Le Guin has a nice line in The Dispossessed: "There's always somebody willing to make lists."

Always somebody, but not everybody. Not even most bodies. Big difference.

Nope, no one noticed that. 🙄

I work in the arts. So many people are being hurt by this. By everything this president has done.

I'm pretty sure that's AI generated but what the heck was the prompt?

So many WP community members being mistreated. And to what end? Nobody is served by excluding you guys from WordCamp.

With a few exceptions, of course, like, "What's the best SEO plugin?" But even then, all the people who've taken the time to review SEO plugins are probably being erased... or at least pushed to the periphery.

Which seems very different from a traditional search engine's core mission: to show you the most relevant resources (websites) for your query. Optimizing for that makes sense.

For the AI crawler, I'm not seeing the advantage for website owners?

My question, and the question most of my clients ask themselves, is do we even want AI bots crawling our sites? I know a few chatbots cite sources, but that's not really a chatbot's core function, which is to use the information its gathered to answer a question directly.

Everything good, they destroy.

He's right that there's not a ton he can do as a Republican. But if he switched parties, and maybe brought a couple of other Republicans with him, then we'd definitely be on our way to a solution.