Tabby Farrar

Right to life. Prohibition of torture. Prohibition of slavery and forced labour. Right to liberty and security. Right to a fair trial. No punishment without law. Right to respect for private and family life. Freedom of thought, conscience and religion. Freedom of expression. Freedom of assembly and association. Right to marry. Right to an effective remedy. Prohibition of discrimination. Prohibition of abuse of rights. EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS 75 YEARS (1950 - 2025)

75 years ago today, European nations signed this Convention, so the Holocaust could not be repeated. Beware those who want this to end.

surely this is going to go well in the medium and long terms, when new info is needed for LLMs and there's no new info to get because it has destroyed the market for humans discovering and writing things

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

Their waists and hands were tied together, forcing them to bend down and lick water to drink. The unscreened bathrooms contained only a single sheet to cover their lower bodies. Sunlight barely penetrated through a fist-sized hole, and they were only allowed access to the small yard for two hours. Detained by US immigration authorities for eight days, the workers and their families expressed shock, describing human rights violations and absurdities they could not have imagined as ordinary Koreans living in 2025.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

graph of tariffs collected over time

The US brought in nearly $30 Billion in tariffs in July, triple the amount collected in previous years

That's not good news

Tariffs are taxes on Americans

That $30B was collected from you and me when we bought food, clothes, electronics...

ChatGPT definitely has a growing spam problem on its hands.

Here is one example of the most cited pages by ChatGPT in the 'health insurance' category (Profound data)

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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

Pseudomotion, Motion Sensitivity, and Accessibility Newton’s Cradle with one red ball hanging on a thread, retracted and about to bang into five silver balls also hanging by threads. Motion sensitivity is a...

I was once told I was being dramatic, when I explained that an animation was making me nauseous. Expect: I’m not the only one.
Motion and pseudomotion in digital interfaces can trigger nausea, vertigo, migraines, and even seizures for users with vestibular disorders, migraines, epilepsy, ...

Louder for the 'GEO' people in the back.

When I was using it to learn Spanish I found out that even though it used the Spanish flag, it was actually Mexican Spanish - which would have been nice to know BEFORE trying to use it in Spain 😂 It was good for refreshing my German a bit, but Babbel felt more useful more quickly (but less fun)

I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.

But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

“i asked chat gpt” “i asked grok” Jeeves would kill you where you stand

So much of the current content around the future of SEO is telling people they need to start aligning it with general business strategy/objectives as it becomes more about branding in an AI era.

Erm. Wasn't it always important to think about business strategy and objectives? Isn't that marketing?

It’s ICE and the cops, you dipshits

ChatGPT we will forgive you for taking all the content from our website for a one-time donation of 48 billion English pounds

Photo shows sheep and lamps in a sunny, grassy field with a gated pen in it

Photo of a brown and white Boston terrier parading through a boggy section of a dense woodland

Photo shows a man's hand coming into the frame from the right, holding onto the branch of an evergreen tree which is coming into the frame from the left. The tree's needles are dark green, but with pale green ends

Living things that have never had to think about AI, of whom I am envious:
- sheep crew
- bog dog
- tree who just got his frosted tips done

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

- Frank Herbert, Dune.

gentleman, gentleman, please, there's no need for this! you are both in the epstein files.

The guys doing cold outreach for more-of-the-same AI tools right now are the same guys who set up scam dropshipping sites during lockdown / are the same guys who sell spam links on Fiverr / are the same guys who think everything chatGPT says is accurate and clever, change my mind

If I receive one more AI-written LinkedIn message or AI-written cold email pitch about another f~cking AI tool, particularly addressing me by the wrong name and/or referring to a business I don't work for and/or referring to a job I don't do, I will rip out my eyeballs and throw them into the sea

Sheesh.

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You'll help to maintain and develop positive relationships with existing members & help with recruitment.

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Birds have significantly better eyesight than us which is why I get nice and sexy to go birdwatching

LOL

Our transcription tool offers up "key points" and "next steps" but refuses to cooperate when I tell it our next steps involve crime or making a colleague do my chores, instead writing "short personal conversation here". What if my next steps really are a bit of crime, Fathom AI?? What then??

AI Search: Where Are We & What Can We Do About It? - My presentation at #HiveMCR, going through:

* How LLMs & AI search are really affecting Google traffic?
* What are the opportunities for SEOs within AI search?
* How can we make the most out of these?

Read: speakerdeck.com/aleyda/ai-se...

Cute white staffyjack dog holding a red ball, asking to play

I am writing for a UK dog harness and collars brand, and would like to hear from dog experts/behaviourists/vets why dogs hide their toys? Does it say something about how the dog feels, or the relationship with their owner? Are there particular breeds more prone to doing this? #journorequest #dogs

Photo shows Louise Ali presenting a slide about creating empathic digital PR campaigns

Image shows Steve Paine from Sistrix presenting a slide about how 55% of chatGPT sources don't appear in Google Gemini, and 82.7% of Gemini sources don't appear in chatGPT

Image shows Mike King from iPullRank presenting a details slide on measuring Attributed Influence Value (AIV)

Huge thanks to @whitworthseo.bsky.social and everyone at #HiveMCR today for a brilliant conference and giving me the opportunity to speak on the digital PR panel!

Today's talks were truly brilliant and it was great to meet so many passionate, talented people. Can't wait for the next one!