"Don't follow leaders, watch the pageview meters..."
Bob Dylan has quietly launched a new Patreon project, Lectures from the Grave, featuring AI-generated monologues, fictional letters, and short stories attributed to historical figures—raising big questions about creativity, authenticity, and the role of artists in an AI-driven future.
Bob Dylan's AI "Lectures from the Grave" Are an Accidental Warning for What Not to Do
Bob Dylan's new AI "Lectures from the Grave" Patreon series is available for $5 a month to the curious and masochistic.
consequence.net
March 30, 2026 at 11:40 PM
"Don't follow leaders, watch the pageview meters..."
I see how that reads now- what I meant was any dragon that has a dick is pageview fuel.
October 26, 2024 at 7:54 PM
I see how that reads now- what I meant was any dragon that has a dick is pageview fuel.
The VC media playbook really seems to be:
*Buy a struggling legacy media brand
*Fire most of the reporters, strip it for parts
*Expect to get similar pageview numbers even though you're doing little to no journalism now
*Maybe ChatGPT can write us some free articles?
*Shit somebody saw us
*Buy a struggling legacy media brand
*Fire most of the reporters, strip it for parts
*Expect to get similar pageview numbers even though you're doing little to no journalism now
*Maybe ChatGPT can write us some free articles?
*Shit somebody saw us
Sports Illustrated appears to have published affiliate articles under the bylines of fake writers, complete with made-up bios and AI-generated headshots. After we asked The Arena Group about it, the bylines were deleted entirely. For @futurism.bsky.social
futurism.com/sports-illus...
futurism.com/sports-illus...
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
futurism.com
November 27, 2023 at 5:51 PM
The VC media playbook really seems to be:
*Buy a struggling legacy media brand
*Fire most of the reporters, strip it for parts
*Expect to get similar pageview numbers even though you're doing little to no journalism now
*Maybe ChatGPT can write us some free articles?
*Shit somebody saw us
*Buy a struggling legacy media brand
*Fire most of the reporters, strip it for parts
*Expect to get similar pageview numbers even though you're doing little to no journalism now
*Maybe ChatGPT can write us some free articles?
*Shit somebody saw us
Eu tinha lido só de raiva, mas me arrependi de dar um pageview a mais.
Melhor deixar essa gente insignificante no ostracismo
Melhor deixar essa gente insignificante no ostracismo
August 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Eu tinha lido só de raiva, mas me arrependi de dar um pageview a mais.
Melhor deixar essa gente insignificante no ostracismo
Melhor deixar essa gente insignificante no ostracismo
A nota bene #manicule to rule them all. If you have important stuff to remind to, do use a big hand. #bookhistory #skystorians
![Detail of a page of "[Gregor Reisch] AEPITOMA OMNIS PHYLOSOPHIAE ... (1504)" featuring a big hand next to the text.
Source: https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/pageview/6045373](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/bafkreifm3pkql7hui5uqq3dsqekzp6syvcnpjdywdygepgeg4oyxouhise)
![Detail of a page of "[Gregor Reisch] AEPITOMA OMNIS PHYLOSOPHIAE ... (1504)" featuring a big hand next to the text.
Source: https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/pageview/6045373](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwym6cglvbd5odxfkykn2uh2/bafkreihttmk3wb7wzazghhjjxkb6xaiwirgqer4ophoaaftbxvbxhyagdu)
December 16, 2024 at 8:50 AM
A nota bene #manicule to rule them all. If you have important stuff to remind to, do use a big hand. #bookhistory #skystorians
This is why I’ve never played the SEO game, and (other than a weeks long experiment with AdWords in 2003) have never accepted pageview-measured ads on Daring Fireball. The way that SEO-driven ads would — not *might*, but *would* — corrupt both format and content was obvious to me.
this is the internet Google created where everyone is trying to keep page time up, word count above a certain level, etc. it fucking sucks and it’s just because everyone is trying to game the algo to make their little ad rev pittance
I wanted to know if Kraven the Hunter had a post credits scene so I found an article about it.
There were TEN paragraphs before I got a yes or no answer.
This was one of them. Do they really think I needed this beforehand?
There were TEN paragraphs before I got a yes or no answer.
This was one of them. Do they really think I needed this beforehand?
December 14, 2024 at 9:10 PM
This is why I’ve never played the SEO game, and (other than a weeks long experiment with AdWords in 2003) have never accepted pageview-measured ads on Daring Fireball. The way that SEO-driven ads would — not *might*, but *would* — corrupt both format and content was obvious to me.
That's enough now. Time to deny every single pageview to the site formerly known as Twitter.
February 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
That's enough now. Time to deny every single pageview to the site formerly known as Twitter.
it's nice to have a one-click path to the article creator's user page! or to that creator's recent contributions to see if they're still active, or if they seem normal! one click to a graph of pageview traffic over time (interest in stolen moon rocks SEEMS VERY CORRELATED with Artemis II mission)
June 23, 2026 at 12:03 AM
it's nice to have a one-click path to the article creator's user page! or to that creator's recent contributions to see if they're still active, or if they seem normal! one click to a graph of pageview traffic over time (interest in stolen moon rocks SEEMS VERY CORRELATED with Artemis II mission)
ok so it turns out scribblehub has a page tracking the daily readers for Sisters of Dorley. and uhh. uhhhhhhhhhh.
maybe me starting to bother people about it 24/7 actually had an effect
maybe me starting to bother people about it 24/7 actually had an effect
March 18, 2024 at 3:55 PM
ok so it turns out scribblehub has a page tracking the daily readers for Sisters of Dorley. and uhh. uhhhhhhhhhh.
maybe me starting to bother people about it 24/7 actually had an effect
maybe me starting to bother people about it 24/7 actually had an effect
Als im Börsenblatt stand:
Schnitzler, Reigen: Das Buch der Saison. Von Friedrich Schiller
… war das vermutlich der Tag, als Arthur Schnitzler dachte, er hätte den Literaturbetrieb durchgespielt.
www.boersenblatt-digital.de/pageview/250...
www.boersenblatt-digital.de/pageview/139...
#LitWiss
Schnitzler, Reigen: Das Buch der Saison. Von Friedrich Schiller
… war das vermutlich der Tag, als Arthur Schnitzler dachte, er hätte den Literaturbetrieb durchgespielt.
www.boersenblatt-digital.de/pageview/250...
www.boersenblatt-digital.de/pageview/139...
#LitWiss
November 20, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Als im Börsenblatt stand:
Schnitzler, Reigen: Das Buch der Saison. Von Friedrich Schiller
… war das vermutlich der Tag, als Arthur Schnitzler dachte, er hätte den Literaturbetrieb durchgespielt.
www.boersenblatt-digital.de/pageview/250...
www.boersenblatt-digital.de/pageview/139...
#LitWiss
Schnitzler, Reigen: Das Buch der Saison. Von Friedrich Schiller
… war das vermutlich der Tag, als Arthur Schnitzler dachte, er hätte den Literaturbetrieb durchgespielt.
www.boersenblatt-digital.de/pageview/250...
www.boersenblatt-digital.de/pageview/139...
#LitWiss
Cloudflare only shows web analytics for the past 2 months, so I'm writing my own data downloader, to build a total visits/pageview count for @blueskydirectory.com
🎂 I guess that means we've reached 2 months
#buildinpublic
🎂 I guess that means we've reached 2 months
#buildinpublic
December 27, 2024 at 4:14 PM
Cloudflare only shows web analytics for the past 2 months, so I'm writing my own data downloader, to build a total visits/pageview count for @blueskydirectory.com
🎂 I guess that means we've reached 2 months
#buildinpublic
🎂 I guess that means we've reached 2 months
#buildinpublic
a while ago I wondered: who is the most famous person with a þ in their name? what about ķ?
I downloaded all of English Wikipedia + some pageview statistics for 2026 to sort articles about people by views per day. now I can answer these questions, sorta!
I downloaded all of English Wikipedia + some pageview statistics for 2026 to sort articles about people by views per day. now I can answer these questions, sorta!
June 24, 2026 at 10:17 AM
a while ago I wondered: who is the most famous person with a þ in their name? what about ķ?
I downloaded all of English Wikipedia + some pageview statistics for 2026 to sort articles about people by views per day. now I can answer these questions, sorta!
I downloaded all of English Wikipedia + some pageview statistics for 2026 to sort articles about people by views per day. now I can answer these questions, sorta!
We’re building empires, here, not with a focus on the next quarter’s profit margin or pageview goals but a 25-year outlook.
October 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We’re building empires, here, not with a focus on the next quarter’s profit margin or pageview goals but a 25-year outlook.
Dr. Anton Anton, resignierter Advokat.
(Manche schaffen schon mit dem Telefonbucheintrag ein Lebenswerk!)
(Manche schaffen schon mit dem Telefonbucheintrag ein Lebenswerk!)
January 31, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Dr. Anton Anton, resignierter Advokat.
(Manche schaffen schon mit dem Telefonbucheintrag ein Lebenswerk!)
(Manche schaffen schon mit dem Telefonbucheintrag ein Lebenswerk!)
The tail really wags the dog this time of year. It is even getting harder to do research. You search for "Micah Parsons" for recent updates and you get 50 Trade Proposal fanfic articles, many by good writers pressganged into writing scifi to meet pageview goals.
July 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The tail really wags the dog this time of year. It is even getting harder to do research. You search for "Micah Parsons" for recent updates and you get 50 Trade Proposal fanfic articles, many by good writers pressganged into writing scifi to meet pageview goals.
To celebrate the Sports Equinox, we used pageview data from Baseball Reference, Basketball Reference, Pro Football Reference, and Hockey Reference to see who the most popular player is in each of the 12 cities that are represented in the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB 🧵👇
October 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
To celebrate the Sports Equinox, we used pageview data from Baseball Reference, Basketball Reference, Pro Football Reference, and Hockey Reference to see who the most popular player is in each of the 12 cities that are represented in the NBA, NFL, NHL, and MLB 🧵👇
A comparação que me veio é que a entronização do PIB como KPI do mundo teve efeitos semelhantes aos da entronização do pageview como KPI do jornalismo.
January 14, 2026 at 1:13 PM
A comparação que me veio é que a entronização do PIB como KPI do mundo teve efeitos semelhantes aos da entronização do pageview como KPI do jornalismo.
And here is the image in full glory, as part of a late eighteenth-century German book by Karl von Eckartshausen about magic:
September 9, 2026 at 6:56 AM
And here is the image in full glory, as part of a late eighteenth-century German book by Karl von Eckartshausen about magic:
Me being beautiful and dressing well is sort of like providing pageview material to the content farm called earth
July 26, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Me being beautiful and dressing well is sort of like providing pageview material to the content farm called earth
The umpteeenth Trib "Please think of the drivers!" editorial: "It's unfair for the CTA to charge people to park on its property on Wilton near Wrigley Field, one of most desirable parking spots in Chicago." ⚾️ 🚗 🙄
Please click to give them a pageview.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/29/c...
Please click to give them a pageview.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/29/c...
June 29, 2026 at 2:17 PM
The umpteeenth Trib "Please think of the drivers!" editorial: "It's unfair for the CTA to charge people to park on its property on Wilton near Wrigley Field, one of most desirable parking spots in Chicago." ⚾️ 🚗 🙄
Please click to give them a pageview.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/29/c...
Please click to give them a pageview.
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/29/c...
Time for some more metro desk layoffs to make a new pageview play via aggregation/SEO!
June 11, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Time for some more metro desk layoffs to make a new pageview play via aggregation/SEO!
Fed up of the media, of all types chasing clicks and pageview, but ignoring honesty, truth and accuracy?
We have had someone at the Guardian recently confirm they chase the metrics and ignore stories they deem won't get them.
This is not OK.
We need to improve how we regulate all our media.
We have had someone at the Guardian recently confirm they chase the metrics and ignore stories they deem won't get them.
This is not OK.
We need to improve how we regulate all our media.
Petition: Review traditional and social media regulation
Review media regulation, including social media, to consider the introduction of stricter regulations to ensure truthful reporting, accountability and integrity across all platforms, including newspap...
petition.parliament.uk
April 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Fed up of the media, of all types chasing clicks and pageview, but ignoring honesty, truth and accuracy?
We have had someone at the Guardian recently confirm they chase the metrics and ignore stories they deem won't get them.
This is not OK.
We need to improve how we regulate all our media.
We have had someone at the Guardian recently confirm they chase the metrics and ignore stories they deem won't get them.
This is not OK.
We need to improve how we regulate all our media.
I will survive, as I dropped advertising 3 years ago. Wasn't earning much from it anyway, as pageview rates were next to nothing (hence the clickbait titles elsewhere). But paywalls are the way forward.
June 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I will survive, as I dropped advertising 3 years ago. Wasn't earning much from it anyway, as pageview rates were next to nothing (hence the clickbait titles elsewhere). But paywalls are the way forward.