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Yearly toward the end of April. Shop at your local indie bookstores this weekend!
If you have any, I mean. The 2000s and 2010s were not kind to the indie bookshop market, which is exactly what events like this are responding to. If you don't, shop on BookShop.org and pick an indie shop to give credit for your purchases.

"US hasn’t seen this many cases this early in a year since the 1990s before we hit “elimination.”…"
This is 100% due to the antivax movement. And that includes RFK Jr., no matter now he wants to couch it in "hesitancy" or "skepticism"

The only appropriate response to this bullshit is "fuck you, the world is bigger than you and always will be."
Sadly, I expect Wikimedia will have to waste time and money fighting this in court.

"This blogpost started life when I was asked to advise on the use of a popular open source web analytics tool."

"Track the AI agents browsing your website
Bots now use the internet as much as humans do. Harness traffic from crawlers, scrapers, and LLMs to grow your business."

Community-maintained list of AI crawlers including robots.txt rules to *tell* them not to crawl your site, and htaccess and Nginx rules to actually *block* them.
See also Dark Visitors. Found via GoToSocial docs.

Koen van Barneveld. Composite photo featuring:
- Milky Way - Zodiacal Light - a meteor - aurora - landscape - light trail from a flashlight - the photographer!

"Complex neural circuits likely arose independently in birds and mammals, suggesting that vertebrates evolved intelligence multiple times."

"Twitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people. This isn't just a matter of who's in charge; it's a problem with the thing itself. Forcing users to adhere to a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters, encouraging conflict by discouraging tags, and leaving users powerless to clean up the resulting mess—all of this is bad shape. "

"Global EV sales surged to 1.7 million units in March, marking an impressive 40% leap from February, according to new data from Rho Motion."
Basically EV sales are up across the industry...except for Tesla.