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WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org
Matt Mullenweg, WordPress News, 2024/09/26

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I can only wonder how many educational institutions are impacted by this tiff between WordPress and one of the largest WordPress hosting services, WP Engine. As this story reports, "Pending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org's resources." WordPress is looking to get at least something back from WP Engine - at the very least, royalties for their use of the 'WordPress' trademark, and to this end, posted an update to WordPress users making this case. WP blocked WordPress from sending the message, and in turn, WordPress blocked core functoonality WP Engine had been accessing for free.

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Learning Types by Tim Klapdor
Tim Klapdor, 2024/09/26

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My first thought on reading this is that this is clever branding. Tim Klapdor writes, "Learning Types is a resources developed to create and share a typology of learning to aid the design and development of engaging learning experiences." We're all familiar with the categories, but I like the right colours and logos.

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Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI
Adi Robertson, The Verge, 2024/09/26

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Taken as a whole, the content that is used to create AI is pretty valuable. But no individual bit of content matters that much. Mark Zuckerberg says, "If they demanded that we don't use their content, then we just wouldn't use their content." It does suggest, though, that there is an onus on those companies that profit from the creation and use of AI have an obligation to pay back into society the value they have extracted from it, if not one by one, the collectively.

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Welcome to the Atmosphere
AT Protocol, 2024/09/26

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As the overview says, "the Authenticated Transfer (AT) Protocol, aka atproto, is a federated protocol for large-scale distributed social applications." It is the alternative protocol created by BlueSky to replace the ActivityPub used by Mastodon and the rest of the fediverse. Did the world need more than one fediverse protocol? That's debatable, but there are others as well, and there's nothing inherently wrong with it. One key attribute they're tackling is identity: "Users should be able to create global IDs which are stable across services. These IDs should rarely change to ensure that links to their content are stable." Since they're all (supposed to be) open protocols, people can build bridges between them and make them interoperate, which is what Bridgy Fed has been doing. Via Paul Frazee. Image: Wikipedia.

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