These AI SEO spam operations have used lists of common searches to ensure that their pages come up first in searches in the “long fat tail” the kind of search where it used to be about 50/50 if you’d find a page addressing your needs. But, it used to be if you found something like “The top 15 smallest ants in the world” it wouldn’t be nonsense. It’d either exist and be the work of another person who cared OR you found nothing. Not so now! I can’t possibly over-stress how bad this is! 1/
@futurebird I don't think that you overstress. In social media (the amplifier of the whole thing), one can already recognise tendencies where knowledge loss as a cultural phenomenon is reminiscent of biodiversity loss. Experts still recognise it. But what if the baseline shift is no longer noticeable?
In our latest @longreads feature, Emily Zebel goes on a weeklong solo motorcycle trip to find a way to cope after a breakup with the first man she loved following her divorce.
"I don’t tell him that I can’t go home until I learn something. What, I don’t know. Nevermind how."
Moving piece on #Mother love/mother #loss: "Research on the sex-specific impact of father loss abounds in pediatric literature, as does sex-unspecified parental loss — but finding useful research on the unique needs of female-sexed children and women drowning in mother loss takes the kind of work most laywomen shouldn’t have to do when sobbing with grief."
The last week I have been in Florida for work. Saturday I got one of the worst calls I have ever had, My Fiancée’s Mother passed away in her sleep suddenly and unexpected. I was able to change my flight to get home early and be with her and it has been a whirlwind.
We have set up a #gofundme to help with funeral and celebration of life arrangements. If you can donate responsibly we would be much appreciated. Thank you.
Remembering my brothers on their birthdays.
"Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart".
Bruce Coville #loss #love #cats
My uncle passed away suddenly a few days ago. He was the type of wonderful person that would give a grouchy, studious, insular, 12-year-old me a book like this… #fantasy#literature#books#loss#love
Think of all the best words you could say about someone and all of those words would have applied to Jonathan. All of them.
He was the most kind and gentle person I've ever met. And so funny! And just a joy to be around. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone and no one ever said an unkind word about him.
New #scifi audiobook available on YouTube - A last-ditch escape from a dying Earth brings a dad face-to-face with his conspiracy-cult father. How do you communicate with someone who refuses to listen? Mike Crane takes one last shot to save his father's life before he boards THE ROCKET.