We are disconnecting ourselves from happiness when we disconnect ourselves from other people. I think we're locking ourselves out of real joy in a very finite life.

The Prof G Pod

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Search volumes are declining as legacy searches being increasingly cannibalized by non-monetized LLM queries. Google's response: manufacture revenue growth via short-sighted, highly extractive customer hostile tactics, i.e. charge advertisers more for lower quality clicks, including clicks they do not want and explicitly do not approve Google to charge them for.

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I think I'd had a sense of transcendence very strongly when my father died. And that led me on to want to get closer to the source of transcendence. And I thought, you know, religion maybe had the key.

Catherine Coldstream — Fresh Air

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