alyaza [they/she] @ alyaza @beehaw.org

internet gryphon. admin of Beehaw, mostly publicly interacting with people.

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i think it's been gliding on the entropy of its original value for a long time at this point (it was founded in 2009)—certainly i can't remember a time where it was useful, but then i only first encountered it in like 2016.

an amusing piece of trivia is that the correlation between this vote and the historical strength/weakness of the Paris Commune is quite high. much has changed in Paris since 1871, but the political geography largely has not:

if for some reason the unlock code doesn't work, here's an archive.is version.

these sorts of promises from large banks and corporations should always be viewed with skepticism--and this is of course why. trivial to renege.

these have just been introduced so if you live in New York, obviously now is a good time to lobby your legislator. you can find each as follows:

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8451

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8452

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S8453

removing this because it's indistinguishable from spam; we're not opposed to self-promotion here but it's simply not a good first impression to post what is essentially an advertisement

Google "Search Liaison" Danny Sullivan confirmed the feature removal in an X post, saying the feature "was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn't depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it."

okay but... has it? this seems like an unfounded premise, intuitively speaking

a wonderful new year update: we are currently paying $1,600/mo for this shitty apartment. love landlords

would you believe me if i told you this is Bloober's first attempt at combat

One thing though: Criticism of admins should never be considered a rule breaking event provided it is not derogative or endangering, and if my reply to you is considered a reason for admin action then I need to reconsider my participation in beehaw as well.

just to be clear the issue here is/was not you critiquing me--i don't care about that particularly, comes with the job--it's the tone which seemed like it implied being held to any moderation standard was problematic. because they tend to cause a scene about how they're being censored we're not super interested in having people in that category on here, and so whenever someone responds in that way it's a red flag

while understandable, i think this position is ultimately self-defeating--the rights that employees have against their employers pretty much all exist because they were won through political struggle originally (usually at great social or economic expense to early workers). the same can probably be said of tenant rights, and that therefore the only reason they aren't as good as employee rights is because there's not really a broad tenant activist movement yet. and that would of course have to be built through actions like this, even if they might in a specific case end poorly for tenants

i've already rendered my verdict here—which was i banned the other person for a bit and not you (even though you both said things which run afoul of our rules) because you're a member of our instance and we can afford to be more patient and understanding with you accordingly. but to be clear: if you respond in this manner even to very light moderator feedback then for moderation purposes you'll be held to outsider standards going forward. which is to say, you're not going to get anywhere near the benefit of the doubt or the lenience when you break rules.

the discourse between you two in this thread is not productive; please chill out a bit and stop antagonizing each other.

this would continue the IWW's strong momentum in the Bay Area going into the new year. they unionized one bookstore, three Peets Coffee locations, a salvage center called Urban Ore, and the Berkeley Ecology Center last year

for reference, this effort was announced 61 days ago and these 13 companies (Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Tesla, Nissan, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Volkswagen, Mazda, Rivian, Lucid, and Volvo) employ about 150,000 people. this is a huge number of people committing on paper to unionization of their workplace

But the solution they’re gravitating toward makes them look like a spammy content farm.

i fail to see how this is the case when newsletters are quite a normal part of even reputable publications. for example: my state's nonprofit news outlet has like five, several of which are paid newsletters that help them fund their newsroom.

Besides the questionable benefits of e-mail over a website, this is also practically guaranteed to deter most privacy-minded people.

i mean, i would imagine most people are simply not privacy-minded in a way that this is a serious consideration for them.

As for AI dominating SEO for google, it seems there could be an opening for a new search engine that guarantees only content from original-sources, neither AI nor content-farms.

unfortunately it's really hard to make a search engine that people want, and most of the ones i'm aware of have gone bust because you have to commit to running it at a loss for years (or forever)

FYI: a lot of people have had a crack at this since the article dropped and this is not being replicated by... any of them, really. there seems to be a broad consensus that there is something wrong with whatever dataset FT is using.

here are a few attempts

you guys have got to start reading the article (and being even a little bit curious, frankly) before posting, they address RSS and have a footer link which is just the site's RSS feeds

So far, for the five months this company has existed, we have erred on the side of making almost all of our work available for free with no wall of any kind. We did it that way because ideally we would like our work to reach as many people as possible with as little friction as possible and we want our work to be impactful, which is often easier when more people read it (we are working on a fix for our paid, full-text RSS feeds).