Denise Van Patten

Cruising With Dee YouTube, Formerly VP at Fox TV. Vols, Vacations and Volcanos

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

@lauramatsue I feel this. And for the record, I always used em dashes in my writing!

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

A good-sized earthquake just now, offshore from the “boot” of Italy, Calabria region. Reported at 6.55 magnitude #sismo #terremoto

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

That loud boom heard and felt in Boston and surrounding areas appears to be a meteor…or perhaps an alien spaceship falling to earth? ( I had to add that last part given all the current talk about UAPs!).

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

@SawyerMerritt @Starlink I guess I’ll be the only one choosing @delta because their planes will become the only place I can enjoy hours of uninterrupted peace. Bliss.

[BNO News Live @BNODesk]

JUST IN: Strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake hits near Calama in northern Chile - USGS

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

@news_jul @nbcsnl You’re famous! And I just love your reaction so much. Great that you have a sense of humor on the memes, and I just followed you—will certainly stick around for the reporting!

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

6.0 Earthquake; quite large for Hawaii! Thankfully doesn’t seem to be any major damage or injuries.

[Hawaii News Now @HawaiiNewsNow]

No tsunami is expected following a magnitude 6.0 earthquake that occurred about seven miles to the east-southeast of Honaunau in the South Kona area of Hawaii Island. https://t.co/9CzMrwNm7c

[Hawaii News Now @HawaiiNewsNow]

"OH MY GOD." Caylin Ziemelis captured the shaking in her Kailua-Kona home when a magnitude 6.0 earthquake hit at around 9:45 p.m. Friday. Meanwhile former HNN reporter Lacy Deniz said the earthquake was "just so strong and powerful," it left her Hōnaunau house a complete mess.

https://t.co/1P2UbhjITM

[MatrixMysteries @MatrixMysteries]

A Mount Sinai scientist warns the new headlights flooding American roads are dangerous.

Older headlights were softer, warmer, easier on the eyes.

Now drivers are hit with blinding blue-white beams every night.

This is the result of corporate GREED in America.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Google Search as you know it is over

"Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times."

https://t.co/g4VhBhRzwZ

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

@Supersonic_Red Another Generation Jones gal here…really, this describes my life completely. Born in the early 60s—never culturally been a Boomer. And we truly ARE the bridge between the analog and digital worlds.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Because we live in a country where mocking religion is legal. All religion. Including Christianity, which has been mocked, satirised and lampooned in Britain for centuries. Life of Brian. Jerry Springer the Opera. Two Rotten Popes. The tradition of irreverence toward religious institutions is as British as the common law that protects it.

Islam is not exempt from that tradition and nor should it be. The moment any religion becomes legally protected from satire and mockery in Britain is the moment Britain ceases to be a free country. That principle applies equally to all faiths. The right to offend is the foundation on which every other right rests. Remove it for one religion and you have created a hierarchy of faiths with legal protection for some and not others. That is not tolerance but a blasphemy law by another name.

Worth noting that in several of the countries whose flags appeared at the other march taking place today, mocking Islam is not a social question. It is a criminal one. In some it carries the death penalty. The three French women on that stage were exercising a freedom that does not exist in those countries. The question worth asking is which march was defending that freedom and which was marching alongside movements that would remove it.

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

This is so important. And I always try to click on a website (hopefully the one that had its info strip searched by Google AI) to combat it. I miss the “old” internet, and it goes away site by site because of this.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Google is making $62 billion a quarter destroying the websites it NEEDS to survive.

This is literally a death spiral that ends with Google killing itself.

Let me explain what's going on...

Google added AI summaries to the top of every search result in 2024.

When you Google something now, the answer sits right there on Google's page. You never have to click anywhere. Google took the information from someone else's website, summarized it, and kept you inside Google's ecosystem.

The result: 60% of all Google searches now end without a single click to any website.

Small publishers lost 60% of their traffic in one year. Medium publishers lost 47%.

Even the biggest names in media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Business Insider, all saw traffic fall between 22% and 55%.

The Axios CEO called it "a referral extinction event for the ad-supported web."

Google's response to all of this was to tell publishers they can "opt out" of having their content summarized. But opting out also REMOVES your description from normal search results.

So the choice Google gives you is let us steal your content for free, or become invisible on the internet.

That's extortion.

The Washington Post laid off another round of journalists this year because of it. Stereogum, one of the most respected music publications on the internet, had to BEG readers for donations.

Business Insider cut 21% of its staff. Dozens of smaller publishers have shut down entirely.

The people who actually CREATE the information Google summarizes are going bankrupt while Google posts record revenue.

But here's where this gets interesting and where everyone stops thinking:

Google's AI summaries are only as good as the content they summarize. If the publishers who write the original articles, run the original investigations, and create the original data go out of business, there is nothing left for Google to summarize.

The AI starts recycling old information, the answers get stale, the quality drops, and users start noticing that Google's summaries are increasingly wrong, outdated, or useless.

Google is essentially strip-mining the internet for short-term revenue. They are extracting all the value from content creators without paying for it, driving those creators out of business, and then wondering why the quality of their own product is declining.

This is exactly what Napster did to the music industry in the early 2000s:

Made content free, creators went broke, and quality collapsed. It took a decade to rebuild.

Google is doing the same thing to the entire internet at 100x the scale.

Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard are now suing Google for antitrust violations. Chegg, the education platform, lost 49% of its traffic and is suing too.

The UK's competition authority just ordered Google to let publishers opt out without being punished. The DOJ already ruled Google is an illegal monopoly.

And Google's defense in court is genuinely unbelievable.

They argue that publishers CHOOSE to let Google index their content and can leave anytime they want. That's like saying you choose to pay protection money to the mob because technically you could close your business and move to another city.

Google controls 90% of search. Leaving Google means leaving the internet.

Meanwhile Google is investing billions in custom AI chips to make these summaries cheaper at scale. Every quarter the problem gets worse.

The internet as we've known it for 25 years ran on a simple deal:

Publishers make content.
Google sends traffic.
Advertisers pay for the traffic. Everyone wins.

But Google just BROKE that deal and kept all the money.

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

@learning_yohei My daughter did in high school, and she has lived in Japan since 2018!

[Patricia Heaton @PatriciaHeaton]

Friends, this is hard to read but we must be witnesses to the sadistic, animalistic torture/rape/murder of innocent Jews by these monsters. They must be stopped at all costs.

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

@TheHost_ Everyone is so judgmental. Perhaps @TheHost works from home and can’t leave to go to Starbucks, but the Starbucks DoorDash delivery is what helps get him through his day. His money, his choice. That said, I only use delivery services when I’m at hotels; its just so expensive.

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

@CleansedTweets Same for my daughter in Japan, except there it’s “No, very, very sorry - leave”

[Denise Van Patten @DeeVP]

Two new cases of hantavirus reported within the past few hours—An American on the repatriation flight to US, and a French woman on a repatriation flight to France, whose “condition has deteriorated. An additional American has symptoms. Very long incubation period is disturbing—it had been reported for several days that all the cruise ship passengers were feeling fine. Heres to hoping that this thing burns out, but I’d sure as heck get all those people who previously disembarked the ship and who are self-isolating into official isolation at this point.

[Steph Smith @stephsmithio]

Everyone should go to Japan at least once (preferably early in life) just to understand what a highly functioning society can look like