Andrew Witham

@AndrewWitham
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Broadcast Engineer turned fledgling online publisher. Living in Sydney on Wangal country

In our post today on Search Central, learn how AI-generated content fits into our long-standing approach to show helpful content to people on Search and our guidance for creators who have questions about using AI tools. #Google #Search #AI

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2023/02/google-search-and-ai-content

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

Hey everyone. Just a reminder that you don't have to put up with bullying, shaming or guilt-tripping, just because it is Christmas.

If you don't want to see those relatives, you don't have to.

If you don't want to cook a huge dinner you don't have to.

If you don't feel like celebrating, you don't have to.

And don't let Christmas adverts bully you into being anxious. They just want your money, they don't care about your wellbeing.

Christmas is just one day. Be true to yourselves and put your mental and physical health first.

#christmas #mentalhealth

So something pretty big happened yesterday here in the Netherlands: Prime Minister Mark Rutte has offered a formal apology on behalf of the Dutch state for the Netherlands’ historical role in the slave trade. He acknowledged that the Dutch state had “enabled, encouraged and profited from slavery”.

The apology, including its timing, isn't perfect, but it is a watershed historically speaking.

#history #slavernijexcuses #slavernijverleden #Netherlands

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/19/dutch-pm-apologises-for-netherlands-role-in-slave-trade

Dutch PM apologises for Netherlands’ role in slave trade

Mark Rutte says Dutch state ‘enabled, encouraged and profited from slavery’ for centuries

The Guardian

The world is buckling bc of a few megalomaniac men who were either denied love or have a warped view of what love is.

Love is the only way out of this. Kindness is the antidote to hate. Don’t let hate change you. Vote. Breathe. Drink water. Honor each other. Hate is untenable.

#LoveWinsAlways #BeKind #kindness #TwitterRefugee #TwitterMigration

Protocols, not platforms. That we let ourselves get suckered into platforms over protocols is one of the biggest unforced errors in the history of the net, and if Musk makes that widely obvious, it will be a significant silver lining in his sophomoric conflagration.

I think a lot of people on here follow me because of Core Web Vitals, so I wanted to let people know we're working on clarifying the intent of the Largest Contentful Paint metric (LCP) in https://github.com/w3c/largest-contentful-paint/issues/86

Specifically, we want to clarify that placeholder images are NOT intended to be candidates for LCP, as they're not contentful.

Improve unimportant image heuristic · Issue #86 · w3c/largest-contentful-paint

Currently we use a heuristic to exclude certain images from being considered LCP candidates. For instance, we exclude images that take the full viewport. This heuristic is imperfect as it could exc...

GitHub

Google already updated some of its documents to say E-E-A-T instead of E-A-T, including this PDF about how Search Quality Raters work.

Impressive: https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/hsw-sqrg.pdf

Wow. I’d been hearing this but seeing it firsthand is something else. #Twitter is flagging #Mastodon links as “unsafe.” Like a link to my specific, personal profile here gets this absurd warning.

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see [email protected] or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.