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This is what a tweet looks like in my twitter-like blogging system

I did some research into a UI feature of a desk accessory on the original 1984 Macintosh. http://scripting.com/2026/01/12/201606.htmlI want to use the mailbox flag icon from the alarm clock desk accessory, I have been looking for it for years, and finally ChatGPT was able to track it down, with screen shots, and references to sites that explain it, one archived from 1984.The icon will make an appearance in software released in 2026 (knock wood) so something nice has been preserved for a few more years.

At the risk of stating the obvious, there isn’t much honesty in the journalism we get.

Bush at the start of the Iraq war when MSNBC called him a visionary. He looked pretty lost at the time, I remember -- and we all hoped that wasn't true, we hoped he knew what he was doing. That's when we learned he was utterly hopeless as a chief executive and commander in chief.

BTW, speaking of something futuristic. This is a page rendered by WordPress of something that's in Mastodon because the two products speak ActivityPub. Interop is fantastic, because things like this "just work" once you're hooked up to the same network.https://daveverse.org/2026/01/02/the-web-after-ai/

I had ChatGPT put together a list of NBA feeds that don’t use paywalls. It’s been running a few days and the results are impressive. I’ll do a writeup of the list in next few days. https://feedland.com/?river=true&screenname=davewiner&catname=nbaai

@davew This is cool! Thank you

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.https://daveverse.org/2025/12/18/inoreader-and-dynamic-opml/

# Feed discovery 23 years laterI was going to quickly put together a piece on feed discovery, but ended up taking my full moring, going through the web archives to see how it happened, and it was the most web way imaginable. Scroll to the end for the historic note.https://this.how/rss/discovery.opml

Ben Werdmuller wrote a new perspective on RSS. It's great, just what we need. RSS is of the web, and is the simplest most obvious way to get all the twitter-like systems connected. https://werd.io/why-rss-matters/

@maxheadroom not the software, that's fine -- it's the flow of interesting ideas.

@pfefferle @obenland @evanprodromou @alex btw, i went to the site, and what they're doing is what i'm doing, just in a different place. thanks for sharing that. do you use it?i'm coming at it from outside wordpress, so you will be able to hook up to anything via the api. he's doing it inside wordpress, which is completely legit and right.the reason -- there is no diff betw a comment and a post. so you really can build networks that way.

@davew It's the holiday season. People are busy doing other stuff.

@davew Nitpicky, but this is more of a daydream, an admittedly very attractive one.

I want to know if they make out before the season is over.You know who I mean. 😇

Suppose Trump is Boris Yeltsin. Who is his Putin, lurking in the shadows, ready to come to Boss Trump's side in his hour of great need. JD Vance? Stephen Miller?

@jeremy @evanprodromou — is this a project for your foundation?

@jeremy i want to see the mastodon sites that are hosting blogs. this is one of those throwaway projects used to bootstrap a community.remember, i'm fighting for textcasting. i want to get rid of the limits.not looking for a big project, i want the results.

@mikesax Yes, it’s really simple. 😁

@jeremy @pfefferle here's the proposal.https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/issues/339