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Videos capture 6.5 magnitude earthquake rattling Mexico City and Acapulco
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Videos capture 6.5 magnitude earthquake rattling Mexico City and Acapulco

A powerful earthquake rocked southern and central Mexico on Friday. While officials said there was no major damage, videos captured moments of impact in Mexico City and Acapulco.
CBS News

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Grok chatbot allowed users to create digitally altered photos of minors in "minimal clothing"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/grok-safeguard-lapses-minors-minimal-clothing-ai/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Grok chatbot allowed users to create digitally altered photos of minors in "minimal clothing"

Grok said it is fixing "lapses in safeguards" after social media users said the AI chatbot was generating sexualized photos of minors.
Mary Cunningham (CBS News)

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Sad: Ilhan Omar Tells Brother It's Time They Start Seeing Other Siblings

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Sad: Ilhan Omar Tells Brother It's Time They Start Seeing Other Siblings

MINNEAPOLIS, MN — According to sources, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar gently broke the news to her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, that it was time for them to start seeing other siblings.
The Babylon Bee

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Trump says if Iran "kills peaceful protesters," the U.S. will "come to their rescue"
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-iran-protests-us-will-come-to-their-rescue/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Trump says if Iran "kills peaceful protesters," the U.S. will "come to their rescue"

As U.S.-Iran tension soars, Trump warns violence against protesters could bring an American intervention: "We are locked and loaded and ready to go."
CBS News

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Gateway Is Where Good Intentions Stumbled
https://www.wweek.com/news/city/2026/01/02/gateway-is-where-good-intentions-stumbled/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Gateway Is Where Good Intentions Stumbled

The store that was supposed to be the anchor for the neighborhood—Fred Meyer—is a shell.
Willamette Week

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‘Huge bummer’: Popular Mt. Hood ski resort closes Friday and Saturday due to rain saturating slopes
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/01/huge-bummer-popular-mt-hood-ski-resort-closes-friday-and-saturday-due-to-rain-saturating-slopes.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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‘Huge bummer’: Popular Mt. Hood ski resort closes Friday and Saturday due to rain saturating slopes

Some skiers and snowboarders are declaring the 2025-2026 season “disastrous” so far.
Aimee Green | The Oregonian/OregonLive (oregonlive)

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Las compañeras de @nocentrosdedatosaragon y Ecologistas en Acción Aragón se han pasado las navidades haciendo alegaciones contra el #CentroDeDatos de #Microsoft, en las que hemos participado un buen puñado de colectivos. Entre otros @eljuncaresvida y @tunubesecamirio

Cada vez hay más resistencia en Aragón contra estas Big Tech

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Vecinos y ecologistas alegan contra la 'nube' de Microsoft en Aragón por su "consumo desproporcionado" de energía

Advierten de que las inversiones de la multinacional tendrán "mayor impacto" en empleo y recaudación en otras siete comunidades autónomas "sin necesidad de albergar ningún centro de datos"
ElDiarioAragón (ElDiario.es)

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Two Phones, Less Distraction? That's the Pitch for This BlackBerry Lookalike
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/clicks-communicator-smartphone-companion-power-keyboard-ces-2026/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Two Phones, Less Distraction? That's the Pitch for This BlackBerry Lookalike

The Clicks Communicator is designed to help you focus, not to replace your smartphone. It'll be on display at CES 2026.
Julian Dossett (CNET)

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The Computer Chronicles - Internet (1995)

Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchroni...
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Ex-Elder Scrolls Online Boss Explains Why He Left Microsoft
https://kotaku.com/elder-scrolls-online-project-blackbird-shooter-rpg-canceled-microsoft-2000656493?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Ex-Elder Scrolls Online Boss Explains Why He Left Microsoft

Project Blackbird was an ambitious loot shooter that Xbox top brass reportedly loved
Ethan Gach (Kotaku)

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Faux Ball: The Legend of Village Academy - Arkansas PBS Sports Feature
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"Two high school instructors pull one of the greatest pranks in Arkansas history. Garry Crowder and Bob Sivlis with Jessieville High School grew frustrated with the newspaper coverage of small sports programs and decided to take matters into their own hands..."


Faux Ball: The Legend of Village Academy - Arkansas PBS Sports Feature

Two high school instructors pull one of the greatest pranks in Arkansas history. Garry Crowder and Bob Sivlis with Jessieville High School grew frustrated wi...
Arkansas TV (YouTube)

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This has to be Microsoft Outlook's most underrated feature
https://www.makeuseof.com/microsoft-outlook-quick-steps/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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This has to be Microsoft Outlook's most underrated feature

Why drag, delete, and reply one by one when a single click can do it all?
Adaeze Uche (MUO)

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This prompt manager is how I get the best results out of ChatGPT
https://www.makeuseof.com/this-prompt-manager-is-how-i-get-the-best-results-out-of-chatgpt/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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This prompt manager is how I get the best results out of ChatGPT

Save and manage all of your perfect AI prompts for the best output with this tool
Sagar Naresh (MUO)

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Palestine advocates praise NYC’s Mamdani for revoking pro-Israel decrees
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/2/palestine-advocates-praise-nycs-mamdani-for-revoking-pro-israel-decrees?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into US & Canada News @us-canada-news-AlJazeera


Palestine advocates praise NYC’s Mamdani for revoking pro-Israel decrees

Israeli government hits out at newly sworn-in New York City mayor, falsely calling him a 'Muslim Brotherhood Islamist'.
Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)

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OpenAI plans new voice model in early 2026, audio-based hardware in 2027
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/openai-plans-new-voice-model-in-early-2026-audio-based-hardware-in-2027/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

Voice has lagged in adoption behind screens. OpenAI wants to change that.
Samuel Axon (Ars Technica)

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Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert”
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/researchers-spot-saturn-sized-planet-in-the-einstein-desert/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Researchers spot Saturn-sized planet in the “Einstein desert”

Rogue, free-floating planets appear to have two distinct origins.
John Timmer (Ars Technica)

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Pair of starters on the Oregon State defensive line enter transfer portal
https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2026/01/pair-of-starters-on-the-oregon-state-defensive-line-enter-transfer-portal.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Oregon State Beavers News @oregon-state-beavers-news-TheOregonian


Pair of starters on the Oregon State defensive line enter transfer portal

The Beavers are down two more playmakers in the trenches.
Ryan Clarke | The Oregonian/OregonLive (oregonlive)

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Brain rot is real….

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🚨BREAKING: Open Socialist Katie Wilson takes office as Seattle, Washington's next Mayor.At 43 years old, she relies on her parents for financial support and has no professional accomplishments.
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New and updated edition: top-25 of most followed Dutch (based in the Netherlands) Mastodon accounts.
Part 1:
1 @stux@mstdn.social 158909
2 @stux@gram.social 54068
3 @buitengebieden 36645
4 @stux@masto.ai 31864
5 @NOSRSS 18421
6 @ionica 16965
7 @foksuk 14153
8 @volkskrant 13795
9 @stux@pixey.org 11810
10 @nrc_nl 11663
11 @ruud 11297
12 @JeanMarcvanTol 11235
13 @RoosVonk 10574

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Over Half a Million Bankruptcies Annually Because of Health Insurance and Reform UK Wants the UK to Copy Them - Dorset Eye

A quick quiz. The following are medical bankruptcies in each country annually. Which country has 530,000? 🇦🇺 0🇨🇦 0🇩🇰 0🇫🇮 0🇫🇷 0🇩🇪 0🇮🇸 0🇮🇪 0🇮🇹 0🇯🇵 0🇳🇱 0🇳🇴 0🇵🇹 0🇪🇸 0🇸🇪 0🇬🇧 0 ? 530,000 In most wealthy nations, falling ill is a health crisis, not a financ…
Dorset Eye

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Stefon Diggs, Patriots star receiver, says it's been "a very emotional time" in wake of criminal charges
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stefon-diggs-patriots-charges-locker-room/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Stefon Diggs, Patriots star receiver, says it's been "a very emotional time" in wake of criminal charges

Stefon Diggs, the New England Patriots' wide receiver, spoke to the media for the first time since it was revealed he is facing criminal charges.
Neal Riley (CBS News)

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PS Plus January 2026 Free Games: Core Keeper And More
https://kotaku.com/ps-plus-jan-2026-free-monthly-games-core-keeper-2000656495?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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PS Plus January 2026 Free Games: Core Keeper And More

December's haul included five free monthly games
Ethan Gach (Kotaku)

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Winter Has You Feeling Down? How Your Living Room Can Combat It
https://www.housedigest.com/2063625/living-room-cure-winter-blues/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Design Hacks @design-hacks-HouseDigest


Winter Has You Feeling Down? How Your Living Room Can Combat It - House Digest

With updates like warm, bright paints, house plants, and therapy lights, your living room can become a huge help in lifting the mood in the winter.
Meg Jernigan (House Digest)

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A small collection of text-only websites

shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-sma…
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative.

Here's this post in plain text - shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-sma…

Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle, but the joy of the web is that there are no gatekeepers. People can try new concepts and, if enough people join in, it becomes normal. I'm not saying the plain-text is the best web experience. But it is an experience. Perfect if you like your browsing fast, simple, and readable. There are no cookie banners, pop-ups, permission prompts, autoplaying videos, or garish colour schemes.

I'm certainly not the first person to do this, so I thought it might be fun to gather a list of websites which you browse in text-only mode. If you know of any more - including your own site - please drop a comment in the box!

If you'd like to add a site, please get in touch. The rules are simple - content which has the MIME type of text/plain. No HTML, no multimedia, no RTF, no XML, no ANSI colour escape sequences.

Emoji are fine though; emoji are cool.
#blogging #blogs #text #unicode #utf8

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2024-05-10 11:34:57

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Hot on the heels of yesterday's post, I've now made all of this blog available in text-only mode.

Simply append .txt to the URl of any page and you'll get back the contents in plain UTF-8 text. No formatting, no images (although you can see the alt text), no nothing!

This was slightly tricky to get right! While there might be an easier way to do it, here's how I got it to work.

Firstly, when someone requests /whatever.txt, WordPress is going to 404 - because that page doesn't exist. So, my theme's functions.php, detects any URls which end in .txt and redirects it to a different template.
PHP// Theme Switcheradd_filter( "template_include", "custom_theme_switch" );function custom_theme_switch( $template ) { // What was requested? $requested_url = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]; // Check if the URL ends with .txt if ( substr( $requested_url, -4 ) === ".txt") { // Get the path to the custom template $custom_template = get_template_directory() . "/templates/txt-template.php"; // Check if the custom template exists if ( file_exists( $custom_template ) ) { return $custom_template; } } // Return the default template return $template;}
The txt-template.php file is more complex. It takes the requested URl, strips off the .txt, matches it against the WordPress rewrite rules, and then constructs the WP_Query which would have been run if the .txt wasn't there.
PHP// Run the query for the URl requested$requested_url = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; // This will be /whatever$blog_details = wp_parse_url( home_url() ); // Get the blog's domain to construct a full URl$query = get_query_for_url( $blog_details["scheme"] . "://" . $blog_details["host"] . substr( $requested_url, 0, -4 ));function get_query_for_url( $url ) { // Get all the rewrite rules global $wp_rewrite; // Get the WordPress site URL path $site_path = parse_url( get_site_url(), PHP_URL_PATH ) . "/"; // Parse the requested URL $url_parts = parse_url( $url ); // Remove the domain and site path from the URL // For example, change `example.com/blog/2024/04/test` to just `2024/04/test` $url_path = isset( $url_parts['path'] ) ? str_replace( $site_path, '', $url_parts['path'] ) : ''; // Match the URL against WordPress rewrite rules $rewrite_rules = $wp_rewrite->wp_rewrite_rules(); $matched_rule = false; foreach ( $rewrite_rules as $pattern => $query ) { if ( preg_match( "#^$pattern#", $url_path, $matches ) ) { $matched_rule = $query; break; } } // Replace each occurrence of $matches[N] with the corresponding value foreach ( $matches as $key => $value ) { $matched_rule = str_replace( "\$matches[{$key}]", $value, $matched_rule ); } // Turn the query string into a WordPress query $query_params = array(); parse_str( parse_url( $matched_rule, PHP_URL_QUERY), $query_params ); // Construct a new WP_Query object using the extracted query parameters $query = new WP_Query($query_params); // Return the result of the query return $query;}
From there, it's a case of iterating over the posts returned by the query. You can see the full code on my GitLab.

#HowTo #php #WordPress



A completely plaintext WordPress Theme

This is a silly idea. But it works. I saw Dan Q wondering about plaintext WordPress themes - so I made one. This is what this blog looks like using it: The Code You only need two files. An index.php and a style.css.
@edent (Terence Eden’s Blog)

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Kicking off #Farnsehen 2026 with a beautiful #AdiantumTrapeziforme at the #GrusonGewächshäuser greenhouses in Magdeburg 🪴

#giantMaidenhair #diamondMaidenhair #TrapezförmigerFrauenhaarfarn #Frauenhaarfarn #Adiantum #Natur #nature #ferns #fern #Farn #Farne #fernstodon #fernsOnFriday #FarnFreitag #FernFriday #FernsFriday #ferniverse

A close-up photograph of a vibrant green fern frond, showcasing its intricate, repeating leaflet pattern. Each leaflet is elongated, slightly tapered, and arranged symmetrically along a central stem, creating a delicate, feathery appearance. The texture of the leaves is smooth, with visible veins running through each leaflet. The background is softly blurred, drawing focus to the vivid green colour and detailed structure of the fern.

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