Scripting News: Friday, November 28, 2025
Friday, November 28, 2025 This week's New Yorker Politics podcast is an interview with Jeopardy champion and host Ken Jennings . Great stuff if you, like me, are a longtime Jeopardy fan. We used to watch it in our Flushing kitchen in the 1960s when Art Fleming was host. # ChatGPT aggregates people the same way polls aggregate voters. Ignore individuality, unable to hear new ideas, allowing journalists to write the same horse race stories every year. It would be better if they found a way to report originality, they can set an example for AIs. # There are a bunch of useful demo apps in the reallysimple package , which also is itself fairly useful. I used all these tools in implementing FeedLand and WordLand, so I'm pretty sure they'd be useful to other users and developers. The feeder app , one of the demos , is used to generate the Links page on scripting.com, and provides utilities to the scripting language in Drummer . # Thanksgiving gr...