#and google is trash

[feminist-space]

"A funny thing happened on the way to the enshittocene: Google – which astonished the world when it reinvented search, blowing Altavista and Yahoo out of the water with a search tool that seemed magic – suddenly turned into a pile of shit.

Google's search results are terrible. The top of the page is dominated by spam, scams, and ads. A surprising number of those ads are scams. Sometimes, these are high-stakes scams played out by well-resourced adversaries who stand to make a fortune by tricking Google[...]

Google operates one of the world's most consequential security system – The Algorithm (TM) – in total secrecy. We're not allowed to know how Google's ranking system works, what its criteria are, or even when it changes: "If we told you that, the spammers would win."

Well, they kept it a secret, and the spammers won anyway.

...

Some of the biggest, most powerful, most trusted publications in the world have a side-hustle in quietly producing SEO-friendly "10 Best ___________ of 2024" lists: Rolling Stone, Forbes, US News and Report, CNN, New York Magazine, CNN, CNET, Tom's Guide, and more.

Google literally has one job: to detect this kind of thing and crush it. The deal we made with Google was, "You monopolize search and use your monopoly rents to ensure that we never, ever try another search engine. In return, you will somehow distinguish between low-effort, useless nonsense and good information. You promised us that if you got to be the unelected, permanent overlord of all information access, you would 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.'"

They broke the deal." -Cory Doctorow

Read the whole article: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task

[martinsorbit]

Finders Keepers warm up sketches b4 I start designing some character stuff

I missed themm

The DCAs arms/hands keep breaking because of how much they move and do silly acrobatics, pairing that with some leftover water+fire damage, it is one of the things that Y/N has to repair often;

New compatible parts are hard to find + expensive (considering how old the DCAs model is), so Y/N normally has to go to old faztech electronic trash dumps to find something that might work, which is usually pieces of other similar-looking Attendants from some old FAZCO animatronic line. You really hope sun and moon don't know about this, or else things will get awkward

[redbootsindoriath]

A cast of characters I put together for fun over the course of like a week. The setting is supposed to be some kind of generic medieval fantasy. I tried to be as historical as I could with the clothes and armor, but didn't hold myself to a strict time period or location and instead went with a vague "European middle ages".

While I personally am fond of the whole grimdark fantasy thing, I love how colorful the real middle ages could be and I wanted to be sure I was sticking to that as closely as I could manage.

[triaelf9]

So uh...I was googling a Mark of the Assassin dlc summary to see in I needed to replay it since I'm running out of time to beat all 3 games lol and it was on my phone so it forced this shit on me and

Nani the fuck??

THIS is what tech bros & their bootlicking groupies are so hot about? Uhhh...k...

[gamergirl929]

Man, Ashlyn Harris sees Ali Krieger moving on with her life, and has to SOMEHOW make it about her.

[jade-of-mourning]

combine their vocabularies and together they could say a lot of superfluous things!

[youngyoo-apologist]

Jour Thames

[reiketsui]

my favorite hack to prevent the AI slop overview on google is to put a curse word on the search it actually works

[misakisakuya]

@murasaki-cha

It did show up!

[gemsofgreece]

Sane answers to common google Greece questions by yours truly

Okay I was bored and decided to offer valuable knowledge, you're welcome

[eridanidreams]

So Google has decided in their infinite wisdom to force everyone over 18 into their Gemini app garbage. Here's how to turn it off and delete any activity.

[icarusinstatic]

NGL Gulf of America just looks nasty. 🤮

Gulf of Mexico on the other hand ☺️

[thesmokinpossum]

What do you mean Red Rooms is not available on canadian Shudder? It is fucking canadian T_T

[let-roman-bite-someone]

rewatching SvS pt 1 because it is one of the best sanders sides episodes ever, and

i love how virgil starts off by acting like he doesn't care about the courtroom scenario but

poor boy, he's trying so hard not to play into Janus's wants but he can't stop himself. he's such a repressed nerd.

[murasaki-cha]

Ok I'm trying to catch up with tcf in between assignments because I'm so far behind T-T

And I'm on chapter 250 now (yes I'm that far behind and I'm not making any progress unfortunately, blame my interior design course for that)

Cale + Sky Eating Water are always such a chaotic comedy duo like the moment Cale starts using Sky Eating Water all the braincells just evaporate. I love them your honor

[sioneve]

マリちゃん誕生日おめでとう 💜

all her life she never had a friend celebrate and wish her a happy birthday, but this year is different.

happy birthday, ohara mari!

the cake was made together by the girls (a bit chaotic, of course) but it was all worth it

been thinking about how lonely she’s been for years & since no one ever wished her a happy birthday, she doesn’t bother to remember anymore? But thanks to Yohane and everyone in Numazu, she won’t ever felt that way that again 🌊

protect demon lord mari at all cost 🫵