{"id":35344,"date":"2026-06-13T08:29:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35344"},"modified":"2026-06-13T08:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:29:33","slug":"at-least-the-machines-are-reading-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/13\/at-least-the-machines-are-reading-me\/","title":{"rendered":"At Least The Machines Are Reading Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Rick and Friar, I don&#8217;t mean to demean your patronage here, but my primary &#8220;readers&#8221; (that is, <em>data ingesters<\/em>) continue to be clankers of one variety or another.  Chinese LLMs consuming the blog hundreds of pages at a time or Facebook trying to &#8220;engage&#8221; me more.<\/p>\n<p>Another data point for the hypothesis: <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/12\/libraries-little-convention-centers\/\" target=\"_new\">yesterday<\/a>, I post about a local Carnegie library.  Today, Facebook shares a post about Carnegie branches all around the state:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/carnegielibraries.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Instead of showing me posts from, you know, people I&#8217;m connected to on Facebook.  Because the machine is not making money showing me their posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, Rick and Friar, I don&#8217;t mean to demean your patronage here, but my primary &#8220;readers&#8221; (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 &#8220;engage&#8221; me more. Another data point for the hypothesis: yesterday, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35345,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35344\/revisions\/35345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}