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cherold

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Best-selling author in my head, unpublished author in the real world.

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GottaLaff, to random
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โ€œProvocative.โ€ ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ™„ GET HIM OFF THE COURT. Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.Ihnd.LkwD_75RA6zD&smid=url-share

โ€œAnother Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another #Alito Home

The justiceโ€™s beach house displayed an โ€œAppeal to Heavenโ€ flag, a symbol carried on #Jan6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

cherold,
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@GottaLaff So interesting that the two most MAGA justices weren't even appointed by Trump. Shows that what Republicans are now is what they've been for decades.

kottke, to random
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How to get Google search results without the AI garbage. โ€œItโ€™s essentially Google, minus the crap. No parsing of the information in the results. No surfacing metadata like address or link info. No knowledge panels, but also, no ads.โ€ https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

cherold,
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@scottytrees @kottke I use ddg as my default but I often have to add !g to get useful results. That's the problem - there are other search engines, but even though Google intentionally degrades its results to get more hits, it still gives better results than the competition.

cherold,
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@scottytrees Most people would rather get useful results as quickly as possible, so until there's a search engine that is at least as good as Google, it will still be the search engine of choice. The number of people willing to inconvenience themselves to avoid benefiting Google is, I'm afraid, far too small to have any effect on Google whatsoever. :-(

cherold,
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@scottytrees I'm not saying nothing can be done. The government can regulate, and bring lawsuits, and that may help. I'm saying an individual not using Google is as effective as people who claim the only way to change the electoral system is to vote 3rd party. It's not an effective strategy, it's just a way to feel like you're doing something. I choose not to make meaningless gestures. But continue to shout at Google if it makes you feel good.

cherold,
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@scottytrees Mate, if I wanted self-righteous condescension I would go back to Twitter. We're done.

cherold, to random
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@Teri_Kanefield says we don't need legal pundits, and at first I thought, of course we need someone who understands how the legal system works and can tell us what's what. But then she wrote

"...lawyers confuse people. Confused people then turn to lawyers for explanations."

And I realized that if pundits quit saying the legal system was corrupt, we wouldn't keep asking, "is this corrupt behavior?" We would just ... follow what happens and see how it turns out.

https://terikanefield.com/beware-the-lawyers-follow-up/

cherold, to random
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Conservative states ban vaccines and wearing masks when you're sick are gonna be a breeding ground for pandemics. And when it happens, they'll say God is mad about gay people or abortion or something. Because that's who they are.

JamesGleick, (edited ) to random
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James Fallows, who should know, explains why presidential debates are WORSE than useless.

Thereโ€™s one more reason this year. By sharing a stage, Biden will normalize the idea that itโ€™s all right for Trump to be a free man, as opposed to an incarcerated criminal.

https://fallows.substack.com/i/143279747/a-no-debates

cherold,
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@JamesGleick A) Trump hasn't been convicted of anything, and it's okay to normalize that we're all innocent until proven guilty, and B) I don't know what this guy's debate claims are, because that part is subscribers only, but I think Biden is right to give people a chance to see the difference between a rational person and a deteriorating lunatic.

Lana, to random
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"After taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found โ€” and didnโ€™t find. The pervasive indoctrination she had railed against simply did not exist.

Children were not being sexualized. She could find no examples of critical race theory. She examined curriculum related to social-emotional learning, which has come under attack by Christian conservatives who say it encourages children to question gender roles and prioritizes feelings over biblical teachings. Instead, Gore found the materials taught children how to be a good friend and a good human."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore/

cherold,
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@Lana Of course, like every right-winger who's ever had the brains to actually look at the evidence and be honest about what she found, she instantly became a pariah and enemy to her own tribe.

GottaLaff, to random
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FYI, someone just asked me, "Could you please put a CW on those US politics posts?"

I said no sorry,, just mute me.

I don't understand CWing political posts. And that doesn't mean you need to @ me explaining why. I know THEIR reasons, I just disagree with them and won't do it.

I respect CWs for other things, but not politics. Politics is news and people need to be aware of what's happening. It's not gory or violent, it's politics.

Kthxbye.

cherold,
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@GottaLaff Content warning: This post contains information about the state of human existence. Avoid if you wish your bubble of ignorance to remain intact.

cyberlyra, to random
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The age of Google is over. The next great search engine must needs filter out LLM-generated sludge and actually privilege information instead of content.

cherold,
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@cyberlyra I have yet to find a search engine that doesn't serve up LLM pages. And instead of improving their algorithms, it seems the plan is to use AI to just give us bad information directly instead of providing us a link to bad information. So I'm not optimistic, but here's hoping.

cherold, to random
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I think everyone should read this @tkanefield piece on what's going on in the Trump trial, simply because if he's not convicted then instead of freaking out and raging you'll say, "oh yeah, that was a distinct possibility. Kinda sucks, but I get why."

She's not saying he won't be convicted (she says the odds are that he probably will) but she explains why it's not the slam dunk some people think it is.

Also, law is kinda interesting if it's explained well.

https://terikanefield.com/wheres-the-beef-trumps-manhattan-criminal-case-and-some-mind-bending-legal-puzzles/

cherold,
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@tokensane @tkanefield I don't think breaking a contract is usually a crime. You sue people for breaking contracts, you don't generally have them arrested. And it's a verbal contract, which I suspect is very hard to prove in court. But I'm not a lawyer, I'm just guessing.

jon, to Vivaldi
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This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.

Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.

Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.

If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!

If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!

@Vivaldi

cherold,
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@jon @Vivaldi Recently I decided to look for a good alternative to Chrome that would let me keep using my extensions, of which I have many. My research indicated the two most promising choices were Vivaldi and Brave. Vivaldi sounded like the more interesting of the two. So I installed them both and imported my Chrome data into both. And as part of that import, Brave installed all my extensions. So the choice became, easy route or hard route. But I'll still test Vivaldi one of these days.

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