Am I the only one to see the #irony here? By inviting readers to share via social media, you encourage the habit of getting news via social media, rather than directly from the source, and thus create the conditions for the spread of #misinformation […]

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Today's mood #climateemergency #capitalism #fascism #aihype

Which stage of #enshittification is this?
#telegram #jesuscomplex

Another #owngoal from #google. Does no one in that business have a good enough grasp of the English language to know that 'thinking hard', like 'playing hard' or 'practicing hard', is a good thing, that it has positive connotations?

They are clearly […]

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Just digest this for a moment. If the difference to the income of *one* website from serving personalised rather than non-personalised adverts to *one* user is £5 per month, then work out how much money you make for people by simply browsing the internet every day and getting exposed to those ads.

#notebooklm has landed hard and fast in the HE sector this month and will have a serious impact on student learning (the reason we ask students to read things is not because we think that is an efficient method of information upload! Reading is a form […]

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My (belated) prediction for 2025: the word 'quisling' will make a comeback.

Maybe we should keep a list?

#quisling

In case you ever doubted that maps are political. Or needed a reason to de-Google your life.

#google #mapsarepolitical #degoogle

What is it that people don't get about #DataPrivacy? Don't ask for a date of birth when all you actually need is a rough age for EDI analysis. People will give you that information and now you have something which can be stolen, which would hurt […]

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Maybe not ...

(Transparently exploitative business model for domain names in action.)

About 20 minutes later there was a classic, dramatic teal and orange sunset, which made everyone 'Wow!', but to my mind, this captures better a winter in #yorkshire.

None of those with green ticks from my user page are actually appearing in the BlueSky bridged profile:

https://bsky.app/profile/tomstoneham.dair-community.social.ap.brid.gy