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Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. Kyle Kowalski has an amazing blog post exploring many aspects of this Zen Kōan, including some diversions into David Foster Wallace’s legendary commencement speech, This is Water.

Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update delivered a shockwave with Colin Jost’s controversial Donald Trump Halloween joke, referencing Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ and child abuse allegations. The edgy commentary, met with mixed audience reactions, highlighted SNL’s history of pushing political satire boundaries. The segment also featured Bowen Yang’s comedic return as George…

In the U.S., red has become the color of the Republican Party, a media convention born from television graphics during the 2000 presidential election. This accidental branding, where red was assigned to Republicans and blue to Democrats, has since become a cultural shorthand for the nation’s deep political polarization, despite…

This week, the Automattic Creed received its first-ever update, which I’ll describe as a minor point upgrade. This is the sentence before and after. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting…

Egypt has opened the Grand Egyptian Museum, a massive new archaeological museum. It showcases over 100,000 artefacts spanning 7,000 years of history. The museum’s biggest attraction is the full display of Tutankhamun’s treasures, reunited for the first time. This grand opening aims to boost Egypt’s tourism and cultural heritage.

Automattic has been working with the Internet Archive to develop a plugin to combat link rot, and it’s a plugin I’d encourage you to install. As the plugin says: When a linked page disappears, the plugin helps preserve your user experience by redirecting visitors to a reliable archived version. It…