Is Wikipedia a “gatekeeper”?

I heard today that TikTik.com is now considered a “gatekeeper”.

A new “up and coming” internet celebrity, who seems to have the potential to become an overnight millionaire (based alone on spit) named Haliey Welch, also known as “Hawk Tuah”, became famous via TikTok.com — but wikipedia.org has posted a profile for the star which contains no link to tiktok.com but instead links to her instagram.com profile.

I think that’s weird.

featured image source: https://www.tiktok.com/@hay_welch

Google uses these searches to generate a data profile of you to sell on open bidding markets

Keywords: culture , food , google , history , hormel , information , privacy , search , spam , technology

Every time we ask Google, we give it answers about ourselves: “Search TM.”

https://roughlydaily.com/2024/07/05/all-human-beings-have-three-lives-public-private-and-secret-2

Other search engines are far superior to Google

Keywords: Corruption , 2020 US Presidential Election , Censorship , Fake News , Google , Media Censorship , Propaganda

Not many realize that the information they are seeking on Google is censored, filtered, and deliberately presented to users in certain areas to align with its interests. Google heavily lobbies governments globally, but has an extreme sway over politicians within the establishment on the right and left.

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/corruption/google-and-election-interference

BTW: I just posted something related .. and for a short moment it seemed like a very dystopian fiction story … but then (in the end) I was shocked that it actually seemed quite realistic! 😯 (See “Would You Rather Choose a Book or Pick a Card?” [ https://socio.business.blog/2024/03/25/would-you-rather-choose-a-book-or-pick-a-card ] )

To write is the intimate gesture of taking the reader by the hand, luring or leading them through all the corners of yourself that they may experience worlds and wonders through your eyes

Keywords: OUT OF THE SHOEBOX: RANDOMNESS , #EVERYDAYINSPIRATION , #PROSE , POSTADAY

I remember being about 3 years old. I’d wake up each morning just as the sun began to break over the horizon. I’d get up on my knees to peer through the window above my bed waiting for that first light.

https://alltheshoesiwear.wordpress.com/2018/02/08/day-1-why-do-i-write

If you spend all your time going from pub garden to day festival, to club to pub garden again you’ll burn yourself out and you won’t end up being able to take in any of the experiences you’re having

Keywords: Love & Sex , Relationships

Get a journal and clear your head of all the dumb stuff that swirls around in it. Walk around a park with no headphones on just listening to the silence seeing what seeps in between the gaps, buy a matcha latte so green it looks like something from an alien planet. Look after yourself as if you were your partner. Make your bed so it’s nice when you get in from a night out. Buy yourself a pastry from the shop. Remember, no one knows what you want better than yourself.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a44900816/i-used-to-think-being-single-was-a-means-to-an-end-but-now-im-the-main-event

Then again, see also: https://Wants.BLOG 😉

I’m giving a shout-out to all students out there that hasn’t taken No for an answer and is still struggling to make it work

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While I chatted with my friend he pointed out parental influence and the child’s rebellion. In his opinion, parental influence should be minimal and end as soon as the child turns 18 and when the parent still refuses to let go, then it’s okay to rebel. I asked him why? He then went further to explain that “parents wants to insinuate old methods for new eventualities and most times they don’t work”.

https://debbysedu.wordpress.com/2021/11/20/who-is-responsible-for-our-lives

Most people have never experienced a genuine and healthy relationship because we are all in too much of a rush to keep up with society’s timeline and standards

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Whenever you develop a dependency on relationships, all of your standards and values go down the drain and you will grab the first decent person that walks your way. You have to be able to be selective and okay with waiting to gain the kind of relationship you long for.

https://womenofworship.blog/2023/07/22/loving-being-alone

See also “Self Mythology” [ https://socio.business.blog/2023/06/24/self-mythology ] for another take on related issues, from another point of view (i.e., an over-emphasis on “individualism”).