MarvinFreemanAnother thoughtful and well-written #blogpost by @brennan The part that stood out to me is his recognition of how #google has narrowed our knowledge and limited how we satisfy our curiosity:
"We've outsourced the act of discovery, of curiosity itself, to a system structurally incentivized to show us ads and that increasingly surfaces content generated specifically to satisfy its own ranking signals, not to satisfy us."
https://brennan.day/my-malware-story-gets-stolen-yet-another-argument-for-the-indieweb/
My Malware Story Gets Stolen; Yet Another Argument for the IndieWeb
A few days after writing about a weird malware campaign, I discovered that half a dozen cybersecurity news outlets had picked up the story. They now outrank me on Google. A metacommentary on the state of internet journalism, attribution, and what it says that a netsec industry has to rely on amateurs to break stories.
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