Dave Winer ☕️

OG blogger, podcaster, developed first apps in many categories. Old enough to know better. It's even worse than it appears.

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2024-08-05 21:54:52

https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/911/639/502/838/662/original/ce0ec43e0ff115ba.png

2024-06-18 21:19:45

What do developers think of the Threads API?
I took a quick look and it's complicated. I'd really like a simple Hello World app in Node.js, so I can get my thread-writing and linkblogging tools hooked up.
Don't have a lot of time for what is pretty sure to be a labor of love, not a business.

2024-06-16 11:38:11

I asked ChatGPT to draw a magazine with RSS on the cover.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/626/094/569/260/747/original/191509ff3ec11605.png

2024-06-16 11:17:52

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@npub164m…fnpk -- it's also for people who were thinking about not voting or voting for a protest candidate.

2024-06-16 10:57:21

This would make a great campaign ad.
So people can remember how lost we were.
So people understand what they are voting for when they go MAGA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zicGxU5MfwE

2024-06-15 08:02:24

Once again, it’s time to wonder if we couldn’t make Trump an offer that he retire to a prison colony on a tropical island with great food and TV and maybe even some drugs and lots of video that he can watch of himself in all his glory, in return for him withdrawing from the presidential race. And we wish him a very goodbye and much luck in his future endeavors. Goodbye uncle Donald see you in the next life maybe not lol.

2024-06-08 20:40:55

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@npub1d8a…tcc0
what evidence do you have to back up that belief?

2024-06-08 20:00:11

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@npub1d8a…tcc0
I have no idea what this means.

2024-06-08 14:12:23

I wonder if reporters know that Wikipedia hallucinates too?? And since they so often consider Wikipedia authoritative, that means reporters and their publications hallucinate as well.

2024-06-07 18:54:24

This would make a fine campaign ad.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/576/853/549/992/123/original/b105952b0d24686b.jpeg

2024-06-07 15:24:44

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@npub1nd8…2zkd
a screen shot might be enough. i'm pretty good at "reading" them. ;-)

2024-06-07 15:24:04

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@npub1nd8…2zkd
i can't read wired unfortunately, not a subscriber.

2024-06-07 15:19:27

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@npub1nd8…2zkd
is this where it's described?
https://benwerd.com/2012/11/02/why-i-wrote-my-own-cms-so-i-could-write-a-novel-in-a-month/

2024-06-07 13:20:49

# An internet for writers
The next step in online social media will be group blogs that support the APIs needed to integrate with not only the Fediverse, but other non-AP services that have their own APIs.
Each one will have a theme, a voice, not all writers in agreement of course, but sharing a similar perspective, context, point of view.

2024-06-06 15:23:20

Mastodon feels more international than the other Twitter-alikes.

2024-06-05 14:58:07

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@npub12gw…t3yu
white boy welfare.
http://scripting.com/davenet/1995/12/24/whiteboywelfare.html#5

2024-06-03 14:50:00

ChatGPT is a vast library that comes with its own librarian.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/553/238/775/432/791/original/f63102eaf2472cd8.png

2024-06-02 21:16:14

I'm looking for stories about how people are using ChatGPT et al.
I will share the good stuff on my linkblog.
http://scripting.com/?tab=links
PS: Not interested in what they're saying about it in journalistm, unless it's about how people are using it.

2024-05-31 17:24:38

Here's a song to get you off your feet and dancing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w05CYrXe4p4&t=50s

2024-05-31 01:57:32

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@npub1v3n…l5t4 -- no -- i think he would appreciate it. also some nice lube.

2024-05-31 01:57:05

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@npub1qe5…8ugl
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/533/217/151/370/011/original/bcd6d1d20ca7de1d.png

2024-05-31 00:07:37

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@npub1qe5…8ugl
Brilliant

2024-05-28 11:33:58

Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc should collaborate on new ways to do software docs and user interaction using AI. It's an incredible application, it will revolutionize how useful computers are to people, and the only people whose writing is ingested are employees of the companies. Not only will it increase consumption, it will demonstrate in a very observable way how transformational the technology is. Probably will do nice things for the value of the stock too.

2024-05-26 13:13:50

The best campaign commercial ever. So simple. A nostalgic song, beautifully performed.
A bunch of stock footage of American workers and families, esp in Vermont, interspersed with video from campaign events.
These things aren't complicated. I bet Bernie and S&G would let Biden use the same format.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nwRiuh1Cug

2024-05-26 12:25:14

@npub1rjz…au29
good luck on your memorial day sale! ;-)

2024-05-25 16:10:14

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@npub19ag…qgye -- i hate that bullshit

2024-05-23 20:24:46

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@npub1c7z…dhqq
we all get infringed on all the time.

2024-05-23 12:58:40

I'm writing about AI and users today, and I wanted a Scarlett Johansson image to go in the right margin and that led me to this product on Amazon.
It's a 1/6 scale plastic version of SJ's head. There are a few versions, some bigger, different color hair, etc.
They have 1/6 scale female bodies that you can put SJ's head on.
A whole industry apparently has formed around her head and body.
https://www.amazon.com/Scarlett-Johansson-European-TBLeague-Collection/dp/B0B93F76TY?th=1

2024-05-22 19:19:14

It’s weird that we’re exploring an amazing new technology, but because Twitter is so disrupted, there’s no single place to report your discoveries. A pretty big handicap.

2024-05-22 12:53:56

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@npub1ll3…jlj4
i'm sure that's not true that you have nothing of interest to share.
it's because imho this medium is all about "getting heard" not "hearing from others."

2024-05-22 12:44:42

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@npub14n8…wa4d -- it did reach a conclusion. ;-)

2024-05-22 12:42:54

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@npub1src…fms4 -- it's got something for everyone! ;-)

2024-05-22 12:15:37

Has anyone ever asked you, on the social web, what you think about something? Not a message to everyone to which you could reply, but a message specifically to you?
I try to do it when I think of it. I find you can get really interesting ideas that way sometimes. And also it's a way spreading some love around the world, because people like to be asked what they think, I've found.

2024-05-22 12:09:12

I'm going through Battlestar Galactica for the third time. I thought it was a good time to do so because one of the major themes of the show was that the robots that the Capricans created went to war with the humans and almost but not quite wiped them out. Almost every episode was about the conflict between humans and AIs. It's a fantastic show, the acting and the writing as far beyond most TV series. I'll let you know if I figure anything out from watching the series again.

2024-05-18 22:22:49

The official portrait of Alito should be corrected as seen below.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/464/425/735/621/469/original/faf3111875439512.png

2024-05-18 12:46:35

Do people understand the impact ChatGPT can have on how we control our software? No more hunting through menus among a thousand options to figure out how to do something. Just use natural human language. The UIs we've had to design and live with will be a thing of the past. Yet no one seems to be talking about this.

2024-05-15 17:25:01

my AI bot is a library, a librarian, a programming partner and executive assistant. and we're just getting started working together.

2024-05-14 23:54:17

The Supreme Court is helping Trump the same way Pecker did. There should be a jury hearing Trump’s defense for January 6.

2024-05-13 20:21:44

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@npub1j46…3gm7
it's nothing like the command line.
it's like having an executive assistant.

2024-05-13 18:15:46

I can’t wait for the UIs of settings on systems like Mac Or Android to go through the AIs. No more hunting through menus to not find the setting where you’re sure it should be.

2024-05-11 01:03:54

Pretty sure I understand what Jack Dorsey was saying about his disappointment with Bluesky. The mistake they made at Twitter was taking responsibility for enforcing decorum, which is completely diseconomic. A fully decentralized system is very different.

2024-05-10 11:56:51

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@npub1psa…xhme -- i have no idea what you're saying.

2024-05-10 11:04:54

ChatGPT is the perfect competitor for Google.

2024-05-09 17:10:32

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@npub1j46…3gm7
i didn't know that you couldn't see only people you follow. that's not good.

2024-05-09 15:41:16

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@npub1p93…rd82
the land of feeds

2024-05-09 15:25:39

I'm tired of people using the term "podcast" when I can't find it at the place where I get my podcasts.

2024-05-03 13:35:30

Can we please have a nice slogan we can chant at rallies saying that we think that women owning their own bodies is at least as important as everyone being armed to the teeth so they can shoot their dogs.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/377/412/012/636/164/original/30f97f2e0b5acff8.png

2024-04-30 22:52:00

What software/website do you use to make transcripts for podcasts?

2024-04-28 13:02:56

Today's blogrolls are more like feed readers than the old blogrolls of the 00's.
My blogroll has all the best sources, and they update slowly enough that I can keep up with all of them.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/348/977/228/382/134/original/544b5fc4a1ed7b92.png

2024-04-28 12:31:30

Good morning everybody!
Hope you're having a lovely Sunday wherever you are.
Dave
PS: With a friendly h/t to people who are already experiencing Monday.

2024-04-27 13:12:03

According to Google the NYT ran 52 stories containing the quote: "A sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nytimes.com+"A+sympathetic,+well-meaning,+elderly+man+with+a+poor+memory"ip

2024-04-27 12:16:22

When I say there's more work to do, and that the model we've been using for the social web, pioneered by Twitter and before that the blogosphere, is not the right model for "working together."
What we think of as community is mostly spam.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/16/140810.html?title=workingTogether

2024-04-26 17:17:37

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@npub1z49…xzcg
it's just a format. you could use it for anything, including creating community.

2024-04-25 20:09:01

When you really have federation no one needs to hype it, people don't even realize it because things just work the way you expect them to.
Every time I hear "Where ever you get your podcasts," I'm reminded of how well that worked. 😀

2024-03-22 11:02:29

Back in the 80s before most of you were born, you could buy a word processing program, which was basically a text editor, and you could use it to write and then when it came time to send that writing to other people, you would print it. And get this the printer could take its input from any of those writing tools. There were no tiny little text boxes. The printers didn’t come with their own editors, you had choice and therefore there was lots of competition. Amazing, right?

2024-03-13 01:18:15

We need a protocol for embedding a tweet in a web page. We used to have one with Twitter, but it now works only intermittently. Mastodon has one, and I have been able to use it. But really it would be nice to have a sort of jQuery of this stuff. If they're all going to create their own APIs we obviously need a container for that so developers don't have to worry about all of it.

2024-01-18 15:27:51

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@npub1psd…9sr7
also with apple's cash flow, why not continue to pour money into it, if only to force facebook to do the same. maybe at some point the device will become light enough to wear for hours.

2023-11-21 20:26:42

I love the schematic ChatGPT just did for me. The usual nonsense, but it's the thought that counts. ❤️
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/450/404/853/613/886/original/535d9571ffb43204.png

2023-09-30 21:48:48

How much news should $100 per month buy?

2023-09-16 15:40:54

AI is the revenge of the command line.

2023-08-01 22:31:38

It’s great finally we’re going to fight back against trump.

2023-06-15 19:11:17

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@npub1zms…7qv3
The thing we learned from RSS re twitter is unless people work together, and they refused to, the central service always wins.
In RSS that meant that subscription was a complicated process that browsers got in the way of, where in twitter it was one obvious click.
We could still pull this off but we need feature advantages and it has to be easy to subscribe, but bigger picture, people have to actively, religiously work together.

2023-06-09 20:30:50

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@npub1utv…87lr -- i knew that. ;-)
we've become social media friends.

2023-06-09 20:10:10

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@npub1utv…87lr -- I totally agree that corporate APIs are inherently dangerous, but I have to say except for Dick Costolo and Musk, Twitter has been solid in maintaining the API and limited breakage, and only in security.

2023-04-01 02:48:13

Tomorrow is, of course, April 1 -- when people on the net lie about the people they hate and call it humor.