It's a great hub, and it's quite easy to fall down a rabbithole there!

Back when I first got on the net I remember spending a lot more time on sites like Bellard's, where "like" means "no style (or would it be transparent style? brutalist style?) but tons of substance."

Yeah really love the density of information, and also love the discussion boards and irc. Back then we gathered together on those boards or in the channels to wait for the new year.

Each year the gambler spends more time, money, and energy on slot machines. Obviously his gambling habit is getting more and more useful to him. /s

When somebody talks like this, ready to ban social networks, videogames, pornography, the whole internet, and pretty much everything that billinons of people enjoy, by comparing it to gambling, it scares me quite a lot.

Nah, no bans. People should be free to spend their money and time as they please, but let's not pretend that 2000 calories of M&Ms a day is a healthy diet, either.

Your comparison may be apt for Tiktok. The OP talks about the Internet. Researching, learning, communicating, paying, shopping, entertaining, via the Internet, have steadily increased.

People spend (on average) the vast majority of their time on the stupid addictive stuff, that's documented.

When a company whose services I use announces that they're adding AI to them, my first response is always to wonder how I can turn it off.

I don’t even bother looking anymore because it’s rarely possible.

That is pretty funny. All it takes to be a hacker is to use assistive software.

I'd call it a "workaround," which has less connotation of technical cleverness (or malice) than "hack."

This kind of graph always irks me as it almost seems to imply that "unbiased" or "objective" (and therefore ideal) news reporting would just be some kind of daily feed with coverage of randomly sampled events.

> This kind of graph always irks me as it almost seems to imply that "unbiased" or "objective" (and therefore ideal) news reporting would just be some kind of daily feed with coverage of randomly sampled events.

I don't think it means that. I think it means that when you are done reading an article about an unusual event, you leave with an understanding of how unusual it is, especially relative to more common comparables.

It's not uncommon for someone to be terrified of violent street crime, terrorism, or school shootings but be totally comfortable with getting in a car and driving long distances. There's something wrong with that outcome.

> It's not uncommon for someone to be terrified of violent street crime, terrorism, or school shootings but be totally comfortable with getting in a car and driving long distances. There's something wrong with that outcome.

True enough. I guess with driving it's easier to fool ourselves into thinking we have complete control over our safety.

I don't think it's implying that at all. Especially with the accompanying sentence. The implication is that hyper focusing on news is distorting our perception of normal.

Yeah people should stop watching the "news" it's on the same level as tiktok.

Partly about being preventable, yes, but also about being shocking or dramatic (shootings, crashes, natural disasters).

He's eggmaxxing.

The Greek string υοθτθβε (meaningless and nearly unpronounceable, would sound roughly like "eeohtht-thveh") will get you YouTube as the top search result because those letters are what you get from typing "YouTube" with your keyboard set to Greek mode, at least on Windows.

Similarly, Japanese ようつべ translates to yo-u-tu-be (as if the word "Youtube" were read before the Great Vowel Shift) and is often used in place of the proper word.

Fascinating. Not only that, it even fetches https://www.youtube.com/feed/gr as the first result, at least on duckduckgo.