On 5/15/2017 I decided I wanted my old blog back. I was fed up trying to write for all the inconsistent publishing platforms, twitter, facebook, google reader, medium, etc. It worked. Never looked back. Like emerging from a bad dream. Because the web is really good for writers scripting.com
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced theguardian.com
Cautionary tale for Trump. We could see Venezuelan drones flying over American cities if he goes through with his planned unprovoked attack. American voters will learn in a whole new way that it definitely matters who we vote for kyivpost.com
Yesterday I hooked up my feed system to Inoreader via dynamic OPML. The first time I ever made such a connection, now when I subscribe to a new podcast in FeedLand, I’m also automatically subscribed to it in Inoreader. Wish Pocket Casts also hooked up daveverse.org
Firefox, look at the web as your product, and do things that make it easy for independent devs to create products for the web without locking users in mastodon.social
Scripting News: Why humans should have an exclusive on being human scripting.com
Everyone in Seattle Hates AI jonready.com
The Supreme Court’s Shadowy Plan to Subvert Democracy thenation.com
Frustrated GOP moderates join Democrats to force Obamacare extension vote politico.com
If a new CEO of Mozilla took an oath to restore the web to its former greatness, they would find a lot of business models open to them. Instead, they’re trying to be part of the tech industry which places no value on the web being a place for open development blog.kingcons.io
Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994. Now it's asking why bbc.com
Academy Awards to leave ABC for YouTube in 2029 washingtonpost.com
The Man Who Rules the Country Presides Over Nothing nytimes.com
The Knicks can break NBA Cup curse, and accomplish so much more sbnation.com
Please learn how to use your computer niemanlab.org
Takeaways From Susie Wiles’s Vanity Fair Interviews Describing Trump World nytimes.com
Trump’s chief of staff says he believes ‘there’s nothing he can’t do’ as president theguardian.com
Is it too much to hope that Meathead and Archie could be the cultural bridge we need to get Americans to pull together scripting.com
2024: We elected Archie Bunker shownotes.scripting.com
As Michael Stivic in ‘All in the Family,’ Rob Reiner Brought Political Arguments Home nytimes.com
Remembering Rob Reiner talkingpointsmemo.com
America Is an Unserious Country Filled With Unserious People thebulwark.com
Rob Reiner’s son Nick arrested in connection with deaths of his parents theguardian.com
Daveverse has become a serious site, and I'm more reluctant to use it for a test post than I ever have been, but here I am once again doing a test post. I have high hopes for this test. And my sleeves are rolled up, I'm reasonably caffeinated, and ready to rock. Or roll.
Maybe I'll write some stuff here that I will later post to Scripting News, when it will come right back here to daveverse. As they say -- Oh the humanity.
BTW the trailer for Animal Farm was realllly offensive, as if it were a cautionary tale. It looks like a kids show, but it's not, but people will still have their kids watch it, they won't know and "A cautionary tale" kind of says the problem out loud. It's bullshit because we're living Animal Farm right now. So if you want your kid to be aware of reality, the cautionary tale part is a problem.
BTW when I first wrote this, I wrote Animal House not Animal Farm. Very different movies.
Also the Scorcese special is full of information about how movies work, but barely skims the surface. Watching it was like watching the Peter Jackson Beatles story. All of a sudden I get a glimpse of how they do it, how people work with each other. Scorcese formed a kind of Beatles of his own. And there are a lot of his movies I haven't seen.
NakedJen if you read this -- can we find a way to get four great Scorcese movies I haven't seen into the rotation? And btw, when I typed NJ's name in just now, I wrote NakeDen. Too much ChatGPT I expect.
WordLand bug report: if you don't specify a site, when you publish it goes to the last site you posted to which is likely links.daveverse.org links.daveverse.org
Past classic that deserves an electric update: Honda Element electrek.co