This is great reporting from 404 Media - but I do feel they buried the lead. The Blind stuff is more jaw-dropping than the second buyout offer.

Things are not good inside Automattic.

Dashed dreams of better EV batteries are a core disappointment.

I love Discworld and I like TTRPGs. But I’m not convinced that the combination that’s being Kickstarted is something I’m interested in. What makes Discworld special is Pratchett’s words.

And we ain’t getting any more of them.

This looks worth a watch:

Not gonna lie, it sometimes righteously pisses me off that journalism was going in exactly the right direction with community/audience work 15 years ago — and then we got distracted by Facebook and Google.

Is it too late to change course?

Finally had a much-needed trim.

Adam Tinworth with long, unkempt hair is wearing a hoodie and jacket, standing in front of a brick wall with a cloudy sky above.Adam Tinworth with neatly cut gray hair is outside in front of trees and parked cars, wearing a dark jacket and a hoodie.

Y’know, I’m beginning to suspect that it might have been Agatha all along.

A good rule to keep online debate constructive is “play the ball, not the man”. If you attack the poster, not the ideas, you’re playing the man.

Mullenweg’s response to DHH is pure playing the man, not the ball.

This is the problem with AI:

  • “AI can help you create this” is a successful marketing message
  • “This was created with AI!” isn’t

Far more people want to create with AI than want to consume the results.

The growing tsunami of AI slop is going to force us towards a new wave of trusted curator.

Optimistic? Perhaps. Idealistic? Certainly.

But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take this moment of opportunity and need and do something with it.

Set up author attribution on Mastodon on my Ghost blogs, based on this handy guide.

It’s basically just setting up the meta tag using Ghost’s Code Injection settings, and then adding the domains in Mastodon.

Now, this is what Sunday evenings are for: a hundred-odd Kathys dancing to Wuthering Heights.

Oh, yes.

Hey, random guy on Threads. I’ve only been managing large scale blog platform installs on and off for two decades now. I really need you to come and lecture me on how I should chose a platform.

I week ago I was just glad I didn’t use WordPress for any of my sites.

Now? I’m wondering if I need to plan to migrate the journalism department’s sites in the near future.

My rule for living.

A person holds a book with the yellow spine titled "COFFEE FIRST" in a room with a sofa and a glass-paned door in the background.

Early morning, South Downs.

Late summer rambles at the RSPB Pulborough Brooks nature reserve.

A delicate pink water lily blooms on the surface of a pond surrounded by green lily pads.

Nice image from Hamburg a few weeks back.

A corridor is formed by a curved brick wall with vertical white beams casting long shadows on the ground.

So London it hurts.

A black door with a decorative ivy arch is set in a brick wall, next to a parking sign and a traditional wall lamp.

Another commute begins.

A sunlit scene at Hassocks Station in Sussex, with the rising sun shining through lush greenery and trees, near parked vehicles.