Everybody's maxing out on Wordle today. I stopped with one step left. Stumped. I may lose my streak today. A lot of people are.
Dan Gillmor
• Dan Gillmor
A few days ago, Dave Winer, one of the true pioneers of the Internet age, marked the beginning of his fourth decade of blogging. Just saying that is amazing. I became a blogger because of Dave. Blogging changed — in a great way — the trajectory of my career. Let me quote from my 2004 […]
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
U.S. Representative Mike Lawler (R, NY-17) makes his pitch to voters as he runs for reelection in New York's 17th Congressional district.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes talk about their new podcast, Backfired: Attention Deficit, which chronicles the history of ADHD, why diagnoses have shot up, and how it's treated.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Mondaire Jones, former representative of New York's 17th congressional district, now running to regain the seat, makes his case for going to Washington once again.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Maxine Joselow, climate reporter at The Washington Post and author of The Climate 202 newsletter, discusses the misinformation spread on the right about the origins of recent hurricanes and FEMA disaster money, which is causing factions in the GOP and holding up disaster relief.
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A few more notes about the new theme preview feature at the help site.
New iPad Mini with the A17 Pro and AI looks good. At first I was surprised by the $500 price, thought for sure the previous model was less expensive, but no. I’m still enjoying the iPhone Pro Max as a mini mini iPad, but I’m already used to the iPhone size, so it no longer feels very big.
New way to preview themes, from the news blog:
Added new Preview button for themes in the plug-in directory. This will create a special preview version of your blog to try out the theme. Also improved the tab bar and navigation around plug-ins.
Micro.blog News https://news.micro.blog/2024/10/15/added-new-preview.html
I’m going to try to record a video demo of this later. It’s a big change.
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
It’s a heavy day, and I’m sad to write this. Not sure where to start. In 2022, a lawyer recruited two people who took care of my Mom—an assistant and one of her dozen nurses—to resign and demand a million dollars each, or they would publish horrible things about her in a lawsuit. I refused. … Continue reading Those Other Lawsuits →
The Daily
• The New York Times
Over the weekend, J.D. Vance tried to argue that Donald Trump will not target his political enemies if he’s reelected president. Yet at around the same time, Trump was confirming the opposite point with several new rants on Fox News, declaring flatly that he’ll use the military to target the “enemy within.” Indeed, Trump regularly says openly at his rallies that in a second term, he will persecute unnamed enemies of MAGA. We talked to Politico reporter Myah Ward, author of a great new piece on what he’s been saying at these rallies, about how blatant he is now being about his second-term intention to grotesquely abuse presidential power.
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Platformer
• Casey Newton
What happens when the safety-first AI company decides it needs to go faster?
theregister.com/2024/10/15/wordpress_bans_wpengine_from_events/
As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout
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fastcompany.com/91209753/the-wordpress-drama-could-have-major-implications-for-the-internet
Now, more than 150 employees have left WordPress’s parent company Automattic (nearly 10% of the workforce) after Mullenweg offered buyouts to anyone who disagreed with his approach with WP Engine.
According to an internal blog post a source shared with TechCrunch, Automattic was crafting a plan to get significantly stricter about trademark enforcement across WordPress and its e-commerce platform WooCommerce since at least the beginning of the year. Separate sources have confirmed the authenticity of the post.
