This doesn’t fill me with hope for the future of Bond: Inside Amazon’s 007 Takeover.
Maybe Amazon just paid an awful lot of money for something that’s had its day.
I found myself wondering what had happened to Kevin Rose, of Digg / Diggnation fame nearly two decades ago.
Turns out… he’s working on bringing DIgg back.
And Diggnation is already back. We’re in the Web 2.0 nostalgia phase, aren’t we?
Ryan Sholin is sticking with WordPress — but leaving behind Automatic hosting and services.
Seems a sensible response to the recent behaviour of the Automattic CEO.
Excited to see, via @manton, that @tapbots@tapbots.social have a new Bluesky app coming:
I can’t wait.
This is just awesome:
A phantom “Super-Jupiter” 13 times more massive than our solar system’s gas giant is drifting through the cosmos around 20 light-years from Earth.
I did my paternal duty and produced a stack of pancakes for my offspring to celebrate Shrove Tuesday.
Interesting to see Press Gazette doing a “return to the office” survey of journalism workplaces - using Substack.
But it requires you to have a Substack login to take it.
It’s a landmark day for beavers:
Sussex Wildlife Trust welcomes the announcement today allowing licensed releases of Beavers into the wild in England, whilst confirming that all existing wild populations can remain and expand naturally. This means that rather than releasing into isolated enclosures, the Government will support catchment-scale releases of Beavers. For the first time in over 400 years, Beavers can live and move freely in our rivers.
In a sea of bleak, depressing news, this is exciting stuff.
Well, it had to happen. Here’s the first thing I actually agree with the current US president about:
Trump likens UK encryption law to ‘something you hear about with China’.
A stopped clock etc etc