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The last week of stats, as a reference. As you can see, today's just getting started at ~1M hits.
Again, this tarpit started catching parasites on April 9. None other than PerplexityBot have dropped off since (appropriately perplexing).
A quick mention that I have not forgotten about all of you that have kindly continued to submit domains for this project. It's been a very tricky month but I am committed to adding your new domains to the project in the coming week.
To mention one more time, it's the contributed domains that are really spreading this project, continuing to trap and hold the crawlers. Thanks again!
The more endpoints trapped, the longer the parasites.txt grows, nourishing happy blacklists around the globe.
Bit of an update about the Science Is Poetry project.
It's been a 24/7 siege from the crawlers since launch, unrelenting. However as of recently the datacenter hosting the dedicated server has without warning chosen to severely shape traffic right down to a crawl, effectively breaking the project. The sites are barely reachable.
As my contract with them states traffic is "unlimited", I'll be raising it with them and see where it leads.
I'd hoped to be able to share with you good news about an exhib of the Science Is Poetry project at a museum in Poland, in Oct.
I pulled out today, as the enormous artist contract, which asks for very personal information, is all stored at Office dot Com / M365. I lamented my relationship was to be with them, not via US tech giant.
They said they've no other way of holding the contract, & so that's that.
Greatly valued their transparency about it all. But nothing changes if we keep yielding.
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Today's parasites.txt line count:
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$ grep ^[1-9] logs/parasites.txt | head -n -1 | wc -l
7251
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That's over 7,000 individual endpoints accumulated (for your blacklisting pleasure).
Waste at an industrial scale.
https://scienceispoetry.net/files/parasites.txt