Jim Ray responded to my Saturday post about AT Proto. Thanks for that, most of the time I write about this stuff people involved don't respond. I thin...

Where is our Churchill?

I'm interested in the movie Darkest Hour. Specifically the scene where Churchill is surprised by a visit from the king, who we learned earlier is piss...

Snow and dreaded politics

Good morning. I am wiped out from the storm that just went through. Did a bunch of shoveling this morning, still have more to do. About two feet of sn...

They should host games on ChatGPT....

They couldn't have chosen a more ideal liberal state to own. I don't think any of this is an accident. Next time they will kill two, American citizens...

Michelle Obama was wrong when she said "when they go low we go high." Sometimes the truth is pretty damn low....

BigCo companies and countries

Random ramblings with past experience dealing with tech power. As I think about next steps for building out from WordPress to create a network of user...

Best Picture nominees

Nominated for best picture of 2025, ranked by Metacritic rating. One Battle After Another. 95 The Secret Agent. 91 Marty Supreme. 89 Train Dreams. 8...

A new home page for the Scripting News podcast....

My first rule of platforms: "People don't listen to their friends, they listen to their competitors." I thought that rule was pretty new, but it actua...

I've been following Bluesky since inception, even tried developing for it and found it was nothing new with its 300 character limit, no links, titles,...

Just watched Darkest Hour, a biopic of Winston Churchill, as he became prime minister and had to decide whether to surrender or fight Mr Hitler as the...

AI assistants could if they wanted drive all of us crazy in different ways. Advertising squared....

Something ChatGPT is good at. Give it a photo of the Statue of Liberty and ask it to remove the cement platform and change the background to pure whit...

Wouldn't it be something if the leaders of European democracies said if democracy and self-government around the world are to have any hope the Americ...

I hear Canada will be importing EV's from China. Now I'm going to have EV-envy a few hours drive away from home. They make better cars in China, I hea...

Apple's 1984 ad, with the benefit of hindsight, said "a new generation is going to take over now so get ready." We live very much in those times again...

Happy to say the Knicks won last night in convincing 2026 mode after I doubted them in Tuesday's post (perhaps they read my blog?). And after I asked ...

Isn't Greenland the Sudetenland of our time?...

ChatGpt TV ads are great

The ads I like on TV these days are the ChatGPT ads that show you how it makes your life better. In the first ad two college age people, brother and s...