Reposted by Damien McElvannaAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 09/07/2023Something very strange is happening to the Web. Finding something from the past on search engines is eroding. Atemporality replaced by an immediate, constantly vanishing, consumerist hyper-present. What we thought was an infinite Borges-ian library turning into Amazon checkout with a ticking clock…niemanlab.orgGoogle is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers?A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers' sites, as more people get what they need straight from the Google search page instead. 411125420 1.1K
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 09/07/2023Borges is wild. Could have stretched this out into a novel but just finds the one amazing moment and does that. One page. Job done. 010 1
Reposted by Damien McElvannaRob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 08/07/2023Threads is the worst. Massively psychologically damaging to scroll thru feed of factory-installed celebs who suck & brands. Better to be hatecrimed on Twitter or vibe-policed by some weird teenager named BipsyWolf on here. I wish it ill. 1013197398 3.2K
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 06/06/2023Apple meeting:”We think there are billions of people who want to pretend to be a giant and have $3000 to spare” Cook:”Get on it” 000 0
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 04/06/2023Improv classes, typically self selecting for openness and joviality. You also see the same people each week for duration of term. Can be cringe but what isn’t 020 2
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 29/05/2023Or an Arkham Asylum version that’s only people who were banned can post and respond, and is read only to everyone else 000 0
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 28/05/2023Imagine having such a great rack they’re talking about it 300 years later (Borges-Universal History of Infamy-1935) 000 0
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 28/05/2023(And to be pedantic the Caribbean was settled by the British just before America with Caribbean English being spoken even earlier due to Elizabethan Sea Dogs contact with then Spanish colonies. Black English speakers have been the ‘anglosphere’ longer than America has existed ) 010 1
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 15/05/2023Pumpkin was definitely a housecat as appeared at the tail end of winter, distressed and now hasn’t left. Basement apt. We setup cam in window to see garden when at work/night. More drama than GoT. There are 3 additional cats in the hood. There are factions and then The Raccoons after 10pm. 000 0
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 09/05/2023We’re it not for Bluesky I wouldn’t know he’s wonderfully weird 000 0
Reposted by Damien McElvannaAnil Dash @anildash.com · 09/05/2023Man, Apple must have a huge launch coming up if something as significant as Final Cut and Logic coming to the iPad (as Apple's first-ever subscription Pro apps, no less!) doesn't even make the cut for the big show. 8362 36
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 09/05/2023Autoblock block profiles based on keywords in bio, you don’t even see the attempted follow 000 0
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 09/05/2023I loved that they could also be hyper local in a good way, there was a N Ireland music scene bb called fastfude and everyone knew everyone, 20 years on some people are still known by their username around town. I fear the kids today are missing pseudoanon non corpo local internets stuff 120 2
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 05/05/2023It does seem odd the Gov is going after monkey jpeg dealers (having failed to stop FTX, Binance et al) as actual banks real world businesses use collapse all over. Also if the NFTs had been printed and sold at Art Basel, not a security? Is art a bearer security ? 000 0
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 04/05/2023Thing is they announced they were exploring options last Friday too and no one cared. Then this BB nameless source article drops after the bell. 50% dump. The rumour of guarantee. One of few banks where insiders bought in size in March. Bill Gross buying. Earnings Not terrible. It’s fishy. 010 1
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 03/05/2023Or maybe they keep it hidden from public lest the public realize monte is just a shared illusion and you can just say something is worth a trillion and it is 000 0
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 03/05/2023How big should it be? I think it at least needs to be least as big as a plate 100 1
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 02/05/2023Net promoter is so dumb. “How likely are you to tell a friend to use us as a bank” “I guess so, maybe. I really haven’t thought about it. You were the nearest to my house when I was 15” <makes decision of this data> 110 1
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 02/05/2023Stealing Bankrupting from 🤝 commercial employer landlords 020 2
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 02/05/2023Boss earns a nickle, I earn a dime, that’s why I go to the gym with laptop wfh on company time 350 5
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 02/05/2023Re-enact his ousting every year like some kind of pagan cleansing ritual. Each year a Matty must be chosen and sacrificed. 2122 12
Damien McElvanna @damo.dev · 02/05/2023The real woke mind virus is complaining about the woke mind virus, once it infects the host they can do nothing else but complain that any space they inhabit is woke, this is why he wants Mars 010 1
