David Theriault

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  • OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Could it Disrupt 19% of US Jobs? Is Yours on the List?

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been transforming various industries, and its potential to disrupt the job market has been a subject of intense discussion. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is a powerful language model, has recently garnered attention for its ability to perform a wide range of tasks, from answering questions to generating human-like text. An article I…

  • Disability Media Network A New Streaming Source For Authentic Disability Content

    Representation in the media is powerful for minority groups. Seeing stories on screen that reflect your experience can offer comfort, validation and hope to a person struggling. However, when compared to other minority groups, authentic disability stories can be something that is hard to find. A new streaming service, Disability Media Network (DiMe for short),…

  • Judy Heumann, ‘mother of the disability rights movement,’ dead at 75

    I just read an article from the CBC News about the passing of Judy Heumann yesterday at the age of 75. She was said to be the “mother of the disability rights movement”. Judy was born December 18, 1947, and at the age of 18 months contracted Polio. It was from this point that she…

  • WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Updated to Upload Inserted Images

    WordPress 6.2’s Openverse integration is getting some last minute changes after some contributors expressed concerns about it hotlinking images by default. The new feature, which allows users to quickly insert free, openly-licensed media into their content, and also allows users to upload external images through a button in the block toolbar, but the problem with this…

  • Museum of Block Art Calls for Submissions Celebrating WordPress’ 20th Anniversary

    You can find the original article seen below here. The new Museum of Block Art (MOBA), a project that was launched in 2022 featuring art created using the block editor’s design tools, are calling for submissions celebrating WordPress’ upcoming 20th anniversary in May.  In such a short amount of time, the museum has collected more than three dozen…

  • New Proposal Seeks to Update WordPress Release Process for Merging Gutenberg Features After Beta 1 Feature Freeze

    I read an article which can be found in full here. Below is an edited version of that article. WordPress lead developer Andrew Ozz recently published a proposal for the addition of a new “gutenberg-merge” ticket type that would formalize the latitude Gutenberg contributors have been given for committing code after the Feature Freeze during the release…

  • Industry-Wide Tech Layoffs Impacting WordPress Professionals

    The following article discussed here can be found in it’s original form here. Most of us WordPress professionals and some others in the tech industry managed to escape the 2022 tech layoffs, which mostly affected venture capital-funded startups and larger companies that had over-hired during the economic upswing that came with the pandemic precautions being…

  • The Ownership Dilemma: Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of AI Intelligence

    Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been rapidly advancing in recent years, revolutionizing various industries and transforming the way we live and work. One prominent example of this progress is ChatGPT, a powerful language model developed by OpenAI. However, with the advent of AI technologies like ChatGPT, questions surrounding the ownership and responsibility for these intelligent systems…

  • WP Community Collective Names Alex Stine as First Accessibility Fellow

    The newly formed nonprofit organization WP Community Collective (WPCC), is dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and various community-led initiatives and now has announced its first Accessibility Fellow. The first Accessibility Fellow is Alex Stine, he is a fully blind individual contributor who has been working with the WordPress Accessibility team since 2016, and is…

  • Yoast SEO 20.1: Mastodon and inclusive language improvements

    After successfully introducing a new settings interface in Yoast SEO 20.0, the team at Yoast have more exciting news for users! They have built an integration with Mastodon, the decentralized and open-source social network that’s similar to the more mainstream Twitter. Yoast SEO’s Premium users can now verify the link in their Mastodon profile with…