{"id":3340,"date":"2024-01-20T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2026-05-20T11:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T19:51:19","slug":"href-weekly-jan-14-jan-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"href weekly | Jan 14 \u2013 Jan 20 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"
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#web<\/a> https:\/\/letsblock.it<\/a> Remove low-quality content and useless nags, focus on what matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How the internet reshaped itself around Google\u2019s search algorithms \u2014 and into a world where websites look the same. #web<\/a> https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/c\/23998379\/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

the line between benign content and spam [is becoming] increasingly blurry – a situation that will surely worsen in the wake of #generative<\/a> #AI<\/a> https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/01\/17\/google_search_results_spam\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point, our average #AI<\/a> bro, reborn from Cryptohell, will chime in and teach us that this is just the beginning and that very soon, we won\u2019t be able to tell the difference anymore. Well played, AI bro! But you\u2019re off-topic. We can tell now and we need to not fool ourselves that others won\u2019t notice. https:\/\/ia.net\/topics\/ai-art-is-the-new-stock-image<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sound & Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here are some major touchpoints from the #cowpunk<\/a> catalog to be found on #bandcamp<\/a> from genre originators, to fast followers and regional spin-offs, to artists proudly self-identifying with the genre today. https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/lists\/cowpunk-album-guide<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yamaha channeling some Teenage Engineering #synth<\/a> https:\/\/usa.yamaha.com\/products\/music_production\/music-production-studios\/seqtrak\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

it does evoke winds whipping over lonely plains, scratchy 45s booming out of shotgun shacks, and the vertigo-induced melancholy of being at the center of a giant landscape. Move over, Midwestern emo: this is Southwestern ambient. #bandcamp<\/a> https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/album-of-the-day\/cowboy-sadness-selected-jambient-works-vol-1-review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On one level it\u2019s impressive that Spotify can perfectly capture my musical taste in a series of data points, and regurgitate it to me in a series of weekly playlists. But as good as it has gotten, I can\u2019t remember the last time it pointed me to something I never expected I would like, but ultimately fell totally in love with. #music<\/a> #culture<\/a> #ai<\/a> https:\/\/www.platformer.news\/why-pitchfork-died\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Politics & Economics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

“My biggest gripe about urbanization is it\u2019s essentially unplanned except for one thing: commerce. That\u2019s planned. Poverty is a design issue. It\u2019s a failure to accommodate everybody. By design, cities should include every single individual who lives there.” #solarpunk<\/a> https:\/\/1ft.io\/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newyorker.com%2Fculture%2Fthe-new-yorker-interview%2Fdickson-despommier-wants-our-cities-to-be-like-forests<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

two million square kilometres of land and water #canada<\/a> #trc<\/a> https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/nunavut-trudeau-sign-devolution-argreement-1.7086272<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bits #web https:\/\/letsblock.it Remove low-quality content and useless nags, focus on what matters. How the internet reshaped itself around Google\u2019s search algorithms \u2014 and into a world where websites look the same. #web https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/c\/23998379\/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization the line between benign content and spam [is becoming] increasingly blurry – a situation that will surely worsen in the wake…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[127,209,210,238,241,183,31,239,205,242,176],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-links","tag-ai","tag-bandcamp","tag-canada","tag-cowpunk","tag-culture","tag-generative","tag-music","tag-solarpunk","tag-synth","tag-trc","tag-web","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100092,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions\/100092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}