Link: It’s The Information, Stupid | Mojeek Blog
Search engines can influence an election.
Actually the influence of search engines on elections has been commented on since the early 2000s. Books may have been written, and yet little academic research seems to have been done. It may seem remarkable, unless you think about it.
Link: Linux May Be the Best Way to Avoid the AI Nightmare | Lifewire
“As someone who has worked extensively in tech and cybersecurity, I can tell you that Linux is indeed a viable alternative for those who wish to avoid AI integrations found in mainstream operating systems like macOS and Windows,”
Link: Is the Golden Age of Fair Use Over? | Mojeek Blog
If you take from the web, you should give back. Search engines like Google and Bing used to do that with hyperlinks; sending traffic back to the web-pages which they have crawled and indexed. The voluntary arrangement of respecting robots.txt files and page meta tags, and linking back, is underpinned by the legal concept of fair usage.
Link: The IndieWeb’s next stage? | Tracy Durnell
I also think we could be more, if we wanted.
Link: /slashes | Flamed Fury
Link: Issue 10: Links Worth Sharing | Own Your Web
… the social aspect of bookmarking, also known as sharing links with others. Once upon a system time, sites like Zootool, StumbleUpon, or Delicious not only let us save bookmarks, but also made it possible to discover new, interesting links that others had saved. This social aspect, this way of curating and sharing a collection of links that others can follow, has become a lost art.
Sharing links are part of being social.
Link: China Builds World’s First Dedicated Drone Carrier | Naval News
The design is smaller than the regular aircraft carriers, with a flight deck approximately one third the length and half the width of a U.S. Navy or Chinese Navy (PLAN) super carrier. For comparison, it is slightly shorter but wider than a World War Two escort carriers.
Link: Google’s broken link to the web | Platformer
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background
Link: Are we creating great things? | Andy Sylvester
The tools available for blogging are always increasing, as is the same for video production. So, since we have the tools part covered, are there some great things out there? Are there more great things that need to be created?