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"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google. This is enshittification."
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:
Day to of watching the neighborhood trash sitting at the curb and rotting quickly in the heat. For some reason our trash company failed to pickup yesterday.
I went to the mailbox yesterday, the wind shifted direction and I almost puked from the smell.
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Bertolt Brecht. Das wurde alles so oft gesagt, dass es schon in Stein gemeißelt wurde. Entweder zusammen oder gar nicht. "Gar nicht" hat gerade Konjunktur .. mit Geschrei! #unity
Last year, when the Dems were in the majority of the Senate, they did not allow him to hold an official hearing, with an official report that will be forever available. Now he can.
A very good article on awful Google AI search results and how Google have ruined their own reputation by wrecking their workforce, by @pluralistic. A quote:
'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 in order to deliver better products and/or better 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.'
This part of the article is very enlightening from a worker perspective, especially when Google upper management have relatively recently fired around 10,000 workers:
'Once Google stops growing, it becomes 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.'
Reading this article now. "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."
It also strikes me that that AI overview is also likely an attempt to supplant Wikipedia's place in the digital landscape, since that's the actually-somewhat-reliable thing that would come up in that position otherwise.
Which I'm sure Google would be •just fine• with....
Russia invades a sister country and the World goes bombastic! Isreal bombs every country around it and the Western World looks the other way, especially the US.
Finished reading Tress of the Emerald Sea, and was good, even if not what I was expecting. How much is a Cosmere book? I don't know; if it wasn't written as a fairy tale, may be it would have landed better. 3/5 for me.
My 7th book of 2025, but no way I'll read 24 like previous years.
Next one in the queue: Attack Surface by @pluralistic -- looking forward to it, loved Little Brother and Homeland.
@doragasu not an expert on @pluralistic but so far Little Brother and Homeland are two books I can recommend with perhaps the caveat that are very real in current Trump's USA.
They are positive and optimistic, but I would say it may not be for everybody.
"SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours. Comme sur la côte syrienne, un bain de sang vient d’être commis par des […] L’article SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! est
SYRIE. Druzes, un massacre de trop ! SYRIE / ROJAVA – Après avoir massacré délibérément les Alaouites sur la côte syrienne, les gangs djihadistes sous commandement de Damas ont massacré des centaines de civils druzes à Soueïda ces derniers jours.
τα καλά τα κάρβουνα ανάβουν δύσκολα. αν ανάβει εύκολα έχει παραφίνη και ποιος ξέρει τι άλλο και κάνει για θυμίαμα όχι για λουλά. αν έχεις γκαζάκι βάλτο εκεί πάνω μέχρι να ανάψει.
Just 15 minutes of fully clothed infrared sunlight exposure triggered systemic effects and measurable improvements in vision — even with eyes completely covered.
"This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons…
Com uma das mais antigas e suntuosas estufas do estado de Minas Gerais, o Bola Bar oferece mais de 40 opções de petiscos, disponíveis do amanhecer até o encerramento da cozinha.
J'ai honte d'être Français. J'ai honte d'être européen
« Côté français, l’impunité d’Israël s’est aussi traduite par celle de son premier ministre Benyamin #Nétanyahou, qui a survolé l’Hexagone pour se rendre à Washington le 7 juillet, malgré le mandat d’arrêt de la Cour pénale internationale contre lui.» Face aux crimes israéliens, l’UE choisit l’inaction et le déshonneur mediapart.fr/journal/internati…
Le conseil européen des affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne n’a finalement rien statué sur son accord d’association avec Israël, pourtant bafoué. Les 27 se contentent d’un accord sans garantie sur l’aide humanitaire à Gaza.
Seite an Seite mit rechtsextremen Hetzern eine Kampagne gegen eine angesehen Juristin lostreten, die daraufhin massiv bedroht wird, und wenn sie sich wehrt „Resilienz“ und „Kritikfähigkeit“ einfordern, ist dreiste Täter-Opfer-Umkehr, politisches Gaslighting und menschlich einfach unter aller Sau.
Trump’s ICE directive is a repudiation of the very principles invoked in the Declaration of Independence, reinstating the royal prerogative of arbitrary imprisonment.
Trump administration bans bond hearings, paving way for mass indefinite detention of immigrants - World Socialist Web Site
"A single Google search requires half a millilitre of water, while ChatGPT consumes 500 millilitres for every five to 50 prompts. Multiply these figures by billions of daily interactions, add streaming services and cloud storage, and the result is staggering: data centre water consumption has reached crisis levels, with some facilities using more water annually than entire cities."
Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
"According to industry data, a 1-megawatt data centre can consume up to 25.5 million litres of water annually just for cooling – equivalent to the daily water consumption of approximately 300,000 people. To put this in perspective, a medium-sized 15-megawatt data centre consumes as much water annually as either three average-sized hospitals or more than two 18-hole golf courses."
Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
"Hyperscale facilities operated by companies like Google demonstrate the true scale of the challenge. Google’s data centres average 550,000 gallons (2.1 million litres) daily, totalling approximately 200 million gallons (760 million litres) annually per facility. Microsoft’s global operations consumed nearly 6.4 million cubic metres of water (approximately 1.69 billion gallons) in their most recent reporting year – a 34% increase from the previous year."
Data centres consume billions of litres annually to cool servers powering Netflix, Google, and AI. Discover why data centre water usage is sparking global protests and community conflicts.
Her problem is she wants to take something without giving in return. I will gladly stop saying "guuurl" if you get rid of all the fags and nigs and delete Bravo from my tv app.
The Israeli defence ministry has presented Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu with a cheaper and quicker plan for a concentration camp for Palestinians in the southern #Gaza Strip, according to reports.
@Feleki υπάρχει μια συγκεκριμένη διαφορά δυναμικότητας ανάμεσα σε ορίτζιναλ και σε νεοφιλελε φασίστες. Φταίνε τα ψεύτικα προσωπεία των δεύτερων που μπερδεύουν τούς ηλίθιους πρώτους. 🤣😂
Η Ισραηλινή εφημερίδα Haaretz ανέφερε ότι αυξήθηκε ο αριθμός των στρατιωτών που αυτοκτόνησαν κατά τη διάρκεια της θητείας τους στον στρατό σε σύγκριση με
@Feleki και γιατι οχι? Θα μασήσουν σίγουρα. Πάντα έλεγα οτι το μάρκετινγκ ειναι το ισχυρότερο όπλο της Δύσης. Κοίτα πχ της ΗΠΑ που κρατάνε όμηρο ολόκληρο το δυτικό ημισφαίριο με μόνο όπλο την πολεμική τους "υπεροχή" στο................. Χόλιγουντ
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the new US sanctions against Cuba, reaffirming its opposition to the blockade and calling for the nation to be removed from the list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.
Sylvie Crowell, a materials researcher at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, has received a NASA Early Career Initiative (ECI) award for a research proposal titled “Lunar Dust Reduction through Electrostatic Adhesion Mitigation (L-DREAM).” The research focuses on developing a passive lunar dust mitigation coating for solar cells and thermal control surfaces. Operated under the […]
Thousands of baseball fans travel across the country annually to watch teams compete in Omaha, Nebraska, during the NCAA Men’s College World Series in June. This year, NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland swung for the fences to celebrate the city’s Diamond Anniversary of hosting the event and to highlight the intersections of sports and […]
Retenu sous contrôle judiciaire avec interdiction de quitter le pays depuis plus d’un an en Algérie, le journaliste français spécialiste de football Christophe Gleizes a été injustement condamné à sept ans de prison ferme pour n’avoir fait que son tr…
“If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament of the Eucharist, I am sure that the thought of Christ's love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.”
France’s Strategic National Review predicts a large-scale military conflict with Russia in Europe by 2030, despite Russia repeatedly rubbishing the scenario.
This is the second time I’ve seen a family torment the ducks at Congress Park in Saratoga Springs. The kids were chasing and trying to stomp on ducklings as an adult in a burqa stood and watched. I yelled at them and the entire group moved on. I’m rattled. Sick people.
Nineteen teams of students from across the nation in grades 8-12 worked for months in classrooms, labs, basements, and garages for the opportunity to test their projects at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. This spring, the teams’ hard work was put to the test in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower facility at NASA Glenn. […]
I've been having electrical issue with my 94 Suburban. Batteries going bad (but under warranty) - 3 replacements in a year. Eventually the starter, distributor and alternator also went bad...
With each fix the "slow-start" issue remained - like the battery was low. It finally dawned on me that I must have an issue with the ground wire either to the engine block or chassis. I checked both and they were secure...
Then I called a friend who is a automotive savant - he asked if I had disconnected the ground wire to check for corrosion?
Me: duh! Why didn't I think of that?
Anyway, I pulled them apart and sure enough they were heavily corroded. I cleaned them and re-installed. Then turned the key and no slow start issue! (I'll be ordering new battery cables to replace both since they are original from 1994)
So if you have older vehicles, try cleaning the ground wire connections to avoid these issues.
I wonder how many cars are in junk yards because of this simple problem?
@Otto Pureblood Now you know. So what about the distributor, the alternatiors and the batteries that you thought all went bad? Were they really bad in retrospect, or were they just done in, by the intermittent ground? If they're still around you should recheck them.
I found out the importance of proper grounding when I would attach two way radios, linear amplifiers and attennas to my vehicles. Clean grounding to the chassis was a must, for both the radios and the antennas as well.
It was of utmost importantance to also ground the base of the antennas to the chissis as well. Grinding away any paint on the underside of the mounting surface of the anntena's base was key and using a heavy gauge wire to attach it to the chassis. It's good that you worked it out.
They were also bad... Caused by the intermittent ground. If special note: the voltage regulator is inside the alternator that was allowing the alternator to put out 14.4 to 14.7 volts. The circle of life in electrical form.
Not to mention the water pump was leaking from the weep hole... And by "leaking" I mean gushing.
Also, let me add a "fuck you" to the chevy engineer who thought the voltage regulator inside the alternator was a good idea.
@Otto Pureblood That's true. I usually opt for third party alternators myself, I usually use Leece-Neville's. There was a time when I had a setup where I had two alternators running with dual pulleys.
The original alternator would charge up the battery up front and the second one would charge up the batteries in the back, that run the other electronics such as inverters and such. I'm sort of a mad scientist or at least I once was. I'm not a scientist any longer but I may still be mad.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A wave of unexplained fires and explosions has struck industrial areas across Israeli-occupied territories since the onset of the 12-day war, highlighting growing instability in the regime’s critical infrastructure.
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That they bent over backwards not to offend Israel, incl. not even complaining about de facto annexation of their territory, and in exchange they get death threats and their capital bombed. That the Syrian regime persecutes minorities is neither here nor there in this context. The notion that Israel is acting as protector of the Syrian Druze is ludicrous on the face of it. Not that you were necessarily making that claim.
I did not in any way, shape, or form suggest that anything "justifies" the Jolani regime's actions towards minorities. What I am saying is that those actions are not a relevant factor in explaining or understanding the dynamics of its relationship with Israel.
And with respect to that, I'm not just saying that it's ludicrous to suggest Netanyahu is protecting the Druze for the right reasons, I'm saying it's ludicrous to suggest he is protecting them at all.
You are absolutely free to disagree with that assessment, whether on insight or wishful thinking, of course. But that is what I am actually saying, not more, not less.
What I mean by that is: It is neither the intent nor the effect of Israel's intervention to protect the Druze community.
It might well be a topic in Israeli domestic policy debates, but I hope we both understand that Israeli domestic policy debates are not in any way constrained by actual reality. If Jolani was handing out puppies to Druze community, Netanyahu would claim a need to protect them if it suited him, and if Jolani slit their throats with his own hands Netanyahu would pretend it's not happening or that there's nothing to be done about it if it suits him.
You were explicitly making that point in general, abstract terms.
And if you consider lip service that both sides recognise and treat as such as "relevant" then your understanding of that term is different from one. How do human rights concerns affect the ⋅manifest, material⋅ relationship between the EU and Saudi Arabia, do you think?
Are you implying that Israeli public debates about the occupied Palestinian territories are reality-based? That its debates about its international diplomatic standing are reality-based?... Israeli discourse takes place in a parallel universe.
I was not, and have no intention on commenting what Israel "should" be doing, other than stop behaving like a rogue lawless actor. "Humanitarian intervention" is a fraught concept, conceptually and practically. But if there are any certainties in that debate, it's that ethno-suprematist, expansionist, and revanchist actors reserving the right to bomb any and all countries in the region at will and illegally occupying parts of the country in question can not be trusted to be acting in good faith or to perform interventions that in any way improve the situation.
There actually is a process for trying to get an internationally legitimised military intervention going to save a minority from being wiped out. Think about why Israel shows zero interest in pursuing that process.
The point that one side "declaring something to be relevant” makes it relevant.
Sorry, the other thing is a typo. It should read "different from MINE". The first part parses as: If you consider as relevant lip-service-that-both-sides-recognise-and-treat-as-such...
Ok, again, for the record: you think that Israeli public debates about the West Bank are reality-based?
And you think it's reality-based to think that random UN staff from Cambodia, say, "hate" Israel? As opposed to, say, have no particular feelings about Israel per se and are merely making professional assessments based on established standards?
My OP observed that Jolani tried to please Israel and was bombed regardless.
You can ⋅infer⋅ whatever the hell you want from that, but the words on the page if anything were a comment on what everyone ELSE should do, namely, not bother trying to befriend Israel, not a comment on what Israel should do.
If you want a comment on what Israel should do: Get the fuck off its neighbour's territories, stop bombing everyone, stop mass murdering people, extradite your own mass murderers to The Hague, disavow ethno-supremacism, pay reparations, etc.
I think it's fair to say this conversation has run its course.
It's clear now why you can't see the parallel universe: you're inside it. In the actual, empirical reality experience by everyone else, literally not one of those claims is even remotely true, as even a passing familiarity with the facts would make obvious.
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in reply to 👹RandomDaemon • • •County picks up in my area. They pull the same shit.
Never know if / when your garbage will be picked up!
Thanks Gavin!