Society when the hundredth study shows that UBI pretty much instantly leads to a better life for literally everyone: 🤷
Society when fintech douchebros say prime numbers and bad pictures of apes are the future of the economy: "Of course it is. Here's billions of dollars. Also, do you want a back rub?"
If KOSA passes, it's literally the nails in the coffin of any sort of open Internet and access to information.
It's book burning, but virtual.
Lots of small sites, like many Mastodon servers, will not be able to survive due to the unmanageable burden of managing "allowed" content and the cost of implementing inevitable ID laws that will follow once KOSA made the table for more censorship.
US peeps, reminder about the emergency broadcast test today.
Do not freak out, we’re still living in the same good old hellscape as every day, no change.
@9adfce6d@5f9be9ad@b8de0890 I’ve been trying to tell the project maintainers for years (it also affects other groups), but there seems to be too much inertia.
A relatively simple method to make the “LLM content is overwhelming search engines” problem better would be the ability to block domains in search engines.
Combine that with social search where people (you trust) could share blocklists with you.
This is obviously never going to happen because it would eat into Google’s revenue; they’re all for making the Internet ever more shit.
The level of enshittification of the Internet from LLMs is truly spectacular.
Search for anything (in my case my ice maker doesn’t produce ice correctly) is now an exercise in futility.
Wonder if we can ever dig ourselves out of this level of shit.
Thanks, tech bros. Really super awesome stuff.
It’s weird to see otherwise great people succumb to the generative AI hype. Reminds me of like 2 years ago when artists fell for NFTs.
Mark my words: any technology that is “disruptive” and that seems too good to be true has at least one major flaw that will make it unusable in practice.
Trump was just found guilty of likely one of the worst cases of fraud in US history, which means that media will report a lot about Biden’s age and how COVID is over.
Just btw, I have nothing against ads.
But almost all ad networks do way more than show ads, often the ads are just a byproduct of incessant tracking and data gathering.
Combined with inefficient and insecure implementation and fueled by a death spiral of websites trying to outcompete each other on the most gross content.
Still astounded that doctor offices, including the fucking allergy & asthma specialist, don’t require masks in an ongoing pandemic with an airborne virus.
Complete and utter bullshit healthcare.
In this exhaustive mega-thread I will list and analyze all the amazing reasons why it’s awesome to have a browser engine monopoly:
#google #Chrome #monopoly #browser
Quiz: Without looking it up how old is the 19-inch wide/1.75in rack-unit form factor for servers?
Reply with your guess! I'll post the answer in a reply, don't cheat.
⚠️ PSA for US peeps: please don’t forget, new COVID boosters are available now and recommended for everyone.
Schedule an appointment right now to be better protected.
We’re in a deadly and disabling pandemic and 99% of people do absolutely nothing about it.
That includes many of the people reading this.
They’ll shrug and just continue to spread something that maims and kills, themselves and their “loved ones” included. Even though we have an extremely effective, cheap and readily available solution that does not interfere with their lives whatsoever: N95 (or better) masks.
How do you even begin to address a cognitive disconnect at such a huge scale?
@6a30a78d Fun fact: for the price of one War on Terror we could have launched at least 800 JWSTs, probably more like ten thousand of them as cost per unit goes down with scale.
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