciated. It's open source, of course, and appears to be well-documented. If you're looking for example code that reads feeds and pushed the result to interesting places, this is for you. #
Linkblog items for the day
Spokane ICE protesters arrested by federal agents. spokesman.com
I Tried Grok's Built-In Anime Companion and It Called Me a Twat. wired.com
An OpenAI developer tells the story. calv.info
Whoopi Goldberg makes a great point. When you talk about "Democrats" it actually means all of us, not just the ones you see on CNN. thehill.com
Stephen A. Smith on starting political career by becoming president: 'Why not?' thehill.com
Veselka is one of the last Ukrainian restaurants in the East Village in NYC. My grandfather used to take us to these places. Reminded him of the old country. veselka.com
The IRS Is Building a Vast System to Share Tax Records With ICE. propublica.org
The tariff-driven inflation that economists feared begins to emerge. apnews.com
The police militarization debate is over. radleybalko.substack.com
The 244 people Trump proposed for his American hero garden. washingtonpost.com
Grok's "MechaHitler" meltdown didn't stop xAI from winning $200M military deal. arstechnica.com
Emmy Nominations. nytimes.com
The NYT has "subscribers only" podcast episodes. I am able to download them in Pocket Casts. How does it know I'm a NYT subscriber? If you are not a subscriber, can you listen to this episode? podcasts.apple.com
They're right, Wikipedia is the internet we were promised. Well put. en.wikipedia.org
We've put up with a lot of political bs from Tesla, but this is over the line. x.com
Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Musk says. This will eliminate what remains of Tesla's rep as an apolitical car company. Only Nazis will buy Teslas. reuters.com
If You Like 35 Percent Inflation, Go Ahead, Fire the Fed Chair. nytimes.com
Tesla how dare you install Grok on my car without permission. techradar.com
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