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You need to get the ratio of cheese-to-cracker just right. Too much cheese and you won't enjoy the hand crafted* cracker stacks you bought. Not enough cheese and you'll find yourself in the abrasion zone of woven wheat**.
>The ones whinging about the birth rates in relation to a toy are the small yapping dogs, who have no courage to go against society. They can only pile on ever more illogical accountability on young men. They will never back any real solutions. Ever. They're too weak and pathetic.
A host of scientific investigations await the crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission during their long-duration expedition aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, are set to study plant cell division and microgravity’s effects on bacteria-killing viruses, as well as perform […]
>It’s called the ‘Streisand’ effect for a reason. They literally don’t understand that their paranoia and zealotry manifests the exact opposite of what they think they’re doing.
>imagine a puzzle where every piece is a jew and the puzzle keeps expanding. its not a puzzle but a shameless and unceasing occupancy. i dont think there could be enough books detailing every instance of nefarious jewish thought. maybe a book of the damned, a recursion of jewish thought into oblivion
>You need to mock them for it like how they mock you. All the "white fragility" etc rhetoric that they spent the past several decades pushing needs to be thrown back in their faces. It took 70+ years of anti-white culture being institutionalized before whites finally started saying enough was enough, jews can't even handle 1 year of non-institutionalized criticism and they are already losing their minds and lashing out at everyone. yet somehow we are the "fragile" ones lmao.
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It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course):
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Google's a very bad company, of course. I mean, the company has lost *three* federal antitrust trials in the past 18 months. But that's not why I quit Google Search: I stopped searching with Google because Google Search *suuuucked*.
In the spring of 2024, it was clear that Google had lost the spam wars. Its search results were *full* of spammy garbage content whose creators' SEO was a million times better than their content.
Every kind of Google Search result was bad, and results for the names of products were the *worst*, an endless cesspit of affiliate link-strewn puffery and scam sites.
It's not that the internet lacks for high-quality, reliable reviews. There are plenty of experts out there who subject a wide range of products to careful assessment, laboratory tests, and extensive comparisons. The sites where these reviews appear are instantly recognizable, and it's a great relief to find them.
One such site is Housefresh.com, whose proprietor, Giselle Navarro, runs a team that produces extremely detailed, objective, high-quality reviews of air purifiers. This is an important product category: if you're someone with bad allergies or an immunocompromising condition, finding the right air purifier can exert enormous influence on your health outcomes.
As good as Housefresh are at reviewing air purifiers, they are far less skilled at tricking Google. The world champions of this are spammers, content farms that produce garbage summaries of Amazon reviews and shovel them into massive, hidden sections of once-reputable websites like Forbes.com and Better *Homes and Gardens*, and thus dominate the Google results for product review searches:
Google calls this "site reputation abuse" and has repeatedly vowed to put a stop to it, and has repeatedly, totally failed to do so. What's more, Google has laid of more than 10,000 workers, including "core teams," even while spending tens of billions of dollars on stock manipulation through "buyback" schemes:
Of course, the Housefresh team are smart cookies - hence the high caliber of their air purifier reviews - and they *could* apply that intelligence to figuring out how to use SEO to trick Google's algorithm. Rather than doing so, they took the high road: they applied all that prodigious analytical talent to researching and publishing on *Google's* systematic failures - and even collusion - with the spammers who are destroying the web.
This month, Housefresh released its latest report on Google's enshittification, this time with an emphasis on the "AI Overviews" that now surmount every search results page. Google has widely touted these as the future of search, a way to bypass the ad-strewn, popup-obscured, AI-sloppified (!) pages that it is seemingly powerless to filter out of its search corpus:
Rather than hunting through these SEO-winning garbage pages, you can simply refer to Google's AI Overview, which will summarize the best the internet has to offer, in hyperlegibile black sans-serif type on a white background, with key phrases helpfully highlighted in bold.
Most critiques of AI Overview have focused on how these AI Overviews are a betrayal of the underlying bargain between the web and its monopoly search engine, whereby we all write the web and let Google index it for free, and in exchange, Google will send us traffic in proportion to the quality of our work:
Google says adding more AI to its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites. One thing is clear: this era of online history is closing.
This is true, as far as it goes, but it doesn't go far enough. Google is a platform, which is to say, a two-sided marketplace that brings together readers and publishers (along with advertisers). The bargain with *publishers* is that Google will send them traffic in exchange for access to their content. But the deal with *readers* is that Google will help them answer their questions quickly and accurately.
If Google's marketing pitch for AI Overviews is to be believed, then Google is only shafting publishers in order to double down on its bargain with readers: to give us better access to high-quality information (recall Google's mission statement, "To organize the world's information and make it useful"). If that's true, then Google is the champion of readers in their long battle with publishers, a battle in which they are nearly helpless before publishers' abusive excesses.
This is a very canny move on Google's part. Publishers and advertisers have more concentrated money than readers, but the dominant theory of antitrust since the Reagan administration is something called "consumer welfare," which holds that monopolistic conduct is only to be condemned if it makes consumers worse off.
If a company screws its workers or suppliers to deliver better products and/or prices, then "consumer welfare" holds that the government should celebrate and protect the monopolist for improving "efficiency."
But all that is true only if Google AI Overviews are good. And they are very, very bad.
In the Housefresh report, titled "Beware of the Google AI salesman and its cronies," Navarro documents how Google's AI Overview is *wildly* bad at surfacing high-quality information.
Indeed, Google's Gemini chatbot seems to *prefer* the lowest-quality sources of information on the web, and to actively suppress negative information about products, *even when* that negative information comes from its favorite information source.
Indeed, Navarro identifies a kind of madlibs template that Gemini uses to assemble an AI overview in response to the query "Is the [name of air purifier] worth it?"
> The [model] air purifier is [a worthwhile investment/generally considered a good value for its price/a worthwhile purchase]. It's [praised/well-regarded] for its ability to [clean the air/remove particles/clean large rooms]. Whether the [product] is worth it depends on individual needs and priorities.
This is the shape of the response that Google's AI Overview shits out when you ask about *any* air purifier, including a model that Wirecutter called "the worst air purifier ever tested":
What's more, AI Overview will produce a response like this one even when you ask it about *air purifiers that don't exist*, like the "Levoit Core 5510," the "Winnix Airmega" and the "Coy Mega 700."
It gets worse, though. Even when you ask Google "What are the cons of [model of air purifier]?" AI Overview simply ignores them. If you persist, AI Overview will give you a result couched in sleazy sales patter, like "While it excels at removing viruses and bacteria, it is not as effective with dust, pet hair, pollen or other common allergens."
Sometimes, AI Overview "hallucinates" imaginary cons that don't appear on the pages it cites, like warnings about the dangers of UV lights in purifiers that don't actually have UV lights.
Google argues that AI Overview won't displace traffic to the sites it summarizes. The company points to the fact that the statements in an AI Overview are each linked to the web-page they come from.
This is a dubious proposition, predicated on the idea that people looking up a quick answer on a search engine will go on to follow all the footnotes and compare them to the results (this is something that peer reviewers for major scientific journals often fail at, after all).
But the existence of these citations allowed Navarro to compile statistics about the sources that Google relies on most heavily for information about product quality:
* 43.1% of these statements come from product manufacturers' marketing materials;
* 19.5% of these statements are sourced from pages that contain no information about the product.
Much of the remainder comes from the same "site reputation abuse" that Google said it would stop prioritizing two years ago. An alarming amount of this material is also AI generated: this is the "coprophagic AI" problem in which an AI ingests another AI's output, producing ever-more nonsensical results:
Adding "reddit" to a Google query is a well-known and still-useful way to get higher quality results out of Google. Redditors is full of real people giving their real opinions about products and services. No wonder that Reddit appears in 97.5% of product review queries:
Obviously, the same SEO scumbags who have been running circles around Google for years are perfecctly capable of colonizing and compromising Reddit, which has been rocked by a series of payola scandals in which the volunteer moderators of huge, reputable subreddit were caught taking bribes to allow SEO scumbags to spam their forums and steal their valor:
When it comes to product reviews, Google's AI Overviews consist of irrelevancies, PR nonsense, and affiliate spammer hype - all at the expense of genuine, high-quality information, which is still out there, on the web, waiting for you to find it.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is unapologetic about the way that AI Overviews blurs the line between commercial pitches and neutral information, telling *Bloomberg*, "commercial information is information, too":
Which raises the question: why is Pichai so eager to enshittify his own service. After all, AI isn't a revenue center for Google - it's a cost center. Every day, Google's AI division takes a blowtorch the company's balance sheet, incinerating mountains of money while bringing in *nothing* (less than nothing, if you count all the users who are finding ways to de-Google their lives to escape the endless AI slop):
It's true that AI loses money for Google, but AI earns something far more important (at least from Pichai's perspective): a story about how Google can continue to grow.
Google's current price-to-earnings (PE) ratio is 20:1. That means that for every dollar Google brings in, investors are willing to spend $20 on Google's stock. This is a very high PE ratio, characteristic of "growth stocks" (companies that are growing every year).
A high PE ratio tells you that investors anticipate that the company will get (much) bigger in the foreseeable future, and they are "pricing in" that future growth when they trade the company's shares.
Companies with high PE ratios can use their stock in place of money - for example, they can acquire other companies with stock, or with a mix of cash and stock.
This lets high PE companies outbid mature companies - companies whose growth phase has ended - because stock is *endogeous* (it is produced within the company, by typing zeroes into a spreadsheet) and therefore abundant, while *dollars* are *exogenous* (produced by the central bank - again, by typing zeroes into a spreadsheet! - and then traded to the company by its customers) and thus scarce.
Google's status as a growth stock has allowed it to buy its way to dominance. After all, Google has repeatedly, continuously failed to create new products in-house, relying on acquisitions of other people's companies for its mobile technology, ad-tech, server management, maps, document collaboration...virtually every successful product the company has (except Search).
For so long as investors believe Google is growing, it can buy other companies with its abundant stock rather than its scarce dollars. It can also use that stock to hire key personnel, which especially important for AI teams, where compensation has blasted through the stratosphere:
Because Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. Once Google stops growing, it becames a "mature" company and its PE ratio will fall from 20:1 to something more like 4:1, meaning an 80% collapse in the company's share price.
This would be very bad news for Googlers (whose personal wealth is disproportionately tied up in Google stock) and for Google itself (because many of its key personnel will depart when the shares they've banked for retirement collapse, and new hires will expect to be paid in scarce dollars, not abundant stock). For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state - rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse.
Which is why Google is so desperately sweaty to maintain the narrative about its growth. That's a difficult narrative to maintain, though. Google has 90% Search market-share, and nothing short of raising a billion humans to maturity and training them to be Google users (AKA "Google Classroom") will produce any growth in its Search market-share.
Google is so desperate to juice its search revenue that it actually *made search worse on purpose* so that you would have to run multiple searches (and see multiple rounds of ads) before you got the information you were seeking:
Investors have metabolized the story that AI will be a gigantic growth area, and so *all* the tech giants are in a battle to prove to investors that they will dominate AI as they dominated their own niches.
You aren't the target for AI, investors are: if they can be convinced that Google's 90% Search market share will soon be joined by a 90% AI market share, they will continue to treat this decidedly tired and run-down company like a prize racehorse at the starting-gate.
This is why you are so often tricked into using AI, by grazing a part of your screen with a fingertip, summoning a pestersome chatbot that takes 6 taps and 10 seconds to banish: companies like Google have made their product teams' bonuses contingent on getting normies to "use" AI and "use" is defined as "interact with AI for at least 10 seconds." Goodhart's Law ("any metric becomes a target") has turned every product you use into a trap for the unwary:
There's a cringe army of AI bros who are seemingly convinced that AI is going to become superintelligent and save us from ourselves - they think that AI companies are creating god. But the hundreds of billions being pumped into AI are not driven by this bizarre ideology. Rather, they are the product of material conditions, a system that sends high-flying companies into a nosedive the instant they stop climbing.
AI's merits and demerits are irrelevant to this: they pump AI because they *must* pump. It's why they pumped metaverse and cryptocurrency and every other absurd fad.
None of that changes the fact that Google Search has been terminally enshittified and it is misleading billions of people in service to this perverse narrative adventure. Google Search isn't fit for purpose, and it's hard to see how it ever will be again.
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I looked at Kagi a while back and got turned off by the extensive advertising of their AI functionality on their main page. I'm trying to avoid AI tooling as much as possible and already use the &utm google shortcut (with still-shitty results, but no AI)
@freediverx @giflian I've heard good things about Kagi but haven't looked into it. Currently using Qwant. Would Kagi offer a trial period, by any chance? 👀
seems pretty cool, unfortunately I'm broke so I just use userscripts to block sponsored results on Google and refine my searches with lots of parameters
Got upset enough that I now run a small instance of #searxng which does a similar thing to #Kagi (searches across multiple services) but without its own index - a metasearch engine essentially. Strips out ads and AI responses and was moderately useful a little while ago for ascertaining that Google had heavily de-prioritised a blog post by @briankrebs - the interface indicates which services provided which results.
People should not use Kagi under any circumstances. Yes I agree Google is useless these days, but Kagi is run by a very bad person, and they run it poorly.
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would inspire a lot more confidence if they open-source the app. would also make porting to other platforms easier, and break out of the Apple walled garden.
It absolutely uploads data associated with your device, a ton of metadata that every iOS app gives to Apple.
The ICEBlock tool has vulnerabilities: The developer of ICEBlock, an iOS app for anonymously reporting sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials, promises that it “ensures user privacy by storing no personal data.
And from the WTAF dept, quite a bombshell from ProPublica today:
"Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found."
"The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing business a decade ago, relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage."
"But these workers, known as “digital escorts,” often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, ProPublica found. Some are former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work."
The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expertise to identify malicious code.
Avoir halluciné ou avoir utilisé une IA qui a halluciné une référence, c'est... hallucinant pour une personne qui se pique de pensée critique et de démarche scientifique.
C'est aussi la preuve qu'il n'a pas lu au moins certaines références qu'il cite.
Et donc, il voudrait toujours qu'on boive ses paroles concernant les deux fameuses expertes anti complotisme (ou d'autres sujets d'ailleurs !!!!) comme parole d'évangile, sans critique ?
It's fantastic to see other people saying what I've been saying about the government for years now. Yes, all branches of federal government and right down to state, county, and local governments, are guilty of treason.
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4) És molt senzill, només cal entrar al document de plantilla enllaçat i copiar i pegar els continguts dels correus en un mail per enviar a les dades de contacte d'empreses per avisar-lis. 5) No és un boicot contra aquestes empreses. Sovint no coneixen el contingut del web on posen publicitat. Cal ser molt educats i respectuosos: estem apel·lant a l'ètica i a les pròpies condicions i termes de servei d'aquestes companyies.
Now that I think about it there's probably a large market of people who would pay to have a cool UI layout on their home screen to open applications with similar to that we UI showed off.
I know you can do that easily with Linux but there's definitely an untapped market for Windows.
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I've just finished reading _Technofeudalism_ by Yanis Varoufakis. If he's right, then it's politically urgent to escape from the clutches of Meta, Google, Amazon and the like as soon as possible.
Varoufakis' arguments reminded me of _Chokepoint Capitalism_ by Rebecca Giblin and @pluralistic, though according to Varoufakis the dominance of Amazon and the like has killed off capitalism and is a form of feudalism. I still want to compare these two analyses more carefully.
But Varoufakis' argument is: these platforms have managed to lure people in to work for them for free, and with every post and update on their platforms, these exploitative and massively dangerous companies grow stronger and harder to defeat. On the other hand, if the people take back social media and the internet more generally, there's a real opportunity for building a counter-movement with these technologies.
The lesson I take from this: getting people to quit the capitalist platforms and join the #Fediverse is part of political organisation, and possibly an important part if you consider the way people are tethered to their Instagram and Tiktok.
Let me repeat this: Convincing and helping comrades to quit the capitalist platforms and join the Fediverse is an important form of revolutionary political organisation. ✊
"Unanimous" means Massie, and he wouldn't vote yes on anything, let alone that. Possibly it was a vote to compel the release and he voted no because it had some other problem.
@cjd It was a vote in the House Rules Committee over what would've been an amendment to the GENIUS Act. It failed 6-5 with only one republican voting in favor of it: yahoo.com/news/house-republica…
This seems like the stupid games that are normally played. Democrats knew the republicans would vote no (probably because it isn't germane to a crypto bill) and now they can rub their faces in it.
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Alex Jones & MTG said Trump is wrong sending weapons to Ukraine & there's no plan. Of course Trump planned.
I don't like it, but situations are fluid. Allies become enemies. Enemies become allies. The bottom line is about resources, money, food, alliances. Whoever has the most wins.
Putin & Zel are tyrants, but Zelensky offered rare minerals. Putin offered nothing. Trump plays the long-game. His Admin plays the short game. In the end, we come out on top. Same in Middle East & Arctic. 🤷♀️ Imo.
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Wow just wow ! I've never bothered to listen to any of the #OpenBSD songs but I am just now and so far Source Fish is my favourite. Thought I'd listen to some tunes whilst stalking folks blogs like @h3artbl33d@exquisite.social and @pitrh@mastodon.social as you do. #RunBSD
Por cierto, ¿el nazi David Esteve de NaziOkupa, no es el que va a asesorar a la policía nacional? Después de jalear salir a cazar personas supongo que #MarlaskaDimision piensan hacer algo o solo se anima cuando hay que pegar tiros a personas que saltan una valla?
I know it looks like I'm dunking on TheC64 (and I am), but TheC64 Maxi is a fun little toy, worth having if you want the nostalgia without the pain of keeping a cranky old computer running after 40+ years or the cost of an FPGA-based thing. Though, it looks like they're sold out everywhere and now cost as much as an FPGA thing or more, so nevermind.
@swelljoe The real problem with these things is that they don’t stay in production. They’re meant by the makers as one off collectables, not actual tools.
@mos_8502 it's probably not profitable to keep them in production forever. I mean, there's a limited pool of buyers, and the maker needs to buy a bunch at once to keep prices low. So, it's smart to make exactly as much as you can sell in some short period of time, say six months. Gotta minimize inventory management costs, etc.
I don't really blame them. And, I mean, nobody is relying on these things for their livelihood. Governments aren't asking for two suppliers and an SLA.
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We do sincerely apologize, if we do not consider the giraffe, that you had beautifully cut out of National Geographic Magazine and glued onto a canvas, to be worth '30.000 US Dollars', as you had propositioned as a form of settlement of your outstanding legal fees.
Also, we generally use 'sales tax' on invoices, as required by law, not '10% for the big guy'. We can't accommodate your requests to the contrary here, unfortunately.
The same applies to 'just tack it onto the federal debt', as you suggested. We're unable to, since we are a law firm, not Congress.
To briefly address the rest of your, at times somewhat incoherent, letter, we'd also like to mention, that we do not take any 'snow', illicit 'hot pix' of 'really young' minors, nor any promises of having 'Budanov take out whoever you want' as valid payment options.
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Woke up with a "full" head, then heard the lawn mower outside and realized my monthly hayfever was here. I have to suffer with the congestion, headache, and disequalibrium because I have an appointment with the allergist in Thurs. and can't take anything to deal with this. Just another thing I accquired from moving to TN.
neti pot. You can get the squeezy kind to test it out. Use distilled or otherwise filtered water at room temperature or slightly warmer and follow the instructions. It can be really weird, but it *will* let you breath. also as you get used to doing it without hurting your ears you can really get some deep cleaning done.
I only have to use one every year or two anymore, but man, they're a lifesaver.
@picofarad I don't have any trouble breathing, just full middle ears that cause slight disequallibrium and headache that is usually relieved with a couple of blasts of Flonase. Since I'm seeing the doc on Thurs they don't want me to take anything for the allergy that may alter test results
actually if you go get "saline sinus rinse" in the pressurized can you can use that to see if flushing will help you, without having to invest in keeping a pot clean and dealing with sterile water. I'll make a fool of myself and record a video for you if you can't find a decent usage reference anywhere
>Alchemists >curing plague and sickness Fake fucking news. Total propaganda. More egregious and depicting Moishe Goldstein staying late nights feverishly working at the bank to give better rates to the poor miners. Total alchemist death means TOTAL
The irony of a philosophy that was originally created to prevent fascism, instead directly causing fascism, is extreme. This article is almost a decade old, and yet already draws the connection that led us down this hateful path.
Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative?
#OtD 15 Jul 1902 the Leckhampton Stalwarts led a march of 2,000 people to Leckhampton Hill, where they tore down a cottage built by the new quarry owner that blocked a right of way and filled in a pit where working people held a fair every Easter. stories.workingclasshistory.co…
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