It's even worse than it appears..
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Today Automattic announced that they're converting Tumblr, which they acquired in 2019, to run on WordPress as its foundation. This could get a simple colorful user-friendly interface for WordPress, something it's needed for a long time. WordPress does everything in its UI, Tumblr has its UI better organized for writers and more casual users. If they can move in this direction, it seems that WordPress could be large part of the emerging social web. #
An idea for the Harris campaign. Let me buy some swag and have it sent to 10 of my best friends, esp ones who live in swing states. Plus you get the names and contact info for people at least one of your supporters thought would be a potential Harris voter. I'd send something less presumptuous like When We Fight We Win stickers. Another related idea, let me buy a whole set of promotional materials, kind of like the gift baskets they sell at Zabar's. #
Note to the Harris campaign: This Google search should return a complete list of your ads. Or a pointer to a site with a complete list of your ads. I want to make sure everyone who follows me sees every one of them! Let us help you help us.#
Wordle Kitty is colluding#
  • In the next scene, Wordle Kitty, lithe and slender, and fiercely cute, is doing an AMA on Reddit. #
  • One of the questions asks if Wordle Kitty knows anyone in the US Government. #
  • "I don't know anyone in the US Government," she said, "but I do know their kittens!" she concluded. #
  • This scene is shown on the front page of the NY Times along with the headline "Wordle Kitty is leading an insurrection in DC, other kittens are colluding!"#
  • Wordle Kitty is colluding with the Kittens of DC.#

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