As others note, it’s getting harder andharder to get user attentionvia paid advertisement, and this is partly due to the over-saturation of marketing channels. Our attention spans are decreasing to the point wherethe average user spends less than 2 secondson a piece of Facebook content, whil...
Not ready for her closeup. She also had thyroid issues, so she was on meds for those too. But the thyroid meds made her hypertension worse; and her hypertension meds complicated the thyroid issues. Her whole continued existence was a tightrope act. She walked it well enough, until the kid...
• And July 4 was even worse. • July 3 was the hottest day the planet has known since we started keeping records. June ’23 • The nation of Tuvalu is uploading itself into the digital realm. Because its days are pretty clearly numbered in this one. • Climate change amped the...
maybe it doesn’t: the lucid dreams I’ve (rarely) had are no less hallucinogenic than the usual kind. (I was once trapped with a bunch of people in a renegade glass elevator that
There are choices to be made— surprisingly affecting ones— but they don’t affect the outcome of the plot. Your reaction to the last surviving human— wasting away in some flickering half-lit locker at the bottom of the sea, IV needle festering in her arm, pictures of her beloved Green...
are more than a small fraction of the benefit I'm getting. In general I should be willing to pay a price of the same order of magnitude as the benefit I'm getting, so this doesn't seem like it can be enough to make ads worse than paying money. (2) Ads often don't just try ...
are closed for COVID-19. Then they try to call but never rings your phone always goes to you answer machine. Try to return call and get messages that they are closed for Covid-19. So frustrating they always want to charge you more and more but the ad gets worse with wrong number ...
More ads are not what we wanted ByJohn Bradbury Apr 3, 2024 Google's issue with excessive advertisements is only growing worse Android Google's obnoxious commercials are getting out of hand ByJohn Bradbury Dec 30, 2023 Google's latest Play Store search tweak has some users seeing double ...
Pro tip:If your site or application involves a lot of direct user interaction (like clicks involved while playing Candy Crush), do not put an interstitial ad between those interactions. This may lead to ads getting clicked by a user unintentionally causing aninvalid activity. Worse, you’ll ju...
• US Cities are vastly underestimating their carbon emissions. The uncounted difference adds more annual emissions than the entire state of California. PopSci coverage here. January ’21 • Past estimates of sea-level rise are too conservative. The worst-case scenario gets even worse, yet agai...