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In today's "Can't Decide Whether to 😂 or 😭 React" Department - team is joking about putting off WCAG testing and coding since ADA will probably end up going away next. Developers - code for ADA regardless. If you need more incentive (and you shouldn't) it's also good for SEO.

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Frame your data like the plot twist everyone saw coming but couldn't prevent - except this time, you're giving them the cheat codes to win. Make them feel smart for getting ahead of the problem. #BigBeautifulQueries

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In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture (Steve Nadis/Quanta Magazine) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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We love that Julien does this, but who can blame him for getting a bit weary of the northern European roads and weather in Spring/Autumn. Would anyone fancy joining him for the journey this April?

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Want a deep dive into Log Files Analysis for SEO? Join me for a Masterclass in April @brightonseo.com !

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The fact that data protection law is now immediately relevant to AI systems, including the most complex ones, is not an unintended consequence, looking at how it came to be in the 1960s & 70s. Here is an explanation of why it offers powerful tools to regulate #AI: blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

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1. CTR is not purchase intent. 2. Rankings are not relevance 3. Impressions are not impact Measure what makes an impact.

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Wondering wether to ride another ExtraMileForSEO to @brightonseo.com next April. It would be my 7th trip already, and tbh I’m not that motivated to do it again, especially solo. Anyone wants to join?

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I'm reading the European Commission Guidelines on the definition of an AI System under the #EUAIAct and I find them very abstract and difficult to apply in practice. For instance .. 1/x digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/c...

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New Google document on using Google Analytics and Google Search Console together www.seroundtable.com/using-google... via @danielwaisberg #googleanalytics #googlesearchconsole #seo

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🚨 BREAKING: DeepSeek R1 is now available on Perplexity, WITHOUT censorship or data transfers to China, defying recent BANS in the EU & beyond. 😱 Here's what Perplexity's CEO said:

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Just learned that there’s a French-Language model called CamemBERT which makes me happy

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Should be a good webinar on the Google exploit that @markwilliamscook.com found, register at omt.tips/exploit-webinar Today at 16:00 GMT.

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“Spoken language doesn’t equal written language” Spending the day in a temporary office where no one seems to have lived in a while to find this lonely - and very true! - reminder 🤩

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According to Politico, Kaplan said at the event that he "expects to roll out the (content moderation policy) changes in the EU as well", but not this year. Adding that "they would work with European regulators whenever it decides to bring those changes to the EU".

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“The next time someone talks about creating a UI-less experience, ask them: Through which of the five senses do they expect users to perceive their product? Whatever the answer, that’s their interface.“ Yup, fully agree with this The Interface Is Always There by Christopher Butler

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New article with Stefan Celine Hardonk on medieval deafness. Let me know if you have trouble accessing it! #medievalsky #middleages academic.oup.com/jdsde/advanc...

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As of today, the #EUAIAct provisions apply. Partially banned or prohibits certain AI uses that manipulate or exploit individuals, such as live face recognition or social scoring #AI

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The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998 #InternetHistory

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People running things where they shouldn't run is my favourite kind of experiments 😍

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Humidifier Review xkcd.com/3044

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🚨 BREAKING: The Irish Data Protection Authority requested DeepSeek information about how it processes personal data from users in Ireland. Italy has BLOCKED DeepSeek. It looks like DeepSeek is in serious trouble in the EU. Which country will be next?

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GreenSEO 🌿 is back in April as a fully-fledged @brightonseo.com Fringe event, with sessions from @nca.bsky.social, @chris-green.net, Fiona MacNeill and Kathryn Lawrence! Grab your free ticket if you haven’t already folks: brightonseo.com/activities/g...

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Hands-on with DeepSeek's chatbot: free access to powerful R1 model, but suffers from rampant hallucinations and lacks some ChatGPT tools like the memory feature (Reece Rogers/Wired) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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Wrote something about how the decision to purge the PCLOB could trigger the EU no longer allowing US internet companies (incl. Meta, X, Truth Social) to operate there in short order. Also, why it sometimes helps to understand how gov't works before you smash things. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/t...

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Tout à l'heure on sort notre tout nouveau site. C'est déjà une grosse étape, mais c'est aussi une page qui se tourne sur l'un des sites les plus complexes sur lesquels j'ai pu bosser. Et mine de rien, un coup d'oeil dans le rétro me montre qu'on l'a bien fait avancer le petit...

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🎉 Happy Data Protection Day! This year, we used the occasion to take a closer look at the (in)activity of European DPAs 👉 Turns out: On average, only 1.3% of cases before EU DPAs result in a fine 💸❌ More details and statistics on our website 👇

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As everyone's becoming an expert on Nvidia stock prices and moats and Jevons paradox, I've got a new Green Paper out on inclusive innovation, social capital, and technology diffusion - three things that literally no one is talking about! www.careful.industries/inclusive-in...

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨 My brightonSEO talk just dropped on YouTube faster than your website's load time! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfn... Warning: Contains bad jokes, real solutions, and me trying to hit 5 KM goal of walking on stage 🎤 (I'm sorry for the camera man who had to follow me around 🎥) #webperf

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Trump admin's politicization of intelligence oversight board PCLOB could cause the Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework to collapse, leading to strains on Europe to U.S. data transfers and potentially causing American companies to pull out of Europe therecord.media/politicizati...

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Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Privacy Tech: There's no purpose for knowing what's in the cup. Stop asking!

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Je sais qu'il y a plein de nouvelles personnes et que donc beaucoup le savent pas : Sur bluesky on met des alt texts sur les images. Il s'agit de textes qui décrivent l'image pour permettre aux personnes aveugles ou malvoyantes de les "voir" quand même.

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Here are some nice mushrooms

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It looks like both the Data Privacy Framework Executive Order and the Preventing Bulk Sensitive Data of Americans transfers to adversary countries EO survived the first long list of revoked Executive Orders. The EO on AI wasn’t as lucky 🪦 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

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Wondering what people think about auto privacy UX. 🚘 UXR: in the automotive context, what's your ideal way to interact with privacy preferences? - in the vehicle - in the vehicle's mobile app - on the web in the driver account - other #privacy #uxr #automotive

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The last thing I'll say about TikTok (for now) is that it is an absolute boon to data privacy laws facing First Amendment challenges. One big move: SCOTUS distinguishes between a government interest in preventing harmful "data collection," and a government interest in regulating speech.

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I've been watching the ways in which search engines have integrated large language models into their results, and the results are just as bad as you would expect.

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GreenSEO is back at the @brightonseo.com Fringe in April. Drink beer and learn how marketers can help make the web more green 🌿 Free tickets here: greenseo.org/brightonseo Sponsored by @screamingfrog.co.uk with sessions from @nca.bsky.social, @chris-green.net, Fiona MacNeill & Kathryn Lawrence.

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🧵 Digital marketing feels like it’s changing faster than ever. AI, new algorithms, privacy laws, and Google are fraking up more search results than we know how to track. It’s like every week, the ground shifts beneath us. Honestly, many of us feel it in ways we don’t talk about enough: personally.

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Review some programmatic, advertising, data and privacy topics presented during the week of Jan 6, 2025 : Google split prediction tech, GDPR vs use gender in forms, Comcast launching Universal Ads, Meta removing third-party fact-checking... www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Software engineers of the world, I beg you. Stop disabling copy and paste in password fields. Sincerely, Someone with non-human memorable 20+ character passwords generated by a password manager.

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On attend toujours que les ministres cessent d'utiliser Twitter comme support principal de leur communication numérique grand public.

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I reeeaaally need podcasters to do better than toggling the ‘automatic transcript’ (AI!) option and going “that’s enough accessibility for today 😌” while they clearly invest time, energy, & money into fancy graphics and professional sound editing.