Scripting News: Sunday, August 31, 2025
There are two quotes that make me laugh in the Think Different piece from last week. One of them is here: "They took paradise and.." At first, if you're roughly my age, you read "They took paradise and..." and recognize it as the beginning of a famous line from Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi. The other is a subtle touch of sarcasm, that I usually try not to indulge in, but let pass through as I edited this piece. See if you can find it. #
Mea culpa: Unfortunately I misquoted Joni, she said "paved" not "took." I'm going to leave the mistake in the piece. #
If you want to get an idea of how well WordPress has been bridged to ActivityPub, check this out. It's time for Mastodon to adopt these features across the board, so when writing in Masto you can use linking, style, titles, 10K character limit. Raise the bar. Let's bring more of the web into social media. Esp linking. #
If I were running Bluesky I'd have a quiet project to make a lite Bluesky server that peers with the mother ship, highly factored, in a Node package, open source of course. Get the snake oil phase behind them, where they're claiming to be decentralized, but aren't.#
I like what Vivaldi says about the web. It makes me want to do more to re-stock the web with interesting, inspiring human ideas. Maybe we could make our blogging software work better with their browser. All for the web, for humanity.#
Everything Trump is doing to steal the next election is proof of why Colorado was right to deny him a place on the 2024 ballot. The Supremes gave him four years to prepare, to learn from his mistakes, now he'll do it from the top seat. It seems certain to work. #
One of life's lessons is if someone does something evil to you, and you decide to let it go, they are sure to do it again and again until you stop letting them do it.#
Short excerpt of the ICE commercial which aired several times on WPIX during yesterday's Mets game. There aren't that many drug trafficker, predatory gang members in the US for ICE to deport. And they completely misrepresent what a sanctuary city is. The commercial is paid for by the taxpayers of the United States. Shameful. #
The great thing about MLB as compared to the NBA is that the teams play a game pretty much every day. And the Mets, my team since 1962, are really exciting right now, after a month of being lost. They have great rookie pitchers who are full of youthful enthusiasm and they kick ass on the mound. They have veterans who understand their job is to lead and they take that responsibility seriously, and they get on base, steal bases, and hit home runs. And they have workaday athletes who get on base when the team needs a hit. And the most expensive player ever in any sport who's finally playing as part of the team and not someone who misses the old team he used to play on. And they still have the most ridiculously dorky mascot, a caricature of a human with a baseball for a head, and his wife who also has a baseball for a head. Where do they come up with these ideas? Doesn't matter it's the M-E-T-S of New York town who we will now step right up to meet, and greet.#
Linkblog items for the day
China's huge navy is expanding at breakneck speed - will it rule the waves? bbc.com
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani hospitalized after crash. reuters.com
Judge blocks flights sending hundreds of children to Guatemala. politico.com
On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance. thenation.com
Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military. thebulwark.com
Why N.Y. Legal Weed Might Not Be as Safe, or as Strong, as Advertised. nytimes.com
RFK Jr. DNR'd the US Healthcare System. emptywheel.net
Jeremy Lin announces retirement, more than a decade after 'Linsanity' captivated the NBA. sports.yahoo.com
A zoomable archive of Byte Magazine. An amazing historic record. Searchable. Every page shown exactly as it was in the printed magazine. byte.tsundoku.io
It's time for Masto to officially support more of the web. Unofficially it already does! Marketing. Raise the bar. Show why Masto is so much better than the competition. Let's go. mastodon.social
Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human. vivaldi.com
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