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@dlasta / dlasta.tumblr.com

Finnish. Old-ish. Judgy. Nerd.

an internal memo leaked from ceo steve huffman saying the "noise" of the blackout will die out and they just need to weather it until we give up. fuck you spez.

first of all it's OVER EIGHT THOUSAND subreddits that went dark.

second of all he clearly doesn't give one single shit about the users or the UNPAID army of mods who slog through a million miles of shit every day to keep illegal and offensive content off the site (i'm a mod in a small fandom subreddit and even the shit i've seen is beyond the pale) and therefore make it appealing to the advertizers.

you have no fucking business without us. and you don't care one single bit about it.

he clearly did not mean for this memo to leak, but someone at reddit thought it was important enough to send it out anyway. please spread it (spreddit?) especially because so much of reddit is still in blackout.

Google makes millions on paid abortion disinformation

Google’s search quality has been in steady decline for years, and Google assures us that they’re working on it, though the most visible effort is replacing links to webpages with lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a confident habitual liar chatbot:

The internet is increasingly full of garbage, much of it written by other confident habitual liar chatbots, which are now extruding plausible sentences at enormous scale. Future confident habitual liar chatbots will be trained on the output of these confident liar chatbots, producing Jathan Sadowski’s “Habsburg AI”:

But the declining quality of Google Search isn’t merely a function of chatbot overload. For many years, Google’s local business listings have been terrible. Anyone who’s tried to find a handyman, a locksmith, an emergency tow, or other small businessperson has discovered that Google is worse than useless for this. Try to search for that locksmith on the corner that you pass every day? You won’t find them — but you will find a fake locksmith service that will dispatch an unqualified, fumble-fingered guy with a drill and a knockoff lock, who will drill out your lock, replace it with one made of bubblegum and spit, and charge you 400% the going rate (and then maybe come back to rob you):

Reading comics is constantly like "Here is one of the most fascinating concepts you've ever seen in a piece of media. No we will not elaborate on it and you will never see it reach its full potential. Here is an interesting, new character. Oh now they're dead/rewritten to be less interesting/trapped in a different version of earth to be only mentioned off hand and never seen again. Here is your favorite legacy character: they're currently being written by a misogynist." And then once in a blue moon there's a comic that blows your tits clean off it's executed so well. But it's a limited run.

ruh roh, it gets worse

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I’m not a Redditor so I could be wrong. But this looks pretty fucking bad

scab behavior

no, that'd be if the moderators were opening the subreddits by themselves. this is the equivalent of dragging a union member across the picket line and forcing them to work, which is arguably worse.

strikebreaker behavior. they've shot those mods and dumped their bodies in the river

already reblogged but it got worse. if anyone would like to delete their reddit account, https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite will allow you to delete all your posts and delete/overwrite all your past comments. this shit is unbelievable.

My therapist: Stop fixating on Jacked Evil Alt-Universe Gouache Jean-Luc Picard with a tiny, bearded head. He isn't real and can't hurt you. Jacked Evil Alt-Universe Gouache Jean-Luc Picard with a tiny, bearded head:

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(grin) Okay, here’s a road I’ve been down.

That’s not at all a terrible take on Evil!Troi’s uniform. …Looking with some amusement, though, at Mirror!Picard’s britches, and the (carefully?) studied lack of emphasis on (parts of) them. 😏

[ID: Ten screencaps from Taskmaster. Sarah Millican stands in a living room singing, “Oh look, there are crumbs in my bralette.” Later, in the studio, Alex Horne says, “She absolutely hated doing that, but I think it’s wonderful.” Sarah explains, “Oh, I have such a terrible history of singing though. Like, I was in a relationship with somebody who always said, ‘Don’t sing, it sounds awful.’ And I didn’t sing for years and that was THE, probably THE most horrific thing I’ve ever done in my whole life.” Greg Davies asks, “Who was it who said that you sound awful at singing?” Sarah says, “Ex-partner.” Greg declares to the camera, “Oh, fuck you, ex-partner.” End ID.]