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Posted today on @internetarchive blog:
*Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record*
"In today’s digital landscape, corporate interests, shifting distribution models, and malicious cyber attacks are threatening public access to our shared cultural history..."

It's a 130-page PDF of short articles. I contributed one of them, "Preserving Gaming History" (on page 99). https://blog.archive.org/2024/10/30/vanishing-culture-a-report-on-our-fragile-cultural-record/

Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record | Internet Archive Blogs

After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. She’s been reporting on the very sudden and unregulated rise of these facial search engines. Here’s the story of the very first one, the mysterious person who made it, and the copycats it helped spawn.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0bKHlyX4wF0W9DIS9y0LOg
Should this creepy search engine exist?

Episode · Search Engine · After stumbling on a new kind of search engine for faces, we called privacy journalist Kashmir Hill. She’s been reporting on the very sudden and unregulated rise of these facial search engines. Here’s the story of the very first one, the mysterious person who made it, and the copycats it helped spawn. Support the show: searchengine.show To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow:
Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have dire effects for the news industry. When you use Google now, the site will often offer AI summaries to you, instead of favoring human-written articles. We talk to @crumbler about why this is happening and what any of us can do.  https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cWLSWAq9LxwUWVbsdagKw?si=epC_8StHRJGUDrLXmail2A

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cWLSWAq9LxwUWVbsdagKw
How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2)

Listen to this episode from Search Engine on Spotify. Last week, Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have dire effects for the news industry. When you use Google now, the site will often offer AI-generated summaries to you, instead of favoring human-written articles. We talk to Platformer’s Casey Newton about why this is happening, why publishers are nervous, and about a secret new internet you may not have heard of, a paradise to which we may all yet escape.   Support the show at searchengine.show! Search Engine - How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 1) Platformer - Google's broken link to the web 404 Media - Why Google is shit now To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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@crumbler @pjvogt this inspired me to revive my dormant fediverse activity
It was a dream to go back on Search Engine to talk with @pjvogt about Google putting the web into managed decline and what we can do about it https://open.spotify.com/episode/6cWLSWAq9LxwUWVbsdagKw
How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 2)

Listen to this episode from Search Engine on Spotify. Last week, Google announced a fundamental change to how the site will work, which will likely have dire effects for the news industry. When you use Google now, the site will often offer AI-generated summaries to you, instead of favoring human-written articles. We talk to Platformer’s Casey Newton about why this is happening, why publishers are nervous, and about a secret new internet you may not have heard of, a paradise to which we may all yet escape.   Support the show at searchengine.show! Search Engine - How do we survive the media apocalypse? (Part 1) Platformer - Google's broken link to the web 404 Media - Why Google is shit now To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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@pixelfed can I get pixelfed for android?