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NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...
At the same time, the organization disclosed today in a new blog post, the situation is becoming untenable: AI-driven requests for Wikipedia content are growing exponentially, at significant cost to the foundation, and are not being paid by the companies responsible. Those companies are also serving information from Wikipedia without attribution, greatly reducing the chances that their users will visit Wikipedia and contribute or donate to it. Moreover, during surges of interest in the site — after the death of a celebrity, for example, or in the wake of a natural disaster — bot traffic to other pages is now so significant that it is causing slower page loading times for human users.
April 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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A reminder that T. S. Eliot had the problems of today figured out 103 years ago in his essay and poetry collection "The Sacred Wood."
"The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts."
December 14, 2024 at 1:26 AM
bkhall.bsky.social
Had a wonderful morning at Maison Gainsbourg today. I’m so lucky to have had this experience. Charlotte has done an incredible job of creating an intimate connection for all of Serge’s admirers. Truly an emotional experience.
December 13, 2024 at 4:47 PM
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pauleric70.bsky.social
Absolutely ✨❤️✨
November 28, 2024 at 9:30 PM
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dbergstresser.bsky.social
Poem by Joseph Fasano
November 29, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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dak.myatproto.social
At my funeral there’ll be a 37 minute montage of me trying to find something to watch on Netflix
November 27, 2024 at 11:53 AM
bkhall.bsky.social
A little heartbreaking to admit but, after just teaching A Christmas Carol and asking the kids if the story could have taken place at any other time of the year, I have to heartily agree.
captfishpaste.bsky.social Michael Graham @captfishpaste.bsky.social · Nov 20
Here is a test for the civility on BlueSky:

A movie cannot be a Christmas movie unless Christmas plays a central mechanism in the transition of the narrative from A to B.

So Die Hard is clearly NOT a Christmas movie because Christmas changes nothing in the story.
November 21, 2024 at 5:56 AM
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captfishpaste.bsky.social
Here is a test for the civility on BlueSky:

A movie cannot be a Christmas movie unless Christmas plays a central mechanism in the transition of the narrative from A to B.

So Die Hard is clearly NOT a Christmas movie because Christmas changes nothing in the story.
November 20, 2024 at 11:46 AM