Here's a fair summary and assessment of the recent series of unfortunate events at WordPress/Automattic from @mathewi. It captures my own thoughts and, yes, feelings about it pretty perfectly. Is Matt Mullenweg defending WordPress or sabotaging it? […]

@paninid I know that a flood risk index has been around for a while; I haven’t seen one for multiple factors until now.

@mike @design-trends-AptTherapy @science-TheAtlantic @album-reviews-RollingStone @politics-PBSNewsHour Is the content linked in posts from these feeds subject to subscription paywalls (whether hard or soft/metered), or is this a curated subset of content that the publishers make available for free?

@rwg @andresmh Yeah, I don't think any image, on its own, is a meme. It depends on what people do with it and whether it catches on and is both highly replicable and easily mutable. So there's no reason an AI-generated image can't become a meme, if someone lands it in the right way and it […]

@rwg Don't know if I qualify as a meme scholar, but I'd say anything that behaves and functions as a meme counts as a meme, now matter what or who made it.

@darwinwoodka I live in VA and vote early in person every time. The only time I voted by mail was during COVID.

Here’s a more accurate, contextualized way to report on it:

So much looking into. I wonder what they'll say they found.

Also "looking into" the death of a 16 year old girl who was looking out her window in the West Bank when she was shot dead by an IDF sniper. Palestinian girl killed in West Bank was looking out the window, her father says […]

Also, apparently, when an IDF sniper shoots an American protester. Looking into it. U.S. woman fatally shot at West Bank protest; witnesses say IDF shot her The Israel Defense Forces said it was “looking into reports that a foreign national was killed as a result of shots fired in the area.” […]