Does this mean youtube preferentially selects alt-right shorts, or alt-right people make more shorts? Or some other thing entirely? Jump to your own conclusion.

Haven’t seen these but my solution would be just don’t watch the video. These ads may be unskippable but they aren’t un-watch-something-else-able.

“I’m going for more of an 80s pop vibe.”

I use duct tape.

Valid point but I would rather miss shorts from channels I subscribe to than see blurbs for all the endless others.

Interesting, I just scrolled through 10 or 15 pages of my youtube feed and there wasn’t a Short to be found. Maybe it takes some time to happen, I forget. Or you might have to click Not Interested more if you’ve already watched a lot of Shorts - I had only watched like 3. and they were accidental.

I found youtube shorts very annoying, because I have an attention span and can focus on something for more than 30 seconds. But if you right-click the three dots on a few Shorts sections and click Not Interested, youtube gets the hint and stops offering them to you. Win-win!

Well yes, I’ve been a self-employed contractor myself. You can always choose not to do what a customer wants. The risk that they’ll drop you and find somebody else is yours to take.

As another someone who doesn’t use Threads, it is a big surprise to find out there’s a website or something called Threads that looks like it’s related to email and apparently is popular.

Wind blows smog away and disperses it to where it isn’t noticeable, but sometimes the air gets polluted faster than the local winds can carry it away.

Dev here - this is something everybody who works with users has to come to grips with. It’s like a cartoon where teachers in their break room say, “This place would be great if it weren’t for all the students!” Truth is, we’re here for them, and that’s the job.

When your sister-in-law’s high school kid wrote a program for your business but then went off to MIT and isn’t available now.

LOL sorry, lazy me didn’t hit the link button and see what it was about, even though I really like how well that lemmy feature works.

LOL wow, this is probably the most elegant way to say what I just said to somebody else. Well written web crawlers aren’t like sci-fi robots that rock back and forth smoking when they hear something illogical.

True to a limited extent. Anyone can post a link to somebody’s blog on a site like reddit without the blogger’s permission, where a web crawler scanning through posts and comments would find it. But I agree with you that a thing like Nepehthes probably wouldn’t work. Infinite loop detection is an important part of many types of software and there are well-known techniques for it, which as a developer I would assume a well written AI web crawler would have (although I’ve never personally made one).

I’ve seen those videos too, and I don’t know what you meant by “it really isn’t” but I wouldn’t advise being aggressively ignorantly hostile to cops no matter what they’re doing. If you’re a victim of police abuse, they have all the power in that moment and being belligerent will not help you. It’s not a matter of principle, it’s a matter of surviving that situation so you can fight it in court where you’ll have a better (i.e. nonzero) chance.

Good advice. Think about the situation and get a feel for what’s going on, instead of automatically trusting or hating cops. It really isn’t smart to treat real life like a meme.

I think the US is beyond fucked already. The fact that Bonespurs could get elected president not once but twice is a clear sign that America’s collective intelligence has dropped below Idiocracy level. A complex society can withstand a lot of stupidity as long as there are enough people who can keep the opportunists in their place, but that’s not true anymore. I’m not just talking about people who voted for him, I’m including the several million people who voted for Biden in 2020 but refused to vote for Harris in 2024. They were the safety net that decided to fold itself up and go home. We’re done.

Update: legally it’s now a list that violates the privacy of various ordinary citizens who have done nothing wrong.