Kirk

I see "Elon Musk" invitating me to secret whatsapp groups where he is going to give me bitcoin

I thought this was an anti-AI post because the second one looks like it's a lot more complicated to use.

I had the same reaction. Either I have undiagnosed ADHD and just... somehow don't freeze up, or the analogy isn't great.

I get what you're saying is a joke, but most people don't know about Newpipe or whatever the current alternative app is, and soon most people won't be able to sideload anyway when Google makes it's changes to Android.

It's not good that Google/Meta are exposing these people to scammed for the crime of simply for not knowing how to sideload.

If you open YouTube shorts in a new account or an account that doesn't store history the ads are nearly exclusively AI slop scams. This is not just a Meta issue.

Kapowarr is for comic books, OP is looking for comic strips.

That said it should be great for finding collected editions.

There’s a need to skim through all the crap to find what’s valuable

But that's literally already the job of a search engine?

"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent"

Looks great, can old Google location data be imported?

It is lol the dead giveaway is there's no watermark or artist credit

EDIT: Unrelated but a reverse image search turned up this amazing LinkedinLunatic

At least Conservapedia goes through the effort of trying to appear legitimate and people-powered. That probably makes the disinformation there more dangerous by having the patina of legitimacy but Grokpedia is just so LAZY.

Good read that got me thinking. Donation supported journalism works well for NPR.

I can imagine an ecosystem in which enough people give their $50/month streaming subscriptions directly to artists and journalists.