I don't really have anything to say, I just thought I should report in and tell you that I won't be posting for the next two or three weeks. Our son's wedding and two other weddings are coming up during the month of June, so I have a good excuse.
You know, this blog has never had much traffic, which is not really surprising since it's just me, ruminating, long past the point when anyone would consider a personal blog relevant to anything. But my pageviews keep going up and up and up. Like, stratospherically up. In the last 30 days, I've had over 65,000 visits. I am not making that up, and that is crazy. Even back when I had the RSS feed up it was rare for me to get a thousand views in a month. No freaking way do I believe that I averaged more than two thousand individual visits a day from real people who are reading this nonsense.
It makes me wonder if the LLM AI people are that desperate for content. Would that run the numbers up? We'll scrape anything that won't sue us for copyright violation. I mean, technically, I do own the copyright to everything I write here, but I have no idea how to do anything about it if someone steals it, and they must assume bloggers like me wouldn't. And if they're training AI on blogs--there aren't nearly as many as there used to be, but there are probably still many thousands-- we are in way bigger trouble than we knew, right?
In other news, our 42nd anniversary is this week. Go, us. That is a long time.
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