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…
Month: September 2018
👓 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…
👓 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.
👓 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…
👓 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
👓 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…
👓 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.
👓 Jodie Whittaker demanded equal pay to Peter Capaldi for Doctor Who | The Independent
'Equal pay is a notion that should be supported!'
👓 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.
👓 Decentralisation: the next big step for the world wide web | The Guardian
The decentralised web, or DWeb, could be a chance to take control of our data back from the big tech firms. So how does it work and when will it be here?
👓 Serena Williams’s U.S. Open Loss Was Humiliating—But Not For Her | The Atlantic
What happened to the superstar was shocking. It was not surprising.
👓 This beautiful map shows everything that powers an Amazon Echo, from data mines to lakes of lithium | The Verge
Welcome to the ‘Anatomy of an AI System’
👓 Academic Activists Send a Published Paper Down the Memory Hole | Quillette
In the highly controversial area of human intelligence, the ‘Greater Male Variability Hypothesis’ (GMVH) asserts that there are more idiots and more geniuses among men than among women. Darwin’s research on evolution in the nineteenth century found that, although there are many exceptions for ...
I understand the potential political implications of such research, but blocking publication like this seems a tad underhanded. I’ve not yet read the paper, but want to take a look at it at least from an evolutionary theoretic standpoint. Admittedly on its face it sounds a bit more like pure theory rather than anything supported by actual evidence and underlying research in reality, but there’s no reason to stop the idea if it could potentially be a fruitful area.
If a formally refereed and published paper can later be erased from the scientific record and replaced by a completely different article, without any discussion with the author or any announcement in the journal, what will this mean for the future of electronic journals?
This is a very concerning issue and a good reason why people should also practice samizdat and place multiple copies online in various repositories.
📺 “Worst Cooks in America” Piece of Cake | Food Network
Chefs Robert Irvine and Anne Burrell leave the recruits to their own devices, asking them to work in teams to recreate a dish by taste alone. Unbeknownst to the recruits, the chefs secretly watch their every move and are shocked by what they see. For the main dish challenge, the recruits have to bake a tiered cake to suit two special guest judges, Food Network's Gesine Prado and Jason Smith. In the end, Anne and Robert decide which recruits satisfy their sweet tooth and which ones leave them with a toothache.
Really should be named Worst Cooks in America with a lot of personality.
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