Matt Mullenweg Has Lost His Way And Is Taking It Out On The Community. The Latest…

Roger Montti over at Search Engine Journal reported that the latest in the WordPress Drama had dropped. Matt Mullenweg, the “leader” of the WordPress project has barred longtime supporter of the project Joost De Valk from speaking at WordCamp Asia, because Matt feels Joost stabbed him in the back.

Matt Mullenweg, co-creator of WordPress, posted a statement on X (formerly Twitter) announcing that Joost de Valk was no longer speaking at WordCamp Asia and was persona non grata for having “stabbed” him when he was vulnerable and betraying his confidence. Mullenweg cited statements by de Valk to prove his point, but those statements were presented without their full context, which significantly altered their meaning.

Matt is seriously unhinged. And what’s scary is that WordPress is suffering because of this insanity. WordPress powers ~40% of the Websites on the Web. There is a lot at stake here if Matt goes nuclear.

He brought this on himself. And now Matt is paying the price for his actions. But sadly he’s taking the whole fucking community down with him.

There are efforts to make sure this doesn’t happen, or hopefully doesn’t. But it has a lot of us on edge, me included.

Seriously, this is one more thing that many of us don’t need right now.

#JoostDeValk #MattMullenweg #wordcamp #WordCampAsia #wordpress #WPDrama

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is no more.

It was created by Congress, not the executive. It is funded by the Fed, not the Treasury. By law, the president cannot shut it down. But Elon Musk has shut it down.

It protected consumers from lawless predation by the finance industry. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113974644448981130

Windows 11's bug-fixing update is making things worse
Each new update ends up introducing even more bugs.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11s-bug-fixing-update-is-making-things-worse/

All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor

#USpol #USpolitics #ElonMusk #Musk #RuleofLaw

https://www.vox.com/politics/398618/elon-musk-doge-illegal-lawbreaking-analysis

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