U.S. seizes Iranian cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz, Trump says The U.S. has taken custody of an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz after firing on its engine room, President Trump said in a post on social media.

U.S. seizes Iranian cargo ship in Strait of Hormuz.

The Better the Model, the More My Taste Matters Opus 4.7 is out. It's marginally better than 4.6, and that tells me something about what's actually hard.

“The quiet truth about AI is that it doesn't replace the thing that was hard. It replaces the thing that was slow.”

Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners — and which are still wide open | TechCrunch Over the last year, certain AI markets appear to be nearly sewn up by startup market leaders. But beyond these areas, a vast swath of AI remains anyone’s game.

Elad Gil on which AI markets have winners — and which are still wide open.

Behind Trump’s Public Bravado on the War, He Grapples With His Own Fears. www.wsj.com

Teen takeovers. en.wikipedia.org

2003: Prior art as a design method. essaysfromexodus.scripting.com

Rubenerd: Planets: blog aggregators for tech projects Easy ways to subscribe en masse to useful and interesting blogs.

What is the protocol for hooking RSS planets together?

Jon Ossoff Calls Out ‘Mar-a-Lago Mafia’ "At a campaign rally in Augusta, Georgia, on Saturday, the Democratic senator Jon Ossoff mocked Donald Trump’s rosy predictions on Iran and tore into what he called the unprecedented corruption of the president’s family," The Guardian reports."While Ossoff is running for re-election in Novem

Jon Ossoff Calls Out ‘Mar-a-Lago Mafia.’

Obama and Mamdani meet for the first time The meeting comes as Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is also trying to build a working relationship with Republican President Donald Trump. The meeting comes just over a week after Mamdani marked his 100th day in office.

Obama and Mamdani meet for the first time.

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump Zelensky has written off the United States.

Ukraine Has Finally Given Up on Trump.

Headless everything for personal AI Posted on Saturday 18 Apr 2026. 1,331 words, 11 links. By Matt Webb.

Headless everything for personal AI.

wpEditorDemo/docs/ai.md at main · scripting/wpEditorDemo Fully functional browser-based editor that plugs into WordPress via wpIdentity. - scripting/wpEditorDemo

Last week I released a new toolkit that includes docs for your AI programming partner. Ask it to read the docs, and then tell it about the editor you want. It works with WordPress sites via the wpIdentity server. Writing docs to be read by AI's is a new frontier. ;-)

How WordCamp Europe Finds Its Voices. europe.wordcamp.org

Reopening Strait of Hormuz Would Ease Oil Crisis but Only So Much. www.nytimes.com

A glimpse into the open source process in the WordPress community. www.therepository.email

You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader You can connect your favorite RSS reader to your favorite subreddits, and you should. Here's how it's done.

You Should Be Using Reddit on Your RSS Reader.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine.

Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages | TechCrunch Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET on April 15.

Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages.

Seeing the Hormuz Breakthrough in Its Full Light The U.S. and Iran both announced this morning that the Strait of...

Seeing the Hormuz Breakthrough in Its Full Light.

Matt Mullenweg Says “The Wheels Have Fallen Off” in Wide-Ranging WordPress Critique. www.therepository.email

AP Exclusive: Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head warns The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left.

Europe could run out of jet fuel within weeks, IEA warns.

RSS Club for WordPress. Very cute and coooool. 😎 shkspr.mobi

Another great AI video, who can say this isn't art? x.com

BYD's new Sealion 05 EV is a smart electric SUV that's cheaper than it looks It’s slightly smaller than the Tesla Model Y but costs less than half as much. BYD unveiled the new Sealion...

BYD's Sealion 05 EV is an electric SUV that's cheaper than it looks.

Remkus de Vries: It’s Time to Level Up in WordPress. remkusdevries.com

As Trump Rants About Birds and Wind Turbines, the World Passes the US By It’s not hard to look around America today and see signs of...

As Trump Rants About Birds and Wind Turbines, the World Passes the US By.

Bluesky Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

Bluesky appears to be off the air.

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship service at the Pentagon on Wednesday (April 15) to bless the U.S.

Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service.

Britain preparing for food shortages as Iran war bites. www.thetimes.com

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought.