New from me at The Torment Nexus: Forcing Google to give the media $100 million is not a win image
โ€œIt 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 workโ€
Media elites are the last people to ask about the future of journalism: โ€œThe whole exercise is a bit like canvassing the designer of the Hindenburg on the future of air travelโ€ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-media-elites/
Iโ€™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! image
Note to writers everywhere: Not everything is a โ€œliminal momentโ€ or a โ€œliminal space.โ€ Give it a rest for peteโ€™s sake
Got a good look at Comet A3 just after sunset tonight image
An update to my post on WordPress: Matt sent me a Google Doc with responses to some of the points I raised. Iโ€™ve updated the post with a link to that doc and my response:
Using the social web as a distribution platform for news has become increasingly problematic. Is joining the fediverse a potential solution?
So Israel didnโ€™t just hijack some pagers already in the supply chain โ€” they set up a front company and actually made pagers: