[2025-09-09 Tue 06:16]
In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline” - Ars Technica
The “open web” that Google cares about is just sites that bring them ad revenue. I don’t care about those. This is interesting though:
Google representatives have repeatedly trotted out the claim that Google’s crawlers have seen a 45 percent increase in indexable content since 2023. […] We don’t know what kind of content is in this 45 percent, but given the timeframe cited, AI slop is a safe bet.
I think the number of good sites is about the same. Old ones go away, new ones come up. The challenge is the amount of garbage—frequently model-generated—you have to dig through to find them.
Save those links, but also use hand-curated resources like RSS subscriptions to keep track of the Web you care about.
[2025-09-09 Tue 18:20]
Out walking the dogs. Bouncy Dog starts barking at a toddler. The toddler starts barking back at Bouncy Dog.
I like that kid.
[2025-09-09 Tue 20:48]
Had Logseq open to grab a couple note pages for the Obsidian version of my public brain. Goofed around a bit and oh no I found an interesting plugin:
