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like watching the got damn sistine chapel being painted

10.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 808 πŸ” 236 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Evidence Grows That Google's AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Welp. The internet had a nice run.

Some outlets have lost over 90% of their traffic since the "AI" summaries rolled out.

"...the four worst-hit publications [now] get less monthly web traffic combined than the r/ChatGPT subreddit gets on its own."

07.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 1567 πŸ” 493 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 104

That's me

07.03.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

in that case I'm actually boiling with rage

05.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this one wouldn't make me mad because it's a hilarious joke and I love to laugh

05.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

if one more person at work messages me to ask a stupid-ass question like "hi Sam, I completed step 8. should I start step 9?" I'm going to lose it. hi Sam, I think that 9 is the number after 8. please confirm

05.03.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is literally not even true. They aren't people

05.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
03.03.2026 06:18 πŸ‘ 12952 πŸ” 6081 πŸ’¬ 135 πŸ“Œ 81
A screenshot from Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, showing Mario and Luigi in Mushrise Park, looking at two seemingly dead Luigis lying on the ground.
Source: YouTube user @alexsstuff2801, youtube.com/watch?v=3PC_OU_xnKA

A screenshot from Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, showing Mario and Luigi in Mushrise Park, looking at two seemingly dead Luigis lying on the ground. Source: YouTube user @alexsstuff2801, youtube.com/watch?v=3PC_OU_xnKA

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team contains various unused test rooms in its files. One of these is the "two dead Luigis" test room, which is identical to the Mushrise Park entrance from the finished game, except there are two Luigis lying on the ground. The Luigis are unresponsive.

03.03.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 2095 πŸ” 505 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 18
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She Came Out of the Bathroom Naked, Employee Says Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’...

β€œThe workers in Kenya say that it feels uncomfortable to go to work. They tell us about deeply private video clips, which appear to come straight out of Western homes, from people who use the glasses in their everyday lives.
Several describe video material showing bathroom visits, sex…”

02.03.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 384 πŸ” 227 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 27

32 years old and I finally got a good grade at the dentist for the first time in my miserable life

02.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope he's late because he died

02.03.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

please to not give in to despair. if you want to start somewhere you can help, a donation to Doctors Without Borders is a great place to start

28.02.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 1880 πŸ” 2049 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

circling back to the sexual predation of it all, it's extremely weird that he starts by talking about how funny it is that R. Kelly is a pedophile and then describes how exciting and fun it was to go to a nightclub and party with him after the concert

28.02.2026 19:03 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thinking about how weird it is, even putting aside the sexual predation of it all, that Aziz Ansari's closer on his first standup special was a long summary of an R. Kelly concert he went to. the punchline is literally "and that was the greatest concert I've ever seen!" why did I like that in 2010??

28.02.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

just rolled credits on dawntrail and I loved it. here's my rankings. disclaimer: I swear to god I am not just being a contrarian on purpose

1. dawntrail
2. stormblood
3. endwalker
4. shadowbringers

[huge gulf]

5. a realm reborn
6. heavensward

28.02.2026 01:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

there should be a filter on tech career sites that says "DO NOT FUCKING SHOW ME JOB LISTINGS FOR ANY OF THOSE EVIL COMPANIES NAMED AFTER LORD OF THE RINGS VILLAINS"

26.02.2026 21:21 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

some people literally, no exaggeration, think Gavin Newsom should be elected president in 2028 because there is a shitposter on his social media team. and I believe those people should be disenfranchised

23.02.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Three cats sitting in round beds, looking toward the camera

Three cats sitting in round beds, looking toward the camera

Two black-and-white cats cuddling together in a wooden bowl

Two black-and-white cats cuddling together in a wooden bowl

A black cat and a white cat lying close together on a blanket

A black cat and a white cat lying close together on a blanket

A black cat sitting beside a tabby-and-white cat, both looking forward

A black cat sitting beside a tabby-and-white cat, both looking forward

Happy Cat Day in Japan!
May all cats be safe, loved, and happy

22.02.2026 12:57 πŸ‘ 3929 πŸ” 1013 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 15
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

21.02.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 3775 πŸ” 1516 πŸ’¬ 58 πŸ“Œ 142

short answer: we took the podcast down for personal reasons that are not mine to discuss. sorry!

20.02.2026 06:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of an email in Gmail with a Zoom meeting invite, clearly labeled with a start time of 3pm. The first of Google's suggested auto-replies is "See you at 4pm!"

Screenshot of an email in Gmail with a Zoom meeting invite, clearly labeled with a start time of 3pm. The first of Google's suggested auto-replies is "See you at 4pm!"

Google is spending $185 billion on AI this year alone

19.02.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 594 πŸ” 95 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 5

the first time I saw someone with one of these links as their Teams status I was like "jeez that's passive aggressive" now I think it's actually just good. if anything, it's not passive aggressive enough for me

19.02.2026 20:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my new rule at work is that if I get a message that just says "hi Sam" I don't respond until they say what the fuck they want from me

19.02.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nice! Now if we just settle in for 300 more years of this we'll start winning

19.02.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hate github copilot. I hope an asteroid collides with earth and destroys all AI data centers and nothing else

18.02.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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On this day we salute you, President Davidson 🫑

16.02.2026 18:58 πŸ‘ 388 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

This seems to be the prevailing theory of psychologists right now anyway. We're certainly paving new roads to ruining people's lives for money

15.02.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What I've read is that our brains are just not equipped to handle the sycophancy and the (incorrect) feeling that you can just ask for anything and it will be magically done for you, and it affects people in weird and novel ways. Kicked in the head by an imaginary horse every day

15.02.2026 16:46 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.

15.02.2026 03:48 πŸ‘ 1369 πŸ” 493 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 8