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The new and improved Settings section for Kitten (Small Web/peer-to-peer web) apps is coming along nicely.
Should be live this week.
#Kitten #SmallWeb #Settings

Beach Street bike lane!
I filled out the survey (only open til Saturday, hurry). Thanks @… for sharing
https://sfbike.org/news/protected-bike-lanes-coming-to…

Protected bike lanes coming to Beach Street
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

Google will roll out AI overviews in search to all US users, starting this week, and in more countries soon; they will be available to 1B users by end of year (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ro

Google rolls out AI Overviews in US with more countries coming soon
AI Overview link cards get a higher click through rate than normal web search results but Google won't break out click data in Search Consoles for content creators.

Seriously, if you are as tired of AI as I am, then grab my little badges for your site. They are in the usual flavour of 88x31px PNG, and also SVG so you can scale the blurriness away.
They are FREE... however, I am grateful for any size of donation if you are able.
I've got more “No AI!" stuff coming soon to my shop asap that you can 'stick' all over the place

Human made content badge pack. - Andy Carolan's Ko-fi Shop
A pack of 64 88x31px PNG and SVG badges to add to your human made content. 8 color variations for each badge. organic content made by a human drawn...

"The #EU ought to create the conditions for public and governmental institutions, non-profit organizations, and citizens’ initiatives to invest in their #autonomous communication #infrastructure. Public a…

A Public, Interoperable Social Media Space – Open Future
The dramatic increase in the power of commercial online platforms has been one of the main outcomes of the digital transition so far. The internet is dominated by a few platforms that have, over the years, gained a monopolistic position over online ecosystems. Platformization has upended the vision of a neutral and open internet. The […]

"“Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers,” ...Until now, publishers have been able to rely on significant volumes of traffic coming from the blue links that appear under many queries. But [their new] AI overviews often obscure these links, requiring users to click to see them, or simply abstracting them away in an automatically generated summary. Analysts ... say a bloodbath is coming..."
Can the

Google’s broken link to the web
With AI search results coming to the masses, the human-powered web recedes further into the background

Dallas Cowboys cornerback C.J. Goodwin inks new contract ahead of free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_cornerback_cj_goodwin_inks_new_contract_ahead_of_free_agency/s1_1723…

Dallas Cowboys cornerback C.J. Goodwin inks new contract ahead of free agency
Dallas Cowboys cornerback and special teams ace C.J. Goodwin inked a new contract this week ahead of free agency. It will be a one-year deal, according to Cowboys reporter Michael Gehlken. He is coming off of a one-year deal worth $1.317 million. During the 2023 season, Goodwin played in five games, tallying four tackles, before tearing his pectoral muscle in the Oct. 8 game against the San Francisco 49ers. Goodwin played the 2021 and 2022 seasons on a two-year, $3.5 million deal. He was the te…

Covert Communication for Untrusted UAV-Assisted Wireless Systems
Chan Gao, Linying Tian, Dong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09475 https://

Covert Communication for Untrusted UAV-Assisted Wireless Systems
Wireless systems are of paramount importance for providing ubiquitous data transmission for smart cities. However, due to the broadcasting and openness of wireless channels, such systems face potential security challenges. UAV-assisted covert communication is a supporting technology for improving covert performances and has become a hot issue in the research of wireless communication security. This paper investigates the performance of joint covert and security communication in a tow-hop UAV-as…

‘Nobody saw this coming’; California dairies scramble to guard herds against #bird #flu
There is no single federal or state agency responsible for following this disease
— one that affects wildlife, agriculture and public health.
Some experts say it’s a flawed silo-like approach for a virus that concerns mul…

California dairies scramble to guard herds against bird flu
As the avian flu continues to threaten poultry farms and wildlife, are factory farms a sitting duck?

If you have never heard of the "Society for American Civic Renewal" (the acronym is pronounced “#sacker” by its members), it’s because they’ve been trying to stay under the radar.
Now that they are getting uncovered, they are attempting to manage the news coming out about them. 
They are working to fundamentally reshape America to their vision. It sounds like a classic conspiracy theor…

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’
A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the country is on a crusade: to recruit a Christian government that will form after the right achieves regime change…