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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"(Editor's note: A YouTube video of Dadgar and Hashimoto talking about HashiCorp's commitment to open-source software was mysteriously taken private after it was published right here.)"
⏱️ Time of discovery 🔭 of #asteroids ☄️ which passed within 1 #lunar distance from #Earth in 📆 2023
After closest approach 37.90%
< 24 hours before 20.70%
up to 7 days before 34.50%
> one week before 6.90%
> 7 weeks before 0.00%
> one year before 0.00%
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!"
The Supreme Court agreed to hear a case next term that could #preempt Congress and the Biden administration from instituting a #federal#wealth#tax — another potentially lucrative gift for conservative justices’ billionaire benefactors and the super rich.
A think tank affiliated with some of those benefactors recently pressed the court to accept the case and outlaw such taxes.
The new case, #Moore v. United States, is tailored to try to block Democrats’ promised agenda by #defining what can — and cannot — count as #taxable “#income” under the Constitution.
It specifically challenges a one-time levy on some shareholders for their foreign corporate earnings that was included in the 2017 Republican tax law.
The plaintiffs are a Washington state couple who faced a $15,000 tax bill under that provision for a stake they owned in an Indian company. They argue that their #corporate#earnings should #not count as taxable income under the Constitution because they had not been distributed to shareholders as #dividends.
The real goal of the case is “to slam shut the door on a #federal#wealth#tax,” as the couple’s lawyers wrote in a 2021 column. The couple’s petition to the Supreme Court expressly decries previous wealth tax proposals from Democrats, including Biden, and urges the justices to “head off a major constitutional clash down the line https://www.levernews.com/the-supreme-courts-next-gift-for-its-billionaire_benefactors/
11 years ago, my kid's daycare surprised us by announcing that they were closing for Christmas break a day before everyone else, so I ended up with our then-four-year-old daughter, Poesy, at my office for the day.
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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 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.
Forget Twitter: Amazon search is the poster-child for enshittification, in which Amazon locks you in (for example, with a year's shipping prepaid through Prime) and then you get recommended worse products while sellers make less money and Amazon pockets the difference. https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/29/aethelred-the-unready/#not-one-penny-for-tribute
JPMorgan Chase said the U.S. Virgin Islands gave Jeffrey Epstein more than $300 million in tax incentives and waived sex offender monitoring requirements, shielding the disgraced late financier as he gave cash and gifts to top officials.
#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."
Texas worker accused of being on drugs was actually dying of heatstroke (www.theguardian.com)
"Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat....
Jeffrey Epstein got $300 mln tax breaks, paid US Virgin Islands police, JPMorgan says (www.reuters.com)
JPMorgan Chase said the U.S. Virgin Islands gave Jeffrey Epstein more than $300 million in tax incentives and waived sex offender monitoring requirements, shielding the disgraced late financier as he gave cash and gifts to top officials.
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