[doorfanatic]

EMERGENCY please share widely!! we're a trans couple who have had really bad luck with housing the last couple years and need to find a place by April 1st, it would be a true miracle if we can just find a place. WE ARE WILLING TO PAY!! spinnylights.net/hyper_alert/

[depsidase]

[barkingbarghest]

Here is an article from NPR about it (May 22, 2026):

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

When Google first started implementing AI-assisted results, news publishers warned of “catastrophic” impacts on the industry, much of which relies on Google search to drive users to their websites.  Last year, news websites saw significant traffic declines as chatbots increasingly replaced Google search as the primary way to find sites and ask questions.  Small businesses also noted drops in traffic to their sites from Google, which has traditionally delivered customers.   Lily Ray, vice president of SEO strategy & research at Amsive, a digital marketing agency, warned as early as last year that Google’s planned changes to search are “going to have a devastating impact on the Internet.”  “It will severely cut into the main source of revenue for most publishers and it will disincentivize content creators who rely on organic search traffic, which is millions of websites, maybe more,” she told Technology Magazine.  

[anarchopuppy]

noai.duckduckgo.com blocks all AI content in search results automatically

[1slushy]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

not to simp for a corporation but I love my Framework laptop so much. last week I accidentally sat on it and cracked the screen. I went to the manufacturer's website, ordered a new screen for a reasonable price, and when it arrived it took 10 minutes to install. no glue, no "warranty void" tamper seals, just a handful of screws that I only needed one screwdriver to turn. the new screen even came with some fun stickers that say things like "you should be able to fix your stuff". please please buy repair-friendly stuff when you can

[mantits24-07-24]

I dont knowww hes such a cutie

[freerainhl]

another bunch of text posts :D

[shiningbean]

putting that man in situations (in case you are wondering what's happening in the 2nd doodle it's this post)

[abraxo-official]

Another wonderful addition to the nick Valentine wireplay folder :))))

[indigosfindings]

which of the three "superwholock" shows have you voluntarily watched at least one full season of?

supernatural only

doctor who only

sherlock only

supernatural & doctor who

supernatural & sherlock

doctor who & sherlock

all three

none of them

unsure/see results

Voting ended onMay 21

[perfectlypreservedpie]

There and back again

Last post!!! A bit late just like Mac with that cure amirite

This was such a fun week to make some more art and see everyone’s interpretations of the prompts. Thanks to @maccreadyweek, a lot more maccready art exists in the world now which can truly only be a net positive!! I love seeing this guy in situations and I love when other people do too. Thanks for liking my stuff this week, thanks for sharing your art too. Peace and love 💕

[halles-comet]

I love when you go on a date with someone and you’re like. well that was neither wonderful nor horrendous. You seem Fine. I’m sure if this was the 18th century and we were gentry arranged married to secure our fathers respective land interests we would care for each other in our way. you would buy me nice horses that I really had no interest in but would admire how gentle you were with them and when I died in labor during my third pregnancy you would tell our surviving heirs that their mother was a handsome woman who never drank too much and embarrassed herself in company

[intercal]

this is nature's way of saying "do not, under any circumstances, enter the game development profession right now"

[ankle-beez]

awesome fucking picture from netflix avatar that they decided was good enough to put out on a press release

[ankle-beez]

exclusive new pic from season 2 of avatar: the last airbender

[sabertoothwalrus]

[dreadpiratesilas]

Danse's backstory about growing up as a scrap-picking orphan entirely alone in the Capital Wasteland until he was able to save up enough caps to open his own junk stand in Rivet City perfectly pairs with the classic American Bootstrap Myth (where someone was born into hardship and through hard work and perseverance, they're able to overcome their obstacles and open their own small business).

The fact that it all turns out to be fabricated in the end is kind of perfect .

In fact, despite being born (created?) over 200 years after the destruction of the United States in the Fallout universe, he's the character that most earnestly upheld what can be seen as "traditional American values" just to have it all crashing down around him (a less charitable way of viewing it would be that the leopards ate his face). The very thing that he fought so hard to uphold was the very thing that set him up to fail catastrophically.

[softwaring]

[sosorryjack]

[aquadraco20]

We need more content of Nick dancing. You know he would be into that.

Slow dancing, swing dancing, being a little nervous and embarrased about his hand and trying to remember how to dance like he used to as the original Nick.

[inkobsessedfreak]

I think so far the one lore bit I cannot unread is the implications in a dialogue option in Fallout 2 that there's no cats in the wasteland because they were eaten as a food source. Like- it's not even just because it's the idea of eating cats that has me mulling this over it's like... imagine how different the mutated biosphere in fallout 3 would be if mutated felines were a thing I haven't played vegas, 4, or 76 yet (playing them in order) but apparently they make their first actual appearence in fallout 4 despite having some mentions in previous games??? Did these lil guys just rise from the dead unscathed? Will my little meow meow outlive me?

[twosides--samecoin]

The way I square retcons like this is that the Wasteland is a much smaller world. The people on the West Coast in Fallout 1 and 2 may very well have assumed cats were extinct everywhere - they had no way of knowing what was going on in the Commonwealth Wasteland or in Appalachia, where cats do appear. I sometimes treat it like an unreliable narrator rather than biblical absolutes intended to reflect the entire Wasteland, you know?

The other way I deal with these retcons is understanding that Interplay never intended Fallout to be an ongoing franchise 25-30 years in the future. Their lore and design documents were limited to the games they planned to make. (Not to diminish or disrespect Interplay, of course). There's a lot of ways Bethesda Fallouts have strayed from the light, but for minor details (like flora and fauna) I'm ok with it. Funnily enough, there are no cats in FO3, but I'll chalk that one up to them not planning to implement them.