The Toilet Paper Problem

Liked I Am Not A Crank: We Need Middle-of-the-Road Toilet Paper by Daniel Lavery (The Chatner)

A simple request, from a simple man; one I believe is eminently achievable with one or two minor adjustments. I don’t call for a major overhaul of society, or for a lot of hard work from anyone (Not that I’m afraid of a little hard work, so long as it’s really just a little and I can be sure of a hot meal afterwards). But we’ve got to bring back some middle-of-the-road toilet paper.

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I don’t use generalist search engines anymore

Replied to The Tragedy of AI and Google Bard (curtismchale.ca)

After reading Casey Newton’s post on Google playing catch up with AI via Bard I’ve been prompted to complete some thoughts I’ve had brewing about search. When I want to research a new product I no longer go to Google. The clickbait and ill-informed reviews of products are a waste of my time. They reveal […]

Search engines have been my bane recently, especially for product reviews. Actually, I’m afraid that the internet has become an issue of itself these past days. Books are written by AI. Looking for a tutorial on Google will give you badly translated pages that spend 90% of the page on boilerplate information about the product…