News and notes from around the interweb:
- TIL…
Fascinating. AMEX was the first ever company to introduce pension. Who knew? From the excellent book on demographics, The Super Age. pic.twitter.com/rJ9SZv1EgW
— Rafat Ali, Media Operator & Dad (@rafat) July 20, 2023
- Travel site appears to have made up writers, with fake social media accounts, all to game Google search (and trick readers)? A thread:
Are you getting your travel advice from a bot impersonating a human? Content mills have always been a problem in the digital space. AI is making things worse. But I just uncovered next level deception from a larger player in the family travel niche that needs to be talked about.
— Leslie Harvey (@TripsWithTykes) July 21, 2023
- Book higher mileage-priced Air Canada Aeroplan flexible rewards for free cancel flexibility, then change to lower-priced awards once your plans firm up to get points back.
- Prisoner Being Transported Interstate Escapes Deputies at Denver International Airport And Runs Onto Airfield
- Why Kosher restaurants are so bad
- I suppose there is too much of this, eh?
Traveling makes you realize how many incredible places there are in the world to sit and look at your phone.
— Clint Fiore 🛩 🦬DM for Biz Deals (@ClintFiore) July 21, 2023
- The FAA safety inspectors union is trying to block return to work. The agency wants inspectors in person for three days out of every 2 weeks beginning in October, and for four days every two weeks starting in December.
I don’t think Amex was the first, though there weren’t many back then. I believe the US Presbyterian church pension plan dates to 1718.
Spam and SEO have won the battle against Google Search. In turn, they have tainted 95% of the internet. Vanishingly few sites produce authentic content. How long, and at what temperature, do I bake boneless skinless chicken thighs? Try Googling that and you’ll get every mathematically possible answer instead of a sensible culinary response. Most of the search results are algorithmically generated by a template algorithm (“cook [FOOD] at [TEMP] for [TIME] and check out our affiliate links to buy crap cookware on Amazon”). You’ll sift through link after link of total junk before you stumble upon a reliable source (e.g., NYTimes Cooking) authored by a real human being (with photo, profile links, and bio attached).
It saddens me to say it, but kosher food feels like mostly a scam. Kinda like organic, but much worse. That article does a good job explaining why nobody should try to open a kosher restaurant.
“But I just uncovered next level deception from a larger player in the family travel niche that needs to be talked about.”
Gary – your lead in for the round up – “Travel Advice Site Exposed As A Fake?” – gives a reader nothing but the quote at the top.
Please name the site and provide additional information, rather than just putting forth useless click bait. If you’re not going to also summarize at a high level, at least please stop providing content that requires a reader to have a twitter account (or subscribe to a newspaper, etc.) to fully read.
“Return to office” is not the same as “return to work.” In fact, I get much less done in an office.
+1 to the comments from CMT about the allegedly deceptive travel advice site that you felt warranted a mention. In the New World Order of Twitter under Musk, those of your readers without a Twitter account won’t be able to read any of the actual thread to which you linked. If you’re going to cite it as something worth reading, then you need to provide enough additional information for us non-Twits such that we can at least understand the gist of the story.