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- milfhunter4
- https://www.tiktok.c… defo ancient trees LOL
Such a cool formationPhanLo - I love getting all my science news from Tik Tok. Some of the comments saying 'why haven't scientists taken samples?' Erm, they have. They're not trees!Ianbolton
- ^ My conspiracy pal posts all those videos to Instagram so I often find them and look them up on TikTok online. I could never have that app. It's insanePhanLo
- It's a fossil from a giant tree when the earth was flat and there was no gravitation pull from underneath when the sun went down.lemmy_k
- ^hehehePhanLo
- @PhanLo interesting bubblemilfhunter
- I can do some research to find out what this is and how it was formed but I'd rather wait for Graham Hancock to tell me what it is._niko
- or rather find out from Graham Hancock as he reveals it to a dumbfounded and awestruck Joe Rogan._niko
- It looks super similar to Giant's Causeway, but much larger height wise.PhanLo
- I'm suddenly starving for mashed potatoesPonyBoy
- https://www.tiktok.c… defo ancient trees LOL
- i_monk-1
QBN Suggestion Box
Bluesky post embedding.
- & proper youtube shortsYakuZoku
- Haven't shared any Bluesky stuff yet, so many extra sites to check. Woud embedding not slow it all down a bit?PhanLo
- ActivityPub tooakiersky
- And Vimeopalimpsest
- @palimpy Vimeo embed works.
@moldy I think we're stuck with the watch?v= switch.garbage - 'palimpy'
*snerk!Continuity - Thanks, garby!palimpsest
- 'garby'! I'm using that!Continuity
- ⚡Flash Plug-in ASAP!utopian
- _niko2
- Oh and should have added freedom to assemble and freedom to vote_niko
- I guess he pines for the beautiful and innocent days of his early childhood but instead of uttering rosebud in his sleep he utters “Verwoerd”_niko
- "Freedom of Speech" as long as you agree with me.formed
- "Rules for thee but not for me"PhanLo
- uniformity of press
uniformity of thought
uniformity of education
uniformity of language
uniformity to aborthotroddy - Medom of Speechdbloc
- freedom from borders
freedom from securityhotroddy - war is peace
freedom is slavery
jibber jibber piss flapsPhanLo
- Continuity3
Food
For robotinc:
Continuity's Smoked Shio Tare (an adaptation of ramen_lord's sake-based shio tare)
Ingredients:
400 g water
15 g kombu
50 g mirin
100 g sake
50 g smoked salt (experiment, here, as no two smoked salts are the same)
10 g monosodium glutamateMethod:
1. Combine the water, kombu, and mirin in a sealed container.
2. Place in the fridge and rest at least 6 hours or up to 2 days (I'm a 2-day man, myself).
3. When ready, heat the contents to 70°C or so, and steep for 10 minutes.
4. Remove the kombu and discard.
5. Add the sake, and bring to a boil, cooking for 10 minutes, or until the smell of alcohol subsides.
6. Add the salt and MSG, stirring to dissolve.
7. Allow tare to cool before use. Store indefinitely in the fridge.
Add 30 mL of tare per 300 mL soup.
- You'll see some sediment forming at the bottom of the jar after a few hours/a day. Don't be alarmed. It's just smoke particulate from the salt.Continuity
- msg? no thankshans_glib
- Why not?Continuity
- Go home, hans_glib.
Go home.palimpsest - And lock your door.palimpsest
- Continuity you're a true gem, amazing!
and bring on the msg!robotinc - what's wrong w/mucho sodium gloriousness? gimmiePonyBoy
- My pleasure!
Also, try not to giggle every time you look at it, because it really does look like a jar of pee.Continuity - Here's the sediment/particulate I was talking about:
https://i.haasie.com…Continuity - +1 and MSG 4 life.garbage
- grafician0
- "America’s future in one photo"grafician
- This gives me the sads.mg33
- L A D S !PhanLo
- The Healthy Threadutopian
- RFK keeping it real lolAQUTE
- Weekend at Bernies?MrT
- wow! just wow!renderedred
- how much is mcdonald's paying for all this?renderedred
- Corporations don't even hide the fact that they run shitYakuZoku
- Practice what you preach.ApeRobot
- Make American Healt—ah, never mind.Continuity
- Someone slip that pilot $50 and ask him to parachute out like in the Temple of Doom.elahon
- I swear RFK is looking at that thinking 'what the fuck guys'Ianbolton
- Aw, bless the Doanal's wee pots of ketchup.Nairn
- It’s so fitting they would appropriate McDonald’s as theirs. MAGA and McDonald’s are made for each other.monospaced
- https://www.instagra…jbasnight
- McDonald Trump is looking particularly bald here.scruffics
- https://i.imgur.com/…Gardener
- Don Jr. sitting there all happy that daddy let him have his own fries this time.Akagiyama
- RFK has surprisingly basic shoes.Nairn
- PhanLo13
- nb5
Artificial Intelligence
I’m starting to land on websites that appear to be entirely generated by LLMs, and it’s a disturbing hint at our future — where the web simply does not work.
Today, I’m attempting to compare two cameras that don’t get much attention these days. I search for the two models and get a list of shopping sites and on the first page I see two links that appear to blogs comparing the cameras. I expect these blogs to be mediocre but sufficient. I tap on the first two links that compare the cameras. These have been optimized to appear at top of search, after the adverts. (By the way, all the adverts pointed me to the wrong camera, a Canon with the same model number.)
https://bytebitmag.com/leica-sl2…
https://drewcaptures.com/leica-s…These two blogs look identical. That’s no coincidence. The same AI prompt probably created them, set up and hosted and optimized them without human involvement beyond a very broad initial prompt.
The effort to create 100,000 websites with this LLM content is less than the effort to write one good comparison article. Search engines can’t keep up with that. It’s an arms race between usefulness and ease... and usefulness is losing.
So what’s the real problem? These two seemingly identical websites contradict each other. Because the LLM isn’t good yet. An example: one site says dynamic range is better on the D800 and the other says dynamic range is better SL2. This could be, maybe, because there’s a Canon SL2 and a Leica SL2 and it scraped the wrong data.
It’s easy for me to see the discrepancy and keep searching until I find enough trusted resources to confirm the truth. Thats a huge headache, and RELIES ON MY ABILITY (AND DILIGENCE) TO FACT CHECK LITERALLY EVERY PIECE OF INFORMATION I READ.
That future is useless.
Perhaps search engines will learn to filter Gen AI content. But not likely, that requires one AI to be stronger than another — I don’t think this is possible over any significant period of time.
Perhaps LLMs will get better, but that will mean they not only get better at accuracy but also that the most accurate equates to the most SE Optimized. That doesn’t seem realistic. Everything in life has tradeoffs. The AI will build and ship hundreds of thousands of both sites: some accurate, some seo’d and every permissible in between. And in the end, SEO will show up first.
And you’ll never see the accurate site(s).
- Last paragraph: *mean should be *require. —— And *permissible should be permutationnb
- FYI: the two links were the FIRST TWO links on the page that claimed to compare the cameras.nb
- LLMs already read the whole internet for you. https://imgur.com/9V…
the web is basically obsolete in it's seo / marketing form.uan - but is (and will be) being milked for affiliate marketing as long as people trust 'websites' to make a buying choice.uan
- the 'affiliate marketing' with AI is being promoted on tiktok and x by 13years old kids. how to easy make 1000$ with AI bla bla bla :-)uan
- Show me these TikTok’snb
- Why not use search in Perplexity?
So yes, another LLM lol but good one for search
Or just "ask QBN"grafician - I mean, you went and searched on google?!
Bad move my mangrafician - they use the 'how to use ai to make money' phrase as clickbait to promote ai services offering some special skill (video, text, image, automatisation).uan
- often you need to follow them or open their feed to get to the links, which gives them followers or engagement that translates to clickmoney for those accounts.uan
- they promote sites like https://otio.ai/ for a task and then they hack a working system. it's fast build, fast deploy and get as much traffic as possible.uan
- and I'm to old for tiktok...breaks my brain. but on x I got several of those in the For You feed (branded with tiktok vids).uan
- Dopenb
- look at this...AI reading my keyboard....opened x and here is one of those instruction threads:
https://x.com/ia_wil…uan - That exact strategy created my user experience today. Absolute trash.nb
- Hey Chatgpt, can you sum up this load of text into one sentence?milfhunter
- The rise of AI-generated websites optimized for SEO but riddled with inaccuracies highlights a growing problem where the internet becomes less reliable,...uan
- ...forcing users to fact-check everything while affiliate marketing exploits this chaos for profit.uan
- What AI won’t be able to summarize is the true summation of my rant: that we cannot stop this future from coming.nb
- I wrote about this no long ago. Yep, we're doomed.maikel
- grafician-1
- But only in Kursk :/grafician
- Not qualified to enter an election but qualified to authorize the use of hi-tech weaponsBeeswax
- ya turns out the qualification to authorize hi-tech weapons is pretty low. even a felon can do it.pango
- He doesn't give a damn about WW3, he only has two days left...OBBTKN
- ^+YakuZoku
- Escalating this to WW3 while Biden still can.MondoMorphic
- escalating? putin has already sent soldiers from another country. keep doing nothing then it's called "appeasement "pango
- pango17
- Seal and J-Looey_oey
- and kithPhanLo
- Dr Dre and Chelsea HandlerKrassy
- haha krassy totally_niko
- This is moronic lol.cannonball1978
- He's more of a Trump guy https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- black thong, who wore it better?AQUTE
- jagara4
blog
To a degree where you can stomach it of course, having friends with opposing views, especially politically, is very healthy and beneficial.
IMHO...
- 100%! I have far right oriented friends and I'm totally OK with their views. We argue and shit but I respect them and they respect me and that's all that countsrenderedred
- One of my really close and dear friends is a fascist. For real.renderedred
- Same with religion, I'm an atheist and have a few very religious friends. That's fine too.renderedred
- whatever...oey_oey
- +_-oey_oey
- Fascists... that’s probably past the point of something I can stomach. I have conservative and religious friends.jagara
- It’s beneficial of course until their views are so disgustingly bigoted, racist, hateful and fear based nonsense that they can’t be stomached.monospaced
- Hence the stomach part.jagara
- i get what you guys are saying, but as long as the discourse is civil and respectful, i have no problem. and it is, even with the fascist. other than that...renderedred
- he's a great guy.renderedred
- he helped me more than once in various ways knowing fully what i believe. for example. and vice versa.renderedred
- 'he's a great guy'
absolute peak liberalism. all fash should follow their leaders and be hanging upside-down from lamp posts.face_melter - make them live in fear and crawl back under their fucking rocks. and if you're 'ok' with them, then you're complicit in their actions. sorry, not sorry.face_melter
- bUt TeH DiSCourSe!!!!11! fuck me.face_melter
- sMasH thE fAsh!Gnash
- To be clear, I never meant completely diametrically opposed views. That's probably not possible, at least bot for for most people.jagara
- *notjagara
- yeah but nah .. I have a very old friend who we have been drifting apart for a while now.. then called me a couple of weeks back and he has totally drunkenautoflavour
- koolaid and to be honest, i lost all will to engage. he has sent me a few messages and i have left it on unread. people can have opposing views, but yepautoflavour
- my life is busy enough as it is with people i dont have to struggle with, the thought of now dealing with this, especially given its not even his country, nope.autoflavour
- was disappointing tho.. made me question so much of our friendship now as I sense he has been like this the whole time and just hiding it..autoflavour
- and what kind of friendship can it be if one person has to hide who they truly are.. regardless of political flavour. bad taste for sureautoflavour
- and very disappointing.. you dont have to agree with everyone, but red hat is not my vibe at allautoflavour
- PhanLo10
Pic of the day - DESIGN
Invitation to an Area night club party. The capsule was placed in water and the invitation appeared. Area was open from 1983 to 1987.
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- Gardener5
- you mean politicians and religious leaders? I'm a proper cunt then :)rzu-rzu
- Not "can". "Will".cannonball1978
- Fuck You Candy!utopian
- and fuck your shitty wordspacing too!hans_glib
- renderedred-3
Elon Musk
The X exodus - could Bluesky spike spark end of Elon Musk's social media platform?
- no, because he'd buy it for billions a nd run that into the ground as well_niko
- LOL totally!renderedred
- Nonb
- I like that he’s doubled down on making it even worse content wise. Guys a fucking geniusPhanLo
- x will always remain relevant for those looking for uncensored informationhotroddy
- We'll see which platform remains relevant during the next 'global pandemic'hotroddy
- uncensored and unverifiedd_gitale
- verified by? World Health Organization? WHO? WHO?hotroddy
- If you want 'verified info' tune into Corporate media. No point in blue skyhotroddy
- Verified Botsutopian
- verified by 50 FBI agentshotroddy
- Why do you say uncensored? Reddit is moderated, not against free speech, but against people being cunts.Ianbolton
- What about the pile on, for the paediatrician, who was bullied and abused because people couldn’t read and thought she was a pedophile?Ianbolton
- And the amount of Bots on Twitter is obscene. Elon could stop them, but I think he likes muddying the water - to encourage freedumb. Hotroddy, you’re a dick!Ianbolton
- The Founding Fathers understood the dangers of government overreach, especially when it comes to controlling information.hotroddy
- You might dislike it, but as long as legislators (Democrats) are perceived as attempting to impose 'guardrails' on free speech..hotroddy
- The other side will be seen as the defenders of free speech.hotroddy
- Kamala has more in common with authoritarian gov't (Maduro, Ortega, Lula, JingPin) than you think. They all shut down twitter in the name of promoting 'hate'hotroddy
- be careful who you insult online Ian. You may get a knock from the crown police.hotroddy
- Yeah but being anti-vaxx, flat-earth, racist, religious zealot, sandy hook hoaxer, pro gun fucking Karen isn’t free speech it’s idiocy._niko
- Idiocy at best, dangerous at worst. Just because you voted in a complete moron and he appointed slightly less moronic idiots in all important posts doesn’t mean_niko
- ...that reality will have to shift to accomplish their fucked up perception of it. They tell us that the sky is chartreuse because they say so and a hundred_niko
- ...million people blindly believe them because they’ve got their heads so far up their asses they refuse to search out the tiniest morsel of truth and fact._niko
- “Go fash, lose cash”PhanLo
- i don't understand what you mean about guardrails on speech. The only time i see that are from 10 year old being silly.Ianbolton
- Yesterday Elon reposted about how the UK is now a police state. It's bullshit, and he know's it. If you go out into the streets, most people are just getting onIanbolton
- The media and Elon are both wanking themselves into a frenzy of illiberal nonsense. In real life, there is no mental breakdown just people trying to get onIanbolton
