This article does an impressive job in detailing the sad state of search engines: https://danluu.com/seo-spam/

One thing I've noticed is that, due to Quora providing #ChatGPT answers, #Google is now polluted by ChatGPT, too, and even includes these answers in their “knowledge cards”.

Never thought I'd see this happening, but search engines are dying. Unless they drastically take steps to ban all content farms & #SEO spammers, but that's hard if incentives aren't aligned with users (ads, investors).

I’ve just written this somewhere, maybe here, maybe Wire, so again, living in #canada makes me wonder if this is what the French felt watching the rise of #hitler and #authoritarism in Germany.

Horrified. Helpless. With a deep sense of foreboding.

This is why I #resist. 👊🏼

https://raybwilliams.medium.com/the-rise-of-american-authoritarianism-8c92619ea786

#MAGA #republicans are trying to use the #1stAmendment to interfere with the scientific community and the government providing facts, that’s right folks, #facts, to the people of American.

They don’t want you to learn the truth about #covid or many things by spewing their lies and then crying #freespeech! “We have the right to lie!”

I dare say, not when it interferes with public or individual safety.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/09/23/online-misinformation-jim-jordan/

This seems like a big deal

GOP senators were warned by Pentagon of Jan. 6 violence but no defense was planned: report

#news #politics https://www.rawstory.com/january-6-pentagon-knew/

This Canadian remembers #911 vividly.

Groggily waking up to a news flash about something having just happened in NYC.

Getting to the TV in time to see the 2nd plane hit. The confusion that followed. Announcers trying to make sense of what had happened. Then another plane hitting the Pentagon.

In shoke, I cancelled my Monday morning. Called my kids to see how they were doing. Watched in horror as it became clear the towers were coming down and the race to save lives was on.

#neverforget

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Competition, neoliberalism, crony capitalism? Right looks to rig emerging debate

#australia #capitalism

https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/09/11/competition-neoliberalism-crony-capitalism-right-wing/

CHARGED: How the North Carolina power station attacks led to a homicide

#attacks

https://occupydemocrats.com/2023/09/10/charged-how-the-north-carolina-power-station-attacks-led-to-a-homicide/

Wastewater monitoring is our last useful tool for helping us assess our Covid exposure risk level based on community transmission. Everyone needs to comment if we are going to keep this tool.

☄️DEADLINE: midnight tonight!

https://www.regulations.gov/document/CDC-2023-0055-0001

The #republicans are sinking lower and lower, whittling away at democracy at first inch by inch but now in large chunks at a time.

The level of disgust I feel at their descent into authoritarianism and fascism mounts daily.

#wisconsin ‘s corrupt republicans are looking to oust a democratically elected democratic justice by impeaching her for threatening to get this… restore democracy.

And the law abiding republicans?

Heads in the sand.

Looks like March is going to be a very busy month for #TFG, & we still don’t have dates for the other two cases. His trial date bookending the #GOPPrimaries

Hush Money case 4-Mar

Primaries
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Alabama 5-Mar
Arkansas 5-Mar
California 5-Mar
Colorado 5-Mar
Maine 5-Mar
Massachusetts 5-Mar
Minnesota 5-Mar
Georgia 12-Mar
Idaho 12-Mar
Mississippi 12-Mar
New Hampshire 12-Mar
Arizona 19-Mar
Florida 19-Mar
Illinois 19-Mar
Kansas 19-Mar
Louisiana 23-Mar
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DOJ January 6th Case 24-Mar