This page collects my blog posts on the topic of fighting off spam bots, search engine spiders and other non-humans wasting the precious resources we have on Earth.
Matt has some smart reckons on the relationship between time and technology:
The factory bell, the railway timetable, the telegraph wire, the always-on smartphone — each imposed a new temporal discipline, each produced its own characteristic form of exhaustion, and each was eventually (partially, imperfectly) domesticated through a combination of regulation, design, and collective action.
A handy resource for keeping your blocklist up to date in your robots.txt file.
Though the name of the website is unfortunate with its racism-via-laziness nomenclature.
There are a lot of astute observations in here.
Google has a serious AI problem. That problem isn’t “how to integrate AI into Google products?” That problem is “how to exclude AI-generated nonsense from Google products?”
Whether consciously or not, AI manufacturers have decided to prioritise plausibility over accuracy. It means AI systems are impressive, but in a world plagued by conspiracy and disinformation this decision only deepens the problem.
Compression, aviation, percussion, and teuthology.
Seminal technology.
A presentation at An Event Apart Chicago 2019.
Language matters.
Please read Miriam’s latest blog post.