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[zaprowsdower27]

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

[mirkwood-hr-department]

#anybody have search engine recs?

Yes!

I personally use Qwant. It gives you normal-ass search results, doesn't cram AI down your throat, and is very privacy-focused. It doesn't always have the most complete results but it's been perfectly fine for my daily use - it's been my primary search engine for a couple years now.

Duck Duck Go is also very good. They do have an AI search option but it's truly an option. They're also quite privacy-focused but they are based in the US (Qwant is headquartered in France). They're also available in more regions than Qwant is. I used it for a year or so but the AI bugged me.

I've heard good things about Startpage though I haven't used it myself. Its big selling point for a while was they used google's search results without tracking you, though if google doesn't *have* search results anymore who knows what their future holds. Based in NL.

There are others of course but those are where I'd start if you're sick of google's bullshit.

[mnimeresponding]

Serarch engine rec. DuckDuckGo is my personal choice after weeks of testing alternatives.

Gives me the results I want. The website I expect to be at the top is actually at the top.

You can turn off AI!!! And it's so easy to do!

[sashayed]

but ykw at least i'm not on mount everest. at least i'm not paying tens of thousands of dollars to slowly suffocate in a 300-person line at the gates of hell. never in my life will i have to be steered in a hypoxic stupor through the maze of poop and corpses atop mount everest. on this earth a lot of horrible things can happen to you without your permission but there are a few that you have to opt into. you can just say no thanks! and be guaranteed never to have to be on mount everest. much to be grateful for actually

[sashayed]

still not on mount everest this morning 😌 alhamdulillah

[lesblackwidow]

reminder to visit museums, even if you feel out of place. you feel out of place because there is an established concept of inaccessibility of "high culture" to the masses, purposefully developed to distinguish between social classes.

take up space, read the plaques, get the audioguides. you are just as entitled and right in being there. visit museums, boycott museums, be expressive about your opinions about museums.

a lot of museums are free, or discounted for youth and students. take advantage of that. check your local art museum. check your local history museum. museums are there for you, they are there to educate the public, not to distinguish between class. it isn't a private collection, it's a public exhibit.

GO TO MUSEUMS!!!!!!!

[ohbeckoh]

This makes me think of an ad for my most beloved museum, which I think you should all watch. It's based on the proclamation of the gentleman who opened its doors way back in 1916: "for the benefit of all people, forever".

good museums should be all about giving you access! And while its great if they are free (like CMA) and its great if you can afford to help them out.... if they are pay only, give them a call and ask them if they have free days, or if they let in students, or locals, or the elderly, or volunteer for membership programs. If not, send an ol email to some board members (leave staff alone, they don't make the rules).

Another great way to make sure a museum is supporting you is check their website for future plans! So many stuffy ol museums are making great strides to become less stuffy, but you can only know that if they are being transparent! If they arn't letting you know what they plan to do, ASK A BOARD MEMBER. Are they trying to bring in artists from different backgrounds? hire a more diverse staff with expertise in fields they need to expand in? are they trying to get more people in the door and serve their community? here is a good example of a 5 year plan.

If you do want to bother those board members with a polite email, being as snobby as you want right back. If you are liza smith the underpaid school librarian who wants to see if a museum membership is worth it, maybe you want to "Ms Elizabeth Smith, who as a passionate love of education as a local educator, who simply doesn't feel comfortable about planning to make a serious donation without a clear Idea of where her money is going, would you be able to share information on the museums budget and plans?" My local museum sends me mail and has my membership card printed to Lady Poppins, a honorific they let me check a box for and never bothered to check. Infiltrate anyway you want. Go enjoy a nice museum.

[thememedaddy]

[juicydangler]

shut up this is adorable

[cryptonature]

I have to assume that in the fullness of time, at least once, a mouse has used a mushroom as an umbrella.

That’s enough to keep me going.

[phantomchick]

@cryptonature​​ Man do I have good news for you!

Also! Bonus frog!

[bigratbastard]

[peachdoxie]

cobtrary to popular belief, famous people do use tumble, such as

a variety of fantasy authors

former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich

uhhhh

cookie clicker guy,

[darthmelyanna]

Happy May Day, y’all.

[hornestoothgap]

T. Kingfisher - What Stalks the Deep

[thememedaddy]

[thedailychegwin]

[byjove]

I think the biphobic misconception that bisexual women only date men and bisexual men only date men may have a correlation to the fact that there is always a man freaky and horny in your DMs no matter what. It isn’t that bisexual women are secretly straight or that bisexual men are secretly gay, it’s that men are out there behaving like starving dogs and you feel so bad you end up feeding one, you know? Anyway, this coffee is a medium and I ordered a large. It’s okay, it’s busy in here, I get it.

[catalyst-rattail]

Where are you finding these men?

[byjove]

Literally anywhere. Go to a gas station.

[thememedaddy]

[should-be-sleeping]

I think the previous plumber received a prophesy that the people in this unit would one day usurp his kingdom, so he piped it like that famous M.C. Escher lithograph to keep us too preoccupied to plot his downfall.

[gaytanic-panic]

[gala-xyzz]

[phantomrose96]

seeing one of your posts in the wild was so scary but they're so right:

the original tweet:

Completely accurate. Everyone come hang out on my 29-year-old-core blog we can talk about the good vacuum cleaners

[prokopetz]

"It doesn't help your credibility to exaggerate, most employers wouldn't literally work you to death" like, I used to work in distribution. If booking a truck driver for back to back shifts until they fall asleep at the wheel, crash, and die counts as being worked to death, I have personally met employers who've worked employees to death and gotten away with a slap on the wrist. It may not be universal, but it's a hell of a lot more common than a lot of us would prefer to think.

[simplysnaps]

Death by spreadsheet is an acceptable degree of separation for most in middle management. They can sleep at night without guilt for what they've done, because the system charitably setup twelve degrees of separation between their choices and the real-world harm. But do not be fooled, their choices set that harm into motion. Without their reckless disregard for human life, the harm would not be done.

I used to work at a TV station in Ohio. On weekends, we only had an 11pm news broadcast. Not much happened on weekends, ya know? I worked Monday-Friday 9-5, but someone on the weekend shift quit, so I also had to come in at 9pm on Sat/Sun to work the 11pm news. It was brutal. I worked seven days a week, even if two of them were ~3hrs.

This was a particularly bad winter. One Saturday, we had a level 2 snow emergency: That means you should only travel if you absolutely must. Like, it's not uncommon for cops to pull you over in level 2 emergencies to ask where you're going and why. It is genuinely dangerous to drive in that much snow.

I told my boss as much, how I almost crashed on the way home at 12:30am after a news broadcast. I told him I would need to call off if there were a snow emergency again during a night snow.

He told me, point blank, "If you ever call me about the goddamn snow, I will take it as a call of resignation."

And that was that! The very next Saturday, snow fell again. It was a level 2, but would become level 3 by sunup. Level 3 means driving is literally illegal except for ambulances and snow plows. I stared out the window, watching the snow, and I had to make a choice.

"Will I die for this? Will I kill myself to keep this job?" I made $11/hr.

Yes, managers work you to death. That's their job.

[aspiringsorceress]

Every single labor protection is written in the blood of those who were literally worked to death, and business owners and profiteers would claw those protections back with glee if they could. They will squeeze every red cent from your body if they are allowed, and write off your death for an insurance payout that they'll try to pocket for themselves while hiring your replacement for half the pay they gave to you.

[bloodclotbitch]

[chaoschaoswriting]

The only writing advice that matters is this:

Persist.

Against all odds, despite doubt and scorn, with joy in your heart,

Persist.

Fly in the face of common sense and refuse to grow old where it matters most - your mind and soul.

Persist.