"Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. Once Google stops growing, it becames a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price..." - @pluralistic

Not to be the I said so guy, but it's near a decade ago that I first started muttering about maybe not calling Google a startup anymore - which is essentially & rather insanely what they're still doing.

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114859081313037001 #tech #business #AI

Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”.

It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of instances that you have followers on, and those hits are going to be labeled as coming from Mastodon.

This is going to seriously increase Fediverse visibility. Get your instance admin to turn it on!

The Internet Archive is excited to host The Golden Gate Stereoscopic Society as they share their most accomplished 3D photography and an in-depth workshop of 3D photography techniques.

📅 Tues, July 22
🕕 6:00 PM doors open
📍 IN-PERSON, 300 Funston Ave, San Francisco
ℹ️ https://blog.archive.org/event/stereo-vision-the-art-of-3-d-photography/

U.S. measles cases hit highest level in 33 years, CDC reports
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/07/09/nx-s1-5461155/measles-outbreak-cdc-vaccination-health?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Shots — Health News @shots-health-news-npr

Video: ICE agents brandish rifles, drive through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest at the courthouse, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/video-ice-agents-brandish-rifles-drive-through-protesters-at-s-f-immigration-court/