Aaron Parecki

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

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  Portland, Oregon, USA

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 4:53am -07:00
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  Contributions from: Australia, Hungary, Israel, Kuwait, Romania, Serbia, United Kingdom, United States

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 5:23am -07:00
• Maggie Appleton https://twitter.com/Mappletons   •   Mar 14

  Good lord.
  
  I did one quick chat for an NBC news piece and they linked to my website.
  
  Now my WebMentions are a dumpster fire - filled with all their crappy, low-quality syndicated copies of the article.
  
  Counted 38 bunk domains all pointing back to the canonical NBC domain

  
  

  What's very weird about those two examples, is both websites are now something totally different and those blog posts are gone. I think it's part of an SEO scam game of some sort.

  Portland, Oregon • 46°F

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  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 12:00pm -07:00
• INUX3D® https://twitter.com/Inux3D

  Just finished the new premium version of #PK1Stand ProStreamer for #atem MINI and EXTREME. Logo printed with #ROLANDDG UV printer directly on the extruded aluminium bars.
  We *can* print your logo instead 😉 and if you already have a ProStreamer AM or AX stand, reach out for a… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635693635177009152

  

  Portland, Oregon • 46°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 5:25pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 12:01pm -07:00) #PK1Stand #atem #ROLANDDG
• Maggie Appleton https://twitter.com/Mappletons   •   Mar 14

  Good lord.
  
  I did one quick chat for an NBC news piece and they linked to my website.
  
  Now my WebMentions are a dumpster fire - filled with all their crappy, low-quality syndicated copies of the article.
  
  Counted 38 bunk domains all pointing back to the canonical NBC domain

  
  

  also fwiw, that kind of spam usually comes in via pingback, so you can just not include the pingback tag to webmention.io and accept only webmentions instead

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 46°F

  1 like 1 reply

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 12:05pm -07:00
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  Ignore this post, I am just testing some #ActivityPub hashtag stuff

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F

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  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 1:02pm -07:00 #indieweb #activitypub
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  well that was unexpected! I have a "secret" hashtag in the post, so the post shows up on the #indieweb hashtag page even though I didn't mention #indieweb in the post at all!

  

  Portland, Oregon, USA • 48°F

  8 likes 1 repost 3 replies

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 1:08pm -07:00 #indieweb
• Maggie Appleton https://twitter.com/Mappletons   •   Mar 14

  Oof. Sounds like a terrible game.
  So maybe not even related to NBC? Just people trying to get SEO juice by linking to them? I don't get the rules of this gross house of cards.
  

  Yeah, I think the idea is to clone articles on popular topics from major new sites, and send them all pingbacks to get the back-links to boost the ranking of the spam site. SEO can DIAF.

  Portland, Oregon • 48°F

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  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 1:14pm -07:00
• Maggie Appleton https://twitter.com/Mappletons

  I hope LLMs murder SEO

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 9:53pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 3:41pm -07:00)
• Lillian Karabaic https://twitter.com/anomalily

  I did a chat with Angela Jackson of @pdxseedfund about how Portland startups dealt with the SVB fallout. Airing at 3:44PM (and 5:44PM) on @OPB

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 10:43pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 3:46pm -07:00)
• Gabe Kangas https://social.gabekangas.com/users/gabek   •   Mar 14

  It's odd what the web has decided are worthy to be native, usable, out of the box controls and what aren't. Like buttons, images, checkboxes, dropdowns... people should have those. But progress bars, tabs, segmented controls, real lists/grids, loading spinners... nobody needs those. They're even taking more native controls away, like the input/alert modals. I know I look at web development through a native developer lens, and wish the web was as good as native development, but it's still interesting to think about.
  

  There is a new W3C community group working to change that!
  
  https://github.com/openui/open-ui

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  12 likes 6 reposts 2 replies

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 3:58pm -07:00
• OPB https://twitter.com/OPB

  OPB Weekend Edition Host @anomalily spoke with Portland Seed Fund co-managing director Angela Jackson about how the Portland startup community is responding to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse. https://www.opb.org/article/2023/03/14/silicon-valley-bank-portland-oregon-seed-fund-startup-economy-business/

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 11:17pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 4:25pm -07:00)
• Santiago https://twitter.com/svpino

  My prompt: "A photo wearing a tall black hat and sunglasses."
  
  Wow!
  
  Here is a link to the entire code base: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1v45UprB-fzSeWk4wTnYJEx4dEeW2DnYw?usp=sharing.
  
  Remember:
  
  1. Get an API KEY from https://www.tryleap.ai/.
  2. Use your own photos
  
  Now, tell me how long it will be before Instagram is gone.

  

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 12:00pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 5:06pm -07:00)
• palmerc https://twitter.com/palmerc

  I'm a common household plant. Check the picture.

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 3:17pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 5:14pm -07:00)
• THE PERSUADERS by Anand Giridharadas https://twitter.com/AnandWrites

  When I apply for a mortgage at my Woke Bank, they don't ask for any of the typical financial information that other banks seek out. They just give you a quiz about the history of redlining. If you pass, mortgage!

  Portland, Oregon • 52°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 12:21pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 5:17pm -07:00)
• MrAlexTech https://twitter.com/MrAlexTech   •   Mar 14

  I do feel like a dirty YouTuber jumping on the ‘trend’ with Mr McKinnon but daaaamn. The video is doing well ha.
  
  I won’t make a habit of it. It doesn’t really offer much value to anyone, but sometimes it’s nice to get an ‘easy’ win.
  

  Take the win!
  
  But also, does he really edit his own videos still? I would have assumed he had hired that out long ago by now.

  Portland, Oregon • 48°F

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  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 7:31pm -07:00
• Matthew Yglesias https://twitter.com/mattyglesias

  English majors get the last laugh as GPT-4 crushes every exam except AP English Language and AP English Lit
  
  https://openai.com/research/gpt-4

  

  Portland, Oregon • 48°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 7:37pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 7:36pm -07:00)
• 🚲 Will - @WilliamNB@toot.bike 🇿🇦🇬🇧 https://twitter.com/WilliamNB

  Why do we limit the power of ebikes, but not the power of cars?
  Why do we build roads without consultation, but cycle lanes need endless trials and consultations?
  Why do we limit the assist speed of ebikes, but cars have no max speed limiters

  Portland, Oregon • 48°F

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 12:48pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Mar 14, 2023 7:37pm -07:00)
• Boomy (boomy.com)

  Tue, Mar 14, 2023 9:23pm -07:00 #music #ai