Rough Trade celebrates 50 years in 2026 with 50 vinyl releases, each marking a year in its history. Representing 1989, 3FH&R arrives on half magenta/half yellow vinyl with custom jacket, inserts & notes. Ltd 2000. Available @roughtrade1976.bsky.social’s US Locations: www.roughtrade.com/en-us/stores
Before the algorithm… there were no rules. This episode of The Plug w/ Justin Jay - Posdnuos of De La Soul talks about coming up in a time where you could experiment freely—drop a remix, flip a sound, and accidentally create something timeless.
Can’t forget about the rest of the west! San Diego, Long Beach and Mountain View, we’re running it back alongside Nas and The Roots this August. Tickets for A Great Night in Hip-Hop available now. 🎫 wearedelasoul.com/tour 🔗 in bio.
Everybody wish Plug 3 DJ Maseo (@djmaseoofdelasoul.bsky.social) a MEGA Happy Birthday! 🎂🫡
📸: Gladys Smith @sunflower_sessions_photography (Instagram)
"At the time of writing he has over 160 million followers: a world record achieved without uttering a single word. In January he sold his brand rights for nearly US$1 billion."
Good for dude 😎
#tinytalk @npr.org • De La Soul looks back on the story behind their J Dilla-produced track, "Stakes Is High," and explains why carrying on after Dave’s passing became a way to celebrate his life.
Host: @djcuzzinb • Bobby Carter/NPR
Producer: @alanteserene • Alanté Serene/NPR
"The work suggests that Stone Age people were as clever as modern-day humans, according to researcher Ewa Dutkiewicz from Berlin's Museum of Prehistory and Early History.
"So far, we've only scratched the surface of what can be found in terms of symbol sequences on a wide variety of artifacts..."
Watch our performance of “Different World” featuring Gina Loring on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, #ThankYouDave youtu.be/FocRkYsA0SU
📸: @toddowyoung.bsky.social
WordPress won by lowering barriers to publishing. But the change management, learning curves and onboarding costs required to migrate to new platforms are now being replaced by agentic enablement—across many platforms, without inheriting WordPress’s complexity debt.
This shift didn’t come out of nowhere. Astro, Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, and similar tools already showed that “site as a build artifact” beats “site as a fragile runtime.”
What’s changed is accessibility. Agents collapse the setup and ops gap that kept these tools niche.
The future looks self-hosted first: clean stacks, real backups, edge distribution via services like Cloudflare, and agents specialized in site operations.
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We’ve been rethinking self-hosting since the WPEngine vs WordPress blowup. With agents and tools like Warp, most of the old technical hurdles are basically gone.
📢 New #ATScience speaker! @simpsontw.bsky.social will present their project @skysquare.app : “Skysquare: context as a service.” Skysquare uses ATProtocol to reattach public discourse to its source, transforming the web into a socially annotated commons 📎
NEW research: sparktoro.com/blog/new-res...
If you give ChatGPT the same request for product recommendations 100X, will you ever get the same list twice?
And what does that answer mean for folks who try to track their brand presence in AI tools?
Finally, some real answers 🧐
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"The new quality gate isn't reading syntax; it's verifying outcomes in live preview environments."
When SEO was a new channel, we could track EVERYTHING it was so much easier ... keywords, persistent cookies, single device, etc.
AI is a new channel & it's coming at a time when precise tracking is near impossible, making KPIs and success metrics tough, here's my .02.
youtu.be/CdXZ9oRGNGA?...
In 1989 De La Soul would release it’s debut album, 3 Feet High and Rising. Widely considered a masterpiece, it redefined what hip-hop could be — playful, experimental, and unapologetically original.
Shop the collection now. www.levi.com/US/en_US/clo...
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Ever feel like a friend, a culture—or even yourself—is starting to fade into the din of the feed?
Each scroll, a little deeper into confirmation bias.
Each post, a worldview drifting further from our neighbors.
Every reaction, more out of context.
Until all that’s left is the echo of who we were...
gpt-5 is for code.
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"Now, with execution-first AI, that reality is here. Instead of clicking through dashboards, filling forms, and pressing buttons, AI can simply carry out the task directly. And that makes the traditional UI obsolete."
Srinivas Rao on Medium: skooloflife.medium.com/the-extincti...
This is so, so, so dope. We're officially at peak SaaS, adjust your portfolios folks:
docs.warp.dev/features/war...
In @warp.dev with Claude Sonnet and it told me this:
"The nano editor was opened, but in a headless terminal environment, I can't directly edit the file through nano. I should use sed or other command-line tools to make the changes."
Sounds like it natively wants to do AI agent work, doesn't it?
Working with @elevenlabs.io a lot lately, cool stuff is coming 👀👀👇👇
This is WILD! 🤯 Cross-platform conversational AI agents with @elevenlabs.io and @expo.dev react native DOM components!
Detailed cookbook coming soon, but code already linked below if you can't wait! 👇
