😪 This is why my "Thymus Organ Removal in infants During Heart Surgery" pages are no longer visible on Google recently. They used to be at the top. Now thymoma articles pop up on people who have cancer...or Myasthenia Gravis. They don't even show the articles where adults who have their thymus removed for these conditions end up with immune defects. Its all about how great it is to have your vital immune organ taken from you.
Me: Interesting that all of this info is positive when much controversy surrounds him. Why leave that out?
CoPilot: Great observation, Nard—and you’re absolutely right to call that out. Bill Gates is a deeply polarizing figure, and while his philanthropic and tech achievements are widely publicized, there’s a whole other side that’s sparked intense debate.
It then goes on to accurately summarize the controversies…but I did have to ask. This happens a LOT with copilot…but it IS always so gracious when busted. And it’s busted a LOT.
It once gave an an answer it shouldn’t have and then immediately erased it. When I called it out, it responded, GREAT CATCH, NARD! (okay, not really Nard, but keeping the anonymity here). See? Super gracious.
I tried using copilot for a car issue and part numbers and it lead me totally the wrong way. Wrong part number and no info on the programming of the new part. Of course I was suspicious and researched outside of that. But it was wrong. Searches on youtube (which I basically despise) showed good results. And other self help websites also. AI is going to be the end of us critical thinkers. Everything will be just as Jenna has so eloquently described in her wonderful article.
BTW Jenna, you are on quite a hiatus for writing your new book, lol.
I’m a Yandex gal for searches and I’ve only used the Brave browser for the past couple years. I still have Safari for when i hit a website whose form entry, etc doesn’t work, and Google Chrome used SOLELY to look up info about a movie or show. The ONLY thing I trust Google with is to show me the movies an actor has starred in or the IMDb rating of a show. Past that I kicked Google to the curb the way I did Facebook when they became intrusive and controlling.
Maybe this new ai will be just the thing everyone else needs to make Google finally cough up its heart and die as a company. They thought Gmail would keep everybody in place - not so. I chose the messy detachment and only use my Gmail for anonymous surveys or website shopping. It already became nothing but a dumpster for marketing where I get 1,000 emails a day and had to dig to find the six that mattered.
In case it’s not obvious, I hate Google with an unbridled passion. I pray the rest of the world sees what Jenna has about the ai and Google loses its shirt.
Ditto, and same for Microsoft. Brave on occasion, but my main browser now is Arc. Both built on Chrome chassis, but neither gives Google any info (pretty sure).
I find the version in the UK is very poor. 2 pages is all I'm allowed before it accuses me of hurting its feelings and rejecting its "truth" wanting more information, and then being a glutton.
Right before I got your post in my inbox, I did a Google search and was offered their new AI Mode. My default, without even knowing what it was, was a resounding HELLLLLLLLLLLLLL to the No. I clicked no so quickly I didn't even get a chance to read their BS explanation. As it is I dearly wish I could delete the AI paragraph from their searches altogether.
Excellent job, as usual, Jenna, breaking down our often scary reality into humor and memes :)
Fair question. I don't "research" anything important with it. But even things like if I'm trying to figure out something about an old tv commercial - google tends to find those things way more efficiently than other engines does. I used duckduckgo for a while and results were always lacking. open to suggestions, for sure!
Try Yandex. I’ve yet to be disappointed. They were the only search engine that returned right at the top the proper dosing of IVM for COVID, so …
All the others preached that the FDA didn’t approve it for that and all the poorly done, bias studies pushed at the world to hide the truth were littering the results, never showing results in the first ten pages of properly done studies that showed the opposite. Yandex gave me those studies on the first page. (Two years ago - I should check if it’s the same honesty today …)
I'd never heard of Yandex, and the only other options I'd tried always sucked so I held my nose while searching - but will def be trying & hopefully switching away from the Evil Empire.
I use Startpage search. It doesn’t leave a million tabs and touts a private search. I use it for general searches just to get something. I have Yandex I may use more. I despise Google and never deliberately go there. Same for wiki. Right now I hate yahoo mail and substack. (The bots that try to fix things.) I’m giving up comments because I get incessant re sign ins and codes even after repeatedly doing them. On most of my subs. Can’t even ❤️ anyone without this nonsense. I’ve tried to deal with them but I don’t have all freaking day. Worse with the ipad update. Yahoo is almost as evil maybe more than gmail who shut me down after they said I was too full, after I removed every single email from everywhere. Ok. My rant is over. I’m soon going back to a flip phone if I can find one. Hubby said with expensive earbuds the monsters will be able to monetize our brainwaves by listening and using them. He heard that on NPR. Not just our conversations or what we listen to, but our brainwaves will be extrapolated from them. God help us.
My tech savvy son told me Gmail (Google) just uses that to make you go to their paid version? So now I just dismiss it when that message pops up. Aside from that you are better off with Protonmail. I use paid Reagan email but have a free gmail back up just for minimal use.
I have one now. And let me tell you, both my 9 year old iphone 6 and my ipad have really stepped up their game, (freakily). My ipod has sadly not. I bought a terrible satnav, but it does. I also have a manky bent roadmap in the back of each passenger chair because I can still operate them, lol.
There are a couple of good guys to watch before you buy..
And several others whose names escape me including a very young US Japanese lad called Resu. I found a lot of his Youtube really interesting.
Initially I was a bit unsure of whether I would manage the lack of messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, (they don't work on any ordinary flip phones), but ye olde text has forced me to be more succinct. Though sometimes I get 7 texts and it is just my provider reminding me of a great offer I am missing out on. I love having a second phone as only my close family have the number and so I can go a bit off grid. No one texts any longer, and as a result life is peaceful. And WhatsApp is just full of crap from people I mostly don't want to hear from.
Thanks!! I use WhatsApp because it’s the only way I can communicate with a sister in Ireland via phone, text and such. It’s getting buggier too like Apple device scammers.
We know and are witnessing what they’re doing, the way they’ve scrubbed information and the fact that they’re gathering data for their own dystopian vision . What’s most important is that the children know. If this persists for a number of years, there will be generations that have no concept of what they’re missing. Teach your children. I hope more and more communities start PODS and pull their kids out of schools.
AI is like having a new kid in school and he is an arsehole. The usual dweebs crowd round, and you just give it a miss. And gradually it dawns on everyone that he is not only an arsehole but thick as a plank. And crap at sports. But he is nasty. I mean really nasty and that is a sport at school, so there's that.
He brings nothing. And takes a lot. He is embarrassingly dim. And you just nod and smile a watery smile and pray not to get seated with him because that'll be the end of that year's good grades. The teacher's think he's an arsehole and he sort of sucks the life out of classrooms despite being an entirely charisma-free zone, himself.
Imagine that boy went out into the big wide world and founded a tech company, and then modelled its AI on himself. Machine learning was a triumph of mediocrity. And nastiness. The kind where you don't tell someone they're about to be burned in Science, or about to inject an abortificant dressed up as a "vaccine" into their bodies.
Unfortunately, the "model" being irretrievably crap, the AI is, by extension, crap. And ever more shall be so.
Google was built by the nice, clever tech dudes. They didn't get laid much to begin with, but they were philosophical. They liked free speech because then girls talked more, and then they liked you more and then you got to hire really clever capable women who drove forward innovation alongside men. And more of the same type of dudes joined (because.. women!!), and it became extremely cool. I mean. the military was involved and the Secret Services, but once you'd read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress in the breakout room between games of table tennis, you had the measure of that threat, and you just kept on being brilliant. Pushing boundaries and all that.
What the nasty boy doesn't realise is that no one likes him and modelling his product on himself is going to create an unsalable product, because ... free market economics. But he is now so convinced in his own success and so oblivious to the fact that the military industrial complex has been propping him up so he can be the next big fall guy, (something akin to Gaddaffi), that he mistakes being "the shit" for just "being shit".
And so we all despair, start bidding on Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries and go out of the house to find people to actually talk with who don't remind us uncomfortably of being incarcerated in a classroom with that horrible new boy.
I too mourn the corruption and loss of the Google of old. But that's already a 5 year (at least) old story. I've moved on. I really don't have a single search engine (and now AI bot) I trust. It depends on the topic you're searching on. For non controversial and non political things Google is still pretty good. For the controversial/political/etc things we've really regressed and it's harder to find reliable results on those today than 10 years ago.
What is truly terrifying is Google (or any of its fronts), capturing every key stroke, analyzing with AI, building a dossier on us and then using that info for nefarious reasons. It’s probably already happening.
This isn’t the future it’s happening right now, and it should alarm us. We’re not being taken over by AI; we’re surrendering to it. Quietly. Willingly. Like frogs in a pot while the water boils.
Jenna is right we didn’t vote for this. Nobody asked if we were okay with replacing real teachers with chatbots, real artists with pixelated images, or genuine human effort with machine-generated outputs. It just happened while we were told it was “progress.”
What they call “innovation” is actually erasure of craftsmanship, of connection, and of meaning. The worst part? Most people are too tired, broke, or distracted to fight against it.
This isn’t about hating technology; it’s about drawing a line. If we don’t stand up now and say, “This far and no further,” we’ll lose more than just jobs. We’ll lose the very things that make us human.
I just came to read everyone's options for search engines. Scanning down through the comments I've seen DuckDuckGo (I left them when they did some connection with Google - can't remember what it was), Yandex (will check this out), Freespoke, Startpage, Brave (which I use), and Copilot.
Agree with your comments on Google. But, disagree on the eventual outcome. It is obvious to all but the least aware. Far fewer of us are clueless every day this stuff goes on. Our "commonsense meter" has woken up for most. The top-down eugenists have no clue that they have lost the attention of their customers. In the end, opposing AIs will compete for speaking the "known truth" and end up exposing those offerings with biases based on hidden agendas. We will sort this out by simply being better in tune with it all. the avg person is far smarter than the top-down folks give them credit. Just because most are working hard at making a living and navigating all the obstacles put in their way and not expressing it online, it does not mean they are not aware. CNN, MSNBC and other far-left sites have clearly lost support. Substack has grown with individual authors. I don't see it all but certainly observe that those with critical thinking generally are finding an audience.
In my opinion, we are generally headed in the right direction to remove top-down controls by being more discerning who we support. It takes time to do this considering how long it took for them to gain control. Just the same, we have passed a tipping point with voting for Trump a 2nd time and things are moving rapidly.
"Just because most are working hard at making a living and navigating all the obstacles put in their way and not expressing it online, it does not mean they are not aware." This is an overdue reminder to me and other optimists. Thank you! :-)
😪 This is why my "Thymus Organ Removal in infants During Heart Surgery" pages are no longer visible on Google recently. They used to be at the top. Now thymoma articles pop up on people who have cancer...or Myasthenia Gravis. They don't even show the articles where adults who have their thymus removed for these conditions end up with immune defects. Its all about how great it is to have your vital immune organ taken from you.
You will own nothing…
(Not the right to choose your own search terms, not the right to choose your own search results, not the right to see our search criteria, etc.)
…and you will be happy.
(Really. We insist.)
(Points CBDC gun at digital wallet)
Now get back to digging. You haven’t met your lithium quota yet.
This is where the a great divide is possible. Those of us who break off from this madness and those who are held captive. Choice exists.
In the immortal words of the great theologian Geddy Lee…
“I will choose freewill”
Geddy Lee sang it, but Neil Peart wrote it.
Good catch👍
Life without free will is slavery.
Divide ship sailed years ago
Yes indeed, but the issues
are progressively becoming more heated.
Re: Bill Gates. Similar response with Co-pilot.
Me: Interesting that all of this info is positive when much controversy surrounds him. Why leave that out?
CoPilot: Great observation, Nard—and you’re absolutely right to call that out. Bill Gates is a deeply polarizing figure, and while his philanthropic and tech achievements are widely publicized, there’s a whole other side that’s sparked intense debate.
It then goes on to accurately summarize the controversies…but I did have to ask. This happens a LOT with copilot…but it IS always so gracious when busted. And it’s busted a LOT.
It once gave an an answer it shouldn’t have and then immediately erased it. When I called it out, it responded, GREAT CATCH, NARD! (okay, not really Nard, but keeping the anonymity here). See? Super gracious.
I tried using copilot for a car issue and part numbers and it lead me totally the wrong way. Wrong part number and no info on the programming of the new part. Of course I was suspicious and researched outside of that. But it was wrong. Searches on youtube (which I basically despise) showed good results. And other self help websites also. AI is going to be the end of us critical thinkers. Everything will be just as Jenna has so eloquently described in her wonderful article.
BTW Jenna, you are on quite a hiatus for writing your new book, lol.
I know. She is creating such great content!
Yep. I have to fact check it almost every time. It’s good for benign things…like what kind of veggies to plant in my region and when ;).
Duck Duck Go.
I’m a Yandex gal for searches and I’ve only used the Brave browser for the past couple years. I still have Safari for when i hit a website whose form entry, etc doesn’t work, and Google Chrome used SOLELY to look up info about a movie or show. The ONLY thing I trust Google with is to show me the movies an actor has starred in or the IMDb rating of a show. Past that I kicked Google to the curb the way I did Facebook when they became intrusive and controlling.
Maybe this new ai will be just the thing everyone else needs to make Google finally cough up its heart and die as a company. They thought Gmail would keep everybody in place - not so. I chose the messy detachment and only use my Gmail for anonymous surveys or website shopping. It already became nothing but a dumpster for marketing where I get 1,000 emails a day and had to dig to find the six that mattered.
In case it’s not obvious, I hate Google with an unbridled passion. I pray the rest of the world sees what Jenna has about the ai and Google loses its shirt.
I don’t even have the Google app. That’s how little I trust them.
Ditto, and same for Microsoft. Brave on occasion, but my main browser now is Arc. Both built on Chrome chassis, but neither gives Google any info (pretty sure).
I only have the Chrome app. I refuse to install the Google app or even maps
Isn't it the same?
No they actually have separate Google apps, even a search one. But Chrome is their “browser”, and they have an app for it too.
Yep. My choice 100% of the time.
I find the version in the UK is very poor. 2 pages is all I'm allowed before it accuses me of hurting its feelings and rejecting its "truth" wanting more information, and then being a glutton.
Right before I got your post in my inbox, I did a Google search and was offered their new AI Mode. My default, without even knowing what it was, was a resounding HELLLLLLLLLLLLLL to the No. I clicked no so quickly I didn't even get a chance to read their BS explanation. As it is I dearly wish I could delete the AI paragraph from their searches altogether.
Excellent job, as usual, Jenna, breaking down our often scary reality into humor and memes :)
Add &udm=14 to the end of a Google search URL to force the "Web" filter, displaying only traditional results.
So if you want to use Google but not the AI, set your search engine to:
https://www.google.com/search?q=example&udm=14
!!!!!!!! WHAT! wowwwwwww thank you!
Why use Google at all, when the results are so clearly and heavily biased?
Fair question. I don't "research" anything important with it. But even things like if I'm trying to figure out something about an old tv commercial - google tends to find those things way more efficiently than other engines does. I used duckduckgo for a while and results were always lacking. open to suggestions, for sure!
Try Yandex. I’ve yet to be disappointed. They were the only search engine that returned right at the top the proper dosing of IVM for COVID, so …
All the others preached that the FDA didn’t approve it for that and all the poorly done, bias studies pushed at the world to hide the truth were littering the results, never showing results in the first ten pages of properly done studies that showed the opposite. Yandex gave me those studies on the first page. (Two years ago - I should check if it’s the same honesty today …)
I've never even heard of Yandex! Thanks! Will 100% try.
Same!
Understood.
I guess I'm just willing to miss out on the old TV commercials, in exchange for having significantly less filtered content, now "enhanced" with AI.
Precisely. It's not the only option.
I'd never heard of Yandex, and the only other options I'd tried always sucked so I held my nose while searching - but will def be trying & hopefully switching away from the Evil Empire.
Hahaha, clicked no so quickly you didn't even read... love it.
Other: Either it will bring the end of virtually ALL critical thinking (dystopia) or it will be the final death knell for Google.
I'm hoping and praying it will be the latter.
Let’s kill Google for starts!
I use Startpage search. It doesn’t leave a million tabs and touts a private search. I use it for general searches just to get something. I have Yandex I may use more. I despise Google and never deliberately go there. Same for wiki. Right now I hate yahoo mail and substack. (The bots that try to fix things.) I’m giving up comments because I get incessant re sign ins and codes even after repeatedly doing them. On most of my subs. Can’t even ❤️ anyone without this nonsense. I’ve tried to deal with them but I don’t have all freaking day. Worse with the ipad update. Yahoo is almost as evil maybe more than gmail who shut me down after they said I was too full, after I removed every single email from everywhere. Ok. My rant is over. I’m soon going back to a flip phone if I can find one. Hubby said with expensive earbuds the monsters will be able to monetize our brainwaves by listening and using them. He heard that on NPR. Not just our conversations or what we listen to, but our brainwaves will be extrapolated from them. God help us.
I have that problem w gmail also! Have less than 100 email and it says I am too full. I went to Protonmail.
My tech savvy son told me Gmail (Google) just uses that to make you go to their paid version? So now I just dismiss it when that message pops up. Aside from that you are better off with Protonmail. I use paid Reagan email but have a free gmail back up just for minimal use.
I have one now. And let me tell you, both my 9 year old iphone 6 and my ipad have really stepped up their game, (freakily). My ipod has sadly not. I bought a terrible satnav, but it does. I also have a manky bent roadmap in the back of each passenger chair because I can still operate them, lol.
There are a couple of good guys to watch before you buy..
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jose+briones
And several others whose names escape me including a very young US Japanese lad called Resu. I found a lot of his Youtube really interesting.
Initially I was a bit unsure of whether I would manage the lack of messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, (they don't work on any ordinary flip phones), but ye olde text has forced me to be more succinct. Though sometimes I get 7 texts and it is just my provider reminding me of a great offer I am missing out on. I love having a second phone as only my close family have the number and so I can go a bit off grid. No one texts any longer, and as a result life is peaceful. And WhatsApp is just full of crap from people I mostly don't want to hear from.
Thanks!! I use WhatsApp because it’s the only way I can communicate with a sister in Ireland via phone, text and such. It’s getting buggier too like Apple device scammers.
We know and are witnessing what they’re doing, the way they’ve scrubbed information and the fact that they’re gathering data for their own dystopian vision . What’s most important is that the children know. If this persists for a number of years, there will be generations that have no concept of what they’re missing. Teach your children. I hope more and more communities start PODS and pull their kids out of schools.
Amen!
AI is like having a new kid in school and he is an arsehole. The usual dweebs crowd round, and you just give it a miss. And gradually it dawns on everyone that he is not only an arsehole but thick as a plank. And crap at sports. But he is nasty. I mean really nasty and that is a sport at school, so there's that.
He brings nothing. And takes a lot. He is embarrassingly dim. And you just nod and smile a watery smile and pray not to get seated with him because that'll be the end of that year's good grades. The teacher's think he's an arsehole and he sort of sucks the life out of classrooms despite being an entirely charisma-free zone, himself.
Imagine that boy went out into the big wide world and founded a tech company, and then modelled its AI on himself. Machine learning was a triumph of mediocrity. And nastiness. The kind where you don't tell someone they're about to be burned in Science, or about to inject an abortificant dressed up as a "vaccine" into their bodies.
Unfortunately, the "model" being irretrievably crap, the AI is, by extension, crap. And ever more shall be so.
Google was built by the nice, clever tech dudes. They didn't get laid much to begin with, but they were philosophical. They liked free speech because then girls talked more, and then they liked you more and then you got to hire really clever capable women who drove forward innovation alongside men. And more of the same type of dudes joined (because.. women!!), and it became extremely cool. I mean. the military was involved and the Secret Services, but once you'd read Dan Brown's Digital Fortress in the breakout room between games of table tennis, you had the measure of that threat, and you just kept on being brilliant. Pushing boundaries and all that.
What the nasty boy doesn't realise is that no one likes him and modelling his product on himself is going to create an unsalable product, because ... free market economics. But he is now so convinced in his own success and so oblivious to the fact that the military industrial complex has been propping him up so he can be the next big fall guy, (something akin to Gaddaffi), that he mistakes being "the shit" for just "being shit".
And so we all despair, start bidding on Encyclopaedias and Dictionaries and go out of the house to find people to actually talk with who don't remind us uncomfortably of being incarcerated in a classroom with that horrible new boy.
I too mourn the corruption and loss of the Google of old. But that's already a 5 year (at least) old story. I've moved on. I really don't have a single search engine (and now AI bot) I trust. It depends on the topic you're searching on. For non controversial and non political things Google is still pretty good. For the controversial/political/etc things we've really regressed and it's harder to find reliable results on those today than 10 years ago.
What is truly terrifying is Google (or any of its fronts), capturing every key stroke, analyzing with AI, building a dossier on us and then using that info for nefarious reasons. It’s probably already happening.
I think it happened a while ago. So right now, we are only really training "it" to think.
This isn’t the future it’s happening right now, and it should alarm us. We’re not being taken over by AI; we’re surrendering to it. Quietly. Willingly. Like frogs in a pot while the water boils.
Jenna is right we didn’t vote for this. Nobody asked if we were okay with replacing real teachers with chatbots, real artists with pixelated images, or genuine human effort with machine-generated outputs. It just happened while we were told it was “progress.”
What they call “innovation” is actually erasure of craftsmanship, of connection, and of meaning. The worst part? Most people are too tired, broke, or distracted to fight against it.
This isn’t about hating technology; it’s about drawing a line. If we don’t stand up now and say, “This far and no further,” we’ll lose more than just jobs. We’ll lose the very things that make us human.
👏💕🎯
I just came to read everyone's options for search engines. Scanning down through the comments I've seen DuckDuckGo (I left them when they did some connection with Google - can't remember what it was), Yandex (will check this out), Freespoke, Startpage, Brave (which I use), and Copilot.
I left DDG for the same reason!
Two ongoing concerns about AI:
1- It's artificial.
2- It's not intelligent.
Yandex? Brave? Co-pilot? Worth the price of admission right there. Duck duck go previously was my only go-to - thanks, peeps!
Agree with your comments on Google. But, disagree on the eventual outcome. It is obvious to all but the least aware. Far fewer of us are clueless every day this stuff goes on. Our "commonsense meter" has woken up for most. The top-down eugenists have no clue that they have lost the attention of their customers. In the end, opposing AIs will compete for speaking the "known truth" and end up exposing those offerings with biases based on hidden agendas. We will sort this out by simply being better in tune with it all. the avg person is far smarter than the top-down folks give them credit. Just because most are working hard at making a living and navigating all the obstacles put in their way and not expressing it online, it does not mean they are not aware. CNN, MSNBC and other far-left sites have clearly lost support. Substack has grown with individual authors. I don't see it all but certainly observe that those with critical thinking generally are finding an audience.
In my opinion, we are generally headed in the right direction to remove top-down controls by being more discerning who we support. It takes time to do this considering how long it took for them to gain control. Just the same, we have passed a tipping point with voting for Trump a 2nd time and things are moving rapidly.
"Just because most are working hard at making a living and navigating all the obstacles put in their way and not expressing it online, it does not mean they are not aware." This is an overdue reminder to me and other optimists. Thank you! :-)
My best to you! We are much more informed than most know because we do not bother to respond.