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Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, concludes our three-part Black History Month series with a look at current efforts to end DEI initiatives and rewrite museum exhibit information.

 

photo: Smithsonian National African American Museum  by John Brighenti from Rockville, MD, United States, CC BY 2.0 , via / Wikimedia Commons )

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In this episode, Nathan Wrigley speaks with Jonathan Desrosiers about tying WordPress releases to flagship community events like WordCamps. They discuss the logistical challenges, especially around scheduling, international holidays, and global contributor coverage. The conversation explores the evolving WordPress community, impacts of COVID, renewed excitement for building, and initiatives to involve younger contributors. They touch on the role of AI, resurgence in open web tools, and ensuring WordPress remains relevant and exciting for future generations.

Tear Gun by Taiwanese designer Yi-Fei Chen is a contraption that “collects and freezes actual tears to shoot them back at the person who caused the cry”.

This week we flipped the switch on better truncation in the Micro.blog timeline, preserving styles and links. It’s working well. See this screenshot of a slightly too-long post that is nicely truncated with italics, em dash, and inline link still there.

A leaked Ring email; looksmaxxing; and another Grok screwup.

The FBI obtained prompts used to make more than 200 sexual videos of a woman in a harassment case.

State Of The Union February 24, 2026 Washington, DC 8:52 PM: The State of the Union is opened by House Majority Leader Mike Johnson, who has been released from his medium-sized dog cage specially for this evening. He welcomes congressional attendees with a giggle, as this is...

Greg Knauss wrote a blog post that is wistful and at times poetic, with bits of tragic humor that can’t quite lighten the feeling that the ground is falling away beneath us: What I am talking about is being replaced, about becoming expendable, about machines gaining the abi...

We watched five minutes of the State of the Union last night, then went to bed. Glad to see the recaps this morning that it was basically a whole lot of nothing. Not even much of a spectacle. 🇺🇸

The creator of the AI agent “Einstein” wants to free humans from the burden of academic labor. Critics say that misses the point of education entirely.

I didn't watch the SOTU. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

I asked ChatGPT: "When movies were new there was probably a bit of rage from stage performers — why would people pay for live shows when for a fraction of the cost they can see the same show performed by artificial actors?" There was a lot to say about this, it turns out. Th...

What if healthcare stopped reacting to illness and started anticipating it? In this episode of Remarkable People, Guy Kawasaki sits down with Dr. Lloyd Minor, Dean of the Stanford University School of Medicine, to explore how precision health, artificial intelligence, and wh...

After writing a few days ago about the current brouhaha over the severe decline in the edibility of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and linking to Trader Joe’s shade-throwing description of their own, I of course had to try theirs. In the name of science, I bought both the milk and dark chocolate variants.

Verdict: Excellent. Both chocolates taste like chocolate, not candle wax, and the peanut butter is creamy and smooth — you know, like peanut butter. Not the sand-and-sawdust mix that Hershey fills Reese’s cups with now.

To be a U.S. Olympian is to represent the best that your country has to offer. That sounds extremely lofty when it's written out like that, but I think that's really how it works, ideally, if you're taking in the best possible message from NBC's explicitly patriotic broadcas...

In the past, we judged enterprise databases by how useful they were to people like us. We rated them on

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Dave Winer’s blogroll on scripting.com works differently from the traditional model. Instead of a fixed list you update by hand, it pulls in feeds and sorts by when each blog was last updated. The most recently active blogs float to the top. This is the version I wanted to build into Jottit.

New post: How blogrolls work in Jottit simonbc.com/how-blogr…

Blogrolls used to be everywhere. In the early web, your sidebar had a list of blogs you read. A simple way to say "these people are worth your time." Then social media came along and sociality moved to the feed. Your reading habits became algorithmic and the humble blogroll ...

Katie Keith asks about an AI assistant for WooCommerce like Shopify's Sidekick. James LePage confirms upcoming features will simplify custom AI integration, enabling easier plugin installations and enhanced merchant management support.