At the same time, the organization disclosed today in a new blog post, the situation is becoming untenable: AI-driven requests for Wikipedia content are growing exponentially, at significant cost to the foundation, and are not being paid by the companies responsible. Those companies are also serving information from Wikipedia without attribution, greatly reducing the chances that their users will visit Wikipedia and contribute or donate to it. Moreover, during surges of interest in the site — after the death of a celebrity, for example, or in the wake of a natural disaster — bot traffic to other pages is now so significant that it is causing slower page loading times for human users.

NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...

Agreed. Pulp.

Hilarious

Depends on whether your favourite game was Battleship or not.

Hmm, Germany is not listed.

It’s crazy that there is no such thing. We had one in Australia, but it was dissolved through lack of memberships. I am relatively new to teaching, but I think it was viewed as a networking organisation for private school teachers.

It’s a much calmer place. But, yes. You’re right.

If I came to class without my equipment, you’d think I was a goose.

I read once that in China the title translates to ‘He doesn’t know he’s a ghost’ but I can’t find the reference now.

"The vast accumulations of knowledge—or at least of information—deposited by the nineteenth century have been responsible for an equally vast ignorance. When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when every one knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about or not. And when we do not know, or when we do not know enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts."

A reminder that T. S. Eliot had the problems of today figured out 103 years ago in his essay and poetry collection "The Sacred Wood."

Had a wonderful morning at Maison Gainsbourg today. I’m so lucky to have had this experience. Charlotte has done an incredible job of creating an intimate connection for all of Serge’s admirers. Truly an emotional experience.

Absolutely ✨❤️✨

Poem by Joseph Fasano

@tombennett71.bsky.social and @gregashman.bsky.social and

At my funeral there’ll be a 37 minute montage of me trying to find something to watch on Netflix

A little heartbreaking to admit but, after just teaching A Christmas Carol and asking the kids if the story could have taken place at any other time of the year, I have to heartily agree.

Here is a test for the civility on BlueSky:

A movie cannot be a Christmas movie unless Christmas plays a central mechanism in the transition of the narrative from A to B.

So Die Hard is clearly NOT a Christmas movie because Christmas changes nothing in the story.