Aleks Jakulin
@aleksj.bsky.social
Reposted by Aleks Jakulin
For twenty years, there has been a bargain between websites and Google that websites allow Google to crawl them and in return Google sends traffic to the websites. Google is chipping away at the sending traffic piece of the deal, which might work in the short-term, but is risky long-term. 1/2
Google’s AI-generated answers — and the way the company has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, “disrupting a delicate symbiotic relationship” and hurting creators and small businesses. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’
In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways the search giant had helped her family’s business grow.
www.bloomberg.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
For twenty years, there has been a bargain between websites and Google that websites allow Google to crawl them and in return Google sends traffic to the websites. Google is chipping away at the sending traffic piece of the deal, which might work in the short-term, but is risky long-term. 1/2
Accelerating CO2 levels in the atmosphere make it clear that whatever 'sustainability initiatives' from the past 2-3 decades just aren't working. It's time to stop wishful thinking, for the sake of the world.
Global atmospheric CO2 increased by 3.68 ppm in Dec 2024 relative to 2023. It's accelerating. Current policy doesn't even try to reverse that. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
March 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Accelerating CO2 levels in the atmosphere make it clear that whatever 'sustainability initiatives' from the past 2-3 decades just aren't working. It's time to stop wishful thinking, for the sake of the world.
LLM grooming: "the malign intent to encourage generative AI or other software that relies on LLMs to be more likely to reproduce a certain narrative or worldview.”
March 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
LLM grooming: "the malign intent to encourage generative AI or other software that relies on LLMs to be more likely to reproduce a certain narrative or worldview.”
The main application of artificial intelligence technology in war right now are sock puppets on social media. (h/t @vatniksoup.bsky.social for the photo)
March 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The main application of artificial intelligence technology in war right now are sock puppets on social media. (h/t @vatniksoup.bsky.social for the photo)
Did you know that Russia Today is the most shared web domain on Trump's Truth Social?
March 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Did you know that Russia Today is the most shared web domain on Trump's Truth Social?
We could just shrug away ambient flu in the past, but we can't shrug away ambient C19: it suppresses the immune system far too much.
@1goodtern.bsky.social made a chart showing that a C19 infection increases the risk of bacterial infections 6-8x more than a flu infection!
@1goodtern.bsky.social made a chart showing that a C19 infection increases the risk of bacterial infections 6-8x more than a flu infection!
January 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We could just shrug away ambient flu in the past, but we can't shrug away ambient C19: it suppresses the immune system far too much.
@1goodtern.bsky.social made a chart showing that a C19 infection increases the risk of bacterial infections 6-8x more than a flu infection!
@1goodtern.bsky.social made a chart showing that a C19 infection increases the risk of bacterial infections 6-8x more than a flu infection!
Santa is a just old political propaganda. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civi...
A Civil War Cartoonist Created the Modern Image of Santa Claus as Union Propaganda
Thomas Nast is legendary for his political cartoons, but he’s also responsible for the jolly St. Nick we know today
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December 21, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Santa is a just old political propaganda. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/civi...
Culture preceded progress
And NB it’s not just that people write more about progress when their country is progressing. Britain’s cultural shift preceded its economic acceleration, as did Spain’s
August 7, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Culture preceded progress
"Evolutionary medicine identifies six reasons why our bodies are vulnerable to disease: 1) defences, 2) environmental mismatch, 3) trade-offs, 4) conflict between survival and reproduction, 5) co-evolution with infectious parasites and 6) constraints on natural selection."
Why Do We Get Sick? The New Science of Evolutionary Medicine - Areo
If you infect a rabbit with a virus or a bacterium, it’ll start to run a fever. Why? The surprising answer is that fever is not a disease; it’s a…View Post
areomagazine.com
August 24, 2023 at 5:15 PM
"Evolutionary medicine identifies six reasons why our bodies are vulnerable to disease: 1) defences, 2) environmental mismatch, 3) trade-offs, 4) conflict between survival and reproduction, 5) co-evolution with infectious parasites and 6) constraints on natural selection."