myrmepropagandist
To prevent deer from being hit by cars Finland has tried using reflective paint. (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/avoid-deer-strikes-finland-painting-deer-antlers-reflective-paint-180949792/)
File this under "solutions to modern problems that summon the old gods."
jon r
@futurebird
When this last circulated, the image to the right was debunked a Blender rendering.
@cwebber
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@yala @futurebird Oh yeah, looking more closely, def a render
thx <3
myrmepropagandist
I'm so disgusted with the state of search these days. It's not just the AI it's the AI slop combined with the mushy "let us tell you what you really meant" search results.
Obscure band names, artists, concepts are "corrected" to more popular words. "ant" is swapped for "art" if I'm looking for anything cute or amusing ("cute art stickers" NO I want "cute ANT stickers")
It's like modern search is trying to make everyone hopelessly basic. Only popular things exist.
Voracious Reader
When I searched for "reflective reindeer", I got pictures of reindeer holding their chin in their hoof, looking pensively upwards.
mark
@MichaelTBacon @pbloem @futurebird @lnlyisol there was definitely a moment when they would green light basically any project. They had to guarantee content for the channel. So easily was trash, and some was absolute gold
Michael Bacon
@pbloem @futurebird @lnlyisol They’ve scaled way back on those shows but there was a kind of golden era of originals for a bit there.
Michael Bacon
@pbloem @futurebird @lnlyisol I dunno, for a good 10 years Netflix was a goldmine for new niche content. They’ve contracted a lot but they made shows like Nimona and I Am Not Okay With This and many others that were way weirder and more niche than anything I’d ever seen on television before.
Peter Bloem
@futurebird @lnlyisol In the early days, there was a lot to do about "the long tail". How the internet made it worthwhile to cater to niche subjects because you could cast such a wide net.
I felt this died when companies like Netflix became big. They started focusing on things with mass appeal. They could have broadened their catalog with lots of cheap, niche movies that a few people would like but they never bothered.
I think it would still make them money. It just doesn't generate prestige.
myrmepropagandist
Am I just getting old? One of the things that made me fall in love with the internet is how if you looked for something, no matter how obscure, no matter how unlikely if someone had gone to the trouble of making it you could find it.
That just isn't true in the same way anymore. It's more likely you will be redirected to a more "normal search query"
It "works better" for many people most of the time. But, that's at the expense of making everything strange hidden.
Urban Hermit
@futurebird @lnlyisol agreed with this 100%.
Another effect, due to search trying to find you the most commonly accepted information, and publishers trying to meet that demand, the internet these days is a vast, shallow sea of entry level introductory information, repeated thousands of times over, with mid level and higher understandings frustratingly out of reach.
Like everything is the first month and a half of an introductory course. Sometimes YouTube can get you another month and a half.
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