Reminder, there is no energy crisis. The price for electricity etc is completely fine. This is an oil/petrol crisis.
Data from Denmark where more than 70% of our electricity is being generated by renewables.
Thomas Baekdal
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In my latest Baekdal/Plus article, I have put together a calculator that can show how much money publishers really need to get from AI companies to cover the cost of them using our journalism. https://baekdal.com/newsletter/calculating-how-much-ai-companies-need-to-pay-publishers/
Want to see something crazy? In 2023, I bought a 20 TB seagate disk for DKK 2,599 -> Today, the same disk:
Seagate: DKK 5.025
Seagate: DKK 5.025
I had the weirdest problem. In my accounting system, my importer from Stripe kept failing on a single transaction, dated "2025-03-30 02:02:53" ... It looks fine, right?
Well, what if I tell you that this time doesn't exist in Denmark?
The problem here is that Stripe, being a US company, has a different daylight saving time than Denmark.
In the US DST was on 9 March 2025, while in Denmark it was on 30 March 2025, so while the date is correct in the USA, it doesn't exist in Denmark.
So... over the past few weeks, I have received several emails from people complaining about me using AI. Basically, they didn't think it was ethical considering how much damage this is causing publishers. So, I wrote an article about how I see this:
My view, as a media analyst, about using AI - https://baekdal.com/newsletter/my-view-as-a-media-analyst-about-using-ai/
David Gerardyt comment:
> Remember: The dumbest person you know is being told 'you are absolutely right' by a LLM right now.
Preston von GabbleduckIf there was any lesson we failed to learn from cartoons growing up, it came from Scooby Doo, where they tried to warn us that the villain is always a rich old white guy who wants to illegally and unethically acquire more money than he needs.
I just published my latest newsletter where I test whether Cloudflare's new web scraper is protecting publishers as they promised us ... and it doesn't: https://baekdal.com/newsletter/cloudflare-just-betrayed-every-single-publisher/
It is not stopped by Cloudflare AI Crawl Control, you cannot even set it. It's not blocked by Cloudflare's managed robots.txt file. It's not identified as a verified bot, allowing you to block it via your managed bot rules ... you can block it manually by setting up custom rules, but not automatically:
