- 2 months
There are people at google, people with names and addresses, who have collectively made the world incalculably shittier. I hope they get what they deserve.
Ed Zitron wrote a long post about some asshole in particular who shit it all up: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/
- 2 months
Fuck Prabhakar Raghavan and fuck the capital class whose search for eternal growth has completely wrecked every part of our society.
- 2 months
AI often gives unnecessarily verbose definitions of words. if it can’t handle that small task, then what else is it failing at?
Everything in the world requires more than just pattern recognition unless you want the worst possible experience.
The current incarnation of AI is just like a super neurodivergent person. Not sure what we need it for other than to take over jobs. But I’m sure it’ll go sentient any day now lol.
The weird thing about AI is that if some computer was a god and had all of human knowledge and history yet could think like a human, wouldn’t its first order of business be to not destroy humanity as a whole but the wealthy?
Even a high school dropout can figure out that Mexican laborers are more essential than [name of billionaire.]
- 2 months
That is true for me. I enjoy using my brain and I love to read. Ai summaries are like when kids would read the cliff notes instead of the book.
- 2 months
Casual reminder that search engines integrating Wikipedia was just before they integrated quick answers, and then full-on AI answers, too.
Ironically, Wikipedia has been exactly where it started. So, if you truly want to follow God’s ways, click the actual links to various sites and read them through. This is the peak search engine experience.
(All love to Wikipedia, it’s a nice source)
- 2 months
In Google search you can append -ai to only return links. Like the Google of the golden age. Real links.
- 2 months
Use an LLM to do essentially what google used to do before it was shitty but while using 10 times (probably more) the resources. Fucking pathetic. I think old people, the ones who built internet have the right to be ashamed of the next gen. We are absolutely pathetic.


