“Under the shelter of each other, we survive.” -Mike Davis, RIP
Human, curious; designer, usability advocate, oss fangirl; snowboarder, Michigan kid, Motörhead fan. Former Model UN dork. Still a general dork. #nobot#noindex
Here's a great reply to Sen Schumer's industry-centric, "innovation"-focused AI report from last week. For policymakers interested in people-centric, evidence-based policymaking, and those who would hold them to it, it's a great overview of the evidence:
How to Turn Off AI Overview in Google and Set "Web" as Default
Turn off AI Overview in Google
Set "Web" as default
On May 15th Google released a new "Web" filter that removes "AI Overview" and other clutter, leaving only traditional web results. Here is how you can set "Google Web" as your default search engine.
American railroads are pissed off that the gummint wants to shut down coal production and use. That's because the railroads haul LOTSA coal. They are scared of going out of business. But HEY, Railroads! Why not haul passengers instead? There's lotsa demand and you'll have lotsa unused right-of-way and infrastructure and institutional knowledge. Sounds good to me!
GRADS, CONGRATS, and if you are the Indiana University student who put this on your mortar board for your ceremony, please DM me so that we may figure out a way for me to buy you every last beer or cocktail you would like to consume to properly celebrate your graduation.
A lot of community tech events are having trouble with sponsorship revenue this year, if you are a company with a marketing budget there are plenty of opportunities to help out in a big way right now
God. The juxtaposition of Palestinians cheering at the news that Hamas agreed to Egypt's ceasefire terms and the news that Israel won't agree and will continue the operation in Rafah is heartbreaking.
Did Facebook Marketplace completely take over what Craigslist once did, or do they coexist? I have some furniture etc. I want to get rid of, but don’t particularly want to create a FB account for this.
You can't bring up the fact that someone spoke about being abused as a child, as ammunition in a rap beef. This will upset a lot of people. I said that there were some things that can't be unsaid.
Some of y'all know that in California prisons, child abusers and sex offenders experience extreme violence. But people don't talk about why: a very high percentage of gang youth, are survivors
Huge protests across Israel tonight against Netanyahu, calling for elections & a ceasefire/hostage deal.
'There is now a deal on the table, that Hamas has signaled it will agree to. But Netanyahu, after Hamas' signals, is once again trying to torpedo the deal" Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker.
"Bibi, you can't fool us. You're stalling to please Ben-Gvir and stay in power. You don't care about the 132 hostages" Danny Elgarat, brother of hostage Itzhak.
I cannot overstate how dangerous to free speech and a healthy democracy it is to redefine all anti-Zionism and criticism of the state of Israel as antisemitism. You know who's loudly critical of Zionism and the Israeli govt? Jews. A lot of Jews.
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.
