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researchbuzz

@researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host

Obsessed with search engines, databases, and online information collections forever. Writing books & such since 1996, ResearchBuzz since 1998. Autistic and too tired to hide it. Pronouns: she/they/hey you.

We could be doing a lot more with authoritative structures (and without AI) to make good Web search.

Strongly recommend you read my pinned posts before you reply.

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StillIRise1963, to random
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If anyone asks who did something, just say Mrs. Alito.

researchbuzz,
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@StillIRise1963 You notice it's always the woman's fault? Alito's flag, Menendez gold bars.... going full NotMe in here

StillIRise1963, to random
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Puffy is a POS.

researchbuzz,
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@rlstone4dems @StillIRise1963 Well they got him on video whaling on that poor lady, so

thepoliticalcat, to random
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I like the idea of , bc there are days when I desperately NEED to rant. It's the perfect tag. Of course, I won't use it only on Fridays bc my brain is really a sieve these days and I don't always remember things on Fridays, or on other days, either.

Today's Fuck Off Friday topic is pain. Pain is a GREAT incentive to swear. Did you know swearing actually reduces pain levels? Yes, it does. I read it somewhere. Of course, I forget WHERE.

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@thepoliticalcat Here you go. https://healthland.time.com/2011/11/23/why-swearing-sparingly-can-help-kill-pain/

researchbuzz,
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@thepoliticalcat Oh yeah, I'm like 80% that, 10% okra, 5% tea, and 5% sativa.

researchbuzz, to random
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2024 getting crazier by the minute

'Defendant Admits Bilking Real Estate and Cryptocurrency Investors Out of Over $1.3 Million Using Business Named After Fictitious Seinfeld Company'

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/brooklyn-man-and-cryptocurrency-personality-tj-stone-pleads-guilty-wire-fraud

GottaLaff, to Arizona
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🙄 Former Donald Trump lawyer John pleaded not guilty in Phoenix on Friday on charges related to allegedly participating in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in .

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/politics/john-eastman-arizona-not-guilty-plea?cid=ios_app

researchbuzz,
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@GottaLaff Tyler posing for his LinkedIn headshot 😂

researchbuzz, to Russia
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'The European Union on Friday banned four more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the 27-nation bloc for what it calls the spread of propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine and disinformation as the EU heads into parliamentary elections in three weeks.'

https://apnews.com/article/eu-russia-sanctions-media-ukraine-war-39f2ba861a5e1441aa24ec4c11f1d822

researchbuzz, to Dragonlance
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'Winamp has announced that on 24 September 2024, the application's source code will be open to developers worldwide.

Winamp will open up its code for the player used on Windows, enabling the entire community to participate in its development. This is an invitation to global collaboration, where developers worldwide can contribute their expertise, ideas, and passion to help this iconic software evolve.'

https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-code

researchbuzz, to Wikipedia
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'The researchers found that almost 9 million articles on Wikipedia across all languages – around 15% – were orphans, effectively invisible to readers browsing within Wikipedia... In general, pageviews received by non-orphan articles are twice as many as the pageviews of orphan articles.... the researchers also established a cause-and-effect relationship between the addition of in-links to orphan articles and an increase in their pageviews.'

https://news.epfl.ch/news/orphan-articles-the-dark-matter-of-wikipedia/

researchbuzz, to random
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Good morning to everyone but especially Saish Gauthankar, who is the first blind student in Goa to clear the Goa Board’s Class X examination without depending on someone to help him write out the answers. He got 80%!

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/blind-teen-takes-ssc-exam-sans-help-scores-80/articleshow/110187182.cms

researchbuzz, to uk
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#UK #comedy #humor #crowdsourcing #archives

'The Leicester Comedy Festival is seeking volunteers to help catalogue and preserve images stored in its archive.

Organisers have collected hundreds of photos and images since the annual event began in 1994 but they are not currently catalogued in any formal order.'

https://www.chortle.co.uk/other-news/2024/05/15/55627/could_you_help_catalogue_comedy_festivals_photo_archive%3F

researchbuzz, to random
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It is way too damn early for me to be reading about Grandma McFlurrys

https://www.qsrweb.com/news/mcdonalds-to-celebrate-grandmas-with-release-of-grandma-mcflurry/

researchbuzz, to Futurology
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'When they initially studied this process, [Patricia] Stathatou and [Christos] Athanasiou found that yeast can effectively and rapidly remove trace lead — at challenging initial concentrations below one part per million — from drinking water. Conventional water treatment methods either fail to eliminate lead at these low levels or result in high financial and environmental costs to do so.'

https://news.gatech.edu/news/2024/05/15/brewery-biofilter-making-yeast-based-water-purification-possible

researchbuzz, to random
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I did not have "David Copperfield accused of being a giant perv" on my 2024 bingo card

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/magician-david-copperfield-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-16-women_n_6645db66e4b098d9bd48b3c2

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@neurovagrant

'The illusionist was accused in 2007 of luring an ex-beauty pageant model to his private island in the Bahamas and sexually assaulting her, a case the FBI investigated. He was also accused in 2018 of drugging and sexually assaulting a former teen model.

Copperfield remains the highest-paid performer in his field with a reported value of $875 million.'

🤮 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

researchbuzz, to random
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Granny was asking my mother lots of questions about dead bodies yesterday so I was not sure what to expect from our visit today.

No dead body questions. Instead she spent most of the visit mashing her grilled cheese squares into a "haystack" and trying to balance a french fry on top.

researchbuzz,
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@anathema_device She was having such a great time playing with her food 😂 My cousin's going to bring her Lego on Saturday

researchbuzz, to random
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Someone on YouTube referred to Elon Musk as "Temu Tony Stark" and I'm sewing that on a sampler

ben, to random
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If Google makes its money through contextual ads on search results pages now, in an AI-driven world it’ll make its money through sponsored answers (or just contextual ads related to the answers). The way sites will continue to get traffic is through buying ads.

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@ben

" it’ll make its money through sponsored answers (or just contextual ads related to the answers)."

... about which it will absolutely not be transparent

researchbuzz,
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@ben Understood! I'm just worried you're correct.

researchbuzz,
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@ben I am spending increasing amounts of time replacing my Google search tools. I've finished swapping out Google Alerts with my own replacement, now I'm working on a custom Stract interface...

researchbuzz,
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@ben Yes. I would really like to see Library of Congress start a search engine. Google doesn't seem to care how bad it's getting in pursuit of revenue. There's got to be a public answer to that, if only to prove that the job can be done better.

Personally, everything I make that I can give away for free I do. I have no money, no job, no influence, and no education. 30 years of thinking about Internet search is all I have to offer.

researchbuzz,
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@timbray @ben Not even a search engine. A PUBLIC INDEX. Just make a public index available with an API and let people build what they want on top of it!

There are so many ways we could be building search tools but for the last quarter-century we've had "rake everything up in a pile and assure the users we've got the chops to deliver the right answer." IT'S NOT WORKING ANYMORE and we need a mechanism to allow other people exercise creativity in this space, the Web search space.

researchbuzz, to random
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Today in "I just hurt myself laughing"

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cuddling/

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

Boy, this auction liquidator said "screw it, no photos, no lots, we're just going to sell the whole damn thing" Anyone want a Red Lobster (INCLUDING EVERYTHING IN THE PREMISES)?

https://bid.restaurantequipment.bid/Public/Auction/AuctionItemDetail?AuctionId=%2fKoYA1j74%2fd45J4SRlQW0g%3d%3d&pageNumber=pf6Q%2bhJtdeleDd9FfYpy9w%3d%3d&pageSize=O5OaPaZE1XrTjGtTQItkaw%3d%3d&showFilter=iBcS%2b4ptjknZQtCojbueqQ%3d%3d&sortColumn=C9SY4KX74WJIILYqur0bmw%3d%3d&AuctionItemId=Z2zRQq1PXgF4PX0W5ApbJw%3d%3d

researchbuzz,
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@ai6yr @KirstenAnne Somebody's going to burn up their phone organizing the trucks to get that stuff moved. I hope they don't get pushed to hurry by the landlord

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