Parts of this blog were made “private”; about 800 posts remain online
As this blog is not read much, in 2025 I removed about 2,000 posts, leaving about 800.
Media: Self-inflicted loss of trust in the media
Hype! Exaggeration! Scary Words! Just another day in media land!
Media: News web sites see large drop in visitors
Search engines have turned into “web content summaries” and searchers never visit the underlying web news sites that provided the training material to the AI-assisted search. Thus, visits to the root information provider have plummeted.
Public Apology Generator
When you screw up in public or on social media, here is a handy algorithm to generate your apology.
AI to produce nearly all web content within a year
The market for all the “freelance authors” spinning out junk for Business Insider, will be gone within a year, replaced by AI content.
Misogyny alive and well at The Daily Beast
They denigrate women by referring to them as “Barbie”.
Media: Why do people write stories like this?
She writes a story about living at home to save money, while earning just $2,500/month as, basically, a writer. Make this make sense.
Hate has no boundaries
Hate seems widespread – and pointless, and says much about today’s college campuses.
He calls himself an “honest pollster”
Famous pollster who calls himself an “honest pollster” is not honest.
Media: Drop in beer consumption due to Trump?
Consumption per person has declined since the 1980s, was stable for a while, and now, a majority of Americans view even drinking in moderation as bad for health.
Social: 58% of recent college grads are unemployed
The claim that 58% of recent graduate have no job is false, and comes about from a biased sample used in the survey.