How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
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What If We Made Advertising Illegal?
https://simone.org/advertising/
#RAP #ads #advertising #publicitat
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Conversations are the new unit of culture
We crave interactivity and multi-sided discussions in the podcast era.
https://onethingnewsletter.substack.com/p/conversations-are-the-new-unit-of
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Calm Tech Certification "Rewards" Less Distracting Tech
The first certified devices were shown at CES 2025
https://spectrum.ieee.org/calm-tech
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Listen to what gets lost when an MP3 is made
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/4/8147377/mp3-compressed-ghosts
MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia
https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-12-momboard
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Redditors Are Trying to Poison Google’s AI to Keep Tourists Out of the Good Restaurants
https://gizmodo.com/redditors-are-trying-to-poison-googles-ai-to-keep-tourists-out-of-the-good-restaurants-2000516156
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Thousands go to fake AI-invented Dublin Halloween parade
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/11/01/thousands-go-to-fake-ai-invented-dublin-halloween-parade
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A copywriter, an art director, and an advertising account man are boarding a plane to go to a client presentation. Slightly implausibly, they open the overhead locker and a genie pops out. The genie says, “I’ve been stuck in that bloody overhead locker for 10 years. As a reward, I’ve only got three wishes, but I’ll give you one each.”
The genie turns first to the copywriter and says, “What’s your wish?”
“I think I’d like the life and the prose style of Hemingway. I’d like to live that life. I’d like to write that way. I can’t think of anything better.”
And poof, the copywriter disappears.
The genie turns to the art director, “What would you like?”
“It’s got to be Picasso. Think about it. The locations, the lifespan, the eye, the beauty. I’d like the life of Pablo Picasso.”
And poof, the art director disappears. And so the genie turns to the advertising account man and says, “What about you?”
He says, “I want those two guys back. I’ve got an important meeting in two and a half hours.”
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How AI is changing the landscape for content strategists and designers
Changing search behaviour, the enshittification of the web, and threats to intellectual property. Keeping our jobs isn’t the only challenge AI poses for content folk.
https://lapope.com/2024/09/13/how-ai-is-changing-the-landscape-for-content-strategists-and-designers/
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Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social networks?
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We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny
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A Swiss Town Banned Billboards. Zurich, Bern May Soon Follow
The nation’s Supreme Court ruled governments could act to limit “visual pollution” and citizens could “opt out of unwanted advertising.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-26/zurich-bern-consider-billboard-bans-after-vernier-outlaws-visual-pollution
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AI paid for by Ads – the gpt-4o mini inflection point
https://batchmon.com/blog/ai-cheaper-than-ads/
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Llista d'inventors que han mort amb els seus propis invents
https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llista_d%27inventors_que_han_mort_amb_els_seus_propis_invents
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If you want to belong, find a third place
Your neighbourhood watering hole is more important than you think.
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We Need To Rewild The Internet
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
