Newsletter: Google has deposed Prabhakar Raghavan, the Man Who Killed Google Search, in a desperate move to reverse a years-long decline in revenue growth, product stagnation, and a categorical failure to make any impact with their AI products. www.wheresyoured.at/requiem-for-raghavan/
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."Â An important rule to follow with somebody's title in Silicon Valley is ...
I used to be ambivalent about gaming laws. On some level, it seemed like a relic from a more prudish era. None of my business, really. But I didn't appreciate how much money was involved and how much toxic behavior (both on the buying & selling ends) would be enabled as a result.
Looking at the last two elections, I'm predicting he'll get 46.5% of the vote - with very little he can do to raise it or lower it more than 0.5%. The question is how much of the remainder is disenfranchised through electoral college fuckery or wasted on third party nonsense.
In part, I think âsingle thingâ is doing some work here. Turns out, if you do this shit constantly, the press gets bored & tired of pointing it out.
No one asked for this information, but my dog burping after every meal makes me happy.
This is solid analysis by @emptywheel.bsky.social âThis is the task before Kamala Harris, as more low-information voters head to the polls. She has to find a way to crack through the wave of disinformation that Trump has spread.â Read below đđ»đđ»
Could This Week's Developments Change the Race? www.emptywheel.net/2024/10/18/c...
A series of events in the last ten days may finally have stripped the disinformation that would otherwise leave 8 to 13% of voters believing Trump's disinformation about himself and Kamala Harris.
I think the press feels more of a sense of entitlement to dictate terms to the Democrats. So, if Dems blow them off, they get mad in a way they don't when the Republicans - from whom they expect contempt - do the same thing.
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