grayestofghosts | Google Is Lobotomizing Itself (Reply)

So, it looks like Google is lobotomizing itself -- it's replaced all of its internal development classes with AI-related courses. Which, on the surface may not seem like that huge of a deal if AI is the new hotness, except for it previously had over 500,000 listings that are now replaced with AI courses, and the previous courses that people had already been signed up for were cancelled in favor of pushing AI instead of even maintaining the stuff they have. So, if you think search is bad now, it's gonna get worse.

I'm going to use this news as an opportunity to push @Lori@hackers.town's essay The New Yahoo about how creating lists of links is more urgent than ever and only getting moreso. My personal site is mainly linklists and I've been thinking of trying to put together a dirt-easy HTML/CSS template to make your own linklist for people with basically zero web-building knowledge. I've also started experimenting with Linkslist.app which might be a more accessible alternative to gather and display links, at least until one would be able to put them on a real website. And, if all else fails, there's still even Pinterest and the like -- but not Pocket, because it's going down in July. Augh!!