I’ll be there!
Fixed - I think :)
Week 1 observations: toni.org/2026/03/13/i...
Me as well!
Jay is the reason Bluesky exists and has gotten to where it is today - thank you!
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be joining Bluesky as interim CEO. I deeply believe in what this team has built and the open social web they're fighting for. More here: toni.org/2026/03/09/c...
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."
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"
Day 1 of our release sprint 🚀
CascadeFlow shipped, open source AI cascading that cuts costs 30-65% in 3 lines of code.
Small models handle 80% of workflows. Python + TypeScript. MIT licensed.
Try it & leave a ⭐
github.com/lemony-ai/ca...
#OpenSource #AI
Before Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses, we had NASA's Virtual Interface Environment Workstation (VIEW)
"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.
trueventures.com/blog/the-tra...
The next decade of enterprise AI is being defined now. Meet the people building it.
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.
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.
