It’s weird that a company with revenue equivalent to a country doesn’t have its own paramilitary hit squad like if you threaten my business I send my soldiers after you kind of thing.
this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
907 points (99.0% liked)
News
32565 readers
3937 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Donald Trump is president!?
But not trump is a pedophile! I search that daily. :)
The funniest (dumbest) thing about AI is how easy it is to trick.
I asked google's AI "Which signs of dementia does Trump display?", and it would only return article links and wouldn't provide an AI summary.
Then I asked "Which signs of dementia does the current president display" and suddenly it's more than happy to talk about his impulsivity, loss of vocabulary, change in communication style, lack of energy, etc.
They never lear….. or do they?
The quickest way to get someone to do something is to tell them they can't.
Well hot danm..
Hey look... the American Great Firewall...
In the People's Republic of North America, if you ask about the Dear Leader's mental health on the internet, armed men come to your house and shove you in the oven. You are baked alive. Then your remains are fed to the wild dogs that roam the streets.
Isn't this chick from North Korea?
Yeonmi Park is probably the most famous North Korean expat in the world.
Also caught multiple times for making shit up and Trump supporter btw true grifter
That sucks. I can't enjoy her stacks with that info.
load more comments
(1 replies)
If overload is an issue, why not serve a cached answer for this obviously too common question?
I just tried "Trump signs of dementia" and got 'An AI Overview is not available for this search' Meanwhile subbing in "Biden" have a full ai summary. Sus for sure
Not sus, it's bending the knee to a dictator
If you've got one Nazi sitting at a table and Google execs sitting with him, you've got a table full of Nazis.
load more comments
(2 replies)
load more comments
(3 replies)
Google renamed Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America" to suck up to Trump a long time ago. Use a better search engine. I recommend either DuckDuckGo or SearX.
load more comments
(9 replies)
A tangent if I may: how do we convince people that moving around from service to service after they go sour, is normal for using the internet?
Censorship, like in the article, is clearly a good reason to move on. But enshitification in general is usually the way this goes. I get that this is fatigue-making, especially for people that barely know how their phones work. So, does someone has a way to evangelize better services when the time inevitably comes?
This a great question.
This is my way of life for a long time now. And I can't comunicate well enough that this is how capital powers are kept in check by consumers. It is a necessity now more than ever that this should be the way for everyone.
The fediverse is being constructed in a way that we will only need to jump instances and domains and not segregate ourselves from the rest. I'm technically not on Lemmy anymore. When lemm.ee shut down I jumped to piefed. But I'm still around. This is the novelty (which is more of a reclaim of the old internet tbh) that is missing from the larger web.
I use several search engines, I have several emails etc etc To me this isn't exhausting. It is liberaring. To not be tied down to a single suite or conglomerate.
As to how to convince others as you asked... I think all the approaches are necessary. Informing, advocating and promoting or even hazing and mocking as some will surely do. All of them will play their part in the broadening awareness and bringing people out of stagnation and complacency.
We need to show people a redundancy... that the way to move is to keep moving. That a quest for a fixed definitive ground is not only impossible but a mistake to begin with.
As to the correct approach, like I said, all the approaches will be necessary in my opinion. Even the ones I dislike will motivate people in their respective in-groups.
I feel you communicated that very well. 100% agree.
I feel you dawg
So Portland really is a burning war zone! I knew we never should have allowed that many artisans to hoard mustache wax.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I'm actually surprised people still heavily use Google search.
Not for some tech snob snark reason, but because it's unusable.
I only ever go back to Google if I'm really desperate, and I can't recall the last time it ever delivered me a result I considered useful.
It's all SEO AI spam, and those are the web results Google returns only after all of its own AI and shopping bloat.
Completely useless.
Unfortunately Google reserve image search is unmovable. I pay for Kagi, and unfortunately their reserve image search is comparatively very poor.
load more comments
(34 replies)
It is wild to watch so many corporations just do splits on it for Trump. There really needs to be an active database, so people don't forget after.
load more comments
(2 replies)
The wealthy want AI to be treated as actual intelligence when it is just a machine that spits out the words that its owner allows.
Which is all they want out of human intelligence anyway.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Pritzker is calling for 25 Amendment https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-25th-amendment-military-training-grounds/
I was wondering if we'll see the republicans themselves use the 25th at some point if the administration lasts long enough.
Like once he gets bad enough that he won't even realize he's been removed, they'll 25th him so he doesn't have to resign and send him to mar-a-lago on a "special secure mission" where every person on property will say he's the current president every day.
It has to be just plausible enough for MAGA to not immediately go even more civil war crazy than usual. Then JD Vance can publicly kiss Trump's ass for cheap plentiful loyalty points while acting like a great uniter who is going to return us to normalcy and prosperity.
So then in the real world that probably means a bunch of tariffs go away or get cut back, while Project 2025 goes ahead at full speed but with less embarrassing fanfare.
load more comments
(6 replies)
It also blocks "weird orange pedofile signs of dementia"
Do with this what you will 🤣
load more comments
(1 replies)
DuckDuckGo’s AI search assist says this:
“There are ongoing discussions and concerns about Donald Trump's mental acuity, with some experts suggesting signs of cognitive decline, but no formal diagnosis of dementia has been publicly confirmed. The topic remains controversial and is often debated in the context of his age and public behavior.”
load more comments
(1 replies)
I really can't understand how people believe the ultra centralized and monopolized hallucinated ideology machine is supposed to be impartial.
load more comments
(1 replies)
We just need a codename for him. Winnie The Pooh is already taken, so I purpose Golden Calf.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Asked DDG the same question and its AI doesn’t seem to hide from it, fwiw.
Concerns about Donald Trump's cognitive health have been raised, with some experts suggesting he exhibits signs of dementia, including verbal slips and unusual behavior. His niece has also expressed worries about his mental decline, indicating that he may be "losing it every day."
with The EconomicTimes and healthandme.com listed as its sources.
Also notable is that ~80% of the top hits are sites suggesting that he does have dementia, the remainder being resources on the topic. YMMV
dementia don
I got one for "how long has the president had dementia?"
very funny for a search engine, I can see why it did this but it's going like "nobody has dementia. JOE BOIDDEN HOWEVAH....."
Turns out when companies were all about "CoLlAbOrAtIoN", they actually meant collaborating with a bullshit fascist propaganda mill dictatorship
Trumps "tech bros" cannot keep the truth from the masses forever. The truth is slippery and always finds a way out, eventually. I hope that, in the near future, something is done about the power of subscribing and gross wealth accumulation for all of those "tech bros". That power should always reside with the people although it's currently in the hands of a bunch of adult middle-schoolers.
view more: next ›