Tootfinder

Chrome extensions, short-form content, Substack clips, and tech ethics — it’s all in #EdTechSR 343 “Clickbait & Chrome!” from 1 Jan 2025!
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/JnYFfkf0eAA
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You know, “this” used to be a perfectly innocent word. Nothing special, but a solid citizen of the grammar ecosystem. Who could have predicted it would turn into a major clickbait villain, meaning “We’re not going to tell you what this article is about until you click on it.”
FWIW I think I’m not alone in consciously avoiding clicking on such links.
#enshittification

Titulares recientemente:
«Algo sucede, lea acš las razones»
#Periodismo #ClickBait

Ich finde die deutsche Feiertagsdiskussion irre, solange man nicht Tage, sondern Wochen mit irrsinniger Bürokratie aus dem Hause Schilda verbringt. Das deutsche Steuerrecht ist komplett krank, die Planfeststellungverfahren führen zum Totalstillstand. Im Ahrtal bauen sie wieder in die Flutgebiete weil der Flächentausch nicht gelingt. Aber einen Feiertag abschaffen für den journalistischen Clickbait. #Fail …

NDR (@NDR@ard.social)
Angehängt: 1 Bild Einen Tag weniger Pause – dafür aber mehr Einnahmen für den Staat? In Deutschland wird über die Abschaffung eines Feiertags diskutiert, in Dänemark ist das bereits passiert. Der Ökonom Marcel Fratzscher warnte davor, diesem Beispiel zu folgen: https://www.ndr.de/feiertag316.html

Ear wax is clickbait.

Somehow, every story I see posted here from cybersecuritynews.com is overstated clickbait garbage.
So, take this with a grain of salt… https://mastodon.social/@statsonstatspodcast/114916118386809162

I'm increasingly hesitant to click on recommended videos with intriguing-sounding titles on YouTube, especially science, lifehack, or celebrity oriented. It takes a while to realise the narrator's voice sounds off, the title was a clickbait, or that the video doesn't tell anything with substance. Then you check the channel page and you see that some poor devil with a get-rich-quick scheme in mind has churned out 85 AI(-aided) videos in the last month, amassing tens of thousands o…

Gen Z (correction, Alpha) kid (into punk/grunge) explains the difference between The Clash and The Sex Pistols
"The Clash is , like, real anarchists
but the Sex Pistols are, like, clickbait aura-farming anarchists"
#notwrong

A clickbait going around: Scientists Find Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy: https://avatar42.social/2025/07/07/a-clickbait-going-around-scientists.html

Maurice Jones-Drew goes with clickbait not ranking Ashton Jeanty as top rookie back https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/13/raiders-ashton-jeanty-not-nfls-top-rookie-rb-acco…

Schafft KI die Entwickler*innen ab? Oder ist das Clickbait?
Meine Juli-Kolumne im @… , in der ich finde, dass es eigentlich eine gute Sache ist, wenn uns Maschinen Arbeit abnehmen.
Um die neue Buzzwords Deregulierung und Bürokratieabbau geht's auch und ihr ahnt schon, warum.
Künstliche Intelligenz – Weniger Arbeit durch KI – eigentlich eine …

Proof that Nature is capable of clickbait headlines; for the impatient, the final word seems to be that LLMs are fine and useful *PROVIDED* you already know the answer.
Nature: "AI ‘scientists’ joined these research teams: here’s what happened"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02028-5

Great blog post by @… on the Whatever machine. She talks about why crypto sucks, why LLMs suck, why hyped up clickbait sucks, and why calling writing and art 'content' sucks https://e…

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

The Independent just made the clickbait over all clickbaits...

Ok, let's say the reply guys are gone from Mastodon(I don't think they are)...
even if they were gone, there are still spam attacks and they are not hackers, they are simple user accounts spamming the usual youtube clickbait garbage.
Xi Jinping happy face
Trump sad face
on the thumbnail.
Blocked 2 accounts that posted such garbage. This is allowed though on my instance.
I guess users are free to "make content interesting".