@mako Oops!

Even while I commented on the Brave New World in which we live, I forgot the constant vigilance now required in that Brave New World.

Namely, I must ask you the sad question we have to always ask now:
Can you vouch your video records an authentic response from G-E-H-munnye & has not been — say — modified by an #LLM-backed #AI from one of #Google's competitors?

Even w/ our friends we must “trust but verify” anything we see or hear to confirm it's not mutilated by AI slop.

#Gemini

FYI: Google's patent to replace your website with an AI page could change search forever: Google's newly granted patent US12536233B1 reveals a system that scores landing pages and replaces low-quality ones with AI-generated pages personalized per user search history. https://ppc.land/googles-patent-to-replace-your-website-with-an-ai-page-could-change-search-forever/ #Google #AI #SearchEngine #Technology #Innovation

Good, subtle way to show resistance to #LLM-backed #AI slop that @mako found!

I encourage everyone — when referring to the #Google product — to pronounce “Gemini”: “Gee-eee-H-munnye” ¹.

Big Tech thinks these systems should replace human workers, & it *is* rude to not pronounce a workers' name wrong!

¹Also, fascinating that it got an ‘h’ in there? 🤔 LLMs are indeed very lossy compression systems.

Cc: @richardfontana as he can generate the IPA notation from his head for us. Humans are better.

Me: Are you trippin'?
Gemini: Fair point—I definitely took a wild detour into "psychedelic peacock" territory there.

#ai #gemini #google

Me: Are you trippin'?
Gemini: Fair point—I definitely took a wild detour into "psychedelic peacock" territory there.

#ai #gemini #google

Es werden offensichtlich immer mehr Geschütze gegen die selbstbestimmte Nutzung digitaler Geräte aufgefahren. Wer es noch nicht mitbekommen hat: Google will Android in eine geschlossene Plattform transformieren. Das würde wahrscheinlich das Aus von F-Droid & Co bedeuten. Der Wahnsinn soll im September starten.

Hier Infos und Handlungsempfehlungen:

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#FDroid #foss #android #google #diday #keepandroidopen

FYI: Google's patent to replace your website with an AI page could change search forever: Google's newly granted patent US12536233B1 reveals a system that scores landing pages and replaces low-quality ones with AI-generated pages personalized per user search history. https://ppc.land/googles-patent-to-replace-your-website-with-an-ai-page-could-change-search-forever/ #Google #AI #SearchEngine #Technology #Innovation

Es werden offensichtlich immer mehr Geschütze gegen die selbstbestimmte Nutzung digitaler Geräte aufgefahren. Wer es noch nicht mitbekommen hat: Google will Android in eine geschlossene Plattform transformieren. Das würde wahrscheinlich das Aus von F-Droid & Co bedeuten. Der Wahnsinn soll im September starten.

Hier Infos und Handlungsempfehlungen:

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#FDroid #foss #android #google #diday #keepandroidopen

#DrivingDirections #Google #GoogleMaps #WTF

'“The District has become aware that Google Maps is directing drivers to routes through private property and open fields to access Rendell Drive, Shamanski Drive, Paisley Drive, Heritage Lane, and Stenquist Park,” the district said. “These routes are not legal or safe public access points.”'

https://vernonmorningstar.com/2026/02/27/google-maps-directing-traffic-through-fields-around-coldstream-road-closure/

Hey, Google...

Where's the "No. Fuck off." button?

Apparently this is a new daily pop-up I get to dismiss when doing searches with my Android phone...

#AI #slopocalypse #Android #Google

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116148708465383650

Employees of #Google and #OpenAI oppose USA "DOMESTIC mass surveillance and autonomously killing people WITHOUT HUMAN OVERSIGHT.", because, you know, foreign surveillance and killing with human oversight is totally fine.

"When authoritarianism is on rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards."

Bradley Whitford

#BigTech #Oligarchy #Greed #FarRight #Authoritarianism #Cowardice #Meta #X #Amazon #Google

RE: https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/116148708465383650

Employees of #Google and #OpenAI oppose USA "DOMESTIC mass surveillance and autonomously killing people WITHOUT HUMAN OVERSIGHT.", because, you know, foreign surveillance and killing with human oversight is totally fine.

I find it depressing and at the same time scary to discover recently that two former collaborators still use Gmail in *2026*. They are very good professionals in their fields. It's not because they can't afford an alternative.

P. S. This post was a provocation to one of them, that just told me he substituted his email with one more privacy oriented one. 😂😜

#Gmail #DiDay #Google #USPol

Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/discussions/20632

#HackerNews #Antigravity #Bans #Reinstating #Access #Google #Gemini #Discussion #Tech #News

Update. Employees of #Google and #OpenAi just released an open letter supporting #Anthropic.
https://notdivided.org/

"We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversight."

The letter welcomes new signatures from past and present employees of Google and OpenAI.

At the time of this post, it had 684 signatures.

#AI #LLMs #ChatGPT #Claude #Gemini

https://archive.is/JZpbA

#X #Google #Meta #Amazon #Netflix #BigTech #Oligarchy

The only thing weaker than doing this would be talking about it. #Google