Google has put artificial intelligence at the front and center of its search bar. The most-visited site on the internet still shows the same list of links to users, but they have to scroll past a summarized response from an AI chatbot, a feature Google calls AI Overviews. The change to what was once the gateway to the rest of the internet has been profound, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting.

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Never ceases to amaze me that Wikipedia has photographic illustrations for weird things. Like the concept of "turtles all the way down". Image source.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/students-at-kyoto-university-wear-costumes-to-graduation-ceremony

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/52141910

I got the ad pictured in frame 2 today and it made me sad, so I made this meme. So many levels of sad:

• Sponsored ad for a charity, plausible but seems fishy.
• The needy children are positioned as "earning" the food and education they will get by your donation by writing back to you. Just way too overtly transactional.
• The advertising tactic seems to prey on the lonely.

She has no respect for my workspace and schedule but that's okay because she's cute and very soft

The platform says hackers targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users.

From 2025.