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Note to writers everywhere: Not everything is a “liminal moment” or a “liminal space.” Give it a rest for pete’s sake

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New from me at The Torment Nexus: “Is AI going to save us or kill us? Even the experts don’t agree” torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-ai-goi…

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Great interview with Kevin Rose, about everything that Digg did right – and wrong. He even compliments Reddit, which never would have happened back in the day :-) Also didn’t know the patents went to LinkedIn www.theverge.com/c/2420961…

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I’ve updated my post on Matt Mullenweg and WordPress with information on a number of incidents that raise even more red flags about his motivation: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-matt-m…

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When Matt Mullenweg talks about contributing to open source, he says that he doesn’t own the WordPress trademark, which is technically true, but the nonprofit that owns it gave WordPress.com, which Matt owns, exclusive control over all of the economic rights ma.tt/2024/10/o…

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Got a good look at Comet A3 just after sunset tonight

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An update to my post on WordPress: Matt sent me a Google Doc with responses to some of the points I raised. I’ve updated the post with a link to that doc and my response: torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/is-matt-m…

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I got a heart-warming DM from someone the other day who remembered something I wrote about their high-school newspaper website about 20 years ago, and said it really inspired them when they were 16, and now they talk to high-school journalism classes and try to do the same ❤️

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Great interview with Caitlin Dewey, who writes one of my favourite newsletters, “Links I Would GChat You If We Were Friends” www.creatorspotlight.com/p/caitlin…

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“As usual, Elon Musk is trying to compete in the Tour de France on a tricycle.” Dan O’Dowd, billionaire co-founder of Green Hills Software, was left unimpressed by Tesla’s cybercab event www.rollingstone.com/culture/c…

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In this week’s edition of my newsletter The Torment Nexus, I look at why Google deserves to lose its online advertising antitrust case: mathewingram.com/2eq

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Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” how a former YouTube influencer wound up in prison for child abuse, and the unsung hero who first discovered penicillin: mathewingram.com/2ej

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Women in the Middle Ages could challenge their rapists to a duel

From Atlas Obscura: “In the Danish Royal Library and the Bavarian State Library in Munich, rare medieval manuscripts depict something unusual, even for the Middle Ages—a man and woman fighting in a trial by combat. The man is drawn waist-deep in a hole armed with an edged club, while the woman circulates above, flinging what looks like a rock in a sock. Both are drawn with furrowed brows, fierce…

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Women in the Middle Ages could challenge their rapists to a duel

From Atlas Obscura: “In the Danish Royal Library and the Bavarian State Library in Munich, rare medieval manuscripts depict something unusual, even for the Middle Ages—a man and woman fighting in a trial by combat. The man is drawn waist-deep in a hole armed with an edged club, while the woman circulates above, flinging what looks like a rock in a sock. Both are drawn with furrowed brows, fierce…

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Today in “When The Going Gets Weird,” inside the Russian bot army that conquered online poker, and the renowned Harvard psychiatrist who torpedoed his career by saying he believed in alien abductions newsletter.mathewingram.com/p/b1e20b1…

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The latest entry in The Torment Nexus, a newsletter featuring my analysis and perspective on technology and culture: “The crusade against TikTok is a ridiculous waste of time” torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/the-crusa…

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Using the social web as a distribution platform for news has become increasingly problematic. Is joining the fediverse a potential solution? digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2024…