Notices by Deborah Edwards-Oñoro (redcrew@mstdn.social)

Kohl’s announces more store closures: here's the list of stores that will close.

None in Michigan.

https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/01/kohls-announces-more-2025-store-closures-list-of-stores-that-will-close.html

@chris time flies, I remember when you moved!

@chris Anything specifically weird today?

"I may have misjudged my fellow humans. But I'm not wrong about AI.

We're jumping feet first into unreliable, unproven tech with devastating environmental costs and a dense thicket of ethical problems.

It's a bad idea. And — because I enjoy shouting into the void — we really ought to stop."

https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/2025/01/06/ai-generative-chatbot-open-ai-chat-gpt-terminator/70298431007/

#AI

Is Matt Mullenweg the Mad King of WordPress?

"Mullenweg has made it clear that it is he himself, in fact, and not the community or anyone else, who controls key WordPress resources.

He has emphasized that he outright owns the WordPress.org website, and can do whatever he wants with it, full stop."

https://www.inc.com/dfreedman/matt-mullenweg-wordpress-wp-engine/90994969

#WordPress

First time I've heard of snow doughnuts.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/12/05/snow-doughnuts-michigan-yard-wind/76797592007/

#Michigan #snow #SnowDoughnuts

@chris Had our first Portillo's Italian beef sandwich yesterday, it was good!

What toppings, if any, do you add to your sandwich?

We split a piece of chocolate cake, how delicious!

With the Detroit Lions on a winning streak this season, I thought the first football team flag I'd see in my southeast Michigan neighborhood would be the Lions.

Nope.

Saw a Pittsburgh Steelers flag tonight.

@chris Yum, what did you have?

@chris @treadlightly I honestly don't know if I've had any issues without them.

I no longer have a Twitter account. And I'm fine with my content not being shared/optimized for Twitter.

@treadlightly I remember years ago I spent a lot of time searching for options for adding Twitter cards. I have similar thoughts, wondering why I optimize.

@chris Glad to hear Mastodon is the better network. I'm curious, what made you decide to try Bsky?

It's considered the worst natural disaster in Great Lakes history.

And it happened 111 years ago this week.

How a daring rescue saved sailors entombed in icy 1913 White Hurricane shipwreck.

https://www.mlive.com/life/2024/11/how-a-daring-rescue-saved-sailors-entombed-in-icy-1913-white-hurricane-shipwreck.html

#GreatLakes #WhiteHurricane #LakeSuperior

Not how I expected my day to start before 8am.

Trash collection truck backed into our vehicle, scraping and denting vehicle front and driver-side front quarter panel.

I wasn't in the vehicle. Waited over an hour for police to arrive to create report.

When they arrived, the first thing they said was to apologize for how long it took.

Voyager 1 loses contact with NASA, turns on retro transmitter not used since 1981.

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/voyager-1-loses-contact-with-nasa-turns-on-retro-transmitter-not-used-since-1981

#Voyager1 #space #NASA

From my friend @chris :

"The utter hypocrisy of Matt Mullenweg’s actions isn’t really unsurprising to anyone who has watched Automattic for the last decade or more but it is my final straw."

So Long WordPress.

https://chriswiegman.com/2024/10/so-long-wordpress/

#WordPress #ethics

@chris I'll keep that in mind! What's your favorite thing(s) to get at Portillo's?

@chris I've never had their cake. We have a Portillo's less than 10 miles from us.

Looking for things to do in the Detroit area this weekend?

Don't forget this weekend is the Detroit Free Press Marathon in Detroit, with Health and Fitness Expo today at Huntington Place and various various marathons/walks/relays on Saturday and Sunday in downtown Detroit.

Expect lots of street closures.

https://outliermedia.org/things-to-do-detroit-halloween-spooky/

#Detroit #Halloween

@chris We're starting to get good fall color on trees this week (our freezing mornings help). Saw lots of brilliant red and bright gold trees yesterday.