The Ghost ActivityPub team being even more spicy than normal in their latest update, talking about choosing their first beta testers:

How did we select the 3? First we asked everyone to promise to give us 8% of their revenue, or else. Then, when that predictably failed we ultimately just selected 3 of the private beta applications with the smallest audience sizes.

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It was a beautifully misty autumnal commute this morning.

A person with a backpack walks along a foggy train platform, with tracks running parallel and a digital signboard in the distance.A misty train station platform is depicted with overhead lights glowing and a few people waiting alongside the tracks surrounded by trees.

Finishing the (working) week with a round-up of news from the scrum where AI and journalism meet.

Technology is great. People are idiots.

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.