wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

earlier today someone showed me a picture of their baby and said "that's not even AI that's just what she looks like" and I am still thinking about the implications of that statement

I don’t usually share stuff like this, but are you telling me Sam Altman’s latest innovation is… porn?!?

Tragic

Humans of New York has taken over all of Grand Central Terminal for a huge art installation called Dear New York. “For the first time possibly ever, there is not a single ad to be seen in Grand Central Terminal.” [news.artnet.com]

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

The greatest thing on the internet today

Apparently there has been a massive run on Amazon’s inflatable frog costume inventory lately, which makes me happy.

When this game started, Seattle was known as the Pilots.

#JaneGoodall substack.com/@jenrubincon... @jenrubin.bsky.social

Johnny Cash didn't switch costumes with Elton John on SNL just to have some asshat call him "deeply uncool." I hate to even share this but the ratio is nice.

Mr. Cash, any rebuttal?

“Compared to John Lennon and Robert Plant, David Bowie can seem deeply uncool” is another thing that no one ever said.

You can relax everyone, they're out, now we can just enjoy baseball!

People are asking what good in your life has come from social media. I just found out that one of my favorite Captain America creative teams, @jmdematteis.bsky.social and @mikezeck.bsky.social, are on BlueSky and now I can tell them how much their work meant to younger me. That’s a very good thing

Ask yourself, where and when are they going to get the $1T in funding/revenue to pay for this?

Good luck getting any meaningful AI search visibility over time if what you’re doing tanks your site in organic search. This is why I think it’s been so incredibly silly and short-sighted that all this new GEO marketing often frames SEO as somehow dead or less important.

One of the main questions any AEO/GEO strategist should be asking is “can this tactic risk hurting my organic search performance?” AKA, having actual SEO experience and knowing Google/Bing’s content & quality guidelines inside and out.

Joan is cool. Be like Joan.

The fact this beer is not 6.3 ABV is such a missed opportunity

Saving my own video just to watch as a little pick me up

Reposted with alt text. Also, from a cursory look, this appears to basically be true, which is pretty funny. Philosophers... debate.

I guess it was no surprise that Jane Goodall died working, she died in service. One of the most extraordinary people I have ever met - so full of life, enthusiasm, good humour and passion for the conservation work she championed and absolutely determined to protect the planet and all of its species.

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

A long profile of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the WWW. “Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least $1600.” [newyorker.com]

Truth Also, as a person with hearing problems, post a damned transcript of your video every time. Even with headphones (and, yes, we should all wear headphones), it can be challenging to make out all of what’s said in many videos when listening in a public place

“You have not met all the people that will love you” is so comforting

Just a reminder that if you enjoy a book, please leave a quick review on Amazon or Bookshop dot org, or wherever. Even if it's only a sentence, it really, really helps get the word out to other readers.

This is a worthwhile article. The core point here is that your website is a container for your content. Even if “websites disappear” with the rise of agents, the need for you to create and curate valuable branded content doesn’t change.

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

This week in enshittification. Maybe it’s me, but remember when Amazon was kinda great?

RIP to a legend

I like when you register for a website and then it takes you to a login page instead of just signing you in. That’s right, good point, I might not have wanted to log in right now. Maybe I signed up today so I could log in sometime, some other day.

“My former colleague Rebecca Parsons, has been saying for a long time that hallucinations aren’t a bug of LLMs, they are a feature. Indeed they are the feature. All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful." Indeed, sometimes reality aligns with correlation.

Yesterday, but still worth mentioning

Obviously people are talking a lot about with AI and how artists deserve to be paid and hell yes but I also think there’s something really cool about just being a dad and picking up that guitar and making a song no one would ever pay for because you’re an embarrassing dad but it makes somebody happy

In The Rock 9/10/1991: The Smithereens release ‘Blow Up’, the band’s fourth studio album. It’s a more polished, trad pop sound for the band, and it stalls at #150 on the chart, a victim of timing: Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ explodes about a week later, shattering the old paradigm. #RockHonorRoll

Slightly diminish a book I, Roomba

We might be “experiencing an AI bubble,” Rogé Karma argues. “If that bubble bursts, it could put the dot-com crash to shame—and the tech giants and their Silicon Valley backers won’t be the only ones who suffer.”

The Cleveland Guardians are looking for talented Data Scientists to add to their R&D department. Apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/clevelandgua... Fire questions my way if you want.

What exit? (No one from there actually says that. But everyone thinks we do so it works anyway?

Enshittification always comes down to selling more ads.

sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this

Yeah. This one’s got “bad idea” written all over it.

A little too young for this one (and I lived in NJ), but I would have loved to have seen this bill. Or just about any other one that weekend.

Happy Birthday to the late, great Freddie King, blues guitarist who married Texas and Chicago blues, took it to Federal Records and struck gold. Born 9/3/1934. #FreddyKing #BluesIsKing #RockHonorRoll

well i guess i will not be buying google chrome after all