• @brucethemoose
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    452 days ago

    We’re done. Everyone is addicted to it.

    I can’t even teach my family how to use a browser, or the concept of a website vs. an app.

    A small nugget: I just did a Google search on a history of Trump’s antisemitism, and got bombarded with government pages on his current executive orders and other stuff debunking it. Tried it in DuckDuckGo, got a pile of articles on historical/associate antisemitism.

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      142 days ago

      Everyone is addicted to it.

      If you’ve ever had to deal with an addict long term, you’ll notice the initial euphoria wears off and the allure of the next high dissolves into desperation and despair.

      A small nugget: I just did a Google search on a history of Trump’s antisemitism, and got bombarded with government pages on his current executive orders and other stuff debunking it. Tried it in DuckDuckGo, got a pile of articles on historical/associate antisemitism.

      I’ve actually started going to Yandex, of all places, to do my searching simply because the English language version isn’t optimized to filter out older sources and jam my first few pages full of US-endorsed promoted content.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 days ago

      Funny enough that stuff is best to search on the ai’s right now. Ask it for its sources.

      • @brucethemoose
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        11 day ago

        I do this some with local LLM scripts, but ultimately it still has to pull sources from web search, too.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 days ago

        Yeah. I had to put ChatGPT on my home screen because browser search engines are worthless now.

          • @[email protected]
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            -22 days ago

            The biggest advantage I have found with ChatGPT is that I can train it to give me answers in a form I like. It sources links are familiar to me and summarises and uses language on my level instead of rambling on forever.

            I’ve tried the different ones on DuckDuckGo but that requires me to open a window and a browser and that’s just a lot more work, especially ChatGPT is now integrated into Siri and I don’t have to do anything to ask it a question

  • @Gingerlegs
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    242 days ago

    Back in my day the government would step in and stop the Monopoly

    • OptionalOP
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      102 days ago

      Hahahaha - good one

        • OptionalOP
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          92 days ago

          Well, that’s true. That was before Reagan tho. I mean it completed in 1982 but was started in 1974.

          Hell we had clean Air & Water laws then.

          But then Reagan allowed media conglomerates to suck up properties in all cities and kicked off the modern media oligopolies.

          Then they let Microsoft just - flaunt that they were powerless. Then the Googles and so on.

  • @maplebar
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    152 days ago

    If only we had some kind of “fediverse”, but alas…

    • OptionalOP
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      62 days ago

      Yeah our benevolent mememasters are apparently unaware of the cool kids table as yet.

      • @Dadifer
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        82 days ago

        Do oligarchs control .world?

      • sunzu2
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        62 days ago

        The issue not .world this sub is hosted there…

        The issue are trash mods on. Politics and news sub’s who are essentially shilling neo lib DNC trash

          • sunzu2
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            117 hours ago

            Each sub’s has it own mods and neo lib trash just happened to control key Lemmy communities.

            Instance operator doesn’t seem to care wither way.

  • @[email protected]
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    Please everyone, get your asses on rednote. It’s not perfect but it’s not (currently) under control by the US oligarchy.

    ETA: Are the downvotes racism or what? OP’s message that the US is controlling your media has 600+ upvotes. I offer an alternative source and people don’t want it? I’m genuinely confused.

      • @[email protected]
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        -22 days ago

        Nope, but it’s a good supplement to the fediverse. The rules are different over there. Some better, some worse. By getting your information through multiple diverse sources you’ll have a better understanding of what’s going on in the world.

        Or you can be like this when shit starts effecting you personally,

  • @glimse
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    02 days ago

    Hey man, don’t just freely associate Luigi’s image with some other cause. Don’t put words in his mouth