I'm reminded of the Vile Offspring from @cstross 's Accelerando. We've unleashed endless scrapping bots that effectively DDoS sites that were meant for us slow humans. The internet is now more bots than humans and we're being pushed to the periphery.
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Just walled off my personal git at https://git.danballard.comJust walled off my personal git at https://git.danballard.com
Instructions are on my homepage, but basically was tired of 99%+ of hits being from AI crawlers.
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Most Americans consume either no news, state propaganda (e.g., Fox, CBS), elite propaganda (e.g., WaPo, NYT), or junk news (most online sources) and thus have a poor grasp of what is happening and almost zero context for why.@gwynnion you've probably seen/shared this already but in case not I found this a good summary/framework of how bad/long/deeply the news has been failing in america
Splinter: Jon Stewart Is a Symbol of America's Crumbling Democracy
There is no such thing as a healthy democracy where people’s favorite journalist is a comedian.
Jezebel (www.jezebel.com)