If Tesla went out of business, would my Model Y stop working

   I’ve never been to TED or SXSW.

   Good morning NBA fans. Today is the official beginning of the post season, and this Knicks fan is one freaking happy camper. Just thought I’d get that outta the way before getting down to business.

   Each form of online discussion has a grain to it. Doc and I used to talk about how something follows the grain of the web. Twitter has its own grain, formed by its character limit, what information is shared ie number of followers in both directions . I made a list of some of the social...

   Anton Zuiker is the first Drummer user with a FeedLand blogroll.

   Followed by Frank McPherson and Gary Thompson.

   How to add a FeedLand blogroll to a Drummer blog. You must have a Drummer blog and a FeedLand account. You can specify that all the feeds you’re subscribed to are in your blogroll or use a category and only feeds in that category will be in the blogroll. The blogroll updates automatically, when...

   Next up, let’s connect Drummer blogging to FeedLand blogrolls.

   I want to work with the best developers, I don’t care where they work. It occurred to me watching a Martin Scorcese documentary about the life of George Harrison, how much people in music seek out opportunities to create with other musicians. In technology, it doesn’t happen, we don’t even look at...

   Final Eastern Division standings. Knicks finish second. Best Knicks team in a long time. Ended the season with a five game winning streak.

   I don’t like how betting has invaded sports broadcasting. I don’t like that it breaks the bond among people who root for one team their whole lives, as I have with the Knicks and the Mets. I think of people who love the same teams as I do as family. I like that there are Knicks fans who also like...

   Question: What’s between a tiny little text box and a full blown content management system Answer: A full featured text editor with a social media feel to it without the limits of twitter like systems. That’s what textcasting is for, to identity the essential features. This editor supports them. ...

   My wpidentity package now has storage.

   I just finished Ripley on Netflix, an part miniseries remake of The Talented Mr. Ripley, which I remember, probably incorrectly, as a light hearted story. There was very little to laugh about in this new version, but omg it is such a beautifully presented story. Even if you hated the plot you’d...

   In some ways the look of Ripley resembles Poor Things, another eclectic and lovely to look at presentation.

   I really want to see Civil War. Gets an amazing review in NYT.

   In an email to Doc this morning: The web is such a huge total mess. CSS is a junk pile of reinventing that learned nothing from the ideas it was reinventing. The only reason we put up with this is the freedom we got from it. But that’s been gone for a long time. I have a feeling we’re wasting our...

   A piece I wrote about Doc in entitled Doc Quixote.

   So this ticking time bomb was sitting there all the time the journalists were talking about how Biden is too old to win the election with Trump. Biden was never the issue, the issue was the freaking Supreme freaking Court.

   The Arizona court decision won’t just have an effect on the politics of Arizona. It will have effect on the politics of the entire freaking United freaking states of freaking America.

   I was closing tabs this morning and came across this sweet little test app I did when I was working on tabs. I wish there were a practical use for something like this.

   I have a suggestion for an internet holiday. Call it Freakout Day. Works like this. When you think of a pronouncement you’d like to make, write it in your favorite tiny little text box, but before you send it, add the word freaking between every word in the punchline. Like so The Arizona court...

   Found this in my desk drawer today. Amazing the things you carry with you over the ages. I lived in an apartment building on top of a hill in the middle of a golf course, smack in the heart of Silicon Valley, if it actually had a heart, and that’s debatable. All the Sand Hill Road VCs were on the...

   I’ve been trying to pay my NY State income tax and estimated tax for hours. I finally managed to log in, but that doesn’t help. They have all kinds of links that say click here to pay the thing you want to pay, and that just takes me to a login page where it says someone with that email address...

   Check out my political preamble on Tesla, X and Musk. One more disclaimer: I love my Tesla Model Y. Best car ever. I’ve been driving a Tesla since late , and I still feel privileged to drive the car every time I do. It’s the Macintosh of cars. I don’t generally use FSD, even though I paid for...

   The last tab on news.scripting.com now contains news from the blogroll on scripting.com. Same feeds, different view.

   Far more important than machine consciousness is: . Human consciousness. . Species level consciousness.

   BTW, straight everything Kara Swisher claims to be, the insider with the best view of the industry, they got that wrong. The things that matter happen far away from her conferences and dinners. It’s as if Silicon Valley were Hollywood. To some people it is. But the big changes are never...

   I’m not sure I’d buy a Tesla today because of Musk’s politics which he puts in our face, thus influencing other people to inflict their nightmares on us. I bet in the end Musk will be responsible for a lot of people dying. On the other hand, I love the car, and thus love the people who developed...

   Via ChatGPT, and a prompt written by Brad Pettit: Gritty monochrome photograph, midwestern family, juxtapose common legal vices. Gritty monochrome photograph.

   I don’t think eclipsy is a word.

   Something disturbing about America in . Over a million Americans died of Covid, but they aren’t on our minds. A million more have long Covid, perhaps. This suggests a million Americans could be killed by our government in the name of a conspiracy, and we’d shrug it off like good Germans. We...

   Back in the day, many of the early writing tools were called Word something. WordStar, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect.

   I wrote four posts on micro.blog just before midnight. Probably some of the ideas will appare on Scripting News before too long.

   On Bluesky, Andrew Hickey explains how hard it is for him to focus while construction is going on at his house. I recognize the problem. I had major work done on the roof of my house last summer, and lost focus for a good two months, even though I had rented office space and at times an AirBnb to...

   Somewhat related notes about different kinds of networks, ActivityPub and RSS, various twitter like systems, as the social web spreads out and tries out new ideas. With ActivityPub you know who’s following you and in RSS you don’t. This may sound like a negative until you think about it from the...

   Facebook, years ago: I want to use my own editor and have my writing emanate from there, without me having to copy and paste into various forms on different sites. I’m not a copypaste machine. Technically, it’s an easy problem to solve, and I don’t see how it hurts various tech companies to let...

   I think you can save time by starting over sometimes, and rebuild the complexity, carefully testing at every step. Going back and fixing a poorly tested corner turn, esp one you did a while ago, is a time consuming and frustrating process. You need to have a fully consistent model to evolve. When...

   No no we are not supposed to have earthquakes in NY.

   Yes we’re having an eclipse next week. Earthquakes often find other kinds of energy to feed on, like the one during Game of the Bay Bridge series between the As and Giants in . The Bay Area doesn’t really get baseball. You have to pick sides. You can’t root for both teams. So an earthquake...

   I have lived on the San Andreas and Hayward faults, was in the Valley for the Loma Prieta quake and I have to say this was a real earthquake. It wasn’t very long, but it had a real jolt. Scared the shit out of me. I’m still very sensitive to this kind of disaster.

   Perhaps Twitter will be like Algol, as in there are algol like languages, of which one is Algol itself. There will be a mass of twitter like systems, of which X is one. They really should have tried to keep ownership of the trademark, another one of Musk’s mistakes he’s about to realize he made....

   When I can’t quickly find a good definitive page on Google for a concept, I ask ChatGPT to explain it, and if they got it right, I spawn a new page with their explanation. Just doing my part to tend the commons garden.

   One thing Twitter is good for getting support from your cable ISP. Spectrum’s other ways of providing support are designed to get you to give up without using too much of their employees’ time. On Twitter, they pretty much always stay with it to resolution. And on Twitter, they have real people...

   Today we got Doc’s blogroll working on his WordPress blog. This is the first of our blogrolls on WordPress anywhere. It’s been tricky to get the CSS worked out, but we’re getting there. It’s worth the effort.

   Threads: Maybe The Atlantic or New Yorker could write a detailed article about what the great purges in China and Russia were like. How many millions died. Hitler isn’t the only recent model for an authoritarian government. We should be studying this, you can be sure Trump’s government has and is.

   What does ActivityPub does that RSS doesn’t Off the top of my head, it’s not the ability to syndicate, RSS already does that. I can follow anyone on any server. I think it’s the timeline And the ability to delete posts. Keeping all that in sync is a lot of work, and presumably a lot of traffic ...

   Back in the Valley some of my friends called me El Grandé. Some still do. Dave Jacobs has been playing with ChatGPT art, and sent me this one, and I thought it belonged here. Dave Jacobs calls me El Grandé. PS: You say the El part softly then pause on the G and add a slightly gutteral H before...

   I wonder if people know that news.scripting.com is a simple UI on top of FeedLand. It’s FeedLand, hiding the power so people will feel more comfortable. I’m thinking of pulling back the curtain.

   Twitter is the place old friends who haven’t heard they should find a new home are still posting. There are quite a few of them. Fact. It’s kind of like what Facebook has become. There are a set of people I expect to see there regularly, and that’s why I keep going back. Again, fact.