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If the business model is to convert some number of searches into people spending money on Gemini, I don’t think the conversion rate will be especially high, considering PEOPLE DO NOT WANT AI INSTEAD OF SEARCH RESULTS

The #bibliocon26 session on #nanopublications will take place today at 16:30 in room XIII / 13. More details via https://w3id.org/spaces/BiblioCon2026 and https://w3id.org/spaces/BiblioCon2026 . #bibliocon2026 #bibliocon #openscience #sedoa #diamondoa #fairdata #datacuration

I really wish sites on arts or literature would stop posting summaries generated by LLMs, rather than by people who actually experience the works and write on how it actually moves them. I just now searched for Kansas's "The Spider", a song from their classic Point of Know Return album. A top […]

RE: https://w3c.social/@hvdsomp/116600096384520108 Gift link https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/politics/trump-irs-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jlA.YjoR.hN3r-3S5ozGa&smid=nytcore-ios-share

LARGEST THEFT IN AMERICAN HISTORY! Trump's DOJ announces $1.7B 'Anti-Weaponization Fund' as part of Trump IRS lawsuit settlement The fund will COMPENSATE Trump, Trump family, and Trump supporters who say they were wrongly targeted under Biden. The funds will be controlled by Trump's personal […]

So, he quite literally robbed 1.8 billion US $ from the US taxpayer.

So much for international train travel. 60km into our 7-hour trip from Vienna to Trieste and we’ve been stranded for 1 hour already.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@democratsabroad/116579244544970298 TODAY!!! #california

I put together a quick guide on how to make your website or a blog "fediverse-ready": verify your website or a blog, and show an author tag when someone shares a link to it. https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/make-your-website-or-blog-fediverse-ready/ Hope you'll find this useful! #fediverse […]

s/one nation under god/a nation under one god/

Check out this mail on the IETF ai-control list about what AI does to people that created an online recipe business. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ai-control/ApiYl9JPfIW9qkbjqLNrl9vDa1A/ Or, better, check out the video they created to illustrate their pain (on YouTube) […]

Being a born Belgian, I adore the Duvel beer. Having lived in New Mexico for 2 decades, I am a sucker for tequila. But this “best of both worlds” combo really disappoints. I appreciate the idea and the attempt. It’s just not it.

RE: https://mountains.social/@Coho/116529378043380915 That’s another level of pain caused by AI bots / cc @mnot

#lazyweb I am wondering which schema.org term can be used to convey the URL of an institutional repository, current research information system, ...

Here’s @anneapplebaum.bsky.social‘s great speech about and for Europe. She urges Europeans to take their (our!) future into our own hands and defend all our values and achievements, protecting them against those who want to destroy, divide and conquer. m.youtube.com/watch?v=WEnU...

Rede von @anneapplebaum.bsky.social an und über Europa, in der sie u.a. sagt, dass es notwendig ist - will man europäische Souveränität wahren - dass Entscheidungen, die Europa betreffen, auch in Europa gefällt werden müssen.

I am amazed AMAZED at all the companies apparently ecstatically happy to inject a deep layer of AI automation all across their enterprise, sacking massive groups of people, all so that one of a handful of nightmare vendors can rent-extract them into oblivion. It's such a mess.

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/116568749321322844 Can’t make this stuff up. If I remember correctly something similar happened a while ago in the UK with the agency that oversees monopolization risks.

Once a year, I take another quick look at the "European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)" to see if I can determine why it is necessary... or even useful. Nope. Still don't get it.

It just dawned on me that the Flemish pioneered the AI bubble. Not sure why this fills me with pride. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lernout_%26_Hauspie

I like the Registers headline: "Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator" ... even though I did not say that. 😂 https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/11/anthropics-bug-hunting-mythos-was-greatest-marketing-stunt-ever-says-curl-creator/5238111

Tesla recalls every Cybertruck RWD ever sold — all 173 of them — because the wheels could fall off https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/tesla-recalls-every-cybertruck-rwd-140500699.html

Reports of a new corrupt shadow docket ruling from the Roberts Court, this time to allow Alabama to interfere with an election already underway. https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/scotus-greenlights-11th-hour-alabama-redistricting-plan-for-2026-election/ I'm checking details and will […]

RE: https://social.panic.com/@cabel/116553522656332225 Beautiful

Just sitting here wondering how those classic “follow that car” movie scenes are going to work out with self-driving taxis.

Let's give the absolute worst people on the planet a functionally infinite amount of cash and zero accountability and see what happens

In which it becomes clear that Trump’s Iran war became the death sentence for Spirit Airlines https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736?i=1000766599485

RE: https://libretooth.gr/@dougiec3/116534502746952415 In light of the “Comrade Trump” episode, I wonder what @pluralistic thinks about this.

Breaking: A physical library containing all 3.5 million pages of the publicly-released Epstein files—bound and printed in 3,437 volumes opens tomorrow in New York. You can get all the details here: trumpsonian.us Brilliant.

May the product managers that came up with those 'email reactions' that gmail & outlook have introduced forever step on legos…

Turns out there’s a Wildenmann in Vienna too. Nothing like the great “In de Wildeman” cafe in Amsterdam but, hey, you can’t have it all.

It happened again. The most corrupt administration in history.

Why we cannot have nice things at universities: me: after a browser update, I can only access your service XYZ with a different, less secure browser from a surveillance coproration. Can you fix this please? helpdesk: obviously a browser problem, not our problem. Just use the less secure […]

@anneapplebaum.bsky.social will deliver this year’s “Rede an Europa” on May 13th in Vienna. Attendance is free both in person and via video stream. I’ll be there, for sure! https://www.festwochen.at/eine-rede-an-europa-2026

The AI-driven hard drive shortage is making it more expensive for the Internet Archive to operate, causing problems for Wikimedia, causing delays in academic and hobby archiving projects. Normal people and non AI companies simply can't find reasonably priced drives: www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-...

DigiCert — a certificate authority, the entity you're trusting to anchor your entire chain of trust — got compromised because a support analyst opened a .scr file from a chat session. In 2026. CrowdStrike was misconfigured on one endpoint and completely absent on another. Nobody noticed the […]

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You know what could help with making US news sources more trustworthy? Putting on talking heads that are not naturally or artificially good looking.

I’m in a hotel room. Just watched half an hour of CNN. The trusted source in news. The bias in their reporting is not even remotely hidden anymore. Everything I heard was 100% Trump talking points. And Trump will obviously keep referring to CNN as fake news. Because it’s never right wing enough.

Utterly depressing to watch US media pushing the perspective that the one and only problem people have with the administration is high gas prices.

Al die Kaukasische dansfilmpjes en Azeri BBQ videos in de bergen hebben geholpen:

Not sure if this is real but it sure is funny.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@rollingstone/politics-news-rgm2ohbiz/-/a-IsPMtDHtT6C7xzlLby044A%3Aa%3A3199477-%2F0 I guess he thinks he stands a chance of becoming potus one day.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116484049390317908 Quite credible analysis that doesn’t go conspiracy theory: the shooter never shot.

VAE uit OPEC: Waarom en hoe verder? Mijn korte analyse⬇️

This is good

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116471388532185875 It's why I keep arguing for banning the use of "AI" for submissions in manuscripts/grants/applications/any writing whenever I can – and plead for people to please submit their own writing without "AI polishing" where I can't. I'd much […]

In Washington, D.C 🇺🇸 During White House Correspondents’ Dinner weekend.