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?
Woke up this morning with these words coming to me. I know someone needs them. Grief healing is a process and I am honored to be a part of it for so many...
*I thought it pared perfectly with my night cosmos flower.
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.
Life has hard times and loss. I had to deal death from a very early age as I lost my Dad at 10 to suicide, then his brother who was my favorite uncle a year later and a year after that their Mom and my sweet Granny. Grief work is special to me. I want to bring comfort.
My dad died last week after a long battle with dementia. It's a slow and horrible disease. Dad and I didn't always see eye to eye. In fact, we were at loggerheads over a lot of important stuff. But I loved him, and he lived an amazing life that frankly, sometimes defied belief. He was in the Korean conflict (where he was flight engineer on Psiops missions and dropping spies behind North Korean lines), and later on dangerous test flights in a B-29 testing self-sealing fuel tanks over a bomb range. As a civilian he was a aircraft mechanic for military contractors, and for the rest of his working career a Field Service Rep for Bell Helicopter, traveling the world advising Bell customers in peace and war. He was imbedded with combat pilots in Vietnam, barely escaped the fall of Tehran, visited off-short oil rigs, shot at and forced down by drug lords in Columbia, rode out hurricanes in the bahamas, flew with Air America in Cambodia, shot at by troops off the coast of South America. He was immune to wealth or celebrity, but his eternal and genuine farm-boy charm allowed him to hob-nob with the rich, movie stars, captains of industry, high-ranking military, and high ranking politicians. He didn't care about any of it, and his favorite place was working in his shop fixing old vehicles or tools, and building amazing machines from scratch.
It was hard seeing this amazing guy slipping away year by year, day by day. Even as his memory faded, he retaining his humor and charm until near the end, when the disease (as if often does) strips away even that. It was sad to see him go, but the dad I knew left a long time ago. I wish we'd had more time together, but we lived far apart, and sometimes worlds apart, and the covid shutdown hit at a very bad time for both of us.
We all deal with loss. I had to cope with much death from a very early age. My grief work is sacred to me. I write and create art to comfort. Every day I get emails from people touched by what I do. Many make me cry. It's my honor to do this work...
It’s okay to grieve for what you could have had, might have had, and will never have, just as you would grieve for what you’ve had and lost. #grief#grieving#loss#healing
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.
Over the years I've lost many sweet pups. It's always so very hard, but I do get to see them in my dreams. Sometimes so vivid I can smell their coats...
This is an interesting read, particularly analyzing 'The Haunting of Hill House' (Shirley Jackson's book not Mike Flanagan's adaptation, which is also great), making lots of interesting points. There's a lot to be said about horror as a genre, but also about fiction in general, and how it can allow someone to find comfort and inspiration, and also explore their own thoughts, feelings, and personal experiences through characters they find relatable and stories that resonate.
CW for mentions of loss of a parent and book spoilers in the article.
We tend to live in a world where we only live in the now -- but some of us realize the quality of our now is influenced by what was previously lost. In this Human Meme podcast episode, we endeavor to discover the cause and effect of happiness and satisfaction in living.
So sad to read the lead singer of April Wine, Myles Goodwyn, has died. If you're not #Canadian you probably haven't heard of them and they didn't make the same mark as some other Canadian #music, but they had some truly great songs. So many rowdy summer nights with "the boys" featured April Wine playing in the background.
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