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@Natasha_Jay
I bumped in to Tom a few years ago. I didn’t want intrude as he perused the wine selection in Waitrose but I knew I’d always regret not saying anything. So, politely and discretely I asked, “Excuse me, I don’t mean to bother you but…you do look a lot like Tom Baker.”
He leaned toward me and said, with that smile and a twinkle in his eye: “I used to be!”
Never meet your heroes. Unless they’re The Doctor.

@rachel
“Right this way, Mr President. No, no, the rocket won’t launch until next week...”

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You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.

I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.

(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).

#InternetSearch #degoogle #websearch

The landing page has huge letters saying NO AI with a cameo of a duck. Smaller boxes note that AI-assisted answers and AI-generated images are removed as well.

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“In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.”

https://musically.com/2026/01/15/5-1tn-annual-music-streams-but-120-5m-tracks-had-10-or-fewer/

Trying to get CoPilot to write a decent meeting summary is starting to feel like asking my remote control car to vacuum the house.
#genai

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Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/online-tracking-out-control-privacy-badger-can-help-you-fight-back

This is bullshit for one simple reason - there are other platforms that do what his does (without enabling the degrading, spiteful and hateful behaviour).

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/10/elon-musk-uk-free-speech-x-ban-grok-ai?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Hi! I’m Jynae. I’m a Canadian wood-based visual artist that likes listening to podcasts (such as Search Engine!) while I work on things like this! I like to work with power tools and wood burning tools. No lasers, CNC, or AI involved in my process. All by hand.
#introduction

A woodburning of a lynx drinking water with a double-exposed foggy forest growing out of its back.

@rachel That point was reached just before the last election. Unfortunately, the US citizenship let him off.

The people of Taiwan must be feeling pretty nervous, about now.

New terms and conditions arrived today from Indeed. Read the AI stuff. Basically, “we will use anything we like of yours to train our models and anything we produce may be wrong, but that’s your lookout”.

Account and data deletion request sent.

@pluralistic @Neztore It’s modern-day payola.

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It's simple, Prime Minister: X is for people who think that Britain is about to lock up everyone who isn't woke, Bluesky is for people who think that sounds like a terrific idea, and Threads is for people who have no idea what either of the others are on about.

Truth Social is for people who think they run the Internet, Nostr is for people who think they should run the internet, and Mastodon is for people who actually do run the Internet.
& 4Chan people don’t care as long as they have big tits.

Personally, I’m a big fan of AI.*

*Actual Intelligence.

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Home for the holidays? Help your loved ones install Privacy Badger to stop online trackers from following them around the web. https://privacybadger.org/

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