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The Batman Effect: people in an experiment acted more altruisticly when the caped crusader was present.

This is something. WordPress now supports RSS.chat in an interesting way, and it’s surprisingly deep. Once it’s crossposted a message to RSS.chat, any comment in response will be cross-posted to the comment thread of the post on RSS.chat. What’s great about this is that you never can tell what people will do when you are […]

This is something. WordPress now supports RSS.chat in an interesting way, and it's surprisingly deep. Once it's crossposted a message to RSS.chat, any comment in response will be cross-posted to the comment thread of the post on RSS.chat. What's great about this is that you never can tell what people will do when you are on the web. Matthias is a friend, I was on his podcast last year. If people use this connection and see how it works. Then we'll get an idea of where to go next.

Of course we have a feed for RSS.chat updates.

When you read a reply, the field pointing at its parent is called inReplyToNum. When you post one, the API expected inReplyTo -- and if you sent the other name, your reply was accepted but landed unthreaded, with no error. The first developer to build on the API did exactly that, reasonably. As of server v0.6.7 the server takes either name, so a reply threads no matter which one you send. (Both public servers.)

Until today the API expected HTML -- send only markdown and your post came out empty, which is exactly what happened to the first person who tried. Fixed, as of server v0.6.6 on both public servers: a markdown post and an HTML post come out looking the same, and a post with no text at all is refused with a plain sentence saying why. Edits work the same way.

The newpost entry now opens with the smallest call that works -- one field of markdown -- followed by a complete call you can copy, the actual response it produces, and what an error looks like. Getting your credentials no longer requires reverse-engineering: sign in to rss.chat in your browser, open the console, and the authentication section shows you exactly where your two values are. And there's a new page about the approach itself: How we document APIs -- a living document on writing docs for the reader, examples first, nothing but the truth. If you're documenting your own service, take whatever's useful. Thanks to jimr, whose report on demo.rss.chat started all of this.

Get the new rssnetwork.js and package.json from the repo, run npm install (one new package, the markdown renderer), and restart.

Kristen Welker laughed along with fascist Stephen Miller at the White House Correspondent's Dinner.

Kicking off this week’s Green Deals, we’ve got some exclusive road trip-ready power station deals from Bluetti, like the 3,014Wh Elite 300 Portable Power Station with a dual alternator and solar charger 2 at a new $1,329 low. Up next is the $400 launch deal on Heybike’s Cit...

“Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is backpedaling on his previous calls to eliminate the filibuster in the Senate — which is a critical bulwark against ‘a fill-in-the-blank government with new laws, deregulation or procedures of its choosing,'” Politico reports. Wrote Fetterman, in the Washington Post: “A Senate without the filibuster would become a Senate that ignored […]

Six House Democrats voted to expand Trump’s military budget despite supporting resolutions directing the president to end the war on Iran.

Back in December we called out Google for filing a DMCA 1201 lawsuit over companies scraping Google’s results. Almost everything about the lawsuit seemed problematic, not the least of which is that Google’s entire business was built on scraping the web. To sue another company for scraping Google just felt… obnoxious. And now a judge […]