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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I was going to write more context, but got too sleepy. Essentially the ad for LBJ showed an innocent little girl counting flower pedals petals and then they imply that she gets nuked. Then a voice says that these are the stakes.

    No one had seen a political ad like that and it upset a lot of people. But it did its job. It actually only played once, but was considered the ad that win LBJ the election over Goldwater. It was essentially the atom bomb of political ads.

    While seeing something like this nowadays is relatively normal in media, an ad like this from the Lincoln Project has yet to be seen in political media. It’s a daughter saying “if you vote for Trump, then you don’t love me.” I think Lincoln Project know that there will be no going back from this ad but also suspect it’ll swing the election. I think that projection is overly optimistic, but I’ve been wrong before and I’d love to be wrong this time.


  • I asked Google why search engines are so bad now and its AI summaries its own deficiencies quite well:

    Some say search engines have declined in quality due to a number of factors, including:

    Search engine optimization (SEO) spam A wave of SEO spam has contributed to the decline in search result quality.

    Affiliate marketing Affiliate link sites contribute to the low-quality content that floods the internet.

    AI-generated content New technology can quickly produce low-quality content.

    Marketing Search results are filled with marketing and links that may not be relevant to the query.

    Recommender algorithms Some say the algorithm that recommends content is a mess. For example, someone might be recommended alt-right content after watching a click-bait video.

    Ads Google’s biggest business is advertising, and it’s inserting more ads into its products to make more money.

    Some say it’s harder to find specific information these days, and that search operators are often needed to filter search results.