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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
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October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday
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How Ruby Went Off the Rails
What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:04 PM
New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...
Anyone else have zero interest in a US owned TikTok?
September 25, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Anyone else have zero interest in a US owned TikTok?
Not sure if it’s just me but Facebook marketplace seems to be overrun with bots. Completely unusable anymore
August 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Not sure if it’s just me but Facebook marketplace seems to be overrun with bots. Completely unusable anymore
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📢 DuckLake 0.2 is out! We added new features to the specification and improved support in the DuckDB ducklake extension.
See the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/07/04/d....
See the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/07/04/d....
July 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📢 DuckLake 0.2 is out! We added new features to the specification and improved support in the DuckDB ducklake extension.
See the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/07/04/d....
See the announcement blog post at duckdb.org/2025/07/04/d....
Any investors jumping into TSLA because Musk says "Wall Street doesn't understand our value" has got to be a moron. Sales are declining everywhere. They aren't a market leader in anything anymore
March 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Any investors jumping into TSLA because Musk says "Wall Street doesn't understand our value" has got to be a moron. Sales are declining everywhere. They aren't a market leader in anything anymore
Days since the last national embarrassment: 0
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March 1, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Days since the last national embarrassment: 0
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Interested to see what 2025 holds for Apache Iceberg. Momentum definitely seems to be with it
January 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Interested to see what 2025 holds for Apache Iceberg. Momentum definitely seems to be with it
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If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.
January 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
If a Democrat fired 100 FAA employees and put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers 8 days before an airport plane crash, there would be a right-wing and media frenzy for weeks.
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Reposted by Zach Whitten
Folks forgot about this with all the focus on TikTok, but Meta/Facebook was selling your data to China for years.
And do you really think they were the only ones?
And do you really think they were the only ones?
January 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Folks forgot about this with all the focus on TikTok, but Meta/Facebook was selling your data to China for years.
And do you really think they were the only ones?
And do you really think they were the only ones?
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Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.
Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky
The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.
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November 23, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.