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Yay! This is what makes america great! Republicans are the best EVER!

so stupid.

It’s just so… weird. I swear every time i’m watching one of those crazy episodes a meme comes out and it’s just like… is there really four lights?

I swear to Christ I’m literally watching the mind prison episode.

I do think the world would be a better place with substantially less than a billion humans.

If we somehow found a way to live in harmony and weren’t all competing to own everyone and everything, that kind of world could exist and chinas problems would be fixed with immigration and a partial focus of their economy on taking care of their eldest. Instead I’m sure they want to keep out “foreign ideas” and people who don’t “look right” like basically all nations. Heaven forbid things change or those in power diminish from their absolute control.

I’m still waiting on that superpower to come along with a live and let live policy. I don’t think it’s possible. Human nature and the drive to compete is too powerful. We want someone “other” to blame and we’re willing to line up behind the ones who will do the dirty work when times get tough. Ours are just too important than “others” and that’s the human problem.

It just isn’t enough man. We’re still dependent on a handful of sources for everything. Adblockers break for me practically every single day.

I don’t have solutions. I just see privacy slipping away at scale and i’m afraid where we will end up in just a few years.

We can’t opt out of the system either because too much of it is necessary. Can anyone truly say they don’t need google? ever? I stick to stuff like lemmy and I use duck duck go, but I don’t think ddg is permanent.

Everything just seems aligning for us to have digital IDs and fingerprints that are tracked with metadata and sold freely to any buyer with enough money. Combine that with technologies like flock and all the facial recognition tech everywhere, payment being basically completely digital today and sold/shared to anyone willing to pay… and every move we make is completely tracked and known.

We’re at a point now where the tech used in The Dark Knight by batman to solve crime at the expense of everyone’s privacy is here, and it’s even worse. Nobody will destroy it because it’s too powerful to make money and crush dissent. With how dire the political situation is and how they are literally telling us now to not believe what we see, instead believe what we say… i’m worried, like so many others are.

No one person should have as much power as even a billionaire has, and there are so many who have more than that. The only end to tyranny is our lifespans, until that is no longer a limiting factor from technology.

This is so amazing.

This is pretty nihilist to say, but we probably need to stop using what we’re calling the internet today.

The web is not the innocent platform it once was in the 90s and early 00s. Privacy is practically nonexistent and the workarounds like disabling javascript break so much of it that what’s left is hardly usable.

There’s no worthwhile alternatives imo. There’s no major competing internetworks or ‘web browsing’ alternatives outside of modern html/css/js… and there really should be.

The internet evolved towards money making and nobody really stopped and made offshoots that are just cool fun things without the endless goal of capital.

It’s awesome. It’s just missing clippy somewhere, somehow. Don’t know how i’d fit it in there though, maybe just googly eyes over the p.

I’m guessing this guy intends to rule until he dies… so fucking old.

A ton of factors have increased energy costs on the web over the years. It’s insignificant per person, but bandwidth is exponentially higher because all websites have miles of crud formatting code nowadays. Memory usage is out of control. Transmission and storage of all the metadata your web browser provides in realtime as you move your mouse around a page is infinitely higher than what we had in the early days of the web.

The energy cost of ML will reduce as chips progress, but I think the financial reality will come crashing down on the AI industry sooner rather than later and basically keep it out of reach for most people anyway due to cost. I don’t see much of ROI for AI. Right now it’s treated as a capital investment which helps inflate company worth while it lasts, but after a few years the investment is worthless and a giant money sink from energy costs if used.

Genie is out of the bottle forever unfortunately.

They could have instituted a system of genuine authentic reviewers who manually curate content so that your search is great, but that would result in less clicks. Less clicks means less revenue. They’re financially incentivized to make you click as much as you’re willing to.

I don’t think so man. They were just started to mass train on SEO in the ad industry 15 years ago. Now it’s practically a household term.

Google had very different goals and ambitions early on. Things changed. Now they’re like any other giant soulless corpo. Their goal is revenue, which as their platform has grown we’ve seen a metamorphosis from a focus on interesting things to a never ending professional jester troupe on every endpoint still making pennies on the dollar compared to what google earns from advertisers. They’re the middle men and should be making next to nothing since they produce next to nothing of value, but advertising sells.

Google Search revenue was something like 175bn in 2024. A tiny fraction of that is paid out to websites from clicks. Someone with a proper LLM tuned for SEO can churn out hot garbage nonstop and fill up results in perpetuity with a guaranteed revenue stream far in excess of what is possible as a worker in something in the overwhelming majority of the world. There’s just more garbage than everywhere… and people have found exactly the right formula to rise to the top despite human-useless content. Google doesn’t think of it as a bad thing, 175bn in revenue from search! lol

You misunderstand. I’m not saying AI’s chats are better than a quality article. I’m saying their search results are often better.

Don’t look at what they SAY. Look at the links they provide as sources. Many are bad, but I find I get much better info. If I try google I might try 10+ links before I get one that really says what I want. If I try a chatbot I typically get a link that is relevant within one or two clicks.

There is no shortcut for intelligence… but AI “SEO” has not been perfected yet .

Bad people and bad organizations can do good things.

That doesn’t make them good though. They both just want the same thing: more money and more power for themselves at the expense of the common folk.

Better search results than google though.

EDIT: DO NOT LOOK AT THE CHAT. LOOK AT THE SOURCE LINKS THEY GIVE YOU.

Unless it’s a handful of official pages or discussion forums… google is practically unusable for me now. It absolutely exploded once chatgpt came to the scene and SEO has gotten so perfected that slop is almost all the results you get.

I wish we had some kind of downvote or report system to remove all the slop, but the more clicks the more revenue from referrals… better to make people click more.

Almost all recipe sites now give me “We see you’re using an adblocker!” until I turn on reader mode on my phone now too. Pretty soon that will be appropriately blocked and I guess i’ll go back to cook books or something?

Quick, find mike rowe and make him buy the MikeRoweSlop.com site!

The EU consumer laws you see get wider adoption tend to have copycat versions show up in other regions, usually too many regions to make it worth splitting the codebase.

GDPR is still basically just EU & California (with it’s specific version that overlaps substantially.) The rest of us are boned.

Apple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.

I know some things have been widespread like USB-C, but those are few and far between… and I still buy devices with microusb and other dumb connectors because of course people are still selling them in brand new products years after the EU ban.

Does remembering my starcraft cd key count?

While Falun Gong has been persecuted in China, look no further than their news outlet The Epoch Times (which is mentioned in the wiki article) for the wonderful things these people promote.

Looks like they’re following the murdoch strategy of all-in on news media to eventually manipulate and control national politics. They’re quite successful too, I know a super white dude from a vhcol area working in a tech adjacent role who can’t say enough good things about their content… he doesn’t trust fox anymore (nor reuters, ap, bbc, or countless other outlets), but he trusts them lol.

Is there some kind of law stopping the publication of the names of the murderers? All we ever see is “ICE agent” at best, or similar.

If a local cop shoots someone, their names often end up in news articles. I always wondered why the federal side doesn’t.