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WindyRebel ,

Oh, just Clooney? If it was the Baldwins then there would be HELL to pay!

Deepfake of U.S. Official Appears After Shift on Ukraine Attacks in Russia (www.nytimes.com)

The fabricated video, which is drawn from actual footage, shows the State Department spokesman, Matthew Miller, seeming to suggest that the Russian city of Belgorod, just 25 miles north of Ukraine’s border with Russia, was a legitimate target for such strikes....

WindyRebel ,

Yes.

From an American point of view:

If successful on their people, they’ll be using it on social to make up bullshit with “proof” that fuels MAGA rhetoric and make the divide in America even worse. The difference is that now when we ask for proof of these lies then they will have something that is pretty tangible to all but those who really know how to spot it.

They could even do it on the flip side and make horrible videos of Republicans saying things that they didn’t to make the left hate them even more and even if they said they didn’t do it we wouldn’t believe them because they’ve done and said horrible stuff already.

Scary shit!

WindyRebel OP ,

Thank you. So I just need to turn on the data roaming and I should be golden then?

WindyRebel OP ,

Thank you! I thought it might work that way, but then second guessed myself because it seemed too easy/convenient. Glad that is the case though.

Have a good remainder of your week!

WindyRebel OP ,

I already paid for a coverage plan that lasts a month. It’s a capped high speed data amount and unlimited texts, over 200 minutes of talk time, so I should be plenty covered over there.

WindyRebel ,

Again, a vote for a giant douche or a turd sandwich.

WindyRebel ,

What? I’m curious what the rationale was. Theft is classified as a crime, so how can any tangible item followed by theft not be a crime?!

WindyRebel ,

Damn. That’s just nuts. Thanks for sharing this experience as I’ve never heard of this. I don’t own a boat, but they can apply that to anything unless I am rich.

WindyRebel , (edited )

Edit: If you’re going to downvote me, please take the time to explain why you think I’m wrong. Stop being the hive mind.

Tell me you don’t know shit about SEO without telling me you don’t know shit about SEO.

Just because there are people who do bad things doesn’t mean the industry is bad or have bad intentions. SEO isn’t ads. Advertorials can be a tactic of SEO, but it’s not SEO as a whole. Same with clickbait because it works, and I guarantee you also fall for it constantly.

SEO is about understanding what someone needs and creating an experience to ensure that someone finds the answer to what they need through content and/or a product to solve their needs.

This can be achieved through copywriting, researching search trends and queries, technical analysis of websites and how they render, providing guidance on helpful assets (photos, pdfs, videos, form, copy, etc), PR outreach because links are how people move around online or discover things, social planning because social media are a form of search engines, and more.

And finally, SEOs are not responsible for how Google treats shit. That’s Google who is responsible. Google is the one that tweaks the algorithm and doesn’t catch spammy shit. In fact many SEOs catch it and report it to Google’s reps, but they are the ones who can ensure the right team(s) fix the issue.

WindyRebel ,

You’re exactly the person I was talking about - the hive mind. You don’t critically think and you blame an entire industry that has niches and actors of all sorts. You’d probably say all black people are bad because a few on a street did something wrong once.

Please, tell me YOUR industry so I can have fun shitting on it and drawing asinine conclusions.

WindyRebel , (edited )

I’m sorry you’ve had bad experiences. There are a lot of bad SEOs, but there are a lot of good ones. I’ve worked with a lot of shitty developers as well.

Would it be fair of me to blame software developers for the likes of Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, or poorly implemented Wordpress pages where links get hijacked and redirected to spam? Or those that use AI to write code? Or for slapping resource on top of resource to slow down pages and bandaid shitty spaghetti code?

Edit: or pushing out half baked bullshit that breaks or has a ton of holes? As if the software development industry isn’t responsible for coding worms, trackers, or other malicious stuff. So many hacks/charlatans in software development too.

WindyRebel ,

Positioning non profits, government agencies, and more competitively in results. Even Google gets outranked for their own keywords.

User experience and flow for many companies that don’t have these people, suggesting content topics to solve questions, ensuring that sites are found/rendering correctly and pointing out/fixing developer fuck ups, creating accessibility (markup suggestions and alt text), finding ways to compete with competitors.

Don’t confuse content and marketing with SEO. Many of them don’t listen to us anyway.

WindyRebel ,

Accessibility is because SEOs games the system? Developers not knowing how their JavaScript and code render to crawlers is SEOs gaming the system? Are you serious?

You realize mom and pop shops don’t have marketing experts or big teams to help them compete? You do know that prior to Google, you paid PEOPLE to list your site on a directory? Because bribes and human fallibility doesn’t exist, right?

If you’re so smart and SEOs are fucking it all up and you have such a problem, what is your solution? No one else has figured it out - not Bing, not DDG, not Jo schmo’s flavor of the month search engine. Now we have AI to mass produce and provide shitty content to the masses, thanks software engineers. You will ultimately end up having done more harm than ANY SEO ever did.

WindyRebel ,

Yes they were free. There are back channels to people, dude. You should read about the history of SEO.

I’m not saying SEOs are responsible for accessibility, I’m saying they help others provide it! Like the mom and pop places I mentioned. You only asked for what good SEOs do and I provided examples. You’re so angry that you are projecting ideas that I didn’t say.

Every fucking thing you have mentioned is literally not SEO but some other stakeholder that has control of how everything works. SEO is just a means to make sure your company is the one that gets the visibility and a click because all other companies made it that way.

And the guy you quoted, Rand Fishkin, is one of the many SEOs that have been calling Google out on their bullshit for YEARS now. We know Google is shit but they are the elephant in the room and are the lexicon used as a verb worldwide.

Your fight isn’t with SEOs, it’s with the companies that gatekeep everything else and change the rules so everyone has to adapt. I’m done arguing. Your responses are Boolean with a true or false as long as it fits your narrative and you refuse to believe that there is any good in SEO. That’s fine and you’re welcome to your opinion.

WindyRebel , (edited )

Great question! Search engines crawl social media and discover links. It can be a sign of trust and authority if it’s shared widely, which can help boost signals of page importance to Google (or other engines) and help with pushing up in organic ranking positions.

Harmonizing brand details (name, address, phone number, website link) across all social platforms is important so you don’t send mixed signals or lead to unneeded redirects.

There’s also figuring out what page(s) you want to ensure are showcased if multiple URL links are allowed or maybe your social team doesn’t know all of the page assets you have to satisfy their audience, such as an orphaned page. These are part of what are called “backlinks”.

Hashtags do matter for some platforms and knowing how to research them for intent is wise.

There’s also open graph (OG) metadata that you can set on a webpage that allows your metadata to be different on social platforms than you would use for a search engine - tailor to your audience!

Edit: one other thing is, while not social media, maybe connecting with a social team (if there is one) to find out if any posts need to be applied to Google Business listings via a Google Post for local locations.

WindyRebel , (edited )

The President is worried about the world getting nuked, spies, destabilization, economy, and more. A lawyer is the LEAST of their worries and, honestly, shouldn’t be worried unless they breach the duties of their position.

In the end, they are a representative of US. They are still a person, albeit with a ton of power, but a person who represents a country. They are human and should be subject to all of the same laws. So should all forms of government (Legislative and Judicial). Just because we provide you with our voice doesn’t mean you get to not be held accountable when you misrepresent or flat out do illegal shit.

WindyRebel ,

Whale, that was a breach of contract.

WindyRebel , (edited )

I agree with your take. I don’t think it’ll die down though. This is just 1.0, unfortunately. It’ll only build from here.

WindyRebel ,

RIP pup! Here’s my two knuckleheads, Riolu (black and tan with creeping tan) and Jango (red)

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5f18c5d5-cad3-4c85-9602-58aeca22c5a1.jpeg

WindyRebel ,

Aww! They’re adorable! Love the names too!

No, Riolo isn’t a sesame. There are similar color schemes but I think the breeder was a shady backyard breeder. She was all black and tan and then the head got that tan/red color as she aged.

WindyRebel ,

Thank you!

WindyRebel ,

It is my genuine pleasure!

WindyRebel ,

As an SEO - I don’t want this AI crap at all in search. Leave it on its own siloed platform, please!

WindyRebel ,

It’s been 7 hours. You still here?

WindyRebel ,

Now there’s a baker’s dozen!

WindyRebel ,

Thanks, Skeletor!

WindyRebel ,

Mother fucker!

WindyRebel ,

Ah yes. This and Kidstoned chewable Valium! Works wonders for peace.

WindyRebel ,

I’d personally say it was useful. It’s a commentary on the article itself about the problem. Yes, Boeing has a HUGE problem lately, but is it actually worse than any other flying plane or jet manufacturer or is media hyping some of it up more because of recent events?

I haven’t looked, but I would love to see stats of incidents of each airline compared to their entire running fleet. It may be like crimes per capita where yes there may be a lot reported, but really minor and small compared to the inventory actually flying.

Is this an airline problem? A build problem? I am not an aviation aficionado so I honestly have no clue. I am not saying let Boeing off the hook for the shit they’ve pulled, but I want to know more in general about the aviation industry and safety.

WindyRebel ,

It’s NOT. A. Fuckin’ GAME!

WindyRebel ,

Florida forgets ban plant based meat and learns ban wind turbines.

WindyRebel ,

Yes. There are at least two people in the world that believe that it’s magic in the air.

Edited for plurality.

WindyRebel ,

I will make it legal!

US airlines are suing the Biden administration over a new rule to make certain fees easier to spot (apnews.com)

U.S. airlines are suing to block the Biden administration from requiring greater transparency over fees that the carriers charge their passengers, saying that a new rule would confuse consumers by giving them too much information during the ticket-buying process....

WindyRebel ,

It would be sad if we all brought lawsuits against each airline for lying about their prices saying we will pay one thing and then getting charged a bunch more for things we weren’t told about up front. How sad that would be.

WindyRebel ,

Are you implying that AirBNB hosts don’t do this price gouging as well?

WindyRebel ,

…so we’ll probably never know the scope or why it only happened with the word “Jew”.

Google has been studying natural language processing, n-grams, and semantics for years now. There’s no way they don’t have this data already baked into their AI.

WindyRebel ,

Isn’t this literally bait and switch?

WindyRebel ,

From the same source, further down

The existence of bait and switch schemes may also be evidenced by the following factors: whether in fact there were a significant number of sales of the advertised product at the advertised price;

Adding on hidden taxes and fees is debatably not providing the advertised price. Maybe? I don’t know.

WindyRebel ,

And knowing is half the battle!

WindyRebel ,

They’ve probably got enough machine learning to take keywords and figure out intent. That’s essentially what Google does with autocomplete. They (Google) use n-grams. So I expect OpenAI already has this all figured out.

Source: am in SEO

What worries me is AI getting things wrong and perpetuating lies that are also made up via AI (maybe even the same AI). Also, how will their algorithm work? Do they fact check things they display? I hate Google, but at least they do have somewhat of a push to ensure authority and trust via their algos.

WindyRebel ,

Well, they could potentially pull from various sources to make a cohesive answer. Right now Google’s SGE (search generative experience, their AI in organic search) pulls one source to answer and then offers some other links that also answer the same question.

I completely agree with you though. Shit is getting worse for no reason other than $$$$$$$

WindyRebel ,

Then we get inside people to give them 1/4 of their catered food that they ordered so they can be warmer AND hungrier.

Let. Them. Fight.

WindyRebel ,

Oh, you’re hot? Return to work. Our buildings are kept cool for your convenience! 😈

That’s the next play

WindyRebel ,

radical

They keep using that word. I’m not sure it means what they think it means.

WindyRebel ,

I counted around 30-32 in panel 2.

WindyRebel ,

Spread democracy?

WindyRebel ,

I’m already into all that shit!

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