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Inside: Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/
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Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation: The real secret of "dark SEO" is "pay for an ad."
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110549443750471971
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Attached: 1 image Google's search quality has been in steady decline for years, and Google assures us that they're working on it, though the most visible effort is replacing links to webpages with lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a confident habitual liar chatbot: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/tweedledumber/#easily-spooked -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/#crisis-pregnancy-centers 1/
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* The Mystery of #WaltDisneyWorld’s Bermuda Triangle https://www.micechat.com/319186-the-mystery-of-walt-disney-worlds-bermuda-triangle/
* #Disney’s #HauntedMansion and the Invention of Halloween as You Know It https://www.micechat.com/308943-disneys-haunted-mansion-and-the-invention-of-halloween-as-you-know-it/
* Apollo Remastered https://www.apolloremastered.com/ (h/t Kottke)
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#15yrsago #MMORPG Tycoon: a video game about running a video game company https://web.archive.org/web/20080619175716/http://playthisthing.com/mmorpg-tycoon
#15yrsago South China Mall: the largest #GhostMall in the world https://web.archive.org/web/20080618001435/http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080612/REVIEW/206990272/1042
#15yrsago Hollywood wants to infect all next-gen video with #DRM https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/bit-player/story/2008-06-12/more-on-movies-going-to-cable-before-dvd
#10yrsago Why you should care about surveillance https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2013/jun/14/nsa-prism
#10yrsago #Durian McFlurry at McDonald’s Singapore https://donaldandcathy.typepad.com/ma_vie_trouvee/2013/06/our-newest-mcflurry-form-mcdonalds.html
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Play This Thing! | Game Reviews | Free Games | Independent Games | Game Culture
Subscription based MMOs... it's a genre that reminds me of my retarded cousin Jamie, or Falstaff; forlorn, comically maligned, blunt in its triumphs and sloppy in its failures. After WoW hit a milestone and started making headway in China, a flood of
#10yrsago Xbox One will divide EU into different markets https://web.archive.org/web/20130621012434/http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2013/06/14/msft_to_regionlock_xbox_one_on_launch.php
#5yrsago #CambridgeAnalytica’s key staffers formed a new company that’s working on Trump 2020 https://apnews.com/article/north-america-technology-ap-top-news-elections-donald-trump-96928216bdc341ada659447973a688e4
#5yrsago #StephenColbert explains Jesus’ position on ripping children from their parents to #JeffSessions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4KaLkYxMZ8
#5yrsago Eye tracking and fMRI confirm that we don’t even perceive #SecurityWarnings before clicking past them https://web.archive.org/web/20180606114714/https://neurosecurity.byu.edu/media/Vance_et_al._2017_MISQ.pdf
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#5yrsago GDP vs human thriving: a “healthy” economy means debt-haunted people, desperately searching for housing https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvnmj5/people-cant-pay-rent-debt-is-insane-and-the-economy-is-somehow-great
#5yrsago Danish anti-piracy lawyers stole millions from their clients, sentenced to years in prison https://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-lawyers-sentenced-to-years-in-prison-for-defrauding-copyright-holders-180612/
#5yrsago The UN’s top free speech expert just denounced the new EU copyright plan as a “potential violation of international human rights law” https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4516209-OL-OTH-41-2018.html
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#1yrago Boy, gig companies sure hire disastrously sloppy lawyers: $100m flushed down the drain in Massachusetts https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/15/simple-as-abc/#a-big-ask
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Yesterday's threads: How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy; and more!
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Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/ #Pluralistic 1/
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Your piece caught my eye because of Benn wondering whether Google has manipulated some of the content of it's search results for the anti-abortion lobby. Attached is the card for the film "Love for a Proper Stranger". The basic plot description is ok but the tone of the description is weird and doesn't gel at all with my memory of the film.
Your piece caught my eye because of Benn wondering whether Google has manipulated some of the content of it's search results for the anti-abortion lobby. Attached is the card for the film "Love for a Proper Stranger". The basic plot description is ok but the tone of the description is weird and doesn't gel at all with my memory of the film.
Gabbo the wafrn dev guyfor a moment I thought this was an @IconographicPropaganda post