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Daily News Stuff 18 October 2024

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  • WordPress looks to be entering a doom spiral as Mad King Matt Mullenweg tightens his grip.  (404 Media)  (archive site)
    After an exodus of employees at Automattic who disagreed with CEO Matt Mullenweg's recently divisive legal battle with WP Engine, he's upped the ante with another buyout offer - and a threat that employees speaking to the press should "exit gracefully, or be fired tomorrow with no severance."
    This divides the company neatly into three factions:

    1. Those with principles who will quit - and take advantage of the severance package on offer because principles don't pay the rent.
    2. Those who see the writing on the wall and get while the going is good.
    3. True believers.

    True believers can be good if you're tackling a difficult problem under an experienced leader, like catching an office building falling from space.

    It can also produce Jonestown.

    This is looking more like the latter.

    WordPress itself will survive, since it's open source, but the company and foundation behind it won't.


  • Sad to say I was today years old when I realised why the company is called Automattic.

    One of those things that's cute in a toddler but diagnostic of malignant narcissism in a CEO.


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Disclaimer: My Calliope Mori Limited Edition Hyte Y40 PC case is currently enjoying a layover in Honolulu.  D-3.

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1 Dear AI,
Write me an utterly spurious paper about cats being liquid, but use all the tropes and cliches of quote Real Science unquote that you can.  I mean, like total kitchen sink here.  All the stops pulled out, if you need an organ playing analogy.
Thanks,
Mr. Seance

Posted by: normal at Saturday, October 19 2024 01:20 AM (bg2DR)

2 It's kind of hilarious that people are asking why the matted fibers of Wordpress are going insane /now/? (There are situations where elevated rates of notable lawless insanity are expected.) EU? I think Apple is evil, and a wrongdoer, and also that the national interest is to go against the EU, the UN, and the rest of our so called allies that are really irreconcilable foes.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Saturday, October 19 2024 04:22 AM (rcPLc)

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