Welllllll this isn't great.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website

"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website

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Followups from my previous post inspired me to invent the word 'microbored': the level of boredom that happens when something is right on the threshold where you look for something else to do.

For example, if I'm waiting for a compile that takes 1 second, I'll just sit for a second until it's done; if it takes 5 minutes or more then I _obviously_ need to find something to do while I wait (go make a coffee, open up a blog post, check Mastodon, whatever). But somewhere in between, at maybe the 10–20 second mark, it's a dilemma: sitting for 20 seconds doing nothing is a bit annoying, but anything I start doing in those 20 seconds won't be finished when I need to get back to looking at the results of the compile, and maybe the mental context switch costs more than it saves.

That's microboredom. It's not _too_ unpleasant in itself (there are much worse forms of boredom). But it's a more insidious waste of your time than a 5-minute delay, _because_ there's no way to spend the time more usefully or pleasantly.

If you leave the infrastructure of surveillance in place, people in power will inevitably find an excuse to resume using it. You have to take that shit down.

https://boltsmag.org/verona-wisconsin-ends-contract-flock-ai-surveillance-cameras/

May your SOC always alert you ,
May the bandwidth be always at your back,
May the green light of uptime shine warm upon your dashboard,
May the patches fall soft upon your systems,
May your backups be safely in the cloud a full half hour before the ransomware knows you’ve been breached,
And until we meet again on the network,
May strong encryption hold your data in the palm of its hand.

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