"Mad at the Internet" - a/k/a My Psychotherapy Sessions

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That's the only thing that sets off your gaydar about him? Really?
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Not the only thing. That recent gif of him doing the sassy shoulders is a far bigger tell that he's a faggot, in my opinion.

Also, his weird thing about trying to learn about MrBeast's penis while covering the Chris Tyson stuff was obvious homosexual behavior.
 
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If 'please stop asking me to explain why I am always hanging out with your 17 year old son' was a picture.
 
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Tom is definitely going down the wrong path, you’d think a guy who makes videos on people fucking up would be able to recognize the patterns.
If you don’t want to be monogamous and sleep around, whatever you do you. But under no circumstances should you use the promise of a real relationship just to get box. That doesn’t end well.
“Welcome to being an adult”, LMAO. Being an adult means you have responsibilities, and that extends almost more than anything to your personal relations. Cheating on people is the exact opposite of being an adult, it’s a childish idea that you can have your cake and eat it.
Also, factoid, he is bisexual. Hear me now, believe me later, if you cheat on your gal with a dude you won’t live that down for a hot minute.
 
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It's either that or ALL THE KIDS ARE FAGGOTS. Which is a distinct possibility.
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Not to be autistic sperg, but if it's a running gag, i fell for it


 
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Not to be autistic sperg, but if it's a running gag, i fell for it
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That first clip is something else. His only experience with bisexual people is Twitter bios and some fake ass story about "purple haired freaks in art class" because the schools find the bisexual students and only place them in art classes. Dude sounds like a self-hating queer and it makes me question every time he's tried to posture as some anti-degenerate mouthpiece. It's been very lucrative for him to target so-called "degens" all while concealing his bisexual cuckold lifestyle.

Oh yeah, and Tom probably fucked Destiny. Destiny has a fetish for sucking dick, and Tom is a homo with a man-crush on the carpet cleaner. Calling it now.

EDIT: The implication of this queer man telling his audience that most adults cheat makes much more sense now. He's talking about statistics in his gay community and not adult-woman monogamous heterosexual couples. Well damn, in that case he's probably right on the money. "Grow up and become an (adulterous bisexual cuckold) adult, people!"
 
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Listening to the latest episode, I'm really glad the headache of how nightmarish the silver run has faded, the pain of producing kiwi coins is ephemeral, the glory of how they turned out is forever even if the corn looks weird with each kernel being struck, rather than being lines
 
I edited my favorite clip in "recent" MATI history for the Tiktok account, but I don't remember if Josh said if one should post potential videos for that account in this thread or just mail them to him. I'd figure since only people that have the chinese spyware are going to see it if I send it by mail, I'm going to post it here. I hope, if Josh likes it and it's not to crass to post, that some of the nice people on Tiktok are going to appreciate it, if it's posted with the right hashtags relating to the war. :)

I opted for less flashy/brainrot subtitles, since I never liked the 1-word-at-a-time subtitles and honestly don't know how to do them in Resolve without doing 5x work.
Probably not going to do more, but it was fun to do once.

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I also attached a higher quality 1080p (original stream is 720p, fyi) 32MB encode, encoded with -crf 23 & -preset veryslow, this should probably be enough to upload to TikTok, which will probably destroy the quality further.
 

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@Null Tech drama in PHP world as WordPress.org has blocked WP Engine users from updating and installing plugin via the WP Admin window potentially affect huge amount of the Internet. WP Engine has filed a Cease and Desist to WordPress.org ( in the wp-content folder), the funniest claim is that the Wordpress/Automattic guy is accused of modifying admin dashboards (including WPEngine hosted instances) to host a seethepost about WPEngine from his blog. Matt Mullenweg, Automatic's CEO that owns WordPress.org, is openly alogging them on Xitter LMAO. Xitter Thread. / Xitter thread archive
WP Engine talk begins @ 10:00
Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers / Matt Mullunweg personal blog seething
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg unleashed a scathing attack on a rival firm this week, calling WP Engine a “cancer to WordPress.”
Mullenweg criticized the company — which has been commercializing the open source WordPress project since 2010 — for profiteering without giving much back, while also disabling key features that make WordPress such a powerful platform in the first place.
For context, WordPress powers more than 40% of the web, and while any individual or company is free to take the open source project and run a website themselves, a number of businesses have sprung up to sell hosting services and technical expertise off the back of it. These include Automattic, which Mullenweg set up in 2005 to monetize the project he’d created two years previous; and WP Engine, a managed WordPress hosting provider that has raised nearly $300 million in funding over its 14-year history, the bulk of which came via a $250 million investment from private equity firm Silver Lake in 2018.
It’s worth noting that Automattic has a history in backing WordPress hosting companies, having invested in WP Engine itself way back in 2011, while Mullenweg also spoke at WP Engine’s conference just last year. Moreover, Automattic also bought a majority stake in WordPress hosting company Pressable back in 2016, as well as Gridpane in 2022.
But speaking this week at WordCamp US 2024, a WordPress-focused conference held in Portland, Oregon, Mullenweg pulled no punches in his criticism of WP Engine. Taking to the stage, Mullenweg read out a post he had just published to his personal blog, where he points to the distinct “five for the future” investment pledges made by Automattic and WP Engine to contribute resources to support the sustained growth of WordPress, with Automattic contributing 3,900 hours per week, an WP Engine contributing just 40 hours.
While he acknowledged that these figures are just a “proxy,” and might not be perfectly accurate, Mullenweg said that this disparity in contributions is notable, as both Automattic and WP Engine “are roughly the same size, with revenue in the ballpark of half-a-billion [dollars].”
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From his blog
(This post should be read while listening to Wish by Joshua Redman. The writing is synchronized to the music reading speed.)

Contributor day just wrapped up for Portland for WordCamp US. If you ever have a chance to visit a WordCamp, I recommend it. It’s an amazing group of people brought together by this crazy idea that by working together regardless of our differences or where we came from or what school we went to we can be united by a simple yet groundbreaking idea: that software can give you more Freedom. Freedom to hack, freedom to charge, freedom to break it, freedom to do things I disagree with, freedom to experiment, freedom to be yourself, freedom expressed across the entire range of the human condition.

Open Source, once ridiculed and attacked by the professional classes, has taken over as an intellectual and moral movement. Its followers are legion within every major tech company. Yet, even now, false prophets like Meta are trying to co-opt it. Llama, its “open source” AI model, is free to use—at least until “monthly active users of the products or services made available by or for Licensee, or Licensee’s affiliates, is greater than 700 million monthly active users in the preceding calendar month.” Seriously.

Excuse me? Is that registered users? Visitors to WordPress-powered sites? (Which number in the billions.) That’s like if the US Government said you had freedom of speech until you made over 50 grand in the preceding calendar year, at which point your First Amendment rights were revoked. No! That’s not Open Source. That’s not freedom.

I believe Meta should have the right to set their terms—they’re smart business, and an amazing deal for users of Llama—but don’t pretend Llama is Open Source when it doesn’t actually increase humanity’s freedom. It’s a proprietary license, issued at Meta’s discretion and whim. If you use it, you’re effectively a vassal state of Meta.

When corporations disingenuously claim to be “open source” for marketing purposes, it’s a clear sign that Open Source is winning.

Actual Open Source licenses are the law that guarantees freedom, the bulwark against authoritarianism. But what makes Open Source work isn’t the law, it’s the ethos. It’s the social mores. It’s what I’m now calling Ecosystem Thinking: the mindset that separates any old software with an open source license from the software that’s alive, that’s humming with activity and contributions from a thousand places.
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Compare the Five For the Future pages from Automattic and WP Engine, two companies that are roughly the same size with revenue in the ballpark of half a billion. These pledges are just a proxy and aren’t perfectly accurate, but as I write this, Automattic has 3,786 hours per week (not even counting me!), and WP Engine has 47 hours. WP Engine has good people, some of whom are listed on that page, but the company is controlled by Silver Lake, a private equity firm with $102 billion in assets under management. Silver Lake doesn’t give a dang about your Open Source ideals. It just wants a return on capital.


So it’s at this point that I ask everyone in the WordPress community to vote with your wallet. Who are you giving your money to? Someone who’s going to nourish the ecosystem, or someone who’s going to frack every bit of value out of it until it withers? Newfold, especially since its acquisition of Yoast and Yith, gives back. (I’ve asked them to consolidate their Five for the Future pages to better represent the breadth of their contributions.) So does Awesome Motive, 10up, Godaddy, Hostinger, even Google. Think about that next time it comes up to renew your hosting or domain, weigh your dollars towards companies that give back more, because you’ll get back more, too. Freedom isn’t free.


Those of us who are makers, who create the source, need to be wary of those who would take our creations and squeeze out the juice. They’re grifters who will hop onto the next fad, but we’re trying to build something big here, something long term—something that lasts for generations.


I may screw up along the way, or my health may falter, but these principles and beliefs will stand strong, because they represent the core tenet of our community: the idea that what we create together is bigger than any one person.
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WP ENGINE CEASE AND DESIST
https://wpenginestatus.com/incidents/640187 / https://archive.ph/Qu0R0
WordPress.org has blocked WP Engine customers from updating and installing plugins and themes via WP Admin. There is currently no impact on the performance, reliability or security of your site nor does it impact your ability to make updates to your code or content. We know how important this is for you and we are actively developing a remediation for this issue. We will update you as soon as we have a fix.
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We are litigation counsel for WP Engine and write to address the serious and repeated misconduct Automattic has directed toward WP Engine over the past several days.
Stunningly, Automattic’s CEO Matthew Mullenweg threatened that if WP Engine did not agree to pay Automattic – his for-profit entity – a very large sum of money before his September 20th keynote address at the WordCamp US Convention, he was going to embark on a self-described “scorched earth nuclear approach” toward WP Engine within the WordPress community and beyond. When his outrageous financial demands were not met, Mr. Mullenweg carried out his threats by making repeated false claims disparaging WP Engine to its employees, its customers, and the world. Mr. Mullenweg has carried out this wrongful campaign against WP Engine in
multiple outlets, including via his keynote address, across several public platforms like X, YouTube, and even on the Wordpress.org site, and through the WordPress Admin panel for all WordPress users, including directly targeting WP Engine customers in their own private WordPress instances used to run their online businesses.
Mr. Mullenweg’s covert demand that WP Engine hand over tens of millions to his for-profit company Automattic, while publicly masquerading as an altruistic protector of the WordPress community, is disgraceful. WP Engine will not accede to these unconscionable demands which not only harm WP Engine and its employees, but also threaten the entire WordPress community. WP Engine has sought to do the right thing at each stage of Mr. Mullenweg’s wrongful campaign and will continue to do so, with the integrity and candor that are hallmarks of its own culture and that of many other participants in the WordPress ecosystem. Mr. Mullenweg’s words and conduct constitute actionable wrongdoing and must cease immediately.
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MATT MULLENWEG ADDRESS THE ALLEGATIONS ON A WORDPRESS BLOGPOST
WP Engine is not WordPress / https://archive.ph/Zp34V
> It has to be said and repeated: WP Engine is not WordPress. My own mother was confused and thought WP Engine was an official thing. Their branding, marketing, advertising, and entire promise to customers is that they’re giving you WordPress, but they’re not. And they’re profiting off of the confusion. WP Engine needs a trademark license to continue their business.

> I spoke yesterday at WordCamp about how Lee Wittlinger at Silver Lake, a private equity firm with $102B assets under management, can hollow out an open source community. (To summarize, they do about half a billion in revenue on top of WordPress and contribute back 40 hours a week, Automattic is a similar size and contributes back 3,915 hours a week.) Today, I would like to offer a specific, technical example of how they break the trust and sanctity of our software’s promise to users to save themselves money so they can extract more profits from you.

> WordPress is a content management system, and the content is sacred. Every change you make to every page, every post, is tracked in a revision system, just like the Wikipedia. This means if you make a mistake, you can always undo it. It also means if you’re trying to figure out why something is on a page, you can see precisely the history and edits that led to it. These revisions are stored in our database.

> This is very important, it’s at the core of the user promise of protecting your data, and it’s why WordPress is architected and designed to never lose anything.

> WP Engine turns this off. They disable revisions because it costs them more money to store the history of the changes in the database, and they don’t want to spend that to protect your content. It strikes to the very heart of what WordPress does, and they shatter it, the integrity of your content. If you make a mistake, you have no way to get your content back, breaking the core promise of what WordPress does, which is manage and protect your content.

> Here is a screenshot of their support page saying they disable this across their 1.5 million WordPress installs.
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WP Engine is banned from WordPress.org / https://archive.ph/1mo5B
> Any WP Engine customers having trouble with their sites should contact WP Engine support and ask them to fix it.

> WP Engine needs a trademark license, they don’t have one. I won’t bore you with the story of how WP Engine broke thousands of customer sites yesterday in their haphazard attempt to block our attempts to inform the wider WordPress community regarding their disabling and locking down a WordPress core feature in order to extract profit.

> What I will tell you is that, pending their legal claims and litigation against WordPress.org, WP Engine no longer has free access to WordPress.org’s resources.

> WP Engine wants to control your WordPress experience, they need to run their own user login system, update servers, plugin directory, theme directory, pattern directory, block directory, translations, photo directory, job board, meetups, conferences, bug tracker, forums, Slack, Ping-o-matic, and showcase. Their servers can no longer access our servers for free.

> The reason WordPress sites don’t get hacked as much anymore is we work with hosts to block vulnerabilities at the network layer, WP Engine will need to replicate that security research on their own.

> Why should WordPress.org provide these services to WP Engine for free, given their attacks on us?

> WP Engine is free to offer their hacked up, bastardized simulacra of WordPress’s GPL code to their customers, and they can experience WordPress as WP Engine envisions it, with them getting all of the profits and providing all of the services.

> If you want to experience WordPress, use any other host in the world besides WP Engine. WP Engine is not WordPress.
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MATT MULLENWEG DEFENDS HIMSELF ON REDDIT MATT COMMENT THREAD. / https://ghostarchive.org/archive/K57Qu
They had the option to license the WordPress trademark for 8% of their revenue, which could be delivered either as payments, people (Five for the Future .org commitments), or any combination of the above.
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MATT MULLENWEG DEFENDS HIMSELF ON HACKERNEWS ( from user - supermatt) https://ghostarchive.org/archive/7KlQa
WP Engine calls itself the worlds #1 wordpress hosting (with over 1.5m clients), but they aren't even in the top 10 material contributors to wordpress. Although they have pledged to support wordpress development, is is only to the tune of 40 hours a week. Their pledge is miniscule given their usage of wordpress and isn't even in the top 25 pledges made. It seems they were called out on this, and told to resolve it or it would get highlighted, and highlighted it was.

Sure, the license allows them to do whatever they want, but there's nothing wrong with publicizing that they don't give much in return. With over $400M ARR, thats something they could easily resolve.
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Copyright ragebait for the stream also 2 minutes of hate for the UK: The Home Office, in charge of the nation’s immigration, security, and law and order, denied the youngster’s passport, claiming it couldn’t print “Skywalker” because of Disney’s copyright on the name. The family had no knowledge of having this issue when they named their son. The department told the family it either had to change their son’s name or get permission from Disney to use “Skywalker.”
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The kid's name is Loki Skywalker. Anyone who would name their child Loki Skywalker shouldn't just be denied a passport they should be executed. Giving your child an embarrassing name is nigger retard behavior.
 
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EYM - founded by former McDonald’s Mexico president Eduardo Diaz - filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in July.

It owes Pizza Hut $2.25 million, and another $21 million to Manufacturers Bank.

EYM is being sued by the chain in relation to millions of dollars of unpaid bills.

In turn, EYM has blamed Pizza Hut for its financial problems.

It says its sales have been badly hit by the pizza chain not modernizing its menus or app to keep up with rivals like Domino's and Little Caesar's.
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Some 127 Pizza Hut restaurants across five states in the South and Midwest are at risk of closing for good.

The franchisee who runs them has put them up for sale after filing for bankruptcy in July due to mounting debts..

It is all linked to a major financial bust-up between Pizza Hut's parent company and franchisee EYM Group.

Some 15 Pizza Hut locations that EYM ran in Indiana and Ohio were abruptly shuttered at the end of June as a result of the dispute. They remain closed.

EYM has now asked advisory firm National Franchise Sales to help find a buyer for a further 127 across Illinois, Georgia, South Carolina and Wisconsin are on the brink of shutting as part of the dispute.
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List of bankruptcy:
There had been two weeks of speculation that the chain, 512 locations across 28 US states, would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Big name chains like Applebee's, TGI Fridays and Boston Market have have all recently shuttered restaurants.

Red Lobster filed for bankruptcy in May and shuttered almost 100 restaurants. It has now emerged from bankruptcy.

BurgerFi is the latest for file for bankruptcy in September - sparking sparks fears of mass closures of its 162 locations.


In early June, Mexican chain Rubio's shut 48 locations in the state and also filed for bankruptcy.

Across America, mom-and-pop operations have also been shutting.

For example, Fargo's Pit BBQ in Texas closed after more than two decades of serving brisket, ribs and other barbecue classics.
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Chains have been worst hit in California where the minimum wage for fast food restaurants jumped to $20-an-hour from April 1.
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Reposting Wayland dev drama as Valve has split from them and developed their own protocols for their linux devices since they're fed up of Wayland being too busy arguing by committee instead of developing badly needed features and fixes. From the Open Source Drama thread.
Wayland news everyone:
Valve Merge Request on FreeDesktop Git

Apparently the Wayland committees have been slow as molasses and Valve has become fed up with them not moving forward on pressing issues. So they have developed their own client server protocols, that have been rolled out and used on their Linux devices as far as I understand. Now they ask to merge their tried and tested protocol

The Wayland community seems to be seething in the comments, fearing - correctly - that their oh so holy committee will lose decision making power
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