I am pissed off that UGG can’t trademark their name - and so UGG ripoffs abound!!
It’s exactly the same deal with Wordpress and WPEngine. It should not be allowed.
Matt M … 🔗 WP Engine is not WordPress
The opening statement on the WPEngine site …
We power the freedom to create on WordPress
Because of course Wordpress don’t do that?
The Second WTF today - in as many posts!
🔗 Privacy Service Optery Faces Backlash After Plan to Send OpenAI User Data
What goes through the mind of these people? I want to delete something from the internet - but just before you do that please suck it in the giant AI thingy so it is built into the future and for posterity!
🔗 Everina Maxwell (don’t ask)
She grew up in Sussex, UK, which has come a long way from the days of Cold Comfort Farm and now has things like running water and Brighton Pier.
(my bold)
Whilst I get that the author of the above is trying to be funny, I might grant more credibility with accuracy. Brighton Pier appeared (pun intentional) on the South coast 3 years before Stella Gibbons was even born and fully 33 years before Cold Comfort Farm was published.
As for running water, well - it was a farm - so highly likely.
I guess 50% true is pretty good in these modern times.
🔗 Telegram Changes Policy, Says It Will Provide User Data to Authorities
Oh - I wonder what caused that change to happen?
🔗 The iPhone 16 Pro in the wild … literally.
Review by Travel Photographer Austin Mann via @gruber
🔗 The iPhone 16 Pro in the wild … literally.
Review by Travel Photographer Austin Mann via @gruber
🔗 Karl Rove’s take on Tuesday’s debate - Robert Reich .. yes and still not saying vote for Kamala.
🔗 Dana on ‘The Speed Of Publishing’ - ‘then’ and ‘now’open.substack.com/pub/danaf…)
Yes - and ..
There’s a piece missing from the then .. now comparison. During ‘Slow Publishing’ the writer, editor, producer is also honing the deliverable into something that garners attention, creates a story, a question, a punchline .. that allows the reader, listener .. to get ‘in and out’ efficiently. In ‘Fast Publishing’ the reader / listener is required to do that themselves .. spending time sifting through what is being said to get to the essence. Very few people can do that ‘on the fly’, you just have to look around and see the swamps of unintelligible noise that the public is now exposed to. The swamp is over flowing. True, there are some excellent people that can do that .. the very large majority can’t. That has always been the case.
The solution is that we need personal information filters that surface what we want from the swamp. Our personal, intelligent, tuned information filters.
That’s what is different today … the ‘editor’ used to filter for us .. for everyone. We (suddenly?) - didn’t like that .. and now we live in our bubbles - I would argue partly because we don’t have our personal, intelligent, tuned information filters.