WP Engine, who is in a prolonged legal battled with WordPress.org and Automattic over trademark and other legal matters bought a plug-in today. Congrats to them. But then in response to this the WordPress.org X/Twitter account called WPE a parasite. This was obviously Matt Mullenweg misusing his control over the non-profit/open source WordPress project to […]

Ars Technica recently published an article that had quotes that were fabricated by AI/LLMs. When called on it by the person who was “quoted” for the sheer fact that he was NEVER contacted for a quote, Ars did a retraction. There’s much talk about the ethics here and some good commentary here. On the latest […]

I got a call yesterday or the day before (honestly the days blur now). That my Mom was at the hospital up in Vermont with heart pains and burning. I think it was Tuesday, so two days ago. She was admitted to the hospital up there and then it was determines that they needed to […]

What a series. What an ending. Yes it’s kind of horror, but more a thriller. Hard to believe that it’s been going for 10 years. Granted we had a global pandemic that caused it to be that long as well between some seasons. I finished the Stranger Things series finale last night with probably half […]

Last night I watched the first Knives Out movie, finally, with the Mere. It was so good. I do have to admit I don’t like Daniel Craig using an accent other than his posh British accent, it was shocking when I first heard his weird southern draw. But other than that the movie was superb. […]