Steve Jankowski
@textaural.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in New Media Histories at UvA. Curator of Keywords for Studying Media, Culture & Information https://textaural.com/keywords/. I study Wikipedia, utopian computation, design and consensus politics, often all at once.
Reposted by Steve Jankowski
“I see the TikTok, I see more, I get interested, I look it up online.”
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November 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
“I see the TikTok, I see more, I get interested, I look it up online.”
www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
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Unfortunately with gmail, we are not its primary users – it is not designed for us specifically, but for Google to gather data so that it can improves its systems for marketers.
Better would be email as a publicly owned service/infrastructure.
Better would be email as a publicly owned service/infrastructure.
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Unfortunately with gmail, we are not its primary users – it is not designed for us specifically, but for Google to gather data so that it can improves its systems for marketers.
Better would be email as a publicly owned service/infrastructure.
Better would be email as a publicly owned service/infrastructure.
Q: Does Google use an "AI" to categorize your email?
A: The technical answer seems to be that they use Machine Learning (not the same as LLMs) and they are being cagey about whether your emails are part of the aggregated or not. They're not saying no.
Here's their blog blog.google/products/gma...
A: The technical answer seems to be that they use Machine Learning (not the same as LLMs) and they are being cagey about whether your emails are part of the aggregated or not. They're not saying no.
Here's their blog blog.google/products/gma...
November 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Q: Does Google use an "AI" to categorize your email?
A: The technical answer seems to be that they use Machine Learning (not the same as LLMs) and they are being cagey about whether your emails are part of the aggregated or not. They're not saying no.
Here's their blog blog.google/products/gma...
A: The technical answer seems to be that they use Machine Learning (not the same as LLMs) and they are being cagey about whether your emails are part of the aggregated or not. They're not saying no.
Here's their blog blog.google/products/gma...
I had this thought as well. If they continue to enshittify gmail, then yeah. Here's a suggestion proton.me/mail
proton.me
November 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I had this thought as well. If they continue to enshittify gmail, then yeah. Here's a suggestion proton.me/mail
Alt, is that you are seeing the full inbox at the top of your email. You can rearrange the order of where the multiple inboxes appear to be above, below, or beside. I have mine set as above.
November 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Alt, is that you are seeing the full inbox at the top of your email. You can rearrange the order of where the multiple inboxes appear to be above, below, or beside. I have mine set as above.
That happened to me too. But part of my email reading system is treating it like a todo, so that anytime I have read an email, I unclick the "inbox" label. So once I added the "is:inbox" (and excluded the tab labels), my email returned to normal.
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
That happened to me too. But part of my email reading system is treating it like a todo, so that anytime I have read an email, I unclick the "inbox" label. So once I added the "is:inbox" (and excluded the tab labels), my email returned to normal.
I was also thinking the exact same thing once I saw those tabs disappear – and I think that was purposefully done. Those tabs are quality of life enhancers in world of email. But it took me 30 minutes to figure this out. I think you could set this up in 5-10 minutes and be mostly satisfied.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
I was also thinking the exact same thing once I saw those tabs disappear – and I think that was purposefully done. Those tabs are quality of life enhancers in world of email. But it took me 30 minutes to figure this out. I think you could set this up in 5-10 minutes and be mostly satisfied.
Yeah, some clarification. It doesn't recreate the tabs as they were at the top like before, just the general functionality ( filtered groups of emails). Also you can adjust the number of emails you see in the settings (it doesn't have to be 9). But you are right, this is not to remake the tabs. sry.
November 21, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Yeah, some clarification. It doesn't recreate the tabs as they were at the top like before, just the general functionality ( filtered groups of emails). Also you can adjust the number of emails you see in the settings (it doesn't have to be 9). But you are right, this is not to remake the tabs. sry.
Hm. If they don't, then I'll probably just make new labels that autotag those email addresses and then add the labels to the inbox conditions. But good point.
November 21, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Hm. If they don't, then I'll probably just make new labels that autotag those email addresses and then add the labels to the inbox conditions. But good point.
This gets it functionally back to where it was before. Also choose the option to put these inboxes "Above" the main one.
November 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This gets it functionally back to where it was before. Also choose the option to put these inboxes "Above" the main one.
And then setup separate inboxes for each, using "is:social" or "is:forums".
November 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
And then setup separate inboxes for each, using "is:social" or "is:forums".
Many people have noted that the Primary / Social / Forums / Updates tabs are missing when you do this 👀. You can recreate these manually using the "Multiple Inbox" setup in settings. Basically, tell your inbox to include emails tagged "inbox" and exclude the social / forums / updates.
November 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Many people have noted that the Primary / Social / Forums / Updates tabs are missing when you do this 👀. You can recreate these manually using the "Multiple Inbox" setup in settings. Basically, tell your inbox to include emails tagged "inbox" and exclude the social / forums / updates.
Edit: "edit history" is the wrong term. There are no dates attached to the edits.
October 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Edit: "edit history" is the wrong term. There are no dates attached to the edits.
Some pages are based on Wikipedia but then edited, and it includes an edit history (top right icon).
October 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Some pages are based on Wikipedia but then edited, and it includes an edit history (top right icon).
Well I'm a dumb-dumb. It literally says that it is a version of the Wikipedia page. So no mystery there.
October 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Well I'm a dumb-dumb. It literally says that it is a version of the Wikipedia page. So no mystery there.
Telltale signs about whether it is generated or a Wikipedia-forked page might be found in the References section.
The "Nobel Prize for Literature" (which was suggested on the front page of Grokipedia) has just URLs for the references. Compare that with the Wikipedia-fork of "Encyclopedias."
The "Nobel Prize for Literature" (which was suggested on the front page of Grokipedia) has just URLs for the references. Compare that with the Wikipedia-fork of "Encyclopedias."
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Telltale signs about whether it is generated or a Wikipedia-forked page might be found in the References section.
The "Nobel Prize for Literature" (which was suggested on the front page of Grokipedia) has just URLs for the references. Compare that with the Wikipedia-fork of "Encyclopedias."
The "Nobel Prize for Literature" (which was suggested on the front page of Grokipedia) has just URLs for the references. Compare that with the Wikipedia-fork of "Encyclopedias."
Also: here's the auto-suggest for articles related to abortion between Grokipedia and Wikipedia.
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Also: here's the auto-suggest for articles related to abortion between Grokipedia and Wikipedia.
The "Canada" article also includes what looks like an artifact of the generation process where the Grok is talking to itself ... maybe?
"– wait, no wiki, alternative"
"– wait, no wiki, alternative"
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The "Canada" article also includes what looks like an artifact of the generation process where the Grok is talking to itself ... maybe?
"– wait, no wiki, alternative"
"– wait, no wiki, alternative"
-- I'll be honest, I should have known about this but I didn't. It should have been included in this thing; at least for background. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Wikipedia imaginaire: a new media history beyond Wikipedia.org (2001–2022)
This paper presents a media biography of Wikipedia’s data that focuses on the interpretative flexibility of Wikipedia and digital knowledge between the years 2001 and 2022. To do so, I not only fol...
www.tandfonline.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
-- I'll be honest, I should have known about this but I didn't. It should have been included in this thing; at least for background. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....