Yesterday this blog received more “reads” in 7 minutes than it did in the previous year. 1510 “reads”, all from one dubious source.
Liquid Web LLC doesn’t seem to be known as a spambot, and it’s not a Facebook or NSA or Amazon portal. It’s just a web hosting company, taken over and enshitified by a hedge fund as usual.
At this speed it’s just scanning, not reading. The posts it scans are randomly selected with no pattern. So far it’s sampled 1510 items, about half of everything I’ve written.
By absolute contrast, a real reader in Las Vegas continues finding the cream of the crop on the old Blogspot blog. Clearly a real person with standards, and amazingly the standards happen to agree with mine. Most human readers choose my pointless quick takes on current affairs, and painstakingly AVOID the items I’ve researched and thought about. If I gathered up the links from Las Vegas’s reads, I’d have a perfectly selected anthology of my favorites. All the best, nothing random.
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