I’ll admit that the title of this article pulled me in. It makes a good point, though is a bit long winded.

Automattic wins a freedom of speech case in Turkish Constitutional Court. I wasn’t aware that they were very active in response to take-down orders. (lol, the article is by “Clicky Steve”)

In the “it’s not even the weekend” category, I just played DOOM via the WordPress Playground.

In this tutorial Jeff Starr tells of two ways lockdown plugin, theme, and core files to prevent changes to them from within the WordPress admin.

Stuart Carbery of the Dollie team asked that I share their announcement about a partnership with Atarim. It looks like a good opportunity for synergy.

When I was using Drupal years ago, one thing that stood out was how deeply rooted Drupal was in the higher education ecosystem. Is that still the case? I would imagine that WordPress has made in-roads and many colleges and universities have switched over. It looks like HumanMade is interested in this market.

Eric Karkovack is finding that clients grew up using the web, have heard the ads that anyone can create a website, and so want more design freedom. He suggests that people build sites for client with that flexibility in mind.

A Hallway Hangout is planned for agencies and freelancers to discuss using the Sited Editor for client sites. It looks like they plan to discuss the difference in workflows between using a Classic theme and the Site Editor.

Facebook is owned by Meta. Meta has a newish Twitter clone called Threads. They have announced that Thread’s users will be able to share their posts on the fediverse using the ActivityPub protocol. WordPress has a plugin for sharing via ActivityPub. It is interesting as this may put some pressure on X to be more open.