FosterMolasses
@FosterMolasses@leminal.space
- Comment on Cost-of-living crisis 21 hours ago:
I wish I could upvote this harder lol
- Comment on It's important! 1 day ago:
Literally me
- Comment on YSK: Your local library card often gives you free access to streaming services, digital magazines, audiobooks, and even online courses. 3 days ago:
I was wondering how the hell someone got banned from You Should Know lmaooo
- Comment on Scandal 3 days ago:
Narcissists notoriously
project
lmfao
- Comment on Scandal 3 days ago:
Honestly? Inbetween all this Epstein shit, Bush is lookin’ pretty good right now…
He’s like the Butters of this irl South Park episode
- Comment on Scandal 3 days ago:
*fox news pedo
- Comment on Scandal 3 days ago:
Tbf I’m sure everyone’s balls were slightly less saggy 30 years ago
- Comment on Scandal 3 days ago:
We should’ve never doubted Bill’s chad legacy, haha
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 days ago:
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 days ago:
Damn, South Korean industry really going the way of American car manufacturing, huh?
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 days ago:
How about… we go a step further and just stop making appliances “smart”?
My toaster doesn’t need AI to tell the difference between a fucking bagel and a slice of bread. They already figured out solutions to this shit decades ago.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 days ago:
How long before the fridge’s compressor swells up and explodes
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 4 days ago:
Everyday I’m cyberpunkin’
- Comment on turing completeness 1 week ago:
Lmaoooo
- Comment on turing completeness 1 week ago:
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 1 week ago:
- Comment on The height of sophistication: the 1994 McDonald's manager collection 1 week ago:
c/OldSchoolCool
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 1 week ago:
There’s an AI bubble?
- Comment on Plant Protection 1 week ago:
Tacos??
That’s mighty adventurous.
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 week ago:
They are one of the most reluctant people to try different foods.
Really? I’m surprised.
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 week ago:
I think MatPatt did the same thing with christmas cookies lol
- Comment on RIP Dick 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
What? That’s crazy. I’m always chasing that artificial glue-stretch high of TV pizza like Babish trying to recreate briefly mentioned, theoretical recipes lol
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
Lmao, the ultimate grift
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 1 week ago:
Agreed. I literally use an adblocker on youtube videos that are mostly 1 hour+ 80s/90s nostalgia ad compilations set to vaporwave lol
The issue is that advertizing used to have incentive to be compelling, interesting, memorable, or otherwise just leave you with a good feeling/association with the product they were trying to promote.
Now that every slop corporation is under the impression that they have your attention hostage, they feel justified in shoving literal 3-minute long reels of tiktok videos with MLM chicks screeching about how their makeup is “deadass rizz on god”. You can beat your ass it’s gonna be blocked from my screen lol
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 1 week ago:
Wikipedia still exists. The vast majority of my searches begin there these days.
More nuanced things I use Startpage or Qwant. Yandex for images.
Even more nuanced, site:reddit.com
For even more nuanced, ask OpenAI then factcheck.
I hate to admit it, but OpenAI (ChatGPT) has been the most consistently reliable out of all of them these days. I know people like to pull out the random stat that something like “50%” of AI generated answers are wrong, but my rebuttal is recall how we were told for nearly a decade the same exact thing about Wikipedia, and to never reference Wikipedia, and “Anyone can edit” Wikipedia, etc etc. Now it’s one of the most valuable strongholds of information online. And the solution to both is the same.
Sources.
Check the sources on Wikipedia, check the sources on OpenAI.
Just last night, I found myself diving deep into a long session on the history of gene editing therapy that medical science has advanced in recent years for the experimental treatment of HIV utilizing tools like CRISPR and zinc-finger nucleases, and how they work. It reminded me of the early days of Wikipedia where everyone got sucked into clicking blue link after blue link until you were reading the biography of some obscure Flemish poet or battle from the Heian period of Japan.
What’s best is as a learning tool (as opposed to catch-all crystal ball with infallible logic), it allows you to ask open-ended clarifying questions which are difficult to do with search engines.
“I don’t understand, can you provide an analogy to better illustrate this process?”
It’s like communicating with a real teacher again, and it allows you the leeway to grasp concepts much more thoroughly and quickly than before. And even gives you the ability to engage in thought experiments to help demonstrate your understanding of the topic. Think the early days of Hank Green’s CrashCourse.
Things aren’t as hopeless as they seem, they’re just shifting. The real issue comes from attempting to cling to old tools which are now breaking and worn down. If mowing the lawn is getting harder, you eventually replace the blades instead of continuing to use the same worn-down lawnmower, right?
I think people need to let go of the glory days of Google and acknowledge it for what it’s become, and understand that it equally may be some time before another search engine that isn’t doomed to just be another Google clone arrives to replace it. But that doesn’t mean there’s no alternatives left to obtaining information left online anymore.
If all else fails, we still have libraries too. And E-books, university archives, and z-library too.
It’s less a battle of Us vs. Google and more a battle of people who still make the effort to seek out information vs. those who will consume whatever corporate-sponsored misinformation they are fed.
- Comment on Chaotic Evil 1 week ago:
A single dustrag. Preferably a clorox wipe. Please, I’m begging.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 2 weeks ago:
This right here.
Don’t be intentionally naive.
- Comment on How Google Tracks and Scans Everything on Your Android Device 2 weeks ago:
What moron is willingly still purchasing pixels? Might as well put a livefeed camera for Google HQ in your home lol
- Comment on Sunday update from the Prime Radiant 2 weeks ago:
We are borg.
