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🗓️ 12 October 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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The beginning of the end for Wordpress; open source, or not; police Cybertrucks; Apple Intelligence rolling out; dystopian AI text summaries; X sends money to the wrong bank, argues that Twitter ceased to exist; Internet Archive attacked; Instagram, Threads moderation out of control; the Penguin; Beetlejuice; Salem's Lot; Joker; Kaos cancelled; Bitcoin doc; Green Day demastered; Roblox; Megalopolis; Tesla's Cybercab; is Elon a modern PT Barnum, or worse; ham radios, HamFests, TRS-80, cameras, Disneyland and chasing the nostalgia dragon.
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FOLLOW UP
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Wordpress.org/Matt vs WPEngine megathread, Part 2
Automattic is doing open source dirty
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California Cops Show Off Absurd New Cybertruck With Music From Terminator Movies
Teslas "nearly unusable" for police work
IN THE NEWS
The first Apple Intelligence features are expected to arrive on October 28
Man learns he’s being dumped via “dystopian” AI summary of texts
X reportedly paid its Brazil fines to the wrong bank, causing further delay in reinstatement case
X lost a court battle after trying to claim ‘Twitter ceased to exist’
The Internet Archive taken down by DDoS attacks
Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control - The Verge
China Joins SpaceX in Ruining Astronomy for Everybody
MEDIA CANDY
Joker: Folie à Deux Bombed—What Went Wrong?
'Kaos' Canceled: Jeff Goldblum Netflix Comedy Series Won't Get Second Season
Reacher Gets Early Season 4 Renewal At Prime Video
Controversial HBO Documentary Concludes Peter Todd Invented Bitcoin
Green Day's Dookie has been demastered into Game Boy carts, a toothbrush and other weird formats
Amazon Seeks to Dismiss Prime Video Ad Tier Lawsuit
APPS & DOODADS
Roblox Is Playing Dumb About the Bots and Predators on Its Platform, Hindenburg Research Says
Meta is working to fix Threads' engagement bait problem
AT THE LIBRARY
Constituent Service - A Third District Story by John Scalzi and narrated by Amber Benson
Earn It: Unconventional Strategies for Brave Marketers by Steve Pratt
Mists of Time: Echoes of Extinction: Book 3 by D. Ward Cornell
THE DARK SIDE WITH DAVE
Enable iPhone orientation lock for specific apps
A Look Inside Apple's $130 USB-C Cable
I am seriously considering getting my ham radio license.
I want this, but I do not need this - stuff vs. experiences
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0:37.4 | de Philippo discussing the finer points of what went wrong on the internet and |
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0:51.2 | Wordpress drama this week, Brian. |
0:53.4 | Oh, the drama. |
0:55.0 | Okay, now I have to admit, I have not particularly followed this because I knew I didn't have |
1:00.6 | to because you are so deeply enmeshed in this. So I figured I'd get the whole, I'd get the entire story from you. |
1:07.0 | Okay, well, here's, I mean, we started to talk about it when it first hit the fan with little Maddie Matt getting up on stage at |
1:14.1 | WordPress con whatever and saying that the great evil are these people at |
1:19.4 | W.P engine so the way that this thing started to break was it, oh, okay, Matt just has a bug up his ass because they're eating his lunch over at W.P. Engine. |
1:28.0 | Well, it turns out that is true, but it began, it began long before the WordPress convention and he's been he's been trying to strong arm these people for money for ages |
1:39.7 | Right and he's using all sorts of tactics, but the main tactic that they're using is trademark infringement on the wordpress trademark. |
1:47.0 | So because they use W.P. in their name? |
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