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!

WTF


🔗 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?


Anyone like the idea of having a way to add a title to each Home Screen of an iOS gadget?




I know that by strict definition Jo is a ‘lame duck president’ .. but somehow it doesn’t seem right to call him that .. I looking at you NPR.


Just another day in Auckland

A person is standing on top of a pole overlooking a plaza in Auckland with CBD Skyscrapers in the background.

📸 A meta billboard


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🔗 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


6 Court Justices threatened .. but the news declined to say which .. now there’s a conundrum!


As a point of reference - courtesy Kevin Drum he highlights what happens at that point if inflection


Nothing to see here - move along now


💬 404 Media …


TIL that Franz Ferdinand .. a band I very much enjoyed twenty years ago are still going, still rocking, still releasing. Kudos .. bad me for losing sight of them.


Rant Rant Rant … got it … you don’t like it. I don’t care you don’t like it.

Delete.

One more and it’s ‘unsubscribe’.


If I buy a book on Apple Books - the family plan allows all family members to read it. BUT does anybody know if they can read it at the same time?