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Scripting News: Monday, November 25, 2024

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Monday, November 25, 2024 In January 2017 , I scooped everyone, by years, on the idea that a billionaire could buy Twitter and thus purchase the presidency. That value wasn't priced into TWTR stock. No one listened. Here's the next installment. The US government acquires Twitter. Elon Musk is of course named Secretary of Twitter. The "constitution" reconceived for online twitter-like systems, says every other online system has to go through twitter.com to reach users. It will act as their gateway to the net. There will be resistance, but by that time there will be no actually independent twitter-like systems, they will all be owned by venture capital funds, or individual billionaires, and of course they will conform because they are also owned to a large degree by Musk. We will have been cartelized, which is one step beyond enshitified . # It's important that Bluesky increase its character limit to 500 because they are not alone. Today there a...

Weekly Vue News #173 - Nuxt Nation Recap

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Weekly Vue News #173 Nuxt Nation Recap View online Hi 👋 I launched a public WhatsApp channel ! If you join, you'll get a message whenever a new newsletter issue is published. In this issue, I'm sharing a quick recap of Nuxt Nation 2024, including the talks I enjoyed the most. Hope you find it inspiring! Enjoy this issue and have a lovely week ☀️ Vue ...

🔥 (Black Friday) Get my courses and books at a great price

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Hey! It's Black Friday, so it's time for some steep discounts. Use the code BLACKFRIDAY on any of my products to get 50% off. I never give a discount this good, so I'm only doing this for the next three days, ending Wednesday at midnight EDT. There's also a deal going on for Mastering Nuxt 3 right now. Here's a quick overview of what you can pick up: ​ ​ Clean Components Toolkit Are your Vue components getting messy and hard to maintain? Struggling with when to split c...

Scripting News: Sunday, November 24, 2024

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Sunday, November 24, 2024 Imagine if the Democratic Party ran a Bluesky clone where being able to post means you're a dues-paying member of the party. We can vote on referendums, support or not support Democratic initiatives. Site would never shut down, and would support campaigns when they're running. It would cost money to belong to the site. This would keep trolling under control, and would fund projects the community would sponsor, and also pay for operating the service. No advertising, no billionaires sponsoring. They can be members like everyone else. # If such a network existed, we would be nominating our own Cabinet members, the shadow Cabinet. Let the journalists compare the qualifications of our candidates vs the incumbent party's. Create news. That's what the Dems absolutely suck at. They very quietly pass legislation that the other party (which votes against) takes credit for. One party is on the air, the other is not. We need to change that...

Scripting News: Saturday, November 23, 2024

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Saturday, November 23, 2024 Billionaire-proof, day2 # Given that the conversation has rightly turned to billionaire-proofness of Bluesky, if they allow devs to build on Bluesky with RSS in and out, that's enough to alleviate the concern about it being billionaire-proof. They already support outbound RSS. Now just let us get into the system with just RSS. Yes, I know it's a "third party opportunity" but something like this, to have the required value, has to be a fully supported and maintained feature of the platform. # Let's do this right, and we can spread this into Masto-Land and Threads-Land and then we can thank Elon Musk for helping us not just bridge these systems, but make them all part of the same freaking system. # We can do this. # Linkblog items for the day. Three Ways to Become a Deeper Thinker. theatlantic.com Why is joining Bluesky like buying an EV? naughtons.org 2016: Don't fee...

What do Latin Americans say about cooperation with China?

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What do Latin Americans say about cooperation with China? China-Latin America cooperation has recently been in the global spotlight with the opening of Chancay Port in Peru and the elevation of China-Brazil ties. This week, we offer you four exclusive CGTN videos: get a closer look at how China's development in green energy has impressed Latin American students, find out why they hope for more cooperation between China and their countries, and discover an unlikely story about Chinese and Brazilian kids playing football together. 2024-11-23 14:57:17 View in browser Chilean youth hoping for energy cooperation...

Scripting News: Friday, November 22, 2024

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Friday, November 22, 2024 I started a feature list on the About WordLand page. # Billionaire-proof? # I just realized that there's another kind of enshitification that we're experiencing now because the twitter-verse has split into so many forks. Bluesky is hot now, but this isn't over yet. # Developers are deliberately locking their users in by creating new APIs that are not only incompatible with previously existing APIs, but also are difficult for developers who learned earlier APIs to adopt because now they have all kinds of replicated code for different systems. It adds another level of complexity to the developer's code. # What each platform vendor wants is not only captive users, but also locked-in developers. Why do you think they all have new languages? Come on is Swift really better than Go or React or whatever. Groups of Mac developers constantly spinning their wheels to keep up with Apple breaking releases. Groups of Ja...