Just throwing it out there that the lane is wiiiiiiiiide open for a tech company to get insanely rich by just replicating the 2010 version of big websites like Google while explicitly stating that they hate AI.

terrible. 20 years ago, the internet was full of hobbyist blogs and forums. over time, these have been replaced by paywalled substacks and private discord channels, each a walled garden. google's decision to prioritize AI just makes it less likely people will create free, public info

rare example of actually decent apology / reversal on "adult content" rules. unsurprisingly, payment processor pressure behind the scenes central to what happened at all

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

Train stopped without information regarding how long the delay is gonna be. My stop is cancelled. I was hoping to get home in time to get food before everything is closed ... ahhh welllll. Guess I'll at least get half my fare back if the delay makes more than an hour of a difference.

this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...

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This is why even in non-written media, you see people having a difficult time perceiving subtext, context, the idea that the writer is writing for a specific audience with a specific idea in mind, etc. Because becoming functionally literate is *how* you learn to perceive all that stuff.

People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such. What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc. Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.

Think about authors having to explain that they should not *have* to have the villain stop periodically and go "what I am doing is wrong, I am doing a bad thing. I am the bad guy, here" because being able to figure that out is part of what it means to be functionally literate.

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Oh she is magnificent

neck guards are mandatory in olympic ice hockey but I'm getting the sense that a lot of these players are doing the "surgical mask only covering the mouth" version of the rule. not to sound vampiric but I can see a lot of you guyses throats.

Oh imagine that! Don’t give discord your face and certainly not your ID

Oh NOOOOOOOO. Did someone scrape their work without permission, credit, nor recompense to create and sell a cheaper knock off of your work and replace and/or devalue your work with that theft? That must SUCK SO MUCH.

Thank you it makes me insane when people include how someone looks in their critique of their politics. "And they look just like how I'd expect someone with ~those views~ to look" hi yeah that's actually a fucked up thing to say even if it's about a basic white dude.

i don't wanna brag but i can get insecure about ANYTHING

Baffled by transphobes insisting that the name on your birth certificate is Your True Name Forever when it was common in my grandparents' generation to just...pick a name you like and use that, nbd. I literally found out both of my grandma's birth certificate first names FROM THEIR OBITUARIES.

abolish “A.i.” from your lives snd institutions. this crap makes things worse.

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Discord isn't walking back anything yet, but this shows they are feeling the pressure and you should keep bullying and contacting them until they relent.

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

To repeat. -- And to repeat: The political faction saying we must all have to log legal ID before speaking or accessing speech on the Internet, and the political faction who believe transgenderism is a dangerous mental contagion that spreads by speech about transgenderism, are the same faction.

never felt so at risk of actually losing my job due to brain bullshit caused incompetence, very at risk of having to find a new place to live within the year (impossible without a job), headaches & back problems intensifying and on top of all that, enshittification is ruining the internet. save me

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

I think the other reason the ID push pisses me off is I also want children to be safe, and I am simply not at all convinced making the internet a panopticon achieves that goal particularly when I look at who stands to profit from the panopticon implementation and why else they're in the news...

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

The idea that everybody on the planet must forever be beholden to the default of babysitter of other people’s children except for their actual fucking parents, and as a result any attempt to opt of non-consensual babysitting must include getting my identity stolen, is an idea that must fucking die.

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

WEARING A MASK IS NOT FUCKING EXTREME YOU FUCKING ABLEIST DISEASE LOVING PIECES OF SHIT

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

Oh my god, so many people are canceling Nitro that it's having issues processing it, cook 'em hard bois.

My favourite thing about how journalists cover Canada’s men’s hockey team is how they make such a big deal about how young Macklin Celebrini is and how old Sidney Crosby is. It’s like, “Here’s this young, fresh out of the womb baby boy, and this extremely old man!” (They’re 19 and 38)

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

People collectively crashing out about mundane-to-everyone-else details is such an rpf mood and it's funny every single time (especially when I'm among the folks caught between "yeah so rationally speaking…" and "!!!!!!!!! MY SHIP")

I hate having emotions about reality; I’d much rather have them about Sanctuary Moon.

The strangest thing about wearing a mask indoors is trying to explain to people that...indoors, I will be wearing a mask. Like, I just pointed out I wouldn't be eating at this event b/c I'll be masking and the coordinators responded "that's okay, there will be drinks too!"

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Them: "I hope someday we get more gay content like Heated Rivalry. It's probably gonna take a while though." Me: <plays the slide whistle> <lays down on the floor in the shape of a star> <kicks feet tantrum style> THE SUBTITLES WON'T KILL YOU I PROMISE <howls like a beagle>

Spent 4.5hrs tidying yesterday. 1hr moving things around (only vaguely in the realm of tidying) and hoovering/running the robot vacuum (yes, both) today (so far). Still need to get so much more done AND change the sheets … and this is just my (14m²) room. Really feeling the A(u)DHD here.