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Major changes coming to Google Search. Question: What search engines do we like in 2026?

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The Harris digital campaign head does a post-campaign autopsy of the conditions that impacted the DNC’s 2024 presidential strategy with lessons learned. I enjoyed this read because it was so close to the work that there are relevant takeaways for other public marcomms.

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After listening to the talk yesterday, I was reminded of this article describing a journalism model for using AI that shared some parallels with D’Ignazio’s research.

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Some media and ad-tech operations hire “clippers,” people who cut and distribute high volumes of short video across social platforms, to manufacture cultural relevance. The strategy in short: volume generates attention, and attention confers legitimacy.

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Gender, Power and AI: Wrestling for the soul of the network, again: flotisserie.micro.blog

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How early blogging tools like Movable Type made reverse-chronological posting the path of least resistance, killing the curated, librarian-style personal homepage and locking the whole web into the chronostream.

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More on personal websites as digital gardens.

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Did poptimism kill rock n’ roll?

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“Two things can be independently true about social media. First, there is no evidence that using these platforms is rewiring children’s brains or driving an epidemic of mental illness. Second, considerable reforms to these platforms are required, given how much time young people spend on them.”

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For those who love to post, a guide to the Internet of the future.

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Garbage Day on whether Bluesky was a net negative for left politics. I’d argue the most important thing Bluesky did/does is technical, by producing the AT protocol that underlies it, thereby building out the federated web. Distribution channels come and go, so consider posting at your own domain.

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A look at the national decline in student test scores. It’s important to consider this alongside global trends in education as well.

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Some contemporary thoughts from Ana Rodrigues on the perennial question of being a “woman in tech.”

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Added a Wayback link preserver plugin to the site. This lightweight code detects broken external links on the blog and shows clickable Wayback Machine fallbacks so readers can still access the content. Handy when we’re working on the indie web where the web is fragile.

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Finished reading: The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison 📚

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Reflections on teaching fiction writing in the age of AI, from a professor with ten years of classroom experience teaching writing at MIT.

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Read this alongside The Bluest Eye. Finished reading: On Morrison by Namwali Serpell 📚

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Reading Timothy Chester’s reflections on last week’s Canvas incident. As institutions increasingly outsource the technical load to cloud service teams, IT incident response becomes about communication.

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Why I'm broadly skeptical of device bans in K-12: flotisserie.micro.blog

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It’s like the phrase “turtles all the way down,” but turtles are marketing.

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A new group is attempting to map influence in the AI industry, with the goal to “produce a structured, shareable, and dynamic resource that identifies who is working on what, where the gaps are, and which partnerships might form across ideological and organizational lines.”

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A new study suggests that people who use AI for writing are more able to detect AI writing than automated scanner tools. My current LLM pet peeve is how they use language like load-bearing, structural and legible to describe most ideas.

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A quarter of the way in and already exhausted/confounded. Currently reading: Adult Braces by Lindy West 📚

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“Amazon has launched a new feature that uses AI to generate a short, podcast-like audio segment where two AI ‘hosts’ discuss the merits and reviews of a specific product.”

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I’m seeing grunge icons L7 in concert with Amyl and the Sniffers this summer and have been reading a lot about the ’90s indie rock era in the meantime. One frame I keep encountering positions grunge as regional punk musicians navigating a global, corporate pop mainstream – awkward, crass and vulgar, but in...

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