Introducing Wireservice. Today, it's a WordPress plugin in alpha for publishing to @standard.site. Tomorrow, it's... another longform content lexicon? A news aggregation app on atproto? We'll see. wordpress.wireservice.net/index.php/20...
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
1. In a large-scale study by the University of Pennsylvania (Joumal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2022), researchers analyzed 5,600 families. Parents who checked their phones more than three times during interactions with their child had twice the rate of conflicts and aggressive reactions in their children. This phenomenon is called "technoference" - technological interference with human connection. The child’s brain perceives a parent's eyes fixed on a screen as a signal of absence. @mirimika_art
2. Neuropsychologists from the University of Michigan (Developmental Psychology, 2017) showed that when parents frequently checked their phones during play, children’s oxytocin levels - the bonding hormone - dropped, while cortisol levels rose, mimicking brief separation stress. Even 30 seconds of distraction disrupted the sense of shared presence. A child doesn’t understand what a notification is; they only see that the parent disappears. @mirimika_art
3. A Chinese study (Computers in Human Behavior, 2020) found that parental phone dependence correlated with higher rates of anxiety and behavioral problems in children. Kids began seeking attention through crying, shouting, or aggression. Researchers called this not misbehavior but attachment regression - the brain’s attempt to restore contact at any cost. @mirimika_art
4. In Harvard's developmental psychology lab (Psychological Science, 2021), parents were asked to reply to messages during dinner. After one week, their children were worse at reading facial expressions and interrupted others more often. Researchers explained that the child copies the communication pattem where attention is fragmented and presence is partial. The way a parent looks teaches a child either connection or avoidance. @mirimika_art
us older generations like to characterize gen z and younger as having attention span problems cause they're on phones/tablets all the time, but there's a pretty strong case to be made that us on our phones are the real problem
MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°
Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"
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"Venture is dead." I've heard this same prediction in every tech wave Web 1.0, crypto, and now AI. The argument is AI's capital efficiency makes VC obsolete.
I believe the opposite. AI won't just save venture; it will restore value to the entire startup economy.
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Sept 10 in SF: Connected Stack. Hear from founders of 11x, Arcade, Baseten, Chronosphereio, Cresta, Decagon, Deeptrust, Exa, @joinhandshake.bsky.social, @letta.com, Nectar, Nooks @semgrep.com, Veza—and more to come.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
he stats behind the story. Automattic / 20
WordPress powers 43% of all websites.
Automattic turns 20 this month! 🎂We’re celebrating with a look at some of the stats behind our story. First up: @wordpress.org powers 43% of all websites on the internet. Nearly half of the web!
It gives Automattic long term security and the ability to protect the license against competitors (like it did against WP Engine). As to your identity, I asked because I like to know who I am talking to and what your intentions are.
I always thought of this TM transfer as unusual and generous on Automattic's part (since most other OS companies just keep TM rights for themselves), but apparently you don't. And yes, the license is perpetual, irrevocable, and exclusive. That's not unusual for a TM license.
The company gets to run wordpress.com, the foundation can do whatever it wants with the TM (with the exception of giving the same license it gave to Automattic to someone else). That's the balance we chose.
It went from the company owning everything, to the foundation owning the TM and controlling its usage, and the company getting a license to keep running WordPress.com. I reconcile the statement and the license by saying that both sides got what they needed.
You also ask "How do you reconcile the public announcements surrounding the trademark donation with the reality of Automattic's "exclusive", "perpetual" and "irrevocable" license?" The TM transfer was about re-balancing things between the company and the open source project.
You asked "However, you avoided the central question: What did the transfer accomplish? What was the benefit to the community?" which is what I responded to, i.e. I'm not avoiding your questions.
The community and WP users and customers as a whole benefit when TM usage across the ecosystem can't be directed by one commercial entity towards their own goals. BTW, you make it sound like you speak for the WP community - who are you?
What did the transfer accomplish? It moved TM control (for anything other than wordpress.com) outside of Automattic, so no company, Automattic or a successor company, controls how the TM is used as part of the open source project, WordCamps, plugins, themes, freelancers, agencies, etc.
Hard to get nuanced in short comments, but I stand behind the TM decisions we made 14+ years ago. Not easy to thread the commercial/non-commercial needle. I think WP's enduring success across open source and thousands of businesses shows that we got some things right.
The transfer accomplished a split of commercial and non-commercial rights. Commercial rights to A8c, frozen at wp.com/.tv (no new products beyond that). Non-commercial rights to foundation so all open source parts of WP can run fully independent of any company.
The license says that it is for a specific use ("in connection with..."): Hosting of blogs/sites on wordpress.com (and .tv).
We convinced Automattic's investors to transfer the TM to a foundation. In exchange, Automattic got rights to use the TM to keep operating WordPress.com (that's what the document above is about). (2/2)
Sure. Automattic originally owned the WordPress trademark (because as a company we had the resources to defend the TM against numerous scammers and squatters). After a few years, we decided the TM would be in safer hands at a foundation (in case Automattic went under). (1/2)
Fantastic piece by @whittledaway.bsky.social on rewilding.
Nothing else represents such sheer, distilled hope at a time when that can be in very short supply, and it's our primary weapon against nature loss in highly depleted places like Ireland.
I want to thank the Giants community for making mailbags such fun articles to write
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This piece -- melancholy and somehow a bit listless in an honest and important way? -- is beautifully written despite the understandably scattered thoughts. It's going to haunt me for a while. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-fires-...
