Notices by emilygorcenski (emilygorcenski@indieweb.social), page 2

And Google, don’t even get me started on google. It used to be known for its scarily accurate results. Now you have to sift through dozens of ads and the same stale, unrelated media content you always come across while trying to engineer your prompt

Why is search so broken just absolutely everywhere? It is 2023, and somehow search is considerably worse than in 2013 and arguably 2003. I’m not even talking like, google searches, but I’ll get to that in a sec. I’m talking the entire practice of making information findable

Me googling: “how do I do [max 4 step thing]”

Google: here are 45 videos, each of them 12 minute long

Write a goddamn tutorial like an adult

This website is wild man, someone just jumped deep into a five day thread they weren’t a part of and couldn’t hang and then jumped back out like, “well i’ve never heard of you so your opinion doesn’t matter”

… ? Ok?? That’s fine? You got involved in the thread of your own accord dear

I’ve been in the antifascism game for a while now and the one thing I’ve learned is that warnings about fascism does absolutely jack shit.

Beating the hell out of fascists (metaphorically or otherwise) is often much more effective.

2015, Istanbul bans its pride march citing authoritarian laws. March goes on, police show up, beat the hell out of protesters.

2016, Istanbul bans its pride march. March goes on anyways. Police show up, arrest a bunch of people.

2017, same story, more arrests.

2018, same story, still more arrests.

2019, this was Istanbul pride.

The power to resist is stronger that the power to oppress.

Shopify, which spent years platforming Breitbart unapologetically, shockingly treated people badly. Who knew that people who platform Nazis could also be assheads?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/04/how-shopify-bungled-its-latest-layoffs-and-made-employees-feel-like-npcs/?guccounter=2

In case you ever feel past your prime, just remember that Alanis Morrisette was 19 years old when she started recording Jagged Little Pill and then you'll definitely feel better that you're right.

There are many strange things about living in Europe as an American but one of them is definitely that Carhartt is like, a fashion brand.

It’s amazing how the potential fate of Europe hangs on the actions of a lonely loser who hangs out with teenagers online in a racist chatgroup created by a national guard loser barely old enough to drink

This is the kid who allegedly ran the “Thug Shaker” discord. I wonder who’s gonna be the shaker and who’s gonna be the shakee when he checks in for his long stay.

The good thing about today’s Nazis (wow that’s a weird phrase) is that you can break about half of them in two with nothing more than the force of a stiff glare.

Oh look the leader of the racist discord where the Ukraine intel was leaked by a Nazi is also in the military.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/world/documents-leak-leaker-identity.html

Court tells world’s worst poster to delete that post

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/musk-loses-in-court-has-to-delete-tweet-threatening-tesla-workers-who-join-union/?utm_brand=arstechnica

I still have a blue check and my API access still works. Elon Musk is incompetent.

Ikonen Deutschlands

The most powerful AIs in the world, ranked:

100. amazon’s product recommender that recommends you more socks when you just bought socks
99. The algorithm that decides what far right topic to make trending on Twitter
98. Facebook’s memories feature that reminds you of how your dog died 7 years ago
97. ChatGPT
…
1. The AI the New York Times uses to track you across countries and devices to find out you used up all your free articles this month

Transgenderism should be eradicated. Horrible word, doesn’t actually mean anything, lots of voiced fricatives that don’t work with each other. Unclear ideological basis with no foundational authors or texts. Remove in favor of superior alternatives; consider “communism;” “shitposting.”

Frustration: it's "on-premises" not "on-premise".