Mastodawn

Nathan Lawrence Mar 29, 2024

Imagine if every time you looked up anything in the Yellow Pages or encyclopedia, there was this big section at the top of the page called "Notes from Gary" where some guy named Gary who seems to know about 20% less than the average person just sorta gets to say whatever he wants about the subject, no matter how irrelevant it is.

This is what it's like to use Google now.

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James Scholes

@nathan @BorrisInABox Meanwhile: Gary's cousin Ron, who thinks he knows 20 percent more than the general population on every topic but in fact usually has the same knowledge level as Gary, has a Mastodon account and keeps popping up in everyone's replies.