Fun fact. The property line runs through the middle of this building, so King Charles III in right of Canada owns the left side. I, as 77th Earl of Burnt Bridge Road, own the right side.
"Charles", I said.
"We should round up a posse of Land Rover Defenders and fix up this hunting hodge."
"Would love too", he said. "But I can't seem to find the time. Too many doctors appointments!"
A relationship that begins with mutual annoyance, insults, and an unwillingness to respect each-others' choice of career and place to live isn't likely to end well. At best, the two people can part with civility and seek out more respectful and sympathetic partners.
On an unrelated note, I can't figure out why #Hallmark keeps rejecting my scripts.
Journalist Jonathan Katz fact checked Katie Britt’s horrific rape story from her over-the-top rebuttal.
Despite all the drama, it turns out to be a story that happened 20 years ago - and not in the U.S. but in Mexico. It’s a story that was recounted in Congressional testimony in 2015.
Katie #Britt lied when she blamed this on Joe #Biden’s border policies and when she said it happened in the U.S. #SOTU
@JaneDoeTheFirst@GottaLaff I'm told that's a $10,000 sub-zero refrigerator (whatever that is?), there behind the island. You know, like the 'average American family' has. #not
Today, Yahoo announces doing exactly that to Engadget: "...the changes paint a picture of an outlet cutting staff to focus on things like Google traffic, SEO, commerce, and affiliate revenue" 😔
…like Popular Science, which began as a magazine in 1872 and became a shambling zombie in 2023, after its PE owners North Equity LLC decided its googlejuice was worth more than its integrity and turned it into a metastatic chumbox of shitty affiliate-link SEO-bait.
#Media#News#Journalism#SEO#Google#Search#SearchEngines: "In our experience, each rollout of the Products Review Update has shaken things up, generally benefitting sites and writers who actually dedicated time, effort, and money to test products before they would recommend them to the world.
That said, most searches for specific product models don’t just magically start with users searching for specific devices off the top of their heads. There is an immediate step before this: the hours of research reading through lists of product recommendations.
If you have been reading HouseFresh for a while, your first encounter with us was likely a list like this one or this one recommending the best devices for a specific issue you were trying to solve. That is how most of our readers find us.
Unfortunately, we’re getting less and less traffic from those pages, and it’s endangering the future of our site.
"Google literally has one job: to detect this kind of thing and crush it. The deal we made with Google was, "You monopolize search and use your monopoly rents to ensure that we never, ever try another search engine. In return, you will somehow distinguish between low-effort, useless nonsense and good information. You promised us that if you got to be the unelected, permanent overlord of all information access, you would 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.'"
They broke the deal.
Companies like CNET used to do real, rigorous product reviews. As Housefresh points out, CNET once bought an entire smart home and used it to test products. Then Red Ventures bought CNET and bet that they could sell the house, switch to vibes-based reviewing, and that Google wouldn't even notice. They were right."
I had no idea Popular Science had been PE'd to zombification. I wondered why I had started seeing them appear in search results again and just assumed they'd invested in their web presence, when the truth is much worse. A shame, because they were once a great publication.
A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google - which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic - suddenly turned into a pile of shit.
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Ein Vorschlag,
der schon oft diskutiert worden ist,
jetzt haben ihn #dieGrünen wieder mal ins Spiel gebracht:
Sollte
die #Fahrtüchtigkeit von #Senioren ab dem 75. Lebensjahr überprüft werden?
@jakob
In vielen Beiträgen/Anworten hatte ich nie den Eindruck, dass es ein "Sowohl-Als-Auch" gäbe. Mir wird vorgeworfen und suggeriert, ich wäre gegen ÖPNV und Taxis, da ich Schwierigkeiten aufzeige. Dann wird belehrend die Sozialkeule rausgeholt. Wenn ich selbst funktionierende Wege benenne und fehlende Priorisierungen beklage, zählt das nicht. Doch wenn ich erst einmal mit einem Prozess beginne, und meine Sünden anerkenne, dann werde ich schon irgendwann verantwortungsvoll.
It’s OK to call it Artificial Intelligence: I wrote about how people really love objecting to the term "AI" to describe LLMs and suchlike because those things aren't actually "intelligent" - but the term AI has been used to describe exactly this kind of research since 1955, and arguing otherwise at this point isn't a helpful contribution to the discussion.
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