Scripting News: Thursday, August 15, 2024

Thursday, August 15, 2024

August 15, 2004: My audio blog post from NYC, from my Podcast0 feed. Had just listened to an Adam Curry podcast and one from the Gillmor Gang. Played a bit of music, described how a podcatcher would work, pretty close to the way they work today. Shortly after the feature would be in Radio UserLand. It was the only episode I did in August 2004. The next one is on September 1 and there are a total of nine shows in September, including the first Trade Secrets which is a podcast Adam and I did together. Here's the archive for this blog in August 2004.#

Let's stay organized after the election. #

I am addicted to buying domains. Latest example. Ideally it would be a news site with all the latest videos from the Land of Kamala aka the United States of America. #

The best journalism is coming from the candidate. I think you could make a pretty good hour-length show on MSNBC with 12 of their posts, five minutes each, one after the other, with a small panel of pundits quickly snarking about what they just saw. Go have a look at the feed and see if you agree. The best thing about it is that the writing is totally blogger-style. #

So what are we doing on Threads and why does Facebook (aka Meta) want to get the best minds of Twitter using their software. I am not a lawyer and I haven't read the user agreement, but that said, I bet it has something to do with building out their AI model so they can compete with OpenAI, Google, Amazon, Apple, etc.#

In today's installment of the Adventures of Wordle Kitty, the world's cutest and most adorable kitten was sentenced to life at Attica. #

Musk is just getting started#

Podcast: 11 minutes.#
I see happy talk all over the place that Twitter is done, Musk is killing it, blah blah blah. #
It's bullshit. In the next few months Twitter is going to morph into the political system that Barack Obama could have and should have built.#
It turns out creating a president of the United States is worth a lot of money. Trump is inept at squeezing the money out of it, he's a loudmouth who proved one thing, Twitter is all you needed in 2016 to get elected president. That's going to change, as competition shows up (Zuckerberg, for example, with Threads). #
They know, even if you don't -- that it can be very profitable to own the presidency. #
If Trump loses, Musk won't get it on this round, but eventually he will own a big piece of the president, and then he will move his deals with SpaceX and Tesla up a notch.#
Listen to the podcast, it's only 11 minutes. You probably haven't considered this angle, but I promise you he's moving, and he's mostly unopposed right now. He's not the nudnick so many people seem to think he is. #

Pundits are idiots, part 2,297,748#

The stupidest thing about all the pundits remarking on Kamala's rise in the polls is they are completely missing the story. #
Here's the headline.#

"Thank god the Trump nightmare is almost over."#

If you want an illustration, it's the flip side of this New Yorker cover.#
Oh sweet Jesus. Please God, no. Anything but that. Come on.#

Mass Deportation Now#

This was promised at the Republican convention in July. #

Last update: Thursday August 15, 2024; 5:50 PM EDT.

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