Interesting Links for 28-05-2026

[andrewducker]

1. Tony Blair's terrible ideas are mostly due to the terrible people giving him money (oil nations and tech ogliarchs)

(tags:oil Technology money politics tonyblair OhForFucksSake corruption )

2. Schools see sharp rise in suspensions for homophobic, transphobic, racist and ableist abuse

(tags:abuse children school uk bullying bigotry LGBT transgender homophobia racism ableism )

3. DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode

(tags:search web ai )

4. YouTube to begin automatically labeling AI videos

(tags:YouTube ai )

5. Economists' forecasts from a decade ago: Brexit

(tags:UK Europe economics history thefuture )

6. What you need to know about the giant yellow towers at Leith Docks dominating the Edinburgh skyline

(tags:windpower edinburgh scotland )

Comments

3 - statistics

[wildeabandon]

I think it's worth pointing out that the 28% increase in DuckDuckGo traffic is equivalent to 0.66% of Google's. Which doesn't mean it isn't significant in the sense of there being a market for AI-free search, but it doesn't point to it being a major concern for more than a pretty tiny minority of the population as a whole.

Re: 3 - statistics

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I think a lot of people don't care. Or don't realise there are alternatives.

[dewline]

1. I should be unsurprised. Definitely disappointed.

2. If you're being abusive in such ways, I have little sympathy for you.

3. Good.

4. Also good.