If your 🔥 spicy #WordPress vs. #WPEngine smackdown doesn't talk about #trademarks, you're missing the point. Or, you could just read @adamhjk who's covered all the key details, some you probably didn't know around rights ownership. 🤩. Markets dislike surprises.

Interested in democracy, truth, and discovering what's really happening behind all the soundbytes?. Follow ProPublica.

RT @swardley: X : Any thoughts on Musk's attacks on the US civil service?.Me : Not the way to make lasting change. It will have one very co….

What's your long-term succession plan for domain names and open source projects you own? 🪦. Am I the only person who thinks about this stuff?.

😀 Raise your hand if today is Yak Shaving Day! 🪒🐃. 🤨. 🤔. 😮. ✋ Raise your hand if today is Advocate For Adding The Yak Emoji To Unicode Day! ⌨️.

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." Celebrate the small wins to help us gear up for the rough road ahead. #BostonStrong.

At @OpenForumEurope event wondering how we can help #Researchers on #OpenSource to include better project affiliation/size/governance data in their studies. Gotta be some simple data projects can add to signal are at a foundation, do have governance process, etc.

Fascinating idea for one aspect of #OpenSource #Sustainability: using the university endowment model to fund OSS maintenance. Simple question with huge upside, but a really hard problem to align all the different actors.

At #OpenForumAcademy in Boston and loving the ⁦@amcasari⁩ redone Nebraska #OpenSource maintainer picture. But: the ‘other’ section misses out on all the independently governed Foundations…

Sigh. 😢 Humanity is not ready for the internet. It doesn't really matter if it's foreign bots spreading disinformation, or so influencers gaming the social media algorithim; we got hosed.

RT @hankgreen: I know many many wonderful people who are dedicated to making the world a better place and that's a thing that will not chan….

- Harris -. - Walz - .- Obviously -. That pretty much says it all. If that sounds weird to anyone who follows me, finding a broader array of news sources - perhaps some reputable international ones? - is recommended. Hi Taylor!.

"Don't be a sucker." Always relevant.

What if AI licensing followed a new path? 🤔. "[Lets find] a new, clean slate term of choice – one that accurately conveys the portions of a model that are open, while not falsely advertising its features by applying the open source brand to non-open source assets".

In today's "reality tries to catch up to fiction" news 🙄. Antrhopic's Claude now offers computer use, where the AI can do everything you can on your computer, including talking to other computers! 🤖. {narrator} Still not as good a backstory as the Terminator franchise. 🎬.

Hey @make while it's been cool, it's time to unsubscribe and cancel our account *6588. Sadly, the website doesn't have any cancel action! 😢.Emailed memberships@make.co and make@omeda.com, just wanted to double-check they'll follow up on the account deletion! Thanks!.

🤩 Great #OpenSource #Sustainability article on @InfoWorld by Bill Doerrfeld - broad coverage, and well-sourced quotes from a lot of key people in the FOSS world. See also:

Goodbye #CommunityOverCode! Loved seeing my ASF family, but it’s time to go home for my first family. Here was today’s Hawaiian shirt. Remember, my slides and data are all open source, PRs welcome!

Wonder how #OpenSource Foundations get funded? Preview some of the data for my #CommunityOverCode talk in a few hours here - it's all open source, expecting PRs!.

Curious how @TheASF projects are so long-lived, with community governance? . The Practical ASF Way has advice on the behaviors you can use! Slides (with notes) from #CommunityOverCode talk today:.