This is a fantastic story about how the search engine tail wags the online content dog.

It's a form of enshittification, but it's a two-sided one that involves google's algorithmic choices and web designers' responses via Campbell's law (when a metric becomes a target, people do stupid shit)

https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization

In 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices at SCOTUS because there were 9 Circuit Courts.

Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?

Substack brands itself as avoiding value judgments, but its justification for allowing certain offensive speech is full of value judgments, chosen to make money (Ken White/The Popehat Report)

https://popehat.substack.com/p/substack-has-a-nazi-opportunity
http://mediagazer.com/231222/p9#a231222p9

Didn't believe this was a thing until I actually saw it myself.

I bank at a small, local credit union. I recently cleared my autocomplete settings so plugged their name into #Google to get back to their homepage.

The Sponsored result IS NOT my bank's website. But is skinned the same. 100% a #phishing site served as a Google ad above the legitimate business website.

This is a major problem, my friends.

The Evangelicals Calling for War on Poor People (Elle Hardy/New Republic)

https://newrepublic.com/article/176117/prosperity-gospel-christian-war-poor
http://www.memeorandum.com/231024/p4#a231024p4