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👓 Trump to provide written answers under oath in Summer Zervos defamation lawsuit | Washington Post
President Trump will provide written answers under oath in the defamation lawsuit brought by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos, who claims Trump sexually assaulted her in 2007, a new court filing stated. Lawyers for Trump and Zervos agreed this week to exchange “written answers and objections” to formal written questions by Sept. 28, according to a document filed Friday with the New York State Supreme Court. Rules in New York state require interrogatories to be sworn or verified, according to a source familiar with the system, meaning that false answers could open Trump to charges of perjury.
👓 Jodie Whittaker demanded equal pay to Peter Capaldi for Doctor Who | The Independent
'Equal pay is a notion that should be supported!'
👓 Why It’s So Hard to Be a Working Mom. Even at Facebook. | Wired
Opinion: I was a data scientist and mom. Then I had to choose.
For Facebook to say that they can’t do this is simply stupid and insane.
👓 WordPress to Support Classic Editor for “Many Years to Come,” Plugin and Theme Markets Expected to Drive Gutenberg Adoption | WordPress Tavern
During the 2017 State of the Word address, Matt Mullenweg announced the availability of the Classic Editor plugin for site owners who are not ready to adopt Gutenberg when it makes its debut in Wor…
👓 Our Mission Statement | ClassicPress
1. If it isn’t broken, we won’t fix it
2. Major decisions will be made by the community
3. We will facilitate democratic discussion and decision making
4. We will make people’s lives better
5. We will invest in the future of ClassicPress
👓 New WP Glossary Site Translates WordPress Techspeak into Plain English | WordPress Tavern
Anders Norén has launched a new website called WP Glossary that contains definitions for terms that people encounter when using WordPress. The resource was born out of a need to provide documentati…
👓 Gary Pendergast Praises ClassicPress, Extends Invitation for Collaboration | WordPress Tavern
Gutenberg and WordPress core contributor Gary Pendergast has weighed in with this thoughts on ClassicPress, a fork of WordPress created by Scott Bowler. Pendergast praises the fork and extended an …
The potential forking of WordPress like this actually could present an interesting opportunity for the broader community and the platform. It reminds me a bit of the BackDrop fork of Drupal and how it has benefited both platforms going forward. BackDrop has about 100 solid contributors that are building and iterating much more rapidly on their platform than the bigger behemoth of Drupal. As a result, new plugins and cleaner UI have entered their core and improved more rapidly with active dogfooding while their security teams collaborate closely and pushes go back and forth between the two. In the end both platforms end up benefiting tremendously. Naturally the two need to have some collegiality and collaboration to help make sure this happens.
👓 Dark Mode is Possibly Coming to a WordPress Dashboard Near You | WordPress Tavern
For the past year, Daniel James has been developing the Dark Mode plugin for WordPress. The plugin is actively installed on more than 1K sites. Dark Mode replaces the white and grey colors in the b…
👓 Identify Reddit deplorables | Nelson’s log
Interesting new Reddit tool: Masstagger. You install it and it pops up little red warnings next to user’s posts. “the_donald user”, or “kotakuinaction user”, or the li…
👓 Two factor authentication overview | Nelson’s log
Bit of kerfuffle this week around Reddit, which had a security breach despite having two factor authentication enabled. Some basic introductory notes for folks wondering what’s going on. Two-…
👓 Zip codes vs census tracts | Nelson’s log
A lot of digital maps use zip codes as a binning feature. Election maps, property value maps, pollution maps. But while zip codes are convenient and familiar there’s a much better set of poly…
👓 Perspective | At U.S. Open, power of Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka is overshadowed by an umpire’s power play | Washington Post
Sally Jenkins (Washington Post)‘A career of pushing boundaries': How Serena Williams has rewritten rules for women in tennis
Chair umpire Carlos Ramos managed to rob not one but two players in the women’s U.S. Open final. Nobody has ever seen anything like it: An umpire so wrecked a big occasion that both players, Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams alike, wound up distraught with tears streaming down their faces during the trophy presentation and an incensed crowd screamed boos at the court. Ramos took what began as a minor infraction and turned it into one of the nastiest and most emotional controversies in the history of tennis, all because he couldn’t take a woman speaking sharply to him.
👓 The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s his Republican enablers. | Vox
Trump’s flaws lie in plain sight. It’s the GOP that pretends blindness.
👓 Caught mid-flow: the “Baldwin effect” | The Economist
While most side-blotched lizards living in the Mojave desert match the colour of its sand, those