The WordPress AI plugin 0.8.0 is now available! This release introduces Refine from Notes for automated content refinement, new AI dashboard widgets, Guidelines integration, and promotes Image Generation to a stable Feature. make.wordpress.org/ai/2026/04/2...

i like to call this "electoral college brain," when politicians (or hell just regular people) confuse the fact that the electoral system privileges closely competitive interior states with some deeper, fundamental meaning

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Hey, I know that site!

For 3 months we've been at work on our first fully agentically constructed release with WP AI agent skills, this release features dark mode for the block editor, a seamless Yoast replacement, over a dozen new AI experiments, and SO MUCH more to share, soon. Until then, a 99% working Dark Mode...

Happy 9th Birthday Gutenberg! github.com/WordPress/gu...

Every so often I ask the fine #WordPress people if they'd like to come on the WP Tavern Jukebox podcast? It's not a chance to promote your product/service, but IS a chance to talk about some aspect of the wider WordPress landscape that you're interested in? DM me that's you! Thx

Google Docs-style editing is now the default behavior if you install the Gutenberg plugin 👀 They really are pushing hard on this with the aim of getting it into WordPress 7.0.

Is the administration’s bit that they encourage right-wing influencers to find “fraud” in blue states; influencers “investigate” and publish propaganda claiming said widespread fraud was responsibility of immigrants; and then gov’t sends in ICE to terrorize people because of it?

How the Supreme Court secretly made itself even more secretive Amid calls to increase transparency and revelations about the court’s inner workings, the chief justice imposed nondisclosure agreements on clerks and employees.

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

“Productivity benefits may come at the cost of skills necessary to validate AI-written code if junior engineers’ skill development has been stunted by using AI in the first place.” Note that this warning comes from @anthropic.com themselves.

With its emphasis on decentralization and API openness Bluesky really does remind me of early Twitter.

Test www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

The Plot to Enslave America:

"Without checks and balances, [social media companies] have become a little bit tyrannical, very arrogant, and completely dismissive of their impact on our society." Our CEO @imranahmed.bsky.social in @kpbssandiego.bsky.social ⤵️ https://bit.ly/48Xjtdl

It's the first year we got season tickets to the National Theatre. First up for this season: Some Like It Hot

“I was just following otters.”

Good night Photo by Petr Horalek

They should make AirPods Pro that heat up during the cold months.

They say AI will replace the web as we know it, and this time they mean it. Here follows a short list of previous times they also meant it,… https://zeldman.com/2025/10/25/receipts-a-brief-list-of-prominent-articles-proclaiming-the-death-of-the-web/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Tabs: Closed 🫡 github.com/WordPress/gu... On to Dialog 🚀

A source familiar with this incident told me today that not only did they arrest and charge the comedy club manager, but the Latino man he was defending from ICE -- who was also arrested and whisked away -- **is also a U.S. citizen.** It's unclear where the Latino man is now.

🛫 Off to GitHub Universe with the whole team. Excited to see what ideas we come back with!

⚠️👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀⚠️ github.com/Automattic/v...

New enshittification just dropped: Compressing old DVD releases into single-layer DVD for re-releases to save 5 cents youtu.be/Hzz_d9Y44ZE

Someone should make Flighty app for trains

This is fucking horrifying.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

Italy said it deployed one of its naval vessels on Wednesday to come to the aid of an aid flotilla that was targeted by drones while trying to reach Gaza, with activists claiming that Israel was behind the strikes.

Ah damn. Today’s the worst day ever. IT got wise and stopped hard wired internet access for non IT machines. Back the work the laptop 😤

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

Pretty cool! Run AI models locally on your iOS device including Apples on device models. apps.apple.com/app/id674142...

Social media was once positioned as the great connecting force that would improve our world. If it ever did that, it certainly isn’t now. We must rein in these platforms, and deceptive narratives aimed at stopped regulation isn’t helping. Age restrictions are an experiment worth trying.

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Godzilla website in 2000 #WebDesignHistory

Apple needs to make Airplay 3 with like fallback to Matter spec for interoperability. Why is the gov taking 15% here 20% there from big tech and not dictating interoperability standards 😤

First I had to get rid of Paramount+, then I had to cancel the Disney+ family bundle. This year has been great for my overall goal of winnowing down subscription services.

Most parents (81%) say that public schools should require students to get the measles and polio vaccines, with exceptions for medical and religious reasons. Among all parents, 8% requested a vaccine exemption so a child could attend school or daycare: https://on.kff.org/4nqSlZG

Agentic workflows (Copilot, Claude Code) are game changers for enterprise WordPress. Learn how WP Playground can be utilized to speed up your dev workflows.

BREAKING: Multiple HBCUs reportedly received threats, prompting lockdowns and heightened security

The right's undeniable advantage is understanding that propaganda works.

Diving in to Claude Code and GitHub Actions today, excited about the auto documentation and issue triage and management I can possibly do with this.

Netanyahu praised Charlie Kirk, who was a raging antisemite, because Netanyahu does not actually view antisemitism as a problem if it is aimed at liberal and leftist Jews or if it serves his ultra-nationalism.

Still some more work to do, but core/dialog and core/tabs both submitted for review! github.com/WordPress/gu... github.com/WordPress/gu...