Symbols xkcd.com/2520

I spoke to someone about this recently who is in the preservation and tech space. He said big tech is actively wiping a lot of past data. It's a real thing.

ASbadideas.bsky.socialJul 9, 2023 7:47pm

Something very strange is happening to the Web. Finding something from the past on search engines is eroding. Atemporality replaced by an immediate, constantly vanishing, consumerist hyper-present. What we thought was an infinite Borges-ian library turning into Amazon checkout with a ticking clock…

Google is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers?

A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers' sites, as more people get what they need straight from the Google search page instead.

It has come to my attention that some of you don’t know the whole story of Jorts, Jean, Pam, getting buttered… and one earnest question asked by a supervisor “Am I the asshole?” (Don’t miss the updates where it gets really funny)

Haha. Everything that company does sounds either boring or evil. It’s usually both.

ads are an assault on the mind ads are an assault on the mind ads are an assault on the mind ads are an assault on the mind ads are an assault on the mind

Being a silly goose? Oh you mean delusions of gander?

I had low expectations but it’s so much worse than I expected.

JOgilbertjasono.bsky.socialJul 6, 2023 4:27pm

I wrote about what makes Threads so depressing

Facebook's Threads is so depressing

Like a $19 turkey sandwich at an airport

why, did something happen?

PLphillewis.bsky.socialJul 6, 2023 4:48pm

OceanGate suspends all exploration and business operations

OceanGate suspends all exploration and commercial operations after Titan implosion

OceanGate said it is suspending all exploration and commercial operations after five people were killed during its expedition to the Titanic wreckage.