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Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.

"The work suggests that Stone Age people were as clever as modern-day humans, according to researcher Ewa Dutkiewicz from Berlin's Museum of Prehistory and Early History.

"So far, we've only scratched the surface of what can be found in terms of symbol sequences on a wide variety of artifacts..."

Watch our performance of “Different World” featuring Gina Loring on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, #ThankYouDave youtu.be/FocRkYsA0SU

📸: @toddowyoung.bsky.social

WordPress won by lowering barriers to publishing. But the change management, learning curves and onboarding costs required to migrate to new platforms are now being replaced by agentic enablement—across many platforms, without inheriting WordPress’s complexity debt.

This shift didn’t come out of nowhere. Astro, Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, and similar tools already showed that “site as a build artifact” beats “site as a fragile runtime.”

What’s changed is accessibility. Agents collapse the setup and ops gap that kept these tools niche.

The future looks self-hosted first: clean stacks, real backups, edge distribution via services like Cloudflare, and agents specialized in site operations.

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We’ve been rethinking self-hosting since the WPEngine vs WordPress blowup. With agents and tools like Warp, most of the old technical hurdles are basically gone.

📢 New #ATScience speaker! @simpsontw.bsky.social will present their project @skysquare.app : “Skysquare: context as a service.” Skysquare uses ATProtocol to reattach public discourse to its source, transforming the web into a socially annotated commons 📎

AGENTS.md outperforms skills in our agent evals - Vercel A compressed 8KB docs index in AGENTS.md achieved 100% on Next.js 16 API evals. Skills maxed at 79%. Here's what we learned and how to set it up.

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NEW research: sparktoro.com/blog/new-res...

If you give ChatGPT the same request for product recommendations 100X, will you ever get the same list twice?

And what does that answer mean for folks who try to track their brand presence in AI tools?

Finally, some real answers 🧐

Traditional Code Review Is Dead. What Comes Next? AI is making line-by-line code review obsolete. The new quality gate isn't reading syntax; it's verifying outcomes in live preview environments.

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"The new quality gate isn't reading syntax; it's verifying outcomes in live preview environments."

The rise of 'micro' apps: non-developers are writing apps instead of buying them | TechCrunch A new era of app creation is here. It's fun, it's fast, and it's fleeting.

This—and FOSS—are the future 👇

Increasing your AI visibility but are you increasing your pipeline? Track these metrics instead. YouTube video by Wil Reynolds

When SEO was a new channel, we could track EVERYTHING it was so much easier ... keywords, persistent cookies, single device, etc.

AI is a new channel & it's coming at a time when precise tracking is near impossible, making KPIs and success metrics tough, here's my .02.

youtu.be/CdXZ9oRGNGA?...

In 1989 De La Soul would release it’s debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising. Widely considered a masterpiece, it redefined what hip-hop could be — playful, experimental, and unapologetically original.
 
Shop the collection now. www.levi.com/US/en_US/clo...

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Ever feel like a friend, a culture—or even yourself—is starting to fade into the din of the feed?
Each scroll, a little deeper into confirmation bias.
Each post, a worldview drifting further from our neighbors.
Every reaction, more out of context.
Until all that’s left is the echo of who we were...

gpt-5 is for code.

The Extinction Event: Why SaaS is Already Dead (It Just Doesn’t Know It Yet) For years, we’ve been sold a lie.

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"Now, with execution-first AI, that reality is here. Instead of clicking through dashboards, filling forms, and pressing buttons, AI can simply carry out the task directly. And that makes the traditional UI obsolete."

Srinivas Rao on Medium: skooloflife.medium.com/the-extincti...

Agent Mode | Warp documentation Use natural language to accomplish any task in the terminal

This is so, so, so dope. We're officially at peak SaaS, adjust your portfolios folks:

docs.warp.dev/features/war...

In @warp.dev with Claude Sonnet and it told me this:

"The nano editor was opened, but in a headless terminal environment, I can't directly edit the file through nano. I should use sed or other command-line tools to make the changes."

Sounds like it natively wants to do AI agent work, doesn't it?

Working with @elevenlabs.io a lot lately, cool stuff is coming 👀👀👇👇

This is WILD! 🤯 Cross-platform conversational AI agents with @elevenlabs.io and @expo.dev react native DOM components!

Detailed cookbook coming soon, but code already linked below if you can't wait! 👇

WordPress Sentiment Defies X Drama, Remains Strong Across Platforms On X last October, WordPress seemed to be in crisis. The high-profile lawsuit between WP Engine and Automattic, coupled with criticism of Matt Mullenweg's leadership, sparked heated debates. But outsi...

WordPress still the champ, y'all...
www.therepository.email/wordpress-se...

My hottest take remains to be: 4k TV is a regression. Aside from sports where more detail is better, everything else these days looks like a 1990s soap opera shot on high end home video. Take me back to shallow depth of field please 🙏

AI for writing is like the escalator. It was meant to speed things up, but most just stand still and let it do all the work.

MEMORANDUM FOR THE PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION SUBJECT: New Annual Media Rotation Program for Pentagon Press Corps For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department's top military and civilian leaders. Known as the Correspondents' Corridor, this office space loaned to media outlets by the Secretary of Defense stands as a tribute to the importance the Department has long placed on informing the public about the U.S. military and all it does to project peace through strength. It also honors the many correspondents who put their lives on the line, and in many cases died, while covering our finest in battle. In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents' Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalistic value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs will implement a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces. Each year, one outlet from each press medium - print, online, television and radio - that has enjoyed working from a physical office in the Pentagon will rotate out of the building to allow a new outlet from the same medium that has not had the unique opportunity to report as a resident member of the Pentagon Press Corps. This year, the following news outlets will begin their rotation by vacating their physical office space effective Friday, February 14, 2025: Print - The New York Times TV - NBC News Radio - National Public Radio Online News - POLITICO In their place, the following outlets from each medium will be invited to move into the Correspondents' Corridor workspaces formerly occupied by the above four outlets. Print - New York Post TV - One America News Network Radio - Breitbart News Network Online News - HuffPost News (aka The Huffington Post)

To be clear, the outlets that vacate the spaces loaned to them by the Secretary will remain as full members of the Pentagon Press Corps. They will continue to enjoy the same media access to the Pentagon and will be able to attend and cover briefings and be considered for travel with civilian and military leaders in the Department as they have previously. The only change will be giving up their physical workspaces in the building to allow new outlets to have their turn to become resident members of the Pentagon Press Corps. Thank you in advance for participating in the Pentagon Press Corps Annual Media Rotation Program. By turning over the office space loaned to you by the Secretary, you will ensure that new outlets will have the same opportunity you have enjoyed covering our nation's finest up close from office spaces inside the walls of the Pentagon. (John Ullyot Acting

NBC News is being kicked out of its space in the Pentagon and replaced by OANN.

Pentagon to swap traditional media with pro-Trump outlets under new rotational program for Defense Department workspace | CNN Business One America News Network would soon replace NBC News and Breitbart would swap with National Public Radio in coveted Pentagon press corps workspace under a plan shared with journalists Friday night.

New: One America News Network would soon replace NBC News and Breitbart would swap with National Public Radio in coveted Pentagon press corps workspace under a plan shared with journalists Friday night. www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/m...

I've just realized something pretty important: AI could soon supplant the dominance of the algorithmic feed for news discovery.

Rather than scrolling and following, we'll be able to setup AI assistants—who will know everything about us—to scan the news, identify relevant info and deliver it to us.