I carry two phones, an iPhone 13 Pro and a Pixel 6 Pro. The latter is my main phone, and I prefer it to the Apple phone, not sure why, it's what I use for most things. I need the iPhone because I use an Apple Watch. Lately there's been some trouble with the screen on the Pix...

From now on, until further notice, when I feel like watching some mind-numbing "news" program, I'm going to have a look at the Kamala Harris channel on YouTube. I don't mind doing hard work, I just don't want to hear what the NYT-centered media has to say because it's all bullshit. If I have to listen to nonstop bullshit, I'd rather hear from people who tell me we can have a bright future, than the usual NYT-spawned bullshit. It's just bullshit. I'm tired of bullshit. That's all I have to say about bullshit for now at least. Have a nice day.

At some point ChatGPT will imho be programmed to compile C apps to JavaScript, for example, even large ones with bugs.

Lakoff talks about the Nurturing Mother and the Strict Father as models for Democrats and Republicans respectively, and how the Dems never got this, and never campaigned accordingly. Now they're doing it. Owning the nuturing mother mode, but also the Protective Father, tough...

At first I didn't like White Dudes for Harris but now I get it.

I saw a guy who'd normally I'd think of as a MAGA, in the crowd behind Kamala yesterday while she spoke, I thought yeah us old white dudes need permission to have sweet hearts. It's time for us to be happy too. Why the f not.

Today I got my Hello World app for ChatGPT working.

I'm really excited about maybe finally getting my archive of Scripting News and DaveNet stuff, dating back to 1994, into ChatGPT before too long. Some people will be surprised to find that they're in the archive. If this works it'll be like the index in the back of a large book. I know I've tried this before, but this time I think I'll be able to do it myself and fuss over it and learn from it the way I do software development. Converting a very large work of writing into a reference, I hope.

1995: "There was nothing rehearsed about Jerry Garcia."

Any news org with cash to invest could do to the NYT what ChatGPT is doing to Google.

Lawrence is the new Rachel.

What we call journalism in the US isn’t.

4-minute podcast about my first venture into ChatGPT via its API.

There's an accompanying GitHub repo, with an example app in JavaScript that runs in the browser.

Includes instructions for setting up and funding a developer account, which was the biggest hurdle.

Functionality: It tells you who Bull Mancuso is.

Much excitement as I think about integrations I can now do.

Don't know why I waited so long. 😄

Someday soon twitter will be on this list.

Another practical use for ChatGPT. A super techy service you use decides to require 2FA but reading their instructions you realize the docs were written by someone who hates people like you. Idea! Ask ChatGPT to translate. Out come nice instructions easy to read for people like me. Turns a dismal exercise in frustration to happiness at finding another huge stress- and time-saving application for ChatGPT.

What's the best piece of advice you ever got?

Governor Tim is Mr Rogers for adults. And you know who should play him on SNL? Tom Hanks.

It's wrong that posts from Timothy Snyder, Joe Trippi and NYT Pitchbot are only available on Twitter. I'd like to help their posts reach a wider audience.

My version of the NY Times has campaign news too, featuring the cutest kitty on the trail, headed to North Carolina today to support the cute and adorable running mates, Kamala and Tim! Kitten hits the trail with Kamala and Tim! A real-life photo of Air Force 2, in Detroit.

I have great respect for Hillary Clinton and supported her over Sanders in 2016. I also supported Biden because we needed to win in 2020.

But we could have had a campaign team like the one we saw yesterday and today, with some very impressive presenters who've yet to take the stage, we could have had it in 2016. We didn't have to go through the tragedy of Trump.

The Democrats are stage managing perfectly now. I never really thought we'd see this day, but here it is.

Timothy Snyder: "If JD Vance really were a normal midwestern guy he’d be very respectful of someone like Tim Walz."

When I see a reference to an evil NYT piece, I RT it a simple message: Ignore the NY Times. It's relaxing. You don't have to do something about it, in fact it says the opposite. Do nothing. It works on all social nets, and for any news org that's promoting lies, ignoring relevant facts, against the interest of the US. Find new ways to get informed. And if you can't find them, start one. And we can find each other.

The Bruce Springsteen mention at last night's rally was no accident. Boomers are now of the age where we vote in great numbers. So our feeling like there's something here for us might make the difference in one or more of the swing states.

Last night's Democratic rally was wonderful. I was laughing and sobbing all the way through it. What an emotional release. We needed and deserved this. Beyond hope, we're finally going to fight. I hope President Kamala is really up to it, because we have a pretty substantial cleanup job to do here.

A roadmap for the campaign is coming into view. Harris has her knee on Trump's neck, and she won't let up. There won't be time for anyone to get tired of her. The campaign rallies should get bigger and bigger, and more rambunctuous. Trump was a comedian, a cross between ...

Walz is Harris' choice. Picking Shapiro would have been leading with her chin because of Netanyahu. Walz looks older than her but they're actually the same age. And he figured out the right word to get under Trump's skin, so there's that. He just has to say weird in campaign speeches to bring down the house.

When reporting massacres, imho we should cite the number of people who were shot. It measures of how much violence there was, and how excessive the gun tech used. Many who were injured but not killed have their lives ruined. Their suffering can go for decades.

If you want to keep up on political news, esp at a time when so much is happening so quickly, the best resource I have at this time is the politics tab on news.scripting.com. Here's a screen shot.

I asked ChatGPT to illustrate this idea: "JD Vance is a punchline."

We're depending on big companies that are nuzzling up with Trump, at best hedging their bets, to let us use their networks to organize ourselves politically. That's never worked for us, in fact it's worked against us. Trump's election in 2016, for example, could he have done...