Lauren Weinstein

If Google Maps changes the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, #Google will have proven its fealty to fascism.

Ironically, the entire #Mastodon model is essentially a 21st century reincarnation of our original point-to-point, dial-up, UUCP-based Usenet network. Except the stack now is one hell of a lot heavier.

Billions spent on AI, and this is the sort of garbage we get! #Google

(Medien: 1)

Overall, #Google Search quality (including AI Overviews):

2% Hasn't changed much
0% Is better than ever
19% Is somewhat worse
79% Has fallen off a cliff

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Joining other unethical newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post management decides not to endorse in the presidential race for first time in 36 years.

They're terrified that if Trump wins he'll come after them. They are spineless cowards who would have felt comfortable in 1930s Germany.

Disgusting beyond measure. Fascist enablers.

Say whatever else you will about #Mastodon, but it's really the only social media platform I've used since the fall of Google+ where I don't feel a twinge of nausea in the morning when I contemplate looking to see what has come rolling in overnight.

BTW, I learned the Biden news first here on #Mastodon.

I still think Kurzwell's human consciousness combined with the machines stuff is ... looney.

Because Voyager 1 is so far from Earth, it takes almost 23 hours for a command to reach it at the speed of light, and the same for a response to reach us back, for a total of close to 50 hours.

Which means that interactions with Voyager 1, currently around 15 billion miles away, are still faster than many Microsoft Windows updates.

Got an email today from a very smart computer science professor who is totally flummoxed by the #Mastodon signup flow. He tried to follow it based on what Mastodon tells him (the standard verbiage) at my site after reading one of my posts via a URL, and despite creating several accounts at other sites doesn't understand how to use any of it. This is a smart guy. The onboarding and basic explanations situation is still a mess.