4 responses to “Saturday morning market.”

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   alex said on June 28, 2025 at 10:49 am

   I’ve been harvesting my garlic scapes all week and making food items to squirrel away in the freezer, compound butter and pesto so far.

   Has anyone else noticed that Facebook has gotten weird lately? My feed is suddenly being flooded with strange posts that are only tangentially related to my interests, but they seem to be deliberately mis-identifying things and baiting me to call bullshit. For instance, I’ll get posts featuring photos of vintage automobiles but often with the incorrect year, make or model, and sometimes all three. And I also see a lot of cars that are either PhotoShopped or created with AI purporting to be a certain year, make and model but these bear no resemblance to the actual vehicle or to any real vehicle whatsoever.

   I get the feeling that these posters aren’t genuine auto enthusiasts but are doing some kind of phishing for God knows what.

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   nancy said on June 28, 2025 at 11:06 am

   It’s engagement farming. There are a shitload of AI-generated posts claiming this or that pro athlete made some enormous gift to a charity or poor child or whatever. You click, you like, you comment, and someone else rings a cash register.

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   Deborah said on June 28, 2025 at 12:23 pm

   I quit Instagram after deciding I wanted to remove Billionaires from my life, but I read about something on Bluesky recently about someone I used to follow on Instagram so I tried to look at it but I had to have an account to access it, so I got a new account and I decided to look up some of the accounts that I missed following. But I noticed that all kinds of weird things were going on, I’d follow someone and then they would disappear from my feed and accounts I hadn’t followed were showing up and the there began to be weird crap showing up that seemed glitchy and irrelevant. Things had changed for the worse while I was away, for sure. I guit Facebook ages ago and wild horses couldn’t get me to go back.

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   Dexter Friend said on June 28, 2025 at 1:19 pm

   I received a text today wanting to hire me to “write content” , promising from $50 per diem to $500 per diem. All this for “between 20 and 50 minutes of your time a day.”
   The last time I had a paid writing gig was during my senior high school year when I got $10 per sports story from the local town newspaper. That’s like $100 in today’s dough.
   Today, one click into the trash.

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