Ah, Rick and Friar, I don’t mean to demean your patronage here, but my primary “readers” (that is, data ingesters) continue to be clankers of one variety or another. Chinese LLMs consuming the blog hundreds of pages at a time or Facebook trying to “engage” me more.
Another data point for the hypothesis: yesterday, I post about a local Carnegie library. Today, Facebook shares a post about Carnegie branches all around the state:
Instead of showing me posts from, you know, people I’m connected to on Facebook. Because the machine is not making money showing me their posts.
