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Google Search ads will soon automatically adapt to queries using generative AI by Aisha Malik

Google is going to start using generative AI to boost Search ads relevance based on the context of a query, the company announced at its Google Marketing Live event today. Last year, the tech giant rolled out automatically created assets (ACA) for Search ads, which use which use content from landing pages and existing ads […]

Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already by Glenn Zorpette

And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks

Pride organizers in a number of Florida towns have canceled events slated for next month days after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed several anti-LGBTQ bills into law.

Apparently Elon Doesn’t Think He Needs To Pay Rent Because SF Is A ‘Shithole’; So Why Should We Pay For Twitter? by Mike Masnick

It’s no secret that Twitter isn’t paying many of its bills, including the rent for its headquarters. That was rumored last fall, but became much more clear when the landlords sued the company in January. Now a new lawsuit, filed last week by six former employees, provides a lot more details on Elon’s view of, […]

Melissa McCarthy sends pitch-perfect message to bigots who have ‘a problem with drag’ by Charlie Duncan

The Little Mermaid star Melissa McCarthy has called attention to the “absolute lunacy” of the conservative backlash facing drag performers in the US. While she’s set to be seen as the voice-stealing, tentacle-waving, drag-inspired sea witch, Ursula, in the live adaptation of Disney’s The Little Mermaid, in real life McCarthy is one of the few […]

Central York High School students are once again protesting book bans at their school. Here’s what they want you to know.

A New York Times news analysis by Carl Hulse asserts that both sides are equally to blame if the debt ceiling is breached, even though Democrats have never threatened default under a Republican president.

Honest Answers for Honest Concerns

Writer E. Jean Carroll on Monday asked a judge to update her still pending original defamation lawsuit against former President Donald Trump to add a new claim after he trashed her as a "whack job" during his CNN town hall earlier this month.

Dobbs will throw many lives into disarray. Lationna Halbert’s is one of the first.

“I was told that if I tried to discharge myself, or seek care elsewhere, that I could be arrested for trying to kill my child”

Some Twitter users are reporting that tweets and retweets they deleted in mass from their profiles are being restored without warning. It’s another example of Twitter’s crumbling infrastructure under the leadership of Elon Musk.

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Building a Block-Based Microblog by Jan Boddez

So, as promised, a blog post on how to—or rather, one way to—set up IndieBlocks. (I will eventually move this site to WordPress proper, and a block theme, and so on. Maybe I should’ve done that instead. Anyway, this is quicker.) Configuring WordPress Okay, so I’ve set up the build.boddez.net...

Biden nominates US official Anna Gomez after Senate refused to confirm Gigi Sohn.

Be Careful Using ‘Menu’ by Adrian Roselli

TL;DR: Be careful when using the word menu. Be certain you have chosen the term that accurately describes the control you want. If this post looks familiar to you, that is because it is essentially a redress of my 2020 post Stop Using ‘Drop-down’. It is not as divergent as…

IN THE EARLY Reagan years, religious right movement leaders Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell knew that they could not solely rely on fickle politicians to implement their plan on a national scale. They didn’t have public opinion on their side — certainly not on legal abortion, nor on other elements of their plan to maintain their privilege and power. In order to implement their anti-democratic policy agenda and political philosophy, they needed the influence and power of a court system impervious to the will of voters. In that pursuit, an institution named the Federalist Society became their main vehicle.