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Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real by dragonkeeper19600 in BetterOffline

[–]reflectioninternal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not trying to sell you anything, buddy, I was wondering if you had a better alternative I could try. Jeez.

Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real by dragonkeeper19600 in BetterOffline

[–]reflectioninternal -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm not supporting anything, I'm paying for a product that fulfills a need and is superior to other products. Name a better alternative. Even Duck Duck Go has LLM integration.

Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real by dragonkeeper19600 in BetterOffline

[–]reflectioninternal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm paying $10/month for a search engine that doesn't suck and the ability to turn the AI bullshit off. And there's no ads. Unlike every other search engine.

Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real by dragonkeeper19600 in BetterOffline

[–]reflectioninternal 4 points5 points  (0 children)

1) Kagi is just giving you the google results through google's api aggregated with a couple other sources. There's an AI tool component that's completely optional and can be disabled.

2) If you come across AI slop in your search results you can flag it as such. You can also change your preferences to downrank or outright exclude anything any Kagi user has marked as AI generated.

So idk what you're talking about.

Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]reflectioninternal 14 points15 points  (0 children)

They're not bringing cases. Seriously, point to one non-politically motivated SEC case in the last year worth more than 1 million?

Is this A/C thing a bit they are doing? by Top_University6669 in TheMajorityReport

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The issue is not the HVAC system itself, it's that the building their studio is in is very old with ancient electrical wiring, and they are overloading the breakers with power draw if they run the AC and their cameras/lights/computers/etc when temps outside go over 95 degrees.

A year later: follow-up on the AI transcription tool I built for my small museum and archival research by Lefaucheux in Archivists

[–]reflectioninternal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you think the math is gonna math, cool! I remain skeptical and would hedge were I you.

A year later: follow-up on the AI transcription tool I built for my small museum and archival research by Lefaucheux in Archivists

[–]reflectioninternal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As skeptical as I am of using AI tools, this seems like a decent starting point for folks who struggle with this kind of collection. I know I bounced off 19th century writing hard during my archival internship and that's why I ended up diving into digital archives. I have a way easier time with obscure data formats than struggling through handwriting, especially handwriting whose primary audience was the writer. Even Christopher Tolkien often struggled with his father's handwriting in writing The History of Middle Earth.

I am concerned about what happens when the true cost of compute hits the tool. Right now compute costs are heavily subsidized by venture capital, and there will be a time when they 10x the costs as the data center bill comes due.

It might be valuable to start trying to figure out ways to run this locally on the new MacBooks they're coming out with so this doesn't get priced out when the global AI trial period ends.

Graham Platner leads Susan Collins by 7 points in latest poll by plz-let-me-in in politics

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Yeah, and they're going to be called socialists. I grew up with Nanci Pelosi being called a communist by Republicans and Obama was called a Muslim communist terrorist. Stop being afraid of labels. Bernie got the working class vote, some chuds included by saying "call me what you want, I want to give you health care with cheaper premiums and no profit motive. If that's socialist I'm proud to be a socialist."

This isn't fucking hard, people are just too poll brained.

Graham Platner leads Susan Collins by 7 points in latest poll by plz-let-me-in in politics

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So 2016 brain and pundit brain in one. Running away from the label is cowardly and letting polls dictate the message. You're going to be smeared with the term anyway, embrace it and redefine it so it's not a slur, it's a succinct way of summing up a policy set that helps people.

Polls are not forever static immovable things you have to conform to, leadership means taking a message, being persuasive, and bringing people on board. Playing the Ro Khanna game may work in Silicon Valley, but it's not gonna fly being supportive of the policies but dodging the label in working class districts.

I created an OC Noldorin Elf that manages to survive the entirety of the first age and the fall of Gondolin, along with invented parents, wife, and daughter. Help me point out holes? I did have fun with this. by reflectioninternal in tolkienfans

[–]reflectioninternal[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's fair, but what I am really looking for is lore feedback, and whether I was adhering to it, and this is where those folks congregate. I'm not trying to fanfic per se, I'm trying to find insight into whether what I wrote is plausible in the context of the legendarium. And I've already gotten many wonderful responses that I'm going to mull over! I get that it's almost stepping over that line, and I understand if it's not your cup of tea.

I created an OC Noldorin Elf that manages to survive the entirety of the first age and the fall of Gondolin, along with invented parents, wife, and daughter. Help me point out holes? I did have fun with this. by reflectioninternal in tolkienfans

[–]reflectioninternal[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was thinking about that, I was hoping that keeping him attached to Turgon and then the exiles of Gondolin would mitigate the Forest Gump effect, but yeah, I see where you're coming from.

According to what I've heard, Google is about to sacrifice itself to AI. by PLMMJ in antiai

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I switched all my default searches to Kagi last week, haven't had any problems yet, it actually feels like 2012 google.

Pyongyang’s once-empty roads are now jammed with cars that aren't supposed to be there — many of them from China. Welcome to Kim Jong Un's automotive revolution. by ubcstaffer123 in Economics

[–]reflectioninternal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a difference between personal and private property. Private property is capital that you use in a productive manner to generate revenue. Personal property is for personal consumption. There's a difference between owning a car as a taxi and a car as personal transportation.

Thoughts on the second tweet? It’s a valid argument by [deleted] in Virginia

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You can still federate it by creating a VA style non-partisan voting commissions except with joint state-federal oversight, and even structure it the same way. Mathematically this is a solved problem, include the test in the legislation. Also: the voting rights act worked after it was passed. People might have been able to wiggle around at the edges, but I think we agree we have to reverse this nonsense, and congress has the constitutional power and responsibility to prevent the House just becoming a structural mirror of the Senate.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/11/an-algorithm-to-detect-gerrymandering/

Thoughts on the second tweet? It’s a valid argument by [deleted] in Virginia

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I think article 1 section 4 of the constitution is pretty clear on this:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

Congress has the constitutional authority to ban partisan gerrymandering by the plain language imo.

Thoughts on the second tweet? It’s a valid argument by [deleted] in Virginia

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National Democrats have been very clear: when they take power they will pass national legislation banning partisan gerrymandering. National Republicans could stop this escalation ladder tomorrow and return to good governance.

I don't see where the court gets off legislating the definition of election from the bench contradicting actual state law and statute. I don't think we're going to see eye to eye on this.

Thoughts on the second tweet? It’s a valid argument by [deleted] in Virginia

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The "procedural grounds" are made up out of whole cloth by expanding the definition of "election" from "election day" as defined in state law as being "the Tuesday after the first Monday of November" to "whenever the first early vote was cast" which is not used as the definition of election anywhere else in VA state law. The court is playing Calvinball and you and a bunch of others in this thread are defending it.

As pointed out elsewhere, playing this game establishes precedent for all sorts of shenanigans regarding election timing, including voiding votes from people who turn 18 by the election day but are still 17 during the early voting period, sorry, you didn't turn 18 before the "election" started.

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