@Mike Olson
Ex-Illustra, Sleepycat, Cloudera. Currently: Board member at Cityside. Working on: Climate. Politics.
Not a tech bro.
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Recent Notes
You're probably seeing a lot of messages like this one in your feed today, but it's important to me to pile on.
Google Search has been climbing the pile of enshittification for some years now. The new policy announced at I/O, to present search results from a bot that digests web content (and hallucinates) rather than to direct traffic to the sites that create and host content, is the latest large lump to appear.
Remember "Don't be evil?" Hah! Good days, good days.
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Google Search has been climbing the pile of enshittification for some years now. The new policy announced at I/O, to present search results from a bot that digests web content (and hallucinates) rather than to direct traffic to the sites that create and host content, is the latest large lump to appear.
Remember "Don't be evil?" Hah! Good days, good days.
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Jorge Luis Borges wrote a pretty good story called "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertuis." It has sort of come true, thanks to the folks at Halupedia:
https://halupedia.com/
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https://halupedia.com/
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@nprofile1q... Elder abuse via online or text message scams is common, effective and hugely embarrassing to the folks who are victimized by it. I wish that we had more cops working on it, and stiffer penalties for the perpetrators.