This new legal filing makes it crystal clear that Mullenweg has sole discretion over who can access it. If he’s ever upset with you for any reason, he can turn off your access or take over your plugin. I think that should deeply frighten anyone using WordPress today.
WordPress Is On Dangerous Ground
I have personally been blocked on X/Twitter by Matt, Automattic, and by the WordPress account itself. Sadly, it's become somewhat of a badge of honour, meaning at least we went out standing up for what we believed in instead of staying silent.
De-escalation
Is the WordPress drama finally winding down? Jonathan senses a de-escalation, but Luke points out there are still some unsettling loose ends. They discuss new data on WordPress growth, the departure of more plugins from WordPress.org, and the lingering questions about the future of the project.
Post Reports
• The Washington Post
Dispatches from the final days of the campaigns
I voted today at the early voting place in Saugerties, NY.
A few days I concluded that Trump doesn't think he's going to win. Now it seems he doesn't want to win.
American Voices 2024
In this enhanced audio version of "American Voices 2024," FRONTLINE follows the changing views and experiences of Americans from the 2020 election season to the present day. The documentary returns to voters first featured in 2020’s "American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil" as they dealt with COVID-19 in their communities that spring, responded to George Floyd’s killing that summer, and experienced the polarizing election and its aftermath that fall.
"American Voices 2024" chronicles how their hopes and fears have changed over the past four years — and amid another polarizing election season.
The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
Your Political Halloween Costumes
Listeners call in to share the political costume they are donning for Halloween, which this year falls just days before the consequential presidential election.
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The Brian Lehrer Show
• WNYC
America, Are We Ready to Fix the Media?
WNYC’s election series “America, Are We Ready?” looks at the state of election coverage during this very abnormal campaign season. Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger, co-hosts of WNYC's On the Media discuss the decisions by several major newspapers to pull their candidate endorsements, the role of mis- and disinformation and more.
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When we vote we are governing, not expressing ourselves or protesting. It's the whole thing. It's the governing part that this year is especially consequential.
What Musk has been saying is cover for what the oligarchs did to the Soviet Union as it was breaking apart. Only the US has vastly more wealth. And unlike Trump, Musk understands how money works, presumably Putin does too. They want the entire flow of cash that's generated by the US economy to go through them. So "richest man in the world" doesn't begin to cover Musk's ambition. He wants "all the money in the world." Forget about any benefit from government, that's over. The health care system would fall apart. The situation with abortion is just the beginning. When Musk says it'll come back better after a few years, that's a lie. Something like that never comes back. We've encountered this before, when the Repubs were threatening default.
There should be a prize for developers who create the most interop.
Progress on the YouTube TV front. Thanks to all the responses, I've gotten Fucks News out of the startup position, but it still appears in the upper left corner of the 2-by-2 news multiview display, and thus is the default, and when I launch it I hear them talking which is not pleasant. Further I always have to see what their freaking chyron says, and the commercials from the Hitler-fanboi pillow salesman. Basically I want to be able to see what they're doing when I want to, but never have it forced on me. Help.
The Daily
• The New York Times
Black Voters and the Democratic Party: One Family’s Story
Angry Trump Starts Blame Game as Polls Reveal Big New Problem for Him
The presidential race is tied, and Donald Trump very well could win. But he is now scapegoating others for a possible loss: He’s reportedly angry with Republican National Committee chair Michael Whatley, he’s raging about supposed voter fraud in Pennsylvania, and his allies are sounding new alarms about his ground game in key states. Meanwhile, new polls show engaged voters tilting to Kamala Harris, which means more pressure on Trump’s ground operation to turn out low-propensity voters. We talked to Joel Payne, a senior official at MoveOn, who explains what’s really happening with both sides’ ground games, why it could make the difference, and what could still go wrong for Democrats. Listen to this episode here.
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Oklahoma City loves this team. Thunder are really good right now. Still excited for the Spurs this season, just a little overmatched tonight. 🏀
TRUMP'S CLOSING ARGUMENT: "I'M NOT HITLER" - 10.31.24
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