New from me at The Torment Nexus: Forcing Google to give the media $100 million is not a win

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Google giving $100 million to the media isn't a win

I know the headline on this post probably sounds ridiculous to some (perhaps all) of you reading this, but I'm going to do my best to convince you ...

“It finally shows the world what WordPress really is, an abusive, predatory organization/community lying about its virtues to abuse other companies and organizations in an effort to get free work”

Chris Wiegman

So Long WordPress

This has been a hard post for me to write after participating in WordPress since before I even started a career in tech and, until 3 months ago, fo...

Media elites are the last people to ask about the future of journalism: “The whole exercise is a bit like canvassing the designer of the Hindenburg on the future of air travel” https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-media-elites/

I’ve seen the best minds of my generation spend their days trying to invent new games so people will subscribe to the New York Times

Start a new life in the Offworld colonies!

Note to writers everywhere: Not everything is a “liminal moment” or a “liminal space.” Give it a rest for pete’s sake

Got a good look at Comet A3 just after sunset tonight

An update to my post on WordPress: Matt sent me a Google Doc with responses to some of the points I raised. I’ve updated the post with a link to that doc and my response:

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Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it?

I realize that many people may not know or care who or what Matt Mullenweg and WordPress are, or why some people are upset about them, but after gi...

Using the social web as a distribution platform for news has become increasingly problematic. Is joining the fediverse a potential solution?

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Is the fediverse the future of news distribution on the social web?

Not that long ago, using the social web as a news distribution platform was a relatively straightforward process: all you had to do was grab the he...

So Israel didn’t just hijack some pagers already in the supply chain — they set up a front company and actually made pagers:

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers (Published 2024)

The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as par...

How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers (Published 2024)

The Israeli government did not tamper with the Hezbollah devices that exploded, defense and intelligence officials say. It manufactured them as par...