If the spam filter is applied equally, but one actor is doing a filter-triggering action more than the other actor, then no, it would not justify the complaint.
ActBlue doesn’t send fundraising emails. Campaigns use other mass mailer tools to do that. ActBlue just processes the credit cards, and gives the campaigns links to forms to process the credit cards.
This article reminds me of two recent observations by Paul Krugman about the internet:
"So, here’s labor productivity growth over the 25 years following each date on the horizontal axis [...] See the great productivity boom that followed the rise of the internet? Neither do I. [...] Maybe the key point is that nobody is arguing that the internet has been useless; surely, it has contributed to economic growth. The argument instead is that its benefits weren’t exceptionally large compared with those of earlier, less glamorous technologies."¹
"On the second, history suggests that large economic effects from A.I. will take longer to materialize than many people currently seem to expect [...] And even while it lasted, productivity growth during the I.T. boom was no higher than it was during the generation-long boom after World War II, which was notable in the fact that it didn’t seem to be driven by any radically new technology [...] That’s not to say that artificial intelligence won’t have huge economic impacts. But history suggests that they won’t come quickly. ChatGPT and whatever follows are probably an economic story for the 2030s, not for the next few years."²
My theory is that the digital revolution has mostly cancelled out potential productivity gains with its introduction of productivity sinks: the technology has tended to encourage less rigorous thinking, more distraction, more complexity; and even if you can do task T X times faster, most people as spending X * Y more time being distracted, overwhelmed, or just reflective button pushers.
The ways AI is being used now will make this a lot worse on every front.
I like Quarto¹ which supports authoring websites, blogs,² books, and presentations. It also supports publishing directly from Jupyter Notebooks, if that's the type of work you're doing. My only (minor) complaint is there isn't much of a thriving theming community for it.
Honestly quite surprised Imgur has a thriving on-site community. I thought it was just a solution to Reddit's original inability to upload photos directly.
I dropped GA and all other trackers off my blog after I realized I would just sit there staring at the live dashboard for hours after pressing post, begging the number to go up.
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