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Scripting News: Wednesday, March 25, 2026

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
WordPress can now connect via MCP for both reading and writing. This sounds like a possible alternative for the wpcom api that we're building on in WordLand. Sometimes it feels like everything is being reinvented. If the world would just stand still for a moment we might be able to do some building. I wonder how the advent of AI is affecting how WordPress is being developed. I know it's changing everything here. #
Meanwhile I have to tend to the past. I had a server go down the other day, and haven't been able to get it running again. It's a very old one, the first I used PagePark for hosting the apps. So I'd rather not have to dig into whatever it is that's keeping it from running. This morning I moved the test app for XML-RPC, betty.userland.com, to another server, so this page now works again. #

Countdown with Keith Olbermann
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THEY SHOW TRUMP A SPORTSCENTER VERSION OF HIS IRAN WAR EVERY MORNING - 3.26.26

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SEASON 4 EPISODE 72: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (2:30) SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump has started World War 3 and has no idea how to stop it - and he doesn't know he's LOSING World War 3.How could he NOT know this? Because reportedly every morning they show him two minut...

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Centimeter Wavelengths

Yes, the cosmic microwave background is great, but what about the earthly microwave foreground?

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Modeling The AGI Economy

Modeling The AGI Economy

There is a heated debate about what an AGI-level economy might look like. On one side are pessimists who foresee extreme wealth concentration and a permanent precariat: people with no meaningful economic role, dependent on whatever crumbs fall from the table of capital owners. On the other are optimists who argue that AI will make everything so cheap that people won't need much money to live in luxury. Both sides have a point, which is what makes the debate frustrating: they're describing dif...

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Spotify takes on its doppelgänger problem

Spotify takes on its doppelgänger problem

The company is taking new steps to stop AI impersonation — but across the internet, the problem continues to grow. PLUS: Anthropic in court, and Meta loses in New Mexico

Mastodon Blog
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A Redesign for Profiles

Profiles are the primary way for people using Mastodon to ‘meet’ one another on a deeper level – beyond a threaded conversation or search results. You might have noticed that the overall design of Profiles hasn’t been explored in a while, and in the meantime, we’ve heard req...

Built on Shards of Silicon: Robert Alexander's Tech Blog
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Uptime of GitHub Pages alternatives

Measuring service availability of static website hosting

Joost.blog
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Ask Joost: AI-powered answers from my blog

I built an AI-powered Q&A feature that lets you ask questions about anything I've written. Here's how it works, and why I built it on Cloudflare Workers AI.

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Ari & X

I’m in NYC for the Stephan Wolfram dev/ai/nyc conversation tomorrow at the Automattic Noho space. While walking back from the Apple Store in Soho where I had picked up a new Studio Display XDR to try out, ran into one of my favorite YouTube accounts to follow right now, Ari at Home! I ran into … Continue reading Ari & X

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Terry Godier has a new blog in addition to his main site of longer essays. It looks great. Hosted by Micro.blog. 🎉

The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
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Edera spent years calling KVM less secure. Here’s why it changed its mind.

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Edera, a top Xen hypervisor company, is shifting gears and will start supporting KVM as well this summer. If you

The post Edera spent years calling KVM less secure. Here’s why it changed its mind. appeared first on The New Stack.

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‘A List of Chain Restaurants Whose Names Contain Unusual Structures’

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When I first read this post from my friend Paul Kafasis last week — a One Foot Tsunami instant classic — I was hoping that I could think of an example that he missed. I can’t say I did. The closest, though, is ShowBiz Pizza Place, a 1980s archrival to Chuck E. Cheese. (Inst...

WIRED
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Amazon Spring Sale Deal: The Typhur Dome 2 Air Fryer Is 30% Off

I tested more than 30 air fryers this past year. The Typhur Dome 2 is the one I recommend, and it’s uncommonly cheap right now.

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Improved Analytics in App Store Connect

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Apple Developer: Analytics in App Store Connect receives its biggest update since its launch, including a refreshed user experience that makes it easier to measure the performance of your apps and games. There’s a lot that’s new, but all the data is still collected wit...

Fresh Air
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Bryan Stevenson says facing our racist past is a path, not punishment

In his second term, President Trump has ordered the removal of monuments, plaques and exhibitions related to slavery, and the history of racial injustice in the U.S. Meanwhile, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson has been working to ensure evidence of America's painful past is not erased. His organization, the Equal Justice Initiative, founded the Legacy Museum to show us the truth of our history. “You can't get the beautiful ‘R’ words, like redemption and reconciliation and restoration and repair, unless you first tell the truth,” he tells Terry Gross.

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WIRED
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There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

From female fruit being fart-shamed or even sexually assaulted, there’s a misogynistic undercurrent to the fruit slop microdramas, even as they appear to be cultivating genuine fans.

WIRED
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OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage

In a controlled experiment, OpenClaw agents proved prone to panic and vulnerable to manipulation. They even disabled their own functionality when gaslit by humans.

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Now That OpenAI Has Terminated Sora, How Will I Have This Blog Read To Me By An Uncanny Buxom Mike Wazowski?

Now That OpenAI Has Terminated Sora, How Will I Have This Blog Read To Me By An Uncanny Buxom Mike Wazowski?
I have bad news for anyone who was really into consuming or making videos of Charlie Kirk arresting Jeffrey Epstein, or SpongeBob SquarePants fighting Barack Obama in the format of a side-scrolling fighting game: OpenAI has suddenly and unceremoniously pulled the plug on Sor...

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The Merlin Bird ID App Is Now the Merlin Fight ID App

In light of recent rollbacks on environmental protection, we, the creators behind the beloved birding app Merlin Bird ID, have preemptively shifted into the field of argument identification. Our highly accurate predictive models have shown that while most birds won’t be arou...

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Opioid Overdose Deaths See Sharp Decline

Lev Facher, addiction reporter at STAT News, reports on how opioid overdose deaths began to fall in mid-2023 and have continued to decline.

Photo: An emergency opioid overdose kit at Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. (Credit: Chris Woodrich via Wikimedia Commons CC 4.0)


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