Calishat
Calishat
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Obsessed with search engines, databases, and online information collections forever. Writing books & such since 1996 (OFFICIAL NETSCAPE GUIDE TO INTERNET RESEARCH, GOOGLE HACKS, INFORMATION TRAPPING, WEB SEARCH GARAGE, etc) and ResearchBuzz since 1998.
Autistic and too tired to hide it. (My special interest? Everything, only organized.)
Snarks (as opposed to jokes), doom, and reply guys are blocked without warning.
I post a loooooooot, mostly hashtagged resources.
Daily Roundups: http://www.researchbuzz.me/
Search Tweaks!: http://searchtweaks.com/
Making Mastodon Tools: https://mastogizmos.com/
Me Specifically: https://www.calishat.com/
#eBay #ecommerce #AI
'The company’s decision... insists users must not use “buy-for-me agents, LLM-driven bots, or any end-to-end flow that attempts to place orders without human review” on the site, unless eBay grants approval.'
eBay updates legalese to ban AI-powered shop-bots
: This establishment does not serve agents, says digital tat bazaar
#women #men #AI
'A new study, which draws on survey data from approximately 3,000 respondents in the United States and Canada, finds that women, on average, exhibit greater skepticism toward artificial intelligence (AI) technologies than men.'
California Institute of Technology
New Study Examines Gender Differences in Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence Risk
How men and women perceive the risks associated with artificial intelligence
I'm not usually a kitsch fan but I like this a lot. Not 299 euro worth of like though
Man of Many
Seletti's BIC Lamp: The World's Favourite Pen Is Now An Ultra-Cool Light | Man of Many
Seletti transforms the BIC Cristal pen into a full-size lamp, scaling the biro into a playful design object unveiled at Maison&Objet 2026.
#birds #feathers #ImageIdentification #SpecialtySearch
'Ever gotten a feather ID with no proof? Want artistic references for a specific type of feather? This guide may be for you! Read on to learn how I source reference photos for all my feather-related needs.'
How to find reference photos for (almost) every feather – Found Feathers
Hannah More, Firefox, YouTube, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, January 19, 2026
NEW RESOURCES BBC: Writer's poems helped boost the abolition campaign. "Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised, filling in a 'massive bit of the jigsaw' in the abolition campaign history, experts say. Novelist Hannah More, born in Bristol in 1745, also helped open some of the UK's first schools for working class people." TWEAKS AND UPDATES The Register: …
ResearchBuzz
Hannah More, Firefox, YouTube, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, January 19, 2026
NEW RESOURCES BBC: Writer’s poems helped boost the abolition campaign. “Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised...
#AI #art #activism #OmNomNom
'Graham Granger, a student in the school’s film and performing arts program, came upon some AI-generated art by MFA student Nick Dwyer and promptly ate it in protest, according to a report in the Sun Star, a student paper.'
Art Student Arrested for Eating AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
Putting this article in the Firehose reminded me that I have a "money grubbing assholes" tag
Gizmodo
Self-Help Ghouls Are Charging People Absurd Prices to Talk to Impersonator Chatbots
Sure, it's exploitative, but it's also profitable.