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When "AI" search engines look for sources, they go for fringe and not established quality sites. What could possibly go wrong?
(Original title: AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find)
https://arstechnica.com/a…

AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find
Generative search engines often cite sites that wouldn’t appear in Google’s top 100 links.

Choosing to let kids go hungry (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/choosing-to-let-kids-go-hungry
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p41#a251029p41

So erfolgreich sind Temu und Shein in Deutschland
Verbraucher bestellen gern im Internet. Portale wie Temu und Shein haben stark an Popularität gewonnen, wie eine Studie zeigt.
https://www.he…

A look at the FGC-9, a 3D-printed semiautomatic gun created by a German incel that scholars and lawmakers say is the most popular "ghost gun" outside the US (Samanth Subramanian/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20

With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year:
smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts.
But before you give one, think twice about what you're opting that person into.
One big problem with giving these sorts of gifts is that you're opting another person into a company's intrusive surveillance prac…

Think Twice Before Giving Surveillance for the Holidays
With the holidays upon us, it's easy to default to giving the tech gifts that retailers tend to push on us this time of year: smart speakers, video doorbells, bluetooth trackers, fitness trackers, and other connected gadgets are all very popular gifts. But before you give one, think twice about...

Los souvenirs del concierto de Manuel García el sšbado.
El de arriba es «La Casa de Asterión», el segundo disco de Mecšnica Popular, la banda en la que formó parte Manuel García a finales de los '90. El de abajo es «Pšnico» su primer disco como solista que este año cumple 20 años desde su lanzamiento.
#ManuelGarcía

Shakespeare and Popular Culture #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/27/shakespeare-and-popular-culture

So I've read a lot of both academic and "popular" criticism of AI; spanning decades from the 1940s to now.
I think both things are good and proper and needed.
And further than that I posit that you actually need at least some bombastic and "flashy" writers in order to reach more people
What's kind of funny is that in many of the academic critiques of AI the authors comment on how their colleagues came belligerent and hostile towards them because "they aren't writing seriously"—this is found all over Weizenbaum, Dreyfus, Anders, etc.
Anyway, READ MORE OLD BOOKS :)

These Corporations Stopped Worrying About Democracy and Bought Trump a Ballroom (Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/these-corporations-stopped-worrying
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p31#a251028p31

“Opening locks” might not sound like scintillating social media content,
but Trevor McNally has turned lock-busting into online gold.
A former US Marine Staff Sergeant, McNally today has more than 7 million followers and has amassed more than 2 billion views
just by showing how easy it is to open many common locks by slapping, picking, or shimming them

10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him. Bad idea.
It’s still legal to pick locks, even when you swing your legs.