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"Cynicism is the cheap seats. It’s the fast food of intellectual positions. Anyone can point at something and say it’s broken, corrupt, or destined to fail. The real challenge? Building something better.
The cynic sees a proposal for change and immediately lists why it won’t work. They’"

"Here’s the thing about bias: sometimes what looks like bias is actually pattern recognition. Sometimes it’s mathematics. Sometimes it’s the simple calculus of survival. Sometimes it’s just common sense."
"When someone says you’re biased against them because you object to their stated goal of removing you from society, they’re not actually asking for fairness — they’re demanding complicity."

OSNews weighs in on the WordPress drama in which Matt Mullenweg has now twice told people they should go ahead and fork the project in response to their disagreement with his leadership, and in the most recent case blocked several major members of the community from accessing WordPress.org because of it.

"To better understand the size of the L.A. fires, this tool lets you overlay the fire perimeters on any location in California."

Mastodon-style front-end client that can be used to sign into other sites, with a GoToSocial flavor

Workaround: $ export SURFMAN_FORCE_GLES=1

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.