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After returning from vacation, Automattic's CEO, upset that other companies are using WordPress consistently with its license and that his move to unilaterally ban some hosting providers from the update server (which the CEO insists is his personal website) was rejected by a court, complains about the community -- excuse me, the "community" (scare quotes are used throughout) and declares that Automattic will be refocusing on their paid services instead of WordPress core in a "well, see how *you* like it!" manner.

Matt Mullenweg, one of the founders of WordPress and current CEO of Automattic, in the context of being mad that people are using the Free Software his company works on in a manner consistent with its license, bans several prominent members of the WordPress community from WordPress.org (which hosts plugins, updates, development, support forums, but which he insists is his personal website) while trash-talking them and their companies, because they've suggested they'd be open to a change in leadership and project governance.

"Zuckerberg even offers Republicans another target: Apple."

"I really, really don't want to do this, but let's do a bit (just a LITTLE BIT) of fact checking about what Zuck said on the Joe Rogan podcast, because this is something I not only followed closely, but also spent time *talking to the actual people at Meta who dealt with this* which WAS NOT ZUCK."

Old/new photos of the original Sputnik-style sign and the flat, vector-drawn image of the old sign that went up when the city insisted they remove the original in 1999.

"Generative models can be powerfully useful—if you’re willing to adapt your approach."

"This recently mapped Bronze Age fortress is just one among hundreds."

"Without these necessary hate speech and other policies, Meta is giving the green light for people to target LGBTQ people, women, immigrants, and other marginalized groups with violence, vitriol, and dehumanizing narratives. With these changes, Meta is continuing to normalize anti-LGBTQ hatred for profit — at the expense of its users and true freedom of expression."