Worth Reading – More than half of all Polymarket “long shot” bets on military action pay off
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Worth Reading – WordPress debuts a private workspace that runs in your browser via a new service, my.WordPress.net
It’s all stored in the browser, which carries some risk of computer crashes, but they claim to have backup and transfer mechanisms. It could provide a playground or personal knowledge base, complete with some AI, without worrying about it being stored in the cloud, because you can’t share it. It can be a place to play with WordPress design and experimentation without the need for hosting or for it to be available on the public internet.
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Let’s make it more difficult to keep up with changing technology
As if the struggle to keep up with technological change wasn’t hard enough for those of us in the industry, now we’ve got to deal with reports that are made up by GenAI? No, Windows 12 Isn’t Replacing Windows 11 Anytime Soon A now retracted PCWorld article published on March 2, 2026, claimed that Windows 12 was…
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Worth Reading – If your external drive is always plugged in, it isn’t a backup
Having a good backup strategy involves being slightly paranoid. What are the risks? What happens if…? You need to look at the worst-case scenarios and consider if there’s a copy of your important data that would still exist if it happened. It’s not a fun exercise, and if you suffer from anxiety, it can be a bit exhausting to invite that in, but in this case, it could save you from a data disaster.
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Worth Reading – “Pizza Parties Don’t Fix Burnout”: The State of Librarian Mental Health
It’s exhausting to go to work every day for people who refuse to stand behind you as a human being and treat you like an expense they would do anything to be rid of.
Sadly, that is the state of the workplace for many people. It’s not just at the library, and it won’t be fixed by pizza, yoga, or any other lunchtime activity.
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Gmail Users Losing POP and Getting AI Whether We Like It or Not
Personally, I’ve moved away from using the POP feature in Gmail to import mail from other email accounts into Gmail to take advantage of the spam protection. Since I host my own sites and my own M365 tenant, much of that spam protection lives elsewhere for me, but I can understand why others have continued to use it.
But it’s going away.
Never fear, though. In 2026, Google wouldn’t dare let you have a product that doesn’t feature AI. So, we’re all getting the AI Inbox, and you will have to opt out if you do not want an AI-generated list of to-dos and summaries instead of just reading your email.
