One of the reasons why the internet is a bit sick is it allows us to keep sharing narratives that are not in fact true. Of course, this is a link to television news, but make no mistake, this narrative is incredibly online in nature.
@jsonbecker As I read somewhere, the economy is good. The vibes are off. I dunno what's the solution for that. Hire influencers to send the other kinda vibes?
@pratik As a privileged white US citizen, I am very much IDGAF about what I post online, politically or otherwise. I'm of an age where I'll never have to job hunt again. Besides, I have way too much Internet and conventional media history as an unabashed left-wing gadfly to ever try to pass as apolitical or neutral. As far as AI goes, while I don't want my writing used on a content farm somewhere, I don't think a robust robots.txt file is really going to protect me. On my first trip through the blogosphere, I was very much as you described with metatags and SEO tactics. Thankfully the modern structure of the IndieWeb and projects like #WeblogPoMo2024 make all that optimization effort superfluous these days. I cross-post the tech stuff I write to Reddit most of the time, but I've been posting there for 18 years. Thanks to making the Reddit front page a couple of times out of pure luck, I have enough karma ward off accusations of being a shill when I dare to positively rate a product.
I cross-post the tech stuff I write to Reddit most of the time, but I've been posting there for 18 years.
This is the kind of example that I was trying to bring up. Clearly, this is something you have put out into the world to help someone (in addition to cross-posting on your blog, hopefully) so why hold on to it if some AI model wants to digest it?